FIC: Torchwood (drabble) - Possessions...

[fajrdrako]

Title: Possessions.
Author: fajrdrako
Characters: Captain Jack Harkness, the Torchwood team, references to the Doctor
Challenge: Anything goes on tw100
Rating: G
Words: 100
Notes: Spoilers for "Day One".


Possessions

Can't take baggage when you wander though time. A wristband, maybe. Possessions were ephemeral, couldn't be kept. What, really, did he own?

Not much. A coat, which gave him identity. A severed hand cut from the arm of someone he'd never met, though he'd known him intimately. Second-hand knowledge crammed into his mind. So little to keep, after a lifetime like his. Even his memories had been plundered.

Owen shouted something to Tosh, who replied. Ianto asked a question which made Gwen laugh. Jack's throat tightened. They were his, now, all of them. His people.

Having companions, he had everything.

Comments

[order_of_chaos]

:-)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Wonderful to hear it!

[vervassal.livejournal.com]

Wow. Very nice.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Lovely. Thanks.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Delighted you liked it!

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

So precise. So Jack... I wonder, after all his heartbrake, how he can - and he does - love again... how he can even smile again, and he does that too, that flashy, wide, wonderful smile of his...

(My throat tightened too!)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I wonder, after all his heartbrake, how he can - and he does - love again...

Jack as I see him: vulnerable, hurting, but brave and strong... And optimistic enough, just barely, to hope for a better future and risk himself to work towards it.

The more I think about Jack the more I love him, but I'm not sure how that's even possible.

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

I think I know what you mean... And, as usual, people have sung it before:

"Yesterday I loved you as never before,
but please don't think me strange,
I've undergone a chance
and today I love you even more!
My heart cannot be trusted,
I give you fair warning:
I openly confess tonight I love you less
than I will tomorrow morning!"
(Once upon a Mattress, musical)

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

Oh... and if you HAPPEN not to know it - I know it because I had a small part (a wench) in it while I was at high school in the USA - some trivia.

Once upon a time, Carol Burnett played Winifred (the princess). When we were studying the songs, we used the tapes from that cast as a guide.
In the TV production of the musical, Carol Burnett, some years later, played the Queen (Aggravaine, IIRC). I must say I found this hilarious.

And yep, that's the same Carol Burnett who was in Putting it Together with Barrowman, and who stops the show in a way so exciting for John, in that blooper footage.

I still think the song lyrics highly appropriate. The more I think of him, the more I love him... The more I feel for him.
Gah. I wish I could squeeze my drabble a bit to include something about him being hurt by that still. But it just... won't compress.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

What fun to have played a wench! I have never seen "Once Upon a Mattress" but I have heard the music, because I'm one of those people who loves musicals. Don't own it, though. I'd rather like to....

That Putting it Together blooper is so funny, not so much because of what happened but because of John Barrowman's reaction.

Don't compress: just write more drabbles! I plan to. Make a series. Why not?

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

Well, it was a fun production too. Once Upon a Mattress is really, really funny; the TV production didn't have all the songs - it didn't have this one, I believe. (I found _one_ rendition on youtube... but it's not really worth it).
We had a tape made for each of us, with the music, so that we can learn the songs. Oh well... I think I haven't listened to it in quite a long time. I should.

Yep, it's John Barrowman's "Please tell me you have that on tape", and what he does before and after that, that I so love. As somebody else said on the occasion, when John Barrowman looses it, he really looses it! *resists the temptation to go watch it again*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see it on stage. Getting the soundtrack is the next best thing.

Barrowman is such a ham - but he has such style at the same time. Don't know how he does it. He brings overreaction to the state of a high art!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So nice! So very apropos! I did some browsing on YouTube to see if I could find this with music, but I couldn't find it quickly, and can't really browse too much here at work.... Will try later.

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

Awesome!!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thank you.