FIC Torchwood (drabble) - "Hairshirt"
Aug. 13th, 2007 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fajrdrakoTitle: Hairshirt
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack
Challenge: challenge: r.e.m. titles
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Spoilers for "The Doctor Dances". Cross-posted to my LJ and tw100.
Hairshirt
Jack lived with his unrevealed crime.
On a rooftop overlooking Cardiff, Jack remembered the London blitz; an alien ambulance he thought was safe, carrying a plague that almost eradicated mankind. If the Doctor had not been there, humanity would be extinct. If the Doctor had not saved the world, Jack's carelessness would have destroyed it.
If ever he felt arrogant, if ever he forgot what he'd done, it was time to wrap the memory around himself like a hair shirt.
Memory was his penance, and he would be paying the debt he owed forever.
His crime: endangerment. His sentence: immortality.
