FIC: Torchwood (drabble) - Two Thousand Years

[fajrdrako]

Title: Two Thousand Years
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, others
Challenge: tw100, challenge: declassifieds
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Spoilers for Torchwood 2x13, "Exit Wounds". Cross-posted to my LJ and to tw100. From the title of Torchwood Declassified 1x10, "Time Flies".


Two Thousand Years

Two thousand years of death, dreams, and memories.

When time has no context, it has no meaning. "Wibbley-wobbley temporal-spatial distortion," the Doctor had once said to him. "The Time Vortex is the Trickster God. Craziness."

"Think I bedded him once, in the Riviera," Jack answered, making the Doctor laugh. Now they were all with Jack, all those lovers, all that trickery, back and forth, games of life, laughter, hope.

Two thousand years of silence in the void.

Who do you love?

All of them. Until the end of time.

Time has no end. It's an infinite loop.

Time flies, laughing.

Comments

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Niiiiiiiiice.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Many thanks.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Okay... wow.

"Now they were all with Jack, all those lovers, all that trickery, back and forth...."

"Time has no end. It's an infinite loop."

Ahh, the way you touch the words and make them fall into place--!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm do glad you liked it. It's a reference to events in "Exit Wounds", in which Jack lies buried underground for two thousand years.

The more I think about it, the more I think it's incredibly cool.

[raissad.livejournal.com]

That's lovely!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

in which Jack lies buried underground for two thousand years.

Ah, so that's behind "2000 years of penance." I'd had no idea... literally. You never described any physical action, just used that phrase.

So. Now what? Gad, the openings for fanfic! What has John Barrowman said about -- oh, wait! There was an interview with him that was conducted about three days after the last day of shooting on Torchwood; I remember he mentioned being exhausted in the most happily content way and delighted with the work he'd been given to do as an actor, and there was a non-spoiling comment to the effect of, wow all the changes the character goes through in this season. The interviewer may have been asking him about something in the first episode -- oh, yes: about Captain John Hart. And Barrowman said something like, "That seems a lifetime ago."

Was this interview in the first issue of the Torchwood magazine? Or was it somewhere else? I do hope it was among the ones I sent to you.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Now what? Gad, the openings for fanfic!

I haven't been reading what fans have to say on it, but my guess is that no one will treat it as if it means anything at all. Jack was taken back to 27 A.D. and buried, dug up briefly around 1910 and then resealed in cryogenic sleep in the Torchwood morgue and revived in the present. So he came right back to the time he left from.

Barrowman said something like, "That seems a lifetime ago."

"Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang" does seem long ago now.

I don't know what to make of Captain John now but I hope we'll see him again.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Ai. Is there any chance of a person getting hold of this season of Torchwood before the DVD set is out? Sigh. (And I still have Season Three of Battlestar Galactica just sitting there on my desk, because I have not had a day to start watching it yet....)

Buried in AD 27? And brought out of it in 1910? What the heck???

His timeline must be more convoluted than the Doctor's... if you count all ten of them and try to get it all in one chart! Overlays, I'm thinking. Transparent overlays. My autistic mind is zipping ahead to the delight of doing that project... you know how we love figuring out patterns. I do, anyway. Maps and all that.

Damn. Cryogenic sleep, awakened in the present day? How many times did he intentionally go back to 1941, is the question in my mind now!! This is all so cool.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Is there any chance of a person getting hold of this season of Torchwood before the DVD set is out?

I don't know. Can you download from places like megaupload?

is timeline must be more convoluted than the Doctor's...

At this point, I think so! I've lost track of the number of times he's been alive on Earth in 1941.

I would like to see a map of his timeline!

Cryogenic sleep, awakened in the present day? How many times did he intentionally go back to 1941, is the question in my mind now!! This is all so cool.

Well, this time round, he was buried through 1941, as far as we know, though he was present.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

I would like to see a map of his timeline!

Has any adventurous fan done it yet...? Someone would have to know him better than I do (then again, maybe I could... hm.)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

There are many clever people working on various kinds of timelines. I've seen some good ones, but not yet a complete one for Captain Jack - considering he only went through his two-thousand-year-burial last week. We're still all contemplating the situation.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

And I forgot to look for megaupload. I'll do that.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

What I meant was, I can send you episodes, I think, if you have access to a program that downloads for you.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

I went there, and saw that it is a file-transfer program. yes, I can open an account there; would that enable you to send me files of Torchwood episodes...? Hm! What would be involved? What would I have to do?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You don't need to open an account. I think I can send you the files directly. You don't have to be able to do anything except have a computer you can download onto.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Hm. Okay, let us try. If you send me something to test this out, I'll see if I can open it, on my end... sound like a plan? When you feel like it. No rush. (And, thanks. This sounds intriguing.)

[of-too-minds.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Thankfully Jacklived a long and interesting life -- he has many memories to relive and keep him company in the void.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I should go to bed now. I'll try this tomorrow.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes. I think Jack's love of others is such that the central part of his life is lived in his connection with others - if that makes sense - and he can draw on that for strength when necessary. It's what he starts with and what he ends up with.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Yikes, I didn't mean right now... sorry, oops!

And anyway, you did need to go to bed [g]. I'd given up about twenty minutes before this! it was great fun, tho'.