Dr Who - Vortex
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I wrote this drabble immediately after seeing the final episode of the first series of Dr Who. Must have been sometime in 2005.
It doesn't have much to recommend it, except for major spoilers and a certain spontaneity, so Im hiding it behind a cut.
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Coward. Yes, coward twice over. Unable to push the plunger and kill all life on Earth to save the rest of creation.
Too much a coward to stay after the fact.
If Rose had not come back.....
As memories re-established themselves after the change... through the necessary explanations to Rose, through the plotting of a course through time and space to Barcelona, the single thought was hammering at the edges of consciousness. He shoved it down under the realisation of his real worth.
But it kept coming back.
That kiss.
Jack's ironic reference to his own cowardice - before he went off to be the hero.
That kiss - Jack's final goodbye.
And before, he had believed it was just that - A final goodbye.
But, as memories re-established, as information sorted itself into new channels, he remembered - he had experienced the vortex and he knew - He would be back.
I wrote this drabble immediately after seeing the final episode of the first series of Dr Who. Must have been sometime in 2005.
It doesn't have much to recommend it, except for major spoilers and a certain spontaneity, so Im hiding it behind a cut.
*******************
Coward. Yes, coward twice over. Unable to push the plunger and kill all life on Earth to save the rest of creation.
Too much a coward to stay after the fact.
If Rose had not come back.....
As memories re-established themselves after the change... through the necessary explanations to Rose, through the plotting of a course through time and space to Barcelona, the single thought was hammering at the edges of consciousness. He shoved it down under the realisation of his real worth.
But it kept coming back.
That kiss.
Jack's ironic reference to his own cowardice - before he went off to be the hero.
That kiss - Jack's final goodbye.
And before, he had believed it was just that - A final goodbye.
But, as memories re-established, as information sorted itself into new channels, he remembered - he had experienced the vortex and he knew - He would be back.
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Date: 2007-04-09 05:03 pm (UTC):D
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Date: 2007-04-10 05:13 am (UTC)But it was a total spur of the moment thing at 10pm on a Saturday night immediately after watching the episode.
Looking back at it now, I realise that spur-of-the-moment, this-is-how-it-came-out-all-in-one-go, stuff probably should be kept for a while and polished, to get it right.