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innuendocaptainTitle: Sacrifice
Song: Angel by 8MM
Character: Jack Harkness
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 323 per MS Word (not counting lyrics)
Pairing(s): Ninth Doctor/Jack implied if you squint really hard
Fandom(s): Doctor Who/Torchwood
Disclaimer: He's not mine -- if he was, he'd have joined the Ninth Doctor earlier, and they'd all still be around.
Author's Note: SPOILER for Torchwood 1x13 End of Days
Hush little angel, won't you try
The devil hears you when you cry
So you can't and you won't
Give up the ghost now
Leave it alone
You know you don't need those lessons
Someone else learned
It's your life
It's your right to burn
Abaddon stalks over the city, his shadow spreading death everywhere it touches. Jack knows he's the only one with a chance to stop it -- if he can't, there's no one else. If he can't, it will continue on through Cardiff, through the rest of the British Isles, Europe, the world...
If he can't stop it, it will be the end of the world -- the End of Days. And he has to stop it, because he knows this world goes on. He knows, because he exists, and if he exists, Earth still has a future.
He has to stop it, because even if he has nothing and no one to live for any longer, this world shouldn't die because of that. His team's betrayal still stings despite the knowledge that it wasn't their fault, and his body is still screaming in the pain of recovery, but he'll keep on going and stop Abaddon.
He's given his life for the Earth to have one last chance once before, and this time is no different. Even in this backwards time, it's his world, and it's worth fighting for.
Worth dying for.
He knows how to do this, how to lure the enemy away from the populace, out to an open field where he'll be the only sacrifice. No more innocents suffering -- this is his fight, his duty. This is his life to give. He shouts until the Beast turns his way, can feel when it sees his life force blazing out like a sun compared to the thousands of flickering candle flames in the city; can feel its hunger turn towards him.
And then its shadow touches him, and the pain burns through him, body and soul. But he won't give up -- can't give up -- until Abaddon falls to the ground with a horrific crash. Jack falls to the ground a moment later, a tattered and burned offering to the future.
Song: Angel by 8MM
Character: Jack Harkness
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 323 per MS Word (not counting lyrics)
Pairing(s): Ninth Doctor/Jack implied if you squint really hard
Fandom(s): Doctor Who/Torchwood
Disclaimer: He's not mine -- if he was, he'd have joined the Ninth Doctor earlier, and they'd all still be around.
Author's Note: SPOILER for Torchwood 1x13 End of Days
Hush little angel, won't you try
The devil hears you when you cry
So you can't and you won't
Give up the ghost now
Leave it alone
You know you don't need those lessons
Someone else learned
It's your life
It's your right to burn
Abaddon stalks over the city, his shadow spreading death everywhere it touches. Jack knows he's the only one with a chance to stop it -- if he can't, there's no one else. If he can't, it will continue on through Cardiff, through the rest of the British Isles, Europe, the world...
If he can't stop it, it will be the end of the world -- the End of Days. And he has to stop it, because he knows this world goes on. He knows, because he exists, and if he exists, Earth still has a future.
He has to stop it, because even if he has nothing and no one to live for any longer, this world shouldn't die because of that. His team's betrayal still stings despite the knowledge that it wasn't their fault, and his body is still screaming in the pain of recovery, but he'll keep on going and stop Abaddon.
He's given his life for the Earth to have one last chance once before, and this time is no different. Even in this backwards time, it's his world, and it's worth fighting for.
Worth dying for.
He knows how to do this, how to lure the enemy away from the populace, out to an open field where he'll be the only sacrifice. No more innocents suffering -- this is his fight, his duty. This is his life to give. He shouts until the Beast turns his way, can feel when it sees his life force blazing out like a sun compared to the thousands of flickering candle flames in the city; can feel its hunger turn towards him.
And then its shadow touches him, and the pain burns through him, body and soul. But he won't give up -- can't give up -- until Abaddon falls to the ground with a horrific crash. Jack falls to the ground a moment later, a tattered and burned offering to the future.
