Lisa Smith ([personal profile] aeshna_uk) wrote2007-03-12 11:29 am
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Drabble: "Sore Loser" (Torchwood)

Title: Sore Loser
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack Harkness
Rating: PG
Notes: Drabble written for the [livejournal.com profile] tw100 "Free For All" challenge. Spoilers for Jack in general.


Death was never a mystery to him. Death was easy, a game – it was dying that held the fascination, the fears, the myriad routes to the inevitable destination. Swift or slow, soft or savage or screaming... he eased some on their way and forced others, always knowing that some day, somehow, he would face the journey himself.

Some day. Just... not yet.

And so he dodged bullets, executioners, irate lovers until, finally, he embraced death willingly... and found himself rejected, the way barred on every approach.

The trouble with cheating death, it seemed, was that eventually death simply stopped playing.


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