Closed rp; The Doctor & Jack

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

Jack had gone for a wander to find the Doctor to get that seasonal drink and he hand eventually ended up in the great hall sat at a table picking at a bunch of grapes occasionally that were sat in a dish before him, looking happy and trying to make a list as he sat but getting distracted by people watching which was a perfectly reasonable distraction for him. This is why he really needed Ianto or someone telling him to focus. It wasn't long before his list of things to do had become a page of doodles, none of them charmed (thankfully).

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[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"Wait are you calling me adorable yet stupid, still a kid. Both of those or something else?" He was confused get grinning.

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"I'm calling you you, so to stifle any further confusion, pull up a seat and have a drink."

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"Good." Jack found a suitable spot and sat on the floor. "I plan to drink. A lot."

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"You thought about a bachelor party?"

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"You mean my life til now?"

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

He grinned. "Good point." After a few moments of musing, "Are you going to invite Suzie, then?"

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"Now she's started calling JD by his actual name, I can try and convince JD to let her be there." Jack reached for the closest bottle. "Wouldn't be right without her and now she has her expensive dress can't deny her can I."

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"Jack, she shot you in the head, I think it would feel perfectly right without her there. But doesn't matter, just as long as she doesn't cause a scene." He sipped at his drink. "JD's a good bloke. Felt sort of bad that I couldn't think of anything better to give him than assorted tea."

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"And I shot her." Jack shook his head. "Alright so part of me is saying keep her there so I know what she's up to. I can keep an eye on her." Jack looked at the bottle he had.

"You know, I think he's just glad you thought of him. Hell even you just spending time talking to him makes him happy. He's just a little, okay a lot excitable. He hasn't seen whats out there like we have. Doesn't know what goes on in." He gesutured vaguely to the roof. "Isn't as fed up with most of the universe like me. He reminds me there is something worth saving." Jack smiled softly and shook his head. "Makes me feel like I used to."

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"Always something worth saving. If there wasn't anything worth saving, d'you think I'd be around? Nah, I'd have offed m'self years ago. Because if none of it's worth saving then none of it's worth looking at either. Humanity, I've found, is in need of saving a lot."

He laughed a bit and finished off his drink. "Yeah, he does tend to get a bit annoying with how excited he is at, well...at everything. Did you see the way he reacted when I was talking about K-9? I think that's all any of us needs, someone to make us think the universe is beautiful again. Like Rose."

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

Jack started laughing, then stopped suddenly to down half the bottle he held. Being slient in thought for a few minutes before he finally spoke. "So Rose is to you what JD is to me?"

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"That's the way I see it." Now, he hadn't downed nearly as much as Jack did, but certainly he'd gotten started on more drinking. "Not so much now--how it used to be, you know. We need a person to smack us upside the head, literally or metaphorically, and open our eyes a bit, don't you think?"

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"Let's us remember who we were and how we used to be!" Jack sighed. "Am I doing the right thing?"

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"I can drink to that!" Which he did. "Oi, and don't ask me that sort of thing, Jack. If you're having second thoughts, talk to JD."

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"I should. I will. Think he'd change his mind?"Jack looked up at the Doctor.

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"As much as he clings to you? Heh. No. I could see the both of you getting cold feet and being nervous as hell, but I don't think he'd change his mind."

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"You think I'm mad doing this?"

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"I think it's surprising, certainly, but if it's what you want, then no, I don't think it's mad."

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"Would you tell me not to do it?"

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"Why would I ever have any say in what you do with your life?"

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"Answer me."

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

"No, I wouldn't tell you not to do it."

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

Jack looked like he might just cry right there, he drank the rest of the bottle before he did.

[ninth-doctor.livejournal.com]

Insert very awkward pause. What the hell had he said now? He pulled up a seat next to Jack, drink forgotten, and wrapped an arm around him. "If you don't want to go through with it, you need to tell him that. Nobody has the right to tell you to do it or not to do it, you know."

[twoyearsmissing.livejournal.com]

"I do, that's the point." Jack took the arm round him as an invite to cling to the Doctor. "I'm happy."