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czarina_kitty ([personal profile] czarina_kitty) wrote2011-03-05 10:23 pm

Drabble: Memories

Title: Memories
Author:  czarina_kitty
Characters:  Jack
Challenge:  drabble_las challenge #2--The prompt is here
Rating:  PG    
 

 

He views his past not as single frames and individual images, but as time-lapsed exposures that were once of minutes or hours or days, but now of years and decades and centuries.  Millennia. 

He remembers the faces of those he has loved not as individuals, but as composites, a blending of genders and species and types.  There have been too many to remember specifics.   

He will never tell a partner, but will let them each believe that he will remember them because they are unique and special and loved.  In the end, they are just too fragile to understand forever. 

 

unfeathered: (Jack S2 promo)

[personal profile] unfeathered 2011-03-06 10:05 am (UTC)(link)
Ouch. Very nicely done. I do find it hard to get to grips with the idea of living forever. :-(

[identity profile] czarina-kitty.livejournal.com 2011-03-07 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. I seem to be fixated on the living forever thing right now.

[identity profile] nancybrown.livejournal.com 2011-03-06 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I like the imagery of this. Very telling in so few words.

[identity profile] czarina-kitty.livejournal.com 2011-03-07 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

[identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com 2011-03-06 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Ouch! But probably true. Forever is a long, long time.

[identity profile] czarina-kitty.livejournal.com 2011-03-07 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

[identity profile] czarina-kitty.livejournal.com 2011-03-07 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

[identity profile] redpearl-cao.livejournal.com 2011-03-07 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
but...what about the Doctor?

[identity profile] czarina-kitty.livejournal.com 2011-03-08 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
The Doctor may have a long life-span, but he won't live forever.