Tumblr has changed me. Also, I'm currently watching Merlin and I didn't know it would be this sad. Also, sorry I've been gone so long, my muse just got back from being kidnapped by a dragon. That is all.
"How are you, Jack?"
"Bad, Doc. Really bad. You remember the incident with the 456?"
"Ianto Jones died."
"He died. And it was my fault. The moment I argued with the 456, they released poison gas into the air of the building. I had to watch him die. Do you know what he asked me to do? He asked me not to forget him. He told me that he loves me, just me, and asked me to remember him. Then...then he died."
"That's not the worst part. I have a kid, Doc. A daughter. And a grandson."
"But that's not what happened. UNIT needed a kid. They needed a kid to be the epicenter of a sonic blast that would destroy the 456. The trick is...the trick is, the kid would die."
"I volunteered my own grandson, dammit! I volunteered my own grandson to die a slow and painful death to save the world. But the worst part is? I watched. I watched my grandson die, I saw the pure terror in his eyes." Jack sighed. "I watched my daughter beg me not to do it. I watched my daughter curl up with her grandson's dead body and beg for him to come back."
"That's how I am, Doc."