Title: Many Nights of Broken Glass
Characters: Jack Harkness
Challenge: tw100 has a list of "50 Most Looked Up Words" from the New York Times. Challenge: Pick one or more words and use them for a drabble. Chosen word: Kristallnacht
Rating/Warning: PG – references to the Holocaust.
Summary: Jack has lived long enough to know that history is littered with broken glass.
A/N: The Holocaust is a period of history which I have devoted much personal study to, and I have come to realise that humanity did not learn the lessons we should rightfully have learned from it. This drabble is based around that fact.
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Many Nights of Broken Glass
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Glass littered the ground like fallen snow.
Jack stepped forward, shards crunching beneath his feet. His boot brushed against a child's toy, its stuffing spilt like blood on the concrete.
They had been peaceful, refugees from a dysfunctional planet. Now hounded from their homes.
Eighty years ago, glass had strewn the street: Kristallnacht – Night of Broken Glass.
Humanity thought it had changed. But history was littered with broken crystal; fear the axe that shattered a million lives.
Jack grasped the toy, its button eyes glinting sadly as he tucked it into his pocket.
He had a clean up to do.
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