Summary: Sometimes, dreaming is all that is left to you after you lose everything else.
Rating: K
Categories: Torchwood
Characters: Jack Harkness
Genres: Introspection
Warnings: None
Author's Notes: I'm hoping that there is some poetry in it. This is inspired by a french song, La Fin de la fin du monde by Calogero (literally "The End of the end of the world"). Special thanks to my beta reader, the talented welshscotsman.
Sometimes, I dream.
And in my dream, there are no more screams and no more cries. There is no pain and no death anywhere. This is the end of the end of the world.
In my dream, the seas are still. All the birds have ceased to sing. All the bees have left the fields. The wind has ceased to blow and the rain doesn't fall anymore.
In my dream, I walk through the peaceful twilight.
Then, you are here, just before me. I look at you and you look at me.
Everything is so quiet around us. Not a single word, or a noise, or the slightest movement to disturb the stillness. All the whispers of the world have fallen silent to let me say it to you.
I love you, Ianto. You know that, don't you ?
You don't answer. You just take my hand and smile softly. And it makes me so happy that all I wish is to never wake up.
But the dawn always has to break and drag you away from me... until I dream again.
End.