Jealous

Characters: Jack Harkness, Eleventh Doctor, River Song
~Pairings: Eleventh Doctor/River Song, one-sided Jack/The Doctor
Word Count: 355
Note: None


For my lovely readers who read TARDIS Thoughts, because I forgot to update Wednsday


Captain Jack Harkness is not jealous of Professor River Song, most defiantly not.

He's not jealous as she leads the Doctor's childlike regeneration across the bar and into a booth, her curly hair bouncing around her head like it's alive.

He is not jealous of the way the Doctor looks at her, like a schoolboy with a crush, or of the way he follows her like a love sick puppy.

He is not jealous when the Doctor allows her to flirt with him and he is not jealous when the Doctor comfortably flirts back.

Jack is not jealous, but he is. He's so jealous that a part of him wants to laugh at how pathetic he is, because this man had hurt him so much and in so many different ways and yet he was jealous. He was jealous of a woman simply because she loved him, but more importantly he was jealous because the Doctor loved her back.

But maybe it wasn't all that, maybe a part of it was due to the fact that River Song was so wrong in so many ways. Her timelines were a mess and tangled with the Doctor's and her very existence shouldn't have been possible, but he loved her anyways. He loved her despite her wrongness and that's why Jack was jealous.

Not just because the Doctor loved her and not just because he flirted with her, but because while the Doctor had avoided Jack for years and years he had done no such thing for River Song.

Jack was jealous and his heart hurt in ways that only an immortal heart could.

He again cast his gaze to young, not so young, couple and for a brief moment his eyes caught River Song's, before he ducked his head away and pulled his coat collar up around his face, but he still watched her.

He watched as she stared at him for a bit and then went to say something to the Doctor.

In that moment Jack took a page from the Doctor's book and he ran.

He was gone before the Doctor had even managed to turn around.


So this is a bit short, but I just wanted to break apart of Jack's character a bit so I did

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