A/N:This chapter is really short, sorry. But Jack needs a moment to gather his thoughts, who wouldn't after a kiss like that?
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Aftermath
Jack watched the Doctor's retreating back fade into the darkness. He continued to sit there on the pavement for several minutes looking at the place where the Time Lord had been, as if he would suddenly reappear all smiles and light and talking at fifty miles an hour. He didn't. To tell the truth, this new side of the Doctor scared him a little. Jack didn't know what this Doctor wanted. The usually loud, fast talking man's quietness was unnerving.
Jack stood, trying to decide what to do. Should he wait in the TARDIS, where he knew the Doctor would eventually return to or should he follow the man who had just made his lip bleed? The amazingly sexy man who had just kissed him with more passion then anyone else ever had, except maybe Ianto. A man who was incredible pissed off with him and blamed him for possibly causing a paradox. A man who had called him nothing. Should he chase after him? Jack slumped back against the side of the TARDIS. Even if he did would the Doctor want to talk to him?
A bomb dropped near by, illuminating the surrounding area. The orange light of the flames through the little street into sharp contract. The grimy wall of the houses and the piles of sandbags against the bright blue light of the TARDIS. It would have seem eerily beautiful if the person looking at it had not have been so sad.
Jack looked around. Once he had known this time so well. Only about a month ago (in WWII time that is) Jack had met Captain Jack Harkness. The man whose name he had stolen, and blackened. That day Toshiko had been there to comfort him, and Ianto and Owen had been there to bring them back. Now Jack was alone. Why was it that everytime he was with the Doctor he always ended up getting left on his own? He looked at his Vortex Manipulator. About this time another him was about to catch Rose Tyler as she fell from a barrage balloon. The idea tore at his heart. This was the day his life had changed forever. Whether for better or worse was debatable.