"It's worth it!" Jack replied with an easy sort of passion he hadn't felt in years. "How do you know? Really? This whole universe is upside-down, with different rules and different physics and different everything -- how can you be sure?" He turned and grasped the Time Lord by the shoulders, fixing him with a hard stare full of an emotion that could only best be described as love. Maybe he hadn't considered the enormity of the decision, but obviously he didn't need to. It was a simple choice that he had made long ago: between himself and the Doctor, Jack knew who he would willingly sacrifice. "I'm not sure and I can't take that risk! You're the Doctor. What if he took something vital, something important, something...beautiful -- and you couldn't recover? I can't let that happen. I won't."
Jack inhaled deeply and let the Doctor go, having said all he could think to say without overstepping some boundaries. He turned back to face Balthazar, all emotion gone from his face and voice. "Yes. I want to know who this psychopomp is and what exactly the arrangements are as you're making them." Caveat emptor, after all. The Captain reached inside his jacket pocket and removed a business card with his contact information on it, offering it to Balthazar blankly.
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Date: 2007-04-16 02:57 am (UTC)Jack inhaled deeply and let the Doctor go, having said all he could think to say without overstepping some boundaries. He turned back to face Balthazar, all emotion gone from his face and voice. "Yes. I want to know who this psychopomp is and what exactly the arrangements are as you're making them." Caveat emptor, after all. The Captain reached inside his jacket pocket and removed a business card with his contact information on it, offering it to Balthazar blankly.