#ten is SO cruel to him it's breathtaking. nine wouldn't have left him behind

[masterkeynobi]

have gotten to bad wolf in my rewatch & the s1 ot3 is so good it's absolutely fucking me up. jack winks and he flirts and he makes a thousand cheesy innuendos. jack has very very quietly dug his beating heart out of his chest and handed it on a platter to nine & rose, for all the good it will do him. my god. the doctor says jump, and jack harkness says — without uncertainty, without hesitation — how high? the doctor is in charge, and jack says yes, sir without thinking about it. there's a gun to the doctor's head, and jack screams DON'T TOUCH HIM. blon, her arm around rose's throat, tells jack to bring her the board, and he looks for nine's nod of approval before he moves. blon lets rose go and jack reaches for her, puts his arm between her and danger. jack loves them so thoroughly it will kill him and it will bring him back, again and again and again, only the doctor will never be kind to him again. he won't ever have this uncomplicated earnest love ever again. jack relaxes into the easy companionship of this tardis team, lets himself fall in love and puts himself in front of the bullet when it comes down to it, and he'll never call the tardis home again.