For x_thedoctor_x Dark Jack and Dark Doctor

[captainspain]

 Jack rested with his feet up on the console of the TARDIS his new leather coat tossed haphazardly on the back of the captain's chair. He's humming softly to himself just a wordless tune. He is beyond happy to be in the only happy home he has ever known. He had wished that it had been under better reasons but he has the Doctor and that was all that mattered to him. 

He hears the sound of footsteps but he doesn't look around too comfortable to move. Besides who else could it be. He grins and waits for the Time Lord to speak. 

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[x_thedoctor_x]

"I'm not sure that wouldn't be safe in a fight. However, feel free to wear it around the TARDIS," the Doctor grinned.

[captainspain]

Jack grins. "You haven't seen me in a suit either.....your brain is going to explode."

[x_thedoctor_x]

The Doctor licks his lips, imagining just that. "I could do with a little head exploding now and then, keeps me fresh and all."

He was definitely staring at Jack's mouth, now.

[captainspain]

Jack stares back at the Doctor. "And a tux....oh Doctor you may look good in one but I look great."

[x_thedoctor_x]

Have you ever seen me in a tux, Jack? I put you humans to shame, I really do. [He's grinning madly now.]

[captainspain]

No but Martha told tales.

[x_thedoctor_x]

And what did the lovely Martha Jones have to say?

[captainspain]

She said you looked smashing and that her mother slapped you silly.

[x_thedoctor_x]

Why do that do that? The mums especially, always slapping me in the face! I like my face just how it is thank you very much, I don't need a great red handprint on it.

[captainspain]

I think it has something to do with the fact you run off with their daughters.

[x_thedoctor_x]

Hey, they run of with me, I don't go running off with them! I don't know why it has to inspire such violence.

[captainspain]

[Jack laughs.]

Having been a parent on both sides I can tell you it's nerve wracking to send a daughter out into the world.

[x_thedoctor_x]

Well, I stopped having a companion a couple hundred years ago. You can only break, or lose so many before it's enough. I've been alone for a very long time, Jack. After what happened to Donna, I just...couldn't.

[captainspain]

I understand Doctor....Donna was an amazing woman.....I've never forgotten what she did for us.

[x_thedoctor_x]

And I took it all away from her, Jack. I gave her the universe, and she didn't even get to keep the memories. She would have rather died than do what I did to her, but that wasn't an option for me, even if she hated me in that moment.

[captainspain]

I've done that too Doctor....I have a pill called retcon....it can take memories away as many as I need. It's how I've kept Torchwood safe for this long.

[x_thedoctor_x]

You know, there's something I've always wanted to fix, but never allowed myself because it broke the rules of Time. It's something I've never forgotten and now, I can fix it and forget it, right? My laws, my rules.

[captainspain]

"And what is that Doctor." Jack asks seriously.

[x_thedoctor_x]

"I'm going to save Adric. He was too young, too brilliant to die that way. And it was my fault. But I can go back and save him, Jack!"

[captainspain]

"Adric....that's the one companion I couldn't find anything about."

[x_thedoctor_x]

"Adric was just a boy. Oh he was brilliant, a mathematical genius! And I didn't keep him close enough and he was trying to save Earth. Save us. Instead, he ended up on a ship, one that exploded and incidentally wiped out the dinosaurs, but that's not the point. I can go back, I can get him off that ship before it explodes, Jack. I can save him. He can grow up and use that mind of his to do the amazing things he was meant to do...before he met me."

So many lives ruined just by meeting him, and Adric was a pain he'd buried so deep he sometimes let himself forget. But now, now he could remember and he could break the rules and he could fix it!

[captainspain]

"He sounds like someone like I would have liked," Jack says, "like my own brother. Gray was smarter then anyone ever realized. That's something I would love to fix too, but I don't know how."

[x_thedoctor_x]

"Adric is a fixed point in time, one of those things you can't change." The Doctor gave Jack a determined grin. "But you just watch me do it."

"What happened to, Gray? I'm sure we can figure something out."

[captainspain]

"He was captured by slavers," Jack says, "during an attack on Boe and it drove him mad....and he blamed me."

[x_thedoctor_x]

"Then I say let's fix it. If nothing else, the slavers need to be wiped out. Punished. Eradiicated."