Double Drabble: Empathy

[bk_forever]

Title: Empathy
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ianto, Lisa.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 694: Pity at tw100.
Spoilers: Cyberwoman.
Summary: With his anger spent, Jack can afford to feel sorry for Ianto.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.




Jack had been beyond angry at Ianto’s betrayal. Against his better judgement, he’d trusted the young Torchwood One survivor, had welcomed him into the Hub, given him a job, allowed him unrestricted access to all areas, and how had his generosity been repaid? With a Cyberman, that’s how! If he and the rest of his team hadn’t managed to stop the half-converted abomination, it could have destroyed the entire human race, converting or deleting every person on the planet!


Part of his rage had been born of fear because Jack had seen first-hand what Cybermen could do. He’d been angry at himself as well, for letting his guard down in favour of a pretty face, for getting conned, for not seeing what was going on right under his nose. He’d been ready to execute his treacherous employee. Within the Torchwood Institute that had long been the accepted punishment for treason, and yet…


Ianto Jones was so young and so broken. After months of desperately trying to keep the woman he loved alive long enough to find some way of curing her, he’d had to witness her final death.


Looking at the shattered, grieving man, all Jack felt now was pity.



The End

Comments

[kul-breez.livejournal.com]

Cyberman is my favorite TW topic. You really captured that anger/sorrow from Jack. There is so much emotion packed in. My heart breaks for both boys.

[bk_forever]

Thank you, I love revisiting Cyberwoman myself, I think I've written more fics around that episode than any other.

Also HI! *squishes* How are you?

[raynewton.livejournal.com]

Jack's anger and disappointment are perfectly understandable .But I love that when he realised the full situation he reconsidered his response, and did what he could to help. Despite his flippant exterior he has a compassionate heart. He saw and helped the broken grieving young man.

[bk_forever]

Yes, he did. He just had to sort out what he was feeling first.

Thank you!

[kul-breez.livejournal.com]

All good here, thankfully. You?

[bk_forever]

Plodding along. Gonna be 60 this year!

I'll get the fics you've requested sent as soon as I can. Been having some issues with my email. I get halfway through adding attachments and everything goes blank =[