Drabble: No Good Choices
Oct. 23rd, 2012 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Title: No Good Choices
Author: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
badly_knitted
Characters: Jack
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 257 – Between the Devil and the deep blue sea at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif){kind=small}
tw100
Spoilers: Vague for Small Worlds
Summary: It falls to Jack to make the hard choices.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
Sometimes there just weren’t any good choices, only bad, worse or catastrophic, but that didn’t make such decisions easier to make or to live with.
He reminded himself she wasn’t really a child anymore, had ceased to be that when she was chosen. Not entirely human, no longer suited to this world. She wanted to go with them, where she belonged, where she fit.
But she still looked like a child; she had a mother who would grieve her loss.
In the end it wasn’t even a choice. Let this one go, or let the entire world suffer the consequences.
The End
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Date: 2012-10-23 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-23 06:48 pm (UTC)I've always admired people who write drabbles - never thought I'd do it myself as I'm well known for never using one word when five will do! Here I am though, learning the art with varying degrees of success - I'm happier with some than with others. I'm glad you're enjoying my efforts.
I wasn't a writer either - until I started writing, lol! It snuck up on me!
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Date: 2012-10-23 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-10-23 08:02 pm (UTC)That's always the first thing that crosses my mind with this scene - sometimes there just isn't any way to save everyone, but Gwen can't get that through her head. As powerful as Torchwood is, they're not omnipotent and Jack is still just a man, even though he's immortal. He makes the hard choices the others can't, because he's the one in charge.
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Date: 2012-10-23 08:14 pm (UTC)In the case of one or a few vs. the many, Jack will chose the pragmatic answer every time. It really is a case of "bad, worse or catastrophic" so often with him. Well-put. :)
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Date: 2012-10-23 09:23 pm (UTC)Jack's the one in authority, so the hard (and the impossible) decisions fall to him, but in their line of work you'd think Tosh and Owen at least would have learned that they can't always get the ideal outcome from a situation. Gwen hadn't been there long, but even she should have listened to Jack - he knows far more than the rest of them, has more experience.
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Date: 2012-10-23 08:46 pm (UTC)Poor Jack. You show his helplessness really well.
He's the one that always has to do the right thing, even when that right thing feels so wrong.
I never understood why the others gave him such a hard time over this. He did what had to be done.
Well done!
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Date: 2012-10-23 09:29 pm (UTC)Jack knew that no one was a match for the faeries, they couldn't be fought or reasoned with and anyway, Jasmine was too far gone to be able to live as a normal human, but the team wouldn't listen to him, which struck me as out of character for Tosh and Owen. Gwen was always naive so her reaction, while irritating, wasn't surprising, but the others should have had more faith in Jack.
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Date: 2012-10-23 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-23 09:34 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2012-10-23 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-23 09:38 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2012-10-23 11:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-24 10:30 am (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2012-10-24 02:57 am (UTC)While I haven't read everything you've written and posted (I am working through about 12 people's complete portfolios, yours included) drabbles and angst are rarities in your works that I have read so far. This shows that you do both well.
What I hear when I read
NO GOOD CHOICES
is a poem.
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Date: 2012-10-24 10:36 am (UTC)I'm new to drabbling, never though I could condense my writing into anything readable in just 100 words, but I'm learning. It's forcing me to be concise, against my natural inclination for rambling and I can be angstier in drabbles than I am in the longer fics where humour and fluffiness tend to take over. I'm a bit amazed I've managed at least one drabble for each of the last seven prompts, and I'm hoping to get another one written this week, if I can whittle down one of the other ideas I've had into something that still makes sense, lol!
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Date: 2012-10-25 12:28 am (UTC)And I really think this one came out as a poem.
Which is so cool.
Hope tomorrow is a good day for you. take care
K.
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Date: 2012-10-25 10:31 am (UTC)I'm back to betaing a story where Tosh goes travelling with the Ninth Doctor - this one is where she travels with him to feudal Japan, and the descriptions are so lush and delicious, so full of detail, I completely lose myself in them. It's a wonderful story that I highly recommend. I was working on chapter 6 last night and will give it another read through before sending it back. Have you considered betaing? I think you'd be good at it.
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Date: 2012-10-24 05:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-24 10:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-24 05:52 pm (UTC)Poor Jack
He have no choice!
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Date: 2012-10-24 06:05 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2012-10-25 01:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-25 10:42 am (UTC)Thank you!
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