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m_findlowTitle: Tempting
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 300 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 410 - Amnesty, using Challenge 91 - Old enough to know better at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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drabble_zoneSummary: Jack is momentarily tempted by alien technology. A triple drabble.
The rest of the team had gone home for the night and Jack was once again left wandering the echoing spaces of the hub on his own. He had a lot on his mind, which was often the case. Very few investigations ever left him empty of thoughts and feelings and this one had his brain fizzing with an electrical charge looking for a place to ground itself and to dispel the excess energy.
He found his feet leading him back to his office and down into the chair behind his desk, staring at the curved object still sitting there. A quantum transducer or, as his team liked to call it, a ghost machine, didn’t come along every day. It was the kind of thing that couldn't be controlled. The only safe place for it was the secure archives.
Yet, Jack wondered. Part of it could show something of the future and it tempted him. What could it tell him about what lay in store for him and whether he was ever going to find his Doctor? Would he ever be fixed so that he could go back to leading a normal life that didn't involve dying and resurrecting over and over again? Would he be able to leave Earth and go travelling the stars once more with the Doctor and Rose? Then again, perhaps it wouldn't show him his future, but rather something of what might happen to the people he'd come to count as his friends.
He picked it up and quickly walked it over to the secure vault, sealing it away before he could consider it a moment longer. He’d already seen the trouble it had caused and he was old enough to know better. Even for a time travelling immortal, knowing what lay ahead was dangerous.
The rest of the team had gone home for the night and Jack was once again left wandering the echoing spaces of the hub on his own. He had a lot on his mind, which was often the case. Very few investigations ever left him empty of thoughts and feelings and this one had his brain fizzing with an electrical charge looking for a place to ground itself and to dispel the excess energy.
He found his feet leading him back to his office and down into the chair behind his desk, staring at the curved object still sitting there. A quantum transducer or, as his team liked to call it, a ghost machine, didn’t come along every day. It was the kind of thing that couldn't be controlled. The only safe place for it was the secure archives.
Yet, Jack wondered. Part of it could show something of the future and it tempted him. What could it tell him about what lay in store for him and whether he was ever going to find his Doctor? Would he ever be fixed so that he could go back to leading a normal life that didn't involve dying and resurrecting over and over again? Would he be able to leave Earth and go travelling the stars once more with the Doctor and Rose? Then again, perhaps it wouldn't show him his future, but rather something of what might happen to the people he'd come to count as his friends.
He picked it up and quickly walked it over to the secure vault, sealing it away before he could consider it a moment longer. He’d already seen the trouble it had caused and he was old enough to know better. Even for a time travelling immortal, knowing what lay ahead was dangerous.
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Date: 2024-08-17 11:45 am (UTC)