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Challenge 846 - When you've got forever
Title: When you've got forever
Character: Jack
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Length: 200 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 846 - Bitter at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
torchwood100
torchwood100Summary: Living forever can be a bitter pill to swallow. A double drabble.
It was hard not to sometimes feel bitter about the hand that Jack had been dealt in life. Most people would have said that having eternal life would be a blessing; all those opportunities to have a do-over and change things, or to explore as much variety as life had to offer. Instead it was a curse, having to watch people he came to care about suffering, growing old, dying young, feeling like Jack had betrayed them for always staying youthful, always moving on.
He sometimes wondered what it would be like to be mortal, living life the way it was intended to be lived. What would it be like to fall in love just once, properly, to marry and have a family, to become old and grey and to look back on his life and regret none of it.
That was never going to happen though. He was stuck the way he was, unable to get any answers as to how he ended up this way, and whether he could ever be cured. It felt cruel, being forced to keep living every day. He didn't deserve more life than anyone else. If anything, he felt like he deserved less.
It was hard not to sometimes feel bitter about the hand that Jack had been dealt in life. Most people would have said that having eternal life would be a blessing; all those opportunities to have a do-over and change things, or to explore as much variety as life had to offer. Instead it was a curse, having to watch people he came to care about suffering, growing old, dying young, feeling like Jack had betrayed them for always staying youthful, always moving on.
He sometimes wondered what it would be like to be mortal, living life the way it was intended to be lived. What would it be like to fall in love just once, properly, to marry and have a family, to become old and grey and to look back on his life and regret none of it.
That was never going to happen though. He was stuck the way he was, unable to get any answers as to how he ended up this way, and whether he could ever be cured. It felt cruel, being forced to keep living every day. He didn't deserve more life than anyone else. If anything, he felt like he deserved less.