Challenge 677 - The Bad Penny
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m_findlowTitle: The Bad Penny
Character: Jack
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for Challenge 677 - Object at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
tw100
Summary: Jack has made a terrible mistake with Torchwood's most dangerous object. A double drabble.
Jack grimaced at the headline on the front of his morning newspaper. Perhaps he shouldn't have been surprised by it. Things had been rumbling away in the background for weeks and months, but now it was official. Britain was going to war with Germany. Again.
He'd done one war already and he wasn't keen for a second. This time they'd have tanks and bombs and fully automatic machine guns. It would be brutal and bloody in a way that the Great War hadn't been. Back then you'd had to look a man in the eye to kill him with your rifle or your bayonet. Now whole platoons could be murdered without ever having to really face up to the lives that were being stolen.
The guilt he felt made his stomach churn. He just knew that this was his fault even though he'd been nowhere near anyone who'd made the ultimate decision. They'd been coerced; their decisions influenced by something far more powerful. Object One. The Bad Penny. Jack had tossed it into the rift thinking that would get rid of it once and for all; that nothing bad would happen as a consequence. Now he realised his terrible mistake.
Character: Jack
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for Challenge 677 - Object at
tw100Summary: Jack has made a terrible mistake with Torchwood's most dangerous object. A double drabble.
Jack grimaced at the headline on the front of his morning newspaper. Perhaps he shouldn't have been surprised by it. Things had been rumbling away in the background for weeks and months, but now it was official. Britain was going to war with Germany. Again.
He'd done one war already and he wasn't keen for a second. This time they'd have tanks and bombs and fully automatic machine guns. It would be brutal and bloody in a way that the Great War hadn't been. Back then you'd had to look a man in the eye to kill him with your rifle or your bayonet. Now whole platoons could be murdered without ever having to really face up to the lives that were being stolen.
The guilt he felt made his stomach churn. He just knew that this was his fault even though he'd been nowhere near anyone who'd made the ultimate decision. They'd been coerced; their decisions influenced by something far more powerful. Object One. The Bad Penny. Jack had tossed it into the rift thinking that would get rid of it once and for all; that nothing bad would happen as a consequence. Now he realised his terrible mistake.
