DOCTOR WHO: To His Requirement

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Title: To His Requirement
Characters/Pairing: Jack/Doctor
Word Count: 136
Rating: PG
Summary: He is the favored son of a favored race, and you are nothing.
Notes: Written for justprompts and originally posted on Jack's journal (impossible_thng). I really don't know why I wrote this, except that Jack would not shut up, and I felt like screwing with format for no good reason. It happens.
Disclaimer: Doctor Who, Torchwood, and all characters belong to the BBC. I am not affiliated with the BBC, and am not making any money from this.

he is
the favored son of a favored race.

you are
the forgotten son of a nowhere planet.

he is
a god, in all the old stories,
the lords of time who ruled from
untouchable,
unreachable,
fabled gallifrey.

you are
no longer a time agent,
no longer anything you recognize,
lost and fumbling,
drowning and

he is
salvation,
a chance,
a change.

you are
becoming someone,
full of possibility,
like all humans (he says),
but he never says -
the possibility of what?

he is
not what the stories say,
falling short and so much better,
alternately and all at once.

you are
always falling short,
of reputation
and expectation
and his every requirement.

you are nothing he wants.
he is everything you need.