Fic: 'Open Road' (Doctor Who, Captain Jack/TARDIS, PG, 1/1) Title: Open Road Fandom: Doctor Who Characters: Captain Jack/TARDIS (references to Jack/Doctor, Doctor/TARDIS) Word Count: 217 Rating: PG Spoilers: 3x11, 'Utopia' Challenge: Leap for Prompts (24/29): Doctor Who, Jack Disclaimer: No one mentioned belongs to me. Summary: The TARDIS missed him, Jack can tell.
Open Road
The TARDIS missed him, Jack can tell. It hums around him, it throbs. (The Doctor would roll his eyes and tell Jack not to be so sexual about everything, but Jack's not the one with the throbbing blue box.)
Jack missed her too, though. He runs his hands over the console when the Doctor's not looking. Once or twice when he is, as well, though it's actually sort of accidental. Jack's got no problems with voyeurism, really, except he didn't expect to catch the Doctor watching. He's not exactly embarrassed getting caught being emotional about the TARDIS, but it feels like an invasion of privacy. His or the Doctor's, he's not sure whose.
He's had a taste of the stagnant life. (More than a taste, really, more like decades, on and off, immobility bitter and dry on his tongue.) And it's strange that being here, back in the TARDIS, which is smaller than the Hub (not that size matters), somehow seems much more free.
It's stranger still that now that he's so free, now that he has the ability to go absolutely anywhere... suddenly he finds himself not wanting to go anywhere.
The interior lights of the TARDIS dim around him, homey and inviting, and Jack thinks he's not the only one who wants him to stay.