[EcM] December - Impossible Things

[onlysayinghello]

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others. - Jonathan Winters


He's hearing the words, right from the source, from the one that would know this sort of thing, and it feels like it should have been a relief.

"Nothing I can do. You’re an impossible thing, Jack."

So why did it feel like an untimely death sentence? Why was it that hearing the actual truth about just what had happened, had made him feel so absolutely lost? It wasn't as if he hadn't heard the words before, but they were never an actual fact before. Here it was though, his hand twisting the levers in a room flooded with radiation, listening to the Doctor tell him that no matter what time threw at him, no matter what happened along any and all the timelines... Jack would still be there.

Jack the Fact.

He had wondered if Rose could help him, but truly was there anything worth helping at this point? A man without a time, without a timeline technically... yet to be born, yet to really live he knew that this wasn't such a bad sentence after all. Everything he knew, everything he'd seen over those years he spent searching for the Doctor... it was preparing him for this. Not this exact moment, but one yet to happen. He'd be ready. He'd be prepared for it all because in some way or another he knew what was to come, and that was near an impossible thing as well.