"It doesn't matter if it is," Jack said quietly, "we're here, and we can't stop it. Even if we can stop it, we can't. We just have to watch."
Jack, for a moment, wondered if they could. But he cut himself off. No point in considering it. The Doctor had considered it on Mars, Jack saw that, the Doctor had done it, and look where that had got him. No this, they just had to see through.
"The current runs through the nexus between every outpost. They manage to evacuate 47 outposts, but that's out of 400 dotted around the area. They stopped the death toll after about three million. They'll leave some of the outposts there. Still there even when I was a kid. Too scared to go back in case anything stuck around. They say when it happened the sky lit up like fireworks. Burning brightly in a thousand different colours. I always thought that sounded too romantic."
He looked back to the Doctor again, "Like one big magnet, Doctor, that's us."
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Date: 2009-12-31 05:53 am (UTC)Jack, for a moment, wondered if they could. But he cut himself off. No point in considering it. The Doctor had considered it on Mars, Jack saw that, the Doctor had done it, and look where that had got him. No this, they just had to see through.
"The current runs through the nexus between every outpost. They manage to evacuate 47 outposts, but that's out of 400 dotted around the area. They stopped the death toll after about three million. They'll leave some of the outposts there. Still there even when I was a kid. Too scared to go back in case anything stuck around. They say when it happened the sky lit up like fireworks. Burning brightly in a thousand different colours. I always thought that sounded too romantic."
He looked back to the Doctor again, "Like one big magnet, Doctor, that's us."