"But you're not, you're alive," the Doctor said. "You've got so much living to do, Jack, you don't even---it's not---you've just got so much there. So much to give and I---I can't take that away by coming back, I can't."
He wanted to reach out and hold Jack. He wanted to hold him and make him feel alive again. But to feel alive for a moment and then die forever, was that worth it? Could the Doctor willingly do that to him?
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Date: 2010-05-25 05:53 am (UTC)He wanted to reach out and hold Jack. He wanted to hold him and make him feel alive again. But to feel alive for a moment and then die forever, was that worth it? Could the Doctor willingly do that to him?
"Fifty years," he murmured. "Me, too."