He only smiled slightly in response. He didn't know how to answer that sentiment. He'd told her once already that he'd missed her, but the context was a little different. It was broader.
He'd suffered for a hundred years. To say that he'd missed her in the personal, intimate way that she was saying it now... he couldn't. The words were too hollow for what he'd felt. It had taken him a century to get over the feelings of betrayal and anger and loneliness that he'd been left with on that dead, empty space station. They hadn't even said goodbye. They just left. Just when they were everything to him, they'd simply left him behind without so much as a glance over their shoulders. He hadn't missed them, he'd ached for them. He'd raged and wept and yearned for them. Then, when he was finally okay with it, here she was telling him that she'd 'missed' him. He wanted to point out that he wouldn't have been hard to find, if they had missed him so much. It was possible the Doctor had even known where Jack would go to wait, but the Doctor hadn't wanted to find him. Jack knew that with absolute certainty, because the Doctor had told him so.
"I'm glad to hear I crossed your mind once or twice," he finally said.
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Date: 2009-03-08 12:49 am (UTC)He'd suffered for a hundred years. To say that he'd missed her in the personal, intimate way that she was saying it now... he couldn't. The words were too hollow for what he'd felt. It had taken him a century to get over the feelings of betrayal and anger and loneliness that he'd been left with on that dead, empty space station. They hadn't even said goodbye. They just left. Just when they were everything to him, they'd simply left him behind without so much as a glance over their shoulders. He hadn't missed them, he'd ached for them. He'd raged and wept and yearned for them. Then, when he was finally okay with it, here she was telling him that she'd 'missed' him. He wanted to point out that he wouldn't have been hard to find, if they had missed him so much. It was possible the Doctor had even known where Jack would go to wait, but the Doctor hadn't wanted to find him. Jack knew that with absolute certainty, because the Doctor had told him so.
"I'm glad to hear I crossed your mind once or twice," he finally said.