Superb story!

I was also outraged at the Doctor's treatment of Jack. After all, Jack ended up immortal because he was fighting to keep the Daleks away from the Doctor. To just abandon him - yes, maybe you could accept that he had to see to Roes. But to never go back! To know what he was abandoning Jack to.

And his total 'so what' attitude when Jack was relating how he discovered his immortality, and the ways he'd suffered and died since then. The Doctor finds it in him to show kindness and gentleness to complete strangers; yet he can't find any words of solace for a man supposed to be his find. Jack totally changed for him, and he looks at him like he's worse than the Daleks.

I love that you fitted the missing two years into this, something that seems to have been forgotten about in canon. It does make you wonder if Jack was robbed of the memories, what had he seen? If he gave them up, what terrible thing happened to him to make losing two years of his life more preferable to remembering it?

I can't wait to see where you go from here. *cuddles Jack* *kicks the doctor*