[ Jack laughs and claps him on the back like they're old friends, that's just how he is. ]
Own it, it's fun to be the favorite. Nothing wrong with that.
[ Technically Jack was never the favorite of the one person he always wanted to be the favorite of, but he's been the favorite of a large number of other people, so that's had to be enough. He is not at all surprised to hear that the Doctor has made friends here too, he's just that kind of person. So many people have been sucked into his orbit over his long life, just like Jack. ]
Yep, we're very old friends. We're around the same age these days, I think, but it's hard to know how many years when you travel time and space.
[ So if Newt know how old the Doctor is, or around the ballpark, he'll know just how large of a number that is. The Doctor is also not shy about giving his age out. Jack is usually a little more close to the chest, depending on who he's talking to, but there's no reason to hide that sort of thing around here. They're all on the same team. He knows he's somewhere above two thousand, but he couldn't pinpoint a year. It also doesn't matter. ]
I wouldn't worry about paying him back, he doesn't really think like that. He helps people for the sake of helping them. Or yeah, I guess we should say they don't think like that.
[ It's one of the Doctor's traits that Jack loves. He might joke around about favors, but he always does things to help people or for the general good. A real hero, although he'd never accept that title himself. In some ways Jack has tried to live up to that paragon attitude, but he's not capable of it, so he's found a middle ground he thinks he can live with. ]
I've met a few versions of them, I actually just met a new one before I came here. They're always the same and different at the same time. And when they need help, I always come.
[ So he does some crimes to end up in jail and spends nineteen years getting close enough to the new Doctor to break her out. And drops everything to go fight Daleks with her. Sometimes that loyalty has included bailing on his entire team at Torchwood to run after the TARDIS, but it is what it is. It doesn't matter that he abandoned him, the Doctor explained himself for that, and Jack moved past it. Respects it, even.
He seems to know his way around the ship already, turning on their way toward where the drinks they desperately need will be. ]
Saved him from the monster flu though, huh? Are you a scientist too?
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Own it, it's fun to be the favorite. Nothing wrong with that.
[ Technically Jack was never the favorite of the one person he always wanted to be the favorite of, but he's been the favorite of a large number of other people, so that's had to be enough. He is not at all surprised to hear that the Doctor has made friends here too, he's just that kind of person. So many people have been sucked into his orbit over his long life, just like Jack. ]
Yep, we're very old friends. We're around the same age these days, I think, but it's hard to know how many years when you travel time and space.
[ So if Newt know how old the Doctor is, or around the ballpark, he'll know just how large of a number that is. The Doctor is also not shy about giving his age out. Jack is usually a little more close to the chest, depending on who he's talking to, but there's no reason to hide that sort of thing around here. They're all on the same team. He knows he's somewhere above two thousand, but he couldn't pinpoint a year. It also doesn't matter. ]
I wouldn't worry about paying him back, he doesn't really think like that. He helps people for the sake of helping them. Or yeah, I guess we should say they don't think like that.
[ It's one of the Doctor's traits that Jack loves. He might joke around about favors, but he always does things to help people or for the general good. A real hero, although he'd never accept that title himself. In some ways Jack has tried to live up to that paragon attitude, but he's not capable of it, so he's found a middle ground he thinks he can live with. ]
I've met a few versions of them, I actually just met a new one before I came here. They're always the same and different at the same time. And when they need help, I always come.
[ So he does some crimes to end up in jail and spends nineteen years getting close enough to the new Doctor to break her out. And drops everything to go fight Daleks with her. Sometimes that loyalty has included bailing on his entire team at Torchwood to run after the TARDIS, but it is what it is. It doesn't matter that he abandoned him, the Doctor explained himself for that, and Jack moved past it. Respects it, even.
He seems to know his way around the ship already, turning on their way toward where the drinks they desperately need will be. ]
Saved him from the monster flu though, huh? Are you a scientist too?