*sob* That just hurts. As seti_drd said, I love that you never once use "our" Jack's name. And to use "James Harper"...oh, this just hurts, as I said.

And this was how the adventure had ended: in torture and screams and death, and the knowledge that the debt of his best friend's life now lay on his soul.

*sobs again* Thank you so much for sharing this. Lovely work, but man does it hurt!