Although you didn't really kill him-- you just acknowledged his mortality, and that he would die (probably soon). We don't even know that Jack read the note-- as Ianto acknowledges, it could have been lost, or destroyed, or something else. We just know that he is going to die-- which we always knew, but you bring his mortality into such sharp focus that we can't hide from it.
But yes, it defintiely still has that symmetry, Jack's temporary death vs. Ianto's eternal one-- and indeed your choice to not tell us how he died makes it seem all the more eternal-- it's not something you can pin down, or express in something so finite as words.
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Date: 2009-02-07 12:38 am (UTC)But yes, it defintiely still has that symmetry, Jack's temporary death vs. Ianto's eternal one-- and indeed your choice to not tell us how he died makes it seem all the more eternal-- it's not something you can pin down, or express in something so finite as words.