A DIFFERENT WORLD: CHILDREN OF EARTH
Six Months Later Author's Note: need to read Better With Three chapter 7 to understand some of the things mentioned. Six Months Later... Jack didn't come home with Tosh and Owen. He didn't call or email or anything for six whole months. During that time Ianto and Tosh over-saw the rebuilding of the Hub thanks to Agent Johnson who made the arrangements. While the new Hub was still un-built the team were residing in a warehouse as base. It took a good few weeks of settling in for Tosh to realise something. Jack once told her that instead of killing his brother, he had merely knocked him out and froze him. Gray Harkness (even though that wasn't his surname) had been residing in the Hub when it blew up. Jack wasn't mourning for just his grandson, he was mourning for his brother. In the good new Mwyfanny has made it out alive and was demanded a lot of attention from Ianto much to everyone's amusement. Martha and Mickey visits regularly, helping out when the rift activity got heavy or when Gwen wanted to do something baby related. Rhys had not been pleased when he realised even Andy knew before him but he got over it and was already coming up with weird names for the child. Then one day Jack called. He arrange to meet them outside of Cardiff on a large hill in the middle of a cold night. They climbed in their brand new SUV (with quadruple deadlock, Ianto was not taking any more chances) and started their journey towards their best friend and family. The road ended not so far away from the hill and Owen and Ianto once more started mothering Gwen as they attempted to help her up the hill. "I'm fine, stop mothering me you idiots" Gwen snapped playfully hitting the pair of them. "Honestly Tosh be glad you're not pregnant, they're worse than my mother and Rhys put together" Tosh giggled. "Just three more months Gwen" "Trust me I can't wait" "Neither can I" Owen muttered. "No more overly hormonal Gwen to fling staplers at me or to shot at me or set a weevil on me. That woman is evil pure evil!" "I heard that!" There was a deep chuckle and they are smiled and moved eagerly faster up the hill to see Jack standing there in his usual uniform looking handsome as ever. "Jack!" Gwen was the first to put her arms round Jack while hugging him tightly as possible due to the large bump between them. "How are you?" "Not so good" Jack admitted before hugging Ianto, then Tosh and Owen. "How are you lot?" "Well Owen is annoying as ever, Gwen is extra hormonal, the Hub is taking forever to rebuild and Tosh's fingers are getting itchy to have the best computers again" Ianto said smiling while ignoring his teammates glares. "And of course I am the only sane one who remains making all the coffee of course" "Of course" Jack said grinning. His grin now faded. "I'm leaving Earth" he said. "What?" "No way you wanker" "Why?" "Please don't leave us Jack" Jack turned to Gwen who was pleading him with her sad, tear filled eyes. He smiled sadly. "I've been running away for six months Gwen and it's not far enough" he wiped away a loose tear on her face. "So I got a ride above us waiting for my signal before teleporting me up and I'll be gone. Forever" "But it wasn't your fault Jack" Gwen wept. "You can't keep running away" "Just watch me" Jack whispered in a strangled voice, tears building up in his own blue eyes. Tosh threw her arms round him and hugged him tightly. "Come back...one day come back" she begged before letting go. Ianto then kissed him quickly. "Go to Rose, she could help" he suggested. "And have those sweet eyes look at me as if I'm guilty?" Jack said shaking his head. "Have the Doctor and Donna make comments? No thank you" Owen wouldn't look at him when he hugged Jack and Gwen cried into Jack's shoulder before Ianto and Owen had to pull of her off. Jack stepped back and the silver white beam came from the sky and took him away. Forever, "YOU FUCKING BASTARD BETTER COME BACK REAL SOON!" TWTWTWTWTWTWTWTWTWTWTWTW Martha and Mickey came. Martha looked after the distraught Gwen while Mickey tried to cheer the others up. Martha then phoned Rose to find reassurance, hoping that maybe Rose did find Jack and will bring him back. Unfortunately Rose hadn't even gotten their desperate messages six months before and was rather distraught herself to find Jack had gone missing. Two days after Martha Jones phoned Rose Tyler the TARDIS appeared. The moment Rose stepped out of the TARDIS; the team surrounded her with questions. "Have you found Jack?" Gwen asked clinging on to Rose's arm after Martha got the others to give Rose breathing space. "Is he in the TARDIS?" "Fraid not sweetheart" Rose said softly. "But I don't think he'll be in trouble...much. I met his younger self in Venice before he had met me and was still in the Time Agency. He was in the company of a man called Captain John Hart" Everyone groaned. "God not that wanker" Owen grumbled before turning back to Donna and continuing their conversation. The Doctor was talking with Tosh, Martha and Ianto about what happened with the children. To see if he could work out the species or not. "Rose, something I've been meaning to ask you" Gwen whispered, Rose smiled and nodded. "Why is it...that sometimes you're not here to save the world? Is it because the human's actions make you ashamed?" Rose's smile vanished. "Sometimes I am ashamed of the humans but that's not why I'm not always here" she said. "There's a whole universe out there Gwen. It's large and filled with different timelines and sometimes I just can't get here in time. I won't always be here and people know it. It was partially why Torchwood was founded, so you could be there when I'm not" Gwen nodded, she understood. "Can I ask for a favour?" she whispered. "Sure" Rose beamed. "If something like this happens again. Take my child away and protect him or her with everything you got" Rose looked stunned that Gwen had that much trust in her. "I promise" Rose said before hugging Gwen. "Oi Blondie!" Donna shouted. "I think you just made two more immortals" "What?" TWTWTWTWTWTWTWTWTWTWTWTWTW The Doctor had pulled Tosh and Owen into the TARDIS (people had to restrain Tosh from examining everything in detail) and started examining them. When he had spoken to them earlier that evening neither of them felt like Jack, a fixed point in time but it was best to check just in case Rose had made two more immortals. After a lot of poking, prodding, answering the humans' curious questions about his medical gear and what exactly they did the Doctor came up with a conclusion. "You're not immortal like Jack" "We're not?" Tosh and Owen asked in unison. "They're not?" Gwen and Ianto asked at the exact same time as Tosh and Owen asked theirs. "Nope, expanded lifespan, the occasional death prevented since their recovery and healing time has sped up incredibly but not a fixed point in time like Jack Harkness" the Doctor said clucking his tongue. "I would say that you'll die in two hundred years or so? Aging slowly of course, not too bad humans would kill to be in your shoes" "They did" Rose grumbled remembering Cassandra all too well. TWTWTWTWTWTWTWTWTWTWTWTW After a couple more hours of chatting and catching up, Rose, the Doctor and Donna left. Mostly after Donna complained that the Doctor promised her proper Italian pizza and they have to go to Italy now. They invited the others but they turned it down, Gwen because she was unsure what time travelling would do to her unborn child, Owen because he already ate pizza and Tosh and Ianto because they didn't want to be missing for a year. Martha had to go back to London anyway but she told Rose to come back soon and have dinner with her and Mickey. After seeing Martha off the four remaining members of Torchwood walked back to the SUV. They were Torchwood. They defended the Earth. And one day, just one day they will have Captain Jack Harkness back.