Title: Thread of Life
Author: Caz251
Summary: Gwen's Chridtmas gift leaves her hanging by a thread
Characters: Jack, Ianto, Gwen and Rhys
Spoilers: General Spoilers nothing specific
Authors notes: For the Gwen bashing Christmas challenge 2008 at The Anti Gwen Alliance. Not for Gwen fans. Sorry, this is my first fic without any mention of Tosh or Owen.
Thread of Life
It was Christmas. The first Christmas since the both the bombings in Cardiff and the planetary shift and realignment. More importantly to the Torchwood team however was that it was the first Christmas without Tosh and Owen. Despite the melancholy mood that this caused, the team had agreed that Christmas is a celebration of life and that their fallen comrades should not be mourned but rather celebrated. Christmas therefore progressed as usual.
Torchwood Cardiff or as it is otherwise known Torchwood Three was still officially only a three person organisation, Captain Jack Harkness, the teams leader, second in command Gwen Cooper and of course Ianto Jones. Such a small number meant that there would be less presents under the Torchwood tree that Gwen had insisted took up residence in the board room over the Christmas period. This was especially true as Jack and Ianto were exchanging gifts privately at home and had a joint present for Gwen.
Gwen's present was something that she had wanted to try for a while and was technically a gift not only from Jack and Ianto, but from Tosh and Owen as well. Gwen had expressed an interest in the sport of bungee jumping after something Owen had said about the way she always bounced back from things and had likened her to a bungee jumper. The idea only seemed to get more appealing to Gwen after their trip to the CERN facility in Switzerland, and the time on the plane in high altitudes.
Deciding on Gwen's Christmas gift had been simple, Toshiko had already compiled a list of places that it would be good to jump from and Owen had looked into the different ways the sport could be done for example from a hot air balloon or off the side of a building. So Jack and Ianto had decided to give Gwen the ultimate bungee jumping experience for her Christmas as a way to include their friends in the gift. Between them they got her the equipment she would need as well as a block of lessons, so that she could be instructed safely on what she was doing.
However, Gwen being Gwen, once she opened her gift decided that she didn't want to wait for her first lesson. Instead, she asked Jack's opinion on which roof in Cardiff would be the best to jump from and for him to make it possible for her to be able to jump that day.