Ok so I have begun to edit this chapter let me know what you think. :)

I know the characters are slightly AU but I just want to write this.


Constable Gwen Cooper arrived at the latest murder scene on streets of Cardiff city in Wales. She looked about her, holding her cup of coffee in her hand, already drenched in rain and shivering as she looked at the latest victim of a serial killer. The forensic team approached but before long, everyone was removed from the scene as a group called Torchwood arrived.

Captain Jack Harkness lead the Torchwood team onto the crime scene. The team instantly took up a formation surrounding the body as Suzie slipped on a glove of sorts which would allow them to bring the victim back to life for just two minutes. Jack seemed distracted for some reason and the team had noticed, the team knew next to nothing of their leader's life or his past. Gwen ran up the stairs of the car park next to the scene and was watching from above Jack turned and looked at the body just as it was brought to life, they started what they came to do,
"I was walkin' home. Why am I 'ere?"
"You're dead," Owen stated simply,
"How am I dead?"
"You were stabbed,"
"Who killed you?" Jack asked again, leaning down to be nearer to the victim.
"I -I don't know, what do you mean I'm dead?! I can see you all!" The victim was looking extremely confused,
"Who attacked you?" Tosh asked,
"I dunno, there was something behin' me,"
"Police said one stab wound to the back."
"What is your name?" Questioned Jack,
"John Tucker."
"Okay, not long left now, John," Jack said in an attempt to reassure the man,
"Who are you?" Asked John,
"Captain Jack Harkness,"
"30 seconds,"
"OK, when you died, what did you see?" Jack asked curiously,
"Nothing. Oh God! There's nothing out there!" The victim fell dead once again.

Owen looked around to Tosh and then to Jack who was just looking at the body once again,
"Well that was a waste of bloody time," Owen joked, none of them had moved,
"The last victim, we told was wounded, spent the whole two minutes screaming for an ambulance," Tosh stated this fact easily,
Jack looked around himself and then up,
"Maybe there's no right way of doing it," He looked at Gwen, "What do you think?" He yelled up at her. She ran off from the edge and out of sight.


The Torchwood team climbed into their SUV to return to base, the team were talking but Jack was just thinking about how his life had changed in the 200 years since Platform 1. He had married an immortal from another world, a woman whose planet was older than the universe. A year after he began dating her back in 1919, he married Evelyn, he became the father to a healthy baby girl who they called Bethany four years ago, just before Tosh was recruited. After many accidents, Jack and Evelyn realized that Beth was an immortal as well. Right now, Evelyn would be attempting to get Beth to go to bed while worrying about him. The thought of the other Torchwood boss worrying about him made Jack smile. He and Evelyn had been close since 1889 when Jack been recruited to join Torchwood, after years of walking on eggshells around their feelings for each other, Jack finally worked up the courage to ask her on a date in 1918, as soon as he got home from the War really.

Jack's smile didn't go unnoticed by the team but none of them mentioned it, instead Owen decided to do what he usually did and complained about something, dragging Jack back to the full reality of the world around him.
"How come Evelyn always gets to leave at about 6 o'clock and we all stay until nearly midnight every night?" Jack knew that Owen was bound to ask this question, Bethany had a bed in a room off the side of Jack and Evelyn's office which she would sometimes sleep in if Evelyn got too caught up in a case.
"Because Bethany has to sleep." Jack replied. That was most of the truth, he missed out the fact that sometimes Evelyn could break down at nights considering there was less to do, and this gave her the chance to remember how her siblings on her home planet had given their lives to get Evelyn out of the war on her home.


Jack didn't get home until 1:00AM, he loved Torchwood but he sometimes felt like he was missing the time he could have with his family. Jack blinked a couple of time to try and get his focus back on the country lane that lead up to his home, the road was 6 miles of wooded area that was untouched by human hands. He pulled into a vast clearing that was surrounded in beautiful plats and shrubs and trees, perfectly centred in the middle of this immense expanse was his home, a house that never used to be a house but a Torchwood safe house that Jack and Evelyn had inhabited during World War 2 and had never left. Pulling up to the parking spaces at the front of the house Jack parked but not before hearing the chickens still out in the run, he rolled his eyes before heading over to the chicken coop.

It was 20 minutes later before Jack was finally entering his home, with a sigh he took off his coat hanging it over a chair at the large mahogany kitchen table, at the same time, he dropped his keys into the glass bowl with a resounding clatter through the silence of the large manor-like house. He winced at the noise but when there was silence again he let out a breath, glad that he didn't wake little Bethany or Evelyn. Heading through the large kitchen and into the drawing room, Jack saw Evelyn asleep on her desk chair whit a drawing book open and a granite pencil still in her hand.

Jack couldn't help the smile that crept over his lips, he loved his wife with all of his heart and seeing her like this with her guard down made Jack really take in her recent appearance. Her eyes had sunken somewhat, it wouldn't be noticeable but Jack had known Evelyn since he arrived on Earth from Platform 1 and she had been over 100 years younger back then compared to now. Evelyn's eyes didn't shine very often anymore, they used to once Jack believed but he didn't think that they had shone since Evelyn came to Earth, she had suffered too much on her world. Her olive skin seemed to lighten in recent years as well, after having Bethany, Evelyn change, Jack noticed how Evelyn would laugh more and smile more.

Evelyn's rose pink lips had a faint smile on them and for once she seemed at peace in her sleep. Jack smiled sadly at this as he knew some of what Evelyn had lost but there was some hidden deep in her mind. He had seen the faint smile before long ago; Jack remembered how when he came home on leave during World War Two, Evelyn had always been stood waiting for him to come home. She had known that Jack couldn't die but that didn't get rid of her constant worry that he might. He remembered coming home and seeing her with tears shining in her eyes as he would come over to her after dismissing his men.

Jack was snapped out of thought after a while by Evelyn's moving form, he quickly gathered up her dirty plate and glass and headed to the kitchen to wash them up. He put the dishes in the sink and took his coat off, hanging it on the back of the chair with Evelyn's black felt long 1940's style great coat. He quickly did the washing up before heading back into the lounge to pick Evelyn up and take her up to sleep in a proper bed. As he got her upstairs he took her jeans, tee-shirt and bra off of her before pulling one of his tee-shirts over her head and he lay her down on her side, pulling the covers over her, he quickly took all his clothes off apart from his boxers and lay down next to her pulling her close to him. Slowly he too sank into a peaceful sleep.

Evelyn's mind was replaying some old memories of her and Jack while she slept, they weren't bad memories, quite the opposite really. Evelyn was standing at the RAF base waiting for her captain to return, it was 1942. Jack was on leave for 1 week and Evelyn hadn't seen him in nearly 6 months. She saw pilots and other RAF boys coming out of the aircraft carriers that were bringing them home, about five minutes ago she had seen them all waving from the deck of the ships at their family members waiting to see them, different platoons came off and Evelyn saw Jack. She tried to see if he was the same as the man that she had watched march away all those months ago but from this distance she couldn't see him clearly enough. After ten or so minutes every platoon was dismissed and the men were more than happy to be seeing their wives and families, Jack turned to try and find Evelyn in the crowd but the army weren't letting people too near the ships, Evelyn was trying to get over to Jack but is was relatively difficult, after a little while the two did manage to get to each other and they both laughed,
"Hello," Jack whispered to Evelyn while kissing her,
"Home is my Captain, back on the land." Jack smiled at what Evelyn had said, smiled against her lips. The two quickly left the docks to go home, Jack didn't once let go of Evelyn's hand until they were out of the dockyard where he wrapped his arm around Evelyn's waist and held her close.

Jack reached out to his bedside table and began hitting aimlessly to shut up the beeping of the alarm clock, eventually he found it and threw it across the room where it hit the opposite wall
"Bastard fucking thing," he mumbled sleepily while Evelyn chuckled. He playfully slapped Evelyn's arm as they both laughed before he got out of bed and began getting dressed in his usual outfit while Evelyn watched, not even attempting to hide her wandering eyes that would linger in different places. Once he dressed, he headed into Bethany's room and gently woke his daughter up. She went downstairs and grabbed a quick breakfast, it was only 6:00 which meant they would head down to Torchwood where Beth would mess about and tease Owen senseless before Evelyn would take her to school for 8:50. The family took the usual jeep to get to the Hub (the jeep was used a lot because the family lived in a very remote location in the country side that was surrounded by a perception filter), and after half an hour of laughing and joking in the car, they arrived at the Hub.


The day went pretty much without issues, there was a loose Weevil at the hospital, there the team saw PC Gwen Cooper once more, she had followed them back to the hub but they had ignored her when they tried to get them to stop, they had taken the invisible lift down into the Hub which had left Gwen baffled by the fact that they had just disappeared right in front of her. That night she came back, she stood outside for about three hours in the cold October night, it was only 10 pm and Beth was still awake helping Owen with something and then going over to one of the free desks that had her school stuff on and carried on with a painting in galaxy style of a wolf howling at the full moon, it was beautiful. The team watched as Gwen approached the information office front of Torchwood carrying three pizza boxes, the team knew that they were to act as oblivious to her appearance as possible, even Bethany was happy to be playing along.

As Gwen came into the main Torchwood office after being allowed in thanks to Ianto, the team acted like they couldn't see her, Owen and Tosh worked on their computers, Suzie was welding something or another, Bethany was painting, Jack was walking towards the office where Evelyn was sat filling out a file. Just as Jack sat down, Tosh began to laugh.
"Sorry! I can't do it, I'm rubbish," Owen said,
"You got the rubbish bit right," came Bethany's response as she walked over,
"He set me off," Tosh added pointing a finger at Owen,
"Well that lasted all of naught point two seconds," Suzie added.

At this point Jack and Evelyn came out of their office,
"Oh come on, she was gonna say 'here's your pizza', and I was gonna say 'how much?' She would then say 'oh whatever twenty quid,' and I would say 'oh I don't have any money'. I was working on a punch line, I hadn't got there but it would've been good."
"You must've been freezing out there, you were stood doing nothing for a good three hours," Evelyn said, finally joining the conversation.
"Here's your pizza, I think I ought to go..." Gwen faded off when Jack responded
"I think we've gone past that stage. And before we go any further, who the hell orders pizza under the name Torchwood?" Jack looked around at the team when Owen spoke,
"Yeah that would be me. Sorry, I'm a twat," He looked slightly guilty but it wouldn't last for long.
"You said it, not me," Evelyn said quietly but most of the team heard her and laughed slightly.

The conversation with Gwen carried on until finally Jack led her down to the vaults to see the Weevil that had killed the porter down at the hospital earlier that day, Evelyn watched as he walked and did a better job of hiding her elevator eyes now than she did that morning. As they headed down, Myfanwy decided that that was a good time to screech, Gwen ducked down before asking slightly frightened,
"What was that?!"
"Pterodactyl," Tosh stated the word so casually like it was normal to have a pterodactyl flying around. Gwen quickly ran after Jack when he yelled for her to follow him. When they came back upstairs, Gwen looked slightly shaken but mostly unaffected. Jack was again in front of her,
"Owen Harper, Gwen Cooper," Jack stated only to have Owen respond
"DOCTOR Owen Harper thank you" Jack pretty much ignored him.
"Toshiko Sato, computer genius," Tosh waved hello to Gwen,
"Suzie Costello, second in command," Jack pointed swiftly to the woman that Gwen had seen welding when she came in,
"Ianto Jones, he cleans up after us and gets us everywhere on time,"
"I do my best, sir," Ianto responded to Jack with,
"And he looks good in a suit.," Jack added,
"Careful sir, that's harassment," Ianto warned Jack,
"Evelyn, joint boss with me, she gets to tell me what to do and I get to tell her what to do," Evelyn smiled at Gwen slightly, pretty quickly her smile faded into a look of shock as she looked at Gwen, she sent a look to Jack saying that she would explain everything later.
"OK, moving on," Jack quickly moved on to remove attention from Evelyn's glare that was set on Gwen,
"Lastly, this is little Bethany, genius and can easily figure out what a person is thinking but with a genius mind, there comes great confusion, she is also the daughter of Evelyn," Bethany smiled and laughed slightly as Jack ruffled her hair.

Evelyn told the team to go home while Jack pretty much ordered Gwen to follow him out of the building, Evelyn heard some muffled talking coming from them, her and Bethany would wait at Torchwood until Jack got back because they had only gone out in the one car that morning.


The following night, Gwen returned to where the water tower was and Jack, Evelyn and Beth were still at the Hub, Evelyn happened to be watching the CCTV footage,
"Suzie left about an hour ago right?" She asked turning to look at Jack,
"Yeah, why?" he asked, not looking up from the folder he was writing in,
"Well, someone looking very much like Suzie is next to the water tower pointing a gun towards someone looking a hell of a lot like our good friend Gwen Cooper. Shall we intervene?" Jack nodded and the pair of them ran towards the lift. As the lift began to rise they heard Suzie speak,
"You have to get inside this stuff, like I did with the glove and the knife, I was working while the others were out or going home, I was working. And that's why a perception filter isn't going to work on me." The last part obviously wasn't directed at Gwen because Suzie turned and fired two shots, one hit Jack directly on his forehead, the other hit Evelyn through the heart, Jack fell first and Evelyn fell onto his chest.

All Evelyn felt was something close to a white hot fire burning at her flesh, she was breathing it, it choked her and just when she thought she wouldn't be able to breathe she was dragged back to life. Her and Jack stood up behind Suzie,
"Put down the gun," Jack stated calmly but sternly,
"Suzie, it's over, come with us," Evelyn said, Suzie looked back at Gwen before Suzie put the barrel of the gun below her chin and pulled the trigger, Jack sighed and looked at the body, Evelyn looked at Gwen as the woman fell to her knees in shock and whispered,
"I remember." Two simple words that meant so much.

The rest of the team where called in and where told to hand over anything that they had removed from the hub without permission. Gwen was stood down there with them, Jack and Evelyn disappeared down to the morgue to put Suzie's body in one of the freezers,
"One day we're gonna run out of space," Jack said sadly, Evelyn looked down and whispered her response,
"But we won't forget them, will we?"
"Never could, Evie, never would." Jack took Evelyn's hand and led her back upstairs.

The sun was just beginning to rise when Jack, Gwen and Evelyn were stood out on the roof of the Millennium Centre. Gwen was still getting over the shock from the events of the night just past.
"Owen and Toshiko," Gwen started, "you didn't tell them that you were both shot and survived, neither of you," Gwen looked between the two of them,
"Neither did you, followed our lead, keep doing that and you might just make it through this,"
"But she killed you," Gwen said exasperatedly,
"We can't die," Jack stated,
"Okay," Gwen said thinking he was joking,
"But we can't," Evelyn said quietly.
"How come?" Gwen asked she was curious now,
"I was born like this. It's the curse of my people. You see people growing old and dying and yet you carry on living," Evelyn whispered,
"I don't know," Jack started, "something happened to me, long ago and far away. But I was killed and then I was brought back to life, one day I'll find a doctor, the right sort of doctor and maybe he can explain it."
"So nothing kills you?" Gwen asked once more,
"Well it kinda freaks people out so it'd be appreciated if you didn't tell anyone," Evelyn said more confidently now,
"Doesn't matter anyway. You'll just wipe my memory again," Gwen sounded upset now,
"And why would we do that?" Evelyn asked, Gwen looked at her weirdly,
"Torchwood has a vacancy, a job going spare, do you want it?" Jack asked dropping his arms protectively over Evelyn's shoulders, he took in her sent while he did this, Gwen looked taken back by the question but responded quickly and confidently,
"Yes. I do, yeah." Jack and Evelyn just laughed slightly and the three fell into a comfortable silence watching the sunrise from the rooftop.

So that is Episode 1 please let me know what you think of it, responses really are appreciated. Thank you for reading and I hope to update when possible. :)