Chapter 1

Letters to the Captain

Torchwood 5- the American establishment stands in the sunny beach town in California. Towards it, dressed in a tight dress and high heels, walks a young woman with a mass of curly hair that are auburn in colour. Her green eyes are shaded by vintage style sunglasses and on her wrist sits a vortex manipulator. She walks into the building and finds Gwen sat in the main hub. From her dress pocket she pulls a cream coloured envelope and placed it on the desk beside Gwen.

Gwen looks at her confused.

"Can I help you?" The Welsh woman asks kindly eyeing the letter warily.

"Will you see that captain Jack Harkness gets this?" The woman asks in a silvery voice and an accent revealing her to be english.

"Of course, can I take a name?" Gwen asks grabbing a pen from the desk caddy.

"No, he'll understand." With that she turns and leaves, Gwen remains perplexed but shrugs and places the envelope in Jack's in tray for when he returns from collecting a weevil corpse from a few miles away.

When Jack returns Gwen holds out the letter to him. He takes it gingerly.

"What's this Gwen?" He asks.

"A woman left it, wouldn't give a name, she said you'd understand." Gwen explains and Jack opens it carefully. Inside is an old fashioned style calling card with a date and coordinates written on its reverse with the initials "A.S" and a kiss signed below it. Jack smiles.

"Can you hold the fort for a few days Gwen, there's something I need to do."

"Sure, let me know when you're coming back will you." She retorts as Jack punched numbers into his vortex manipulator.

"I'll be home soon. See you around Gwen Cooper." Jack smiles before he shimmers and disappears into the time vortex and to the coordinates on the calling card.