DISCLAIMER: I do not own the characters of Torchwood/Dr Who; they belong respectively to BBC Wales and RTD. I do not earn any form of income, they are only for the edification of Fan Fiction readers. A twist on the Torchwood, Season 2 Episode, Something Borrowed. Rated M for swearing and be warned, a lot of Jack/Gwen bashing and a tragic ending...

FOUR MINUTES AND THIRTY-FIVE SECONDS

Prologue The Wedding

It had been a long, hard day where carefully laid plans for a perfect wedding for Gwen and Rhys, rapidly began to come unstuck. It started the night before with Gwen's hen night that ended with her being bitten on the streets of Cardiff, by an alien intruder. A call to Jack and he had come and quickly disposed of the violent creature ... a Nostravite.

In less than 10 hours, the reason for the bite became obvious. The Nostravite had implanted Gwen with it's seed, causing an alien pregnancy to rapidly bloom inside her. Naturally, Gwen panicked and rang Jack and Owen in the early morning to tell them what had happened.

When they arrived and found Gwen looking seven months pregnant, Jack explained that delaying the wedding would give Torchwood time to deal with the unwanted alien pregnancy, but being her usual pig-headed self, Gwen emoted all over the flat and demanded her wedding go ahead … as long as Rhys was agreeable.

The trouble her decision caused for everyone, not to mention Gwen, was observed by everyone except Jack, who only had admiration and respect for his feisty second-in-command. Of course, the rest of the team were left to add extra duties to their already overloaded day, but Jack was too fixated on giving Gwen the wedding she wanted to care about them.

Nasty scenes then ensued at the wedding with confrontations between Jack and Rhys, Jack and Rhys' mother, before the inevitable chase of the Nostravite mother (who came to claim her legitimate child) culminating in both the alien and the alien baby being destroyed. If only Gwen had not been stupid enough to insist on carrying on with the wedding, a lot of the ensuing trouble and tragedy would have been avoided. But she did go ahead. Then she got pregnant and the alien baby and it's mother were destroyed. And then she wrecked her wedding day.

At one part during the actual ceremony itself, Jack came rushing in and tried to stop the wedding taking place … in order to capture the Nostravite. In the weeks that followed, many of the guests who still remembered the disruption of the wedding ceremony, would wonder whether Captain Jack Harkness's intentions were entirely honourable and honest, as they appeared to be at the time.

Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen Williams would discover that their hidden agendas for each other would boil over into the evening bringing unimaginable chaos, agony and disaster. As the night fell gently over Cardiff, an invisible mallet hung over the scene, waiting to descend with all the power of tragedy and death it held …..