Obviously, Torchwood and Doctor Who do not belong to me.
Also, as this is my first story, any feedback is definitely welcomed. Hope you like it!
Chapter 1
Once upon a time, a woman named Rose Tyler looked into the time vortex of the Tardis and became the Bad Wolf.
As she so aptly put it, she saw the whole of time and space. She saw the fate of every planet in the universe, and its inhabitants. She saw the doctor; all his regenerations flying around the universe, (usually) making things better, and she saw all of his companions and their fates (including her own).
But she could not dwell on that. All this information was burning her up. With a wave of her hand, she sent the words 'Bad Wolf' across her timeline to lead her here. Then, she wiped out the Daleks attacking satellite five, dissolving them into dust along with their ships. Now, she knew the doctor would kiss her, absorbing the time vortex and regenerate in triumph and relief, but her work was unfinished. Jack Harkness was (currently) dead.
She focused her attention on Jack's timeline. Resurrection was as easy for her as extermination, but the question was, how far should she go? She could bring Jack back to life as he was before, at he would continue traveling with the doctor and her in the Tardis. Everything would go back to the way it was. However, if she did this, she would doom the earth.
The 21st century was when everything changed, is when everything changes, and when everything would change. The rift in Cardiff especially would spew out alien after alien, and many other aliens with harmful intent would make contact with the entire world. The doctor would do all he could, but he would not be able to fix everything. Torchwood and UNIT would do all they could, but they would need more help.
The Bad Wolf could not change these events, but she could influence them for the better with Jack. If she made Jack a fixed point in time, the doctor would abandon him on the satellite, and Jack would attempt to transport to the 21st century to meet up with them. He would miss by more than a century, but he would be noticed by Torchwood and he would eventually join them.
It was the only way to save the earth from destruction. The Bad Wolf focused, and Jack burst back to life with a gasp.
But she would be sentencing Jack to centuries, no, millennia of heartbreak and despair. Everything and everyone around him would get old and turn to dust, while he would remain the same. In the beginning of 21st century, he would become the leader of Torchwood and establish close relationships with its members: Owen, Tosh, Gwen, Ianto. Especially Ianto.
But they would all die far too soon. At least Tosh and Owen got to die after having saved Cardiff, but Ianto and later Gwen would both die pointless deaths, making Jack a darker and less compassionate person. He did not deserve this.
If the Bad Wolf could put the memories of either Jack, Ianto, or Gwen, (the people with the most knowledge of what went wrong) into their past selves, they would be able to change what went wrong. The next question was, how would she do this, and whose memories would she send
The Bad Wolf could influence events out of her time, but only by using aspects of her present, (like the Bad Wolf logo).
In the few seconds the Bad Wolf had to live, she decided what she would do. By being a fixed point in time, Jack would already have the power to transfer a bit of his life force to others, but she would temporarily upgrade his powers on the fourth day of the 456 invasion. Through initiated contact, he would be able to send the minds of two people back to a certain point in time before everything went horribly wrong. When Jack would hold a dying Ianto in his arms, he would gain this power, along with a stronger ability to transfer his life energy. Then Jack would die and after gasping back to life, he would hug Gwen, sending her back. She couldn't send Jack, but that was fine. Gwen and Ianto were more than capable
The best thing about this plan was that there would be no reapers. No one would actually be going back in time to change things, just their memories, so there would be no fixed points, just people in their natural timelines, changing the 'present'.
With just a thought, she made it happen.
It was easy.
