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The last sixteen years had been hard on Daisy. It wasn't easy being the child of a Torchwood agent. Her dad, Captain Jack Harkness, ran Torchwood 3. He and his team worked with freaky things that happened all the time. When she was little, and her dad and Aunt Gwen would run off to work, she would go and stay with Uncle Rhys and her cousins RJ and Ianto. But afterAunt Gwen resigned, Daisy started staying at the Hub and helping her father.
Aunt Gwen was like the mom Daisy always wanted. Daisy had asked dad about her mom once and all he would say was when she was old enough to understand he would tell her all about it. During one of her many shopping trips with Aunt Gwen she managed to trick the older woman into giving up the fact that she knew Daisy's mom had died giving birth to her. She also said thatshe had never actually met her mother.
Daisy lay in her bed trying to remember anything she could about her mother but all she knew was this place. Today she would be turning sixteen and she would be joining Torchwood as a full member. She and her father had talked about it many times, and since she graduated high school early and at the top of her class,she would come and work for Torchwood while she took college courses. Daisy planned to earn her degree and then go on to medical school to become a doctor.
Jack didn't like her career choice but he had stopped complaining once she agreed to come work for Torchwood after graduation. That way he could continue to keep a close eye on her. Jack had always been so overly protective of her, always telling her that she was special and that she needed to be careful. He had never gotten any more specific than that, no matter how many times she had asked 'why'.
She could hear Jack getting up and moving around. She closed her eyes and just listened to him. He tapped on her door. "Come on Daisy, time for work."
Jack slowly walked away from her door. He could hardly believe that sixteen years ago he brought Daisy to this world and begun their lives here. Daisy was the only light left in his world; the only bright spark he could find. He poured himself a cup of coffee. It had been almost twenty years since the love of his life had died, but every morning, with his first cup of coffee, he would sit and remember Jones, Ianto Jones. Jack had always known that one day he would have to say goodbye to Ianto, but that day had come way too soon. That was the problem with being immortal; he had watched so many of the people he loved die.
He wondered if after todayDaisy would hate him. He had already lost one daughter to the choices he had made. Would Daisy hate him for the choices he had to make about her life? He had been putting off telling her the truth for so long, but he couldn't hide it from her any longer. Today Daisy would turn sixteen and she would become a full member of Torchwood. This would give her full access to all of the files stored on the mainframe.
Jack knew he had no choice now; he could eithertell her the truth himself, or let her stumble across the information on her own. Sighing deeply, he wondered if it would be better for them to talk here rather than at the Hub. At least here, in the privacy of her home, Daisy could be as emotional or as loud as she wanted without any one else around. He knew that Daisy would have a lot of questions; he just wasn't sure how he wanted to answer them.
Daisy walked into the kitchen and went straight for the tea kettle. Jack smiled fondly. "Happy birthday," he told her. She smiled back at him saying nothing.
'She is so much like her mother,' Jack thought to himself. 'It's not just in what she does, but in how she looks.' Daisy had Rose's long blonde hair, her expressive eyes, and her wonderful smile. He remembered the last time he saw Rose, when he was still mortal. He had grabbed her face with both hands and had looked deep into her eyes. "You are worth fighting for," he had told her, with all the conviction of his heart. Then he had kissed her good-bye for the last time.
Jack finished his coffee, rinsed his cup, and then poured his next cup into a travel mug. "You ready Daisy?" Jack could feel the tears welling up behind his eyes. Like every morning they rode to the Hub in silence but this wasn't going to be like every other morning once they got there. He had told his team to take the morning off but he knew Gwen and Rhys would be waiting when they got there.