A/N:
Currently this is just the first four chapters of Jack gathering the gifts. I will continue this further at some point. I'm really bad about posting so please take this as my apology for not finishing my other tales.
Happy Happy and Merry Merry all.
Christmas was just around the corner and Jack was getting prepared.
For Owen, a picture of the enormous flower arrangement he had delivered to Katie's grave stone, a different one each year.
This year's was a stunning arrangement of calla lilies and laurels. Jack was quite besotted with it once the shop girl showed him the finished result. How he wished it was purchased for a happy occasion instead of the grim reminder that it was: Owen was forced into working for Torchwood simply to save his sanity. At least, Jack feared that was the real and honest reason the physician joined. Sure, Jack's speech about the good Owen could do to fight against aliens and save people from a similar fate as Katie was what the two men referenced if ever asked. Deep down though, Jack knew, even if he never said it aloud; Owen would have been driven mad with grief and confusion if left with the memories of what he saw long enough.
He couldn't let that be the only gift though, far too depressing. So, he added in the latest video games.
Video games and beer were never a staple of the hub. Until Owen Harper arrived. Until Doctor Owen Harper arrived, and suddenly the fridge was always stocked with a beer or two and the computers all had some type of game installed. After a while, the beer seemed to have multiplied in the fridge. Shortly after that a console was brought in along with a first person shooting game. Jack, being the fun loving guy he is underneath all his...life experience, allowed it with the proviso that it could stay unless it interfered with work. Many reports delivered verbally while playing the games had convinced Jack it would never be a distraction for any of them.
After a rather rough, and frankly disgusting, day Owen unwound by diving right in to his game. It took one round of beer for Suzie to challenge Owen to a one-on-one match, two rounds before Tosh relaxed enough to give it a go herself, and all of about three seconds of watching his team bond before Jack decided to get an arcade style game installed in the hub. Besides, Jack quickly grew fond of the quaint electronic games and had more than enough boring late nights to warrant a bit of a distraction himself.
Jack placed the photo of the arrangement into a simple envelope and placed it with the video game in the bottom of his desk drawer, leaving it for now to be wrapped at later time.