I watched. I watched over my planet as an unknown alien threat destroyed the city I knew. I watched them destroy the earth I once walked, and the earth my mother was buried under. Jack stood with me as I watched helpless civilians trying their hardest. As I was taken away by shuttlecraft I knew it would be war. I knew I had my mother's passion for trying to save the world. But this time I just wasn't close enough. I had failed her. Jack had always admired me for being like my mother. He was always there; he was the one who hired me, he was also there when my mother died.
I looked away, I couldn't take anymore. "Are you okay?" Jack asked. "I will be when this is done" I said sternly. "Don't worry, we'll bring our allies back here, I know a few species who owe me favours, some sexual if I may add" Jack said trying to lighten the mood. I looked at him and frowned. "Sorry I know it's not the time, I know how it feels y'know, your whole purpose taken away, your whole family gone" Jack said. I closed my eyes and tried to take it all in. "Your Dad was so proud of you, and I know he should be here now, but he made a choice to stay and fight" Jack said. "I know, but I know he was foolish, he was always foolish, I was the only one that could keep him from that, well me and mam" I said my welsh accent becoming ever so distant as we entered the atmosphere. I bit my lip, my gap showing. "Your mother used to do that" Jack said. "Don't talk like I never knew her!" I snapped. "I'm sorry; I know it's still a sensitive subject, hyper vodka?" Jack asked. "No, I have to stick to my mission and so do you, you're supposed to be my leader and my teacher, and to be quite honest I could do without you" I said sternly. "You're right, I'm sorry we need to focus" Jack said. Any normal eighteen year old wouldn't be doing this, wouldn't know the things I know or seen the things I've seen, I wish my mother could have seen my grow into a fighter, into another version of her, I want to show her what I can do, because I know she'll be watching over me. I was never normal, I grew up with torchwood branded on my head, the stakes were always high, even when my father tried to protect us, and they would always come back, through the cracks, and find us.
Jack was awfully quiet which was a change, I think he knew I needed some alone time, as I flipped through some of my picture albums I had downloaded onto my archive. The torchwood empire had built fleets of ships for stargazing and god knows what else. Oh yeah sorry I forgot to tell you that, when my mother started torchwood it was an institute, with five people, very quiet and secret. After they had died it was the miracle and their was only two which remained. Now after my mother's death, Rex Matherson headed up a tactical division giving torchwood the power to be distant from unit and the government. And that's when the empire started, each continent over 100,000 staff, and the torchwood empire, seeks and finds alien threats and makes allies for when somebody we wouldn't be able to stop. That was today.
"Edi damage report" I asked as the central AI came online. "Shield at 75%, you have a message from earth, I'm sorry to report, your father was killed in a gun attack, my condolences miss" Edi said. "It's okay, I knew it was coming" I said closing my eyes.
My Name is Anwen Williams. And this is the end of the world as we know it.