Title : Por Toda La Eternidad
Author: Shlane
Rating: 12A, PG-13, T
Spoilers: Sanctuary Seasons 1 and 2 up to Haunted, Torchwood Season 1 and 2 (up to Out of the Rain), my story Survival Instinct.
Summary: After the events of Hunted Helen and Ashley turn to the Torchwood team for help in saving John.
NB: This is the sequal to my story survival instinct, you might want to read that first but if not then the main thing you need to know is Ashley is alive and well (she can teleport but doesn't have the other traits the Cabal created), she and Kate both work at the Sanctuary.

Disclaimer (applies to all future chapters): I do not own Sanctuary or Torchwood and am making no money from this.

Prologue

Once again Ashley didn't know where else to go so she teleported to the one person she could think of. "Uncle Jack?" She called out as she appeared in the middle of the Hub.

It was early afternoon and the team were just preparing to call it a day when their visitor appeared in the middle of the Hub. It wasn't as surprising as it would otherwise as been, after all they each recognised the young blond woman a moment after she appeared. What did surprise them were the tears on the cheeks and the quiver in her voice as she called for her godfather.

In a second Jack had his arms wrapped around Ashley Magnus and was leading her towards to battered sofa, the rest of the team just stared. They knew Ashley well, they knew she was a strong woman who could take a lot of shit without flinching, what could have reduced her to tears?

"Uncle Jack, please come back with me, we need you." She begged.

"Has something happened to Helen?" Jack was very concerned, in her line of work and without his ability to come back from the dead it amazed Jack that Helen had reached the age she had.

"No it's dad, he's gone." She broke down again and Jack moved so that he was kneeling on the floor in front of her.

"Start at the beginning Ashley, go slowly." He advised.

"This might help." They both looked up to see Ianto offering Ashley a glass of water, she took it with a grateful if shaky smile and took a sip before she started speaking.

"He's been getting worse these last few months." Ashley told them, "Disappearing, sometimes for weeks at a time and never telling us where he had been. Mom thought he might be killing again and she was right. This morning he helped rescue a group of empaths from a sinking ship but later one said something to him and he snapped." Ashley had to take another sip of water before she could continue. "She slit her throat, just like in White Chapel. Henry, Kate and I found her in a cupboard."

"Just take several deep breaths Ashley." Jack told her, "You're safe here, Tosh get our EM shield up."

"Already done Jack." Came Tosh's response.

"That's not all." Ashley went on. "He tried to kill Mom, he had a knife and he was going to kill her too but she shot him with one of Henry's new guns, some sort of energy thing that stops the heart. She killed him and then she brought him back."

That didn't surprise Jack in the slightest everyone knew that Helen still loved John, except possibly John, she wouldn't want to loose him if she could possibly help it. "I understand Ashley."

"No you don't." Ashley insisted, "Something escaped from him, some sort of parasite, it got into the building and the computers, everywhere. It took over and cut us off from each other, trapping up. But my Dad was free, that thing had been infecting him for years, that's what drove his rage."

"I don't understand." Jack told her.

"Mom and Dad both thought it attached itself to him in the middle of the teleport, decades ago in London after they experimented with the source blood. That thing was why he became the Ripper."

"You're sure?" Ianto asked, he was still standing just behind Jack.

Ashley nodded, "The moment it got loose it started trying to kill everyone. But my dad was John Druitt again, more completely than he was after Tesla shocked him. I saw him Uncle Jack, I saw the man my mother fell in love with."

Jack knew that so far this story seemed far to happy to be the reason that Ashley had come to him in tears begging him for his help. After all since she was there it was evident that she had escaped the homicidal parasite. "What happened Ashley?" He prompted gently.

"We managed to get control of the building back, everything but the main lab, the thing was using the remote assist to create some sort of biotoxin to kill us all. Dad knew that the only way to stop it was to give it a host again, he said that after so long his body would be a perfect host for it." She chocked back another sob, "He teleported into the room with it and it jumped right back into him. When he woke up he wasn't my father anymore, not in any way. He was The Ripper again, just like when I first saw him. He teleported away before anyone could stop him, he said he had no destination in mind. I think, I think he might be dead." She had to choke back the sobs again. "He always told me to never teleport without a destination in mind."

"He sacrificed himself for you Ashley, no father could do any less for his daughter." Jack told her.

Ashley nodded through her tears, "I know, he loved me." She remembered the final moments before he'd teleported into the lab, when he'd kissed her forehead and whispered that he loved her. "Please come with me Jack, I've never seen Mom like this, she's cutting herself off from everyone."

"She did that the first time as well." Jack told her, "I wasn't there but James told me, after she tried to kill him that first time in London, she threw herself completely into her work."

"Please come with me?" Jack would never have refused his god-daughter anything but the sad lost look in her eyes was almost more than he could bear. All her life Ashley had wanted to know her father, when she finally did she had been horrified at what she had found. But now that she had seen, even for a few minutes, the man her father had once been, it was destroying her in a way that not even finding out he was Jack the Ripper had done.

"Of course I will come." Jack said holding out his hand and pulling Ashley into a hug when she took it. Then he turned back to his team, "I'll be back when I can." He promised them.

"Take as long as you need Jack." Gwen told him, "We'll be just fine."

"I'll have my phone with me, keep the EM shield up and be careful, that's The Ripper out there and he knows who you are."

"We'll be perfectly alright." Ianto said appearing at his side, holding his coat, already open and ready for him to slip on.

"Call me if anything comes up." He added as he pulled on his coat.

"We can manage very well without you Jack, we have before." Ianto reminded him and his comments was seconded by the rest of the team. "Now go, Tosh has already deactivated the EM shield and she'll put it back up the moment you've gone. We will take even greater care than usual when we're out and about."

Jack nodded, "Alright I get it, you can take care of yourselves." He turned to Ashley. "Take me to Helen."

Ashley took hold of Jack with one hand and pulled out her cell phone with the other, she hit a speed dial. "Henry it's me, we're coming in, drop the shield." She received an affirmative before she teleported them both to her mother's Sanctuary.

AN: So here we are, I'm back from Peru and the first chapter of a new Sanctuary/Torchwood crossover is up, updates will proabbaly be weekly. Oh and thanks to Di-Bee for what was possibly the longest review I have ever had, as promised here's the start of the new story hope you like it