Jack stared at the fountain, the thick black smoke rising above it the only sign that below was burning. The heat of the flames would have been unbearable for any regular human, but the Captain barely noticed it.
They were all gone.
Gwen. Her sweet, kind, bubbly sense of humour, and her smile... her compassion.
Ianto. The ever-reliable tea-boy.
Tosh... well she had already gone. Gray had killed her.
Owen. Never did survive the radiation of the nuclear power plant.
Martha. Shot on duty by a police officer who thought she was "threatening the peace".
Mickey. Run over.
But Gwen... she was trapped inside, burning to death, choking on the smoke that filled her lungs... while he stood out here, perfectly fine, but unable to help.
With a name like "Torchwood", how could it do anything but go up in flames?