Well Oh my god, this is finally happening!
After almost eight years of these characters and this storyline sitting in my brain, I have finally decided to put it all on paper, well - online anyhow. This is a three way crossover ( with Star Trek coming into it a little bit later on ) but I have taken these characters and tried to mould them into my own, with my main oc, Ana Matheson, being one of my oldest muses to date - she has gone through multiple name changes and face lifts ( now she looks like Phoebe Tonkin B) ) and also fandom changes, there was a moment where Ana was Jordan and she hung out with the Five-O crew, so I hope that I can keep this story up and running and that you guys will love this adventure just as much as I have writing it !
The bright light hanging over the desk was enough to cause sweat to appear on the back of Ana's neck. It wasn't even a warm light, it was white - it shouldn't have been producing heat at all, but for this situation everything was causing Ana to feel warm.
Her hand rested over her lips, as her body leant back into the metal chair. Interrogation rooms weren't exactly her favourite places to be. Jack didn't want to call the police, they were enough to figure out this mystery themselves. But Torchwood couldn't solve a kidnapping, this wasn't alien in nature, this was someone who had broken into their - Ana's apartment and taken her their son from his bed.
Thumb nail pinched between white teeth, Ana's green gaze was focused solely on the table in front of her. Left leg bouncing up and down unconsciously, a heavy breath in, but she didn't release it. Maybe if she went to sleep, maybe if she PASSED out, she would wake up and Ethan would be back in his room, fast asleep, safe and sound.
But this situation wasn' - everything that was happening at that moment in time was r e a l. Ana let her eyes fall shut, the breath escaping through clenched teeth and her head tilted to the side. How had her life changed in exactly FOUR years - from a different universe and thrown into a world of TIME TRAVEL and aliens, Ana almost regretted even falling into this world. She missed the peacefulness of her own, where the power was out, and she still had her father and her family to look out for her. It was at this moment, the moment that her son was taken from under her nose that she suddenly realised how her DAD must have felt - must still feel.
She had vanished without a trace ( or so she thought ) through that rift in time and space, with no goodbye and no warning, Ana was taken from everything she knew and loved and thrown into a world where everything was different.
Miles wasn't exactly one to show emotion, especially after leaving the militia, but for Ana he would do anything. She was his world - one that he fought very hard for when the Blackout occurred. Ana knew that Miles never wanted her to join the militia, but she wanted to follow in Uncle Bass' footsteps, become something amazing - become a general and lead an army. She trained in sword techniques and bowman-ship, she was basically a mini Sebastian Monroe. However, that all changed when she went wandering off on her own one day, down by the abandoned hospital, somewhere she WASN'T suppose to go ( even if she was an adult ) - Ana figured some animals could be lurking inside, trying to get away from the rain, but she was wrong - instead what Ana found was a RIFT in time and space, and of course she had to WALK towards it.
Maybe there was a way for her to return home, but she'd already ask that of The Doctor - he said that it was too dangerous to even think of that being a possibility. The walls had closed when he said goodbye to Rose, closing the walls of reality for everyone else. It was strange but there was a SMALL part of her that always hated him for that, for sealing off her one chance to go home.
Shaking her head, Ana tried to focus on the sounds of the people outside in the hallway. The muffled voices of Gwen Cooper and a male voice she did not recognise - maybe they were old buddies of Gwen's, this was her precinct after all. Gwen had come with her, when Ana had called the police. Jack in the end didn't want to be brought in for questioning - he wanted to start looking for Ethan right away. Now he was busy looking everywhere for their son. He hadn't been back on Earth for very long, maybe a couple of weeks and suddenly this happens.
He was blaming himself.
The door to Ana's left opened and Gwen poked her head around it. "Andy told me you were still sitting here." The Welsh woman stepped through the door and shut it behind her. Ana didn't reply, only the bouncing of her leg intensified. "Oh Annie, come on you have to go home, you can't stay at the precinct all night."
"I don't want to go home." The Australian spoke for the first time since answering the Detectives, which was almost an hour ago. "I can't go home, Gwen." Ana's green eyes opened finally and lifted from the table, hand that was pressed over her lips, fell from her face and she pulled the sleeve of her jumper around her knuckles. "Not when he's not home."
Gwen gave a sad smile towards her friend. The dark-haired woman then wandered over to Ana and knelt down beside her. "Oh love, I know it's hard, I can only imagine what you're going through, but listen you have to at least come home with me." Gwen wasn't going to mention Jack, lord knows he's probably searching the WHOLE planet - before even thinking about going off world.
Ana paused in her movements, her leg stopping, and her head tilted down towards Gwen. She loved her very much - and nodded her head. "Okay."
"Okay, good girl. I'm sure Rhys won't mind, he loves you too." Gwen stood up and grabbed onto Ana's hand, guiding the younger woman from her seat and then out of the room. "If you want, I'll call Jack and let him know where you're staying." Ana almost winced at his name.
They had been together. MORE than once. The Year That Never Was certainly changed their dynamic. But it wasn't considered love, when there was already someone else waiting back home. Ana could never hate Ianto, it was just psychically impossible to hate him but - love could do funny things to your mind. Ianto and Jack would always be end game - until the nights when they would fight, and Ana would find Jack on her doorstep, upset and needing a shoulder to lean on. However, it was one unfortunate night almost three years ago, that Ana fell pregnant and their dynamic shifted again.
It was almost like the three of them took the fact that they could never really be separated every again, well. But then children started acting strange and an alien decided to hold the Earth hostage until it's deal was seen through, demanding all their children once more. Of course, Jack saved planet Earth but lost Ianto in the process. While was stuck in a hospital - giving birth, not really knowing what was going on. Then she didn't see Jack for almost a year after that.
"Don't bother, he won't come." The cold winter air, caused Ana to be shaken from her thoughts - arm wrapping tighter around Gwen's waist, as Ana stumbled along just slightly. "Can I just - go to sleep on your couch?"
Gwen held off a laugh, smiled and nodded her head instead, wrapping her own arm around Ana's waist, the older woman led the Australian to her car. "Of course you can, you have Cardiff's finest looking for Ethan. You can start tomorrow."
That made Ana's stomach twist with sudden guilt, she should start looking for her son NOW, but it was almost midnight - and she was exhausted, the only thing that kept her from completely breaking down was the thought that Jack was out there looking already.
It seemed strange that this was now her life, sitting in the passenger seat of Gwen Cooper's car, driving back to her place to sleep on her couch - while in the back of her head, all the young brunette could think of was the fact that her son had just been kidnapped.
While some days it was traveling through space and time with an alien who used a blue police box to travel in and sometimes its fighting and looking after Cardiff with a man who she fell in love with. It was most certainly a weird shift in Ana Matheson's life, the Australian from another universe, Ana figured she could write a book, it would probably be pretty popular.
Maybe that's why she decided to tell YOU.
