Okay BBC America is the owner, I just borrowed from them.

Jacks Story -

Endie was awakened by gasping sounds. He soon realized the sounds were coming from his lap. Jack was coughing violently. Endie froze not knowing what to do, he stared in shock. Jack was breathing.

Endie was mumbling as he tried to speak. " I don't understand, you were....were....dead, I was positive of it. "

Endie was still holding Jacks head as he spoke.

" Don't be frightened. I understand how you feel, you mostlikely have the urge to run away screaming. ."

When Jack spoke to him Endie was more than frightened he was terrified, so much so that he jumped up and dropped Jacks head to the floor.

" Ow, easy there. Well at least you didn't scream."

Jack rubbed his head, and pushed himself up against the bar, his back leaned on it while he continued to recover. He rubbed his chest as he felt the stabbing pain.

" This has always been the worst part, my body in a very weakened state when I awake. " He grimmanced again in pain.

He looked over at Endie who was stared wide eyed and speechless.

" It's alright Endie, It's still me. I suppose this is once secret I should have told you about. "

Jack grinned trying to sound positive and as normal as possible well as normal as someone who just came back from the dead. Jack was used to this type of reaction. He tried to be sympethic.

"You see I can't die, well technically I can die, but I don't stay dead. "

Endie tried to speak the words that formed in his mind, then they moved slowly to his mouth.

"But, you , I mean ....how? His voice shook.

" That my friend is a very long story."

" Tell me, Jim, how is this possible?

"Breathe Endie breathe. There are no easy answers, but the simple truth was that I traveled with a very special Doctor, and his companion. She tried to save me, and in the process she gave me the ability to cheat death."

" I don't understand."

" I don't really either, but I am very sure I can't die."

Endie calmed down a little, walked back over to Jack and plopped down on the floor beside him.

"You really should have told me about this. I was so scared, I thought I had lost you."

"I am sorry but would you have believed me?"

"I don't know but you still should have tried and kept on trying."

"I know, you are right, I should have, I think that it was just nice to feel normal for a change with you I felt like I was human, and not a freak."

" Jim, I think you are far from normal, but that's what I liked about you, you were so different."

" Well I am about to become even more different. I suppose I owed you the truth, you have been so patient with me. You have let me into your house, your bed, and your heart, least I could do in return was to be honest with you. "

" Endie how many secrets are you hiding?"

" More than I care to count, but let me start with my name. It isn't James Ferguson, I am known as Captain Jack Harkness, wow that felt weird saying that, I haven't said it in a long time now. It does however feel great to hear it again. At one time I was determined to never say it again. I realized that I can't run from who I am, now matter how far I run, I can't change who I am. " Jacks face looked grief stricken as if it was all too much too bear.

Endie saw this hugged him and kissed him on the cheek. " I am just glad you didn't leave me. I am not sure I could have survived that."

" You'd be surprised how much we can live through. "A look in Jacks eyes at that moment revealed just how much.

" So tell me Ji.... Jack, tell me more about who you are."

" This could take awhile, maybe we should go upstairs get a little more comfortable. " He looks down at his blood stained clothes. " And get cleaned up too. " He laughed as Endie helped him stand and together they went upstairs.

Endie sat on the couch waited for Jack to finish in the shower. He was holding Jacks blood stained shirt. His mind still a whirl, he kept wondering if Jack really was in the shower, or if he dreamed the whole thing, and if he went downstairs would he find Jacks lifeless body. Suddenly Jack stood before him, he wore nothing but a smile. Endie couldn't help but laugh at him. Jack sat on the couch next to him, and pulled a blanket over both of them. He looked at the soiled shirt and then at Endie knowing what he was thinking.

" I really am here and I assure you I am alive, this wasn't a bad dream. As I said before, I can't die. Seemed through no fault of my own I have become a fact on the time line. I am a fixed point, and will be here till the end of time. Least that's how the Doctor explained it to me"

Endie wanted to know more, to ask dozens of questions, but decided to start with just one. " How did this happen?

" As I stated before it's a long story, but I am going to share it with you. You need to know everything. Let me start with the Doctor and his companion Rose Tyler."

Jack tells him about WWII and how he had met Rose and the Doctor, how she made him what he was and how he traveled with them. He then went back to the beginning of life in the 51st century on the Boeshane Peninsula, being attacked, losing his brother Gray, and later becoming a Time Agent. His life with Captain John Hart, meeting Estelle Cole, how his wrist strap had allowed him to travel in time, how he used a severed hand to search for the Doctor, waited for 100 years, had a daughter then a grandson, he continued on with life in Torchwood, how it was in the beginning, how it was left to him to start over, he talked about choosing him team. First Suzie, then Tosh, Owen, Ianto and finally Gwen . Endie was fascinated with each new story, each one becoming more involved than the one before. He can see how Jacks face lit up as he talked about his Torchwood team. As he went deeper in the story of Ianto, he could tell the affection he had for him, and how it touched him. Jack paused as he pictured Ianto when he dangled a bar of dark chocolate in front of a pterodactyl and the two of them as they rolled across the warehouse floor. For the first time in a very long time he laughed instead of cried. There was a dizzying flurry of emotions as the story proceeded, Jack sounded disgusted as he told of his arrogance, and overconfidence when he dealt with the 456. He talked about Earth and why 456 wanted their children, how because of his ego they all died but Gwen and Rhys, and in his final moments on Earth, why he felt he had to leave them behind. Endie eagerly digested it all.

Jack took a deep breath as he finished. " So you see I have been a Time Agent, a soldier, a con man, a lover and a leader, and now I am here with you as a bartenders assistant."

Endie shook his head from side to side. " You have seen and done so much. I am glad you finally shared it all with me. I now understand your pain and your need for secrets."

Endie then leaned in close to Jack as he kissed him passionately, pulled back a little and whispered to him, " I love you Jack."

Jack said nothing he embraced Endie and in the moment returned the kiss and much more, as they stood and headed for the bedroom, you could faintly here a comment about the many things you can do with a stopwatch.

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