Day 1.
You walk out of the SUV. Even though you love your job, you hate the crime scenes. You're getting used to it, though. It isn't the same as in TV. In real life, everything looks so bloody real, it gets scary. But now, everything's just another crime scene. And even though seeing a corpse doesn't affect you anymore, the smell certainely isn't pleasant.
As soon as your black and beige flats hit the ground, and you turn to close the SUV's door, someone demands your attention.
"Hi, I'm Eugene Jones and, er, I have a keen interest in your work and, er... I've got something to... I'd just like to—I'd just like to show, uh..." You look at him, while closing the door, and you recognize him.
"Okay, just… Stay here, okay? I'll talk to my boss and as soon as we're out of the crime scene, we'll see what you want to show us." You say kindly before turning to join the others.
It's colder outside, so you put on your black and beige blazer and follow the rest of your team. You use the opportunity to tell Jack about Eugene and what he has, but you tell him to pretend he doesn't know what the kid wants to show you.
After you're finished with the crime scene, you walk back to the SUV, and find Eugene still waiting where you told him to. You can't help but smile a little at that
Eugene talks about the eye and then you follow him to his house, because he's got more alien items there. He talks about how he found it, and you convince him to move on, and actually focus on something he likes, because the alien business is very delicate, and you're not sure if he can handle it. Torchwood takes all his alien-related stuff, included the eye, and you manage to get Jack not to retcon him or his family. Then you leave, to focus on the case you were first working on. You can't help but be happy, because you saved Eugene's life, and now he might not get tricked or run over by a car the way he orignally was in the episode.
"Coming?" Jack asks you. You've been standing outside the Jones's door for about a minute, lost in your thoughts.
"Yeah. Coming." You wipe your hands on your beige skinny pants—trousers?—out of habit, and follow them into the SUV, where it's warmer than the oustide, so you take out your blazer, revealing your short-sleeved white T-shirt that reads "Live the way you are".
After the whole case is over and you go back home, it's nice to remember that you've just saved a good guy's life, and you plan on checking up on him at the Hub, just to be sure that he's moved on from the alien business, even if it took a great deal of his youth away from him. You don't want him to have the life everyone at Torchwood as. And, talking about the life of the Torchwood's staff, you can't help but start planning ways to get Tosh and Owen together, since Jack and Ianto are already a couple—not officially, though—and you've got your boyfriend. And, talking about that, you should also make plans with him. And Gwen. God, maybe you do have a social life, one you weren't quite expecting when you first arrived in this universe.
It isn't that bad after all.
Random Shoes (Bonus Chapter).
Eugene sighed as Torchwood drove away with his things. The stuff he'd dedicated his entire life to. And his alien eye was getting away from him. Eugene shook his head. He'd been the one who wanted to give it to them after all. The loss was on him.
They'd told him to go back to something that interested him. But what was that? He'd dedicated his entire life to alien life and now he was being shun out of it. He'd loved maths too, but he'd been shun out of it as well. He had no idea what to do with his life.
He put his hand inside his hands. Maybe there was nothing he could do. Maybe… No. He shook his head. That was the grief talking. He'd try and solve it the next day, too sad to think about anything else. Maybe he could get involved in astronomy. Yeah, he'd like that, he decided. And suddenly, his life had meaning again. He smiled.