I realise this story is a little out of time now Christmas is over, but this will be the last chapter. Please review.
Christmas At Torchwood.
The rest of the morning was spent in various states of shallow sleep and pacing around the hub. At round midday they were sat in two swivel chairs next to the computers, having nothing in the way of presents for each other they sat deep in thought, every so often Owen would come out with a fact from Jack's past, and begin to question it.
Jack looked into Owens suddenly aged eyes as they stared forward, searching Jacks past, sifting it through his head. Jack cleared his throat uncomfortably.
"And he left you," Owen continued, his voice still distant, "The Doctor abandoned you, yet you still abandoned us to go with him..."
Jack was confused, this was Owen, he'd never been very outward with his emotions, especially not towards Jack. It felt awkward.
"We can talk about that another time," Jack said swallowing as Owen turned to look at him, "What do we tell the others?" Jack attempted a change of subject.
"Oh, that..." Owen seemed to be coming back to his normal self, "Well we don't know the extent of what has happened yet, can I heal, can I die?"
Suddenly Owen went for the pistol in his belt, holding it out to Jack, "Shoot me."
"No Owen, I'm not going to shoot you," Jack said calmly, relieved he had stopped questioning him.
"Please Jack!" Owen begged.
"No," Jack shook his head, starting to worry about Owens mental health.
Owen started to run, heading to the autopsy bay where he grabbed a scalpel. Jack hurried down after him, arriving in time to see Owen pull the scalpel down his arm, drawing blood as he screwed up his face in pain.
"Owen!" Jack shouted, snatching the scalpel and throwing it aside, before grabbing a towel and starting to mop up the wound.
He wiped away the blood to find the wound quickly healing and, within moments, there was no sign it had been there at all.
Owen and Jack looked at each other in shock, sharing a glance as Owen held out the gun, "Please...I just want to know."
"Can't you just be happy with being alive," Jack backed away, heading back to the computer area, "We should probably do tests...and..."
"Jack," Owen had followed him, gun still held out, "I don't care anymore, I need to know I'm never going back to that darkness again, and if I do at least I won't have had to live in fear of it for the rest of my days."
Jack accepted the gun with a sigh, backing away as he raised the gun in his shaking hands, aiming straight between Owen's eyes.
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Gwen, Ianto and Tosh were heading to the hub, just to spend an hour with Jack, they'd been planning this for ages, they didn't want Jack to spend the whole of Christmas day alone. Unfortunately Owen hadn't been able to make it because of family, not that he'd ever mentioned that before.
Each of them carried a small bag of presents, one for each of the team, and they entered through the cog door laughing together. That was when they heard the gun shot, Owen dropping to the ground, and a shaken Jack, still holding the gun up as his head turned and he say his colleges.
The gun fell from his hands to the floor, "It wasn't, it's not..."
"What the hell are you doing Jack fucking Harkness?" Tosh screamed running forwards and punching him straight in the jaw. So much strength went into the punch that Jack fell to the floor, his nose bleeding.
Gwen hurried forward to Tosh who was now screaming over Owens lifeless body, in vain hope she began to check for his pulse and breathing.
Ianto just stared at Jack, "How could you?" He asked, tears welling up in his eyes as Jack began ti stutter his excuses.
"He asked me too, he can regenerate...you don't understand..." He jumped forwards, trying, with no luck, to push the two girls away from Owen.
"He'll be fine!" Jack insisted.
"Piss off J..." Ianto began, just as Owen took a huge breath, the bullet wound in his head less than a blemish.
"Woah...that hurts..." Owen shook his head, trying to wipe away the fog that clouded his head, "Tosh?" He said surprised, "What the..?"
"What is going on here?" Gwen turned to Jack accusingly.
Jack gave a slightly sheepish grin before proceeding to explain, his last sentence a conclusion, which seemed slightly to humorous considering the situation, "So, forever with Owen..."