AN: A short chapter I know, the next one will be longer and will deal with Suzie, Tosh and Owen's recruitment and the latter two's turning. Once again, I own nothing but the plot and Jack's sire Aiden, don't sue me I'm a poor student. Constructive criticism is more than welcome.
Jack's life continued in pretty much the same way as it had before he had been bitten, two days after his fateful meeting with Aiden, the Deville Brothers Circus moved on from Newport. Jack continued on in the role he'd been cast, 'The Man Who Can't Die', until he was summoned back to the Institute at the beginning of the following January, having found no trace of the famed 'Night Travellers' his superiors were less than pleased. However, there was nothing that he could do about it, or that they could do to him because of it.
He was running regular assignments for the most part during that month, with the exception of the 27th. The 27th of January 1932 wasn't a day that he would easily forget, not that anyone would really be able to forget having been struck by lightning, twice. As a vampire it had not hurt him as much as it would have done had he been human, but even so, he had to have been the one sent to collect some alien device made completely of conductible metal.
Life as an immortal vampire continued for Jack without much of a change, he was still doing freelance work for Torchwood, or he was until 1939 and the start of the Second World War. Seeing a chance to leave Torchwood, Jack had petitioned the Institute to be allowed to fight for the good of the empire in the war, after being granted his request he enlisted with the RAF under the name James Harper, working his way up the ranks. The war was beneficial for Jack in many ways, not only was he no longer thoroughly entrenched under Torchwood's thumb, but he was able to both feed and contact the other vampires more easily as he was not being watched at all times by the Institute. What he found to be most beneficial about it was the fact that he was able to fly, the freedom that he found in the air was amazing, but made him long for the life he once had, being able to explore many different planets and be close to the stars.
In 1944, he met an amazing woman by the name of Estelle Cole, she was a beautiful person, both in body and soul, and Jack fell for her almost immediately. He couldn't say that he fell 'in love' with her, but he did love her. Estelle was sweet and caring and Jack had spent a few years with her before moving on at the end of the war. He stayed around the Cardiff area, freelancing on and off for Torchwood, but more importantly waiting for the Doctor to turn up so that he could find out what had happened to him.
Jack drifted until the 1990s before signing on with Torchwood full time, eventually taking control of Torchwood 3 or Cardiff at the turn of the century when his then boss, Alex Hopkins executed himself and the existing Torchwood team, leaving Jack the only survivor. Jack then began the recruitment of his own team, now running Torchwood Cardiff by his own rules, trying to keep it as separate from the Institute in London as possible.