AN: Again I own nothing but the plot and OC!Aiden, constructive criticism is more than welcome.
About six months after Jack had hired Toshiko Sato, another new recruit found their way into the fold, however the circumstances by which Dr. Owen Harper became the Torchwood medic were not the happiest. Owen Harper, a junior doctor at St. Helen's Hospital in Cardiff, was a doctor who was destined for great things in the medical profession. His plans changed and he was recruited to Torchwood as a result of the death of his fiancée Katie Russell and his own death.
Katie had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she was the youngest recorded case of the disease in the UK, and when an MRI scan showed that she had a tumour on her brain, she was taken into surgery. However, the surgery proved to be ineffective, Katie did not in fact have Alzheimer's, she was host to an alien parasite that had attached itself to her brain and was disrupting her normal brain function, which gave the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
When the team of surgeons had began brain surgery the alien parasite had felt threatened and in an attempt to protect itself emitted a gas that was toxic to human beings. Jack had arrived too late to stop the operation and when he arrived the medical team and Katie were already dead. All that Jack could do was to clean up the evidence, entering the operating room to gather the alien parasite, he was followed into the room by Owen Harper. While the toxin had already begun to dissipate there was still enough of the toxin in the room to harm the doctor.
When Owen had collapsed, not dead yet but on the verge, Jack realised that he had a choice, when they had come across this case they had looked into those surrounding Katie Russell trying to find out why continued testing was being done, and they had come across the file of Owen Harper. Owen would make a good medic for the Torchwood team, it depended on whether or not Jack would turn him, deciding that the man deserved a chance to live Jack allowed his fangs to elongate.
He knelt down, bent over the doctor before pulling the doctor up into a sitting position and beginning to drain the man of his blood with a bite at the neck. When he felt Owen's pulse growing weaker he pulled back, slitting his own wrist on his fangs before pressing it to Owen's mouth, coaxing him to drink from him.
Allowing Owen to drink the necessary amount he then pulled back his wrist and waited for the transformation to take place. From what he knew of his own transformation it didn't take long, but it did hurt like hell, for him anyway. Deciding that while he waits for Owen to transform he might as well do what he was there to do, he removed the parasite from Katie's brain.
When Owen's transformation was complete Jack helped him up, however he fell back down to the ground as he looked at Katie and began to sob, knowing that there was only one way to get him out of the hospital he sedated him, using weevil sedative that he kept in his coat pocket. He then carried him out of the hospital via a back exit, phoning Tosh as he went organising for her and Suzie to finish the clean up at the hospital.
He took Owen to the house he owned not far from the hub, not that he used it often but it was nice to have the option. He placed Owen into his bed and waited for him to come around, knowing that it wouldn't take long as a weevil sedative would only knock a vampire out for about half an hour at most. He got a bottle of water and placed it on the nightstand for when his childe began to come around, Owen finally surfaced looking around before letting out a small sob, "Katie"
Jack looked up at the sob noting his childe's distress, decided to try and alleviate some of the pain, he was about to speak but Owen bet him to it.
"Katie, what happened to her? What was that thing? Who are you? And where am I?" Owen asked hurriedly.
Jack sighed, deciding to answer in reverse order he began, "You're at my house, I'm Captain Jack Harkness." He stopped looking towards his childe to see how he was coping with everything so far, before throwing him in at the deep end. "I work for Torchwood, the thing that was attached to your fiance's head was an alien, that's what I do I catch aliens I suupose. When the surgeons tried to operate, the alien felt threatened and attacked releasing a toxin that is deadly to humans."
Owen sat still on the bed trying to process everything he had been told, "Aliens" he muttered to himself, before staring right at Jack, "How are we alive then? A toxin or gas in the air doesn't disapate that quickly, it's impossible, if that toxin was deadly then we should be dead."
Jack thought of what to say for a moment before explaining to Owen what had happened in the room and his new status as an odd vampire, as even the normal methods of killing vampires did not work on Jack, and if what Aiden had said to be was true then Owen would be the same. His statements were met were met with disbelief, until Jack took his gun and shot himself, reviving a few minutes later to a look of shock on his childe's face.
Jack then took the time to explain to Owen everything that he knew about being a vampire, or specifically the type of vampire the two of them were, including feeding and the vampire's mate. Owen balked at the idea of a mate, his fianc having just died, but accepted the explanations Jack gave him, as well as the job within Torchwood Cardiff were he would be safe from other branches of Torchwood or even UNIT trying to get their hands on him for experimentation.
Owen's first day at Torchwood was not what he had expected, he had just been introduced to Suzie and Toshiko when Jack and Suzie ran off to deal with a weevil, leaving Tosh to settle him in. It was then that he realised how he was glad that Tosh had stayed behind and was safe, thinking this strange and maybe a product of his vampirism he thought back to the conversation he had had with Jack a fortnight ago, recognising what he was feeling as what his, well grandsire, had told his sire was the feeling of a mate.
Knowing that he was not ready to enter a relationship so soon after Katie, and didn't want to accept that she wasn't the only one for him, he decided that he would ignore the feeling. He threw a sarcastic comment Tosh's way, before beginning to settle in to his new role in death.
The team as a whole functioned well, and with the addition of a medic they cut down on trips to hospitals. Owen had started up a fling with Suzie, knowing that being with someone that cold and icy would mean that there were no emotions involved and he would be safe.