Rec: A Man Not Alone by sam_storyteller
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janto_recsTitle: A Man Not Alone
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sam_storyteller
Genre: General, AU
Rating: PG13
Summary: Ianto Jones knows why Jack is Torchwood's leader. Jack knows what Ianto Jones will be.
Status: Oneshot, Complete
Length: 1 Chapter, 4,500 words
Warnings: SPOILER for 2x07. Dead Man Walking
Comment or Excerpt from fic: This is a very clever fic, seriously. Ianto Jones is going to be someone important in the future, and Jack of course knows all about it since he IS from the future. The author also comes up with explanations on how the Time Agency came about and other things, really interesting!
EXCERPT CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE LATEST EPISODE
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Author:
sam_storytellerGenre: General, AU
Rating: PG13
Summary: Ianto Jones knows why Jack is Torchwood's leader. Jack knows what Ianto Jones will be.
Status: Oneshot, Complete
Length: 1 Chapter, 4,500 words
Warnings: SPOILER for 2x07. Dead Man Walking
Comment or Excerpt from fic: This is a very clever fic, seriously. Ianto Jones is going to be someone important in the future, and Jack of course knows all about it since he IS from the future. The author also comes up with explanations on how the Time Agency came about and other things, really interesting!
EXCERPT CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE LATEST EPISODE
~_~_~_~_~__~
Jack didn't actually know too much about 21st century Earth. It hadn't been his focus in History; he'd fallen in all-consuming love with the early 20th, and minored in the late thirtieth of his own home planet.
But he knew enough to become aware, as he lived through the fifties and sixties, that the time of change was coming. By then he'd waited long enough for the Doctor that he believed he might live through another few centuries before he showed up, if he ever showed up at all. In the late seventies Jack came to the decision that contemporary human knowledge would not be enough to help Torchwood Three achieve what they were meant to achieve. Enlightened self-interest dictated that he do what he could to prevent the Earth from cataclysm, so he began to prepare to help them, insinuating himself into the super-infrastructure of Torchwood as a harmless, eccentric consultant at first. He also went searching.
He found Owen Harper first. Eight-year-old Owen spent a glorious afternoon talking to a man on a park bench about his imaginary games he played, where dinosaurs and aliens lurked in every shrubbery and other children might turn out to be vampires or werewolves or ghosts at any time. Eventually Owen's mum dragged him away, but Jack kept tabs from a distance. Harper had said, late in life, that his experiences as a youth made him into the man he was, and Torchwood Three would need that man. Jack couldn't interfere, but he could watch over him.
When Owen died under Jack's command, he knew he had to resurrect him because Owen couldn't die. He just couldn't. He wasn't supposed to yet and they needed him in the future and it had nothing to do, he told himself, with having loved Owen with a deep paternal affection.
But he knew enough to become aware, as he lived through the fifties and sixties, that the time of change was coming. By then he'd waited long enough for the Doctor that he believed he might live through another few centuries before he showed up, if he ever showed up at all. In the late seventies Jack came to the decision that contemporary human knowledge would not be enough to help Torchwood Three achieve what they were meant to achieve. Enlightened self-interest dictated that he do what he could to prevent the Earth from cataclysm, so he began to prepare to help them, insinuating himself into the super-infrastructure of Torchwood as a harmless, eccentric consultant at first. He also went searching.
He found Owen Harper first. Eight-year-old Owen spent a glorious afternoon talking to a man on a park bench about his imaginary games he played, where dinosaurs and aliens lurked in every shrubbery and other children might turn out to be vampires or werewolves or ghosts at any time. Eventually Owen's mum dragged him away, but Jack kept tabs from a distance. Harper had said, late in life, that his experiences as a youth made him into the man he was, and Torchwood Three would need that man. Jack couldn't interfere, but he could watch over him.
When Owen died under Jack's command, he knew he had to resurrect him because Owen couldn't die. He just couldn't. He wasn't supposed to yet and they needed him in the future and it had nothing to do, he told himself, with having loved Owen with a deep paternal affection.