St. Bart's Hospital, London, England, May 12, 2010
Adrianna Blackwood rushed into her office, already late for her first patient of the day. She glanced down at her chart. The name Gwen Cooper stared back at her. Miss Cooper had been admitted because of severe wounds to her legs and back. As Adrianna looked at her medical history she saw that Gwen Cooper was a policewoman, but then she left. It didn't say what she did for a living now. Interesting, she thought, I wonder what would keep Miss Cooper's job off patient history?
Adrianna looked under Emergency Contacts and saw one name: Harkness, Jack.
Well, she thought, that is certainly a name that I thought I would never see again.
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April 21, 1947 London, England
Captain Jack Harkness sat at a local pub nursing a Bourbon on the Rocks. Torchwood had another assignment for him: Investigate Miss Adrianna Blackwood. The only info he had uncovered so far was that she worked at St. Bart's hospital in London as a forensic pathologist. The photograph he was given showed a beautiful woman with dark auburn hair, bright green eyes, and a tall, willowy stature. If she wasn't an assignment I would definitely have to check her out, he thought with a sly grin. It was just his luck that the woman he was looking for walked into the pub at that precise moment.
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Adrianna walked into the pub after a long day of cutting up cadavers. It wasn't exactly commonplace for a woman to be a forensic pathologist, but the hospital took what it could get, especially after the Great War. She moved over to the bar and ordered a scotch. A gorgeous, young man slid into the seat next to her.
" I'm Captain Jack Harkness, and who are you?", he said in a tone she knew all too well.
" Not interested.", she replied with a glare.
He looked almost shocked like he wasn't used to being ignored.
"I was just trying to find out who this beautiful lady is next to me", he said with an easy smile.
"Adrianna Blackwood", she said with an uninterested look. At that Jack did a double take, his assignment was sitting right next to him! He tried to get her to talk again. Out of sheer whim or fate he didn't know, she decided to talk to him. They talked at the pub until closing time.
As they were walking and about to say goodbye a big, burly man stepped out of the shadows and shot Jack and herself. As she lay dying she felt him take her purse. All for a couple of notes, she mused as she took her first last breath.
What she didn't know was that there was a blonde with glowing, golden eyes standing just outside her field of vision. After she died, Bad Wolf whispered, "I will not let you be alone forever Jack Harkness."
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Adrianna shook herself from the memory, a lot of things have changed since then old gal.
As she was walking toward her office she heard a familiar voice call out, "Miss...."
She turned and replied back,"Blackwood, Adrianna Blackwood."
She said this as she stared into the shocked eyes of Captain Jack Harkness.
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A Single Eternity
FanfictionEverybody knows that everybody dies. At least that's how it is for most people. This is not the case for Captain Jack Harkness. He is the man who can't die. Jack thinks that he will have to watch everyone grow old around him. What he doesn't know...
