Back To Square One (Torchwood au)(Immortals sequel)

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Jack's pov

How am I back. I couldn't go through my entire life again, especially if I had to worry about myself dying as well as everyone else. I had already lived a hundred lifetimes and now I had to live one more. And worst of all none of them were real, none of the people in them were real. The Doctor, Rose, Ianto...

I don't know what is real anymore but there is one thing I know for certain, Isaiah should be alive. If I'm only just joining the time agency now, then surely he is as well. The woman who came in when I woke up left me to gather my thoughts and adjust to being back in the time agency but said that she would be right outside so I call out to her. She rushes in looking worried, clearly thinking that something is wrong but relaxes s soon as she sees that I am smiling. "Is Isaiah alive?"

"Yes of course, you being captured was only part of the simulation. He just woke up as well, I can take you to him if you want."

I leap up and follow her out of the room, desperate to see a familiar face. Outside my room is a long corridor that is the same stark white and has doors running down either side of it. she goes to open the door opposite but before she can I reach out and stop her, "Did he go through the same simulation as me?"

"Yes." She answers simply before opening the door and gesturing for me to move inside.

Isaiah's room is identical to mine and there is a tall man in a lab coat standing next to the chair and blocking my view. He hears me come in and I have to try my hardest not to run for the door. It's Gray. He walks past me out of the door and I hear it shut behind me but I forget what I've seen for a second as I take in the fact that Isaiah is alive and well in front of me, unscarred and younger. I run forwards and grip him in a tight hug. When we finally let go of each other my mind instantly goes to Gray. "Isaiah what is Gray doing here."

"it isn't Gray Jack, they insert the faces of real people into the simulation. They're meant to be the same people inside the simulation and it's meant to help you trust in the time agency but ours went wrong somehow and they became others."

"Wait so Ianto's face could belong to someone in the time agency and I might have to see his face but not him every day. I don't think I could do that, and what about Stephen and everyone else that I've lost."

"I'm sorry Jack. Can I just ask you something," he looks at me carefully as if I might break any second, although to be fair I might.

"Yeah," I say, sinking into a chair that is by Isaiah's.

"What happened, after Gray shot me I mean."

"While Adam held you, Gwen and Owen captive we tried to bargain with Gray, well I say bargain, I tried to shoot him. He shot me in the hand first though and grabbed Ianto. Alec turned up for work late but at the perfect timing and managed to shoot Gray dead but he shot Ianto. Ianto died but came back a few days later and Alec quit. Said that he got a better offer but he vanished completely, I think that Torchwood four must have recruited him because it's the one place I can't access." I answer, wishing that I could go back.

"I suppose that none of it matters now, even for you all of the things you saw, the people you loved, gone, never even existed."

"Don't talk like that, please don't say that you've given up." I say, I open my mouth to go on right as the door opens behind me.

"I've got to escort you back to your homes now, you'll be briefed tomorrow." A voice says behind me.

I turn and see that the man who has just entered the room was one of the people used in the simulation. He has the face of the real Jack Harkness. I suppose I'll have to use my real name now, at least I'm still Jack.

He leads us down the corridor to a metal vault style door at the end, he sees my questioning look and says, "Sometimes people go insane during the simulation, this ensures that we can keep them under control."

He enters a combination and opens the door as if he didn't say anything more than the weather and gestures for us to walk out in front of him. I go first and quickly take stock of what is around me, meanwhile Isaiah just stares. In front of us is a massive room full of people. There are lifts on each wall that lead up and down to various floors that have doors leading onto offices and various other places. Each floor is basically a balcony that runs around the walls of the building and there is a huge statue in the centre of the floor that reaches up to the top floor that I can't really see properly from my vantage point on the ground floor. The building must be as tall as the shard in London and is dizzying to look at.

The man leads us to an exit and we step outside into the freezing night air. I'm suddenly aware of the fact that I'm only wearing a hospital gown and I shiver, funny, I don't usually feel the cold.

Me and Isaiah are roommates, I remember that. We own a flat in New York, near the main base of the time agency. It's changed a lot since the 21st century but the layout of the city is still the same. We live in what used to be the Empire state building. It was made into flats after the world overpopulation situation became desperate. We live on the 50th floor.

When we get home, Isaiah goes straight to sleep as he is exhausted but I do some research. I find that Torchwood fell but is still an archive. There is information on the Doctor and his companions but it is hard to find and I don't want to use the time agency computer system. However, I find enough to know that I never travelled with him. I do a general search on the 21st century and just find a bunch of stuff on alien contact being made and wars. I look through more recent news instead and realise that John is wanted again. This means that he wasn't made up. The war that Isaiah got tortured in doesn't exist though so hopefully that will never have to happen.

I shut down my computer and head into my bedroom where I attempt to sleep but don't manage to until around 4am.

A:N/ I'm gonna say it here. I will try my best to update regularly, or at least more regularly than i did on Immortals. You can hold me to that.

Thank you so much for reading and please vote if you liked it

-Annie