New beginnings. (Closed with ask-the-time-assassin)
He’s watching Ana on the web cam’s outside the base, as she leaves the base until she disappears off the screen. Jack is lost in his own thoughts for a long moment.
They are times when Jack is at his best, running Torchwood. And times he drifts off into his own world. then they are those times when Ana is in the room. And when she was, Jack was always paying attention.
It’s been three years. Three years since he lost his wife. Benny, the mother of his little boy, Nobody talks about her much she just lingers in the empty spaces but then most people don’t know who Benny was. only Gwen and Lir knew of her and the sacrifices she made that day.
Looking back now it seemed Benny had a feeling that something might happen to her. She’d be naïve thinking she was untouchable, given the loss of Tosh, Owen and Ianto, years before. They were conversations where she would say if anything happened to her, that Jack shouldn't blame himself, that she wouldn't want Jack to be alone.
Jack suddenly speaks. “Benny she’s just not trapped in a different world/different time. She’s stuck there and it’s forever. “ He is juggling Torchwood, with been a Dad to their child. James was barely a year old when Benny was torn from them.
Jack often thought what if he had done things differently that day but he couldn't change it. That rift and the portal took so much from him that day.
“ I want to take Ana out for dinner, maybe a movie or a show “ in the three years after Benny he had looked at nobody, let alone flirting with anyone. He had lost that spark after losing his wife. “It’s just a dinner.” He says as if he feels a need to explain “But it has be special. “
Jack wasn’t even sure she would want to go to dinner out with him. After a while one gets used to meals with one, or just him and his little boy . But he needs it regardless, some resemblance of a normal life.
They was a connection there with Ana, despite trying keep her at arms length to protect her.. to keep her safe. Ana made everything better , or as much as one could. She was a Torchwood Intern. And Jack was training her to be a field op. So he was spending a lot of time with her. But he wanted to spend time with her away from work.