Well Hello There

[spacehopper]

When: Any Time
Where: Anywhere
Who: Captain Jack Harkness + You

You've seen him before, maybe even since you were a child. When he appears, it's always been right there, at the edge of your vision, watching you. Sometimes he says hello in passing as he crosses the street. Sometimes he just smiles when you spot him and ducks into a shop or moves around the corner. He comes and goes from your life, never threatening, never tangible.

Until today.

Today he moves towards you purposefully. He has bright blue eyes and dimples when he smiles. He'd not aged a day since you first started to see him. He smells like the best thing in the world to you. He offers his hand. "Hi. I'm Captain Jack Harkness," he says.

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[spacehopper]

"I'm both always and never serious," Jack joked, hands in his pockets. There was something truly wonderful about Charles' complete confusion and his willingness to learn and accept, to observe but also to ask questions. It was a good way that Jack had come to expect in the people he wanted to keep on the Torchwood roster.

It didn't matter where or when a potential agent was from, they simply had to possess a lot of wonder.

"He could come out of the water," Jack said. "Using something a little bit like an aquarium on legs. When you care for someone, you make it work. Even when it's just physical, you make it work!" he laughed and led Charles down the stairs towards the cafeteria.

[templeistelepathybutton]

So you're full of shit, yet you weren't lying about the future. About time travel. Charles thought to himself, watching Jack with a curious eye. Really, this whole trip was almost equal parts fascinating, terrifying, and incredible. Here he was, incredibly far in the future, on a planet people did not, could not, travel to in his time. Hearing Jack talk about this... partner of his was very strange.

He gave a small smile as he listened, trying to imagine it but could not. Jack was a very different sort of gentleman than any he had known, even other mutants.

"...what do you want me to do with you, in this... agency of yours? I know nothing about the future other than what you've shown me.. or is that typical?"