FIC Torchwood (drabble) - "Missing Person"

[fajrdrako]

Title: Missing Person
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: DI Swanson, Jack Harkness
Challenge: challenge: without Jack
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Cross-posted to my LJ and tw100.


Missing Person

Cathy Swanson studied the photo of Captain Jack Harkness: broad smile, teasing eyes. He'd been gone for weeks... off the map. Disappeared as mysteriously as he'd once arrived.

How can a man go missing when he never legally existed? How had he put himself into a position of authority and power?

Arrogant sod. She had to hope he wasn't dead. She didn't understand what he and Torchwood did, but she was grudgingly willing to admit that it was important work.

She was forced to admit, if only to herself, that she very much wanted to see Captain Jack Harkness again.


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Comments

[raissad.livejournal.com]

How can a man go missing when he never legally existed?

Sums it up perfectly. :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Jack is just so surrounded by mysteries!

[darklady7.livejournal.com]

It will be interesting if Swanson recurs in series 2

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I hope she does! I really do.

But as long as we get good stories I don't really care.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh, that's a really good point- Jack doesn't exist, legally anyway!!!
And of course she wanted to see Jack again, who doesn't? :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

She is only human.

I like the way Jack has a sort of paradoxical existence - he doesn't exist, he isn't answerable for his actions - he doesn't even have an address or a driver's license - but he has a lot of power (at least in Cardiff!) and pretty much does what he likes - and the authorities jump when he makes demands. I think it's wonderful!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

and it leads to so many interesting plot bunnies...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it, though! Both for the show, and for us.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I just can't believe this hadn't even occured to me till I read your drabble! I knew he didn't exist, all Gwen can learn about him is that Capt Jack Harkness disappeared during the London Blitz! Why didn't I realize that this meant he had no ID, no property in his name?
(I'll just sit sulking in the corner now)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I think it explains why he lives in the Hub. There's no need for him to appear on any official document - no lease, no home ownership, and anything that does occur in the way of paperwork is in the name of Torchwood.