A whole year had passed, and Leah remembered every second.
Jack was still gone.
The team came back from the Himalayas, Jack still gone. The year reset. Leah suspected everyone moved to a different location unless they were at the center point of the paradox reset. Why did she think that? Because after everyone started chanting for the Doctor, after the entire world turned back, Leah found herself in a hug with her moms.
Leah cried for a long while in that hug.
What made her cry even harder was when Aunt Chloe came home the next day, asking if Leah heard from Jack.
She remembered that conversation. For them, it happened last night. For her, it was a year ago. Jack was talking about the Master, and the Toclafane, and the Doctor and her future self. Chloe brought Leah to Torchwood Three to give the team the report on what happened when Leah was the only team member left here to fight.
Leah hadn't liked talking about it. Her mum came with them, hugging Leah's shoulders the whole time while glaring at the Torchwood Team. Leah needed that support. Describing the year to her friends...telling them they died so early on...and where Jack was in the middle of it all.
"Where did he go?" Gwen asked Leah, as Leah stalled in her story.
She swallowed a lump in her throat, it kept coming back up. Leanna squeezed her shoulders, hugging her daughter from behind. Leah let out a shaking breath.
Leah couldn't imagine it. "I only heard rumors-"
"Where was Jack?" Ianto asked.
Tears were coming out of her eyes. "...in the sky. With- with him. For a whole year...it must've been torture..."
Soon, Leah wasn't the only one crying.
That was three weeks ago.
Jack was still gone.
==ILWAS==
They were out hunting an alien. Leah wasn't even mad at them for it. The alien was a prick- robbing ATMs, stealing cars, scaring civilians. Leah wouldn't mind if the blowfish was thrown into a Torchwood cell.
Leah was working comms back at the Hub. A whole year of hiding in corners and dark damp basements left an impression. She barely liked the distance between the Hub and her mum's flat.
Her parents bought a flat in Cardiff. Yeah, they decided after Leah cried in their arms for two hours. Leanna said it was to keep the Team from hurting their daughter, while Thelma said it was for Leah's comfort. Leah got that they wanted a fresh start here. This was as fresh as her family would get.
Still. Leah was at the Hub. She didn't much like going out on missions. She liked being behind the scenes.
"I'm telling you, I can't trace him!" Owen snapped over the comms.
"We could trace the car, it's one of those fancy ones!" Gwen offered.
"He ripped it out!" Owen argued.
"He can't have got all of it." Chloe pointed out.
Leah huffed. "Did you try asking witnesses?"
Silence from comms.
Leah sighed. "Pull over and ask someone. He looks like one of your blowfish in a sports car. Someone noticed."
"...you know she's right." Ianto pointed out.
Leah went back to texting.
'These humans are idiots.'
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Fiksi PenggemarLeah Luna-Johnson has just survived a whole year by herself. Her friends were dead, her parents were dead, and the Captain's fate was in the air. She had only one friend left. Why was everyone getting so upset by him? She doesn't judge Jack for his...
