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[im_torchwood]

After John Hart, after Gray, Jack couldn't be in Cardiff. He was Torchwood now, not just what he did but who he was, and he had a small crisis and had to get away. Although he'd broken with London's Torchwood after the incidents at Canary Wharf (which it seemed the population had either forgotten or written off) Jack found himself in England's jewel. He was ready to make a new start. And, he reckoned, the Doctor would probably visit London before Cardiff if truth be told.

He'd settled into the subterranean Hub that Alice and Emily had worked in. It had been long forgotten in favor of the building of steel and glass that had been built atop it. Bloody Torchwood...they were supposed to be secret. He'd made his contacts and had put himself to work. But even Jack needed to eat.

He had all of the city to choose from and rather than just go to a pub Jack stood on the sidewalk looking at his mobile reading Yelp reviews. There was a place just down the block and around the corner. Yelp was good and all but he kind of wanted a real opinion so he looked up from his screen and he smiled at the first person whose eye he caught.

"Excuse me...do you know if this place is any good?" he asked, showing the screen. His American accent immediately marked him as a tourist, even though he wasn't.

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[whispersoflove]

"I always love it," Anael smiled back just as brightly, glad to find that Jack was not, as they said, 'freaking out'.

[im_torchwood]

That was when Jack turned to face him. Up here the light was different in the way it struck them and Jack's eyes seemed...infinite. Timeless and ageless in a way no mortal man's could possibly be.

"Thanks," he said warmly. "I mean it."

[whispersoflove]

Anael focused on those eyes for a few moments, thinking to himself that he had never before seen eyes like this on a man. It made his heart ache for Jack, and he was all the happier for having given him this.

"You're welcome, Jack," he told him, with a small smile.