#⸻ REL . your tool's not big enough for the job ( owen harper ) .

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torchwood aftermath . . .

after the events of exit wounds and children of earth , gwen has become a militant person . sure , she has a family now and a loving husband , but there's two things missing for a period of time : torchwood and jack . gwen lives with survivor's guilt , suffering from PTSD as a result of torchwood , and deep profound periods of grief because of her dead friends . after managing to go dark with rhys and anwen , gwen becomes bored . on the surface , no one would know this . . . no one except jack , but he's gone . she craves to be back in the thick of torchwood , hunting and scavenging alien life so she can still play her part in saving the world . she fails to see what's in front of her : the perfect family , the idyllic family home , loving parents and a quiet life .

torchwood was toxic but it also gave her a sense of purpose in the big wide universe . she wanted to save people , leave this world in a better place when the time came . over a period of years , she struggles to cope with this new normal life and decides that it's time to move back to cardiff . six years after torchwood , gwen and rhys have a nice house , they've got reams of photos of their family , she's almost on top of the washing up .

but that's when things change again . . . aliens . after discovering torchwood stays with you for the rest of your life , gwen decides to rebuild torchwood . saving the world from the boot of her car . the rift in time and space has still been displacing creatures , people from the past , ghosts and echoes of the future . it's up to gwen cooper to help earth and defend the planet against any alien threat .

whilst alone in her pursuits , she often reminisces about ianto , tosh and owen . wondering what their lives could have been , after the events of children of earth , gwen left ianto's sister a cash deposit from one of torchwood's accounts . hoping it was enough for them to get by . for owen , gwen tends to katie's grave . . . keeping it tidy and planting fresh flowers every so often . for tosh , she kept a picture of her and owen on the fridge , a reminder that love suited her and always will . but gwen is haunted by the powerlessness she felt when all of her friends died . she loved them and still does , the past clings to gwen cooper . . . following her around with everything she does .

gwen also suffers nightmares of her friends , the horrors of torchwood and when anwen was a baby , she would often do the night feeds in fear of going to sleep and being greeted by dead friends . she often questions why she is still alive and why it was her that was left behind . but she lives in hope that one day , her captain jack will come back to earth and they can pick things up where they left off . jack is one of the pillars of gwen's new life , he saved her and rhys . she owes him her life , rhys' life and of course , anwen's . she one day hopes to pay that debt . . . no matter how long she has to wait .

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