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[jackedthename]

[Hello, Siren's Port! Have a Jack Harkness showing up on your NV. He is currently sprawled on the couch in the apartment he's been sharing with Rose and the Tenth Doctor.]

Right. Been here a few months now, figure it's a good time to find a proper job. I've already gathered that no job I have here will be anything like mine at home, but I'll take what I can get. So. [Cue the charming smile.]

Served in the RAF, good with a gun, excellent people skills. What've you got for me, Siren's Port?

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[jackedthename]

[A low whistle.] You can fly a Tomcat? I'm a bit jealous.

[video]

[gabriel_gray]

Taken up others, but she's still my favorite. U.S. Navy. You fly something else?

[video]

[jackedthename]

Bristol Beaufighter, for the most part. [Yep, that's definitely a plane that hasn't been made since ohhhhh 1946.]

[video]

[gabriel_gray]

Sure. Sure, I know it. They just put one up in Ohio. It's a dual-prop, right?

[ Wait. ]

They haven't used those things since the fifties.

[video]

[jackedthename]

[And an impish grin.]

It is, yeah. Good little plane.

I know they haven't.

[video]

[gabriel_gray]

[ He just wishes he was in on the joke. ]

So you're telling me what? That you're a Second World War fighter pilot? You realise how ludicrous that sounds, right?

[video]

[jackedthename]

About as ludicrous as a rift in space and time running through Wales, right?

I'm dead serious, handsome.

[video]

[gabriel_gray]

[ For a moment Nathan just looks like he's swallowed something unpleasant, and then he glances away. He's not sure he's comfortable being called 'handsome' by another man. ]

You just don't look like you've recently celebrated your centennial to me.

[video]

[jackedthename]

[He catches that look and schools his features into something more befitting an ex military man. Damn 21st century morals.]

Yeah, well. That happens when you meet up with a time traveler.

[video]

[gabriel_gray]

[ Rubbing his temple and muttering to himself: ]

Yeah, they tend to ruin a lot of things.

You got a name?

[video]

[jackedthename]

Captain Jack Harkness, sir.

[video]

[gabriel_gray]

If we're going for formal, then I guess I'm introducing myself as Senator Nathan Petrelli. Still counts overseas, so I guess it counts here.

[video]

[jackedthename]

Senator from where? If you don't mind me asking.

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[gabriel_gray]

New York. I recently did a stint as Head of Homeland Security, and now here I am in Canada of all places. Funny where life takes you.

[video]

[jackedthename]

New York! Ages since I've been there.

[And a shrug.] Well, I was in Cardiff before I got here.

[video]

[gabriel_gray]

Never heard of it, but you said Wales, right? That's a part of England isn't it?

[ No, Nathan. Great Britain. You can't blame him for having other things on his mind. ]

[video]

[jackedthename]

Not quite. Wales is a part of Great Britain, just next to England.

[video]

[gabriel_gray]

Oh.

[ Awkward, uncomfortable pause. ]

Let's be glad I never had to land a plane there, huh?

[video]

[jackedthename]

Hah, yeah. Don't worry about it, though, Cardiff's ...usually pretty dull. At least to most people.

[video]

[gabriel_gray]

But you know better, I'm guessing?

[video]

[jackedthename]

You wouldn't believe me if I told you.

[video]

[gabriel_gray]

[ There's a pause as he just looks off screen, then back. ]

Try me.

[video]

[jackedthename]

Remember that rift I mentioned? It's in Cardiff. I protect England -- and the rest of our lot from the beasties that like to come through it.

Which is a fancy way of saying I fight aliens.

[video]

[gabriel_gray]

You-- [ He rubs his temple. ]

Okay, I guess I asked for that one.

[video]

[jackedthename]

You did, sir. [A grin.]

Anyway, I work with an organization called Torchwood.