waking dreams

Title: The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life
Fandom: Torchwood
Prompt: Table 1: First (occhallenge)
Rating: mild PG-13
Word count: 2044
Characters: Jack Harkness, my OC Faith, quick mention of Alex Hopkins.
Summary: An American teenage girl on holiday has an alien (and Torchwood) encounter on the streets of Cardiff, and from then her life takes a course she wasn’t expecting.
Disclaimer: All belongs to the Beeb and RTD, folks.
Notes: This is basically one big flashback. The italics sections are present-day, and set post-Children of Earth, but there are no spoilers.

( “Well, it was a complete coincidence, or rather quite a few coincidences. It was here, actually, in Cardiff...” )