"It was... amazing," he admitted. "Everything there just felt... I don't know. It's difficult to explain. I had an actual home where I was raising my daughter. I was still me, immortality and all. But I had a normal life too with an actual family. You were living with us and near the end before everything turned into a nightmare, we were engaged."
Jack fell silent for a long moment. "No one else on the team knows I even have a kid," he told her softly. "Her mother worked for Torchwood and went underground with our daughter to keep her away from me for her safety. Or at least, that's what she told me. She changed her name too. But in the Nexus, she was still Melissa."