As the Doctor pelted into him, Jack was still a little to confused to completely process what was going on. They’d been looking for him? Well, that sure was news to him, but frankly, he’d take it. Any bit of good news was welcome, and he was getting utterly fed up with his current lot in life.
It took only a quick second before he was hugging back – only to immediately let go in favour of hugging Rose so hard, he picked her right up off the ground.
“You were what? My wrist strap – it burned out the second I ‘ported off the space station. Wound up in Cardiff, 19th century,” he said, as if that explained everything.
Rose Laughed happily as she was picked up off the ground and kissed Jacks cheek. “Oh gosh, we have missed you. I’m sorry about him, Jack, i have no idea what he was thinking!” Rose apologised when she was set back on the ground.
Rose smacked the Doctor’s arm at the knowledge of where jack had went.
“OW!”
“See! I toldyou we needed to check the 19th century again, but nooo, you were all – ‘Oh no, Jack wouldn’t be there, not good old Jack, thats not a very fun era to be for him, Jack would probably prefer the future if he went somewhere.’” She quotes tutting and rolls her eyes.
She then smiled at Jack again, ignoring the Doctors whining, who was rubbing his arm.
“But never mind that, Come on, Grab your drink, Doctor, Get ours and lets all go back and sit at the table. We have so much to catch up on!” Rose beamed cheekily, grabbed Jacks hand and practically pulled him back over to the table she was sat at, leaving the Doctor to sigh fondly and smirk at jack, before grabbing their drinks, paying for them and joining them at the table.
“So! How are you?” Rose asked Jack, sitting down in the middle of the curved booth, making it obvious that she wanted both men on either side of her.
It was such a rush to hear that Rose had tried to find him. Well, the Doctor too, but Rose had never lost hope. He shouldn’t have lost hope either, and even though he might have, it didn’t much matter now, not when they were each carrying their drinks back to the table together.
Jack slid in on one side of the booth, making sure he was nice and close to his old friend (maybe close enough to easily take her hand, if he ever worked up the nerve – he’d wait a little bit longer, try to read her and the Doctor’s relationship a bit more).
“I’m… well, I’m good. Been in Cardiff for the past while, working for Torchwood. What about you? Been all over the place, I’m guessing?”
The Doctor slid into the booth on Rose’s other side and gave Jack a fond smile, Enjoying how happy the young woman was.
“Huh… Torchwood? whats that?…” The Doctor tilted his head slightly in curiosity only for Rose to ask. “Isn’t that the House that we stayed in when we saved Queen Vic from the werewolf and got banished?”
“Could be. Anyways… yes, lots of places, lots of traveling, Like Rose just mentioned, Got banished from the British empire-” “after being knighted by Queen Victoria,” Rose piped up with a teasing smile, which caused him to roll his eyes at her.
“Before that i got my hand chopped off on christmas day, after queen Vic, I Met up with my old Companion Sarah Jane, Saved Madame de Pompadour, fell into an Alternative universe were the Cybermen had only started uprising and just recently, we had been on an impossible planet, which was in stable orbit around a black hole with the Devil hidden in the core.” He grins.
“That was a fright… we thought that we lost the Tardis for good… it fell under the ground with no way to get to it…” Rose added biting her lip. “Lucky us, it had fallen into the cave where said devil was and i got it back when i fell down there.” The Doctor wrapped his arm around Rose, comforting her slightly.
“So… have you got anything interesting to share?” Rose asked taking Jacks hand, linking their fingers together. “Any friends? You have a team right? what are they like?”
@canspotatimeagent – I just got an idea 😀 -What if it the city 13 fell into was Cardiff and Jack saw her fall.-
She wasnt sure what happened… One moment she had been falling the next she ‘awoke’ disorientated… Did she fall asleep? did she black out when she crashed?… Wait… crashed… crashing… Falling!
She sat up fast almost crashing into the figure that was next to her… The doctor grabbed her head and made a pained noise as her ears began to ring… damn she felt dizzy…
-was the person speaking to her?-
-Oh yeah… she was a woman now…- -thats was new…-
She closed her eyes again and could feel herself swaying. Not good… she didn’t feel too good…
She didn’t realise she was falling forward, till she blacked out again.
–Brilliant–
Jack had this feeling.
He couldn’t quite explain it, he just had a sense that something unusual and potentially life-changing was going to happen today. Okay, it happened pretty often, if he was honest, but this just felt… different.
And when he glanced up at the sky and saw an oddly shaped speck falling towards the Earth, well, he knew he’d been right.
He booked it towards where the figure was headed, running as fast as he could. If the person was an alien, they just might survive that fall, which also meant he would be the best person to greet them. If they were human… well, still better he was the person to find them than anyone else.
He found the person at the end of an alley, looking much better than he was expecting. He knelt down beside her, pressing two fingers to the side of her neck to find a pulse. Not only did he find a pulse, he could feel the distinctive beat of twin hearts.
“Doctor?!” he said – but then she sat up, nearly knocking him over, and instantly blacking out again.
Fantastic.
He swept her up in his arms, an easy feat given how small she was this time around, and carried her off to the SUV to give her a more comfortable place to wake up.
The next time The Doctor woke up…. She had no idea where she was.
Her vision was a tiny bit blurry and her head was hurting… Like she had too much to drink the night before… But she KNEW she didn’t drink anything…
No.. she had just regenerated… Wait! She regenerated!
Sitting up, she grabbed her head when she realised she sat up too fast and groaned softly. Thankfully this time she didn’t black out and after blinking a few times she looked around the room.
She was sitting on a couch… But whereexactly, she had no clue…
Then she remembered something else…. “…Jack….?” she called out, wondering where the immortal was.
drapetxmaniia - The Urge to run away 