Author's Note: This is set after Runaway Bride, but before Martha shows up (no offence to Martha, but she just doesn't fit in this story). I basically wrote this because I just watched Doomsday again and I wanted to write a TenRoseJack reunion story. So… enjoy the story, and please review at the end.

Disclaimer: Would it surprise anyone to know that I don't own this stuff? No, I didn't think so. Anyway, I don't, and this is written purely for entertainment, I am not profiting at all from this.

Summary: The Doctor, Jack and Rose are all separated, but still connected. The Doctor is desperate to get Rose back, and finds that the only person who can help is Jack, still working for Torchwood in Cardiff

Bring Her Back

(post Runaway Bride, pre-Martha)

Inside the TARDIS

He's left Donna at home, with her family. He just went, without saying goodbye, got back inside the TARDIS, and got as far from Earth as he could. He sits very still. All he can think about, all he's been able to think about for weeks, is Rose Tyler.

He wonders, every second of every minute of every day, where she is and what she's doing. She told him, that last time he saw her, that she was working with parallel-Torchwood. Every day, he misses her.

Every day, he loves her.

Every day, he tries so hard to think of a way, any way, that might bring her back to him.

Every day, he concedes defeat.

Living Quarters of Jack Harkness, Torchwood Three, Cardiff.

Late at night, after even Ianto has gone home, Jack lies awake in bed. He hasn't been able to sleep lately, and keeps himself going on Ianto's industrial-strength coffee.

The reason that Jack can't sleep, is that his thoughts always drift back to Rose Tyler. For him, it has been so long since the last time he saw her. The time when he kissed her and went to distract daleks for just long enough to let the Doctor do his work. He remembers waking up, gasping back to life just as the TARDIS disappeared.

He still can't sleep, so he gets out of bed, gets dressed and goes to the Hub. He quickly logs into a computer, and soon finds Rose's record. The record has a picture attached – a couple, actually, one of her and her mum, one of her and Mickey together. One of her and the Doctor. It took a long time for Jack to find that photograph, but he did. He'd needed Tosh's help, and she still wanted to know why – not that Jack was about to tell her, of course.

The important part of Rose's record, as far as Jack was concerned, was a little box labelled "Date of Death". According to the Torchwood files, Rose Tyler had died during the battle of Canary Wharf, as had her mother.

Jack knew that it couldn't be true. He knew, because he knew that the Doctor was still alive, and he knew that the Doctor would never let anything happen to Rose. He knew that the Doctor was still alive because if such an important figure had died during the battle, he would have been told – he was, after all, the leader of Torchwood now that Yvonne Hartman was dead.

Jack spends the rest of the night sitting in front of a computer, staring at the pictures of Rose on screen. As he does so, silent tears stream down his cheeks. He only barely makes it back to his quarters before Ianto arrives in the morning to open up.

Ianto is dear to him, but he doesn't want any of the team to know about what he's been doing all night – especially not Ianto.

He splashes cold water on his face, and stares at his own reflection in the mirror for several long minutes before going out into the Hub again. Before he goes, he takes something out of his pocket – a thin, old, worn friendship bracelet that Rose once gave him, and that he has kept with him ever since. He presses the bracelet to his lips, kissing it, and then returns it to his pocket.

Home of Pete, Jackie and Rose Tyler, Parallel Earth.

Rose had been dreaming of the Doctor again – of the adventures they had had together, her and Jack and the Doctor, laughing and happy together. Just before she woke up, she had a very strange feeling… as if someone was reaching for her. As if two someones were reaching for her. The moment she woke up, she reached over to her bedside table – and the first thing her hand fell on the silver chain that Jack had bought her once, still with its rose charm.

She wondered briefly about her odd dream, but soon she was caught up in the events of her day and it slipped from her mind.