Disclaimer: I do not own any of Torchwood or Charmed.
A/N: This is a small interlude between seasons 4 and 5 of Charmed, Jack comes from somewhere around the beginning of season 2 of Torchwood.
I'd love some reviews. I'm still quite new to this style of writing!
Chapter One.
"Morning sweetie." Piper came into the kitchen to find her youngest sister flipping through the Book of Shadows.
"Just doing some book learning." Paige didn't even look up from the book.
"Book learning, about what exactly?" Piper asked suspiciously, narrowing her eyes at her sister.
"Healing spells."
"Paige." Piper's tone was accusing. "We've talked about this. Do you want any coffee?"
"I know, but there's got to be something we can dp for Phoebe." Paige looked up from the book long enough to accept a cup of coffee from Piper.
"We just have to be here for her – in a non-magical way." Piper sighed. "She will move on, eventually. There'll be someone else for her."
"I don't think she believes that." Paige looked thoughtful, then started flicking pages in the book again. "Maybe we need to convince her."
"Just be careful. Personal gain, remember?"
Paige put on her innocent face. "Of course! What do you take me for?"
"Hmmm." Piper left the room with her coffee as Paige found the page she had been looking for and started making notes. She had an idea.
Captain Jack Harkness sat down at his desk with his morning cup of coffee. It had been a quiet week in Cardiff. He looked up and watched his team through the glass wall in front of him. Ianto was finishing the round of coffee that had started with the Captain's. Toshiko was busy, as usual, at her computer, examining various sources of information. Owen looked bored, flipping though the sports section of the morning paper, Gwen was with him, reading the news section. As Ianto gave them their coffee Jack could see them chatting and joking together.
They're a good team. I couldn't ask for better. Jock thought to himself as he sipped his coffee. Now if only they had something to do. Though he knew better than to wish any rift activity on them, it was only ever bad news.
Suddenly an alarm went off in the hub. What was that I was wishing for? Jack jumped up and out of the office, coffee still in his hand. Tosh immediately had the details up on her screen.
"Activity, but nothing I've seen before," she reported as he approached. "I don't think it's actually the rift?"
"If it's not the rift, what is it?" Gwen asked. "Aliens?"
"I don't know, but…let me check." Tosh typed a query into her computer. "Oh."
"What is it Tosh?" Jack asked.
"Well, it looks like the activity, whatever it is, is right, well, here." She started tapping at her keyboard again. "Let me just doublecheck…"
"Guys, I want you alert, anything could be coming." Jack was the element of authority. He turned back towards Tosh just as white lights seemed to surround him. "What the--"
"Jack!" Gwen ran towards him, but he was gone, leaving only the coffee mug behind him to smash on the floor of the Torchwood hub.
"—hell?!" Jack suddenly found himself in a large room with a sloped ceiling. An attic probably. In front of him was a young woman with long dark wavy hair. "Who the hell are you and what did you do to me? Where am I?"
"Shhh!" She motioned with her hands for him to be quieter. "You're a surprise for my sister, Phoebe. And a mighty handsome one at that."
"A surprise to me too, but thank you. Would you mind telling me what is going on?"
"I'm Paige. I'm a witch. But that's not important right now."
"A witch? What do you mean, a witch?" Jack looked at her questioningly.
"I mean a witch, someone who practices magic." Paige waved her hands at the potion ingredients and book on the table beside her. "How else did you think you got here?"
"I assumed it was something to do with the rift activity we picked up." Jack was thoughtful. "But maybe that was magic that set of the alarm not actually the rift."
"Rift? What rift?" She looked alarmed at the idea.
""It's a space-time rift, the one in Cardiff." Jack explained.
"Cardiff, as in Wales? But you sound American. Who are you?"
"The name's Captain Jack Harkness." Jack held out his hand to shake.
Paige accepted the handshake. "Captain? Of what?"
"Ah, er, I'm complicated." Jack smiled. "So who am I here to meet? Is she as gorgeous as you are?"
"You charmer." The witch blushed. "Right this way Captain. I think you are perfect for what I have in mind."