A/N - Ok, I'm really not sure about this chapter, so bare with me. But first, a little about Elora. She is- was a student at the Luna University but left after meeting Jack in a bar after he promised to give her a new life. He turned her into a con woman along with him and tried to sell a Time Agent a Chula war ship. This chapter is the events of "The Empty Child". Elora dresses very elegantly, carries a 51st century PDA like River Song, and has brown hair to her shoulder blades. Through the chapters we will learn more about her, her relationship with Jack, and her past. Like I said, I'm really not confident about this chapter, so bare with me, I hope it starts to get better, enjoy. :)
"Excellent bottom." A female groan- not that sort of groan you pervs - went through the ship that belonged to Captain Jack Harkness. The captain chair span round and a young woman put her feet up against the dash-board of the ship. Her brown hair was tied into a messy bun and she wore a black dress that hugged her entire body with the sleeves down to her wrists and the hem above her knees as well as wearing black ankle trainers along with it.
"Do you have to?" The woman groaned, tapping on the flashing earpiece in her ear.
"I've gotta go and meet a girl." She listened to Jack say. "But you've got an excellent bottom too."
"What girl?"
"Don't worry Elora, you're the only girl for me."Jack laughed. "Look up." She turned to the controls and moved the cameras around before spotting a woman hanging from a barrage balloon in the sky. She wore a union jack t-shirt and had long blonde hair as her legs swung furiously, clutching the rope.
"What in the Luna university is she doing?" Elora asked with a gasp.
"No idea."
"Well hurry up and save your damsel in distress, before she falls."
Jack Harkness came bolting into the ship, pulling Elora up by the hand, out of the chair and pushing her across the room as she responded with a yelp. She rolled her eyes and walked off to the small bathroom through a door, and span round the taps on the bath and sat down on the edge with a sigh.
Explosions filled the air as planes whizzed past the invisible ship as Jack typed furiously, finally pulling the last control as the blonde lost her grip and fell, screaming as a blue beam shot out of the ship, catching her just in time.
"Okay, okay, I've got you." He said through the microphone.
"Who's got me? Who's got me, and you know... how?" She said nervously.
Elora leaned over to the remote hanging off the wall and pressed the "speak" button. "He's just programming your descent pattern. Keep as still as you can and keep your hands and feet inside the light field."
"Descent pattern?"
"Oh, and could you switch off your cellphone?" Jack asked. The woman wearing the union jack shirt scoffed. "No, seriously - it interferes with my instrument."
"You know, no-one ever believes that." She muttered, pulling her phone out of her pocket and switching it off before stuffing it back in.
"Thank you. That's much better."
"Oh, yeah, that's a real load off, that is." She replied, slightly hysterical. "I'm hanging in the sky in the middle of a German air raid with the Union Jack across my chest, but hey! My mobile phone's off!"
Jack laughed and Elora gave a slight smirk. "Be with you in a moment."
"The mobile communication device indicates non-contemporaneous life form." The computer said.
"She's not from around here, no." Jack replied before fiddling with the controls again. "Ready for you. Hold tight!"
"To what?!" The woman screeched.
"Fair point." Jack shrugged before pulling a lever and spinning round, getting up and catching Rose just in time. "I've got you!" She coughed slightly. "You're fine, you're just fine. The tractor beam, it can scramble your head just a little."
"Hello." She said breathlessly, staring at Jack.
"Hello." Jack replied, looking her up and down.
"Hello." Jack raised his eyebrows and nodded at her. "Sorry, that was hello twice there. Dull, but you know, thorough."
"Are you all right?" Jack asked.
"Fine!" She said as Jack set her back down on her feet and she grinned at him. "Why, are you expecting me to faint or something?"
"Well, you do look a little dizzy..."
"What about you? You're not even focused... oh boll-" Jack laughed as her eyes rolled back started to fall as Jack just caught her in time before laying on the bed next to him when Elora popped her head out of the door, back into the little ship with a bright orange towel wrapped around her.
"Fainted?" She asked. Jack just nodded back. "Better go get changed then."
Rose opened her eyes slowly, sitting up and looking around the cock pit.
"Better now?" Jack asked, watching her from the captain's chair.
"You got lights in here?" She asked. Jack nodded and reached up, turning on the lights. "Hello."
"Hello."
"Hello."
"Let's not start that again." Rose smiled.
"Yes, let's not." She looked over to the bathroom door as Elora stepped out, wearing a long, strapless, red evening dress with her chocolate brown hair, now down, hanging to her shoulder blades with her fringe gently swept to one side. She smiled softly to Rose as she typed on a PDA before pulling up one side of the dress, to reveal matching red heels, and slipped it into a harness attached to her thigh before dropping the dress back down. Rose stood up and walked a few steps towards Jack.
"So, um... who're you supposed to be, then?"
"Captain Jack Harkness. 133 Squadron Royal Airforce - American Volunteer." Jack replied as he handed her an ID card.
"Liar." Rose said. "This is psychic paper. It tells me whatever you want it to tell me."
"How do you know?"
"Two things. One - a have a friend who uses this all the time."
"Ah."
"And two - you just handed me a piece of paper telling me you're single and you work out." Elora laughed and perched herself on the bed and smiled as Rose turned to her.
"Elora Johannson, student of the Luna University." Elora said with a smile.
"Tricky things, psychic paper." Jack said, taking the paper back from Rose.
"Yeah - can't let your mind wander when you're handing it over." Rose said as Jack read it.
"Oh, you 'sort of' have a boyfriend called Mickey Smith but you consider yourself to be footloose and fancy free."
"Wha-" She laughed, embarrassed.
"Actually, the word you use is 'available'."
"No way..."
"And another one - 'very'."
"Shall we uh... try and get along WITHOUT the psychic paper?"
"That would be better, wouldn't it?" Jack said, standing up.
"Nice spaceship."
"Gets us around." Elora said with a fond smile.
"Very... Spock." Rose said, running a hand over the ceiling.
"Who?" Jack asked as Elora smirked at him.
"Guessing you're not a local boy, then."
"A cell phone, a liquid crystal watch, and fabrics that won't be around for at least another two decades... guessing you're not a local girl." Jack said, looking at his wrist as Rose sat down in the captain's chair.
"Guessing right." Rose muttered, reaching forward to touch something before suddenly, pulling her hand back quickly, gasping.
"Burn your hands on the rope?"
"Yeah."
"We're parked in midair! Can't anyone down there see us?"
"No. Can I have a look at your hands for a moment?"
Rose sat back down next to Elora, frowning. "Why?"
"Please?" She held her hands out to Jack and he ran a scanner over them.
"You can stop acting now. I know exactly who you are. I can spot a Time Agent a mile away."
"Time Agent?"
"I've been expecting one of you guys to show up. Though, not, I must say, by barrage balloon. Do you often travel that way?"
"Sometimes I get swept off my feet. By balloons." She smiled as Jack took off his scarf and wrapped it around her wrists. "What're you doing?"
"Try to keep still." Jack said as he leant over to a switch above her head. A bleeping sound filled the room and Elora smiled fondly as tiny golden specks appeared around the wounds of Rose's hand.
"Nanogenes. Sub-atomic robots. The air in here's full of them." Elora whispered as Rose watched them. Jack waited a few seconds before pressing the switch once again, making the nanogenes disappear. "They just repaired three layers of your skin." She grinned as Jack undone the scarf from Rose's wrists.
"Well, tell them thanks!" Rose laughed.
"We'll get down to business." Jack said, standing up and picking up a bottle of champagne that had just appeared by the dashboard.
"Business?"
"Shall we have a drink on the balcony?" Jack asked, pressing a button and making some steps lower themselves into the spaceship. "Bring up the glasses." He said, getting up and going up the stairs. Rose stared at Elora for a second before grabbing some glasses and following after him. Elora rolled her eyes and groaned before getting up and snuggling herself into the warm leather chair. And then it occurred to her, she should really find out who Rose was. She span around and faced the computer.
"Computer, that girl, do a scan for alien tech, find out how she got here." She said clearly.
"There is a trace from her of Artron energy."
"What about a general scan for any alien tech?"
"There is a blockage of tracing from the source of the Artron energy, but I'm picking up a DNA trace sourcing back to Gallifrey of Kasterborous."
"There's a Time Lord on Earth?" She gasped, staring at the screen. The last Time Lord was on Earth. She hastily glanced back around the ship. "This is my get out of jail card." She whispered. She squeezed her eyes shut, thinking of how guilty she'd feel once she'd backstabbed Jack. He promised to give her a life, and if he helped her with this, he'd be doing just that... just without realising what he was really doing. "JACK!"
Rose, Jack and Elora walked through the hospital corridors silently, the only sound being Elora's high heels clipping along the tile flooring.
"Hello?" Rose called down the corridor as they heard someone emerge out of the ward. They became face to face with a taller man in a black leather jacket and short black hair.
"Good evening. Hope I'm not interrupting - Jack Harkness." Jack said, shaking his hand. "I've been hearing all about you on the way over."
"He knows. I had to tell him about us being Time Agents." Rose said to The Doctor.
"And it's a real pleasure to meet you, Mr Spock." Jack said, patting him on the shoulder before walking off.
"Elora Johannson." Elora smirked, watching Jack as she gently shook The Doctor's hand. "I'm with the Luna University."
"Miss Johannson, may I ask do you always dress like this for an adventure?" The Doctor asked.
"Oh yes." She grinned cockily, giving him a wink before following after Jack.
"Mr Spock?" He asked, raising an eyebrow at his companion.
"What was I supposed to say, you don't have a name! Don't you ever get tired of 'Doctor'? Doctor who?" Rose asked.
"Nine centuries in, I'm coping. Where have you been? We're in the middle of a London Blitz, it's not a good time for a stroll."
"Who's strolling? I went by barrage balloon. Only way to see an air raid." Rose said as she and The Doctor started to follow Jack and Elora.
"What?!"
"Listen, what's a Chula warship?"
"Chula?"
"This just isn't possible. How could this happen?" Jack asked, scanning one of the bodies. They all stood in the ward The Doctor had come from, filled with bodies lying on beds with scars on their hands and gas masks burnt onto the skull.
"What kind of Chula ship landed here?" The Doctor asked.
"What?" Elora asked, her head snapping up in worry.
"He said it was a warship. He stole it. Parked it somewhere out there, somewhere a bomb's gonna fall on it - unless WE make him an offer." Rose said.
"JACK!" Elora exclaimed, glaring at Jack. "I hate you!"
"Sorry." Jack said sheepishly before looking up at The Doctor.
"What kind of warship?" The Doctor asked.
"Does it matter? It's got nothing to do with this!" Jack grumbled.
"This started at the bomb site. It's got EVERYTHING to do with it. What kind of warship?" The Doctor said angrily.
"An ambulance!" He turned on his vortex manipulator, showing a hologram of the warship. "Look."
"That's what you chased through the Time Vortex." Elora sighed, explaining. "It's space junk. We wanted to kid you it was valuable. It's empty. Jack made sure of it. Nothing but a shell. We threw it at you. Saw your time travel vehicle -"
"Love the retro look, by the way, nice panels -" Jack interrupted.
"Threw you the bait-"
"Bait?" Rose asked.
"We wanted to sell it to you and then destroy it before you found out it was junk."
"You said it was a WAR ship."
"They have ambulances in wars." Elora said, staring at The Doctor. "It was a con. We were conning you - that's what we are, we're con artists. Obviously as soon as I saw Rose I knew you weren't time agents."
"They're not?" Jack asked, making Elora roll her eyes at him.
"Just a couple more free-lancers." Rose confirmed.
"Ahh... should've known." Jack said. "The way you guys are blending in with the local colour - I mean, Flag Girl was bad enough, but U-Boat Captain?" The Doctor and Rose looked down at their clothes. "Anyway... whatever's happening here has got NOTHING to do with that ship."
"What IS happening here, Doctor?" Rose asked, looking around at the bodies.
"Human DNA's being rewritten... by an idiot." The Doctor said bitterly.
"What d'you mean?"
"I dunno - some kind of virus. It's converting human beings into these things." He nodded at all the bodies. "But why? What's the point?" Rose walked over and looked at one of the bodies when it suddenly sat up. Rose jumped back with a yelp and Elora grabbed onto Jack's arm in shock. Suddenly, the rest of the bodies sat up.
"Mummy?" They all asked repeatedly.
"What's happening?" Rose asked.
"I don't know." The Doctor said as all the gas-mask people stood up. "Don't let them touch you." He said as they started to advance between the four of them.
"What happens if they touch us?"
"You're looking at it." He said as they kept chanting 'mummy' at them. They cornered the four of them against as wall as Elora stared at Jack nervously.
"Jack..." She whispered.
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