Cold hard ground
AU of Doomsday, series 3 & 4.
Not your average fix-it.
Prologue.
Jack Harkness and Suzie Costello were thrown forward as the jeep screeched to a halt in front of Canary Wharf. The streets of London- no, of Britain- were near deserted, with only dead bodies and abandoned cars littering the roads, meaning that they had reached the capital in less than an hour, when normally it would take longer than that just to get out of Wales. A ghostly (ha) aura haunted the country, as people celebrated their own survival and mourned their dead in equal measure behind closed doors, scared of stepping outside again in case the monsters came back.
"Come on, quickly," Jack instructed, the slam of his door once he was out of the car echoed by hers. "We need to make sure the equipment is destroyed before anyone else can use it."
They entered Torchwood One's lobby quickly, no security people or protocols left to stop them, and jogged up the stairs until they got to the thirteenth floor, quickly reaching the offices in charge of monitoring the Ghost Shift room.
"Fine, but I want this on record. I, on behalf of Torchwood Three, think this whole thing is bloody stupid. You are going to get people killed, just so that you're ignorant ass-"
Sighing, Yvonne Hartman pressed a button on the underside of the desk and two security guards stomped in.
"Your concerns have been noted, Captain. Now, if you would please like to remove yourself from the building before my friends here do..."
Throwing the door open, Jack froze, causing Suzie to bump into him. Ignoring her curses as she tried to balance the bags slung over her shoulder, he held up a hand to call for silence.
"What? What is it?" she hissed, finally regaining her balance.
"Someone's here."
"There are loads of people here, Jack," she said, not looking at the bodies thrown around the room even as she indicated towards them. "They're everywhere."
Jack shook his head but stayed silent, trying to focus on where the life he could feel was coming from. It found him before he could find it.
"Jack?" A small voice whispered, the cavernous walls bouncing the one word back and forth as he located the person sat on the opposite side of the room. It was a girl (woman), crouched against the white wall- which was why he hadn't seen her straight away- looking at him with mascara running down her cheeks to show where her now dried tears had run.
"Rose?"
The air rushing past their ears didn't block out the dying screams of the Daleks and Cybermen rushing past them into hell, nor did it cancel out the look of terror in Rose's eyes one of the final monsters to go by slammed into the lever on the Doctor's side, throwing it forward.
Too far forward.
Reaching for the lever, his jaw clenched as he realised that there was no way he could grab it enough in order to pull it back, which needed to happen soon. He could feel the air around them slowing, but there was still Daleks and Cybermen that needed to go into the void, otherwise they'd be back at stage one- the human forces were depleted, there was no way in high Gallifrey they could cope with even one Dalek .
Risking one last glance at Rose- still holding onto her clamp, but looking like she wanted to run to him- he smiled bravely.
"Hold on!" He shouted.
And then he let go.
"Jack!" Rose sobbed, leaning on the wall behind her to help her stand up. Forgetting about Suzie, about Torchwood, about the deaths and the terror, he ran towards her, wrapping her in a huge hug.
They stayed silent for a few moments until Jack pulled back, curiosity winning out over joy at seeing his best friend again for the first time in over a hundred years.
"Why are you here? Stupid question, don't answer that. Where's the Doctor?" He spoke quickly, unable to believe that out of all the people in the universe to be here, on this floor, in this room, it would be Rose who survived.
Actually he kinda could, and he was so glad she was.
When Rose didn't answer after a full minute his grip on her tightened and he asked again. Eventually she shook her head and stopped avoiding eye contact.
"Gone, Jack. He's stuck in another universe and I don't think there's any way back."
So it's only a short chappy, but it's only a prologue so yeah.
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