This is something that came to me after I saw the trailer for the Christmas episode of Doctor Who. I liked the by line and then thought about the end of my story 'To Die by Your Side'. Some people had asked me what the Doctor wanted Jack for so this will be a multi-chaptered story that explains. I hope you like it. It is mostly written – except for the end chapter which I'm hoping to do tomorrow so it should be about 10 chapters with a possible epilogue. Please let me know what you think.
Time Can Be Rewritten
Chapter One
'I just need to get some sleep, Doc; dying can be a bit tiring, especially bleeding to death, so that last one was a killer.'
'Well not quite, Captain, and frankly not ever in your case,' the Doctor replied calmly.
'So are you going to explain to me why we had to kill those creatures? I guess that they were some sort of threat.' Jack Harkness, formerly leader of Torchwood Cardiff, looked at the Doctor, his third Doctor, but the other man's face was a blank. He could see that he was going to learn nothing.
'Right so I guess I don't need to know. I can live with that but now I'm going to bed alone, unless one or both of you care to join me. No, oh well, you can't blame a man for trying. I'm too tired anyway and it's not everyday that you'll hear me say that!'
River Song and the Doctor watched Jack leave the main deck of the TARDIS.
'Doctor, was that wise. I know what you've done and why you did it. I can guess what you intend to do now. I don't think Jack really has a clue why he died so often in order that those creatures could be removed from that reality. Do we have the right to interfere, because you intend to change what happened, don't you?'
'Time can be rewritten, River, you know that but you have to take certain precautions!'
'Yes and you had to get rid of them before you did anything, knowing that there are only a maximum of ten of them in any given reality. I'm really not sure about this.'
'I know River, but I owe him. I thought I could leave it alone. I thought he might care for Alonso but he didn't and the Earth needs him. I can't be there all the time and we saw what happened when I wasn't. I need Jack to be Jack and there's only one way that's going to happen.'
'Well, I hope you're right. You know what happened with Adelaide Brooks.'
'The difference being that he won't know that things have changed. It'll just be how it should have been when I didn't get there. This event isn't a fixed point in time. Jack is the fixed point and he needs to go on serving the Earth. I will fix this for him, River. This is only the beginning.'