Ok before I start let me just say this is now AU because well it was always going to be butttt episode 13 of Torchwood ruined it and meant that this story could never happen. Well not in the near future anyway. Pffft stupid writers. Oh and the chracter Lore is my own. -nods-

Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who or Torchwood or have anything to do with it, I make no money out of this it's just for fun. And your enjoyment.

Chapter 1: Torchwood

He was sat at his desk; the glass walls of the office gave him no protection from prying eyes. He smiled to himself as Gwen Cooper -former Police officer- arrived in for work and waved cheerily at him. He didn't understand how she could still be smiling after all they had seen and been through, Jack was no longer himself. He wasn't the young man who enjoyed life to it's very fullest, he'd seen enough to know that it was all so pointless, he'd died. Should have died many times over; death by Dalek, shot in the head, electrocuted by a cyberwoman, Gwen was the only one he'd really told that he couldn't die, but the others would soon catch on. It wasn't one of those things you could keep hidden.

A bleeping noise caused him to look up at the computer in front of him. "Lore." He whispered, a word, a name that would only mean something to him. He got up from his desk and walked over to a hole in the floor, quickly jumping down it he smiled at the girl who was stood in front of him.

"You know you should be more careful." He spoke quietly. She turned around and smiled.

"Why'd you say that?" she asked her eyes shining.

He shook his head and got straight down to business; "What did you find?" he asked watching her.

Her delicate blue eyes became sad, a wave of fear washed over him, the records had to be wrong, Rose Tyler couldn't be dead; "I…I couldn't find her, not on this planet or any other in this dimension so I looked in the next dimension along…she's trapped there…he can't get to her." She said quietly watching his reaction.

He breathed out, she wasn't dead, this was good; "But you can?" he asked, a stupid question really and one that caused her to smirk.

"Of course I can, I'm an Elemental." she said stating a fact that he already knew. Elementals were like gods, Lore was a very young God and an inexperienced one, she was only 348 years old and probably one of the last of her kind.

"Is he coming?" Jack asked and Lore nodded.

"He doesn't know that I have brought him here though…you'll need to tell the others…" she said quietly Jack nodded again his heart pounding in his chest as anticipation and fear grew. "He's got a new companion…" she said watching Jack again watching as his brow furrowed; "Her name is Martha Jones and she was a medical student when he first met her." Lore said as if reciting her information from a piece of paper.

"JACK!" a shout from above told him that he didn't have any time to prepare.

"Tosh what is it?" he asked climbing up through the hole.

"I was hoping you could tell us…" she said watching the screen as a blue police call box appeared from thin air right outside.

Jack smiled; "Don't worry this is a good thing…Owen, Gwen, Tosh come on." He said grabbing his jacket and rushing to the door, everything was happening so fast he had little time to think. He didn't notice Gwen and Owen exchange worried looks as they picked up their guns.

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Lore sat on Jack's desk, only Ianto had met her before so it was fine for her to be 'out' when he was around; "You alright there?" he asked walking into Jack's office and picking up a coffee mug or two. She smiled at him and nodded. "You have any idea what all that was about?" he asked taking a seat next to her.

"Of course." She replied, her physical appearance was that of a 17 year old girl, and Ianto couldn't help treating her like one some of the time, in his eyes she was a child despite the fact that she was more than 300 years older than him, she still acted like a child and sounded like one too.

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"What is wrong with you!" he moaned kicking the TARDIS control panel, he'd done that once before and regretted it and was once again regretting it, he clutched his converse clad foot hopping around on the other, trying very hard not to swear.

"What's going on?" Martha asked getting up from her seat next to the controls.

"Not a clue, and that's what worries me…she doesn't seem to want to go…what's wrong eh?" he asked now stroking the console, Martha's eyes grew wide and she bit her lip, she debated leaving him alone with the TARDIS, but then he jumped up. "Ah well, we'll just have to find out where it is we've landed…" he said walking towards the door.

"Doctor!" Martha called out, alarmed. She was looking at the TARDIS screen and could see four people approaching the TARDIS. The Doctor though did not stop and stepped out of the door, he looked about him and sighed. Cardiff. What was it about this place that the TARDIS liked so much? Other than the rift of course.

"Oh hello." He spoke looking at the four figures that were approaching, one of them looked very familiar. JACK his head screamed; "Captain!" he said happily, his trademark grin spreading quickly across his face.

Jack was clearly pleased to see him too and quickly moved to give him a warm hug; "It's been too long." Jack said quietly into his ear. The TARDIS door then opened for a second time and the Doctor's ears pricked up as he heard two guns being loaded. Jack had clearly heard it too.

"Gwen…stand down!" his voice was stern. He gave Owen a look which clearly meant; 'You too'. They put their guns away still clearly uneasy. Jack then looked up at the girl standing in the doorway she was no Rose. In fact she was the opposite of her in everyway.

"This must be Martha…" Jack said slowly, the Doctor had expected him to be shocked hurt or at least slightly angry that it wasn't Rose opening the door, but Jack knowing her name, that was certainly something he had not expected. The girl looked almost as confused as the Doctor was. "I'll explain later." Jack said smiling. "Right, well anyway, this is my team…Dr. Owen Harper, Gwen Cooper and Toshiko Sato…this is the Doctor." He said clearly very proud of his team.

"All very interesting I'm sure…" the Doctor began a smile gracing his lips; "But what do you do?" he asked.

"We are Torchwood 2." He replied.

"Torchwood?" the Doctor frowned his encounters with Torchwood had never been good. "Not going to lock me up are you?" he said eyeing Gwen and Owen who still looked uneasy.

"Don't have a reason to do we?" Gwen asked, her strong welsh accent made the Doctor smile.

"Course not." The Doctor replied cheerily clapping his hands together; "Well anyway, onwards and upwards, you've clearly brought me here for a reason." The Doctor said motioning for them to lead the way.

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Lore jumped to her feet and squealed loudly; "Oooo they're coming back!" she said grinning, Ianto looked at her and raised an eyebrow.

He leaned over one of the computers and saw that she was right and Jack and the others were accompanied by two strangers, but they were in fact coming back as Lore had predicted. "How did you…?" he began, but stopped himself as he remembered that she was an Elemental, and knowing where people were was probably only one of the things she could do. "Stupid question again. Sorry." He said watching her smile. A loud clunking noise told them that the door was opening and that they were indeed back as Lore had predicted.

"Oh, wow…you Torchwood folks do like your glass…" a loud voice said as a man walked in, it was clear from the way he walked that he wasn't going to be intimidated by a building.

"What do you mean?" Owen asked walking in along side him.

"Oh right, you've never seen the other Torchwood building." He said smiling slightly, Ianto frowned and stepped forwards.

"And you have?" he asked hope and fear rising in his throat, he noticed Jack and Lore were both giving him odd looks, he smiled weakly; "Hi, I'm Ianto, Ianto Jones." He said stepping forwards.

"I'm the Doctor." The Doctor said smiling, as he looked past Ianto to the girl who was sat in what he assumed was Jack's office. This girl was clearly not simply a girl that was obvious to him from a glance.

"Err, Jack…who is that?" The Doctor spun round, it appeared that people didn't tell each other all that much around here, he highly doubted that Jack was going to tell them exactly who he was.

The look on Jack's face was priceless; "That…errr, well that is a friend of mine…" he stuttered out. He glanced at the Doctor who seemed to be enjoying this greatly. Ianto wasn't being much help either. He too was smirking slightly.

"That's really descriptive that is." Gwen said watching Jack; "Who is she?" she asked almost in a menacing tone. The Doctor's eyes grew wide and he tutted.

"Now, now children, why don't we ask her?" he suggested helpfully. He watched as the girls eyes shone, her grin grew as she jumped off his desk and walked out to meet them.

"Hi." She spoke calmly but brightly, the Doctor smiled at her; "I'm Lore…" she paused not really knowing what else to say about herself; "What else would you like to know?" she asked them and the Doctor grinned at her.

"To start," he began smiling; "How old are you?" Jack slapped his forehead really dreading the answer she was going to give.

She began grinning; "I am 348 years old." Gwen chocked on the coffee that Ianto had handed her moments before.

"Are you by any chance an Elemental?" The Doctor asked raising an eyebrow as he placed a pair of glasses on his nose. "A young one at that…" he paused and circled her smiling as he did so, he himself had of course met Elementals before that was why he knew that not all was as it seemed when he first saw her.

"What's an Elemental?" Martha asked from behind Gwen. The Doctor smiled.

"An Elemental is like a god, they can control things that we can't they can change the weather…and other things besides…but what are you doing here?" the Doctor asked looking into her amazingly blue eyes.

She looked slightly taken aback by this question, it was clear that not even she knew what she was doing there; "I…I…" she stuttered unable to think of an answer, she truly didn't know why she was there.

The Doctor frowned; "You don't know do you?" he asked still looking at her, she shook her head and the Doctor turned to look at Jack, he turned to find everyone watching him, not that he didn't mind an audience, but it was slightly un nerving. "Jack can I have a word?" he asked and Jack nodded leading him into his office, it was a hint for the others to go back to work, and act as if nothing had happened.

"What's wrong?" Jack asked once he had closed the door.

"Why have you brought me here?" the Doctor's voice was dark and Jack felt slightly scared. That tone of voice was reserved for those who had done great wrong, not old friends.

"Lore can bring Rose back." Jack said quietly.

"Rose is dead." The Doctor replied carefully, he did not turn to look at Jack.

"No she isn't, you need to stop kidding yourself, you know exactly where she is." Jack replied his own voice becoming dark. The Doctor turned to look at him, he had heard the tone that Jack had used, and he really didn't like it. He raised an eyebrow.

"No one's meant to know that." He whispered now eyeing Jack carefully.

Jack watched him; "Yeah. Well I do!" he said his anger rising, it was Rose who had brought him back from the dead, Rose was the reason that he couldn't die, the reason that every night was plagued with nightmares, images of deaths that should have been his end but weren't. "Rose brought me back…" Jack began and he saw the Doctor's eyes narrow. "I was dead…but then I wasn't…I don't understand what happened." His voice had become a desperate one.

"You think Rose will be able to explain it? She looked into the heart of the TARDIS, took the whole of the Time Vortex inside her, and she killed all of the Daleks, she was Bad Wolf, she lost control and began to bring people back…I'm sorry." He whispered watching the pain in Jack's eyes.

"I can't die." He said matter-of-factly.

The Doctor frowned; "You what?" he asked fear clouding his eyes.

"Whatever it is Rose did I can't die now." He spoke avoiding the Doctor's gaze.

"And you've tested this theory?" the Doctor asked cynically.

Jack swallowed hard; "I should've died at least 5 times now." He was deadly serious. He finally looked up to see the frightened look in the Doctor's eyes.

That look scared even Jack, the Doctor was thinking, thinking of how things could be made right how he could save Jack, let him have peace, but a question remained; Did Jack want peace? Or did he want to be like the Doctor watch the people around him grow old and die, have to suffer life as an immortal? Would it be fair to do that to him? The Ex Time Agent who lost two years of his life, the man who the Doctor men in the middle of a London blitz –thanks to Rose-, the man who died saving the world in the year 200,100, and the leader of Torchwood 3 in 2007.

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A/N: Editied slightly, as some errors were brought to my attention.

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