Hi peeps! This is my first Doctor Who / Torchwood fanfic ever! I set my mind on that I wouldn`t try to write any fanfiction as I didn`t deem myself worthy of trying to write out the mannerisms of Capt Jack, or The Doctor. And as you can tell later I`m a bit hooked up on 10. Half way in my writing I saw that I had written the wrong Doctor! He couldn`t possible be there! XD hahaha. So I had to erase it. He still sounds like 10 though.
Rating: M
Warnings : Contains swearing in this chapter.
Spoilers: slight mentions For The end of time of Doctor Who.
Disclaimer: TW and DW does not belong to me. If they had, COE wouldn`t have ended like it did.
The Resurrection Casket
Six months Jack had traveled around earth until he gave up and left everything behind. the guilt hadn`t vanished, it would never fade away.
Jack had ended up in a bar trying to drown his sorrows and losses in drinks and strong alcohol. That is until the Doctor introduced him to Alonso Frame. Alonso was an ex midshipman on the cruiser Titanic. Ironically enough it had sunk just as the original. Ending up with the Doctor saving the day.
Jack had found himself attracted to Alonso, well yeah not a big surprise really when it came down to him. Still he was back to square one, after the change, Before Ianto had made him a better man. Before everything went straight to hell.
Jack had pushed Alonso away after their first encounter, but the younger man just kept following his tail wherever Jack chose to go. Jack tired long ago to tell Alonso off. The Doctor really knew how to pick em.
Now the odd pair were couped up in a small cabin of a cruiser, waiting to take them to the planet Avalon where Jack knew there was some Alien technology he could apprehend and sell to the highest alien bidder.
Jack was back as a conman, the only lifestyle he knew other than Torchwood.
"Jack I have been thinking..." Alonso began, a nervous pitch in his tiny voice. How old was he now again? Jack thought, still staring out the window he had been standing infront of for atleast 2 hours straight. He must be in Iantos age. But Ianto had seemed so much older that he truly had been. Jack closed his eyes and blinked away a tear.
" Jack!"
"WHAT!" Jack snapped, still not looking back at Alonso.
Alonso scrunched his nose, murmuring under his breath. He hadn`t learned yet that you never interrupt Jack while he wanted to think. Normaly Jack would be outside. On this cruiser Jack couldn`t go as high as he wanted, back on earth he would search out the highest building and just stand there. Watching. Waiting? Waiting for the Doctor maybe. Not even Jack knew for sure why he did things anymore.
Alonso broke through Jacks thoughts abruptly.
" Why do you go through this trouble anyway? We could get a decent job you know. And not risk our necks."
" The story of my life." Jack just said, leaving it hanging openly for Alonso to figure out the meaning himself.
Something didn`t feel quite right. Jack stirred, turning around to face Alonso and the rest of the small confinement that was their room. " Did you hear that?" Jack whispered, drawing his webley from it`s holster by his hip. Alonso shook his head, believing that Jack had finally snapped and heard things in his head more than normal. Jack ignored the blue-eyed boy, grabbing his RAF greatcoat from an armchair and headed for the door.
" Jack! You are coming back right?" Alonso sounded frightened now, but surely not for what Jack possibly could have heard. More for the fact that Jack could leave him behind on any given opportunity. Jack glanced back, meeting Alonsos gaze. " I always do." With that he fled out the door, shutting it with a loud bang behind him. Leaving Alonso all by himself.
Jack started running down the many halls within the ship, his webley still clutched in his right hand ready to fire if he deemed it necessary. He froze, hearing that awkward sound he had overheard in his room before. The whirring of engines, or brakes beeing screeched against bonds. Jack recognised this sound. One single word flooded Jack´s mind. The TARDIS. The Doctor was here! Of all places in time and space, he was here!
Jack started running again, this time following the distinct sound of the TARDIS materializing somewhere onboard. Jack rounded a corner almost knocking over a thin man in the process. "Oi! See where you`re going!" The man shouted with a yell voice. Jack jumped back, startled. The man before him brushed off his tweed jacket mumbling. Wait man? He looked no more then twenty from where Jack was standing. The boy had dark brown hair, his bangs almost falling down over his right eye. He was dressed in a light coloured tweed jacket, and a pink shirt with a bowtie. Not the attire Jack found attractive. But it fit the boy nicely in all the right places.
" I`m sorry, I`m looking for someone." Jack started to push past the boy but found himself instead pulled back by a hand. " You`re not staying to say hi to an old friend, Jack?" Jack frowned, but stilled. " I can`t recall I know you, kid. You`re far too young for me."
The boy chuckled, letting go of Jacks arm. He reached inside his tweed jacket and held up a long object that looked like a thick metal pencil. " I`ll take that as a compliment."
Jack gasped. " DOCTOR!" Jack threw his arms around the surprised Doctor who seemed a bit manhandled in his bearhug. " Yes yes, Of course I am Jack. Though I could need some air..." Jack pulled back, letting the Doctor go with some reluctant.
" You re-generated! God, do you get younger each time? What`s with that? "
The Doctor simply smiled and wiggled his Sonic screwdriver infront of Jacks nose. " A Time Lord never tells. " He winked, stashing his sonic screwdriver safely away again inside his jacket. Jack couldn`t help winking back, flirting was in his nature after all, and this new regeneration wasn`t looking half bad.
"And stow away that gun of yours before you hurt anyone." The Doctor grumped looking disapprovingly at the Webley still clutched in Jacks hand. With a hint of guilt on his face, Jack slid it back down its holster again.
" Oh yes!" The Doctor exclaimed suddenly, making Jack jump from his spot."I almost forgot why I came here! Come with me!" Again he grabbed Jack by the arm, this time dragging him with him to a dark sideroom where Jack could se The TARDIS was parked. Not a good hiding spot, but the Doctor got away with it almost every single time for some odd reason. Perception filters maybe? Jack had to ask him sometime. The Doctor unlocked the TARDIS doors, still holding onto Jack who did not complain at all and rushed in with him in tow.
" I know I didn`t tell you anything the last time I saw you, I was in a bit of a hurry mind you. So I had to make this extra trip." The Doctor left Jack standing in the open doorway, jumping up to the control panel, flicking a switch.
Jack raised an eyebrow, folding his arms to his chest. " What didn`t you tell me, besides Alonsos name that is? " The TARDIS doors flew shut behind him as he spoke.
And as the loud bang echoed around them a shrill cry resoluted around the walls alarming Jack who swiftly drew his Webley ready to shoot whatever threatened the Doctor.
"Get that gun away Jack! What have I told you about that? " The Doctor raised an angry eyebrow at Jack whilst jumping down from the controls to run towards a hidden room . Jack did what he was told but still was on his guard. You never knew around the Doctor.
Jack waited and waited. Still no sign after the Time Lord. But the cry had stopped minutes ago leaving a deadly silence in the ship. Jack moved, heading to the controls, ghosting his hand over the hundreds of buttons,and levers, mumbling soothing forgotten words to it.
" Missed me girl? " Jack whispered, getting a whirring sound in response. " Oi, stop flirting with MY TARDIS, Harkness." Jack´s head flew back, gazing towards the Doctor standing at his side, holding a bundle of...blankets? Blankets who moved...and giggled.
"What`s that?"
" A present. Well..kind of. "
The Doctor held the bundle of blankets out for Jack who seemed hesitant but took them in his arms anyhow. He folded away some of the blankets, revealing the content. Inside those blankets lay a small humanlooking infant. Fair skin, dark hair and clear blue eyes staring back at his own.
"A baby? What the hell Doctor? "
" Isn`t he cute?" The Doctor said, making stupid babynoises while he tickeled the infant. Jack rolled his eyes. " Yes. Now to the point Doctor. Why am I holding a baby? And who`s baby is it? I hope it`s not yours. " A hint of jelousy flashed in Jack´s eyes.
" No no no! he`s not mine. He`s...uh. Ever heard of the resurrection casket?"
"No. enlighten me."
And the Doctor began. He told Jack about the time he traveled with rose and they found the treasure of a long forgotten pirate. How a man had killed his cheating wife for what he had believed was a right thing to do. And how this same man wanted to bring her back to him. That man was in the search of the resurrection casket, but the name had fooled him. It didn`t bring back the dead. No. It made them young again. Born again in a way. But the mans wife had been reduced to bones and dust, not quite the material for the casket to work with.
Jack stopped the Doctor before he could finish his story. " So why are you telling me this? Who is this? " Jack looked down at the small happy face of the baby in his arms. The Doctor grinned. " You don`t recognise those eyes Jack? I thought you never forgot something like that. Maybe you`re getting old."
Jack scowled at him, gazing deep into the pools of the babys eyes, trying to remember where he had seen them before. Because they were in fact familiar. Blue..blue..sparkling blue. His eyes widened with realisation and Jack`s heart skipped a beat. It couldn`t be.
" Ianto?"
The baby coed in response. Trying to reach for Jack`s long bangs. Scrunching his little nose as driplets of salty tears splashed down on his face. Jack was crying. Unable to stop his emotions from overflowing, Jack pushed the baby back into the arms of the confused Doctor. " You have no right!" Jack yelled, furiously clenching and unclenching his fists to his sides. "You could have saved him! Instead...Instead you do this! Do you hate me that much Doctor? For what I am? A fixed point in time that you despise." Jack couldn`t stop himself. All the anger he had bottled up for the past months came up all at once, spitted right into the face of the one he regarded high above all others. The Doctor was taken back, staring with eyes round as sourcers at Jack as he hadn`t seen him before in his life. "I don`t despise you..what are you talking about Jack?" The Doctor finally said trying to soothe him before he scared the baby into tears.
" You must do, Because that Ianto there, he won`t know what we had when he grows up will he, Doctor? " The Doctor didn`t reply, his eyes shifted down to the baby instead. " I knew it. Everything we had is lost. My Ianto is dead. " The last came out between Jack`s clenched lips with an icy chill. He turned to leave but the Doctor stopped him.
" He needs you Jack. And you need him. He never gave up on you." The Doctor held out the bundle towards Jack. " Give him a new start."
Jack cringed. He hated the Doctor for bringing guilt upon him, for doing something like this to him. He had..loved? Ianto. He shook his head. There had been feelings for Ianto but he could never let himself love anyone again. They all died in the end. Then Ianto had told Jack he loved him when he died in Jack´s arms. Jack had simply shaken his head and told him not to. What was there to love? An immortal man that was broken in so many ways? And couldn`t age and die with those he wanted to protect? Those he failed to protect Jack corrected. And now the Doctor had brought Ianto back from the dead, not as the man Jack had cherished, but as a child, a baby who never met him or had been in the hardships his grown-up self had. Maybe..that was what Ianto needed. Jack thought. A new beginning, no lisa, no Torchwood. He was about to think "And no Jack", but he decided not to. It was his responsibility to see to it that Ianto got what he really deserved. A life with joy and happiness. Jack extended his arms and grabbed the little bundle of blankets from the Doctor. " I`ll take him. But I won`t forgive you for this."
" I didn`t expect you to. "
The sound of the TARDIS de-materalizing behind Jack as he strode back to his quarters echoed in the halls. Just now did it all dawn on him. What the hell was he going to do with a baby? It wasn`t like he didn`t have had any kids before, but he had never been the one taking care of them. He contemplated going back to earth to find Gwen and get her to help him, but he decided against it as she was right about now occupied with her own bundle of joy with Rhys. She would kill Jack for leaving in the first place and then kill him again for bringing with him a baby. And how was he going to explain all this to Alonso?
" This is Ianto, my dead lover and now resurrected as a newborn? " Jack shook his head. That would end him in most circumstances with a slap against his face. Well..he had wanted to end this fixed relationship a while now. Maybe it was time.
Alonso greeted him with a big smile on his face as Jack entered the room. He had been crying, Jack could tell from the damp streaks on his cheeks and his red puffy eyes. Jack must have been gone a long while to make him worry so.
" I thought you left me." Alonso whispered. He hadn`t noticed the bundle yet.
" I said I would be back, didn`t I? " Jack retorted quite annoyed by Alonsos clinging. He was like a child, afraid of his parent leaving him behind. Jack wondered if Ianto had looked at Jack as a burden at times. In those fleeting moments when Jack closed in on himself. Not letting any emotion show. Shutting everyone and Ianto out.
Ianto mewled in Jacks arms wanting attention from the man. Alonso jumped, fright highlighting his blue eyes. " It`s just a baby, calm down." Jack ignored him, instead he turned his attention to Ianto, talking softly to him in welsh. Or atleast the few words Jack knew in welsh that is. Ianto giggled at him, grabbing hold of Jacks thumb with his little hand.
"He`s yours?" Alonso frowned, a pang of jelousy flashing over him.
" No stupid. He`s..uh.." Jack hadn`t thought about what he would say. He couldn`t tell the truth after all. What could you say that sounded sane? " He`s the Doctors." well. It wasn`t really a lie.
Alonso gasped. His mouth hanging a gap. " The Doctors? you met him! But why the kid?" Jack shrugged, making up possible stories in his head to convince Alonso with. " Too dangerous for a small kid like this to travel with him. Asked me a favor. So I said yes." Alonso went quiet but seemed like he had believed every word Jack had just said. The 21st century Jack would have felt guilty for lying but this Jack didn`t care.
The old conman Jack was back after all.
TBC...
Going to keep this story short ( I hope XD ) because otherwise I`ll just get empty on ideas for it.
I want to finish it after all.
;) Hope you review!
