A/N: This is a shameless Mary/Gary Sue. The only guarantee is that it will be better than Twilight. Takes place between "Journey's End" and "The Next Doctor." DON'T JUDGE ME!!! :P

The Salvation Stone

"OK, one more! Pretend you've spotted the pterodactyl."

Frank obliged Alice with an open mouthed smile of horror while he held his hands up to frame his face in mock shock. Alice snapped the picture giggling merrily as he changed the pose up to pointing into the sky.

"You have got to let me see those, lover," Frank said when he was done being posing. Alice put the camera on slideshow and handed it to her friend. Finally after 3 months of studying in London the two young Americans had finally been able to put aside a day in their theatre studies for a trip to Cardiff. They had been able to find their way with only minimal "adventures" as they searched for the bay area that was used as the fictional location of the Torchwood hub. It had been a blast picking out all the tiny details that the two had gleaned from their almost obsessive watching of Doctor Who and Torchwood.

Frank laughed as he looked at the pictures they had taken with his camera.

"Alright now your turn, pretend you're looking for the TARDIS. Alice struck her best "where the hell is it?" pose as Frank snapped away. When the two had finally exhausted all the ideas they had before the pictures were to wind up on Facebook, Frank and Alice walked to the edge of the bay to simply enjoy the view of the water. Their time in England was quickly coming to a close, one more month and then it would be back to humdrum St. Paul to finish the year and graduation in the spring. In the three months that had passed already in their spare time Frank and Alice had spent as much time as possible sightseeing all the historical inches (and honestly what part of England was historical), Oxford, Stratford-on-Avon, spent probably a week searching London alone, and were only now being true nerds and checking out the Doctor Who sights, Cardiff being top on the list. After taking a few more shots with each other, this time more "normal" for the two it was unanimously agreed upon that is was time to hit up some local Welsh cuisine (if you could call it that – if the saying had any truth, the cooks in heaven HAD to be French).

Alice hooked her arm through Frank's as the two headed in a randomly chosen direction deciding that the first place they saw that was a local eatery no matter what it served would be where their appetites would be satiated. Looking through the pictures one more time and laughing at all the things they were going to be able to tell their friends about, the two hardly noticed the bright white light that appeared above their heads. As Frank scrolled through the pictures though, the camera began to fizzle. "What's wrong," asked Alice, peering at the oddly flickering screen. "No clue." Frank shook the camera and started fiddling with the buttons. Neither was paying any attention as the light grew stronger and stronger, until finally it reflected off of the camera's now dead screen back into their eyes blinding them for a moment before disappearing completely.

"What the heck was that," Frank exclaimed? "I swear, this place has weirder weather then anywhere in the Midwest." Frank continued fiddling with his camera trying to figure out the problem, but Alice had discovered a whole new problem. She dropped his arm and wandered a few steps trying to reclaim her voice as Frank continued to mumble insults at the now defunct camera.

"Frank…"

"I paid good money for this, there's no reason for it not to be working!"

"Frank."

"I hope the warranty is still good for this thing, will the SD card be ok? If it is it's not so bad if the camera - "

"FRANK!"

"What?!" Frank looked up and got his answer. Where buildings had once been, forests now stood, open fields of grass, turning around, a beach with waves gently lapping at the shore where moments before had been a railed dock. Frank dropped the camera, its malfunctioning completely forgotten as he stumbled towards Alice, at a loss for words. The two looked around in total shock.

"Where are we?" Alice whispered.