AN: i didn'twrite this chapter, i nicked it off of I've Lost My Profile Page, in her 'what if' story. read it, i really like it. so thank you xx

Chp 1 Explanations

Rose glanced out through the glass wall of Jack's office, flexing her fingers around the coffee mug in her hand. "I almost feel sorry for them."

Jack looked at her. "Why's that?"

"Stuck with a eight year old for the last twelve hours? I don't think anyone can last that long." She laughed, watching as the woman who'd introduced herself as Gwen waved her arms around and her daughter bent over in her chair laughing, one of the men in the room rolling his eyes and saying something that made Gwen glare at him.

"You kiddin'?They don't even pay each other this much attention; I'd be surprised if they let her leave!" Jack laughed, standing at her shoulder.

There was a pause and Rose sighed. "You can go ahead and ask, Jack."

"She's his, isn't she?" He asked, though it sounded more like a statement.

Rose nodded.

"Does he know?" Jack gave his own sigh when she shook her head. "Rose-"

"I couldn't, Jack." She broke in quietly. "I was going to, really, but... He lost everything once, Jack. His family, his world; I couldn't do it to him again." She turned to him, brown eyes wide. "I still feel horrible about it, but I had to."

Jack looked at her a minute before nodding. "Okay. I don't exactly like it, but fine. Too late to change it anyway. But does she know?" He nodded in the direction of the little girl who was currently being entertained by his team.

Rose smiled. "Yeah, actually. Figured it out on her own too." There was a note of pride in her voice. "I was in the middle of a story about the Autons - remember that one? - when she asked 'So is that how you and dad met?' I couldn't say anything for a minute, then..." She shrugged. "I said yeah, it was. Only four years old, too!"

"Hm." He smiled, allowing her a moment to her thoughts. "You do plan on telling him, right? You were right Rose, he has lost everything, but keeping her fr-"

"Jack Harkness!" Rose spun to face him, eyes flashing. "There isn't one moment I haven't thought about how to go though with this, telling the Doctor he's not quite as alone as he thought. Since I woke up, since we were nearly shaken to death coming through the Void and through the Rift, since we found the new TARDIS, since I first started using 'Your dad' instead of 'the Doctor' when I talked to her about him, before all that. To even think about not telling him that he has a daughter now - again if I remember him saying it - makes me sick."

Jack watched her, then smiled a little. "Just checking. You can be so twentieth century sometimes, Rosie." His eyes lit up suddenly. "So, when'd you two first..." He wiggled his eyebrows.

Rose fought against rolling her eyes. "Slept together? Was a little before you showed up; you heard about that whole fiasco about my dad, right?" He thought a minute then nodded, and she smirked. "The first time we had sex? A while after he regenerated. See, we ran into one of his old Companions at a school where, well, long story, but at the end of it all, Mickey asked to come along. For some stupid reason he agreed, but a few months later we fell into the other universe, and Mickey stayed there. A week or so after that, we were aiming for an Elvis concert and landed in London a few days before the coronation where this Wire lady was sucking everyones faces off through the telly. I was one of the ones that she got to. Don't know much between then and when the Doctor saved everyone, but as soon as we were back in the Vortex he...snogged me up against the console." She stopped, blushing.

Jack let out a laugh. "That's our Rose, twenty-something and still a blushing lady." She swatted him on the arm, a little smile on the edge of her lips. "And when you say 'first time', might that mean there were others?"

Just then the door swung open and said little girl ran in, eyes wide in wonder. "Mum, did you see?! They have a pterodactyl!"

Rose looked from her daughter to Jack, eyebrow raised. "I'd have to say I haven't, Andi."

"We even named her." Jack added, looking more than slightly smug. "It's Myf-"

Yet again, Jack was interrupted, this time by a loud alarm echoing through the Hub. At once, everyone snapped to attention, Andi taking a step closer to her mother. Jack's eyes hardened and he called out, "Tosh?"

"Something's trying to get in." The young woman called back, frowning. "But...not through the door or anything. The shields are keeping it off at the moment though."

Jack walked out the door, glancing at Ianto as he stepped toward him. "Yan, keep an eye on Andromida, would you? Rose, you're with me." Andi made to sneak off after her mother before Ianto stopped her and she pouted up at him. Through the door, they could hear Jack giving more orders until another set of alarms joined with the first.

Then Andi gasped.