Some say the world will end in fire;
The Doctor stepped out of the TARDIS into the somewhat hated and dreary city of Cardiff and blinked in surprise at the man standing in front of him.
"Wilfred! Great to see you."
The older man clearly didn't recognise him and merely gazed back. Of course by this point the ever curious Amy Pond had followed him out (tailed by her faithful husband) and the Doctor cringed as he heard the loud American voice comment on her perpetual wardrobe choice of short skirts short and leggings.
"Well someone has been chasing some skirt. I'm Captain Jack Harkness and who are you?"
The Doctor had been so overjoyed to see his unofficially adopted father that he had not noticed the presence of Jack, or the other two surrounding the TARDIS, effectively locking it in place with some box like mechanisms. He should have guessed that if he came to charge the TARDIS in their time they would catch him, since left behind companions- even if they left- always seemed to want to talk to him.
"Knock it off Captain Cheesecake." Mickey turned to Amy, and Rory, and Amy looked at him. Mickey, Martha, Wilf and Jack followed her gaze.
"You didn't." Jack accuse him, caution evident in his eyes.
"Ah, yes I did. Obviously. Since you can see it."
"God, you still ramble on a bit." Martha said, almost laughing at him, except for the tense posture. Jack was about to complain to him when Mickey cut in.
"You could be the Emperor of the Daleks for all I care, where the hell is Rose?" Mickey clearly thought, since the last time he saw the Doctor he just got Rose back and she had declared her intentions to stay with him, that Rose would be there.
The Doctor had never been even remotely anxious to the thought of anything Rose's human ex-boyfriend, more commonly known as Ricky the Idiot, could do to him, but now this man was up on the Most Feared List with Jackie Tyler. Nowhere near that high though, maybe around Dalek level. They noticed his pale face and Martha moved to give him a hug and he didn't resist, causing her some worry.
"Who's Rose?" Amy asked, sealing his fate. He knew that Jack would hate him for two reasons over this; first, he loved Rose like a little sister and the idea that the Doctor had seemed to forget her like he had left Jack behind was salt on old wounds. Jack always understood how Martha could not like Rose, seeing as he was in love with the Doctor as well, and was usually put on the back-burner in favour of her, but he knew her and so realised she didn't know how much the Doctor loved her. Secondly, the Captain had always harboured a hope, however irrational, that Rose would be able to reverse his curse or everlasting life; no matter how many times the Doctor had told him otherwise. If Rose wasn't with the Doctor than he had no chance.
Jack stared at her for a moment before punching him in the face.