A/N: Afternoon folks! (Actually by the time you get any alerts it will probably be evening but hey, the thought was there.) Hope you are all well. I did promise that I would start posting this about now and as I'm half way through the third chapter now seemed as good a time an any.

Hope you are all well! This is the I think it's seventh in this series but the fifth of the major storylines. This follows on directly from "The Madness Inside" but I suppose you don;t have to have read it just remember that Rose is back from the parallel world and her and the Doctor have finally come to their senses. (It all started in "All that's left behind" if you're interested.)

Anyway, welcome back to my world, I hope you enjoy your stay and that you all love Donna in the new series! Has nothing to do with my story but it's still true!

Brother Jack

"If driving fast cars you like,

if low bars you like,

if old hymns you like,

or bare limbs you like,

if Mae West you like,

or me undressed you like;

why nobody will oppose."

Jack looked in his rearview mirror and waggled his eyebrows and Rose and Ianto.

"And every night the set that's smart is

indulging in Doctor's parties on the road,

Anything goes.

So though I'm not a great romancer,
I know that you're bound to answer when I propose,

Anything goes."

Rose giggled as Owen, Gwen and Tosh joined in over the speakers from the over SUV.

"One more time!" Owen's voice yelled.

"So though I'm not a great romancer,
I know that you're bound to answer when I propose,

Anything goes," the group chorused and Jack grinned from ear to ear.

"Um not to break up this party but has anyone else noticed that it seems to be getting lighter instead of darker. Now I realize it's been a while since I've spent any length of time outside in Cardiff but isn't it usually pitch black at," the Doctor checked the clock on the dashboard "ooo nine pm."

"He has a point Jack," Tosh agreed, "it's far too light. And it's getting lighter the closer we get to our destination."

"A side effect of the rift activity?" Gwen suggested.

"Doc?" Jack looked at the Time Lord.

"Must be, unless Cardiff has suddenly discovered its own mini sun."

"Not that I've heard of," Ianto quipped.

"Then the rift it is."

By the time they had reached the source of the activity it was so light outside it seemed to be the middle of the day.

"Well, daylight makes checking things out a whole lot easier," Owen commented as he got out of the driver's side of his SUV, "doesn't do much for my body clock though."

"Shh!" the Doctor held up his hand and frowned before walking towards the alleyway to their left.

"Doctor? That sounds like a crowd, no, a market, like we have back home," Rose told him.

"That's what I thought and if I'm not mistaken," he sniffed the air, "it's a meat market."

"There aren't any meat markets in this part of the city," Ianto informed them.

"Normally I'd agree, then I looked down there." He pointed through the passageway.

"Oh my god!" Rose stepped beside him. "That looks like…"

"I think it is." The Doctor started down the alleyway. "You lot coming or what?"

XxXxX

"What the hell is going on?" Gwen turned around as she walked through the streets. "It's like something out of a movie."

"It's London," Owen said, incredulously. "I mean old London, Victorian London. What's it doing in the middle of Cardiff?"

"And more to the point how can they not see us?" Ianto asked, waving at passers-by and getting no response.

The Doctor stopped and turned on the spot, frowning at his surroundings, he didn't see the girl running towards him.

"Sorry," she mumbled as she collided with the Time Lord, before running off without looking up.

"They're seeing him alright," Owen pointed out.

"Me too," Jack winked at some girls as he passed, earning some giggles of appreciation.

"So what's going on? I mean we've traveled in time before and the locals have always been able to see us," Rose looked up at the Doctor.

"But we haven't gone anywhere. We're still in 21st century Cardiff." He frowned and shook his head before walking over to one of the buildings and resting his ear against the wall.

"What can you hear?" Jack asked quietly.

"Nothing much." He pulled back with a frown. "But we definitely haven't traveled in time, time has traveled to us. A whole city shouldn't be able to travel through time. It doesn't make sense." The Doctor ran his fingers through his hair. "Think, think, think."

"Okay, well, how about an easier one? How can the locals see us but not the others?"

"We've been here before. We were alive when this happened in real time, we existed. Rose and the others didn't. They haven't even been born yet."

"Well neither have I. 51st century, remember?" Jack pointed out.

"No but you must've existed here at some point for a significant amount of time."

"I lived in Victorian Cardiff for a while. That's how I joined Torchwood. So we've got 19th century London in 21st century Cardiff, only two of us can be seen…"

A scream pierced through the sound of the hustle and bustle of the market.

"And a screaming woman," Owen finished.

"Ooo only taken three minutes, they obviously didn't know I was coming," the Doctor grumbled as they began to jog towards the quickly gathering crowd.

The Doctor suddenly felt a grip of panic as he saw the street sign, they were running past Spitalfields Market which could only mean they were about to enter…… "Rose stop!" the Doctor yelled. He grabbed her arm as she weaved her way through the crowd and pulled her short of the window. "You really don't want to look in there," he said gently, turning her to face him.

"What? Why?"

"Just trust me."

"What's going on?" Jack asked from beside him as the others battled their way to his side.

"This is Miller's Court, Dorset Street."

Jack blanched as he looked down at Rose and then at the broken window. "Stay here." Tentatively he moved to the broken glass, indicating for the others to stay well back. It only took a momentary glance to see what the Doctor feared Rose would see.

"Has anyone gone to fetch the police?" Jack called.

"My Master has gone to do so, Sir," a young, pale lad told him.

Jack nodded and reached through the broken pane to pull the makeshift curtain across, shielding the room from more prying eyes.

"There's nothing we can do here Doc, we can't change history."

"No, we just have to find a way of sending this place home before anyone else stumbles in, I don't want anyone else seeing that," the Doctor told him.

"Agreed."

"See what? What's going on?" Rose asked looking from her lover to her friend.

"Let's get out of here then I'll explain," the Doctor said.

He led everyone back towards the alleyway. "Ah." He stopped in his tracks and wiped his hand down his face.

"What?" Gwen asked.

"Notice anything amiss?"

Owen looked around. "Only the absence of our SUVs."

"Exactly. They don't exist."

"What about the TARDIS?" Jack asked.

The Doctor pulled out his Sonic Screwdriver and held it up. "Well there's a signal but it's faint. Like the SUVs, it's MIA."

"So we have no transport, no computers, no way of getting home and only you and Jack can see us. What do we do?" Tosh asked.

"We do things the old fashioned way. Brainpower and a Sonic Screwdriver." The Doctor turned to face them all. "I want you all to listen very carefully to every word I say. This place is dangerous. I don't want any one of you wandering off. The girls are never to be left without a man in the vicinity. Do you understand?"

It had started to drizzle and was becoming murkier by the moment. The Doctor hated these sorts of days in old London, everything seemed, dirtier and far more grim and sinister.

Rose frowned at him. "What danger? Doctor, what is it?"

"That bedsit we were at was where Mary Jane Kelly lived."

"The Mary Jane Kelly? As in cut to pieces Mary Jane Kelly?" Owen asked.

"Yes, thanks for that Doctor Harper. Jack the Ripper just killed his last victim known victim. Who's to say how many more there were. None of us should be here and in that respect we are easy targets."

"But no one can see us," Tosh pointed out.

"Well that's something working in our favour at present and I hope that it will continue, just don't wonder off. If you get lost Jack and I can't exactly ask around if no one can see you. Understood?"

"So what do we do first?" Rose asked.

"First? First we gather everything we can to surmise how the city got here."

XxXxX

The Doctor sighed in frustration. "There's so much energy but it's all residual and there's still no clue as to where it came from."

"Doc, it's getting dark and cold. In the absence of the TARDIS or our SUVs maybe we should find shelter," Jack suggested. The drizzle had turned to snow about half an hour ago and it had soaked through their clothes, much to the team's discomfort.

The Time Lord look round at his companions and noted the red noses and shivering. "Right, yes. Fantastic idea. Let's see if we can find a coaching house."

"Just a thought but, how exactly are we meant to pay for that? I've only got 21st century money," Owen pointed out.

"Owen, Owen, Owen. You still have a lot to learn about the Doctor." Jack grinned.

XxXxX

Rose wasn't sure what the Doctor had said to the landlord or what the psychic paper had shown but right now she didn't care.

The Doctor was crouched in front of the fireplace cursing the damp wood as he tried to light it with his Sonic Screwdriver.

"Is there anything it can't do?" she asked, shivering.

"Can't kill people with it." He looked round at her. "Rose you are going to catch your death. Get those wet clothes off and get under the blankets!" he ordered.

There was a knock at the door and Rose raised her eyebrow at the Doctor.

"Okay, reverse it. Get under the blanket then strip," he chuckled as she dived for the bed.

The knock came again.

"Hang on," the Doctor called making sure Rose was well hidden before he strode over and whipped the door open to reveal Jack and his very cold friends.

"We can't get the fire going," Owen explained.

The Doctor smiled and stepped out. "I'll just be a minute," he called to Rose, before leading them down the hallway.

As he stood pointing his Screwdriver at the fire place, his mind began to wander.

"'My hands are cold, my heart I do believe is colder still'," he said softly.

"What?" Jack stepped up beside him.

"Hmm? Oh nothing."

"So do you know who the real Jack the Ripper was?" Gwen asked, sounding a little excited as she sat herself beside the now lit fire, Tosh and Owen joining her.

"It's the one mystery that will always elude those who try to solve it."

"Do you even have an idea?" Tosh asked, rubbing her hands together.

"Oh I used to know."

"What do you mean 'used to'?" Jack asked, feeling a little wary of the Doctor's distance.

"Something's changed. Something in the air is different, there's a different feel to the universe."

"Should we be worried?" Ianto asked, stepping beside Jack.

"That someone's changed something in time? Yes, probably."

"That's not good," Owen sighed.

"Not good at all. Get some sleep if you can and remember, stick together, no wandering off. Got it?"

"Yes Sir," Jack assured him. "Go and see to Rose."

The Doctor sighed as Jack winked. He was trying to lighten the mood and the Doctor couldn't blame him for that. "Are you going to have enough space in here?"

"We'll manage. Now go!" The former Time Agent hurried him out of the door and shut him out. "Right. You girls can have the bed; me and the boys will bunk down on the floor.

"Why do they always get the comfortable spot?" Owen moaned.

"Oh stop being such a girl," Gwen grinned as she dodged over to the bed, out of his way.

XxXxX

Next time:

"Any closer to figuring out how they got here in the first place?"

"Actually I might be. Rose came up with a great theory."

"But?"

"But what?"

"That wasn't the end of that sentence."

"I just can't shake the feeling I'm missing something."

"Such as?"

"I don't know. I have a horrible feeling history has changed a little but I don't know how."

For a while there was nothing but a kind of static in Jack's head which he'd grown to understand happened when the connection was open and the Doctor was puzzling over something. But it was what he said next that made Jack shiver.

Coming soon:

Everyone around him stilled, never having heard him so venomous but he was on a roll. He was so furious with this child he couldn't help himself. "Do you really think you are the only person who's ever lost somebody? That you're the only person to hurt at the loss of your family? I had to destroy mine. I had to kill everyone I knew and loved; my entire planet. If anyone has a right to be insane, I think it's me." It was then that he paused, suddenly aware that the only person present who knew about his past was Jack

A/N: That's it for this week folks,. Fillers will be updated at the end of week it "Blink". God that was a brilliant episode. My childhood nightmares brought to life! Creepy. Anywho... where was I? Oh yes, not Barcelona unfortunately, that was about two years ago now, but I was at the end of this chapter. So please review! They make me happy! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeasssssssssssssssssssseee? Pretty please with banana's on top?