A.N. Hey everyone, I know I haven't really been on in a year, but I should be coming on a little more frequently now. I think I have it down right; write fanfiction for a series that doesn't follow a complete story line and make up my own conflicts. I'm trying not to turn this into a songfic, but I'll suggest some songs that might go along with certain parts some of the time. And don't think I have all the time in the world, it will take me some time to get more chapters out, I'm pretty busy you know.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Doctor, Jack Harkness, Martha Jones, Mickey Smith, Ianto Jones, and Gwen Copper. But I own Halyn Ilandere Evans.
P.S. Enjoy!
An alarm sounded. "This is a huge one Jack. It's nearly off the charts!"
"We got to go!" This was from Captain Jack Harkness, head of Torchwood Cardiff. It was in response to another rift spike. Almost everyone rushed out to the car and left.
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"Dang it! The art store didn't have any more waterproof paper left. Now I have to try another store! Let's see if this one has any." Grumbled a young girl. She had been out to various art supply stores for a while to get some more watercolor paper; but with no such luck.
Just as she was about to head in, a colorful, bright crack in the sky appeared to strike the ground. "What the…" was all she could say as the blinding light completely surrounded her. Then nothing.
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"Ah, right in the city, just great. This means more clean up now." Jack Harkness complained. "Now where did it land?"
"Right over there." This came from one of the newest additions to the team, Doctor Martha Jones. The others were Ianto Jones (of no relation to Martha Jones), Mickey Smith, and Gwen Cooper. They were in the middle of responding to an unusually large spike in rift activity. "It's some sort of container."
They were prepared for fighting for their lives and the lives of others against whatever came out it.
Jack went over to the container and found the hatch to open it. He jumped back in surprise; it was full of funky smelling trash. "Oh it's a trash pod. Some space ship must have sent it off and it came through the rift." No big deal, they've received plenty of trash pods before. But what they hadn't prepared for was the young girl lying on the ground right next to it.
"Great. There always has to be at least one person at the spot." Jack complained. He wasn't having a very good week, more weevils, another Hoix, and crazed aliens running about. He sighed, "Martha, examine the girl. Gwen and Mickey, help me load this trash up." And with that, the others obeyed, the trash pod loaded in the back of their vehicle.
After her examination, Martha reported, "She's alive, but has a ragged heartbeat. We need to take her back to the Hub; I can't do anything for her here."
Jack silently cursed the rift for the millionth time this century. "If we need to, we can administer to amnesia pill to her there." And with that, they loaded her as well into the now crowded car.
A little while later…
Ianto greeted them at the door with cups of hot coffee and, "The spike is over. That was quick, false alarm?"
"We have a problem." Gwen kindly replied.
"What sort of problem?" Ianto questioned.
"This is our problem." Replied Jack as he carried in the girl they had found to the examination section of the Hub. Martha rushed over as he laid her down and Gwen proceeded to go through the bag they found with her.
"Oh, a school identification card. That was easy. Ianto, search up Halyn Ilandere Evans." Gwen said as she gave the school card to Ianto. Martha began to examine her and took some blood samples.
"Halyn Ilandere Thornton, American, age 15, birth date November 2, born in England, and adopted." Ianto reported. Soon after he said that, Martha yelled out, "Jack! Get down here, we've got a problem."
"What? What happened?" Jack replied as he quickly came down.
"Look at the test results, and then you tell me." Martha replied as the others looked onward in surprise. He did, and he had an astonished look. He had the trash pod double and then triple checked, but they found nothing that could have caused them to be that way. Her heart rate was all over the place, and her blood looked like nothing he had ever seen before. And to top it all off, the girl seemed to be even be growing something inside of her. He was going to go with that something is messing with the DNA.
"We need the Doctor. I have never seen anything like this before and I don't want to do something that could harm her." Jack agreed with Martha. He has seen more of space than she has and has never seen anything like this before. Well, actually, he's seen plenty of things like it, but they would have happened already and she would mostly be dead. He could deal to have a child's life, or death, looming over his head when he has work, and possibly later, some fun at the bar.
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The Doctor sighed as he walked around the control panel in the center of the room. Another sigh, he was getting bored, down right bored. Even his brain the size of a planet had run out of things for him to do. And after what happened with his latest companion Donna Noble, he hadn't really liked the idea of looking around for a new one. He liked the company and all, no matter what quirks they had, but he really didn't feel like going through the, "Yes, it's bigger on the inside; yes aliens are real; yes the TARDIS can travel through time and space; yes there's an awful lot of running" kind of thing, again. And the TARDIS had had just about enough of it.
The TARDIS drained all the energy out of her, forcing the Doctor to land in Cardiff to refuel at the rift. Just then, as she was finishing up, a ringing came from the cell phone that Martha had left behind. It was startling, as it had only ever rung before. So he rushed over and answered it. "Hello?"
"Doctor, we need you down here at Torchwood in Cardiff." Martha replied.
"I'll be there." He replied. He never bothered to ask why she called or what it was about. Last time, the human race was almost turned into soldiers for another alien race, the Sontarans.
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"He's on his way." Martha informed Jack and the rest of the team who was currently all standing around Martha, eager to meet the Doctor.
"Well, look's like two will finally get the chance to meet the Doctor." Jack said, turning to Gwen and Ianto. "You might as well prepare, he goes into these frenzies of running around talking to himself." Martha couldn't help but smile at all those times, and there were plenty, of him running around something, talking to himself, and running his hand through his hair. It's a wonder he still even has any.
"So all we can do for now is sit and wait, but it shouldn't be long with the TARDIS, now should it." Jack said grinning at Martha. Gwen and Ianto looked at them as if they were sharing an inside joke they had yet to be let in own while Mickey went back to the computer. Of course, there are always exceptions to the rule.
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When Jack went back to check in on her, he noticed the young girl began to finally wake up. She was startled, blinking rapidly to get used to the lighting.
"Oh crap, what did I do this time." Was all she said
A.N. I hope you enjoyed it. Sorry for such a short chapter, but I started writing at school and I ended up turning one huge chapter into two or three chapters. I'll try to update as soon as I can. Please Review. Thank You!