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River opened her eyes and blinked she was sat in a room flashing computers and interfaces were all around. She reached instinctively for her gun, but found herself tied to the chair she was sat in, they had stuck duck-tape over her mouth her she wondered if they expected her to scream for help. She was wearing the same clothes as she had when she felt in the River, wet and plastered to her body, her hair was going to be a mess when she dried it. She did a quick mental plan of how she could best combat in this position. Then she heard muffled voices.
"But that can't be possible, can it?" said a man's voice.
"Well she's definitely at least part human. But..." the other person started.
"What?" the man asked.
"It looks more like human plus, we can't identify what it is though." They had her DNA. This was bad River thought, she might not be full time lord but a vile of her blood could still change the future of humanity and she definitely didn't want that kind of power in the hands of these maniacs. She pulled at her bonds, clenching her teeth in frustration. The chair clattered forward nearly knocking her off it. Still strapped to it she stayed still for a moment catching her breath and heard a door open behind her.
"So," said the man, he was wearing a trench coat that covered his whole body, she could see under the coat he was really quite good looking, but that wasn't what she was interested in right now. He walked round in front of her, an Asian women followed behind holding a necklace in one hand.
"Tosh," the man in the trench coat nodded to the lady to put the necklace on. She put it over her head River had no idea what she was doing, then she felt a prod at her mind she put up her telekinetic barrier not allowing them access to her thoughts. Tosh took it off. The trench coat guy looked at her,
"What?" he said sounding concerned.
"She's blocking her mind," Tosh said confused. The man looked back from her to River, stepping closer,
"Where did you learn to do that?" he said looking at River, twice as interested. She followed his every movement with her eyes like a cat about to pounce. He walked towards her and pulled the tape off, fast.
"Hello, Captain Jack Harkness." He said flirt-ily. She didn't respond just kept watching his face. "And you are?" he prompted realising she wasn't going to say anything. River looked around, she was on a base on earth she assumed judging by the language, and assuming these people didn't have time travel she was still in 2014. Did earth have alien contact yet?
"Amelia Williams," she said, lying easily, better safe than sorry she thought. Jack nodded to someone behind her back, she heard the whir of a computer. A picture of her mother suddenly flashed up on the screen in front of her.
"I'll ask you again, what is your name?" said Jack his voice testing. River kept her mouth shut if they had this kind of technology they could probably hack into the shadow proclamation's records, she didn't want to be sent back to prison just yet, she had a record of never getting caught so far and she wanted to keep it that way if only to spite the guards.
"Should I check her pockets," said a man's voice behind her. Jack nodded and she felt surprisingly soft hands feeling around her pockets. Jack stared as he pulled her sonic blaster out of her belt, then the square-ness gun out of her pocket and a knife out of her boot, before snapping off the vortex manipulator.
"Someone came prepared," said Jack raising his eyebrows as the man felt in her other pocket. He was gentle almost awkward him and Jack contrasted each other in such a strange way, she thought. The man pulled an envelope out of her pocket.
"Hey that's mine." She yelled panicking for a second.
"Dr. River Song," the man read off the front of the TARDIS blue envelope, then looked up at Jack who nodded slightly for him to open it.
"Don't touch that," River yelled. The man slit it open ignoring her.
"It's just co-ordinates," said the man disappointedly he read them out "Any idea how to read them Jack?"
"I don't know, Dr Song?" he said, frowning and looking at her. River just smirked at him. "Tosh have you got files on a doctor River Song?"
"Not on Earth but I'm expanding the search," River heard the whir of the computer, trying not to let the panic she was feeling show on her face. "Jack," Tosh sounded more scarred now, "did you say your friend was called Doctor?"
"Yes, why?"
"Come look at this." Jack shot River a strange look before walking behind Tosh to gaze at the computer screen. River wondered how much it said about her life, they wouldn't know all of it and she wasn't sure if she could tell them, what if the silence got hold of it, she hadn't stayed in prison that long to sell him out now.
Jack walked back towards her,
"You killed the Doctor?" he said his voice was flat almost defeated, unemotional.
"Yes," she said looking him straight in the eye unsure of how he was going to react. He walked over to her.
"Why?" his voice sounded helpless. River was lost for words, she was shocked by the question and didn't reply. Jack looked her in the eye. "You killed the Doctor." Jack sounded less shocked now and more, angry. River shut her eyes she didn't want to hear it again, she knew it wasn't true and yet in so many ways it was. "Tell me why?" said Jack suddenly lunging forward and grabbing her shoulders.
"It wasn't my fault." Said River calmly biting her lip and ignoring Jacks anguish she couldn't tell him, no matter what happened she couldn't tell him, it wasn't her secret to keep. Jack let go of her shoulders.
"How can you kill him and say it's not your fault." River didn't say anything, she was sure she had said too much already. Jack waited a few seconds before saying calmly "Ionto call UNIT please, I think Martha Jones would like a word with it."
"It?" said River sarcastically,
"You're not human Dr Song and therefore will not be treated as such," Jack replied formally in a way that automatically made River worried.
"How will I be treated then?" she asked keeping up her calm façade. Jack smiled at her but said nothing more he walked over to her pile of things.
"Tosh, put these in the archives please," he said continuing to walk out.
"You can't do that those are my things," River yelled at his retreating back, Jack turned slowly the cold smile still plastered on his face,
"If it's alien it's ours Dr Song," he said quoting the previous Torchwood motto before turning around to go out.
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