When Doctor meets Torchwood
Chapter 1: Enter
Author's Note: Unedited and not checked for accuracy. Only up for storyline. Many parts of it aren't good at all, but only because I'm not going to comb over it. You could say this is Raw at its most Raw.
If you don't like it, flame me and go.
Disclaimer: Not mine, but I want to work with them one day.
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"Come on," Captain Jack Harkness tried to convince him.
"It'll be interesting!" Martha Jones put in.
"Oh." The Doctor paused for a second, then let out a breath. "Oh, alright."
Jack grinned. "Knew you'd come around. Follow me."
He began to lead the way to where Torchwood's entrance was even as Martha looked around interestedly and the Doctor looked around a bit doubtfully.
"Ianto!" Jack called as he swept in the door.
There was the sound of someone breaking things and then Iwanto appeared from the back, hastily. He stopped and stared at the Captain.
"Jack!" His voice was surprised.
Ianto's eyes trailed onto the Doctor and Martha. They were questioning now but Jack merely raised his eyebrows as Ianto turned back to him.
"Hello." Said the Doctor cheerfully, waving at him. "How are you?"
Ianto seemed not to know what to say.
"Um, I'll go fetch the others, then."
"No need! We're following you downstairs!" The Doctor continued cheerfully. "Entering enemy headquarters!"
"It is not enemy headquarters." Jack retorted.
Martha sighed as they followed Ianto downstairs.
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Gwen Cooper looked up from her work as Ianto entered the door which was rolling open, its lights flashing.
"Jack?"
She stood up and ran down the stairs as Owen and Toshiko also looked up from their work, and seeing the Captain, also lurched to their feet and ran down to meet him.
"Jack! Where have you been? You've been gone for two days!"
"Needed to go help some friends." Jack replied casually, gesturing the Doctor and Martha who had come in behind him.
The Torchwood gang looked at them curiously.
"Hello." The Doctor grinned again, waggling his fingers once more.
"Hi." Martha smiled a little nervously, waving also.
"Ah, introductions." Jack began and motioned to each person as he said their name.
"Gwen Cooper, Toshiko Sato, Owen Harper and Ianto Jones. All of Torchwood."
Then he turned the other way. "The Doctor and Martha Jones."
"Doctor?" Owen asked. "Doctor… who?"
"Uh, just 'The Doctor'," The Doctor said, coming in further and looking around.
"Mm, you have a nice place here, Captain." His eyes stopped on an object. "Oh! Is that what I think it is?"
He dashed up, past the Torchwood crew and over to the Rift Machine, Martha and the Captain following closely and the Torchwood people trailing.
"It is!" The Doctor though for a while, then his eyebrows shot up. "Captain, you've been using this …thing… this contraption-thing haven't you?"
Jack's gaze swiveled over to the Torchwood crew who looked around guiltily.
The Doctor glanced at them and continued, "Martha! Remember when I told you the Rift's been active lately on our pit-stop before Jack kindly joined us?"
"Yeah?" That had been a year ago for her, but she did remember it.
"Oh. It was from this machine?"
"Mmn, we got here a bit late." He raised his eyebrows at Jack. "I wonder what trouble you got to before I came here."
"Excuse me." Toshiko finally interrupted. "Who are you?"
"Uh, I thought we did the introductions."
"That's not what I meant."
"Well..." The Doctor looked around for a second. "It doesn't really matter."
His eyes lighted upon something else and he bounded away before anyone else could say anything. It seemed The Doctor had made himself the 'leader' today.
"Oh, look at this stuff. All this alien technology." He grinned in recognition, then turned and frowned at Jack. "Where'd you get all this stuff?"
"Mostly fallen from the sky from alien ships." Jack explained, going over.
"You're an alien expert then?" Gwen asked, from their earlier conversation.
The Doctor looked up. "Er, not exactly." His eyes flickered over to Jack as Martha grinned behind them.
"The Doctor's an alien." Jack said, matter-of-fact, to his team.
They blinked at him.
"He's an alien? But he looks human!" Toshiko exclaimed.
Ianto didn't say anything.
"Mm, news for you." The Doctor muttered between the various odds and ends of equipment in his mouth and continuing to rummage through the stuff. "He's one too, mind."
"What?"
The team of Torchwood stared at the Doctor in confusion, not quite comprehending.
"You never told 'em?" The Doctor muttered to Jack again.
Jack shrugged.
"Do they do this often?" Gwen glanced at Martha. "And are you an alien too?"
"Welcome to my world." Martha said, grinning. "And no, I'm a human – as human as they come."
"Why do you have this with you?" The Doctor muttered, holding something up to Jack.
"We only found it." Jack defended himself.
"Well it's dangerous. I don't want you playing around with dangerous toys."
"That's what I'm here to do!"
"Yeah, well this is like that Vortex Manipulator – temptation." He pulled out the Sonic screwdriver and buzzed at it for a second. "Speaking of which – you shouldn't have played with the… what's it called? Uhr… Resurrection Gauntlet?"
He twirled the sonic screwdriver in his hand for a minute. "Still prefer sonic to laser."
"Hey." Toshiko broke in. "If you're an alien, can you read alien languages?"
"Uhm, sure. Not the really old ones, mind, but the fairly newer ones I'm sure the TARDIS will be perfectly able to translate."
"Even if it's a picture?" She sounded confused and a little doubtful.
"Ye-up."
She led them back over to the workstations and opened a folder which contained images of writing.
"I just can't crack it."
She clicked on one and opened it. The Torchwood Institute people stared openly at the perfectly understandable text on the screen now.
"Er, you'd better copy that down. The picture hasn't changed; it's just translated so you can read it. You won't be able to understand it when I'm gone." The Doctor advised while standing, arms folded, and looking at the screen.
Ianto ran off to get some paper and Owen fetched a pen. Tosh scribbled down the text quickly to look over later.
"Hang on." The Doctor whipped out a pair of glasses, jamming them on his nose and peering at the words. "Hmm…."
"Doctor?" Martha glanced at him questioningly.
"Uh…. I dunno…" He straightened again, to look at Jack as suddenly an alarm went off.
"Guys!" Jack directed. "To the SVU!"
He paused and frowned. "To the cars, anyway. There's work to be done."
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Author's Note: There you go. RAW.
