Within that very week, I was fully able to touch everything and everyone everywhere. The only thing I needed to do was regenerate and I'd be good as new.

Jack and I became like two peas in a pod. He was like a crazy uncle to me. He always got really excited and genuinely happy for me when I showed him I could touch something. He would always say goodnight to me and greet me in the morning with a cup of coffee, even though I didn't need sustenance. Instead of computers, he put me under Ianto as a floater. I could really do whatever anyone need, but mostly I brought coffee to everybody. I didn't mind, though. It was nice chatting with everybody.

Jack said we were having a VIP visitor within in the week. We were all very curious as to who it was.

Owen and Toshiko came back with a body after hunting down a Weevil. He didn't have any signs of mutilation or severed limbs, so the Weevil obviously didn't kill it.

"Jack, your VIP visitor has arrived," Ianto's voice said over the loud speaker.

My eyes lit up and I smiled. I walked over from the autopsy room's railing over towards the door where everyone followed, anxious to meet the mystery person.

The door opened to reveal Martha Jones and Ianto behind her.

"Ms. Martha Jones," Jack said, smiling.

They embraced and she said, "Oh, it's good to see you Jack!"

"Toshiko, Owen, Gwen, Ianto, Addy," Jack said, "this is Martha Jones."

"Just a casual visit, or…?" Owen asked.

"I'm here to complete your post-mortem," she said.

Owen looked really confused.

"Dr. Jones is from UNIT," Jack explained.

We followed Martha and Owen to the autopsy room. She started getting her equipment ready. Owen looked rather jealous of her.

"Wait, which one's UNIT?" Gwen asked. "I get confused."

"Red caps, always carrying around guns…" I said. "They're like an alien military focused more on intelligence than finding things."

"There's nothing connecting the victims other than all their deaths," Martha said. "They all died of toxic shock, but they're all different ages, races, genders, occupations… But there was a significant concentration in South Wales."

"Come on Martha, be honest," Jack said. "You came all this way just to see me."

"Still struggling to hide your shyness, Jack?" she asked.

Jack laughed.

"So what about this pattern then, Dr. Jones?" Owen asked.

"They were being written off as suicides or accidents," she said. She opened the man's eye and said, "Look. Puncture mark. Hypodermic needle. His bloodstream was pumped full of ammonium hydroxide."

I shivered. "Eww… A bunch of people getting stabbed in the eye by a psycho with a needle," I said.

"Have you checked his medical records?" Martha asked.

"No, I was just about to," Owen stabbed.

"Ok, then," she said. "Let's give it a go. You never know, Owen. You might learn something."

Owen did not look happy. Jack met his eyes, and then Jack met mine. We both snickered. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Owen roll his eyes.

He then entered the man named Meredith Roberts into the database to check for medical records, but there were no files.

Toshiko said there was a crash in the system not long ago, but that would explain why the files were deleted.

"This is deliberate," she said. "Let me look into it."

So everyone left Toshiko to work her computer magic. Jack and Martha started chatting away and catching up.

Gwen pulled me aside. "Do you know her?" she asked.

I nodded. "I've met her before, but she wouldn't recognize me. I was wearing a disguise."

"How does she know Jack?" she asked.

"They both traveled with my dad for a while," I said. "But that was when he was a different man. Jack and Martha never traveled with him when I was around."

Jack and Martha stepped out. "I'm going to give Dr. Jones a tour if you want to come along, ladies," he said.

"Sure," Gwen and I said.

I followed Jack while Martha and Gwen started talking about him. Jack looked annoyed. I laughed and said, "It's only natural. They're women."

"I'll never get that about you," he said. "It's like whenever a man comes into the equation; suddenly everyone is gossiping and creating drama."

"Well, you can't help it," I said. "And it's not just any man, you are pretty cool."

He smiled. "Why thank you, Miss Addy. You're pretty cool yourself."

I rolled my eyes. "Sure."

"Oi!" he called over to them. "You talking about me?"

"No, no," Gwen lied. "We were just discussing alien flora, weren't we?"

"Oh yeah," Martha joined in.

Jack and I looked at each other. I smirked and elbowed him. He continued walking after rolling his eyes at me.

"So…" I heard Martha say next to me. "You're Addy, right?"

"Yep!" I said.

"How do you know Jack? You two seem close," she said.

"Well, my dad is the Doctor and so when I came into some problems, he dropped me off here to get some help from the Torchwood team," I said.

She looked taken a back. "Wait… Your dad is the doctor?!"

I nodded. "Yeah," I said.

"Wow," she said. "I'm glad he finally found someone and settled down."

I laughed. "No, he'll never settle," I said. "He still travels all around."

"With your Mum, I presume?" she asked.

I shook my head. "No, she died," I said. "But she doesn't know that yet."

"Oh," she said. "I'm sorry."

"It's alright," I said. "It was a long time ago. Anyway… I don't think you know this, but I did meet you before."

"You did?" she asked. "When?"

"You were with my dad when he was human," I said. "I was the one who stole the watch."

She looked at me for a long while. "You know, your face is really familiar… But the one who took it was a boy."

"Yeah, I was wearing a perception filter," I said. "And my face is that of Sister of Mine. It's a really long story- you should have Jack tell it sometime- but things happened and she's kinda me, but I'm not evil or anything."

"Ok, then…" she said. "I think I just might have Jack explain it."

Jack finished the tour and Owen tried showing off to Martha by trying to use the Singularity Scalpel and miserably failing. He almost killed Ianto in the process and was not very friendly towards Owen for the next couple hours.

Gwen and I burst out laughing.

Ianto came over to Jack and said, "Jack. There's been another attack. Assault with a hypodermic needle. But this time, the victim survived. Woman, age twenty-seven, she's in the hospital. Medical records wiped, just like the others."

Jack started running to get his coat and everyone went into motion. I ran over to Jack. This was the first big thing that'd happened since I'd been there. I didn't know if I was allowed to go or not.

"Jack, can I come?" I asked.

"Of course," he said. "Just don't do anything stupid."

I started doing a happy dance, and then realized everyone was waiting for me at the elevator. I ran over and we all piled into the car.


The woman's name was Marie and she was very shaken up. Martha got a blood test and a mouth swab from her. Gwen started reviewing what happened with Marie.

What happened was a man she'd never seen before ran towards here with a huge needle, her dog bit him, and she kicked him in a very sensitive spot for the male gender.

After all that, we piled back into the car and went back to the Hub. I really didn't even need to come in the first place. I didn't do anything at all.

Owen and Martha worked flawlessly together in reviewing Marie's samples and tests. It was like watching two machines working perfectly in synch. Even though I wasn't allowed in their place of work, I watched outside the door.

When Jack called a meeting and they'd finished their findings, it turns out the ammonium hydroxide was to kill and destroy evidence in the victim's bloodstream.

"Gwen, Ianto, pursue the criminal investigation,' Jack ordered. "Martha and Owen will follow up on the medical side. Tosh, any luck in retrieving the medical records?"

"Not yet," she said. "I'm going to have to dig down into the system memories, and see if I can find and remnants of deleted or temporary files. Completely illegally, of course…"

"Do what you have to do," Jack said. "We're not dealing with a freak with some needle fetish, this is a conspiracy." He was looking at me when he said that.


Later that day, another body was found in Heath Park. Gwen and Ianto were on it. It was a male this time, early twenties, named Barry Leonard. He had a puncture mark on his eye like all the other victims.

Then, Marie had some sort of seizure at the hospital. I was stuck at the Hub because Jack didn't allow me to go.

"If these people had their medical records wiped, they could be carrying some sort of disease," he said. "I can't have you dying on me. The Doctor would never forgive me."

I groaned and rolled my eyes. I seriously doubted some human disease could kill a Time Lord like me. Though, he did have a point. If I died while regenerating, I wouldn't come back ever and that would be extremely bad.

They came back with a lot of evidence. Since everyone else was busy, they shared their findings with only me.

On the screen in the room was some sort of bug, big and creepy-looking.

"It's an alien larva incubating in human bodies," Martha explained.

"Never seen anything like it," Owen added. "So, it left Marie's body when she died, presumably looking for another host for its next stage of development."

"Which could have been us…" Martha said.

"Yeah…" he said. "Fortunately, when they didn't find one quickly, they died."

"I wonder what this cute little larva grows up to be…" Martha wondered aloud.

Late that night, when everybody was around, they shared the evidence with everyone. The parasite drug was called Reset. What it did was basically the name; it reset the body of its host to its norm, getting rid of any and all diseases and ailments. It was like a virus scanner for the human body. Yes, this was a great medical find, except…

"It comes bundled with a lethal alien parasite," Martha said.

"Ah!" Jack said. "Not so good a discovery."

"The parasite needs a healthy body until it's incubated," she began again. "The parasite egg incorporates this magic bullet, which puts everything in the system back to its factory settings."

"Reset, neat-o," Jack said sarcastically. "So, who runs the Pharm?"

"Well," Ianto said. "The public image is innocent enough. Private public partnership between the government and a consortium of pharmaceutical companies. Researching and developing cutting-edge biotechnology…" He went on and on describing all their achievements that sounded like BLAHBLAHBLAH to me.

Toshiko also added that they had way too advanced security systems than they need.

"Meaning they could delete medical records if they wanted to," Martha said.

"Exactly," Toshiko said.

"Who runs this?" Jack asked.

"The Institute Director is Dr. Aaron Copley," Gwen supplied.

Owen pulled up a picture of a squinty old man on the screen. "Yep, know his work," he said. "He's one of the most respected research scientists in his field."

Ianto listed all his degrees and occupations, which were all outstanding.

"Think he'll like visitors?" Jack asked.

So Jack and Owen headed out to the Pharm to investigate Copley the next day. They came back empty handed.

Toshiko kept trying to hack into the systems, but nothing was working. Then, Ianto sent her something and called us all over.

"They're in the market for volunteers!" she said.

"Then one of us goes in undercover," Gwen proposed.

"No, we don't know enough about the workings of the place," Jack said. "Too many things could go wrong."

"Unless you put a medic in there," Martha said. "Someone who knew what to look for."

"Yeah, but I can't do it. They know me now, don't they?" Owen said.

"I don't think she was suggesting you…" I said.

"Exactly," Martha said.

"No way," Jack denied quickly.

"Come on, Jack!" she said. "You know I've been in worse places."

There was a long moment of silence as Jack thought it through. "Okay," he finally agreed.

And that was that.


Ianto had me research the Pharm's building layout. I gave them to Ianto who gave them to Martha in preparation for her upcoming mission.

Toshiko got her a fake ID, claiming she was Samantha Jones. Because the Pharm could be wired up, communication with the Hub was going to be tricky, but they used an idea similar to Rory Cam. They gave Martha contacts in which they could see and hear her. Because they were hooked up to Toshiko's computer, she could type small messages to communicate.

She was in.

We all watched Martha Cam, as I called it, nervously on Toshiko's computer. Toshiko put me in charge of texting Martha. I sat with ready fingers for something to type.

Copley entered the room.

Jack tapped my shoulder and said, "Tell her to get close to Copley."

"Roger that," I said.

I typed Get close to Copley into the vision of the lenses.

They started rejecting her applications.

"Oh, oh, oh," Jack said. "Tell her not to lose him!"

Don't lose him!

Then, she started spouting nonsense about a hepatitis infection just to get him to accept her.

?

"She's bullshitting," Owen said. "It's her way in."

"Language…" I muttered to myself.

Then, they accepted her immediately.

"She's in," Owen said.

Congrats! You're in.

They made her sign a contract.

"It's not the getting in; it's the getting out…" Jack said. "Come on, Martha…"

"Let her settle in," Owen suggested. She was walking down a hallway, led by a nurse and Copley. "It's going to be a long night ahead."

"Owen, Addy, you two keep a good watch on her, alright?" Jack said.

"Sure, boss," he said.

"Got it," I agreed.

She just went about daily routine for the next hour or so. I actually fell asleep at the computer when Owen woke me up.

"Oi," he said. "No slacking on the job. Jack will go bonkers."

"Oh, sorry…" I said. "Just a little tired. I'll stay awake, I promise."

Then, after it got dark, Martha got up from her room and started exploring the hallways.

Owen and I looked at each other, and then got really focused on all that she was seeing. He called Toshiko over to help.

"Tell her to be careful," he said.

"Ok," I said.

Be careful.

Jack came over to see what was happening.

She found a door entitled Administration, but it needed a code to enter.

"Tosh, can you get us past this?" Owen asked.

"Easy peasy," she said.

I moved up from her computer and she sat down, working to crack the code of the lock.

The computer found out the digits and she typed them into the lenses. Martha almost got caught in the process.

41040

Inside the room was the master computer. Toshiko gained remote control over the computer by guiding Martha through the steps on the lenses.

Go to network. Firewall. Stronghold. Proxy. Connections. I have control, thank you.

"I have control…" Toshiko said, concentrating. She started pulling up things about the parasite. "They call it the Mayfly. They have an incomplete growth development cycle."

"Wow…" we all said.

"Never seen anything like it before…" Gwen said.

"It's beautiful!" Toshiko said.

That reminded me of Dad. He always thought aliens he'd never seen before were beautiful.

"It's lethal…" Owen added.

"But what's Copley doing with them?" Jack asked. He picked up a microphone that allowed him to speak to her. "Ok, we've got everything we need. Get out of there, pronto."

Then, the Pharm had a breakout. Alarms blared throughout the base. A voice on a speaker said that the creature was extremely dangerous and to not go towards it.

Gwen found the Pharm's list of all the subjects injected with Reset, which, unsurprisingly, were all the people we had been investigating. All except one. Jack sent Ianto and Gwen to go save the last one before anything bad could happen.

Jack and Owen started getting really, really nervous because she was heading right towards the creature.

"Don't worry," I said. "She'll be fine."

"How do you know that-" Jack asked. I gave him an Are-you-stupid-or-just-retarded? look. "Oh, yeah…" he said. "But still, I can't help but to worry."

We lost her signal after that.

"I can't get her back!" Toshiko said.

"We have to get her out of there," Owen said.

"That place is swamped in security. If we try and steam in, we'll be putting her at risk!" she said.

"We can't just leave her in there!" Owen argued.

"If I can't get the signal back in thirty minutes, then we think of alternatives," she compromised.

"Anything could be happening to her in there!" Owen continued to argue.

"Owen!" I said. I took his arm. "She's not going to die, I promise on my life. She can handle herself in there. She's been in worse situations."

"Sure about that?!" he snapped.

"I was with her!" Jack and I said simultaneously.

"Jack!" I heard Ianto's voice over the earpiece. "We've got Billy Davis; he can help you get into the Pharm."


Owen and Jack went down into the cells to await the arrival of Billy Davis, the one who had been doing the work of Pharm in killing all the subjects. I didn't even want to know what they were going to do to him.

After about an hour, Jack came up looking mad. "He's dead," he said.

"What?" I asked. "What happened?"

"Owen screwed up Singularity Scalpel again," he said. "It killed him."

"That's rather unfortunate," Toshiko said.

Jack walked up to me and said sternly, "You. Bed. Now."

"What?!" I asked. "But things are just starting to get interesting and it's only ten o'clock!"

"Exactly," he said. "I can't risk you getting into the hands of Pharm. Your father would never forgive me."

"You don't give him enough credit, you know that right?" I said. "He's not some stone cold being that punishes people when they screw up. He's rather merciful."

"No arguing, Missy," he said. "Go."

I rolled my eyes and marched off into my room, muttering to myself, "I always miss all the fun…"


When I woke up in the morning, Jack looked really somber.

"What happened?" I asked.

He took a sip of coffee and a deep breath. "Well," he began. "We saved Martha… But not Owen."

"What happened to Owen?" I asked. "Did he get infected?"

Jack shook his head. "No," he said. "He got shot."

My eyes widened. "Shot…?"

"Owen's dead, Addy," he said.


(I do not own Torchwood or Doctor Who. This was made for entertainment purposes only and no copyright is intended.)