The Lieutenant slid down the doors of the TARDIS, tears pouring down her face. She felt the TARDIS land, the central column stopped moving; she'd landed where ever on earth he'd sent her. The leather strap on her left wrist beeped she slid her sleeve back and opened it, The Doctor appeared in front of her, stood up straight, he seamed even taller.
"Louise, I'm sorry. I've sent you to stay with a good friend of mine, Captain Jack Harkness; he's head of the Torchwood institute in Cardiff. He's great, you'll get on well with him, and he's an ex-time agent. Just watch yourself he does err…flirt a lot, he's very charming. I heard you say my name but it's not the same, you're not the same, your future isn't with me anymore. It's not safe for you to travel with me. Just stay with Jack, join Torchwood, it'll suit you. I love you and I'm sorry. Goodbye. Your destiny isn't with me anymore." The image faded.
"That's just great." She steadied herself, standing up and wiping her eyes, she turned the TARDIS off, running a full scan on the ship. The screen showed the damage, she groaned. There was too much damage to be able to leave, it needed charging about 2 hours she was exhausted, 5 straight days with no rest, she went over to a cabinet in the corner pulling out a small white paper bag, she picked out a small bright orange lozenge the size of a pip, she put it in her mouth the effect was instant as it dissolved she felt the adrenaline rush through her veins. She shook her head to remove the drowsiness. She ran over to the control panel speedily doing the necessary things to start the ships automatic repair program, it set off scanning the ship for damage it buzzed loudly as it started to diagnose the damage.
She walked over to the doors, opening them wide. She bounded out and nearly straight into someone; she took a step back a grin on her face.
"Oh…Hello." She said happily, Jack ran his eyes over her, "You must be Captain Jack Harkness, Pleasure to meet you and I'm Lieutenant Carter-Jones." She saluted him and then offered him her hand he shook it. "Sorry for the intrusion I was sent here rather rudely. Don't worry I'll be out of you hair very soon, not that there's anything wrong with your hair, it's very beautiful, fluffy and thick." she observed. He smiled. "I'm pretty exhausted and so is my ship so I've set it to repair and I've taken an adrenaline pill, should keep me going for two hours or so, then I'll be ready to go and I'll put her in auto pilot and I'll just crash, literally, sleep for days. I've been up for 5 days on Organiaspectifilia, playing cricket, by the way 5 days there is the equivalent of 5 earth weeks." She paused, swaying slightly, hyperactive from the pill.
"Right, it's a pleasure to meet you." Jack smiled amused by her rambling.
"Ahh" she swayed a little.
"Ah what?" he asked.
"I was wrong." She stopped again.
"Wrong, about what?"
"Not two hours, 2 minutes." Then she fell; Jack caught her before she hit the floor.
"Well Doctor you where right she'd quite a character." He said to himself, carefully picking her up and carrying her over to the sofa in the main body of the hub. He watched her sleep, why had the Doctor sent her to him; he thought it over for a while it was 7pm Gwen had gone home for the night, he left her for a while moving him paperwork to a nearby desk so if she woke he could keep an eye on her. He opened the rift tracking files on the computer, scrolling through recent activity. Then realised, the alarms didn't go off when she'd entered, why was that? He scrolled through the protocol everything was in order. When she'd arrived she practically walked into him, he hadn't seen her, she'd come out of nowhere. He looked at the stretch of wall near where she had appeared.
"No." he whispered to himself, standing up. He walked over to it, running his hand along what should have been cold stone; instead he got a warm, light metallic - that made his finger tips tingle. He smiled. She'd arrived shielded in her ship; it had worked its way through the alarm system!
"No," he heard a voice whisper. He spun round to see the Lieutenant jerk in her sleep he walked over quietly. "No, don't." she sat up, clutching her knees, her eyes flicked open, wide and staring, "no, no, no more, leave me alone, you can't do this." She got loud, starting to rock, Jack looked at her concerned, "no, don't hurt him, it was me. Leave him alone, look over here at me." She screamed.
"Hello?" she ignored him, he waved his hand in front of her eyes and there was no response she was having a nightmare, talking in her sleep. Slowly she relaxed a little, lying back down. He went over to the cabinet next to the sofa, pulling out a blanket, he placed it over her.
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