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Jack stood in front of the door to the Hub. For some reason he couldn't bring himself to put his hand on the scanner.

"Dad, are we going in?" Daisy asked, looking at him.

"Yeah," he answered as he reluctantly raised his hand and placed it next to hers on the scanner. After today she wouldn't need him any longer; she would be able to get in without his hand.

"WELCOME CAPTAIN JACK HARKNESS AND DAISY HARKNESS." The Torchwood computers announcedall around the Hub.

One of the first things Jack had done after returning to his own world with tiny Daisy in his arms was to make serious changes to the perimeter security at Torchwood. Along with the palm print-activated identity scanners installed on every single entrance to the Hub, Jack had also downloaded a computer program onto the mainframe that verbally announced each arrival in a loud, clear voice. No matter where in the Hub he was located, even if he were deep in the vaults or buried in the Archives, he would know the moment someone accessed the doors. With Daisy totally dependent upon him for her protection, the last thing Jack wanted was a surprise visitor

"Where is everyone?" Daisy asked, looking around and noticing that no one else was there. Together, she and Jack walked into his office to find Gwen and Rhys sitting on couch. Rhys jumped up the minute they walked through the door; he seemed to be on edge.

"What's going on?" Daisy asked with a puzzled look on her face.

"Honey we need to talk," Jack told her as he gestured for her to sit down on the couch with Gwen.

Gwen took Daisy's hands in her own, saying, "Daisy, sweetie, you know we love you more than anything."

Daisy was starting to look like she was going to freak out. "What's this all about? I didn't do anything I swear!" Daisy was looking nervously between Gwen and Jack, who was sitting in a chair across from her with his head hung in shame.

Jack began. "It's not something you did that brings us here like this, but rather something that we three did a long time ago."

Rhys threw his hands up. "Don't blame me! I didn't do anything; I just went along with what you two did."

Jack shot him a look that told him to shut up. "When you were little I told you that when you were old enough I would tell you about your mother." Daisy nodded; he had told her that at least a thousand times.

"And with you fully joining Torchwood today we figured it would be the best time to tell you, before you found out another way." Jack sat back in his chair. "There are two things you should know before I start this story. First is that this is a long story and not even Aunt Gwen and Uncle Rhys know the whole , we did what we did out of love."

Daisy nodded her head showing that she understood. She had waited for so long to hear the true story of her mother; she just wished the butterflies in her stomach would settle down.

"A long time ago I met a man called the Doctor. He was travelling with a woman named Rose at the time, and they saved my life, so I decided to travel with them. We travelled to far off places and saw lots of wonderful things but we also saw a lot of tragic things as well.

"You see, the Doctor was an alien from another planet and he could travel in space and time. But Rose, she was from right here on Earth, from London, to be exact. On one of our trips to a place millions of light years from here and hundreds of thousands of years into the future, there was a fight. The Doctor sent Rose back to Earth, back to her own time, in his ship.

"During the battle, I was killed." Jack looked up when he heard Daisy gasp in horror; he waited for a moment, but she didn't say anything, so he continued. "I rememberbeing shot and then waking up alive and unharmed, and I rememberwatching as the Doctor left me. I was completely alone and stranded on a space station full of dead bodies, with no way home.

"Later on I learned from him that Rose had returned. The Doctor told me how she had taken the heart of his ship into her head and how she had returned to the space station to save him. Somehow, in trying to save him, Rose ended up bringing me back to life. Actually, not just back to life, but back to life permanently."

Daisy looked puzzled so Jack paused so she could ask a question or two. "Dad, that would mean you can't die. That's impossible," she declared with all the certainty of youth.

Gwen held up her hand to stop Jack from responding for a moment. "Sweetie, trust me; it's true. Your uncle and I have seen it happen."

That seemed to be enough confirmation for Daisy for the moment so she sat back and waited forJack to continue. "Problem was that even though I was stranded, I still wanted the Doctor to explain himself and why he just left me there. So I used my own means of time travel and jumped to a time and place where I knew he would be. Problem was," he smiled ruefully, "I over-shot my landing by a hundred years. So I got a job with Torchwood and set myself up in Cardiff and waited for him to return. That's where I met your Aunt Gwen and Uncle Rhys."

It looked like Daisy wanted to ask another question, but Jack cut her off. "If you'll save your questions for another day, I'll tell you all the stories you want." Jack quickly said, because he did not want toget off topic, not today. Today was too important.

"Because the Doctor was a time traveller I not only had to wait for him to return to Cardiff, but I had to wait until he was the version of himself who had already met me." Jack noticed the frown on Daisy's face. "I know it's kind of confusing; the Doctor calls time travel 'wibbley-wobbley, timey-wimey stuff.' I'll try to explain it better another time, okay?"

After Daisy had reluctantly nodded, Jack continued with his story. "While I was waiting here in Cardiff, there was a battle in London and lots of people were killed, and I found out that the Doctor's friend Rose was on the list of the dead. So one day a few years after the battle, he did return and I followed him. When I caught up with him I asked him about Rose, and he told me that she hadn't been killed. Instead, she was trapped, living on a parallel world."

Jack paused as memories flooded his mind. "I could tell it tore him up," he said sadly, "because heloved her even though he never told her anything. After I spent a little while with the Doctor, I returned here. Over a year went by before I saw him again. This time Rose had found a way to cross back over into this world and back to him.

"There was a huge war that we all fought in, and again another strange accident happened. This time a clone of the Doctor was created. A human woman named Donna Noblecreated the clone by touching an old body part of the Doctor's. This made the clone part human and part Time Lord.

"After the fighting was over the Doctor returned us all to where we belonged, including Rose. He returned her to the parallel world along with the human version of himself. You see the Doctor doesn't die, he just regenerates, which changes him so he knew he could never be with Rose. But the cloned version of himself was human, which meant that he could grow old with Rose."

Jack looked up to see tears streaming down Gwen and Daisy's faces. "I don't see what this has to do with me though." Daisy said as she wiped away the tears.

"I'm getting there," Jack told her. "Five years later I was working one day while your Aunt Gwen was at home pregnant with Ianto. The Rift bells went off and I went to see what it was all about on my own. I was sucked through the Rift and dumped onto the same parallel world where the Doctor had left his clone and Rose. I ran into Rose's mother, Jackie Tyler, and she took me back to her house. The clone, who had changed his name to John Noble, told me that Rose had died two months before.

"She died giving birth to their daughter, Daisy Marion Noble." Jack looked over at Daisy and his heart broke. "Your mother died giving birth to you."

"So Rose was my mother and this John guy is my father. So how did you and I end up getting back here to this world?" Daisy asked, matter-of-factly.

Remembering Rose, even after so many years, was hard and it ate at Jack to talk about her. "John and Rose's family were running from some bad people who wanted to get their hands on you. John had found a way for me to get back home and they were taking me to a place where we could do it when John went back into the house for something. Suddenly, we were surrounded and had no way out.

"John, your father, died buying us some time to get away. Your grandparents drove me to the spot where I would be able to get back here. They were prepared to keep running with you, but I knew that these badpeople would never give up. That is why I told you the story of how Rose was the reason I was immortal. I told your grandmother Jackie that I would bring you back here with me and raise you here where no one would know you. I told her that Rose had given me immortality and that the best way to honour the memory of Rose was to use it protecting her daughter."

Once Jack had finished speaking, Daisy just sat there quietly, not saying a word. She stood up and walked over to Jack. Jack braced himself; 'this is it,' he thought, wondering what Daisy was going to do.

"They may have been my parents but you are my dad." She bent down and wrapped her arms around Jack. "You raised me as your daughter and I never once felt like I wasn't," she whispered into his ear. Tears were now streaming down Jack's cheeks.

Daisy walked back over to the couch and wrapped her arms around Gwen. "Thanks for always being there when I needed you, Aunt Gwen." She looked over at Rhys, who stood leaning against the wall. "Thank you, too, Uncle Rhys, for everything."

Jack wiped his face off. "Daisy there is something else." Daisy turned to him and sat back down.

"There's a reason those people were after you when you were a baby. It's the same reason I'm so over-protective of you and why you have only ever seen Dr. Hart here at the Hub, instead of going to a regular doctor." Gwen wrapped her hands around Daisy's again.

"I told you John was a clone of the Doctor, a human version of himself. But you, on the other hand, turned out like the Doctor. The Doctor was an alien called a Time Lord. They look like humans, but there are a few differences. Probably the biggest difference is they have two hearts. Daisy, you have two hearts. We aren't sure yet if this means you will be exactly like the Doctor or not. There is just so much we don't know about you yet."

Daisy puther hand on her chest; she could feel her heart – her hearts – beating. She rememberedasking Jack once why her heart beat was so fast and he said it was a birth defect. But now, she realised as she thoughtabout it, it wasn't fast; there were two heartbeats.

Jack walked over and sat beside Daisy. "The only reason I lied to you and covered up who you are is because if the wrong people find out where you are, they will come for you again. And Daisy, I couldn't bear losing you."

The alarm sounded for the Hub doors as they opened. "WELCOME DR DAVID HART" the computer announced loudly.

Gwen and Rhys stood up. "You're going to be okay; and we really should be going. Your team is coming in now." Gwen leaned down and kissed Daisy's head as she nodded. "Happy Birthday Sweetie." Rhys did the same and they quietly slipped out. Daisy stood up to leave but Jack stopped her. "Honey, there is one more thing, but I don't want them knowing." He nodded in the direction that Gwen and Rhys just left.

"Daisy, the people who were after you on the parallel world? They were Torchwood."

Daisy quickly sat back down. "What?" she babbled. Jack could see the confusion in his daughter's eyes, and he reached out, taking her hand in his. His thumb moved in comforting circles across the back of her hand.

"This stays between us, Daisy." Jack said firmly as he looked the young woman in the eye. "You see, Torchwood here in London was the reason your mom got trapped on that parallel world in the first place. Once they realised she could never come back here, Rose and your grandfather started working for the Torchwood there. Pete tipped us off that they were coming after you."

Daisy let go of Jack's hand; this wasn't making any sense to her. "If that's the case then why do you want me working for here?" she stammered.

"I don't want you working for Torchwood but I think it's the best place thinks that you're my daughter. I built Torchwood 3 in honour of the Doctor, so we aren't like the other Torchwoods."

Without saying a word Daisy left Jack's office and headed to the medical bay to help Dr. Hart. 'The hard part is over,' Jack thought to himself, as he watched his daughter through the window. With a heavy sigh, Jack buried himself in his work knowing that when the day was over,Daisy would have a million questions for him.

Daisy spent most of her morning lost in her head; it was a lot of information for her to take in. She knew that when they got home tonight she and Jack were going to need to have a long talk. There was so much she wanted to know about her mother and about John, her father. No matter how many times she said it to herself, she still couldn't believe Jack wasn't her father. He had spent the last sixteen years devoting his whole life to her and her only.

About halfway through the day Jack called her up to his office. "So you still want to join Torchwood?" he asked. It was a valid question after all, considering all that had been done to her and her family in the name of Torchwood.

"Yeah, I do." Daisy nodded her head. "You built this up to honour the Doctor and if my mother loved him the way you say she did, then why wouldn't I want to honour him also?" Jack just smiled at her and started filling out the paperwork he needed for her. "Do you need anything else?" She asked as she stood up to leave.

"Yeah um..." Jack couldn't find his voice; he didn't want to know the answer to the next question. "Your name?" he said, showing her the paperwork. The form was all filled out except the line for her name; that line was blank. She read it; last name comma first name.

"What do you mean?" Daisy was confused.

Jack had hoped she would catch on to what he was asking without his actually asking. He didn't want to have to say the words aloud. "Harkness or Noble?" he finally asked.

It dawned on Daisy that he wanted to know if she wanted to go by her birth name now. She could see why he had hinted at it and didn't come right out with it. She pursed her lips so she wouldn't smile in front of Jack; 'silly man,' she thought affectionately. 'What else would I want to be called now?' She grabbed a pen and the paper from him, wrote down her name and then walked out of the door without a word or a backwards glance.

Jack swallowed nervously as he turned the paper toward him, and then he swallowed again. He could feel tears pricking the backs of his eyes as a brief smile ghosted across his lips. There in big bold letters, as if to prove a point, his daughter had written DAISY HARKNESS.