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"I'm sorry." Jack said, sinking down beside the nine-hundred-year-old man and wrapping his arm around the man's skinny shoulders.
"Sir, want me to pop out and get some tea?" Ianto asked.
"Rory, will you show Mr. Jones to the kitchen? I think we have some tea in there," the Doctor asked in a very subdued tone. Rory nodded, mumbling something about putting the baby down anyways.
Gwen stepped forward, wrapping her arms around Daisy's shaking body. "Sweetie, calm down. We need to let Jack handle this his way." Daisy looked at her aunt in despair. She never intended to hurt this strange man; she just wanted to stand up for her father. "I know it's hard buthe knows what has to be done." Gwen whispered to Daisy.
"Did you know her parents?" Amy asked the Doctor. The Time Lord looked at her, and she couldsee thata lot of the light in his eyes had left them.
"I knew them all too well," he told her dully. "Her mother travelled with me. Rose was a wonderful, fantastic woman and she saved me in so many ways. And I... I lo... I..."
Jack stopped him. He could feel the waves of pain rolling off the Doctor. As he watched Ianto re-enter the room, he said, "I know what it feels like to not tell to someone important that you love them before they die."
The Doctor looked from Jack to Ianto and back again, understanding flashing across his face. "I can't believe I didn't notice it. I guess with a big bombshell like Daisy here I was bound to miss something this little." The Doctor stood up and walked over to Ianto, scanning him with the sonic screwdriver. "Oh now I see why you finally decided it was time to find me for answers. I'm guessing she had something to do with this?" The Doctor asked, pointing to Ianto with huge grin on his face.
Amy looked at the man, trying to figure out what the Doctor could see about him that she couldn't. "Doctor, what's wrong with him?" Amy asked, staring him up and down. Ianto didn't care much for being gawked at by total strangers, but was doing his best to hide any discomfort he was feeling. The only hint that he was uncomfortable was one raised eyebrow.
"Oh nothing really, Amy, but you see, Ianto here should be much older than he appears. He should be about the age of Gwen here but instead he looks about twenty years younger. So either he has some really good night cream or someone has moved him in time. I'm willing to bet that since Jack has come asking questions about Miss Daisy, that she is what did it. But you see, it's not that simple, is it boys and girls?" The Doctor looked around at their faces, smiling in triumph as those same faces looked at the floor.
"I'm also willing to bet that Ianto died and Daisy went back in time to save him and now Jack is worried about timelines and ripping apart the universe. He has brought them here to make sure she didn't mess up too big. I'm right?" His cocky grin and condescending tone were irritating Daisy to no end. She couldn't hold her tongue anymore.
"Yes, I did it! I couldn't stand to see my dad alone and miserable anymore and it hurt me to watch him suffering all those years, so I went back and saved his one true love. Yes, Ianto died, and yes, I went back in time, but I just made sure this time he didn't stay dead afterwards."
Jack suddenly felt a little misty-eyed when he heard Daisy's words. He hadn't realised how perceptive his little girl was; he thought he'd always kept his emotions carefully and safely hidden away. He found himself smiling with pride over his Daisy. Ianto, on the other hand, found himself looking at Jack in shock. 'Did she say his one truelove?' Ianto felt immensely sad and he surreptitiously wiped his eyes. 'Why didn't you ever say anything, Jack?'
The Doctor walked over to Daisy, placing his hands on either side of her face. "Do you mind?" he asked. She didn't know exactly what he was asking but she let him continue anyway. The Doctor scanned her memories. "Oh you clever girl! So much like your mother."
The Doctor left her with one of his own favourite memories of her mother. It was of them lying in the grass on another planet, just talking and smiling. Rose's hair was blowing in the wind and she was happy. They were so happy.
The Doctor stood back and looked at the girl before him. "You look like her. Well, except the eyes," he told her.
For the first time she smiled at the man before her. "Yeah, I've been told I get my brains and my eyes from my father, John Noble."
The Doctor walked over to the scanner and flipped it on, scanning the young Time Lord. Jack came to stand beside him. "What do you see?" Jack asked, staring at the scanner.
"You mean besides Donna's attitude in that girl?" The Doctor asked and they both giggled at the remark. "She reads mostly Time Lord. Maybe about five percent human, but I don't see how that's possible. Come on, old girl, give me something." The Doctor started fiddling with other things on the console.
"What are you doing now?" Jack asked him. Usually he was content to just watch the Doctor work, but now, where Daisy was concerned, he wasn't takingany chances. He wanted to know everything.
"Well, I'm trying to call up the last readings I have of John andRose and compare them to Daisy." The TARDIS hummed at him. "I know, old girl. But you are the best. I know." He told her.
Jack just gave him a look as if to say 'you're off your rocker now'.
"Bingo! Got it!" The Doctor shook his head. "Stupid time vortex spitting out Time Lords where it will."
Everyonestood staring at him with blank looks on their faces that clearly said they didn't have a clue what he was on about.
"The time vortex is the heart of my ship. In Melody's case…"
"Who's Melody?" Gwen interrupted the Doctor to ask.
Amy raised her hand. "My daughter, mine and Rory's." Satisfied, Gwen looked back to the Doctor.
"…She was conceived onboard the TARDIS, and it hit her with Time Lord DNA. But in Daisy's case, it's a completely different story. John was a clone of me but with only one heart. Since he was part human, and Rose was full human, it would stand to reason that any child of theirs would be human, except the time vortex had other plans." He paused for a moment and looked around the room. "Everyone with me so far? Good."
"Now, you see, Jack, when Rose came back to the Game Station for us all those years ago and took the time vortex into her own mind, I thought I got it all out but I guess I was wrong. A tiny part of the vortex remained inside her. My people are the way we are from thousands of generations being exposed to the vortex. Bad Wolf wasn't finished.
"Not wanting me to be the last of my kind anymore, that tiny spark waited inside Rose. It waited until she became pregnant and then it exposed the baby to itself, to the time vortex, inside the womb, changing her from human to Time Lord. Just can't figure out why that five percent is human?" He said, running through his papers and scans again.
"I think I can." Jack spoke up quietly. "From what John told me, Rose went into labour two months early. Maybe the time vortex didn't have enough time to finish changing the baby all the way because she was born too early. John and Rose weren't prepared for that to happen, and they lost her during childbirth."
The Doctor looked at Jack, pain and puzzlement warring on his face. "Why wouldn't Rose be at Pete's Torchwood for the birth? Jack, what aren't you telling me?" Jack looked over at Daisy with sadness in his eyes. He had told her no more secrets and telling this was going to be hard.
"When Rose found out she was pregnant, she was being looked after by Torchwood. But towards the end she noticed they weren't so much watching to make sure she and Daisy were okay as they were testing to see what Daisy would be capable of. When they realised that their baby was in terrible danger, Rose and John made plans to go into hiding. They knew Torchwood wouldn't do anything until after Daisy was born. Before they could go into hiding, Rose died giving birth. Torchwood didn't come for them right away cause they thought Rose was still alive and pregnant."
The Doctor started to shake with rage again. Why were people doing this to his friends and their children? "And John? What happened to him?" the Doctor asked.
"I was in the parallel world when it all happened. I had been sucked there by the Rift and John was helping me get back when Torchwood came to collect Daisy. They had found out that Rose was dead and they wanted Daisy at all costs. Remember Yvonne Hartman and 'if it's alien it's ours'? Well, they were like that where Daisy was concerned.
"John distracted them long enough for Pete, Jackie, and me to get away with the kids. Knowing Torchwood would never stop hunting her, John and I thought it would be the safest thing if I brought Daisy back here with me," he told the Doctor.
Gwen's mouth was wide with shock. "Torchwood, Jack, like as in the company we work for, THE place youdecided was best to hide her and now you have let her join?" Gwen was genuinely furious with Jack for keeping this from her. She wanted to reach out and slap Jack, but instead, Gwen stepped protectively in front of Daisy.
"Gwen, you don't understand. That's a different Torchwood. I rebuilt ours in honour of the Doctor and all he stands for. We aren't the same as any other Torchwood, even on this planet. I've cut all ties with any Torchwood that doesn't think and believe as I do." Jack reached out to touch the Welsh woman's face to comfort and calm her.
Daisy couldn't take anymore; she had reached her breaking point, and she need to get out of there to clear her head. She didn't care where she went; she just needed to get away. Daisy looked down and noticed she was still wearing Jack's wrist strap. Without a word to anyone, she let herself out of the TARDIS and walked only a few feet before tapping the buttons and taking herself far away.
Inside the TARDIS, no one had noticed Daisy slip out. They were currently busy looking over the latest readings that the TARDIS had turned to ask Daisy a question, and found that his daughter no longer stood behind him.
"Daisy? Where did Daisy go?" Jack asked, searching around the room.
"Jack, she probably stepped out for some air; this is a lot to take in and she's been doing so good so far with accepting it. She can't go very far." Gwen commented.
Jack ran out the doors followed closely by a confused Gwen and the Doctor. "Gwen you don't get it!" He yelled, looking franticallyaround the Plass. "She still has my wrist strap! She could be anywhere in time or space." Jack's face crumbled as reality struck him.
The Doctor stood by the doors of the TARDIS. "Jack, don't bother running around anymore. She used the strap; I can taste it in the air," the Doctor told the immortal, stopping him in his tracks.
"I can't loose her too," Jack sobbed as the Doctor led him back inside the TARDIS. Ianto ran over as soon as he saw the state Jack was in. He took his lover from the Doctor and wrapped him in a warm embrace. He stroked Jack's back in comfort and murmured quietly in his ear. His ministrations worked; within a few minutes, Jack was calm enough to turn and face the room again.
"Jack, we will find her." The Doctor reassured him, and then asked, "How is that strap even working? I thought I disabled it last time?"
Jack looked lost inside his head. "It didn't work. I had it fixed after the 456, when I was running away from Earth, and then John fixed it so I could come back across the void with Daisy, but then it burned out a long time ago. Then two nights ago while I was sleeping, Daisy took the strap saying she was going to replace the leather. Somehow she fixed it to travel again. That's how she brought him here." Jack explained,looking at Ianto.
Coming to a decision, Jack pulled the SUV keys from his pocket. "Gwen, I want you to take the SUV back to my house. Call Rhys and tell him Daisy's run off and to stay at your house to see if she turns up there. You go stay at my house to see if she comes there. Have one of your boys come stay with you so you're not alone. You remember where the gun safes are hidden and how to get into them?" Jack dropped the keys into Gwen's waiting hands.
"Call David and let him know I'll be gone for some time so it'll just be him and Alex. I'll call you when I find her."
Gwen lookedat the man before hugging him tightly. "Jack, are we expecting a fight?" she asked as she pulled away.
"I don't know Gwen, but just be prepared." Gwen looked over at Ianto, waiting to see if he was coming with her. "He's staying with me." Jack told her, so Gwen hugged Ianto and headed out the door.
As she made her way to the SUV, she looked back at the blue box, hoping that they would bring Daisy home safe and sound. As she pulled out her mobile she hear a strange noise and turned to find that the TARDIS was gone. Quietly Gwen whispered, "Bring her home Jack."