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"Torchwood..." Amy said slowly. "You want to explain to me what that is? Because I have no idea what I just agreed to. Aliens...?"
"They have everything to do with aliens!" Rory said excitedly. "You mean...you don't know about Torchwood?"
"Should I?" she asked sharply.
"Well...I suppose not," he admitted. "Anyway, they're this organization, based in Britain, and they deal with aliens all the time! Don't you remember, a couple years ago, when there were all those robot things everywhere, all over the world?"
"Yeah," she said. "I figured that was alien, but it was before I really met the Doctor, so how could I know?"
"That was Torchwood!" Rory continued. "They had this big place in London, but I guess after that incident it stopped running. But I know..." he said, attempting to act mysterious, "It still exists. They restarted it. They had a base in Cardiff, but it got destroyed too."
Amy raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised by Rory's fanboying over this organization. "And...how, do you know all of this?"
"I, uh...researched it. A little. Well, no, a lot."
She laughed. "Rory, you never told me you had a fetish for secret organizations that people aren't supposed to know about!"
"It's safer if people didn't know about it," he said. "If they'd ever caught me looking through their files, at least you'd be okay."
She slipped her arms around him and gave him a squeeze. "Protecting me from a dangerous organization. Sweet."
He grinned sheepishly. "Yeah, I guess so. Anyway, if we go to this organization, they might be able to help us contact the Doctor."
"So, where is it, then?" Amy asked.
"Ah...um...Glasgow..."
"Glasgow?" Amy practically yelled, totally shocked. "Rory...that's..."
"Far," he said. "Yes. But you want to see the Doctor...besides, it's the only branch I know of still open. I think. I'm not sure. Nobody really knows."
"I need to see the Doctor," she said. "Oooh, when I find him, he is getting hell for not telling us he's alive!"
Rory sighed. "Let's go."
Some time later, (well, a long time later, considering Glasgow was a big distance away) after enjoying a scenic drive through the Scottish moors that quickly turned into an incredibly boring ride, they arrived at a massive old wooden house that was probably beautiful in the 1800s, but now now looked like a wreck. Amy looked at it, curling her lip slightly.
"This is the...hi-tech...alien institute?"
Rory shrugged. "Maybe they went bankrupt." Above a tall pair of doors marking the entrance, the word "Torchwood" was engraved. "Well..." Rory said, attempting to steel his nerves. "Here we go." Slowly, they pushed open the doors and walked in.
"Great security," Amy muttered. Inside, it was considerably better looking, and looked much more modern and clean than the decrepit and forlorn exterior of the mansion. A woman sat at a desk, wearing the kind of pantsuit that gave off the impression of a strict businesswoman.
"Can I help you?" she asked, in a hard voice. She looked as if she'd much rather be somewhere else right now.
"Um...well..." Rory said. "We're here for Torchwood...about the Doctor."
She raised a pencilled eyebrow with a scowl. "Excuse me? I don't know anything about Torchwood or a Doctor. Doctor Who?"
"Please, ma'am," Amy said pleadingly. "We know this is a Torchwood base. Just let us in, please! We know aliens exist!"
"Young lady!" the woman said, her scowl deepening even further, which seemed inhumanely possible. "I don't have any idea what you're talking about! This place is for weddings and special occasions! We do not deal with aliens, or Torchwood, or any kind of DOCTOR here!"
She shouted the last few words so loudly they reverberated through the empty hall. A door along the hallway behind the furious woman's desk opened, and a man walked out and outside.
"Irene, what's going on? I heard something- the word "Doctor..." He had short, black hair that stuck up in the front, a cleft chin, and a wide smile. He wore a long black trench coat over a tucked in shirt complete with suspenders. On his wrist was some sort of technology that looked like a massive watch.
Irene stood up, livid. "These- these people insist in seeing someone about a Doctor, and something about Torchwood, and I don't know! You deal with them!"
He grinned cheekily and offered Amy his hand. "Captain Jack Harkness. And who are you?" He winked.
"Are you at it again, Jack?" Irene said. "Stop it."
Jack cast her an annoyed look. "For the millionth time, I was only saying hello!"
Amy blushed and said, "I'm Amy Williams-Pond."
"Well, it's nice to meet you, Amy Williams-Pond." he said. He shook her hand, offering her a hearty wink. Behind her, Rory cleared his throat loudly, drawing a strange look from Jack.
"This is my husband, Rory," Amy said, pushing him forward. Jack blinked for a minute, then offered his hand to Rory.
"Hello, Rory," he said, just as charmingly as he had spoken to Amy. He winked again. Amy and Rory shared a quick glance, both of them raising their eyebrows briefly.
"So, Captain," Amy said quickly.
"Please," he said. "Call me Jack."
She grinned. "Alright, Jack. We need your help."
"Anything," he replied.
She took a deep breath and looked at Rory, who nodded. She relaxed and said, "We need to contact the Doctor. Do you know him?" She watched his face, hoping that he did, and that he'd be able to help. If not, then him and Irene would send them down to the local asylum.
"The Doctor?" Jack said. He grinned. They silently exhaled in relief. "Of course I know the Doctor! Two incarnations, actually! He's the reason I'm immortal! Well, no, that was Rose, but anyway..." He stopped when he realized the two were giving him strange looks. "Long story. Anyway, yeah, I know him. Haven't seen him in a bit. What's he look like?"
"Um, well..." Amy said. "He wears a tweed jacket with elbow patches, and he's got brown hair that's sort of..." She looked at Rory. "How would you describe his hair?"
Rory shrugged. "Ah...poofy?"
"Sure," she said. "Poofy."
"Don't forget the bow tie," Rory reminded her.
"Oh yes, the bow ties. He loves bow ties. Always says they're cool."
"Doesn't sound like the Doctor I knew. Guess he's regenerated." Jack said. "But, we can still contact him. Come with me."
Glad to leave the angry Irene behind, they followed Jack down a hallway, before entering a side room. He pressed something on the wall, and with a noise it slowly slid out of place, revealing a much more modern looking white hallway. They walked down it until they reached an elevator. Jack held his hand up to a scanner beside the elevator doors. It read his hand, before turning green.
"Captain Jack Harkness. Torchwood leader. Access granted." the machine said coolly. The doors slid open and they walked in. Jack pressed a series of buttons, and the doors shuddered shut. Slowly they descended. Soon after, the doors slid open again and they walked into a large, futuristic looking room, full of computers, and weird, alien technology.
"Welcome," Jack said with a smile. "to Torchwood Two." He allowed Amy and Rory a moment to ogle before running over to an especially weird looking machine, complete with a massive antenna that stretched up through the ceiling. Amy suspected it went through the roof of the entire place.
"Now," Jack said, flicking a switch on the machine. It turned on and light flickered as it powered up. "to contact the Doctor, we simply have to.."
"Hold up a minute," Rory said. "What is this thing? It's not going...I dunno, blow up Britain, is it?"
"Blow up Britain?" Jack thought for a minute. "Used incorrectly, probably. But we should be okay."
He fiddled with a few knobs and buttons on the machine, and looking around his shoulder, called to a pretty Asian woman chatting on a phone across the room.
Rory opened his mouth to protest. "Should be okay? Jack-"
"Lucy!" Jack said, cutting Rory off. "Come help me out with this, would you?" She walked over, still holding the phone.
"Gotta go, Ryan." she said. "Work calls." She hung up the phone and shoved it in her pocket. "Needed me, Captain?"
"Yeah," he said. "By the way, you're looking quite lovely today-"
"Get to it, Jack," she said irritably. "As you know, I've got a boyfriend in the USA. So stop it."
He rolled his eyes. "Right. Your little "demon hunter." What's his name, Sam Winchester?"
"Yes," Lucy snapped. "What the hell do you want, Jack?"
"Uh, guys..." Rory said. He glanced at the machine, pointing at it. "This machine could blow up Britain..."
"Lucy," Jack said, cutting Rory off yet again. "I just need you to connect it to the system."
She mimed flipping over the table. "Of course." Tying her black hair up in a sleek ponytail, she leaned over the machine and started keying in some codes. A few minutes later, she stood up. "It's ready. But Jack, you really need to learn how to do this yourself. Goodness."
"Hang on!" Rory said, determined to make himself heard. "You just said this machine could blow up Britain, yet we're still going to use it?"
"I told you," the captain said. "Used properly, it should be fine."
"Should?" Amy asked. But before they could ask any more questions, Jack pulled down a big, important looking switch, and the entire machine lit up, creating a loud humming noise. Pulses of light were moving up the antenna, to where they were probably emitting across the sky outside.
"What are you doing?" Amy half-shouted over the roar of the machine.
"Calling the Doctor!" Jack yelled back. "It's a signalling machine! He'll see it!"
And with one more loud bang that made them cover their ears, the machine turned off.
Rory slowly uncovered his ears. "That was...lovely...I hope it worked."
A familiar noise behind Amy made her turn around and smile. "It did."
Slowly, the TARDIS materialized, before it finally sat solid in the middle of the Torchwood basement. The door opened, and Amy flinched briefly, remembering her dream about the Silence, but then, a man with a tweed jacket and elbow patches, bright red bow tie, and a fez aloft his head walked out, grinning brilliantly.
"Oh hello," he said. "Did someone call me?"
"Doctor!" Amy and Rory both yelled it at the same time, and ran towards him.
"Pond!" he said, grinning wider before sweeping her up into a tight hug. "Lovely to see you again!"
He let go of her, still grinning broadly. "And Rory! Good to see you again as well!" And he hugged Rory.
Amy smiled, overjoyed. "Got yourself another fez, did you?"
"Of course," he said. "Fezzes are cool."
"We know," Rory said, equally happy.
And now, Amy was facing the Doctor with a dark expression on her face.
"Where the HELL where you, you...you...assbutt!" she yelled. The Doctor simply stood there as she glowered, almost as made as Irene the desk lady had been.
"Assbutt?" he asked, but before he could say more, she started up again, red hair resembling flames.
"You could have at least told us you were alive! Didn't you know how worried I was, you ninny? For TWO whole years after that incident with River-" Her voice faltered. "And you NEVER showed up! We were so worried! We were-" She sighed with frustration. "Just come here, you big idiot!"
The Doctor smiled at Amy once again,wrapping his arms around her. His eyes glinted with that childish although wise spark and the grin of a nine year old was plastered on his face.
"Oh Amelia, Amelia, little Pond." he murmured once again. "It's good to see you, unbelievably good. Better then you can imagine!" He grasped both of her hands, the ever watchful glare of Rory becoming more and more intense on the Doctor's back the more he hugged and reunited with Amy. But this was the Doctor, and Rory was alright with the Doctor, understood that he was his wife's best friend.
The Doctor finally did a little spin on the heel of his shoes and snapped his fingers. "Ah, Jack! Captain Jack Harkness, in the flesh! The Face of Boe himself!" The Doctor announced, swinging around Amy and to the handsome Torchwood agent. He flung his arms out wide and laughed in a triumphant manner. "Nothing seems to trump you, now does it Jackie." Harkness smiled and shook the Doctor's hand."You've changed Doctor, you've gotten pretty young. Almost too young. I'm not sure if you'd be illegal or not..." He chuckled, patting his friend on the shoulder. The Doctor raised an eyebrow and flung a finger to the Captain's face. "Stop iiit." The Doctor tried to keep a serious face on, but it didn't work. His face soon melted into that of a child's again, and he grinned madly like a cheshire cat. "Can't stay mad at you." He flung around again, his coat flapping to the side to face the TARDIS. He snapped his fingers and pointed to the ancient ship. "RIGHT. Let's get a move on shall we?" He weaseled in between the people and darted into the TARDIS. He popped his head back out, fez on top, and smiled at everybody. "Well? Get your rump's moving, let's go! I'm not going to wait here for eternity!" He grinned again, and bobbed his head back inside, calling for his companions. The companions, the forever travelling companions. Saluting Captain Jack and thanking him, Amy and Rory ran in. The Doctor stuck his head out one more time, and saluted the Captain as well.
"Thank you, good Captain! See you around the universe!" Jack laughed and returned the salute.
"Anytime, Doctor. And hey-" he said. "Stop by more often."
"That I will, Jackie boy! Until then, goodbye!" The TARDIS door closed tightly, and Jack watched, grinning, as it slowly dematerialized.
"Now then!" the Doctor said. "It's great to be back, I must say. Where to, Pond? Any choice in particular? I suppose I've got a lot of universe to make up for, don't I?"
"Right you are, Doctor!" Amy replied, laughing, as she held onto the TARDIS as it shook.
"Where will it be, then?" he asked. "Raxacoricofallapatorious? Hulegio? The Sombrero Galaxy? The Unicorn Nebula? Black hole 528491?"
"Doesn't matter, honestly," Amy and Rory both assured him.
"Alright, then, have I got the treat for you!" he said excitedly. He threw a few switches and buttons, whirling around to the other side of the control panel and pressing a few more. "No, no, not there," he muttered to himself as he dashed around the TARDIS maniacally. Finally, he decided on a place. Flipping one final switch, the TARDIS shook and spun, zooming off.
"And now, Ponds," he shouted above the noise of the machine. "Very, very shortly, we shall be in the lovely city of Paris, France!"
"Paris?" Amy asked, her face lighting up. "I've always wanted to go there!"
"I assure you, Pond, it's spectacular!" the Doctor replied. Suddenly, the TARDIS jerked, knocking both Amy and Rory off of their feet. "That's odd..."
"What's odd?" Rory muttered from the TARDIS floor.
The Doctor pulled out his screwdriver, pointing at the TARDIS, moving the little green light up and down. "We appear to be..." He continued pointing it at the panel.
"Be what?" Amy asked.
"Well, it would appear that we are..." He looked at the screwdriver one more time. "Yes! We're crashing!"
And with all 3 people inside it screaming, the TARDIS spun out of control into the middle of Paris.
And there you are, my lovelies! I HAD SO MUCH FUN WRITING THIS CHAPTER!
You got your Doctor, if you wanted him! ALSO: REVIEWERS: MWAAH! LOVE YOU! LOVE YOU! LOVE YOU! I hope it was an adequate enough explanation for Rory's knowledge about Torchwood, and I understand that it may not totally coordinate with the TV show Torchwood. I haven't watched it, so there may be things I don't know. DERPS. Sorry. ANYHOO, that's all, folks! I do hope you enjoyed Mr. Harkness in there, he's always so fun to write.
ALSO: BIG PROPS TO ANNIKA FOR HELPING ME WRITE A FEW THINGS AT THE ENDING. YOU ARE SO AWESOME :D
Until Chapter 4, -Hollie ;)
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