A/N - I noticed on a few other Doctor Who fics that people put a disclaimer...so I'm going to be putting them on now just to be safe! Disclaimer : Doctor Who belongs to the BBC. I do not own any of the characters. With that out of the way...All I really have to say is in this chapter is possibly my favorite monologue I have written for a character. I think it's pretty obvious and I hope I'm not the only one laughing my butt off every time I read it


"Alright Jack, so what do we know?"

"Rose is back but Rose is not Rose. Rose is actually Flora, a waitress with a seven or eight year old son, or brother. She has only been here for eight months." Jack stood there lazily; reciting the information that has been going around in his head since he found out Rose was not Rose.

"Yes, the Rose that is not a Rose." The Doctor murmured to himself as he circled the TARDIS console room for the Jack-lost-count-th time.

"You know you're going to make a rut right?" Jack stood to the side of the Doctor's growing…dugout or something…becoming more amused with each circle.

"I'm trying to think. You are not helping." The Doctor ran both of his hands through his hair. "It just doesn't make any sense! How could she be here? No one but Time Lords have that technology. Anyone else trying would mean the whole of space and time falling apart."

"How do you know that someone did this to her? What if she found a way through the Void and it caused some damage or something…" he trailed off, the look the Doctor gave him made him feel like an idiot and should just shut up.

"I guess we'll have to go back to eight months ago tomorrow! Hold on, tomorrow eight months ago. Yea tomorrow eight months ago! Allons-y!"


After a rather bumpy ride and a far from perfect landing, as per usual, they arrived at their destination.

"Now you have to be sure that you stay away from your past self. That'll-"

"Cause a paradox and attract the big evil nasty things that you don't want to deal with."

The Doctor grinned at his statement. "Big evil nasty things? Never heard them described like that before. Anyway, what are we going to be looking for something suspicious maybe?"

"How about that?" Jack pointed over to a pale silver light about fifty feet away. "I'd think that might be rather suspicious don't ya think?" Jack looked over at the empty space that once held the Doctor. Of course… Jack bolted after him. Once he caught up, Jack found him at the water's edge, hiding underneath a pier. They both watched as the light grew stronger and brighter. Seconds after they got there, a loud crack occurred. It was loud enough that it would've been heard at least a mile away, easily.

This is so peculiar. Why is nobody waking up and trying to find out what's going on? Or at least calling somebody to wake up and try to find out what's going on.

After the crack, five people were left in the aftermath. A woman with haphazardly curly blonde hair and wearing a dive suit of a sort, two men with similar dive suits carrying someone by their upper-arms, and a child. The woman looked too weak to stand on her own and she looked like she hadn't been cared for properly. The hospital gown she was wearing looked far too large for a person of her size, at least twice as big. He couldn't see much more, due to the dimming light, but she and the child were obviously conscious for now. The…Chia Pet, the Doctor's nickname for the curly haired woman, nodded slightly after checking to see if they were alone. One of the men hit the woman on the back of the head and the other man did the same to the child. The men just let them fall onto the rocky shoreline. Both the Doctor and Jack cringed at the sight of the defenseless being treated so horribly. One of them must've moved too much because some loose pebbles rolled down a small mound, catching the Chia Pet's attention. The two men began to step forward, nearly stepping on the woman, but Chia shook her head, indicating she could handle whatever was hiding. Tuff girl huh? Or just brave… Jack wondered.

"You should come out now." She called in a strong and steady voice. "If you want any hope in surviving until you can see another sunrise, you'll come out."

Jack immediately stepped out before the Doctor could stop him. Well, that was the smarter of my two ideas. But seriously Jack? Now I look like a coward…

"Mm, well this is a first." Chia sneered. "No one has ever seen that before."

"Consider it my pleasure." Jack laughed and rolled back on his heels. "Uh, seen what exactly?" Jack laughed again, allowing some nervousness to creep in.

"Time travel…" she purred, leaning in as if a thousand people were trying to listen in.

"Uh-huh. Yea right, time travel is impossible. I'm a big science movie nerd so I've watched all the documentaries on it. Like how time is linear and not a giant mush of timey-wimey…stuff and even if it was, the amount of energy needed… I seem to have bored you."

"Oh don't worry sweetie. You'd have known if I was bored. I have a great conversation stopper."

"Really, and that would-"

"Bored." Chia whipped out a gun from nowhere and shot Jack in the head mid-sentence. She walked over to his body and crouched down. "I know it's very rude to interrupt in the middle of a thought but I knew what you were going to say and I could feel a yawn coming on." She laughed as she stood up and walked away, the two men following her.

The Doctor waited a few minutes until he could no longer see or hear them, and then he went to go check on the woman and the boy. Jack still lay there, but the Doctor knew he'd be around eventually. The Doctor carefully flipped the woman over and saw that indeed it was Rose; he wasn't going to call her Flora anymore. Flora sounds like a grandmother's name…

While checking on Rose, he heard a soft groan behind him. At first he thought that Jack had finally revived himself, but there was no I-haven't-been-breathing-and-I-need-air-like-NOW gasp. The Doctor turned and saw the cause of the groan was the little boy. He crawled over to get a better look at him. He was still unconscious but the boy look strikingly familiar to someone he knew. Blonde hair, very anti-gravity and I-can-go-any-direction-I-want. He wore glasses and trainers, but the Doctor still had no idea.

Well, I know for sure that when this kid grows up he's gonna have bone structure to die for OMIGOD he's my kid! The Doctor rolled back on his heels, thinking it over. Wait a moment. To get a kid…A needs to enter B to get C…right yea. He's definitely not mine then, I haven't done that since, well, 700+ years? Blimey it's been a long time.

The gasp he's been waiting for broke his train of thought. Great! He's up. God knows where that was gonna go…

"Jaaaackk! It's about time you woke up. I was beginning to worry about you. Weelll, by worry I mean-"

"I get it Doc, thanks."

"That's not my name…" the Doctor whined to the thousandth time. "Carry the boy will you?"

Jack groaned when he got to his feet. All this dying really begins to take its toll after a while. "Where are we takin em?"

"Back to the TARDIS, I want to run some tests on them. When I'm done, we can take them neat a hospital and leave them where they will be found."

"Just leave them?" Jack questioned as he picked up the boy, who felt as though he needed an all you can eat fish and chips restaurant, emphasis on the chips.

"I know it sounds horrible, cause it is. But how exactly do we explain this to the security at the hospital?! Oh yea, we saw a bright light and five people came out of it. Two of them were guys. One of the evil ones shot my buddy here in the head. Oh nooo, he's fine. Drinking? Never!" the Doctor finished his one-sided conversation and shot Jack a look that said, Did you honestly think that would work?

"Ok, I see what you mean."


The rest of the walk was spent in silence. About ten feet from the doors of the TARDIS, a passing Bobbie stopped them.

"Oi! You lot! What do you think you're doing? What's wrong with these two? I'm going to have to bring you two in for questioning." He took his walkie-talkie off his belt and began to speak into it, not giving them one chance to respond.

"Someone must in want a promotion…" the Doctor whispered under his breath, making Jack chuckle.

"What was that now? You got something funny to say? He waved his walkie-talkie antennae in the Doctor's face.

"No, never sir. I was just going to say, until your back-up gets here, me and my friends will step into this police box and arrest ourselves for you. No hassle!" without giving the Bobbie a chance to blink, Jack and the Doctor slipped inside the TARDIS.


Did ya find it? It's not a spoken monologue but a spoken one is a close second. I might be posting another chapter today but no promises. Sorry for the River = Chia pet thing but i really don't like her for no apparent reason. Thanks for reading! I'll try posting whenever i can!