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Note: This is sadly one of the shortest chapters planed out so far, but I hope its still a good one! Enjoy.

Chapter 3

Children of Earth

"Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, and Captain Jack Harkness, you're it for Torchwood Three?" asked Rose in disbelief.

"We recently lost some good people," responded Jack defensive of the losses.

Ianto grabbed Jack's hand and gave it a little squeeze. Ianto recognize the blond as the one from the other universe the one who had helped with the Cybermen. "You're Rose, right, helped out with the Cybermen few years back with the Doctor?" asked Ianto before introductions where made.

"The Doctor," Gwen asked confused as Rose nodded and started logging into a computer.

"Sorry Torchwood use only," Jack started to say as the computer accepted her log on, "What?"

Rose gave him a bit of a grin, "Told you Torchwood is my business," she started tossing him her badge from Torchwood One.

Gwen looked at the badge over Jack's shoulder, "you're the nutter they complain about aren't you?" she asked. Jack gave the brunette a quizzical look an she responded, "Was looking for some more personal to transfer here and some would have liked to have gotten away even if it meant moving to Wales but they all said she was the best too."

"You where trying to recruit to my team," Jake seemed upset, but Gwen didn't seem to bothered by that.

Rose nodded as she typed away at the computer console, "Yea, I'm the nutter they love to hate. Actually it was one of my crazy projects that led me here, who encrypted your file Jack, I couldn't brake all the encryptions."

"I asked Tosh to do it," he replied sadly.

Rose nodded knowing that she was one of the losses he had mentioned earlier, good old Torchwood sending memos around every time an agent died. "So this was the first time you recorded the frequency?" she asked, was bound and determined to stop this without a sacrifice being made. Out of the corner of his eye Jack thought he saw a flash of gold in her eyes before she paused in her work and gave herself a bit of shake, what sacrifice, she questioned herself.

"Yes," Gwen piped up not wanting to be out of whatever loops Jack and Ianto seemed to have with this girl. "But we only caught that there was a frequency, we have no idea what it was broad casting."

"Well let's see if we can find out," Rose replied with a smile, she really was getting good at this computer stuff. As she messed with the levels of the sound and speed the recording a box on her screen pinged signaling that whatever it was it was broad casting again. Rose stopped what she had been doing as the other three jumped into action at the other terminals, they all tried to pinpoint where the signal was coming form. "There," Rose cried as she pointed to a map of the solar system.

The other three came to look over her shoulder at the blinking red dot just outside of Jupiter's orbit and move in fast. "By the looks of it they'll be here in two days," stated Jack startled at the rate events where panning out in his own universe versus his Doctor's.

"Well then let's see if we can find out what they want," replied Rose as she started working on finding out what was in those transmissions. "Wait, here we go," she exclaimed as she flipped the switch for the Hub's speakers.

The room flooded with a hypnotic singing and everyone just listened until Rose crashed to her knees hands over her ears screaming an unearthly scream. "Ianto shut it off," Jack cried as he dove to Rose's side. Ianto flipped the switch as Jack cradled Rose slightly rocking her back and forth to sooth her, "Your okay kid, your okay," he murmured.

"What was that?" cried Gwen concerned for Rose and confused as to why Jack cared so much for her.

"I don't know," Jack replied as he picked Rose up with ease, "But whatever it was, we shouldn't play it again while she's in ear shot." With that he carried her into his office and shut the door. As he laid her on the sofa he called to her softly "Rose, come on Rose, wake up."

She stirred and slowly opened her brown eyes and now he couldn't but help notice the bit of gold flecked in her irises. "What happened?" she asked.

"You passed out," replied Jack concerned for her.

The gold intensified in her eyes for a moment and then as if she knew it was there she blinked a few times and breathed, "Oh Jack, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." She opened her eyes and he couldn't see any of the gold there, after a beat she continued, "I remember, I remember and you're all my fault, I'm the Bad Wolf."

She clung to his neck in a form of apology. He patted her arm "It's okay Rose, it's okay. I take it as a complement that you liked you're me so much you never wanted him to die, so we just don't," commented Jack.

"You're not mad?" she asked as she pulled away from him tears in her eyes.

"No, I'm not mad," he said flashing his winning smile.

She smiled back in return and said, "I somehow knew you were going to say that."

He laughed, "Well you where the one with the Time Vortex in your head."

"Yeah," she replied. "Right then, the 456 first, shall we?"

Jack looked at her strangely for a bit, he knew those weren't her words, they where the Doctor's. "But why do you remember now Rose?" He asked.

"But the 456," she tried to get him back on track.

"Can wait a few minutes," he replied. "Why do you remember now?"

"The song, what we heard was not the 456. Bad Wolf planed for me to alter it, she knew it would be safe for me to remember now, that I would be changed enough to hold on to the memory of the Vortex without the chance of burning I guess. Something to do with making me less of an ape," she laughed at the reference from her first Doctor.

Jack didn't get the reference but said "Doubt you where ever much of an ape."

"Maybe," she replied rubbing the back of her neck, "Can we focus on the 456 now?"

He was unsure about the very condensed explanation but with a smile he agreed and they got to work. Jack was surprised as to how easily they beat back the 456, with the two of them together it was almost as if the Doctor had taken care of it. There was some loss of life but not nearly on the scale the other two universes had face, of course he knew what had happen there and it wasn't pretty. Though Jack would never say it to Rose, even after she seemed to know what was to come in her universe, he thought her own universe had really had it bad when he thought about what her Jack had done in sacrificing his own grandson.