Hey there loyal readers. Thanks for the reviews. I'm so glad you are all enjoying this story. I'm trying to make the chapters longer but I update every day or two anyway so don't worry I'm not going to leave you all hanging. Anyway, on with the show! Please review!

Oh and also I can't think of a really bad alien from the show so I'm using the "Repeated Meme" from "The End of the World." We all going to pretend that they were really bad and against the law. Thanks! Review and enjoy!

"Jack, something's going on with the rift." Tosh said from her computer desk.

Jack walked over to her followed by Rose, Ianto and Gwen while Owen sat with his feet on his desk not really interested. "What have we got?"

"Not sure," she pulled up a picture on the CCTV. There was a man flanked by three tall beings in black robes. Tosh managed to get a picture of the man's face and ran a search. "Ok, the man is Sean Brooks. I can't find anything on him though. It's like his records have been wiped clean. Hold on, I'll try to dig deeper and find something."

Rose looked intently at the three robed figures, "Jack?"

"Yeah?"

"Those are Repeated Meme."

Jack eyes widened and he looked at Rose shocked, "How the hell did he get his hands on Repeated Meme?"

"I have no idea but that's them."

"Um, guys, I know you like speaking your secret special futuristic talk but would you mind filling the rest of us in." Owen asked walking over to the rest of them.

Rose ignored him and spoke to Jack, "There are really only two options here. He's either a human who doesn't know what he's got or he's an alien that's breaking galactic law."

"There's a galactic law?"

Jack explained, "Repeated Meme are just an idea. Remote controlled droids. They're a really good cover up for the real bad guys. That's why they're against the law. If they get caught it's basically impossible to track down the person responsible"

"Mm that's interesting. Now, about this galactic law. How come we don't have to follow this law?" Owen questioned.

"We do."

Gwen looked confused, "What do you mean, we do?"

"How can we be following a law that we don't know about? I mean, if we break this law, what happens?"

Jack and Rose were silent.

"How can we not know about this? I don't mean the entire human race. They're not ready for that but what about us? Why doesn't Torchwood know about this?" Tosh asked.

Jack answered slowly, "There is a representative that handles those kinds of situations and it wasn't necessary for Torchwood to know."

"How could it not be necessary? It's our job to deal with aliens."

"And you do your jobs, on this planet." Rose said trying to calm things down.

"Oh yeah, you would say that, Miss Experienced-Traveler. I bet there's no counting how many plants you've been to. Or how many things you've smuggled back with you. Is that breaking the law? Like no crossing the border. No crossing the atmosphere?" Owen asked not really happy not knowing things.



Rose laughed, "It's not exactly like that. And it depends on what you're taking with you."

Owen scoffed, "Yeah, know everything, don't you?"

Jack face flashed with remembrance, "Oh that reminds me."

"What reminds you of what?"

Jack went up to his office and came back with a square gold locket. The other's gathered round, curious of what he had. He handed it to a stunned Rose, "My locket," she turned it over in her hands noticing that it was a lot less shiny then when she had last seen it two years ago, "It looks so old."

"Yeah, well, it's been through a lot. Do you remember when you gave me that?"

She smiled, "Women Wept."

"We were under the ice waves," he nodded, "I was going to give it back to you, that day on Satellite Five but I thought that if I did that then I would really be saying goodbye to you and I just couldn't bring myself to do it."

"I gave it to you for good luck and you ended up dying with it." She said sadly. He just smiled sadly back at her. She looked back at the locket, "All the important people in here. There's a picture of me and my mom, one of me and Mickey, and one of the three of us." She opened it and she and Jack felt a rush of a familiar feeling.

"Did you feel that?" Jack asked, while the others were confused yet again.

"Tardis energy."

"Feels like—"

"Home." They looked at each other and knew exactly what the other was thinking. They missed it.

"We should call him."

"No." Rose said quickly.

Jack was surprised by that, "Why not?"

Rose was silent for moment then answered slowly, "Because if he came here, I don't think I could stop myself from leaving with him."

"So?"

"I can't do it anymore, Jack. The life of a companion, it's too uncertain. And that's just part of being a companion, you get left behind and you move on. I've done that."

"He won't leave you behind Rose. He loves you."

"He'll leave me behind because he loves me. Because he doesn't want to see me die."

A heartbreaking expression crossed Jack's face.

"You'll go back though."

"No. I've been back. I've moved on too." He told her.

"Maybe you think you have. But give it a few decades and when the reasons that are keeping you here are long gone. You'll go back. You'll be the perfect companion. I made you into the perfect companion," she looked at him with sad eyes, "You'll go back."

Jack looked at her then looked at his team. She was right. He knew it. He just didn't like to think about it.

This one's a little bit longer! Anyway, leave me some reviews and I'll try to get the next one up super fast!