Author's Note: ZOMG! It's been a month and a half since I last updated! I'm sorry, my dear, loyal readers. But, it's been a long while since I've been able to have a good sit-down with my lovely computer to write without any distractions. So I'm awarding you a 1500 word chapter! WOOT WOOT!

Disclaimer: I don't own Doctor Who or any of the characters involved. I've simply...borrowed them for a bit. (;

"I hope this works, Rose," Jack told her while strapping his newly-repaired manipulator on his wrist. "I don't exactly fancy being scattered into billions of pieces in the vortex."

"Trillions, not billions, Jack. And it will, just trust me, okay?" He nodded. She looked to Gwen and Ianto, "Don't break the comm link until he's here, got it?"

"Got it," Gwen replied quickly. "Be careful, okay? I want you back here in one piece," she said to Jack.

"You know I'm always cautious," he said lightly, grinning. He turned to look between her and Ianto, "If anything goes wrong, use the time lock. I'll be back, I promise you that," he said after hugging them both.

"Are you ready, Jack?" Rose's voice sounded from the computer.

"More than ever," he looked at her after securing his pistol in his coat pocket. "Beam me up, Scotty," he said with a wink to Ianto. He pressed a button on his manipulator and vanished.

An instant later he reappeared in the ghost shift room only a few feet away from Rose, who immediately found herself enveloped in Jack's warm embrace. He twirled her around a few times, their laughs making the atmosphere in the dark room a bit lighter.

"Rose Tyler. You haven't changed a bit! Well, maybe your hair, but that's all I can see. It's like time has stood still around you," Jack said, pulling back to look at her, his hands on her shoulders.

She shrugged and looked away, "Something like that. We'd better tell Gwen and Ianto you've made it."

"We can hear you," came Gwen's voice through the computer.

"Alright, then," Jack said as he walked to it. "Now that I'm here I'll break the link for now. Contact us again if you get anything new, got it?"

"As long as you do the same," Ianto replied, stepping into the picture.

Rose came to stand next to Jack. "Watch yourselves," she told them just before Jack broke the comm link.

"So you know what's going on, then." Jack stated, pulling up a chair next to the one she currently sat in.

She sighed, getting ready for a long explanation. "Time moves quicker in the other universe than it does here, so I know what's coming, Jack."

"And that is..?"

"The stars are going out. Not just in this universe, but all universes. At a point in the very near future, a few hours in this universe, everything ceases to exist. Reality. Life as we know it will end if someone or something doesn't stop what brought Earth and the 26 other planets here. We need him, Jack. The Doctor is the only one who can do it."

"Rose, how can you know all of this? Would we be able to even contact him? You said time moves quicker in the universe you were in before, but it can't be that quick. And how did you get here?" Jack questioned, watching Rose as she got up and started to pace the room.

"We don't have time for me to tell you everything, but I'll tell you the shortened version of the story, okay?" He nodded, letting her continue. "I know you're immortal Jack, and I know it's my fault. And I'm sorry for that. But the same thing that made me able to do that to you also messed with my physiology, too. I'm not exactly human anymore. I haven't been for a very, very long time." She stopped her pacing in front of him and stood still. "I am the Bad Wolf. I looked into the TARDIS and the vortex changed me. I don't age, okay? I'm kind of like you. So I've been around much longer than anyone else in the other universe. I outlived my mother, Mickey, and Pete."

She started pacing again as Jack stood to take off his long coat and watch her. "The Torchwood of the other universe was in my hands for a very long time, long enough for me to find a way back here, back to the Doctor. We built something I like to call a Dimension Cannon using salvaged alien technology from the rift and a bit of advanced research I lead over the years. It gave me the ability travel across the void to other realities. Luckily, there is only one universe with the Doctor in it, so I knew the correct one when I had found it.

Except when I had found it, time was in flux. I had to fix the timelines that had gotten dismantled, the work of a Time Beetle, and weave them back together. Finally I got the rift tower to work and power the dimension cannon independently, which is how I ended up here," she gestured to the room with her hands and stopped pacing.

"Oh Rose Tyler, you are amazing," Jack told her, sweeping her up into another hug.

Suddenly, the monitor on the computer flashed to life again. "Hello? Is anyone there?"

"Hang on a second," Rose untangled herself from Jack's arms and went to the computer, who followed right behind her. "I know that voice."

"Is anyone there?" Came the voice and image of Harriet Jones.

"Yes! Hello! Harriet! It's Rose Tyler and Jack Harkness!" Rose replied eagerly.

"Harriet Jones, former prime minister," she said, holding up her ID.

Jack rolled his eyes, "Yes, yes, we know who you are."

"Don't roll your eyes at me, Harkness. And it's good to see you again, miss Tyler."

"The feeling is mutual," Rose said. "How'd you contact us?"

"I've developed a sentient subwave network, undetectable unless used to transmit beyond Earth, that seeks out those who can contact the Doctor. Namely, Harkness over there at Torchwood Three, Martha Jones at UNIT, and Sarah Jane Smith. But I contacted Torchwood Three first and they told me Harkness was at Torchwood One with a certain Rose Tyler."

"Subwaves?" Rose asked. "Harriet, that's brilliant! Now we need to get in contact with Sarah Jane and Martha and find the Doctor."

"Hello? This is Sarah Jane Smith. Is anyone there?" The screen separated into two sections, Harriet on one half and Sarah Jane on the other.

"Sarah Jane? It's Rose Tyler!"

"Rose! My goodness it's been so long. Who is that with you?"

Jack moved closer into the frame. "Captain Jack Harkness. And just who mught you be?" he said raising an eyebrow.

"Jaaaack," Rose turned to him. "There's a time and a place." He smirked.

"Harriet Jones, former prime minister," she said to Sarah Jane.

"Yes, I know who you are. Mister Smith tells me we're communicating through a sentient subwave network?"

Harriet nodded. "That's right. We're only missing Miss Jones and the Doctor."

"Only the Doctor now, I'm afraid," came Martha's voice as another space came on the screen, showing Martha Jones in a regulation UNIT uniform. "Hello!"

"Harriet Jones, former prime minister," she said, flashing her ID for the third time.

"Yes," Martha replied, "I know who you are."

"I'm Sarah Jane Smith. I used to travel with the Doctor as well." Martha nodded and smiled. Her eyes flickered to the next section of the screen.

"Jack Harkness, is that you? Oh, it's been a while. Who's that with you?"

Jack smiled, "This, Martha Jones, is Rose Tyler."

Martha's jaw dropped. "As in THE Rose? My God! Just wait until the Doctor sees you again!" Rose grinned.

"It's nice to finally put a face to the name," Rose said.

"Now that we've all been through introductions, I suggest we get to the situation at hand," instructed Harriet. "The earth has been transported, along with at least ten other planets, to an area we know as the Medusa Cascade."

"Twenty-six other planets, to be exact," said Rose. "And I'm glad we know where we are, thank you. Basically what's going on is that the stars are going out, and reality will literally cease to exist if we don't find the-"

Her explanation was cut off by the screen suddenly being covered by a single word in red, as well as the other computers flickering to life in room. The one word was being said by one ominous voice out of each and every speaker in the room, and it seemed to be transmitted to not only Torchwood One, but each of the other people on the subwave network as well. "EX-TER-MIN-ATE! EX-TER-MIN-ATE! EX-TER-MIN-ATE!"

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