I don't own anything to do with Doctor who, only my character, Ebony.

'Jack! You might want to see this!' Toshiko yelled from the control room. Jack was in his office going through some paperwork. He walked out to Tosh's station. It was the day after He and Ebony had gone to Cornwall and discovered the statue of her that appeared in the photo in her locket.

'The computer studied both pictures of the statue. It's dated them to be 12 years apart.' Jack stood staring at both of the pictures as they were displayed on one of the monitors.

'Hmm, that's weird.' He told her. 'That would make her about 7 or 8 when that statue was made.' Toshiko turned round to look at him.

'That's what I wanted you to see. The picture you took shows the statue to be newer than in the photo in Eb's locket.' He crossed his arms at this news.

'So technically, that would mean that Eb's picture hasn't yet been taken, but will be in 12 years time. That would make sense.'

Toshiko looked at him with worry on her face.

'Jack? How does that make sense? Theoretically this picture hasn't been taken yet.'

'Tosh, you're forgetting that: 1, We are sitting smack on top of the rift so anything could happen, and 2, that time travel is extremely possible, bearing in mind we were actually trapped in 1941 for a night.' He turned to look at Ebony who was down in Owen's room. She was sitting on the PM table while Owen was talking to her. He could tell she wasn't listening to a word he was saying. Her eyes were glazed over and she was staring at her shoes.

'You've got a point there. But that would mean that Ebony's a time traveller.'

'Not necessarily.' He said still watching her being talked at. 'It would make her a companion.' He turned back to the screens and leaned closer to Tosh. 'Bring up the 'Time Lord' file.' She quickly scanned through the data base and brought up the file and opened it. It wasn't a very large file. It had brief details and notes. Tosh read through it.

'Wow. Is that who the man in the picture is?' She asked still looking at the contents of the file.

'Sure is.' He said. 'One and only.' He stood up straight again.

'What are we going to say to Eb's?' She asked.

'Nothing, she will find it out herself when she is ready.'

'Find what out?' Came a voice from behind them. They turned round and saw Ebony walking the last few steps to them. Tosh quickly press a button which cleared the screen of the file.

'Nothing.' Jack said to her. 'Get back to work. You don't want it catching up on you.' Ebony was taken aback that she was lied to so obviously, and by Jack of all people. She turned round and stormed off back down the white tiled steps to where Owen was. She had seen Tosh quickly take off the file. But unfortunately for them she hadn't done it quick enough, because she had seen what it was called. Time Lord. She needed to get to a computer.

'Owen?' she said sweetly. He turned round and looked at her. He gave her one of his 'corner of mouth' smiles. 'Where is there a station where I can access the mainframe apart from in the control room?' He stopped smiling and carried on with what he was doing. He thought she was going to ask him something interesting.

'Well, there's one up with Ianto and another down in the basement. Why?' She started for the stairs.

'No reason really.' Jack was watching her as she crossed the room, she glanced at him once but that was enough to say: Don't follow me. She got the lift up to the main corridor and walked through the side door into the fake reception. Ianto came through his beaded curtains to see what was happening.

'Ianto, Jack sent me up to ask for one of your specials or something.' He smiled to himself as he walked passed her and into the corridor.

She quickly logged into the computer. Once in she searched through the files till she found 'Time Lord'. She could hear the lift whirring into life again through the open side door. She quickly hit print. Thank God it was a quick printer, she thought as the last page shot out as she heard hurried footsteps along the corridor. She jumped over the counter and darted out of the front door and into the city of Cardiff.

It was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon so not many people were about on the streets. She carried on walking until she reached a coffee shop where she sat down with a Hot Chocolate. She started to read through the papers.

TORCHWOOD ARCHIVE

'TIME LORD'

NAME: 'THE DOCTOR'

SPECIES: 'TIME LORD' (* see notes)

AGE: UNKNOWN

VESSEL: T.A.R.D.I.S - TIME AND RELATIVE DIMENSION IN SPACE

KNOWN WHEREABOUTS: UNKNOWN

KNOWN ASSOCIATIONS: EBONY STEPHENS (UNKNOWN), ROSE TYLER (DECEASED).

KNOWN ENDEAVORS: 'FULL MOON' FILE 1700's,

ASSISTED DEFEAT OF CYCORAX + VESSEL 25/12/2006

(* 'TIME LORD' SPECIES WIPED OUT IN TIME WAR. ONLY LIVING SURVIVOR. LAST OF SPECIES.

UNLIKELY TO BE TRAVELING ALONE. TENDENCY TO HAVE A COMPANION.)

As she read this first page, most of her questions were answered. He was called The Doctor. She was his companion. He was an Alien. He had a time machine. And finally, she had a last name.

On the next few pages it listed different times he had been sighted or was written down in history or rescues he made. One thing she did notice was that whenever someone appeared to be in danger, he rushed to help. Her brain suddenly clicked into action. She needed to get him here. She needed to see him. She left her untouched drink on the table and ran full speed back towards the Torchwood hub.

She crashed into Owen as she rounded the corner into the corridor, knocking them both flying.

'Shit! Why don't you watch where you're going, yeah?' He said to her. She didn't care though she needed to get to Tosh's computers. Once in the lift she tried to control her breathing and look calm. She slowly walked out of the lift doors looking round the hub to see where Jack and Tosh were. She couldn't see Jack, but there were no surprises as to where Tosh was. And that was exactly where she wanted to be.

'Tosh.' She said, making her turn round very quickly to look at her. She seemed slightly worried. 'Just passed Owen in the corridor. He said he needs his crime scene bag up top, could you take it up to him?' she asked. Toshiko looked suspiciously at her.

'Erm, why can't you do it?' she asked. Ebony replied with:

'Because he asked for you.' Giving her a smile and a quick wink. She slowly got up off her chair and went over to Owen's station where she picked up his bag and carried it into the lift where the doors closed and she went up to meet Owen. Ebony smiled to herself. 'Worked twice. These people are so gullible.'

She sat down in front of Tosh's station where she brought up a dialogue box that she had seen her use before to beam out a message to warn Aliens out of British air space. She typed in only 3 words to be beamed out into space.

Help, Doctor. Help.

She hit enter and a message appeared confirming that it was sending her message. Then she did the other thing she needed to. She brought up the record system for every person in the UK. She typed in Ebony Stephens. 3 results came up from the search. One of a 3 year old girl with blonde hair and the other was of a newly married woman that also looked nothing like her. And the third was her hospital notes. But they were under only 'Ebony'. Apart from that she didn't exist. No records of her past life that was slowly becoming her current life.

'You won't find anything.' Came a voice from the other side of the room. It was Jack. 'You're not from here. Not from this time.'

'You what?' she said after turning round to face him.

'You're not from this time. You're originally from the future.

That's why there's no record of you. You've not been born yet.' For some reason it all made perfect sense to her.

'And you didn't think that I might want to know that little bit of information? That it might have helped me get my memory back? That I might find out who I am instead of being 'Just Ebony'?'

'You would have found out eventually. You've always been smart like that.' He was standing at the foot of the stairs to the conference room leaning against the rail with his arms crossed. She quickly stood up in anger sending the chair rolling across the room into a work station.

'You knew?' she asked him, almost yelling. He didn't say anything. She walked over to him, just wanting to hurt him anyway possible for keeping this huge, valuable information from her.

As she was walking her mind suddenly threw up a wall of fire in front of her. She knew it wasn't there but it made her stop anyway. It didn't last any more than a second, but a second was all it took. She had looked up at Jack through the imaginary flames. Then she realized why he had brought her to Torchwood.

'You.' She said. She had so much that she wanted to say to him but didn't know what to say first. Then it just viciously flew out obviously shocking Jack a little. 'WHAT DID YOU SAY TO HIM!' She yelled. He looked confused. When he didn't reply she quickly closed the distance between them. 'What did you say?' Yet again he didn't reply. 'Tell me!' she yelled in his face while pushing against his folded arms with all her weight and anger. He didn't move. 'You are so selfish Harkness! Why the hell won't you tell me?' He was looking into her eyes.

'Because I don't know what you're talking about.' She quickly spun round and walked away from him. She came to a stop near one of the stations that hadn't been used for a while. It had old papers strewn on the desk and a glass note board that they used to write down theories and equations. Ebony was so annoyed with Jack, so annoyed with everything that she plunged her hand straight through the glass. Pain shot up her arm and she could see blood starting to well in the long slashes in her skin. She screamed and cursed as Jack quickly walked over to her to check she was alright.

'You know what. I think I'm going to take back the thing I said about you being smart.' He pulled a large handkerchief out of his pocket and started wrapping it around her hand to form a makeshift bandage.

'You were there, Jack.' She said looking up at him. 'You were there. You came up behind him and said something to him. You had your hand on his shoulder. What did you say to him that made him blow up the room, Jack?' He looked away from her. That was what confirmed she was right.

Jack was the man behind the Doctor in her main memory of the explosion.

'I just told him you were suffering.' he said sadly.

'Oh.' She said. She hadn't been expecting that.

She had been thinking badly of Jack. 'Sorry, Jack.' she said quietly as she walked passed him and across the room into the lift. As she pressed the button for the fake reception he turned round to watch her disappear behind the metal doors.

As she rounded the corner into the reception she saw that Owen, Ianto and Toshiko were all standing silently looking at her. They didn't say a word as she walked round them and out the door.