The disk in the laptop emitted a slight whirring noise as the image on the screen shuddered momentarily and flashed to black. All that remained to be seen there now was the fuzzy reflection of two stunned, wide-eyed faces. The man and woman slowly moved back away from the screen, utterly speechless.

Despite what they had just witnessed both were surprised, and a little ashamed to find they were actually quite aroused by the video. Although, Gwen thought to herself, who wouldn't be? She'd just seen herself make love to the man sitting next to her, pretty passionately too.

Jack Harkness seemed to be echoing these thoughts; letting a low whistle escape his lips as he sighed and slumped into the chair. It was Gwen. Gwen had retconned him – he hadn't expected that: and not only that but she was the one who initiated the nights proceedings. He hadn't expected that either.

A few seconds passed before either moved. Jack turned first to look at Gwen, with a whole new kind of respect for her. He had just seen himself have sex with this incredible woman only for her to rip his heart out not long after. Not that he could remember any of it of course, but to watch himself go through it still hurt.

Gwen became aware of Jack staring at her. She had retconned him? You bitch, she thought.

The silence seemed to drown out all the noises around them, almost as though her and Jack were encased in it. Gwen took a deep breath and counted down in her head; 3, ... 2, ... 1. And nervously, she turned until her eyes met Jack's. She searched his face for the rage and fury she had been anticipating but it wasn't there. In fact he looked like he wanted to laugh ...

... Jack couldn't help but want to laugh. This was so ridiculous. He had decided there was no use in arguing about it. Both of them could've stopped what they were doing that night but neither of them did and now they were suffering the consequences. This is one of the worse case scenarios to come from having unprotected sex, he thought to himself.

"Well ..."

"Jack ..."

Now he let himself smile, "... I don't think either of us saw that one coming"

Gwen slapped him.


Jack touched his hand to his tingling cheek; sure that it was bright red now. Immediately regretting her outburst, Gwen stood up, scraping the chair across the floor. He hadn't deserved that – if anything Jack was the victim here.

"Jack, I'm sorry," Gwen muttered, with her back to him.

"So am I." Jack stood up and approached Gwen. "I'm sorry for the danger I've put you in," he said, placing his hands comfortingly on Gwen's shoulders. "If it weren't for me you'd be sat happily at home," he paused and swallowed "... with Rhys."

"Blissfully ignorant," Gwen scoffed, looking down at her bump. "If it weren't for you I wouldn't be having a baby. And you? You would be the soul prey of those aliens. You can't face them alone - you need me, Jack." She turned, taking Jack's hands in hers and finally allowed herself to smile.

"So ... what are we going to do?" she asked.

Before Captain Jack could open his mouth to respond three unexpected things happened all at once:

... a man appeared in the doorway and stood amongst the splinters of what used to be his front door with a look of pure astonishment on his face

... two white ghostly figures smashed through the window at the other end of the flat

... Gwen's waters broke.


A/N

I will be astounded if anyone is still interested in this story as I haven't updated it for like 18months which would be a shame but it's my own fault. Way too busy with uni life but now I'm slap bang in the middle of a 3 month unemployed summer holiday so I'm back on the writing game :)

Hope this is alright ... not too convinced, only took a few hours to write it ...