This chapter is rated M for sexual content.

Plus, an apologetic message for N'eith. I really would love to reply to your wonderful reviews, but this sight won't let me and you don't have your PM service switched...sorry I am not ignoring you


Gwen had been watching the animated conversation on the monitor but had turned away when they had left.

She watched as Jack and Doctor Stoneleigh ushered Professor Sampson into Jack's office.

She looked at Ianto who said. "She's in for a shock."

Gwen smiled and turned back to the monitor and froze.

"What the hell! Jack!"

She couldn't believe what she was seeing; there was woman sitting on the Doctor's bed and she was kissing him!

Then she saw the streams of golden light and knew that couldn't be good.

"Jack!" she bellowed again and rushed down the stairs, closely followed by Ianto who had also been staring open-mouthed at the monitor.

She flew the last steps and stopped...the doors were locked and only Jack knew the code.

She stared at the scene inside and began banging on the glass furiously.

"Get off him!" she yelled and only stopped when the woman who had been kissing the Doctor looked up.

She was beautiful and seemed to glow with the golden energy that Gwen assumed she'd sucked from the Doctor.


"Get off him, you energy sucking bitch!"

Gwen whirled round.

The words had come from Jack who had bolted down the stairs and was frantically punching in the code.

The woman stood then and seemed to be saying something to the Doctor and then looked up and smiled them before fading away.

"No, don't go!" the Doctor cried and tried to get off the bed but was restrained by Doctor Stoneleigh.

Golden light was still emanating from his eyes and Doctor Stoneleigh could see and feel that if it didn't stop it would be detrimental to the Doctor. He was at a loss as to how to stop it and did the only thing he thought might work.

He slapped the Doctor hard and the shock of it must have worked as the light winked out and the Doctor fell back and into unconsciousness.


Jack finally managed to calm his heart and moved over to the bed where Doctor Stoneleigh was examining the Doctor.

"Is he okay, that thing was taking his energy?"

"He seems okay, but I think any longer and it might have started to do damage. Whatever it or rather she was, he didn't seem to be resisting."

Jack nodded. "And when that happens, it's not a good thing."

"Well, whatever she was, I think we got there just in time. I think he'll be out for a while, perhaps we should see if there's anything on the security tape," Doctor Stoneleigh said.

"Agreed," Jack said. "Gwen, stay here, just in case she comes back. If he wakes up, let me know."

Gwen nodded and pulled the chair up to the bed.

She sat down and pulled the covers over the Doctor. "Don't worry, she won't get near him again."


The night was humid and the Doctor found he couldn't sleep and he was walking the marble corridors of the King's Summer Palace.

The battle that day had been hard and there had been many deaths on both sides. It had been a pointless exercise; he was no nearer finding the location of their camp than he'd been that morning.

He returned to his rooms and walked out on the balcony, trying to catch what breeze there was.

The moonlight was dancing across the Euphrates and the sound of the night-time rituals floated on the breeze.

"Enlil," a woman's voice came on the breeze and the Doctor frowned...he really should get some sleep; he was hearing voices.

He lay down on top of the bed and soon his eyes began to close.

"Enlil," the woman's voice said again and this it was right in his ear.

He shot up and was frozen in surprise when he found a woman, a very beautiful woman sitting on his bed.

"Enlil," the woman breathed and a scent of cinnamon and all-spice filled his nostril and he found the scent irresistible.

"Who...?" he began, but the woman silenced him with a kiss and the same taste as her breath was on his lips.

"I am Ninlil," she whispered and kissed him again.

He felt a surge of lust as she kissed him and instead of resisting it, he gave in to it.

He dragged the woman towards him and with a groan of desire he removed the almost see-through robe...she really was beautiful.

"My Lord," she sighed and shivered as his hand ran across her breast and bit into her neck with a snarl of lust.

Her reaction caused him to growl and she felt his lust spiked and he took her. He lay her down and she let out another cinnamon filled breath as he entered her.

"Enlil, forever you are mine," she sighed.

With a growl he increased his rhythm and his speed and as he came to completion the woman cried his name.

"My Lord, my husband," she said softly as she watched him sleep. "You will only remember this night as but a dream. But we are joined and I will find you when the time comes and you my Lord of Time will once more fulfil the prophecy. The Tears you shall create will imprison me and you will not know me until I kiss you again."

She kissed him and knew that he would not wake until the morning; the morning that the last and final battle would begin.


Gwen looked up when the Doctor shifted and let out a groan that was definitely not a groan of pain.

She blushed as he said a name that was filled with lust.

"Ninlil."