N/A: Sorry this is so short. I haven't updated this in a while and so I thought I'd give you what I had. Once my exams are over, I'll probably update more. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this and if you want to you can have a look at the other stories now up under my name. How exciting! By the way, I should warn you that this is more of a 'fill-in' chapter.


Chapter Nine

Donna sat in the control room having second thoughts about staying behind. All they'd done since the Doctor and everyone else had left was sit and talk about how they were going to miss Neighbours or any of a list of other useless, soaps, documentaries and films. This conversation had ended abruptly when Donna pointed out that they were in a time machine so it didn't really matter. After a few minutes of silence and people not so subtly glancing at their watches, Donna left the inside garden where they had been sitting and made her way to the control room.

Now she sat, once again picking at the post-it notes on the console. Just as she made up her mind to go and find the Doctor, Mickey and Sarah Jane walked in.

"Where are you going?" asked Mickey, seeing her putting her coat on.

"Nowhere" she answered but when he gave her a sceptical look she gave in. "Okay, Okay. I'm going to find the Doctor but no puny tin dog of a man is going to stop me!" She stared him down, daring him to say no but he surprised her.

"Fine but we're coming too. We'll leave a note for the others."

"You're not going to dissuade me?" she asked, stunned.

"Why should we? We were going to anyway." Mickey picked up a pen and scribbled a note to the others. He finished the note and turned to Donna. "Lets get going then."

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Owen Harper slammed the door of the black 4x4.

"Tosh, you said—" He turned to face his colleague, Toshiko Sato. "You said, and I quote, "Jack's signal comes up just across the void." Unless I'm blind, I see no Jack."

"What makes you think we're actually across the void?"" Ianto Jones spoke up, also getting out of the car, holding the door open for Tosh who pulled her laptop out and started tapping animatedly at the keyboard.

"It did though…" she tapped a bit more. "Now it's saying that actually he's further away than this—"

"Hey, you! Excuse me! Have you seen a blonde girl, her mother, a dark skinned girl, a brown haired guy in a brown coat, a golden retriever and a man who can't die dressed as a World War II captain?" asked a red haired women hurrying passed.

"That sounds like Jack. What you looking for Jack for?" Owen asked.

"You can't just jump to conclusions, Owen. They might not—"

"Yeah Jack. Captain Jack Harkness. You know him?"

"He's our boss. We—" Gwen was interrupted by a snort from Mickey.

"Sorry." He apologised, trying not to laugh. "Just trying to imagine Jack with a team. Well, one that he didn't sleep with or them wanting to... Oh, I should have know better." He laughed when Ianto looked down and Gwen began avoiding his eyes. "There's always one. Or more in this case obviously. So if we're all looking for the same person plus others, why don't we go together?"

"Why should we trust you?" Owen asked sceptically.

"Because, we know where we're going."