Chapter 10
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This is set after Adam and before reset. This will go AU from there and will have cross overs with Doctor Who. How would Jack needing to become a full time father to his teenage daughter effect torchwood and how will an teenager effect the torchwood team.
"I had my reasons. Killing you back then would hurt my nephews but I'm passed that and by now after spending almost 25 years with you I'm sure they will be two." Victor tells Jack overconfidence at his own words clear.
"They are not your nephews." Jack says angrily.
"Now, now Jacky, what would Lily say to you telling her last living brother that her children aren't my nephews?"
"Well Vicky I think she would be fine with it. She stopped considering you family a long time ago." Jack tells him.
"You don't know the first thing about Lily." Victor tells him angrily.
"Ooh but I do and you know it that's what made you so angry isn't it? That I knew your big sis better." Jack responds.
"Tracing my call Jack really? do you think I am that easy to find?" Victor asks the overconfidence clear and sounding like he thinks Jack is stupid for ever trying.
"Do you really think I can't?" Jack asks wanting to shake Victor up though he knows even for Tosh it may be impossible.
"Oh I know you can't, we've been here before." Victor tells Jack his voice sounding just as overconfident it has during the entire phone call.
"That we have. I don't know about you but I hate a repeat so what do you say we end this? Just you and me like civilised men." Jack says to Victor.
"Ah you see that's another difference between us I always love a sequels. Besides you and I both know that neither of us are civilised men, Bye Jacky." Victor says hanging up the phone.
"Darn it." Jack says angrily tossing his phone across the hub "Toshiko did you trace it?" Jack asks walking into the conference room.
"No sorry Jack. He had the call routed through hundreds of different places." Tosh tells her boss sorry that she couldn't help.
"What did he say?" Gwen asks curious but sounding almost hesitant.
"That he loves a sequel, he's planning something big." Jack tells everyone.
"What do we do?" Tosh asks.
For a couple of minutes Jack looks like he is thinking before he speaks again "First we need to let UNIT know Victor Cole is alive. After last time we have to assume that are targets two." Jack tells everyone.
"I can do that." Mathew says figuring that it will be easy considering he works for UNIT.
"No." Jack says "It would be too hard to explain how you know. Plus we have to be careful who we tell. There is one person who was a strong trusted ally last time and will understand what Victor Cole being alive means." Jack tells everyone.
"If he was trusted doesn't that mean he would have been one of the few people who knew where our Mother was going to give birth?" Aaron asks his father.
"No the Colonel didn't know that but he did help me out a lot, when we came back here. He even protected the two of you more than once." Jack tells his sons. "He needs to prepare just in case." Jack says about to pull his phone out of his pocket to make the call before realises that he threw it across the room and that he doesn't use his second phone for stuff like this. "I need a phone."
"Here, just don't throw it across the hub please." Martha requests handing her phone over to her friend.
"I'll try not to." Jack says collecting the phone of her and dialling a number "Hello, I need you to give the Colonel a message just tell him The Captain called and said an hour place I." Jack says into the phone before hanging up.
"Do you have codes with everyone?" Gwen asks curious as Jack hands the phone back to Martha.
"Quite a few people yes." Jack says sounding like he thinks it's nothing wrong with that.
"Some of these notes don't make sense." Owen says showing Jack the piece of paper he is reading.
"Let me see." Jack says taking the paper off of him and reading it "This is it, she did it, she figured it out." Jack says sounding happier than he has in days.
"Figured what out?" Everyone asks as The Doctor takes the paper off of Jack to read it pulling out his glasses as he does.
"Do you think it will work?" Jack asks The Doctor wanting his opinion.
"It should but are you sure that it is what you want?" The Doctor asks him.
"After everything he did how can you ask that?" Jack asks the Doctor angrily.
"Because you are a good man Jack. I know that this making this choice won't be easy for you, are you sure that this is the decision you can live with forever?" The Doctor asks his old friend.
"139 years Doc, that's how long I spent waiting for you and how long I had to live this life. I have done so many things and there are so many of them that I feel guilty about. So much that I have to live with the guilt of for eternity but Victor Cole needs to be stopped. Not just because of what he did to me and my boys and Lily and Amelia but because of what he did to so many others he needs to be punished for all of that." Jack tells The Doctor looking him directly in the eyes.
"Um Dad, don't you have to go meet your friend." Aaron says a little while later when neither The Doctor or Jack has said anymore.
"Right, continue reading through all this. See if you can use both mine and Amelia's notes to make a list of places that it is possible that Victor is using as a headquarters. Whatever you do don't make any of these notes digital Victor is a very good hacker and it is extremely possible that he can hack our systems it wouldn't be the first time." Jack explains before making sure he isn't looking at Ianto before continuing "After Lisa I put into place defences against cybermen and cyborg so they should keep Victor himself out but he may send his army I just don't know. If that happens get out of here and forget about me, just worry about yourselves. Matt, Aaron, Rosie if that happens EP11, you know everything you need to set up everything for the others. That's what I need you to do if that happens." Jack says looking directly at his sons.
"Dad.." Mathew goes to object but his father cuts him off.
"Remember what you promised Matt, I need you to do this." Jack says then gives the Doctor a look which says please do what I asked of you two.
"I better go. Be careful and I'll try and be back as soon as possible." Jack says getting two small nods in response from his sons as Rhosyn gives him a hug and then he leaves the room.
"I'm coming with you." Ianto says following Jack.
"No." Jack says turning around to face him "I trust The Colonel but Victor more than likely has anyone who fought last time that is still alive followed. We are going to be out in the open. While we are both good a ditching tails but Victor is better at following people than anyone I have ever known. If he gets the chance to take both of us out at the same time then he will take it, you are safer here." Jack tells his lover.
"You said his army can still get in, so how much safer are we Jack?" Ianto asks sceptical about any of their safety at the moment.
"A lot, as bad as his army is Victor is worse a hundred times so. I can survive anything that he throws at me but you can't, please Ianto I need you to stay." Jack requests.
"Ok." Ianto says reluctantly after staring into Jack's eyes and seeing the emotion in them.
"Thank you." Jack says giving his lover a kiss.
"I still don't like you going alone." Ianto tells him.
"He's not I'm going with him." The Doctor says to the surprise of both Ianto and Jack. "And you can't object to me because I don't work for you." The Doctor informs Jack.
Ianto looks between Jack and the Doctor expecting Jack to object like he did with him but instead Jack just gives him a look and The Doctor gives him one back and it's almost like they are talking without words. About a minute later Jack gives the Doctor a small nod before turning back and facing Ianto "If his army does attack Rosie doesn't know how to defend herself. Her mother and I talked about starting to teach her but we didn't get to start, she's defenceless." Jack tells him worried about his daughter even more since The Doctor is coming with him but knowing without even asking that Ianto will do his best to protect her but needing to hear it.
"I'll protect her." Ianto promises meaning the promise with every fibre of his being as he also makes a promise to himself to stick to it no matter what happens.
"Thank you." Jack says giving Ianto a small smile before he and The Doctor leaves and Ianto walks back into the conference room just as he hears Owen asks.
"So if he waited for the Doctor for 139 years how old is your Dad?" He asks the Harkness siblings curious.
"No idea. That would be on the list of questions he never answers list" Mathew says looking up from the papers he is reading.
"What other questions are on that list?" Ianto asks curious sitting down between Gwen and Rhosyn.
"So many questions, so very, very many." Aaron tells him.
"Doesn't it bother you that that there is so much you don't know?" Ianto asks curious.
"Sometimes." Mathew admits truthfully "But everyone has questions that their parents won't answer. Dad tells us a lot but I learnt a long time ago that he has his reasons for not telling us things and we've got to trust that." Mathew says and the room drifts into silence.
"EP11, what does that mean?" Martha asks Aaron curious about a minute later as everyone looks up waiting an answer to that question.
"Unless we have to use it, it is safer for you not to know." Aaron says a couple of minutes later after having a silent conversation with his brother.
"But we need to be prepared." Toshiko objects.
"In this case it's safer for all of us if you're not. We have no idea if someone is listening in Dad said that Cole is an expert Hacker for all we know he could have hacked your security and if we tell you what EP11 is then it could put all of us at risk. It's better this way." Mathew explains.
"You're right." Gwen says hating that she has to say it but knowing that the Young Harkness is right they are not as safe as they would like to be in the Hub.
"But the call Dad made, if we are being watched then he would know where Dad is going." Rhosyn says worried.
"Dad talked to the Colonel in code just like he taught us Cole won't know that." Aaron tells his little sister trying to reassure her though everyone but Rhosyn can tell that he is concerned.
"What was it that Dad showed the Doctor?" Mathew asks Aaron curious wondering if he saw it or know where either of them put it because he didn't see.
"No idea Dad put it in his jacket and took it with him." Aaron tells him then realises something "Owen you saw it what did it say?"
"It didn't make much sense but I think it was a weapon." Owen tells him.
"You think?" Ianto asks him sounding annoyed as if to say how do you not know.
"It didn't make much sense." Owen says in his defence.
"Well judging on how Jack and The Doctor reacted I'm guessing it was maybe a way to kill Victor Cole." Gwen guesses.
"That makes sense. Jack did say that he was almost indestructible whatever that paper was maybe it's about a way to change that." Martha says.
"But as great as that sounds Dad has whatever this weapon is meaning he has to come back ok for it to matter." Aaron says annoyed not even sure about what he is annoyed at anymore.
"He will, Dad always comes back always." Rhosyn says angrily but clearly upset.
Looking at the young girl Ianto decides to offer something that he offers his Niece when she is upset "Hey Rhosyn how about some hot chocolate? I know where your Dad stashes the good stuff." Ianto tells Rhosyn as Jack hid the good drinking chocolate away even since there was an incident between Gwen and Owen a few months before hand that everyone had to suffer for.
"You know." Gwen and Owen say together in shock.
"So would you like some?" Ianto asks Rhosyn ignoring Gwen and Owen.
Rhosyn nods and Ianto and Rhosyn get up and leave the conference room.
"I can't believe he knew." Gwen mutters as she continues to read the paperwork.
"Maybe what he likes to say is true and he does know everything." Tosh says as everyone continues to read the papers the members of Torchwood a little annoyed that Ianto knew where the Good Drinking Chocolate was kept.
Jack and The Doctor leave the hub and get into one of the spare cars sitting in the car park. Jack knowing better than to use the SUV for something like this. They have been driving for a while in silence Jack not feeling much like talking and The Doctor allowing him that until he gets bored with the silence.
"So the information Rhosyn brought up, how did you know what it was?" The Doctor asks Jack interested.
"Thanks to this, read it." Jack says puling Amelia's letter out of his pocket and passing it to the Doctor the one person apart from his kids he is willing to show the contents to. The only reason being that the Doctor knows him better than anyone else ever has.
"Are you sure you want me to read this?" The Doctor asks Jack surprised.
"You need to." Jack tells him and while the Doctor read they go back to silence.
"She loved you." The Doctor comments handing the letter back to Jack when he finished reading it as it is one of the things that is the most obvious from the letter is how much she loves Jack.
"Yeah she did. I love her two." Jack tells him as even though like Amelia said it has been a while since they have been in love he does and will continue to love her.
"How did you meet?" The Doctor asks curious interested to know.
Jack gets a smile on his face as he begins to tell the story "I had been back in Wales with the boys a little over a week." Jack begins to explain but the Doctor cuts him off.
"Why did you come back? After what happened to Lily and with Victor Cole I would have thought it would be the last place you would come two. "The Doctor asks curious about why he would bring him sons back to Wales with everything that was coming after them.
"True, but it was also the place I knew best. The boys were needing to go to a real school not just with what I was teaching them when I could. They needed to be around other kids. I knew wherever I went Victor was more than likely going to find me but I know this city better than him. That's what I was counting on to keep them as safe as I could." Jack explains pausing before continuing "It was their first day at school, the first time they were spending real time away from me." Jack explains.
"And you were panicking." The Doctor realises trying to picture it.
"That would be an understatement." Jack says with a small smile "I was walking around the city and I saw UNIT dealing with something at this point no one knew I was back in Wales not Torchwood or anyone else, but I was able to use my charm to get into the scene."
The Doctor takes charm to mean he flirted his way in but doesn't comment.
"Right away I knew it was Cole it was the way he had killed so many times before. I was looking more closely when the UNIT officer in charge came in and that was Amelia and boy was she pissed, she hated me." Jack says with a small laugh.
"What changed?" The Doctor asks assuming that something must have.
"She called her superior that just happened to be the Colonel who ordered her to let me do what I was doing." Jack says a small smile on his mouth as he remembers her reaction "He had only just joined UNIT when it was senior Cole we were fighting but he quickly earned my respect and some degree of trust. He recognized me and like I said ordered Amelia to allow me to do what I was doing which only made her more angry. After I finished looking at the body the Colonel who wasn't a Colonel back then and I talked. He knew enough about last time to keep me and the boys being back a secret and he ordered Amelia to do the same. He set Amelia up to be my contact in UNIT which she was far less than happy about. As things got worse more people began to find out about me but no one found out about the boys. He did everything he could to protect them even risking his own life and getting hurt more than once to do it. The boys don't know but he's still doing that keeping an eye out for them." Jack says grateful for his friend and what he did in the past what he is still doing.
"So how did you go from hating each other to love?" The Doctor asks curious.
"A bloody battle." Jack says his voice losing the smile it had.
"Does it have something to do with the 8th and 9th of February?" The Doctor asks remembering the Dates from Amelia's letters.
"Yeah. Two of the worse days of the fight between Cole Empires and us. Both sides lost so much, too much." Jack says before becoming quite.
"Jack?" The Doctor asks concerned.
"I've been in a lot of battles Doc, a lot. But none like that one. That battle showed me that Victor was truly worse than his father and I didn't think that was possible. From both sides 180 lives were lost 199 were wounded and 50 people were just missing in all that in just 24 hours." Jack explains.
The Doctor is shocked about the numbers but instead of commented he allows Jack to continue doubting he has told anyone this.
"When UNIT and Torchwood were ordered to retreat there was one more death on each side a good man and a woman, no a girl who could have changed if she got away from her brother and his influence. They were both young, too young. Before the battle I made sure that Mathew and Aaron were safe they were with two people I truly trusted to keep them safe and look after them if this was the one time I didn't come back." Jack explains remembering that Lucia had reluctantly agreed to look after the boys and Alice was actually happy to spend time with her younger brothers.
The Doctor is curious about who the two people are but decides not to question it at the moment as Jack continues his story "I found Amelia after the battle she was a mess. She had loss so many friends and saw more than any person should have to and she had no one. I sat and we talked, we cried and we drank and we had sex, I don't know about her but I feel in love with her that night." Jack tells him.
"I'm sorry Jack, I'm so sorry." The Doctor tells his friend as he can tell just how much he is hurting.
"So am I Doc." Jack says pulling the car over and getting out "I'm ending this and whether he likes it or not this anyone else is getting involved. It's going to be me and him no one else is going to suffer because of this." Jack says getting such a strong look of determination in his eyes as if to say nothing is going to stop him.
After making there hot chocolate Ianto and Rhosyn came back up to the conference room. Ianto continuing to read through the paper work working with the others to see if they can find out where Victor's headquarters are while Rhosyn just sits in the chair watching everyone else. It has been about 50 minutes since Jack left when the alarm signifying someone is trying to get in the front door of the hub goes off.
Everyone looks worriedly at each other and Tosh says "Checking security cameras." As they feed appears on the door they are shocked to see at least 10 people and several visible recognizable aliens in the Tourist centre trying to get in.
"We need weapons." Aarons says.
"No we need to get out of her." Mathew argues.
"No we need both. Owen, Aaron, Matt get enough weapons for all of us. Tosh see if you can lock them out for good, Martha, Ianto, Rhosyn help me collect all of this stuff we can't leave it out." Gwen orders everyone.
Everyone nods and quickly does what she says.
"I can't stop them." Tosh tells everyone as the front entrance opens just As Aaron, Matt and Owen come back in the hub handing everyone except Rhosyn a couple of guns an ammunition.
"Is there a back exit? not via the water tower?" Mathew asks those who work at Torchwood.
"Yes. Through here." Ianto tells him grabbing hold of Rhosyn's hand. Everyone nods and starts to follow.
"Wait." Mathew says stopping them "We can't take anything electronic and we need to wipe and destroy our phones."
"Isn't that a bit over the top?" Owen comments.
"No. Dad always says it's one of the most important things. Phones are to easily traced and have too much important information about you that you may not even realises on them. We need to get rid of them." Aaron says talking very fast as he knows they don't have much time as all three Harkness siblings have already gotten their phones out and have erased them. "Put them on the table." He tells everyone and surprisingly everyone does what he asks, once they are all on the table he pulls aims his machine gun and fires the whole magazine into the pile of phones. "Ianto show us the way."
"Did you really have to destroy the table?" Gwen asks.
"If we survive this you or Dad can kill me for it later." Aaron responds.
"Owen, take the back with Aaron." Mathew says following Ianto through the tunnel. After about 10 minutes they find themselves a couple blocks away from Torchwood.
"What do we do we do now? Do we warn your father?" Tosh asks The Harkness Brothers.
"No. We do what he told us to do EP11, and we hope that he and the Doctor are okay and that if they are they will do the same." Mathew says.
"What is Ep 11?" Gwen asks as she looks around worried.
"We'll tell you on the way we can't stay here." Aaron realises "Come on." He says heading North from the alley they arrive in.
"Aaron." Mathew says stoping his brother "We have to split up we are too big of a group, too big of a target together." Mathew tells his brother.
"Splitting up wouldn't that be the worst idea." Ianto says trying to focus on keeping his promise to Jack instead of worrying about him.
"Maybe." Gwen admits "But if they are looking for us then maybe being in two groups will make us harder to find, keep us safer. You're right about us being noticeable in such a big group." Gwen says trying to decide what the best thing would be.
Everyone is trying to think about the best thing to do when after a couple of minutes Martha speaks "None of us likes the idea of us splitting up we know that but it may be the best thing to do. We should vote." Martha suggests.
"All for splitting up?" Gwen asks and Mathew, Martha, Aaron, Owen, and herself put up their hands "That's more than half."
"Ok Martha, Aaron, Rosie, Ianto you guys go together and head to Charlie Foxtrot and go from there. Gwen, Owen, and Tosh you guys are with me we'll head to Charlie Indigo." Mathew says slipping into the position of leader without meaning to because it is what he is most comfortable as.
"Good luck." Aaron says to his brother
"Same two you."
"Be careful." Rhosyn says to her brother worried giving him a hug.
"Always am Rosie." Mathew tells her. "See you later." He says before He Gwen, Owen and Tosh head in one direction and the others head in the opposite.
Jack and the Doctor have arrive at a public park where there are a few people around but not that many as it during the day on a weekday. Spotting the Colonel a man who looks to be in his mid-40s, very attractive, with dark eyes and short blond hair and wearing his uniform Jack and the Doctor walk over to him.
"Jack good to see you mate." The Colonel says giving him a hug "What's going on? I got a call saying your boys have gone on sudden leave then I get on of your coded phone calls, and who is he?" The Colonel asks.
"Hello I'm the Doctor."
The Colonel looks surprised at that clearly knowing who he is he quickly goes into military stints and gives the Doctor a salute and says "Colonel Kevin Philips, it's an honour sir."
"Please don't call me Sir or salute." The Doctor requests.
"Yes Sir." He says before turning to Jack "It's bad isn't it."
"Worse Kev. Victor Cole Is still alive." Jack tells his friends as the three of them begin to walk together.
Kevin looks a Jack in shocked clearly in a state of disbelief "No he can't be. We got him 16 years ago, we got him."
"Apparently we didn't."
"Are you positive?" Kevin asks not wanting to believe him.
"He killed Amelia, I'm positive." Jack tells him.
"Oh god, Jack I'm so sorry." Kevin tells him and The Doctor can tell from his reaction that Kevin must have been close to Amelia. "That explains Matt and Aaron, what about Rhosyn? Is she ok?" he asks concerned.
"Hurting, scared but she's ok." Jack tells him but before anyone can say anything beeps are heard from Jack's vortex manipulator.
"What does that mean?" The Doctor asks Jack looking closely at the device.
"Someone's trying to get in to Torchwood." Jack says his face going white in worry "And that means that people just used one of the hidden passages from the inside of the hub out." Jacks says when a another beep goes off realising that it would have had to be his people relived about that but still more than very concerned.
"What do we know about Cole's plans this time?" Kevin asks Jack.
"Working on it." Jack tells him suddenly seeing a flash of light in the corner of his eye and realising that it is mussel flash "GET DOWN." Jack yells pulling the Doctor to the ground and throwing himself over the timelord's body to protect him as bullet fire surrounds them.
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