A/N: Without further delay, this one goes to Hiddenfilly, enjoy!
1939. London Countryside. 5:32 pm.
The quiet mansion stood in peace while its inhabitants were away at town, but that peace would not remain. With a loud zap, two men suddenly appeared about three feet off the floor, chests down and legs up as if they were falling from the sky. The men faced each other, but one had hold of the others arm. Gravity quickly kicked in and the two landed with a resounding thud on the hardwood floor of the large entry way.
"Tag! You. Are. It!" Jack exclaimed as he pointed to the Doctor.
"Oh rubbish that!" The Doctor exclaimed and pointed accusingly at his friend. "There was no way you couldn't have known I was on that ship unless you cheated."
"Cheat? Me?" The captain feigned innocence as he climbed to his feet. He offered a hand to his friend to help him up.
"Yes. You." The Time Lord grinned and reached up for the offered hand only for Jack to snatch it away.
"You're it! Can't catch me!" Jack laughed and dashed up the grand staircase, leaping two and three steps at a time.
The Doctor jumped to his feet and made no haste running after his immortal friend. "Come on, Jack," the Time Lord called out when he reached the top of the stairs, "we're going to have to go back to the TARDIS at some point. Can't play Tag with only one time machine…" Somewhere down the hall, booted footsteps faded to silence. "Alrighty then." The Doctor adjusted the tie around his head and marched down the hall.
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Jack ran down the large hall, found a set of stairs and ran up those into a room barren of any furniture save a single wardrobe against the far wall. He knew that eventually he and the Doctor would have to call a temporary truce to get the TARDIS, but that didn't mean he couldn't have a bit fun while they were here, wherever here was. He slipped into the wardrobe and closed the door as quietly as he could. When the Doctor opens that door, Jack planned on jumping out and scaring the pants off the Time Lord. It was going to be brilliant.
He took a couple of steps deeper into the wardrobe and realized he could keep going, so he continued to push his way through the coats until an icy pine tree branch slapped him across the face. "Ow!" He rubbed his cheek. "Wait. What's a tree doing in a wardrobe?"
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The Doctor crept quiet as a mouse across the room until he stood in front of the wardrobe with his hands on the handles. "Ah ha!" He cried as he flung open the doors and leaped into the fur coats hanging inside. He expected to either land on Jack or the back of the wardrobe, so he was genuinely surprised to instead land flat on his face on snow covered ground. "What?" Spitting snow out of his mouth, he climbed to his feet and looked around the wintery forest surrounding him.
"What?" He said again at the lone lamp post standing in front of him. The Time Lord turned around and ran the way he came only to come out of the thick branches at the same lone lamp post. "What?" He exclaimed in disbelief and pulled out his sonic.
A quick scan showed that while the lamp light glowed a soft yellow, there was no detectable power source. However, the sonic did pick up a familiar sonic energy from some distance away. Must be Jack, the Doctor reasoned and programmed the coordinates into the vortex manipulator. He pushed a button and vanished.
The Doctor appeared in a great icy hall at the top of icy steps right next to an icy throne. A woman in a white dress sitting on the throne gasped in surprise and jumped to her feet. "Who are you?" she asked in a dark commanding voice and aimed her icicle wand at the Time Lord. A man in a white fur overcoat seated next to the woman also rose to his feet.
"Oh allo. Didn't mean to intrude," the Time Lord smiled sheepishly. "I'm the Doctor and I'll just be going on m—Jack?"
"Hi, Doc," Jack said with a grin. "What took you so long? I've been waiting a hundred and forty-nine years!" He turned to the woman and cupped her hand between his. "Jadis darling," he said to her and kissed the back of her hand, "it's been fun, but I gotta go."
"You're leaving me? For someone like…him?" Jadis snatched her hand out from Jack's and aimed her wand at his chest.
"Now wait a minute," the Doctor started.
"Now, Doctor." Jack interrupted in a panicked voice. "Do something now!"
The Time Lord grabbed Jack by the arm and activated the vortex manipulator leaving a furious White Witch howling in rage.
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To be continued
A/N: I leave it up to your imaginations of exactly what Jack was doing with the White Witch, heh.
