Chapter 11

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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.

AN: Sorry this has taken so long and thank you to everyone who has read, reviewed and or added to alerts. I just want to make it clear that even though it may take a while to update this I have no plans to give up on this I have long term plans for this story.


During the gun fire The Doctor is able to feel the second that Jack dies. He can also tell that once again Victor Cole used the poison but a stronger concentration this time. Once the gunfire stops The Doctor carefully moves Jack off of him so that he can reach his sonic screwdriver. Once he moves Jack he can see that Colonel lying about meter away and realises that he wasn't as lucky as him and is dead. The Doctor uses the screwdriver to fix Jack's Vortex Manipulator and sets the coordinates for the TARDIS reaching over and grabbing the Colonel's hand he places it on the teleport as well, knowing that Jack wouldn't want his friend to be left out in the open like that.

The arrive in the medical bay of the TARDIS technically three hours after leaving the park though for them it has just been seconds. The Doctor places the Cornel on the stretcher and takes Jack to his old room feeling that Jack doesn't need the first thing he sees when he resuscitates to be his friends dead body.

Making himself comfortable on a chair near Jack's bed the Doctor sits and waits for his friend to resurrect.


After splitting up Ianto, Martha, Rhosyn and Aaron walk for half an hour until they arrive at a parking garage.

"Are you going to explain where we are going now?" Martha asks Aaron curious.

"Not out in the open once we start driving I will." Aaron tells her leading them to the stair well where they climb to the third floor of the structure. From there Aaron leads them over to a dark blue SUV with slightly tinted window. He pulls a key ring out of his pocket and starts to look for the right key.

"Can I drive?" Rhosyn asks her brother hopefully.

"You're 14." Ianto and Martha say together.

"And? I know how to drive." Rhosyn tells them not understanding why they think it is a big deal.

"Rosie do you remember the part where that was meant to be a secret?" Aaron asks his sister finding the right key and unlocking the door.

"I thought you just meant from Mum and Dad." Rhosyn responses.

"You taught her to drive." Martha says to Aaron surprised.

"It was Matt's idea." Aaron tells her in his defence.

"But you were the one to teach me." Rhosyn reminds her brother with a small smile.

"Rosie get in the back." Aaron tells his sister becoming annoyed.

"Well you did." Rhosyn says hoping in the back behind the driver. Aaron gets into the driver's side, Ianto gets in the back with Rhosyn and Martha gets back in the front.

"So why doesn't your Dad know you taught Rhosyn to drive?" Martha asks Aaron interested.

"Because she had only just turned 13 when we started to teach her, he would kill us." Aaron explains.

"He's going to find out eventually." Ianto reminds him.

"We'll deal with that when it comes to it. Martha in the glove box there is a pass key, can you give it here." Aaron request as they need it to get out.

Martha searches through the glove box, finds the pass key and hands it to Aaron. Aaron then uses to get out of the parking structure before handing it back to her.

"So where are we going?" Ianto asks wanting answers.

"A house in the country Dad calls it one of the safest places there is." Aaron explains to her.

"How far away is it?" Martha asks.

"Well we want to keep under the speed limit, with traffic and making sure we aren't followed and because we are going to be taking back streets about two, two and a bit hours." Aaron tells her.

"Long trip then, we better make the most of it." Martha says.

"Yeah." Aaron says getting a grin on his face which causes Martha and Ianto to worry because they both know that grin from Jack and it never ends well and Martha knows it through her friendship with Aaron she knows that it normally means the same thing. "Hey Rosie, is it in this car?" Aaron asks his sister.

"Is what?" Ianto asks hesitantly.

"Little Rosie would get scared and sick on any kind of car trip even very short ones, but that was only until Dad found a way that works every time to calm her." Aaron says with a grin as Rhosyn starts to dig underneath the front seat for something. "Ah huh!" she says triumphantly pulling out a casket tape.

"What is it?" Martha and Ianto ask.

"Something you are both going to love so much, pass it here." Aaron says to his sister who hands over the tape.

Martha and Ianto exchange curious but cautions looks. Aaron puts the Tape into the player and presses play. A piano rift plays for two bars before the vocal start

"Oh - thinkin' about all our younger years

There was only you and me

We were young and wild and free"

Martha and Ianto recognize the song immediately but it takes them slightly longer to recognize the voice until Ianto does "Hang on is that Jack?" He asks completely shocked.

"Yep." Aaron and Rhosyn say together.

"Um wow, I wow." Martha says apparently too shocked for words.

"I didn't know he could sing." Ianto says shocked and realising that there is so much about Jack that he doesn't know.

"He hardly ever does." Aaron tells him "Apparently he used to sing when he a kid but something happened. Something he refuses to talk to us about and he stopped singing. He does on the occasion and when he found out that it was the only thing that helps Rosie he made this tape. Whenever he does sing though he gets this look in his eyes a look that is so impossible to describe it's like he's happy and sad and guilty and hurting and so many other things at the same time. We learnt a long time ago not to ask about it, so please Ianto don't ask him about it, please." Aaron requests almost sounding like he is begging him not to ask.

Ianto nods but can't help but wonder what happened to Jack as a child to make him a have a reaction like that.

"He's an amazing singer." Martha says finally getting over her shock.

"Yeah he is." Rhosyn says quietly looking out the window as she listens to her father's voice and hopes that he okay and that he is coming for them.


Mathew, Owen, Gwen and Tosh have also arrived at a car park after walking for a while. They also collect a car the same type as the other but a different colour, a dark green instead. As Mathew is the only one he knows where they are going he is driving with Owen driving shotgun and Gwen and Tosh in the back.

"So a two and a bit hour drive what should we do to pass the time?" Tosh asks the others as they like the others had a conversation about where they are going, and they received the exact same answers as Ianto and Mather did from the other Harkness Twin.

"Truth or dare?" Gwen suggests and Owen turns around and looks at her with annoyed look on his face "What are you twelve? Besides we can't play truth or dare in a car there is no room to do dares." He argues.

"Well just truth then." Gwen argues back.

"Something else, anything else." Owen requests.

"There isn't much else we can do it could be fun." Tosh says.

"Come on Junior you're on my side right?" Owen asks Matt his final hope.

"Well I was going to be until you called me Junior. There is nothing Junior about me." Mathew says giving Owen a wink.

"Fine, Gwen you start." Owen says annoyed realising that he is outvoted.

"Matt, who was the last person you snogged?" Gwen asks.

"I repeat you're twelve." Owen says rolling his eyes at the mirror.

"That would be a guy I met in a bar, no idea what his name is." Mathew says like it is the most ordinary sentence ever "Owen out of us in this car who would you Marry, Shag and throw off a Clift?"

"Well I'd shag Gwen nothing new about that. I would marry Tosh coz I've seen how clean your apartment is, which means sorry Harkness I would have to Clift you." Owen tells him.

"Well you could shag me then throw me off a Clift I'm not fussed." Mathew tells him with a flirty smile.

At Mathew's words Owen gets a grin off his own "After that you asked for this. Name the worst and the most embarrassing things you have done which your dear old Dad doesn't know about." Owen tells him.

"Really blackmail material to use against me with my father? My Dad? You know him do you really think that there is anything he would make a big deal about?" Mathew asks him sounding disappointed as he expected something better.

"Yeah I do actually." Owen responds.

"Fine most embarrassing that's not easy coz I don't get embarrassed." Mathew tells him.

"There has to be something." Gwen says.

"Not that I can think of." Mathew answers. "Oh hang on there was the time oh no wait that doesn't count because I have already told Dad that story." He realises.

"An embarrassing sex story, everyone has an embarrassing sex story." Gwen argues.

"Not me, I'm a god in the sack." Mathew tells her and both her and Tosh roll their eyes once again realising the similarities between Jack and his son.

"Ok then God. If there is one thing that you would do anything to stop you father finding out about what would it be?" Owen asks.

"That's a little harder but not much there isn't much that I wouldn't tell my Dad." Mathew realises.

"That makes it sound like there is something out with it, what happened?" Owen asks becoming more interested wondering if he can use it as serious Blackmail material.

"When Aaron and I were 15 after Dad had passed out from exhaustion which wasn't surprising considering he hadn't slept in about a week and a half we stole his Vortex Manipulator. We use it to sneak us and some friends into Torchwood. Once they were sufficiently impressed we retconed them and erased all the security cameras and put the Vortex Manipulator back on Dad's wrist he never knew." Mathew tells the others.

"How the hell did you get away with that?" Owen asks slightly impressed at what the brothers managed to get away with at 15.

"Please the hardest part was getting Dad's Vortex rest was simple." Mathew reveals.

"Why would you show your friends Torchwood if you were going to just erase the knowledge?" Tosh asks not understanding why they would do that.

"Because we would remember what happened. It meant that for a few hours our friends would actually understand why we act the way we do. Even though they wouldn't remember we would and that matted to us." Mathew explains.

"You do realise how illegal that was right?" Gwen asks Mathew curious.

"Please like you haven't used Retcon for personal use." Mathew responds with a cocky grin and a disbelieving look.

Gwen realising that the young Harkness is right doesn't say anything because she doesn't want to give him the satisfaction of her confirming that he is right.

"Tosh you're up." Owen tells her when he realises that no one else is going to say anything.


The Doctor has been waiting by Jack for over an hour waiting for him to resurrect. Even though he knows that Jack is a fixed point and that there is nothing that could change that the Doctor can't help but worry. His worry is finally put at ease when Jack gasps and sits up.

"Easy." The Doctor says concerned getting up and walking over to him.

"Doc, where?" He begins to ask then realises "My room, well I knew I would get you in here one day." He jokes with a small laugh then asks the question that deep down he knew the answer to even since he saw that the Doctor was the only one in his room with him "The Cornel?"

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry" The Doctor tells him.

"Dam it; I shouldn't have called him this wouldn't have happened if I called him, dam it." Jack says angrily "Where is he?"

"In the medical bay." The Doctor tells him.

Jack nods and gets up and walks in the direction of the medical bay "What about you are you ok?" Jack asks concerned.

"Yeah I'm fine, thanks to you." The Doctor tells him.

"Knew you were lost without me." Jack says though he realises that he wouldn't have even been in danger if it wasn't for him.

As they walk into the medical bay The Doctor stays near the door and Jack walks over to his friend "He has a wife and 2 kids, they don't deserve this. He doesn't deserve this." Jack says both angrily and sadly.

"I know." The Doctor says walking over to Jack and putting his hand on his shoulder. "I'm sorry to tell you I've got more bad news."

"What?" Jack asks concerned turning to face The Doctor.

"I tried to call Martha but the phone didn't even ring and she has a phone that I have altered" He tells Jack. "I don't know if they are alright." He adds.

"How long has it been?" Jack asks worried.

"Four hours since the park." The Doctor tells Jack.

"Good we've got time then; they should have made it by now." Jack realises.

"Made it where?"

"My safe house in the country. If they don't here from me within 48 hours from last time they spoke to me then Matt, Aaron and Rosie will use fake Identities they have created and create ones for Martha and my team and disappeared. Even I won't be able to find them." Jack explains to the doctor staying and the body of his friend as he gets a look on his face and wonders if maybe he should let the time run out to keep his children sage.

"Jack you can't be considering that." The Doctor tells his friend realising what he is thinking.

"Why not Doc? It will keep them safe." Jack says looking up from his dead friend to face the Doctor.

"Because it will destroy you and them. I know you Jack; I know you wouldn't do that to them." The Doctor says to his friend surprised that he is considering it.

"If it means keeping them safe then there is nothing I won't do." Jack reveals to his oldest friend as he thinks of everything he has done in the past to try and keep his children safe.

"Who are you protecting doing that Jack, Them or yourself? I may have only met your children a few hours ago but I have known you a lot longer and I know what kind of man you used to be and what kind of man you are. This, choosing to let time run out isn't the way to keep them safe it's taking the easy choice. I thought that wasn't who you were anymore." The Doctor tells Jack.

"Doc.." Jack says angrily but before he says anymore he gets cut off by The Doctor.

"Let me finish. The man I know you to be, the friend who stood by me when it seemed there was no hope left, wouldn't do this. You once said that you never doubted me and never would so don't doubt me on this because I know what sacrificing your relationships with your children for what you believe to be the greater good does to you. If you do this you will be making the single biggest mistake of your long life, a mistake not even I can help you through. Whatever you choose I will stand by you but you need to think if you would be able to stand yourself. We will find a way to stop Cole and protect your kids but not like this, it's not the answer Jack" The Doctor tells Jack trying to talk his friend out of doing something that he knows Jack will regret.

After ten minutes of silence, off Jack staring at his dead friend and thinking about everything that Doctor tells him he turns around and faces the Doctor the friends so close to each other that their bodies are almost touching "I did say that I never doubted you and even though in the years I spent waiting for you I came close I never did and I know I never will. You're right letting my kids disappeared without them knowing what happened isn't the right thing to do so I'm not going to do it. We are going to go to the country and I'm going to protect them but Doc there is something I need from you. I need you to stop me if I go too far. If I let Victor and this dam war turn me into a monster then I need you to stop me. Promise me Doc, you're the one person in all of time and space who can. I need you to promise me that you will stop me if it comes to that." Jack says looking directing into the eyes of the Time lord the person he trusts more than anyone in the entirety of time and space the person who knows and always will know him best.

Not breaking the eye contact or moving away from Jack the Doctor says "I promise."

"Thank you." Jack tells him sincerely then his tone becomes lighter and he says "Well in your words allons-y Doc we've got a house to get to." Jack says before leaving the Medical bay.

The doctor chuckles a little and follows Jack thinking that it would be nice having a hand flying the TARDIS for a change even if it's just for one trip, not letting thoughts of what he will do if he is forced to make good on his promise enter his mind as he is determine not to let it get to that.

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