This chapter is a Doctor Who crossover, I thought maybe that would brighten things up!

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Two Years Later

"Doctor!" Jack laughed, hugging his old friend.

"Jacky-boy! How're things going? Thought it was time for a visit-" But the Doctor was pushed aside as Rose flew out of the TARDIS and hugged him so tightly he couldn't breathe.

"Rose!" He gasped when she finally let go.

"I bet you missed me!"

"All the time! But, can I just ask, you're meant to be trapped in a parallel world. What're you doing here?!"

"Long story!"

"So," The Doctor said, joining the conversation, "Do we get to meet your team?"

He paused, "Toshiko… Ianto, Owen and… Gwen!"

"Sort of." Jack said, his smile turning to sadness.

"Sort of?" The Doctor asked

"You get to meet Ianto, Toshiko, Owen and two year old Brynn-Ffion."

"No Gwen?"

"She… she died almost two years ago." A single tear appeared at the corner of Jack's eye, but he hurriedly wiped it away.

"I'm so sorry." Rose said softly.

"How?" The grin that he usually wore was gone from the Doctor's face.

"She took her own life, ten months after Rhys was killed. Brynn was two months old."

"Ack!" They heard a gleeful toddler shout as she ran over to where the three of them stood.

Jack stooped to pick her up. She giggled happily as he kissed her nose.

"This is Brynn-Ffion Williams-Cooper." Jack told them.

"She's so cute!" Rose gushed, stroking Brynn's pink hand.

The Doctor held a finger up and Brynn grabbed it, smiling. A look of pain came over the Doctor's face.

"Oh, come on, she's not that bad!" Rose said, tickling the child so she would release her grip on the Doctor's finger.

"Speak for yourself, that hurt!", The Doctor whinged.

Jack laughed at him, though his pain was still clear in his eyes.

"Come on, let's go and find the rest of them." Jack said, turning towards the Hub entrance.


"This is Ianto." Jack said, gesturing towards the man in the immaculate suit, sitting in the Tourist Information Centre that was really the concealed entrance to the Hub.

Ianto nodded, "Hello sir, hello…?"

"Oh, I'm the Doctor and this is Rose!" The Doctor said.

Meanwhile, Rose's eyes were drawn to the picture on the desk. It showed 5 people, Jack, Ianto and three others Rose guessed were the rest of Torchwood 3.

Walking through the strange door, Rose's breath was taken away by the sheer size of the Hub. In a strange way it reminded her of the TARDIS.

"This is Toshiko," Jack said as they passed a pretty Asian girl working on some confusing looking report.

"Hi." She said, before turning back to her computer.

Jack led them over to a medical area, where a man stood. He was squinting at some reports.

"And this is Owen." Jack concluded.

Owen lifted a hand in welcome, but didn't look up. Brynn squirmed and fought to get down. The second Jack placed her carefully on the ground she walked over to Owen.

"Hello Sweetheart." He said, picking her up and sitting her on his lap.


An hour later, Jack, the Doctor and Rose sat in a café eating bacon sandwiches.

"Your team look pretty shaken up. Specially Tosh." Rose said thoughtfully.

"They are. One minute we were celebrating. Gwen had Brynn, her daughter. That meant Rhys could live on, at least, it did in her eyes. The next we were mourning. It was so sudden."

"What happened, the day she killed herself?"

"She left Brynn at the Hub with us. She said it was for a couple of hours. She was pretty jumpy. She didn't come back. Tosh took Brynn back to her flat and found her dead, hanging from her living room ceiling."

"Sorry."


That night Rose stayed at Tosh's flat. They stayed up late, just talking.

"Were you close? To Gwen, I mean."

"She was my best friend, working for Torchwood, it consumes you. She was the first proper friend I had in years. I miss that…"

"I understand." Rose said, placing a hand on Tosh's shoulder.

"At least someone does. I chose to bring Brynn up pretty much on my own outside of Torchwood. The boys, they don't understand why."

"Why?"

"I felt like I owed it to Gwen, you know. None of us could stop her from killing herself, she couldn't turn to any of us. I just think that if we bring Brynn up, and do the best for her we can, her birth and Gwen's death won't be in vain."

Just as Tosh finished her sentence, a sleepy looking Brynn, wearing green pyjamas covered in spiders and clutching at a worn, purple toy rabbit.

"Hey Sweetie," Rose said.

Tosh stood up and took the little girl into her arms.

"Did you have another nightmare?" She asked softly.

Brynn nodded, rubbing the rabbit's ears across her nose.

"You can sleep here okay, if you're good. If me and Rose keep you awake just say, I can put you back in your bed."

Brynn smiled sleepily as her eyelids flickered and finally closed. Tosh stared at the sleeping girl.

"She looks so like Gwen. She has her mum's eyes, and hair."

"Black hair, brown eyes." Rose said.

"She doesn't look much like Rhys though, it's odd." Tosh commented.

"What did Rhys look like?"

"This." Said Tosh, handing Rose a silver heart locket, with a picture of Rhys and Gwen together and a picture of Gwen with her daughter the day she was born.

"I see what you mean."

"Gwen said in her suicide note that everything about her reflects Rhys, but I just don't see it."

"I think Gwen was seeing what she wanted to see, not what was really there…"

"You know, I see more of Owen in her than I do Rh-" Tosh paused, "No way, that's not possible…"

"What's not?" Rose asked, raising her eyebrows.

"Gwen and Owen had something going on back then, it was old news by then. And the day Gwen went to the hospital she was four weeks gone."

"So…?"

"So, four weeks before the hospital appointment, she slept with Owen. Twice that week. I know that her and Rhys had been- tense- after the accident and the mix up and everything…"

"You're saying that you think her dad is Owen, not Rhys."

"That's exactly what I'm saying."

"How do you think Owen'll take it?"

"Badly."


"What the fuck are you saying Tosh!?" Owen asked incredulously.

"That Rhys isn't Brynn's dad."

"So what makes you think I am?"

"Owen look at her. She looks so like Gwen and you! Not Rhys, you!

"But, I can't be! The dates!-"

"-The dates add up perfectly, you know they do, stop trying to convince yourself I'm wrong."

"Shit." Owen said, tears appeared at the corners of his eyes.

"I'm sorry."

"Why? This is one of the happiest days of my life!" Owen smiled and took Brynn from Toshiko.

Owen was Brynn's daddy, everyone was starting to recover from Gwen's death and things were brightening up, and that was the way things were going to stay. The team would make sure of that.

Or at least, they would once Jack asked the Doctor to do something important…

"Doctor?" Jack asked, as the Doctor and Rose walked to the TARDIS, ready to leave.

"What?

"Will you do something for me?"

"What do you want me to do?"

"When Brynn's older, will you take her to see her mum?"

"How much older?"

Jack thought for a moment, "How about her 13th birthday?"

"Yes, me and Rose."

"Promise?"

"Promise."

With that the TARDIS doors closed and Jack heard the wheezing and grating of her old engines.

"Good-bye for now, Doctor he said to the atmosphere.


Chapter 12 coming soon! Hopefully by the end of this week! Hope you like it! Thanks xox!