Another chapter, thank god. Hope you all enjoyed the last chapter.

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Jack and Gwen had left the Doctor to take care of the Ba'chrels. They had taken the lift and went down hallway after hallway till they reached the Tardis. The door opened on its own and they made their way into the Tardis.

"Jack. I.... I want to...... I feel like I need to push. NOW!!!!!!" Gwen began to breathe heavily.

"Hold on Gwen. We need to get you to the infirmary."

The Tardis had moved the room as close as she could, so Jack and Gwen didn't have far to travel. Jack lead Gwen inside and quickly helped her get comfortable on a bed. To his left Jack, noticed that Rose was laying on a bed. She was laying inside a plastic, see thru, cylinder.

"Jack!!!! It hurts!!!!!" Gwen breathed out while gritting her teeth. She reached for his hand as the contraction passed. "Jack. Where is Rhys? Was Rhys okay?"

Jack looked down at Gwen and gave her a small smile. "It's going to be alright. I'm going to be helping you deliver this baby." Jack made his way to the end of the bed before looking back up to Gwen's face. "Sorry sweetheart, but I'm going to have to check to see how far along you are."

"It's okay Jack. I trust you." she said softly just as another contraction hit.

Jack folds her gown back a bit so that she is a bit exposed. "Looks like your about 9 centimeters." Jack looks back up at Gwen's face. "Gwen, did they..."

"No. It's Rhys's. I found out just before we left on this mission. I'm sorry Jack."

"No need to apologize Gwen. Lets just get through this. Okay?"

Gwen nods her head as an even more powerful contraction hits. "I feel like I should be pushing."

Jack looks down again and sees that she has reached 10 centimeters. He realizes that she shouldn't be going thru all the stages this fast. He wonders if they had given her an inducer. "Alright Gwen, you're at 10 centimeters. Now when the next contraction hits, take a deep breath and push alright?"

Gwen nods her head and then screams. Jack looks down and notices that there is more blood.

"Are you pushi..."

"I AM PUSHING!!!!" Gwen roars at him as she bears down. "God, why does it hurt so much. CAN'T I HAVE SOME PAIN KILLERS OR SOMETHING!!!!"

"Sorry hun, but it's too late for that. I can see the head." As the baby's head comes free, Jack moves his hands as if he is waiting for the baby to just fall out. It's when it stops that Jack becomes a little worried. "Gwen, you need to push."

"I can't." she pants out in exhaustion. Her body is tired and she feels as though she is about to pass out. "I want Rhys. He should be here." Tears begin to fall down her face.

"Gwen, I need you to focus." Jack knows that she needs to calm down and focus on the baby. If she doesn't push and push soon the baby might not have a chance. "Gwen listen to me. The baby needs your help here. You need to push." Jack, remembering some of his medical training from the Time Agency, pushes two fingers in between the baby's neck and the birth canal. He then rotates the shoulders a bit to help with any possible lodging. After hearing Gwen hiss at his two finger intrusion and the feel of the rotated shoulders, Jack looks back up at Gwen. "Alright Gwen, push!"

" I can't Jack. I..." she whimpers thru gritted teeth.

"I SAID PUSH SOLDIER!!!!! THAT'S AN ORDER!!!!" Jack yells at her. It's enough to get her motivated and Gwen pushes. It isn't long before the baby comes and Jack quickly cuts the chord and clears the mouth. A minute later there is a piercing cry in the Tardis.

"Is it okay? Is the baby okay?" whispers Gwen as she tries to speak.

Jack has tears rolling down his cheeks and he looks up at Gwen. "It's a girl." he says softly, before wiping the little girl down with a wet washcloth the Tardis provided. He then proceeds to wrap the baby in a soft pink blanket and moves away from the end of the bed. Jack walks around the side and sits down next to Gwen as he hands the baby to her.

"She is beautiful." says Gwen just before she passes out.

Jack quickly takes the baby into his arms again. "Gwen? Gwen?"

The Tardis flashes several lights in the color yellow. Then the Doctor comes through the door.

"Doc, it's Gwen. She just passed out." Jack says as the Doctor rushes over to Gwen's side.

"Is the baby alive?" the Doctor asks in a hard voice.

"Yeah. Nothing seems to be wrong with her. Why?"

The Doctor is moving equipment around and scans Gwen with his sonic screwdriver. He then proceeds to push her gown up over her stomach.

"Doc?"

"Jack could you go out to the console room. Rhys is out there waiting for you." The Doctor looks up at Jack. "Rhys isn't going to make it. There is nothing I can do for him, but I can help Gwen. Now I need you to leave the room Jack." The Doctor glances down at the bundle in Jack's arms. "Let Rhys see his daughter before he goes."

Jack nods and leaves the room, leaving the Doctor to work on Gwen.

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Jack makes his way to the console room and sees Rhys propped up against a beam. He makes his over to Rhys. "Hey, Rhys. Say hello your daughter." Jack hold the baby out. Rhys opens his eyes and sees the little girl. He smiles before coughing up some blood.

"Promise me Jack." Rhys looks right into Jack's eyes. "Promise me, you will look after them both."

"Rhys, you're going to pull through this. You will be able to see your daughter grow up and.."

"Jack. The Doctor already told me that there is nothing he can do for me." Rhys groans. "It's up to you, to look after my girls. Promise me." Rhys is breath is labored.

"Rhys I can't promise.."

With one last breath Rhys says the word "Promise." before his eyes roll back and his body becomes still.

The baby begins to cry out and Jack pulls her to his chest. He tries to calm her but is having a hard time of it due to the tears running down his face. After finally getting the babe to settle down, Jack moves away from the body and sits on the seat.

After an hour, the Doctor comes out and sees Jack sitting there holding the baby. Jack looks up and sees the Doctor standing there.

"How's Gwen?"

"She'll survive. She has one smart daughter." The Doctor smiles at the bundle. "Seems that the umbilical chord got wrapped around the Ba'chrel young and strangled it before it had a chance to take over."

"Then what happened? I mean, why did Gwen pass out?"

"That was because the placenta and the alien baby got stuck. I had to go in surgically to remove both."

"So what happened after Gwen and I left you there by the lifts?" The little bundle began to make little snuffling noises.

The Doctor smiled, "Might want to take her back to her mother." Then he turned and went back down the hall towards his bedroom after punching in coordinates to go back to Torchwood.

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It had been a few hours since they had returned to Torchwood. Rhys's body now laid in autopsy with a white sheet over him. Martha and Ianto had been happy when they heard the Tardis materialize in the Hub. But when Jack came out first to tell them about Rhys, their happiness turned to sadness. The Doctor came out carrying the body, and Ianto quickly ran over to help carry it over to where it now laid. Both, the Doctor and Jack, told Ianto and Martha everything that had happened. Told about Rose's injuries, though the Doctor didn't go into full details. Told about Gwen's sped up pregnancy and the birth of the baby.

After listening and ordering take out, Martha and Ianto had headed back to their families for the night. The Doctor had went into the Tardis to check on Rose, leaving Jack with Gwen. She had come out after Martha and Ianto had left. In her arms, sleeping, was her daughter, and to her left was Jack. He had noticed that Gwen was sitting on the couch all by herself.

"She looks like her mum." Jack said softly as he looked down at the baby.

"She has Rhys's eyes and ears."

"Yeah, bet you everything I own, that she will be a heart-breaker." He was trying his hardest to make her laugh but he got nothing from her. "So, does she have a name yet?"

"No. I... I don't know what to call her. Never got the chance to ask Rhys what he might want to call our kids." Gwen says with pain in her voice.

Jack nodded with understanding. "You know, when you first told me that you were marrying Rhys, I did a little digging into his past." Gwen lifted her head to look at Jack. "I know that wasn't very professional of me, but I wanted to make sure that you be taken care of. Anyways, I found out that Rhys had a twin sister who died in childbirth. Rhys's parents didn't tell him, I think. But they did name her and had her cremated."

"What was her name?"

"They named her Gillian."

Gwen looked down at her baby girl and whispered the name Gillian to the baby. The baby opened her eyes and stared up at her mother's face before giving a good wail. Gwen shifted the babe so she could open her blouse to feed the hungry baby.

Jack felt uncomfortable and began to get up to leave the room. He didn't want to impose or make Gwen feel vulnerable.

"Don't go, please stay Jack. I don't want to be alone."

Jack settled back down next to Gwen and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. "I won't Gwen. I could never leave you alone. I made a promise to Rhys that I would always be here for you and Gillian." He kissed the top of Gwen's head as he heard her cry softly.

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The Doctor had removed Rose from her healing chamber and placed her in his bed. Yes, he had brought her to his bedroom, but that was because he wanted her close. She was lying on the crimson sheets wearing one of his blue button down shirts that reached down to her mid thighs. The Doctor himself was sitting in his Victorian arm chair that the Tardis had moved from the library to his room. He sat there watching her sleep. The events of the last few weeks running thru his head. Part of him felt that after all the trauma she had gone thru would cause lasting effects on her mental health. He couldn't be sure till she woke up.

'Theta, she will be fine.' The Tardis said.

'You can't know that.'

'But I do. She is strong, your Rose. Your Bad Wolf. She is the only one out of all of your other companions that looked into my heart. She survived that, so she will survive this.'

'She won't forgive me for what I did. What I had done to the ones who hurt her. I should have never become so close to her.' The Doctor sighed, and clasped his hands together on his knees. Though he would never admit it out loud, he had made a verbal claim on Rose. He remembered saying it there in that ship before rescuing her.

'But she is your mate Theta. You have always known that. The Oncoming Storm in you has always felt her presence in the time lines. It was only natural for you to want to claim her as yours.' The Tardis replied, trying to get her Time Lord to understand.

But before the Doctor could chastise his ship, Rose let out a groan. She turned her head to the left and opened her eyes.

"Doctor?"

"Easy, I'm here Rose. You're safe, you're in the Tardis." The Doctor got out of his chair and sat on the edge of the bed. He placed one of his hands on hers and watched her very closely.

"Is everything alright?" Rose asked. She knew something wasn't right, the Doctor was too quiet.

"We lost Rhys." was all the Doctor could say before having to fight the urge to let the Oncoming Storm out.

"And Gwen?"

"Had a baby girl. She is out in the Hub with Jack. You can see the baby tomorrow. Right now, you need more rest." The Doctor kissed Rose's forehead and had reached his bedroom door before Rose called out to him.

"Doctor?"

"Hmmm?" He turned in the doorway to look back into the room.

"Could you hold me and stay till I fall back asleep?"

Only an epilogue to go then I am done!!!!!! Can you believe that it has only been a year since I started this story. Wow, time goes by really fast. Hope you all have enjoyed this.

Selene