It was over an hour of waiting before Adam came out of the room again. He had a smile on his face which immediately relieved the worse fears of the Doctor and Jack.
"She came through the surgery fine and we were able to save her foot. It is still in bad shape and she will need one or two more surgeries to repair the damage in the future but she won't lose it. We are also going to have to look at doing a skin graft to close the wound once the infection has healed. We removed some of the damaged tissue and put in a temporary drain but thankfully the infection hadn't penetrated the bone." Adam informed them.
"Thank you Adam, for everything." Jack said sincerely taking the mans hand and shaking it.
"Can we see her?" The Doctor asked needing to verify for himself she was okay.
"Martha and Mickey will be bringing her out in a moment. We want her to wake up with you and Jack around so she remains calmer. Martha told me what happened and I am sorry to hear it. Do you know who took her?"
"No, but I guarantee you we are going to find out." Jack commented and the Doctor nodded his agreement.
"Is she in school?" Adam asked.
"She's home schooled," The Doctor replied with a questioning look on his face as he raised one eyebrow.
"I only ask because she is going to have to stay off her foot for a few weeks at least."
"She won't be leaving the TARDIS until her fever breaks. Then we can carry her and work on her learning to use crutches when she is stronger," The Doctor replied. "When do you want to do the next surgery?"
"Martha will call me once the infection has gone down and we will schedule the next surgery after that. Now it looks as though they are bringing her out, so I am going to leave before she wakes up." Adam nodded at them both before exiting the medi-bay. Sure enough a moment later Mickey helped Martha wheel the bed out before retreating as well.
The Doctor immediately started examining the IV's and the bandages that were placed during the surgery as well as checking the end of the drain that was helping to rid her body of the infection.
"Adam says you removed damaged tissue?" He inquired.
"Yes and we cleaned the foot really well with an antiseptic solution." Martha responded to him. "I'll be honest though Doctor, if she hadn't been found when she was, she would have lost her foot."
"I know," He sighed.
After Lissy woke cleanly from the anesthetic the Doctor parked the TARDIS back in their home, in Jack's office where it belonged. The boys rushed off happy to be home and Jack followed to take care of them and give Francine a break. They were thankful for all the help she had given them lately but they didn't expect her to stick around. Francine wouldn't hear of it though and she immediately disappeared into the kitchen to find out what groceries she would need to buy to make them a home cooked meal.
The Doctor was sitting in the medi-bay tending to Sophie when Jack entered with a tray of food. It had two plates of dinner for the Doctor and Martha and a bowl of soup for Lissy. Lissy was asleep again though so he sat the soup aside and went to the other side of the room to eat his supper with Martha, while Jack took over sitting with Lissy. Francine had out done herself making Shepard's pie.
After supper the two of them went into the house and he helped get his sons ready for bed and settled. He wanted to get some sense of routine back to them. William fell asleep fast in his toddler bed but he held Matthew, rocking him gently as Matthew fought off sleep.
He didn't remember falling asleep but he woke up hours later with a blanket laid over him and Matthew still sleeping in his arms. He kissed his son on the head before placing him in his crib and heading back down the stairs. Jack was sitting at his desk in his office working on Torchwood paperwork and Martha was passed out on the couch.
"Whose watching the girls?" The Doctor asked, not wanting Lissy or Sophie to be alone until they had a clean bill of health. Jack pointed to the telly in the corner and the Doctor saw that it had been rigged to show the medi-bay. Jack had split the screen so on the right side of the screen it showed that Lissy was still sound asleep and the incubator with Sophie had been moved closer to the bed. The left side of the screen was broken into two and had updating stats for both of the girls.
"You set all this up," The Doctor asked in surprise, feeling proud of his husband.
"You and Martha needed to sleep and I needed to work." Jack shrugged. "It really wasn't that complicated."
"What are you working on?" The Doctor came up behind Jack and looked over his shoulder. Since they had been married he had become the stay at home father, except for the times he needed to run to keep from going insane. He didn't mind it too much and had taken to consulting for Jack and Torchwood. He even helped out UNIT when he had time.
"Lissy wasn't the only child to have gone missing. There have been a string of disappearances and none of the other children have been returned." Jack stated as he showed the Doctor the list of children. The disappearances weren't just from earth but spread out through out the centuries and different colonies.
"How do you know these are all connected?" The Doctor asked.
"All the missing children are daughters of Time Agents." Jack admitted quietly. "They took Lissy because of me." The Doctor hugged Jack from behind and kissed him softly on the back of the neck. Jack crossed his arms over the Doctors and squeezed them.
"Now we know why, we just have to find out who is doing it." The Doctor said.
"That's what I am working on. I am trying to find out who on the list has a child that hasn't been taken and then we can narrow it down from there." Jack commented. "But it is a lot of data and is going to take me awhile."
"Patch it through to the TARDIS controls and I will help you to narrow it down." The Doctor kissed him on the head again and disappeared into the TARDIS.
