Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who or Torchwood, both belong to the BBC and their respected writers. But I do own Gaia! :b
A/N: I'm really falling behind on writing these chapters, revision sucks. I've only got 3 weeks left of school though, woo. Thanks for the reviews people, they mean a lot.
"You know it's not very nice to spy on someone." Gaia said as she walked into the hub, scaring the living daylights of the Torchwood team.
"How in the hell did you get in?" Owen shocked to see Gaia come from the depth of the Torchwood tunnels that, to his knowledge, had no means of exit to the outside world other than through the hub.
"What you think there're only 2 entrances into here, shame on you!" Gaia said with a wink and shed her coat off, chucking it onto the sofa.
"You're late." Jack's voice emanated from above. Gaia looked up to see him leaning against the railings on the walkway above their heads.
"Well strictly that wasn't my fault." Gaia retorted sitting herself down on the sofa and resting her legs on the coffee table. Jack rolled his eyes and walked down the stairs to everyone else.
"So who was he then?" Gwen asked facing Gaia.
"Who was who?" Gaia replied feigning innocence.
"The rather cute guy you said a rather romantic goodbye too." Gwen added a smile on her face. Gaia blushed.
"Er... just an old friend." Gaia replied. She was met with a sceptical glare. "What?" She asked.
"Old friend?" Jack commented his arms cross and eyebrows raised. Toshiko brought the CCTV up onto the monitor so Jack could see. "No!" He exclaimed recognising the blue box. Gaia hid her face in her hands.
"What, who is it?" Toshiko asked turning to face Jack. Jack didn't reply instantly but turned to look at Gaia who still had her head buried in her hands. "He's the Doctor." Jack replied with a smirk. This was going to be her punishment for being 2 days late and leaving them in an almost apocalyptic state, again.
"What? As in your Doctor?" Gwen asked incredulously. Jack nodded his gaze still on Gaia, who was muttering several obscenities in various different languages under her breath. Gwen's eyebrows rose at Jack's response. "I always assumed he'd be older." She commented studying the CCTV footage- as was everyone else.
"He's older than he looks and he's changed since I last saw him, he looks even younger than before." Jack noticed watching the CCTV Tosh had now put on loop.
"Changed, changed how?" Tosh asked. To everyone's surprise it was Gaia who answered this time.
"When a Timelord body dies they regenerate. Meaning well, every single cell in their body changes into new healthy cells, so they look like a completely different person, with a completely different personality. The only thing that remains with them is their memories. The Doctor that Jack saw and will no doubt see again is the 10th incarnation of the Doctor and that one..." Gaia pointed at the monitor. "...is the 11th." She explained. Everyone nodded in understanding, but it seemed to have piqued Owen's interest.
"So his cells just changed into new ones, just like that. Reset hay flick limits, new proteins, new everything?" Owen asked. Gaia nodded. "Wow. What I wouldn't do to get my hands on those." Owen commented and received a very `not impressed` look from Gaia and Jack.
"Anyway, as fun as discussing my love life has been, I can see that the date today is the 20th, Tosh is wearing a dress and a body's been called up from the cryo-freezer. I'm guessing Tommy will be making his annual return to the land of the living." Gaia stated. Tosh's blush confirmed her observations.
Within the hour everyone was gathered around the med bay as Owen began the final preparations to wake Tommy up. "Right everybody ready?" Owen asked hypodermic needle ready in hand, every nodded in response. Tosh was standing next to the unconscious and defrosted Tommy. Ianto was standing at the top of the stairs and Jack was next to him leaning on the railings. Gaia was standing at Tosh's side, ready to help when Tommy kicks up a fuss like he does every year.
Owen injected the blue liquid into Tommy's neck and placed his fingers on Tommy's neck trying to find a pulse. There's bated breath as nothing happens and the heart monitor remains flat lined. "Come on Tommy." Owen muttered but when nothing happens he grabbed the defibrillator paddles. "Charging 200, clear!" He yells and zaps Tommy on the chest. No change. "Charging 360, clear!" Owen zaps Tommy again and this time Tommy's eyes fly open and the heart monitor picks up a beat. Gaia is instantly at Tommy's side trying to calm him down, although Tommy's having none of it.
"Get off me, leave me alone." Tommy struggled.
"Tommy!" Toshiko said trying to stop his struggles. Tommy doesn't seem to hear her.
"Leave me alone!" Tommy continued.
"Tommy!" Gaia this time shouted, Tommy stops instantly. Everyone takes a sigh of relief as Tommy stops struggling as his eyes flicker around the room.
"Toshiko." Tommy says in recognition. Tosh nods.
"Do you know where you are?" She asks. Tommy sits up with a little help from Gaia.
"Torchwood." Tommy answers.
"That's right. How are you feeling?" Tosh asks.
"I could murder a cuppa." Tommy replies and everyone chuckles. Tosh turns to Ianto who is chuckling as well, he then realises what Tommy had said and darts off to get him a drink.
A little while later, everyone's split off into their own separate areas. Owen, Tosh and Tommy are in med bay going through Tommy's usual wake up health checks, Ianto's tidying up breakfast from the conference room and Gaia, Jack and Gwen are in Jack's office, the 2 former explaining Tommy to the latter.
"St Telio's hospital, 1918. There was a time-shift. A fracture in the rift means that two slices of time were erupting into each other." Jack explained.
"A slice of 1918, and..." Gwen asks, looking between her bosses.
"A slice of the future. But we don't know exactly what slice. It could be tomorrow, it could be in a hundred years' time." Gaia explained. Gwen nodded.
"What will happen?" She asked.
"Chunks of 1918 will start to appear at the hospital. A few at first, then more and more. When the time-shift is complete, it'll start a chain reaction. Unless we stop it, time-shifts will start happening all over the country, then all over the world." Jack said and opens a cupboard on the far wall of his office. Inside is a canister and he hands it to Gwen. She looks at him sceptically before reading out the label.
"`Eyes-only document. FAO Torchwood, commander overseeing case 1918 TB.` Tommy Brockless?" Jack nodded at Gwen's deduction and Gwen tried to open the canister.
"It won't open." Gaia began. "It's a temporal lock tied with the rift frequencies at the hospital. When the rift nears completion, the box will open and we'll find out exactly what Tommy's here for." Gaia finished and Gwen handed the canister back to Jack.
"But why keep us in the dark?" She asked the duo. Gaia shrugged in response.
"I guess we'll find that out, too." Jack answered.
This was when Tommy and Tosh walked in, the former now in 21st century clothing. "Ta-da." Tosh exclaimed.
"Seriously, what do you think?" Tommy asked seemingly unsure of his attire.
"Very nice." Gaia assured.
"You look like a film star." Gwen added.
"Who? Charlie Chaplin?" Tommy joked. Tosh pulls Tommy out.
"Come on." She says and they both leave for a day out.
Gaia was now sitting on her own in the hub, Owen was done in the med bay, Ianto and Gwen were looking through the old Torchwood archives and Jack was in his office. Gaia was currently finishing off some designs for an Artificial intelligence device she'd plan to install in the hub later on. It was looking pretty good at the moment. What she really fancied though was a cup of tea. "Owen..." She called drawing his name out.
"What?" Owen replied, his tone not happy.
"Can you make me a cup of tea please?" She asked in a sickenly sweet voice. Owen rolled his eyes.
"Make one yourself." He retorted. Gaia knew that was the response she would get, so she tried a different tactic. She spoke what she wanted in the oldest language on Earth. In an instant Owen was up the stairs. "I'll make you a cup a tea if you want." Owen offered his tone unusually cheerful for him.
"That'd be lovely, than you Owen." Gaia replied and Owen disappeared down the corridor, heading off to make Gaia a cup of tea.
Walking out of the archive room Gwen and Ianto spotted Owen carrying a mug full of tea, but they both noted he was using Gaia's mug. "You do realise Gaia's going to be peed that you're using her mug." Gwen commented as they walked back with Owen back to the hub.
"It's her tea." Owen replied casually as if he did this kind of thing regularly.
"You made Gaia a cup of tea?" Ianto asked incredulously. He had known Owen long enough that he wouldn't do anything for anyone unless it benefitted him... well except his job.
"Yep." Owen replied and walked away from the shocked Gwen and Ianto. He placed the tea on Gaia's desk.
"Thank you sweetie." Gaia replied in a motherly tone and Owen went back to his work in the med bay. Gaia didn't notice the shocked looks of Ianto and Gwen; she just continued finishing the final designs on her plans.
"Gaia what did you do to Owen?" Gwen asked her eyes flickering between Gaia's mug of tea and the med bay where Owen was now working. Gaia didn't flinch at Gwen's question, she just kept on working.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Gaia replied, brushing the rubber shavings off of the page. Gwen gaped at her for a second before snapping out of it.
"You know what, I don't really care. I'm going to check out that hospital." Gwen announced and left. Ianto still stood shocked a little staring at Gaia's tea, he didn't even know Owen could make tea. Shaking his head a little Ianto turned and left, heading back to the archives.
Once Ianto had left Gaia took a sigh in relief; that was close. "I thought we agreed you weren't allowed to do that anymore." A voice said from behind Gaia.
"Did we, I can't remember making that agreement. Are you sure we weren't drunk at the time?" Gaia replied not turning to face the voice, which she knew was Jack.
"No we were sober. If I recall it was you who started the agreement." Jack commented sitting next to Gaia's desk so that he was in her eye line.
"Alright I'm sorry I won't do it again." Gaia sighed, her voice not conveying anything genuine.
"It's not me you need to apologise too." Jack said. Gaia dropped her pencil and looked up at him.
"Your starting to sound like a older brother now and plus Owen doesn't even remember." Gaia whined, Jack responded with the raising of his eyebrow. Gaia rolled her eyes. "Fine." She stated somewhat like a whiney child.
"Owen..." She called and once again he appeared at the top of the stairs.
"You know I do actually have to work." He said, Gaia rolled her eyes and proceeded to speak in the ancient long lost language. Owen's eyes seem to glaze over as she said it, but as the last word left her lips, Owen's eyes refocused. "Did you say something?" He asked slightly confused. Both Gaia and Jack shook their heads. "Right." Owen muttered and headed back down to the med bay, confused why he had come up in the first place.
"You never actually explained to me how that works." Jack commented watching Owen retreat back to his clinical lair.
"And I'm not planning to." Gaia replied, working on the designs again. Jack chuckled, he had seen that coming.
"What..." Jack began to ask but what cut off by the sound of his phone ringing. Gaia watched as he went over and answered it and had a bad feeling when she sees his face drop. "That was Gwen." He explains once he's off the phone. "She's seen ghosts." Jack explained.
Within the half hour Jack and Gaia were at the hospital with Gwen. "They're knocking down the hospital." Jack observed.
"Yeah, that's what they said. Could that have triggered the time-shift?" Gwen asked. They were standing on one of the old empty wards, Gwen at one end and Jack at the other. Gaia was leaning against the wall in the middle, her stomach doing flips.
"Could have. Maybe all the psychic trauma and rift energy charged it up like a battery. 1918, this place was full of wounded soldiers." Jack stated, starting to walk over to Gwen.
"Whatever's happening here it's not reacting well with me?" Gaia said and tried to walk out. She staggered a lot and Jack had to end up supporting her.
"They had 4 years of it." Jack continued. "Passchendaele, the Somme... A million British soldiers killed during the Great War. It was like walking into hell." Gwen looked at Jack slightly sceptically, although she had the courtesy to grimace when Jack said the suspected death count. "Believe me. I was there." Jack said replying to Gwen's sceptical look. "Owen any luck?" Jack asked through his comm.
Gaia staggered down the empty hospital corridor on her own, Jack and Gwen had gone the other way after much encouragement on her part that she was okay. So now she was looking around this side of the hospital on her own. The place was derelict there was no doubts about it and the building made her feel queasy. No doubt due to the rift energy. Although, it was silent now something you rarely found in Cardiff. She was at the back end of the large building, the furthest from the road and Gwen and Jack were too far for even her hearing to pick up. There was no sound, no one and nothing to make any. So what really freaked Gaia out was the fact that she could hear voices.
"Tick tock goes the clock,
And all the years they fly
Tick tock and all too soon
You and I must die." A voice chanted. Gaia turned the corner to see a boy no older than 18 sitting in a wheel chair. He had a bandage over his eye and judging by his attire, he was also out of his time. He looked up at Gaia, his one eye looking slightly deranged and wild, but he continued singing.
"Tick tock goes the clock,
We laughed at fate and mourned her
Tick tock goes the clock
Even for the Doctor..." He continued, Gaia held her breath as she approached the boy and his gaze seem to follow her. Gaia opened her mouth to talk but before she could a nurse appeared and pushed the boy away. They faded into oblivion and Gaia promptly threw up. Wiping her mouth Gaia contacted Jack on her comm. "I'm going back to the SUV." She stated, not giving Jack the option to say otherwise.
"Yeah, we'll meet you there." Jack replied his voice sounding uncertain.
Gaia met Jack and Gwen back at the SUV. "Everything alright?"Gaia asked, her voice slightly croaky and dry.
"Err... yeah." Gwen replied and looked up at Gaia. Gaia was leaning heavily on the SUV; she was pale white and has a slight sheen of sweat on her face. "Bloody hell, are you alright?" Gwen asked, her previous concerns about the ghosts at the back of her mind as she helped Gaia get into the SUV.
"Yeah. My body doesn't like the end of the world apparently. Who knew?" Gaia joked, her chuckle caused her to splutter though and she was gasping for breath within the second. Gwen sat next to her in the SUV and Gaia leant on her shoulder. Jack jumped into the driver's seat and floored it back to the hub.
Half way back to the hub Gaia's breath became laboured and she fell unconscious. "Jack!" Gwen exclaimed. Jack risked a glance over his shoulder to see Gaia's limp body. With an even higher sense of urgency he sped the SUV to its max.
Gwen and Jack walked into the hub, the latter carrying the unconscious and incredibly pale Gaia bridal style. "Owen!" Gwen shouted and in an instant Owen was at Jack's side checking Gaia's vitals.
"Quick put her down on the table." Owen ordered as they entered the med bay. Jack slowly placed Gaia down and her head lolled to the side, a trail of blood started to come from her ear. "Bloody hell." Owen exclaimed as he checked for a pulse. Satisfied he found one, he checked her eyelids. "What happened?" He asked. To be honest he had very little idea what he was doing he had never had a serious problem with Gaia before and he hadn't got round to reading or asking about her biology yet.
"It's a reaction to the rift openings in the hospital. We probably can't do anything to help her, but we need her stabilised." Jack ordered, of course he was worried about Gaia, but freaking out would be more than a hindrance than a help at this moment in time.
"Okay, her heart rate is rocketing, but I don't know her usual heart rate so that's very little help. Ummm... her pupils are fine, although she suffering from dehydration so I'll just hook her up to a drip." Owen said to himself, doing each action he specified as he said it.
He continued in this manner for the next 20 minutes, until Gaia was hooked up to several machines and had been injected with 2 different drugs. Thankfully she had stabilised and Owen had given her a large sedative so she could sleep. Jack took a sigh of relief when Owen finally stepped out of the medical bay and discarded his rubber gloves. "I have run every possible test I can think of and that we can do. I can't find what's wrong with her or what's causing her body to shut down." Owen said as he collapsed into the chair next to Jack's.
"Thank you Owen." Jack said with a sigh. He took a deep breath and rubbed his eyes. "Well we know whatever is going to happen at the hospital is going to happen now. Gaia's been to the hospital lots of times and has never reacted like that." Jack stated and Owen nodded in agreement. "We just need to know how." Jack continued. Ianto then walked out of Jack's office canister in hand.
"Jack, the canister's opened." The Welshman called. Jack was on his feet in an instant and bounded up the stairs Ianto, Gwen and Owen were not far behind.
Jack opened the canister and pulled out the delicate paper contents. "What does it say?" Gwen asked. Jack flicked his way quickly through the papers before stopping suddenly at the final image. He held it up to the others.
"It's now." He stated as he held the picture of Toshiko up.
Within the hour Tosh and Tommy were back at the hub, Gaia was still in a stable condition but with no signs of improvement and the team were gathered in the conference room. "In twelve hours, there'll be a brief moment when both times exist, before the time-shift completes, when Tommy can be here now, and in 1918. He needs to be in the hospital, ready to step from one time to another." Jack explained to the others.
"So he'd be right inside the time-shift?" Gwen asked and Jack nodded.
"And he can close the fracture that caused it."
"And when the fracture's closed?" Tommy asked a hint of hopefulness in his voice.
"1918 will be back where it belongs." Owen stated.
"So will I." Tommy conceded, realising the evitable. Jack nodded solemnly at the boy. "For good?" Tommy asked. Jack sighed.
"Yeah. You're the only one who can do this. We brought you from 1918 to now, and when you go back to 1918, your life will be like a thread, stitching time back together again." Jack explained and Tommy nodded his head, understanding the concept but not liking it.
"A stitch in time." He joked.
"How?" Toshiko asked not needing to say anything more than the single word for Jack to know what she was implying.
"This is a rift manipulator." Jack said holding up a circular object. "It's basically a key. Once you're inside the time-shift, you can close the door behind you." Jack continued.
"And that's it? I'm gone?" Tommy said dejectedly. No one said anything and an awkward silence fell over the group.
Thankfully Ianto walked in and broke it. The Welshman was carrying a rather large box in his hands which he gently put down on the table. "Tommy, stay with Ianto. Tosh, with me," Jack ordered and like clockwork his commands were seen through.
Tosh and Jack were now standing in Jack's office. Toshiko looking as frail and innocent as the first time she stepped into the hub after her release from prison. "What happens to him?" Toshiko asked.
"Three weeks after we send Tommy back he's sent back to the front lines. 5 days out there and he went over the top, they didn't recover a body, he was presumed dead." Jack said sadly.
"So there's a chance he may have escaped?" Toshiko asked, although she had a feeling she already knew the answer to that.
"1000's of soldiers in the British Army died with their bodies never being recovered, it was a battlefield. To recover the bodies that were in the middle of No Man's Land would have been an act of suicide." Jack replied his eyes slightly glazed as he relived the memory. "He didn't escape Tosh; if he did he would have been shot by the British Army, never mind the German, for cowardice." Jack finished.
"We can't send him back to that." Tosh stated as if it were obvious.
"We have to."
"I can't do that."
"Yes, you can. He trusts you." Jack said, he didn't particularly like the plan himself but it had to be done. Toshiko then had an idea.
"Gaia, she can travel in time. Can't we just go back at get him once he's done it?" She asked hopefully. Jack shook his head. He hadn't thought of that, trust Toshiko to come up with a plan. He may not have thought of it, but he could see the flaw.
"And then what? He would be a different Tommy for the one now. When he goes back to 1918 he'll be the same person who left, a shell-shocked boy trying to recover from the Mother of all Wars." Jack stated diminishing Tosh's hope of a second plan.
"So we have to send him to his death." Toshiko said it was a statement not a question. Jack sighed and nodded.
"Yes, to help him save the future." Jack replied, hating the words as they left his mouth. He sounded like a general, sending his soldier to war and in this case... he was.
Tommy went back with Tosh that evening, their last and first night together, a bittersweet night for them both. Everyone went home not long after Tosh's and Tommy's departure, Owen left last after checking Gaia's vitals and giving Jack strict instructions on what to do. Jack nodded taking it all in, before he wished the medic goodnight and sat himself in the chair next to Gaia. He took her hand off the bed and rubbed it with his finger, wishing that she would react to his touch.
Jack loved Gaia, there was no denying that, but it was a sibling love, they had known each other far to long for it to be anything different. He had been there with her for 100's off events in her life. Obviously there had been periods where they hadn't seen each other in a long time, well on Gaia's part anyway, Gaia was 2 billion years old and Jack wasn't even close to reaching that. He may not have been there all the time but he had been at the important times. He had been the only off-worlder to attend Gaia's wedding to her husband, he had held Gaia's daughter Luna when she was only 3 days old. He had taken her to her first bar, seen her the first time drunk and taken her for her first off Starnet trip. He had been there for it all, just like any ordinary older brother would.
Gaia had also been good for Jack too. After loosing Grey he had gone mad with grief, he had become reckless with no sense of responsibility just hopping from bar to bar each night drinking his way into oblivion. But Gaia had changed that, she became his responsibility, she gave him something to do, the curiosity to look around other planets rather the inside of their bars and she became the little sister he'd never had. She had helped him out of a very dark place, but seeing her now, so weak less and a little chance of survival...
"Please, wake up." He whispered kissing her hand. "You're too stubborn to let something like this stop you, so please... wake up." Jack pleaded his first tear rolling down his cheek. That was another thing Gaia did for him, she made him vulnerable.
At six in the morning Jack was awoken to a loud and constant noise. Rubbing his face groggily his eyes refocused to his surroundings. He had fallen asleep at Gaia's side. He whined at the annoying sound and looked around to see what it was; his eyes widened at his findings- one of Gaia's heart had gone into arrest.
Jack immediately started to perform CPR on Gaia's chest trying to get the heart restarted. Unfortunately he wasn't having much luck. 10 minutes later Jack was still doing compressions when Owen ran in and to his aid. They acknowledged one another with a nod and Owen prepared a syringe for injection. "She's been stable all night, what could have caused her to suddenly change?" Jack said desperately as he pushed rather violently on Gaia's chest.
"I don't know at the moment." Owen replied he was slightly preoccupied at that moment in time. With a final check he proceeded to inject the syringe into Gaia' chest. The loud bleeping of the heart monitor returned as soon as the fluid had entered her body, although it was bleeping at a much slower rate than the other two.
"What was that?" Jack asked as he collapsed back in the chair out of exhaustion.
"Adrenaline, straight to the heart." Owen said chucking the empty syringe in the biohazard bin. He then went around checking Gaia's other vitals.
"Thank you." Jack said softly his gaze on the now peaceful Gaia, but Owen knew the words were meant for him.
"It's my job." Owen stated and put down Gaia's paperwork to look up at Jack. "Her conditions worsening, adrenaline might not work next time." Owen explained. Jack let out a sigh in distress.
"Her life's tied to the Earth. If Tommy doesn't succeed today it's not only the end of the world, it's the end of Gaia." Jack said. He stood up and gave Gaia's cheek a final caress before leaving the medic bay. "Better get started then." Jack said and got to work.
3 hours later Tommy was back in his own time and the Torchwood team could only hope with bated breath that he had used the rift manipulator. Judging by the readings on the monitor, it wasn't looking good. The white rift energy that had built up around the hospital was spreading; it was over half the city now. The other sign was the fact that 2 out of Gaia's 3 hearts had failed and her remaining was getting weaker by the second. "Come on Tommy." Jack muttered under his breath, praying for a miracle right about now. Everyone was behind him staring at the monitor with the same desperate plea. And then he got the shock of his life.
"Err, guys what's going on?" A voice said behind them. They all turned around to see Gaia standing there.
*30 Seconds Previously*
Gaia's eyes cracked open. She was in the med bay. Why was she there? She slowly sat up and looked around. She was currently hooked up to several machines and an IV. She didn't recall falling ill, so why was she here? Pulling the needle out and ripping off the patches, she clambered off the uncomfortable medical bed and made her way up the stairs. She had no wobble in her step; she was in fighting fit condition. She reached the top of the stairs to see everyone looking at the monitor in desperation, Tommy wasn't in sight. "Err, guys, what's going on?" Gaia asked. The sound of her voice caused everyone to jump and spin around.
"Gaia!" Owen yelped in shock.
"Er, yeah. Who else would it be?" She replied confused.
"You were unconscious and... How are you okay?" Gwen spluttered, shocked to see Gaia look healthy and up on her feet.
"Got me. I don't really remember much." Gaia admitted.
The team then proceeded to explain what happened to her and what had happened whilst she was unconscious. Gaia was shocked to here of Tommy's sacrifice and Tosh's in a sense. Gaia knew that Tosh had a thing for him. Jack hadn't said anything in this conversation as of yet and Gaia was concerned by his silence. So as soon as she could she excused herself from the others and dragged Jack up to his office. He was still in a somewhat dazed state.
Gaia shut Jack's office door and turned back around to face Jack. Before she could react Jack had pulled her into a bear hug, a tear rolling down his cheek. "Don't you ever do that again." He said desperately. Gaia chuckled softly at Jack, yet she was incredibly touched that she meant that much to him.
"I wasn't planning to." She replied her sarcasm evident.
"I honestly don't know what I'd do without you." Jack murmured. Gaia heard the truth in his words and couldn't help the welling in her eyes. She knew Jack cared for her, they were practically siblings, but for him to actually say it... now that was special.
"I don't know what I'd do without you, you big idiot." Gaia replied and Jack chuckled, although he knew the sentiment behind it. The both held each other a little longer before pulling away and wiping their eyes. "Look at us." Gaia commented, laughing a little at the irony of their situation.
"We've finally let are ages get to our heads." Jack joked his eyes were still red rimmed but the tears stopped.
"Hmmm..." Gaia replied smiling and then a thought struck her. "So I was unconscious, yet again, while you saved the world...again." She stated a hint of humour in her voice. Jack laughed at her quite use to her random outbursts.
"Looks like it." He replied. Gaia rolled her eyes, a smile on her face.