Disclaimer: I do not own Torchwood or Doctor Who; only my original characters Alexandria Wells & Tom
AN: Am amazed I've managed to write so much, this started off as a little dream I had and I never imagined I'd be able to get more than ten chapters out of it. Have discovered, however, that I shouldn't write late at night - had a rather disturbing dream last night where I was on the hunt for spoons and couldn't rest until I found them :( ~Zyii
FOURTEEN
When Lexi woke that morning an onslaught of last nights memories hit her and she smiled. She could hear Ianto snoring softly behind her, his head buried in her hair, his legs tangled with hers. In front of her she admired Jack's sleeping face. He held her hands tightly in one of his own while his other hand was slung on her hip. Lexi couldn't remember feeling happier than this. For once her soul felt full and happy. She was already feeling the traits of the others emercing themselves in her. Like Ianto's sensitivity and Jack's flirting. It was the way the bond worked, binding them together, sharing strengths and weaknesses.
Looking down Lexi saw the small symbol on the inside of her wrist that indicated she'd fully bonded with the two men. The symbol was three circles woven together. Suddenly Lexi couldn't stay still any longer, as her bladder was protesting. The hand around her waist tightened as she struggled to move nd she found herself facing Jack who was now awake.
'Where are you going?' he asked.
'I need to pee' she moaned 'I promise to come straight back!'
Jack pouted but let her up. Their movement had woken a sleeping Ianto but he did nothing but silently watch Lexi till she had disappeared into the bathroom.
'I can't believe we finally did it' he breathed out quietly.
'I know' replied Jack 'Us three, together, forever. I never thought I'd get the chance to do something like that' he said.
'Now we're never letting her go, can you feel it? I feel like I have parts of you and her running through me' said Ianto.
'I feel it' replied Jack 'have you seen the tattoo?' he asked pointing to the symbol on the inside of his wrist.
Ianto hadn't, so he looked down at his own wrist 'it's beautiful' he said.
'It's a binding symbol' said Lexi returning from the bathroom, 'it shows we're legally married across the entire universe'.
'No going back then' said Jack in a teasing manner.
'No going back' replied Ianto.
'Unless you want to die' added Lexi.
Jack growled, jumping up to force her back to bed.
Several hours later, they decided they had better get up and Ianto was now busy making a rather late breakfast in the kitchen.
'So this bond, any important stuff we need to know?' asked Jack.
'You're asking me this now? Why not before?' asked Lexi.
'Well whatever you said wouldn't have changed out minds but you were acting rather concerned about the future and we wanted to cement this relationship first. It seemed the more important thing' said Ianto.
Lexi nodded understandingly.
'We there isn't much really, I'm not even sure the thing that created me knew all thing things that would happen to me but from what I understand we'll be able to sense where each other are especially if one is in danger. Strong traits from each of us are shared with one another, for example, I seemed to have got some of Ianto's sensitivity and Jack's cheekiness. I don't know if you'll develop any powers like mine, I know the powers I posess are what everyone seems to be after but I've already given the only gift I had power to and that was immortality to Ianto' she said.
'You think we will need powers?' asked Jack.
'Not sure, I know that I'll need you to defeat Tom' she said.
'You really think he'll return?' asked Ianto.
'He won't stop till I kill him. Remember the year that never was Jack, Tom is like my very own Master - yet admittedly on a different scale' she said.
'Great' replied Jack.
'So on a scale of one to ten, how bad is that?' asked Ianto.
'Eleven' replied Lexi.
'Oh' said Ianto.
The group fell into momentary silence.
'Can you tell us about your past?' asked Jack.
'Didn't the Doctor already tell you?' she responded.
'Yes and no, he told us a basic understanding of it, I think it would be benificial to hear it from you' said Ianto.
Lexi nodded, 'I had a feeling you would say that. Promise me you won't feel too upset though, it's not exactly a fairytale story' she said.
She stayed quiet till she heard both her men say 'I promise' before she began her story.
'I gather the Doctor told you of the man that kidnapped my Mother, used her for experiments and then killed her once I was born. Well I cannot tell you much of my early life for I was too young to remember it. I had my first experience when I was five, electrocution because I didn't complete what he wanted me to do. I came to fear the long stick he carried with him because I knew the pain it could inflict. I had daily excersises and trials, he always pushed me to go further and further, nothing was ever good enough for him. His level of perfection was high and I never seemed to reach it. There were days when I would return to my room covered in blood and bruises. Once he discovered that I could not die he was overjoyed, when he discovered that he could still inflict pain to the point of almost death, it was like Christmas had come early for him' she paused to lick her lips.
'There were years when he paraded me around, lend me out to different people who taught me different things. I believe he wanted me to become a super soilder, the first of many, I was his prototype but he seemed never able to create another one of me. I remained his single achievement. I was halfway through my teens when the Doctor found me. I don't think he thought I would survive, I remember the facility going up in flames and the cries of the man who created me begging to be saved. He deserved his death for what he put me through. It took almost a century to fix myself, the Doctor was there all the time, there were moments when I couldn't talk, where the fear was so strong I was stuck in my own nightmare'.
'The first time the Doctor let me out of his sight, I met John. The Doctor welcomed the friendship I made because it was helping me. John recognised my lost soul and made it his mission to help repair me. Over the years he earnt my trust and the Doctor's trust and in turn he learnt more about me. A few centuries later the Doctor and John deemed it time for me to walk the great universe by myself. That was how I met Tom. The Doctor had told me to embrace all human emotions and had talked to me in great length about the emotion of love. He said I had to find it, grab it with both hands and never let it go and that's what I did with Tom' said Lexi.
'But now he wants you dead' said Jack.
Lexi nodded 'it was through Tom that I learnt of the secret sect. I don't think he intentionally revealed it but once I knew of it I researched it further. It never occured to me that he was part of it till he revealed it himself. That's when I felt my soul snap, all the goodness I'd done in repairing myself was over in one quick snap. Tom doesn't want me, he wants my powers and my immortality. The secret sect was based off some forgotten work of the man who created me, apparently it states that one can take the powers and immortality from me if they are my bonded but I know the man who created me didn't mean it like that. It was an experiment he was working on during the last moments of his life, he believed if he could created me then he could create another similar to me or if that failed he could hand pick and individual to transfer my powers through, fortunately he died before he could realise his experiment. My powers are not for everyone, in the wrong hands they would be catastrophic'.
'He didn't realise you'd need to be bonded?' asked Ianto.
'He knew I'd need more than one lover to survive. There is a lot of power running through me and it cannot be sustained for long by one person, I don't think he realised the full extend of what the bond would be. I only learnt what it could be by researching other species that were similar. I knew it would be instant for me, that when I saw the two people I was meant to be with I'd know right away, it was the other side that I was unsure of. Like I say I had relitively no say in the matter, it was like fate jumping in and chosing who she thought was most suited for me but as you know, you two had a say in whether you wanted to accept fate or not'.
'You said you had other lovers in the past?' questioned Jack.
'Yes a couple before Tom that seem barely important now' she replied.
'And after Tom?' asked Ianto.
'There were others but they were always kept on a long lead, I didn't want to risk coming close to them, the trust I had in men had disappeared' she said.
'You said the Doctor and John knew we'd be right for you' said Jack.
'Yes and no, they had an inkling. It seemed probably that Jack would be one being the impossible man. I only realised it was Ianto as well when I first met him' she replied.
'So Tom will come back' questioned Ianto.
'Yes' she replied.
'And you will fight him' said Ianto.
'Yes' she said.
'What will you need us to do?' asked Jack.
'Stand by me, give me your strength and your love and if you happen to discover a power - use it!' she replied smiling.
ELSEWHERE
There sat a man, starring at a console in a little blue box called the TARDIS. He was reading a missive sent from one Tosh Sato (soon to be Harper) from Torchwood.
He was grinning madly upon reading that his good friend Lexi had bonded with the two Torchwood men.
The the console flashed again and he remembered what Lexi still had to go through to reach her happy ending.