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Jack didn't know what to say. He should be angry with her. Truthfully he was just a little bit.
He couldn't take out his frustrations on her now. She had been through too much already.
The doctor broke something inside of her. Now she was here on his doorstep. looking for a friend
"Hey enough of that now okay" he said
He pulled her close and let her lay her head on his shoulder.
"Just tell me you didn't do it on purpose" he said
"Jack I would never do that to anyone on purpose" said Lexi
"How did you know?" he said
"I can sense it time is sort of bending around you" said Lexi
Frowning he pulled back.
"Can you reverse it?" he asked
Lexi bit her bottom lip
"I could try but it'll probably cost me a regeneration" said Lexi
He nodded in understanding. She didn't outright tell him no. That was something at least.
"So what are your plans?" he said
"Well for one find my Tardis then I suppose track down a stupid time lord" said Lexi
jack chuckled
"I thought he was brilliant" he said
"Oh he is on most everything but his heart" said Lexi
Jack nodded yeah he could see that.
"So what's your Tardis look like because we didn't find any blue police boxes in your place?" said Jack
"Oh it's a soda machine" said Lexi
"Wait it's a what?" said jack
"A soda machine you know coke circa early fifties" said Lexi
Jack started laughing
"What's so funny?" said Lexi
He grabbed her hand
"Come with me, I know you can't sleep anyways" said Jack
He led her back into the hub proper and into a lounge area.
"Our break room" said Jack
Frowning Lexi looked around and then squealed in delight. Her Tardis was parked next to a candy machine
"It ran out of sodas but no one had a key to open it, Owen wanted to take a blow torch to it" said Jack
Lexi gasped in shock.
"He better not dare, oh my poor baby" Lexi cooed to the machine
She pulled a key off her neck and opened the door. Jack followed her in..
"Whoa very classy" he said.
She smiled but it was a half smile. He hated seeing her like that. So to avoid another crying jag.
He turned her attention back to the Tardis.
"Odd it looks like someone misaligned the power core" he said
Lexi frowned and went to the display. Jack watched her slender fingers dance across the copper knobs.
He wondered what those hands would feel like running across his skin.
He could still remember the kiss she gave him for luck on satellite five.
The way her lips molded to his. How her hips felt wrapped around his.
He moaned and she looked sharply up.
"Sorry" he said
Rubbing his head. For the first time embarrassed by his sexual nature. He moved to the other side of the console.
Hoping she didn't notice the huge bulge in his pants. He knew she wasn't ready for that yet.
He turned his head towards the display and frowned.
"Someone's been in your computer core" he said
She walked over to his side and moved in front of him to read the display.
He stepped back but not quite in time. She froze half bent over the console.
His mind maliciously teased him. With the oh so many uses he could do with her in that position.
"Jack?" she said
He couldn't tell if she sounded shocked or offended
"Um yeah, sorry" he said
A faint blush coloring his cheeks for the first time in ages. She turned and he watched her bite her lip.
Oddly it was the same coy little move Rose used to employ. It never really worked on the doctor but oh how it made him melt.
She glanced down and then back up. Her expression unreadable
"Good memories?" she said
A lifted brow the only indication she wasn't offended. He could have sighed in relief
"Ah yeah, very good" he said
She smiled a knowing little smirk. That had Jack feeling like a kid caught with his hands in the cookie jar.
She moved closer to him and he swallowed. A naughty part of his mind wondered if she would be willing to spank him.
"Care to share?" she teased
His eyes widened. Was that a challenge or an invitation? She was close enough now that it was resting against her thigh.
"Oh yeah" he said
He pressed her back and suddenly her lips were on his. Their mouths fought for dominance and he moaned into hers.
Oh how he dreamed about this moment but something just wasn't right.
He felt that little nag of guilt at the back of his mind. She was hurting and vulnerable. He couldn't do this.
He couldn't hurt her that way. It would be taking advantage of a friend. Yeah it would be good.
She probably just wanted to forget him but damn it.
He wanted her to want him not use him as a quick mourning fuck.
She drew away because for some reason he had stopped responding
"Jack?" said Lexi
Her legs were wrapped around him again. She was sitting partially on the console.
His hands both had fistfuls of her knickers in them. Man he loved short skirts.
"I can't do this" he said
She tilted her head and gave him a considering look.
"Why not?" she asked.
He released his grip on her knickers and stepped back.
"I can't hurt you like that" he said
She frowned at him and looked like she wanted to cry again. He politely turned away while she righted herself.
He wanted to kick himself for his foolish lapse of conscience. Damn he had been so close.
She slowly straightened and turned back to the display.
"Thank you" said Lexi
Her voice was soft and he barely heard her. He watched her close her eyes briefly
"I'm sorry" he said
He didn't know why he was apologizing again.
"Don't be, at least I know he didn't leave me because I'm ugly" said Lexi
The pain behind those words cut him to the core and he wrapped her in his arms again.
"You never were baby doll" he said
She started sobbing again and he just held her close. Buried his face in her hair and tried not to cry with her.
He had gone through this point when he first woke up on that station. He remembered watching the Tardis fade from view.
The agony of that betrayal brought him to his knees that day. He remembered falling to the deck and sobbing like he never had before.
Not when Gray had been taken or he watched his friends die. Not even when he was informed of his parents deaths.
No rejection hurt a bit deeper than loss because it wasn't just losing someone you cared about.
No it was someone you cared about not wanting you.
When he had stopped crying finally and wiped his tears away.
He had been angry at last at that time lord. Not quite as angry as he was now but pretty damn close.
"I don't understand what I did wrong Jack" she wailed.
He pulled back and gripped her cheeks in his hands. So she was forced to look at him.
"Oh baby no, you did nothing wrong it was all him. He's the fool not you" he said
She sniffled but seemed to regain some measure of control. So he let her face go.
She wiped her eyes and stepped away from him. He watched her quietly type something into the console keyboard.
She was pushing aside her feelings and focusing on something else. An activity he could relate to.
She was glaring at the screen now like it had somehow offended her.
"Lexi?" he said
"That cheating, two bit lying arsehole" she said
Jack grinned at her use of swear words. She was quite adorable when she swore.
"Aargh!" she screamed and furiously typed something else in.
"What did he do?" said Jack
She was muttering something else under her breath. That sounded like another language.
Oddly it was one he had never heard before. Which was saying quite a bit because alien tongues used to be his forte.
Well that and other alien parts.
"He erased the flight sequence, took the flight stabilizers off line and removed the environmental control program" she said
"Oh shit" said Jack
"That jerk is trying to strand me" said Lexi
She sounded angry, which was a sight better than sad and weepy.
"Do you want me to start checking everything else?" said Jack
"Yeah would you?" said Lexi
She sighed in frustration. Jack left her to her thoughts and started checking her ships systems.
A few hours later they called it quits. When Jack found her sleeping in the captain's chair.
Though he didn't know of many captains that sported divans as captains chairs.
Not to mention ones who had them covered in cheetah print. He smiled and let himself out.
Leaving the notebook he had been writing the damage down on.
He walked back to his sleeping quarters and tried to get some shut eye before everyone else showed up.
He would have to brief the team on their new resident time lord tomorrow.
He hoped Owen was near a chair when he did. Smirking Jack shut his eyes for the night.
The doctor was floating aimlessly through the vortex. A message flashed on the screen and he craned his neck to read it.
It was something that had been stored in the archives by his sixth incarnation.
He would have asked seven but there was the off chance he could be recognized.
Not that six's coat wasn't noticeable at all. Five wouldn't have done what he asked.
He was too nice to leave her stranded like that.
No it had to be six. He was just the right amount of asshole for the job.
So while he was distracting Lexi under a pair of purple moons. Six was back here making sure her Tardis wouldn't fly.
He hated having to essentially exile her to earth but it was for her own good.
He stood up slowly and turned a knob. His hand hovered over the date.
Part of him wanted to check on her. Just jump ahead and see how she was doing.
Was she happy? Had she found someone else? His hearts clenched and his hand moved away from the controls.
He moved towards the keyboard. Maybe just setting it to random would do the trick.
His hand was hovering over the keyboard. When a voice behind him startled him.
"Who the hell are you then?" said a female voice
He looked up and froze. There was a woman in white. Standing there looking quite angrily at him
"What?" he said
"I said who the hell are you?" said the woman
His gaze flicked down taking in the dress she was wearing and trying not to panic.
Oh why did she have to be dressed like a bride?
" I demand you tell me where I am" said the woman
"The Tardis"he said
"What?"she said
"The Tardis"he said, getting slightly irritated now
"The what?" said the woman
"The Tardis, my ship, that's its name" said the doctor
"That makes no sense. Your just stringing together syllables" said the woman
He snorted and looked offended by that
"Now see here woman" he said
"Excuse me I have a name and it's not woman" said the woman
He looked irritated
"Well I don't care, how did you get on my ship?" said the doctor
"Well how the hell should I know. You're the one who abducted me" said the woman
"Look lady" said the doctor
"My name is Donna" she said
"The doctor" he said
"Doctor who?" said Donna
" Just the doctor,human?" he asked
"Yeah is that optional?" said Donna
"Is for me" he said
"Alien your an alien?" said Donna
"Yep so are you" he said back
She snorted and headed for the door. He raised a hand to protest then lowered it. Hell she would figure it out.
"Oh my gawd I've been abducted by aliens, I though they were just nutters" said Donna
"Excuse me not following" said the doctor
"I've gone and got myself abducted by martians on my wedding day" said Donna
"Ah not martian" he said
She turned to him and looked positively furious
"Well no martian is going to keep me from my wedding day, return me" said Donna
"I'm not from mars and I didn't take you" he said
Ooh this woman was driving him nuts already.
"How many women have you done this to, do you have some sort of martian harem in this thing?" said Donna
His mouth dropped open in shock
"What?" he said
"Aha I knew I wasn't the first" said Donna
She picked up Lexi's jacket and waved it in his face. Her scent drifted past his nostrils and his hearts clenched again.
"That's a friends now put it down" he said
"Friends? So where is she popped out for a little space walk, chained in your dungeon perhaps?" said Donna
He was growling mad and wished he did actually own a dungeon right now. He briefly toyed with the idea.
Of just dropping this annoying prat of a woman off in the thirteenth century somewhere and seeing if any of his old friends.
Would lock her up in their dungeons just as a favor to him.
He glared at the woman who was still swinging the jacket around like she owned it.
"I lost her now drop it" he practically growled
"Lost her how?" said Donna
Oh why, oh why couldn't she be quiet? How in the world had she gotten here in the first place?
He started naming theory's and she smacked him
"What was that for?" he said
"Get me back to the church" said Donna
He rubbed his face and closed the distance between them. He's had about enough of her.
He grabbed the jacket from her fingers with a yank and hung it over his shoulder.
Lexi's scent drifted past his nose again. Exuding calm over his senses.
Normally he would enjoy a mystery but not right now. He started naming different scenarios and ended up slapped again.
It took quite a bit of his self control to keep from hitting her back.
After that he decided to hell with it. Lets just get her back to that Lance fellow and let him deal with her.
He silently wished the man luck. He landed the Tardis and she was out the door before he could protest.
Fortunately they were on the other side of town so at least he wouldn't run into Lexi.
Donna was frantically trying to hail a cab. For some reason they were ignoring her
"Do you even have any money to pay a cab fare?" he said
"No of course not. Do I look like I have pockets in this thing?"she said
He shrugged she could have hidden pockets
"Are you sure?" he said
"Of course I'm sure. I didn't just walk into Surrey's and say gimme the one with pockets" said Donna
Frowning he started to turn and walk away. He was only trying to be helpful. No need to bite his head off.
"You could always stick it.." said the doctor
He motioned to her top portion. She got this indignant look on her face again and started towards him like she wanted to slap him
"I'll just.." he said
He pointed in the direction of an ATM and started walking towards it. He was grumbling under his breath the whole time.
Lexi never was like this. Why couldn't Donna just be calm? He was working on it wasn't he?
He soniced the ATM and grabbed the first handful of cash that was spit out.
He turned back to hail her a cab and found her getting into one already
"Thanks for nothing space man" she yelled
He glared at her retreating figure and dropped the handful of money.
He started back towards the Tardis when the cab pulled past. He turned and saw the cab was being driven by an auton Santa.
"oh shit, Donna! Donna wait get out of the cab" he yelled
But they were already pulling away swearing he headed for the Tardis.
He ended up flying down the highway and having her jump into the Tardis.
The whole time wishing Lexi was here. So she could at the very least fly while he helped Donna.
The church couldn't help but remind him of what he left behind.
Ironically he was about to leave the church when the autons showed up there.
After reviewing someones camera footage he pieced the puzzle together.
Donna was saturated in huon particles. How she got that way he had a sneaking suspicion on.
Then when the autons managed to track Donna to the church. He was sure his theory was correct.
He blasted the autons with the sound system. Then took Donna and her fiance to her old work.
Lance was acting a bit shifty and then he eventually confirmed it later. Honestly the doctor wasn't surprised.
Just startled at the species of his enemy. He had honestly thought them extinct.
He saw the hurt on Donna face when she realized who her betrayer was.
His words were unnecessary fuel to the fire. The doctor's heart clenched. Was that what he put Lexi through?
Oh he felt like such an ass right now.
In the end he used their own bombs against them and he watched as the empress drowned.
His heart had gone numb. It was only at Donna's insistent tugging on his sleeve that had him leaving.
Part of him wanted to stay. To drown with his ancient enemy. Just so he never had to face what he had done.
Donna dragged him out and promptly smacked him again.
"Stop it!" she yelled
He blinked in shock. He could see the fear in the woman's eyes but she held her ground.
"She wouldn't want this" said Donna
His eyes darkened and he took a step towards her.
"You have no idea what she would like" he said
His voice low and with a dangerous edge to it. Donna was already pushing his buttons today.
The hurt look in her eyes stopped him cold. His anger cooled. She was only trying to help him.
"I know she must have cared enough about you. That she wouldn't want to lose you" said Donna
He frowned and started to retort sharply. His other hand strayed to his wrist and he rubbed the bracelet.
Donna was right, Lexi would have been furious with him for that little display down there.
Donna caught the movement of his hands.
"You need her you should go get her" said Donna
"I don't need anyone" he retorted
It came out sharper than he intended. The sad pitying look on her face made him bristle
"She would forgive you. Just try" said Donna
He shook his head no. He couldn't go there what's was done was done.
"Then promise me this" she said
He nodded but was still frowning.
"Sure anything" said the doctor
"Promise me you'll find someone" said Donna
He scoffed
"I need to be alone right now" he said
"No you don't, alone is the last thing you need sweetheart" said Donna
His heart clenched and he felt tears well in his eyes. He swallowed
"I don't need.." he started to say
His voice broke and Donna wrapped her arms around him.
"Yeah you do everyone does. You've lost someone and right now your on an edge, sometimes you just need someone to stop you from jumping off it" she said
He nodded unable to speak for several moments.
He found himself crying into her arms. It took him awhile to calm down
"Thank you" he said
He pulled away from her gently
"Any time space man" said Donna
"Would you?" he asked
"Naw I can't but you'll find someone" said Donna
He nodded and slowly walked away from her. Vanishing inside the Tardis.
He fired it up and set her to drift in the void for awhile.