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Authors note:First of all heed the warning on all my stories. I put them in the mature section for a reason.

No characters are safe in them. All of them even well loved canon ones. I do frequently, maim torture and kill them off.

I also swear and include sex scenes. Thus the warnings and rating. Second of all. characters in fan-fiction are Mary sues, period.

Some in canon are as well. Just compare the definition to the character if you don't believe me. Prime example Bella swan.

As for my over use of the word gawd. That is a deliberate misspell by the way and it is a word in the texters dictionary.

I use that spelling because I don't want to offend my christian readers by using their lords name in vain.

It's called courtesy. This is an oc driven story. Yes I know please stop gasping and breathe. Just a warning this is a filler chapter. End note.

She drove silently thinking about last night. She was honestly not certain she wanted their relationship to change.

Truth be told she only wanted a bit of comfort and well some fun. She hoped she hadn't just ruined the friendship between them.

Jack was probably the only one left who could understand her. On the bright side if she did want to pursue a relationship with him. He was willing.

Unlikely to age and die on her. He could leave her though. He already said he wanted the doctor.

Would he settle for her? Or was she once again not enough to hold him?

Her stomach clenched and she turned her thoughts away from that line of thinking. Jack had the atlas on his lap but wasn't looking at it.

No instead he was watching his companion. Was he too rough with her? He tried to keep the frown off his face.

Maybe he shouldn't have slept with her before forming a relationship with her.

Was she regretting her actions last night? If so had he lost his touch?

He shook his head, naw that was unlikely. She was way too responsive last night to be faking any of it.

Would she stay with him or should he try to find the doctor still?

Maybe if he could convince the errant time lord to come back they could be a trisome. Would she go for that?

He glanced up from the map and snagged another doughnut. He really should stop living off of this stuff.

Then again it's not like it would kill him anytime soon. Hell he could probably drink like a winno and smoke twelve dozen packs a day.

Okay maybe that was a bit much but it's not like it could kill him anyways. Make him fat on the other hand.

He stared at Lexi she was starting to get a bit of pudge on her. Yeah definitely time to make sure the team stayed in shape.

Maybe he should implement a mandatory gym membership or add some machines to the hub.

Lexi snagged another doughnut and he watched her eat it without looking.

"We should stop and get some real food for lunch" said Jack

Maybe a salad or some soup. Sandwiches were always a good bet.

"Okay where this highways a bit deserted" said Lexi

Jack looked at the road he had to agree with her on that. They were back roads after all.

"We can try the next town maybe find a deli or something" said Jack

She gave him a strange look.

"What so I feel like a soup and salad, maybe a sandwich" said Jack

The eyebrow went further up. He definitely didn't want to go into why he was suggesting it.

Heaven forbid he even suggest she was getting fat. Oh no that would be a nightmare of epic proportions.

"Yeah something light sounds good, I'm getting tired of pizza" said Lexi

She could practically see him sigh in relief. Was he trying to say she was getting fat?

Well she was a bit larger in this form but fat really? She took a sip of the coffee. It was almost gone.

Odd she couldn't remember when she last had a descent meal. At least one that didn't consist of pizza or prepackaged sweets.

Okay so maybe she should start worrying about her figure. This body did have to last her awhile.

She wasn't too eager to burn through her regenerations anymore. Some of the doctor's had lasted him a couple centuries at least.

It would be nice to at least get one out of each of them. She had been barely twenty five when Arcadia fell.

She couldn't believe she had been about to get married that young. That was only her second body.

Technically they referred to it as her first though. It had lasted her only 91 years barely a century before it gave out.

To be fair she hadn't treated it very good. Never exercising like she should have. Eating sporadically and unhealthy.

Honestly sometimes she didn't even eat for days at a time. So here she was already in body number four.

Having barely made it to 58 in the third. Of course that was because that one had in fact gotten quite hefty towards the end.

That was probably what lead to the heart attack in one of her hearts. Luckily she had a spare or she would have died for sure.

It felt weird returning to this lake after so many years gone. She did have fun on these shores though.

Well for the most part. Only nine more lives to go. Ironically just like a cat.

She never wanted to live this long. She had always thought she would die young. Perhaps killed while on a trip with her mom.

Now her mom was gone, horribly tragically gone and Lexi was still here.

"What are you thinking about?" said Jack

He had noticed the frown creasing her brow. She looked upset and he hated that.

"Jack how old are you now?" said Lexi

He smirked

"Why?" said Jack

"Just curious" said Lexi

" A hundred and thirty" said Jack

Lexi frowned and seemed to be thinking about something.

"I'll be one hundred and seventy six next month" said Lexi

He raised an eyebrow

"So what are you thinking about that for?" said Jack

She shrugged because she wasn't sure how to describe what she was feeling.

"Just do you ever wonder what your life would have been like, if you hadn't met him?" said Lexi

Jack frowned and set the map aside.

"Yeah I do and honestly I think I'm better off having met him" said Jack

He was watching her closely. He was suddenly worried she was planning something stupid.

"Maybe but who's to say you needed to change" said Lexi

He looked away for a few minutes

"I did, I was going no where with my life. I was a con man Lexi, sooner or later one of my cons would have gone bad" said Jack

He didn't need to elaborate.

"Why what do you think you would have been doing instead?" said Jack

She sighed

"Probably what my mom wanted me to do, model like her." said Lexi

"Doesn't sound like you'd be happy with that" said Jack

"No probably not but I would be making enough money to do what I wanted later" said Lexi

"Which was?" said jack

He sounded worried. Lexi glanced at him out of the corner of her eye.

"Go to uni probably get a degree" said Lexi

"A degree in what?" said Jack

Lexi giggled

"Promise you won't laugh?" said Lexi

"I promise" said Jack

He sounded serious so Lexi paused for a moment

"I wanted to be a teacher" said Lexi

She waited with baited breath for the laughter. When none was forth coming she glanced at him.

"Your not laughing" said Lexi

"No why would I?" said Jack

"Well because I'm me, you know Lexi the girl who shops" said Lexi

Jack leaned back in his chair in shock.

"Why do you do that?" said Jack

She gave him a confused look

"Because it's true" said Lexi

"No it's not, I know its not. You need to stop selling yourself so short" said Jack

He sounded somewhat offended for some reason.

"Okay" said Lexi

She wasn't sure how to react to that statement. Why did every male in her life insist there was something more to her than was there?

Jack was watching her. She had become very quiet all of a sudden.

"Lexi?" said Jack

"Yeah" said Lexi

"Do you regret meeting him?" said Jack

She was reaching for her drink and paused mid grab.

"Do you want an honest answer?" said Lexi

He nodded yes, then remembering she was driving voiced his assent.

"Yeah would be nice" said Jack

"Yeah partially but mostly I regret believing him" said Lexi

Jack was confused by her answer

"Believing him about what?" said jack

Lexi spotted the junction turn sign and took the off ramp.

"Everything" said Lexi

Her voice sounded sad and it broke jack's heart to hear her sound so sad. He didn't want to hurt her further by giving her false hope.

He wasn't sure if the doctor had really loved her or not. So he did the only thing he could and leaned towards her.

He rested his hand on her leg. She closed her hand over his and squeezed. He heard her sniffle.

"That sign said something about a deli" said Jack

She lifted her hand and wiped her eyes.

"Yeah keep your eyes peeled I'm starting to get hungry" said Lexi

He nodded and turned his attention to the town they were approaching. With any luck the deli would be easy to spot.

Fortunately there was a small deli near the junction. So they stopped. It was one of those chain stores but it would do.

She parked the RV and they climbed out.

"If you like I can drive the rest of the way?" said Jack

She had been uncharacteristically quiet. It was kind of unnerving.

"Yeah sure."said Lexi

She reached for the door handle.

"Lexi?" said Jack

She turned and gave him a strange look.

"Yeah Jack" said Lexi

"Are you all right?" he said

"Yeah I'm fine why?" said Lexi

She didn't look fine but she obviously didn't want to talk about it. She walked in before he could question her further.

He sighed and followed her in. She ended up getting soup and a sandwich. He followed suit. He insisted on paying for it.

They took a seat towards the back of the restaurant. He watched Lexi eat quietly.

"Lexi?" he said

She looked up at him.

"Yeah?" said Lexi

"Do you regret what we did?" said Jack

She froze unsure how to answer that.

"Only if it ruins our friendship" said Lexi

He looked relieved by her answer.

" Good because I don't regret a second of it, not meeting him or you." he said

She swallowed her bite of sandwich

"Jack please don't" said Lexi

He looked like he was about to spout declarations of undying love. Ironically in his case that would be literal.

She couldn't handle that right now. She didn't want to touch love with a ten foot pole right now.

"Why not?" he said

He sounded hurt and Lexi softened her expression.

"It's too soon please just don't" said Lexi

She couldn't even think about that right now. She was too terrified that if he told her he loved her.

He would just up and leave afterward.

She couldn't take that again. In fact she would probably leave first. Just so he never got the chance to.

He met her eyes and saw the fear in hers.

"All right" said Jack

He could wait until she was ready. She was worth it in his opinion.

"So do you think he likes me?" said Jack

Lexi froze in shock and confusion.

"Huh? who" said Lexi

"Ianto" said jack

Lexi smirked yeah her friendship was fine.

"Probably, he seems to go out of his way to make sure you don't run out of coffee" said Lexi

"Yeah he does doesn't he" said Jack

"Maybe he's just enjoying the view, huh?" said Jack.

She gave him a wicked little smirk

"Can't really blame him, it is a lovely view" said Lexi

He grinned in response. He liked it when she teased back. It made him feel that everything was back to normal.

He looked happy and Lexi was privately glad the subject had changed. She refilled her soda and grabbed an additional bottle for later.

Jack followed suit and paid for them both. Lexi glared at him in irritation. She hated when he did that.

She always chalked it up to being stuck in the fifties for awhile.

He held open the door for her and she shook her head. Yeah he was definitely a contradiction.

One part old school gentleman. One part future omnisexual maverick. She chuckled and he looked back at her with an obvious question in his eyes.

"What's so amusing?" said Jack

She chuckled and walked past him. Frowning he followed her.

"Lexi?" said Jack

She turned with a smirk.

She said"you"

He gave her a blank look and she burst into giggles

"Huh?" said Jack

She unlocked the RV and climbed in. Grumbling about her height the entire time. He smacked her bottom and she yelped

"Jack!" said Lexi

"So what's so funny about me?" said Jack

He gave her one of his trademark grins. Lexi privately referred to them as his rascal smirks.

She chuckled again and flopped down in the passenger seat.

"Well come on out with it, whats so funny?" said Jack

"Its just you, how you are" said Lexi

He gave her a perplexed look.

"How so?" said jack

She smiled at him.

"Your manners mostly. It's just one of those strange quirks you have" said Lexi

"Quirks, strange?" said Jack

"Yeah you know some parts just don't match up" said Lexi

"Hey I'll have you know all my parts match up" said Jack

He sounded offended again. Lexi couldn't help it. She both blushed and giggled like mad.

"Not like that silly, it's just you can tell that you aren't from this time" said Lexi

Jack put the key in the ignition and started the RV.

"How so? I think I blend in remarkably well, don't I?" said Jack

She smiled, she was enjoying baiting him for once.

"Yeah you do on most things. It's just sometimes you act like your from the past. Then you switch and act all modern on us, it really throws us sometimes" said Lexi

"Us?" said Jack

"The team, Owen's hopelessly lost of course,Gwen sort of understands. I think the only one close is Tosh" said Lexi

"Why what makes you say that?" said Jack

He was mentally going over anything that could have given him away.

"And you?" said Jack

"I cheated, I read your file" said Lexi

"You have clearance for that?" said Jack

"Senior archivist, or rather only archivist remaining" said Lexi

He frowned remembering where she had originally worked

"I'm sorry, it's never easy to loose friends" said Jack

"No it isn't and it should never be either" said Lexi

He nodded in understanding.

"We should do something for the team when we get back" said Jack

"Yeah they've all been rather distant since Susie" said Lexi

Jack blanched

"Yeah I know and camping is out no way would they do that again" said Jack

She shivered

"I don't blame them I still can't look at steak anymore" said Lexi.

"I think they've finally forgiven Ianto though" said Jack

"Yeah I knew it would take awhile" said Lexi

"You still think I was too harsh?" said Jack

"Yeah I wouldn't have made him shoot her, that was just a bit sadistic" said Lexi

"I was trying to make a point" said Jack

She took a sip of her soda.

"What was that, life sucks?" said Lexi

He frowned at her.

"No, that his loyalty should be to us first" said Jack

"Admirable but not always realistic" said Lexi

Jack responded with a frown of his own.

"Do you think he still hates me for it?" said Jack

She shrugged because honestly she didn't know. She wasn't sure if she would forgive him for forcing her to make such a choice.

Had she been in Ianto's place. Of course she wouldn't have tried to save a cyberman either.

"Would you?" said Jack

"Yeah but only because I've made that choice before" said Lexi

He glanced at her. She looked lost in thought.

"She gave you no choice it was either her or him" said Jack

She turned towards him.

"Yeah I know but it still doesn't make me feel any less guilty" said Lexi

Or make the nightmares go away. She added mentally. She still felt like she was going to end up paying for that some day.

"Yeah well I suppose we all have our ghosts" said Jack

"Yeah" said Lexi

She was thinking of Tosh and her lost love.

"Why does love have to suck so bad?" said Lexi

Jack looked sad for a moment.

"I don't know but I suppose if perfect love does exist. It wouldn't be worth much if it was easy to obtain" said Jack

"Yeah" said Lexi

"I'm worried about her too" said Jack

Lexi leaned back in her seat.

"Has Gwen stopped nailing horseshoes over every door yet?" said Lexi

Jack chuckled and shook his head.

"Nope they really freaked her out" said Jack

"Same here" said Lexi

Jack looked surprised.

"Really?" said Jack

"Yeah a little bit of fear mixed with a healthy dose of respect is good for you, especially when dealing with something with that level of power" said Lexi

"So you aren't mad that I let them take her?" said jack

"No, you had no choice. Once she ate the food she was already changing. There was nothing we could have done to stop it." said Lexi

"You believe the old legends?" said Jack

She gave him a level look

"We're they wrong?" said Lexi

"No I suppose not" said Jack

Lexi picked up the atlas.

"Just take the fifteen south and we can cut on over on the seventeen" said Lexi

Jack nodded yes and made the turn she suggested.

Meanwhile Martha Jones. The new companion of the doctor was stuck in the mother of all traffic jams.