A/N: Disclaimer: IDK it's been so long I think I probably own this all in sheer determination points by now.

Happy new year! This is a post-JE A/U extended universe, which utilises every facet of extended DW lore in an unashamed TenRose Doctor Who/Torchwood/SJA crossover mammoth hybrid. I'm busting to go again with probably the most lore-driven crazy mess of insane fun I've had in years.

This is a series and there's quite literally a million words before you get to this story, so if you don't fancy that then you'll be just fine starting this one (probably, I don't even know anymore?). Alternatively, you can head to my profile to find a link that'll take you to extended summaries of everything that came before. Or, just ask me ^^/

Previously:

Having concocted a plan to modify the TARDIS to get through Tuvalan space, everyone at Torchwood is assembled to help gather the parts required from the depths of the TARDIS and a well-stocked junkyard. The Doctor sends Leah on a special mission to retrieve a crucial part from the TARDIS Attic. She enters alone, and meets three terrifying and threatening ghosts of previous TARDIS owners, who condemn her for her part-humanity and the Doctor's interspecies breeding. She retrieves the part, but is left shaken by her experience.

The Doctor continues to struggle with day-to-day tasks owing to his severe blindness. Millennia, with Leah and Theo's help, devises a visual aid for the Doctor using sunglasses and audible proximity alerts to help him navigate. The Doctor then regretfully wires in Dalek sense globes into the TARDIS, reigniting old memories of being captured by the Daleks during the Time War where both he and the TARDIS were severely tortured, which he recounts to Jack.

With most of the parts retrieved, work begins on the TARDIS modifications with the help of everyone in Torchwood. After a week most of the modifications are complete, and the Doctor is beginning to get used to his lack of sight. The pick up mercury from UNIT, and for their final TARDIS part they head to Varos for some Zeiton-7, but realise quickly that a past version of Jack is stealing from the mining facility and they can't get it until he's been stopped. The Doctor concocts a plan to con the conman and they successfully end his endeavour. However, on return to the TARDIS, Leah calls in a panic as a Dalek has inexplicably appeared on the time ship.

In order to save his family, friends, and the TARDIS, the Doctor ltries to reset the power, but is attacked by the Dalek and shot. He's dragged into the lower decks to the Brig, presumed dead, where he realises the Dalek is the same one that he recounted in his story to Jack - a Dalek who now believes it is the Time War and that the Doctor is blocking a channel to Dalek command. The Dalek tortures the Doctor and the TARDIS severely to get him to open the non-existent channel. He manages to get a message to the others, and Leah realises the only solution is to go to the Attic to find out from the ghosts where the Brig is to save her dad. She succeeds.

Jack rushes to the Interrogation Room, but discovers he can't open it. He speaks to the Doctor, forcing him to get to the door. Broken and severely injured, the Doctor, with the support of the Tardis, breaks out of the Interrogation Room and collapses in Jack's arms. They hole up in the Zero Room to avoid the roaming Dalek until the Doctor wakes up. He resolves to save the TARDIS, and leaves with Jack but they quickly get separated. Seeing it from afar, Leah concocts a plan with her little brother, using his ability in language to commune with the Dalek. She lures it to the lower decks, allowing the Doctor time to reset the TARDIS system. Disgruntled but proud, the Doctor summons her to the infirmary where he's recovering and gives her a lecture on putting herself and her little brother in danger, before inviting her on the trip to Tuvala.

They return to Torchwood to say goodbye, where Jackie acknowledges she may never see them again. Leaving Theo behind with her, the Doctor, Leah, Jack, and Millennia head to Tuvala.

Chapter 1: Abandon hope all ye who enter here

The Doctor felt a sudden hand resting on his shoulder. He turned, pushing his sunglasses down onto his sightless eyes. The proximal buzzing in his ear began, signifying someone was standing directly in front of him. He could hear the breathing and smell her perfume.

'Jackie,' he acknowledged, a little apprehensively.

Without a beat, she hugged him.

'Jackie?' he asked, a little stunned.

'I think I'm actually gonna miss you,' she said.

'You feeling okay?' he asked jokingly.

She laughed, but he sensed it was a little forced. 'I'm sorry about what I said. Rose wouldn't want us doin' this; not now.'

He nodded. 'You never asked me why.'

'What?'

'Why I'm taking Leah.'

Jackie sighed. 'Cos I already know why.'

'You do?'

'Cos she's all the best of you and all the best of my Rose and she's so good she's probably gonna save your worthless hides about twenty times over.'

He laughed, and nodded. 'I'll bring them back. They'll both come home. I promise.'

'Don't make promises you can't keep,' she said. 'I ain't thick, I know 'ow this works. But I want you to know I think you can do it.'

'You do?' he asked, quizzical.

'You'll be walkin' back into Torchwood with Rose and Leah on each arm like trophies with that smug grin you do, and I'll find it bloody irritatin', but I ain't gonna be surprised.'

He laughed again. 'Thank you, Jackie. For everything. I'll see you soon.'

He sensed her supportive smile as she kissed his forehead, giving him one last hug.

The console room was quieting as people came to the end of their farewells. He moved to the console, Jack taking his arm to place him in the midst of him, Millennia, and Leah by the controls as he looked to the doorway where everyone was now congregated.

'We'll be off,' he announced.

They received a chorus of good lucks and goodbyes in return. Theo gave him a final goodbye, and then it was just the four of them, standing in the TARDIS console room.

'Ready?' the Doctor asked.

'Yeah,' Jack said.

'Yes,' Millennia affirmed.

'Yep!' Leah cried happily.

'Good luck, everyone,' he said, and threw the handbrake. The TARDIS churned loudly - the eruption of engines far cleaner and more powerful than she'd ever managed before.

Finally, they were off to Tuvala.

-BOOT SEQUENCE INITIATED-

-INDEXING ENTRIES-

-CHECKING VERSION-

-SCANNING FOR UPDATES-

-BOOT UP COMPLETE-

Camera initialised.

? entries logged [corrupted].

Playing entry 1/?.

LEAH: …. Okay ... um, you're all being recorded now.

JACK: What are you doing?

MILLENNIA: Is it a um, how you say, "camera"?

LEAH: Yeah.

DOCTOR: Are you going to carry that thing around all day?

'No, not all the time,' Leah replied adamantly to her daddy as she pointed the camera at him. He was sitting in the pilot's seat with his converse-clad feet propped up on the console while chewing on a biscuit. 'It links up to the nearest camera feed if it's not being held and also builds pictures using the Tardis' telepathic circuits.'

'Um, why are you filming?' he asked seriously.

'We're going into a place where no one's ever come back from so we need to document it properly for people who study split space, like Professor Joto.'

'You still absolutely sure she's yours, Doc? Rose didn't have a night with a librarian, did she?' Jack joked, smirking.

The Doctor rolled his eyes as Leah harrumphed a little. 'Everyone be quiet, I need to make my first entry please,' she said.

'Sorry,' the Doctor said.

'Sorry,' Jack echoed, still smirking.

They obediently said nothing more as the Doctor finished his biscuit and pushed his sunglasses up the bridge of his nose. His six-year-old girl began to pace around the console holding her camera to her face, staring down into the lens.

'Okay so … um, day one. We're going into an unexplored region of split space called Tuvala. For the last few weeks we've been modifying our Tardis so she can handle all the weird space stuff better, and then we fueled up on the rift energy and we left Earth. And um, by "we", I mean there's me, Leah Tyler. I'm a gallifreyan-human. There's my Uncle Jack …'

'Hey!' Jack shouted happily from across the room.

'He's human but he's also immortal and it's kinda weird. There's also Millennia …'

'Oh, um, hello,' Millennia said, a little confused.

'She's a kind of humanoid with a mind that got stuck in a computer and it's also kinda weird. And then there's my Daddy, the Doctor. He's a Time Lord. He's just plain weird.'

'Present!' the Doctor called, mock saluting in the camera's field.

'So right now we're in the vortex trying to get to the Tuvalan graveyard which the Professor said was the route into Tuvala, but it's taking forever cos time's so warped around it,' Leah explained.

'Three goddamn days,' Jack inputted from the side.

'Um, yeah. Three days,' Leah confirmed, frowning down the lens a little. 'As we're getting closer we've had to adjust the space-time throttle a lot because the closer we get the longer it's taking, cos space is stretched. Daddy, what would happen if we didn't do that with the throttle?'

'Then by the time we get there we'll all have died of old age and Uncle Jack will be a giant face in a big jar,' the Doctor supplied.

Both Leah and Jack looked at him, confused. 'Um, what?' they asked simultaneously.

'Never mind,' the Time Lord replied, grinning again.

Leah sighed at her father and turned her attention back to her camera. 'So right now we're all just waiting to get there. All systems are working. As we get closer, me and Daddy are feeling a bit weird cos we're time sensitive but the Tardis is okay so far. I think that's it.'

'What's our mission objective?' Jack prompted.

'Oh yeah. Err … we're gonna find a cure and save my mummy and the universe from the disease.'

She panned the camera to her father, who nodded, short and sharp. 'Yeah, we are,' he confirmed, and Leah stopped recording.

Playing entry 2/?.

LEAH: Day six. So six days since we left we're finally near Asunis so we dropped out of the vortex back into normal space-time. On the monitor Asunis looks a bit like Earth. Daddy, I feel a bit weird.

'So do I,' the Doctor replied as Leah pointed the camera at him. He had one hand resting on the handbrake and the other rubbing his temple.

'What kind of weird?' Jack wondered.

'Just feeling a bit … err … shloopy,' the Doctor described unsuccessfully.

'Shloopy?' Millennia echoed, confused. 'What is meaning of this?'

'He just made that word up,' Jack said, rolling his eyes.

'But it's the right one,' the Time Lord countered, just as the TARDIS began to incessantly beep. 'Oh, hello. Leah, what does the monitor say?'

Leah stepped forward to check the monitor readout in gallifreyan. 'Um, it says rio'soribe-gea'vyri Tardis-pojika-n. Naqu koshka'ara'prima,' she read, panning the screen with the camera.

'What does that mean? Jack asked.

'Trouble,' the Doctor replied shortly. 'Okay we need to land. Leah. Need you.'

Leah immediately passed Jack her camera, who obligingly kept it rolling for her and pointed it at the girl in action. She whizzed around the console as if she'd done it a million times before, sorting out the program for her blind father to land them on Asunis.

Jack stepped forward. 'Doc, what's going on?'

'She's asking to land, right now,' the Doctor replied, fiddling instinctively with the vector tracker. She needs to acclimatise to the new chronology progression in split space.'

'Err, what?'

'Basically, time is weird here so she's gotta get used to the weird by having a sit down,' the Doctor paraphrased.

'Oh. Anything we can do?' Jack asked, gesturing to both him and Millennia.

'Just hold on tight and make sure I don't hit the deck,' the Doctor ordered them. 'Leah, this has to be a manual landing, don't autopilot.'

'Okay!'

Jack pre-emptively nudged Millennia to sit down and hold on before moving to support the blind Time Lord, one eye cautiously regarding the six-year-old girl still bouncing around the console pulling levers and prodding buttons.

'Nice and slow …' the Doctor said.

Leah responded to his guidance, taking it very slowly as she guided the timeship to land. There was barely a judder.

'Good work!' the Doctor complimented his girl, who beamed from ear-to-ear proudly. 'What's the readout like?'

Leah looked at the monitor. 'Looks like Earth. 77 percent nitrogen, 22 percent oxygen, 0.8 percent argon, and 0.2 percent other stuff.'

'That really does sound like Earth,' the Doctor mused. 'All right. Let me step out and check.'

He grabbed his blind stick and lowered his sunglasses, tapping his way to the TARDIS door and opening it. As the door swung inwards, it revealed a lush green forest beyond, with blue skies and the sounds of distant birds tweeting.

'Wow,' Millennia said.

'What's it look like?' the Doctor asked, hovering in the doorway.

'Epping Forest,' Jack told him.

'Epping Forest on a Friday or Epping Forest on a Sunday?' the Doctor wondered.

'What difference does it make?'

'Life and death ... Let's explore.'

The Time Lord took one step out of the TARDIS, and almost immediately collapsed onto the ground with an undignified thud and a yelp.

'Doc!' Jack shouted and ran to him, with Millennia and Leah close behind.

'What is wrong?' Millennia asked anxiously.

The camera lurched as Jack took hold of the Doctor's foot and dragged him back inside the TARDIS, where the Doctor rolled onto his side and panted briefly, blinking. 'Oh, that wasn't good,' he drawled.

'What happened?' Jack asked.

'I shlooped,' the Doctor moaned, forcing himself to sit up with his hands digging into the grating. 'The time sensitivity hit me like a truck.'

'That bad?'

'Felt like I'd been hit in the head with a chronological sledgehammer …' he gasped, and gradually pushed himself to his feet using both his stick and the TARDIS railing. 'Let me try again.'

'You kidding?' Jack asked.

'It's okay, I'm ready this time,' the Doctor assured him.

Jack rolled his eyes as the Doctor steadied himself and tried again. This time he was far more cautious; carefully poking one foot out before taking a deep breath and a positive step over the threshold. He wavered slightly, but stayed upright.

'Ooooohhh thhhaaat'sss aaaa biiiit eaaaasieeeer nooow,' the Doctor said in a way that sounded like he was speaking in slow motion.

All three of them laughed at him. He frowned - even his expression took a few moments to shift.

'Oooooh IIIII knooooow whaaaaat's haaaapppeeeeneeed. Aaaaam IIIII speeeeaakiiing reeeeallyyyy sloooowlyyyyy?'

They all laughed again. Jack voluntarily stepped out, taking the camera with him, and almost immediately the Doctor stopped being in slow motion and resumed normality in both his voice and movement.

'How do I sound now?' the Doctor asked.

'Normal again,' Jack replied.

'You too.'

'Whaddya mean me too?'

'HahahaUncleJackyousoundlikeDaddynow!' Leah said at double-speed in a zippy-like high-pitched voice, answering Jack's question.

'What the hell's going on?' Jack asked the Time Lord.

'This planet is running at a much slower speed than regular space-time because of the distortion around Tuvala,' he explained. 'Leah, Millennia, you can come out, but Leah, brace yourself, okay?'

'OkayIwill!' she blurted out, and obediently stepped over the threshold.

She stopped suddenly, her eyes widening before she staggered a little. Her uncle dived forward to support her before her legs could give way.

'Okay?' the Doctor asked.

'Yeah, I shlooped,' Leah mumbled.

'You'll be fine in a minute,' he assured her as she rapidly blinked a few times, stumbling to his side. Millennia followed them out of the TARDIS, by contrast completely unaffected.

'What is this place?' she asked, looking around in wonder.

'Asunis - last stop before Tuvala,' the Doctor replied.

'Can we explore?' Leah asked keenly, just before the TARDIS door slammed closed behind them with a distinct locking sound and a mild vworping noise.

'Right, I think that's a yes until she decides to let us back in,' the Doctor replied, pulling a face and sticking out his metal-clad hand to Leah. 'Lead the way.'

'Oooh, fun!' the little girl said happily and pulled her dad along the trail. Jack pointed the camera at himself, rolling his eyes before shutting it off.

Playing entry 3/?.

LEAH: Wooooooow.

DOCTOR: What?

JACK: Doc!

Leah turned to see her uncle grab the back of her father's coat, who had been advancing quickly towards the edge of a cliff.

'Hey!' the Doctor protested.

'You were walking to the edge!' Jack pointed out. 'Three seconds later we'd be picking up a hundred pieces of you from the bottom.'

'I knew it was there,' the Doctor said unconvincingly as Millennia stepped up next to Leah, bringing up the rear.

'Oh, this is beautiful,' Millennia murmured.

'What's beautiful?' the Doctor tried again.

'The valley you nearly just fell into,' Jack replied.

'Yeah, there's loads of trees and stuff and it's all pretty like a book,' Leah said.

'There's a village,' Jack added.

'Advanced?' the Doctor queried.

'Nah, looks more medieval.'

'Any people around?'

Leah squinted, and then remembered she was holding a camera so zoomed in on the thatched roof huts. She picked out a few people bobbing about. 'Yeah,' she replied, and zoomed out again. She stepped back to get a slightly wider view, and accidentally scraped her leg on a branch. 'Ow … oh pooey,' Leah moaned.

'What?' the Doctor asked.

'Scratched my leg on a branch and now my tights got ripped,' she moaned, looking down at the tear.

'Told you not to wear your favourite tights to the most dangerous place in the universe,' he replied, smirking.

Leah sighed, ineffectively brushing the rip. 'But you're wearing your favourite tie.'

'I am?' the Doctor asked.

'Yeah, the swirly one.'

'Oh, I had absolutely no idea.'

'And you've got your favourite shoes on. And your blue suit and red shirt.'

The Doctor looked a bit winded at that. 'Jack, did you put me in all the things I told you not to?'

'Yep,' Jack confirmed, winking at Leah who giggled.

The Doctor sighed. 'Okay, let's pay a visit. Jack, did you bring gloves?'

'What?'

'To hide my freaky metal-covered hand in a primitive culture?' the Doctor suggested facetiously, holding up his exotronic metal-clad arm and flexing his fingers with an extremely quiet mechanical whirr.

'Oh, yeah.'

As Jack foraged for the gloves, Leah focused her camera on the village again. She was about to turn it off, when she suddenly noticed in the edge of the frame there was a large group of people advancing quickly towards the village. She zoomed in to see a group of armoured men on horseback, noticing the swords, axes, and fire torches.

With a sinking feeling she realised what was about to happen.

'Uncle Jack, look!' she said, beckoning him over.

He checked her view through the camera. 'Oh god.'

'I know!' Leah moaned. 'What do we do!?'

'Can everyone try to make more visual syntax in their sentences and less non-descriptive exclamations?' the Doctor complained seriously, blindly looking in their direction.

'Doc, looks like there's some kinda group heading straight towards that village on horses …' Jack said, still peering through the viewfinder. 'And they don't look like they're calling for the summer fête.'

'They're setting fire to the huts!' Leah gasped as the sounds of distant screams and swords clashing began.

'Allons-y, and no guns, Jack!' the Doctor said immediately, and started trying to move to follow the path down into the valley, but nearly walked off the cliff again. Jack saved him for the second time.

'Stay here with Leah, me and Millennia'll go,' Jack ordered.

'No, tah,' the Doctor replied.

'Yeah I'm not staying here either,' Leah complained. 'I wanna help!'

Jack groaned at the two stubborn gallifreyans. 'All right but stay out the way, all right? Both of you!'

With Leah clinging onto the camera, the group followed the path as quickly as they could, and two minutes later they arrived in the middle of the fight.

'Take cover!' Jack shouted at them as he and Millennia burst into the fray as though they were joining a bar fight. Leah grabbed her dad's hand and pulled him to the side to duck behind some barrels, still pointing the camera at the scene.

'What's happening?' the Doctor asked.

'Um, Uncle Jack is punching everyone and Millennia is trying to put out the fires … no wait someone's running up to her with a sword … she doesn't know … she …!'

'What!?'

'Oh phew, she knocked him out with a bucket. Oh no, Uncle Jack's just got hit, he … Ooooof!' she suddenly cried sympathetically. 'Uncle Jack just really hit that guy and he's busted his nose. And there's blood everywhere! That's gotta hurt.'

The Doctor sighed to himself. 'No Jackie, I didn't let your grandchild watch an extremely violent fight and commentate on it,' he muttered under his breath.

'What?' Leah asked.

'Nothing,' the Doctor assured her. 'What now?'

'Millennia's got loads of kids which her and Jack's chasing after a soldier, and … oh no there's a woman running towards us and a soldier behind her, he's gonna … oh no she tripped! He's gonna kill her!'

'How far is she from us?' the Doctor asked quickly.

'Um, ten metres!'

Before Leah registered his movement, her dad jumped up and ran towards the fray. Leah gasped, about to call out for Uncle Jack when her dad reached the woman and threw himself over her. He turned over, and held up his arm as a barrier just as the sword fell.

The sword slammed into his metal-clad arm with force, and consequently bounced off. It took the soldier by so much surprise it made him fall over backwards. The Doctor blindly found the woman's hand and pulled her upright.

'Are you all right?' he asked, but there was no time for it as the soldier, now panicking, swung his sword again. For the second time the Doctor defended them with his exotronic arm, using instincts and the beeping in his ears to determine where the swing was coming from.

The soldier's panicked increased as again his weapon bounced off of the Doctor's seemingly normal arm. He tried three more times, eventually forcing the Doctor to his knees under the impact of every blow.

'Uncle Jack!' Leah screamed, who turned and saw the Doctor in trouble. Just as the Doctor was on the ground, Jack grabbed the soldier from behind and dragged him away.

The Doctor clambered to his feet, reaching out for the woman who took one look at him, screamed, and ran.

'Daddy, she's gone, come back!' Leah shouted, just as a cat ran by her, startling her enough to drop the camera.

Playing entry 4/?.

-FILE CORRUPTION-

-UNABLE TO PLAY-

-ADVANCING TO NEXT RECORDING-

Playing entry 5/?.

DOCTOR: Should be working now.

'Thank you, Daddy,' Leah said happily, taking her camera back from him and pointing it at herself. 'So, um, the soldiers ran away and we've managed to treat the injured people and no one's died. We're all fine. Dropped my camera, though. Daddy, are we going back to the Tardis?'

'Not yet, we need to find someone in charge,' the Doctor said, shaking his head. 'Armoured soldiers attacking a small village isn't fair play.'

'I'll say,' Jack agreed, just as Leah spotted the woman her daddy had saved earlier walking with haste towards them with an old man in tow, her eyes fixed on them.

'Err, Daddy …' Leah began.

'This is him! I am sure of it!' the woman shouted, pointing.

Sensing trouble Jack stepped closer to the Time Lord, allowing him to take hold of his elbow.

'Me?' the Doctor supposed, looking blindly in the direction of the advancing couple.

'Who else?' Jack replied.

'I saw it with my own eyes! The sword would not hurt him, striking it as though his arm were made of iron!' the woman said, pointing at the Doctor as the couple came to a halt in front of them. 'And he is blind!'

'Sir, please show me your arm,' the man said.

'Um, tada?' the Doctor said, waving his flesh and blood right arm.

'Please, I beg you,' the man pleaded earnestly. 'I must see your other arm.'

Leah noticed that a crowd was beginning to gather. She couldn't quite work out if they seemed threatening or not. They were whispering to each other and pointing at her dad, clearly all privy to a piece of information the travellers didn't share.

'Don't think I like this,' Millennia muttered to Leah in gallifreyan.

'Doctor, please,' the man persisted.

The Doctor's eyebrows abruptly knotted in confusion as Jack frowned. 'What did you just call me?'

'Doctor,' the man repeated slowly and deliberately. 'Please. Show me your arm.'

The Doctor hesitated as Jack panned the crowd. 'Doc, be careful,' he advised the Time Lord in an undertone. 'We're surrounded.'

'Why's my arm so important?' the Doctor asked. 'And how do you know my name?'

'Please, show me it.'

The Doctor rapidly made a decision in the mounting pressure, and nodded.

'Doc,' Jack said nervously.

The Doctor acknowledged him, but didn't change his mind. He lifted up his left arm, removing the glove in one swift movement and pushing up his sleeve as far as he could, revealing the shining metal encasing his paralysed hand and arm.

There were several gasps from the crowd. The Doctor decided he knew exactly where this was going, and didn't particularly want to arrive there. 'No. This is just a kind of armour. I'm not a god and I'm not a threat either; I'm just here to help.'

'No, you misunderstand me, friend,' the man said. 'I know who you are. Please, come with me.'

'Why?'

'My family has been waiting one hundred years for you.'