Alicia

It's always different waking up when I've touched the Doctor. He's always still asleep as though I've knocked him out. It's nice to just watch him though because it doesn't happen very often and it's the only time he's completely calm. I wonder if he watches me when it's the other way around. He's a mystery. A mystery that I want to know everything about. In time perhaps I will. The moment he starts to wake up I know. I can feel something like a reboot. I get tingles all through my torso and neck. By the time he opens his eyes I'm tingling all over, like there's two of me. I expect he feels the same thing every day. I get a smile from him when he's fully awake. He's pleased to see me. He always is.

"Do you want to get some chips?" He asks me.

"Chips? Where from?" Seriously, why the sudden craving for chips, not that I was going to complain?

"I was thinking Birmingham, 21st century. I know a good place."

"Sure. Chips sounds great."

I went to find something to wear, a t-shirt and jeans. It wasn't long before I heard the whirring sound that means we've arrived.

"Ready to go?" He calls down the stairs. I rush up to meet him. I'm definitely ready to see Birmingham again. Once we've got the chips we walk around aimlessly. With no where to go we find a bench to sit on. It's not long before a police officer turns up.

"Is your name Alicia Bennett?" I freeze, I haven't been called that in two years. It's not long before I notice the pictures of me. "We had an anonymous call saying someone had seen a girl that looked like this young woman." I turn to the Doctor. Hopelessly it seems.

"Yes." I can only give that simple reply. What else am I supposed to say?

"I'm going to have to ask the both of you to come with me please."

When we arrive the officers have to force us apart because I cling so hard to the Doctor. They take me to a questioning room.

"Who was that man you were with Miss Bennett?" The officer is looking at me like he's noticed something strange. But I'm already beginning the first of what will be many panic attacks.

I can't be away from him. I don't know where they took him, I, I...

"Who is he?" The officer doesn't mean to sound forceful I know.

"I want him back. I want him back now!" I hit the table forcefully. Panic turns to anger and anger turns to sadness molding into each other until I don't know how I feel.

"Alright, where have you been for the past two years?"

I begin crying. "We only went to get some chips."

"Please Miss Bennett if you can give us any information..."

"Give me my Guandan!" I scream at them. "He's restless, I can tell and I know it's because I've gone missing. He needs me." I whimper.

"What is a Guandan Alicia?" Now I've just made the officer confused.

"You would never understand." I spit at him. I try to tell him I'm alright, that they haven't hurt me but I don't even know if he can hear me.

I didn't tell the police anything, they would think I was crazy whether I told the truth or not so I just let my emotions run to stay in touch with my Guandan. My missing Guandan. Then come the nightmares. I've been kept in this room all night so eventually, with nothing to keep me occupied except the fear of being without my Doctor I fell asleep. I scream all the time I am asleep and shout nonsense all the time I am awake. I'm all over the place. Outside the door I hear other doctors and officers suggesting he must have done terrible things to me to be having tremors like these but they have it all wrong. I need him. I need him to be with me, to touch me. I need to touch him.

The doctors take me away to some mental hospital. It's hard for me there. They give me high doses of pills but they don't help much. The rash on my back has come back and my wrist has begun to burn. I haven't had these in years. It won't stop burning. It only gets worse. Then the lines begin to form on my wrist where it burns, circles of flesh that are to distinct to be from a fire. My other wrist burns too but it's the lines my Guandan is receiving on his arm. The nightmares don't stop and the insomnia gets worse. Where is he? I know he is coming for me and I know it is difficult through all the pain and the fear but I know he is there.

I've lost count of the days but at some point someone said something about Torchwood arriving because of something I shouted. I don't know who Torchwood are but I hope they can do something better than these doctors. Then the door opened.

There was a moment where one person was looking at my arms. I can't even see what the burns are doing anymore but it's clear they're not normal. This guy knows it. Nothing about me looks normal right now.

Then a shadow jumped over the guy and pushes him away.

"Get out! Jack leave. now!"

It's a warning. But it's seconds before everyone else is out of the room.

Doctor

The Psychic paper got me out of the station fast but not fast enough to stop Alicia from being moved into a hospital first. It doesn't help that UNIT decided they wanted to get involved. So they took me to London headquarters.

"What on Earth are you doing with a missing girl in the middle of Birmingham?"

I grit my teeth against the pain. I'm not about to let Alicia's life story be put on show for them.

"I was buying chips." The head of department looks at me with a raised eyebrow.

"chips?"

"Yes chips! Now I need to go and find her right now!" I shout.

"You mean you're with Miss Bennett?"

"Yes, I'm with Alicia. Now let me go."

"You seem in a big hurry?"

"Really?" I say with layered sarcasm.

"Fine let him go. John take him to his TARDIS. "

Then it felt like five hours just to walk to the TARDIS.

"Sir Miss Alicia Bennett is in Bushey Fields in Dudley."

"Right."

I didn't even notice John salute.

When I arrived I recognised the Torchwood 4x4 already there. I run down hallways until I find one Captain Jack Harkness. I could hear Alicia and saw the door open. I skidded on the floor outside of her room before jumping in front of her protectively and shouting at everyone in the room.

"Get out. Jack leave now."

"Alright everyone out." Jack wasn't going to argue with that face.

"But Jack?" Someone tried to argue.

"No questions. Out."

He shut the door behind him.

Alicia

He is there. I can't see properly but I can hear him. I'm sure he is there.

It's only when everyone has left that he holds out his sleeveless arm keeping the other on my neck and I automatically move towards it. I barely have to touch it. We both begin to breath slower. It would have been better if no one was here to see this but it's not our fault they kept us apart. We keep together in this way until we fall together into a long sleep. A sleep without screaming, without nightmares. Where neither of us can tell if the other is much better because we're both knocked out from the others touch. If one of us died we wouldn't know at the moment.

Jack

Everyone was arguing and shouting asking what was going on and why did the stranger have rights they didn't but that wasn't what caught Jacks attention. What caught Jacks attention was that the screaming had stopped. It had been 64 seconds. He looked through the little window into the padded cell. Both of them were passed out on the floor. He could do one of three things: go in and make sure they were okay, stay out here and guard them or leave and let loads of NHS nurses and Doctors find them.

He decided to go with the first two.

"Ianto guard the door. No one else is to even look inside. Understand?"

He went over to the two unconscious bodies.

They were so close they were almost on top of each other. The Doctors sleeveless arm was still uncovered. Jack noticed the same oddly shaped burns as on Alicia's. To be sure he checked his other arm as well and sure enough there were the burns.

He went to separate them but paused. Even though they were clearly in comas they were also, in a way, attached to each other.

Alicia's hand was still pressed hard against the Doctors elbow and the Doctors embrace ended in an almost severe grip on Alicia's shoulder. He feared that any movement could cause problems.

Just one final look showed Jack just how tired the Doctor was. Which meant Alicia probably was just as tired.

Jack left the room.

"What's going on?"

By now the whole of Torchwood was on edge. This wasn't just nothing.

"Like I said no one goes in no one looks inside. Including all of you. As for what's happening inside? Absolutely nothing."

"what do you mean?" said Gwen.

"They're unconscious."

"both of them, at the same time?"

"Shouldn't we move them?"

"Can't, and I can't tell you why. I don't know when they're going to wake up though so..."

"They're in comas!" cried Gwen.

"quiet. Two of us will stand guard and I'll go in every day to see how they're doing.

For four days that's how they were guarded. Though nothing ever changed. That's what Jack said anyway. On the last day he noticed a change in their breathing and pulses, they were waking up. Now he just had to make sure that no one went in before they could leave the room.

Alicia

I think we woke up at the same time. I felt the usual electric energy I get when he wakes up from my touch. We were still in my cell at the mental hospital, we must have been in to much relief to think of moving once he found me. I don't know how long we were there but I felt like I had died, none of the burn lines had gone and I saw he had my burns on his other wrist as well. The Doctor held his head against his hand. "We should move." he groaned. It was then that I noticed the TARDIS was in my room and there were nurses speaking through the door. There was someone else talking back.

It was muffled but I think I heard "This room is under Torchwood security ma'am, no one can go in there." We picked ourselves up and got in.

As soon as we could we made our way back to the bedroom to finish our nap. "No chips next time." I muttered before I fell asleep.

Jack

Jack briefly wondered what had happened between the two of them before deciding it was none of his business and he would never find out anyway. He was just the guardsman.