Rose was looking over one of the bodies when suddenly they all sat up. Rose stumbled backward away from them and Alex grabbed her and stood between her and the gas-mask 'zombies'. They were all shouting 'mummy' all at once and it became rather loud very quickly.

"What's happening?" Rose asked fearfully.

"I don't know" The Doctor admitted, looking around at them. The four of them were all gathered into one spot and soon backed against one of the walls. The Doctor and Jack on the outside with Alex still in front of Rose behind them.

"Don't let them touch you" The Doctor warned.

"What happens when they touch you?" Rose asked.

"You're looking at it" Alex stated grimly.

They got closer and closer and Alex was almost sure there was no way out of this one. She hugged Rose tightly and closed her eyes.

"Go to your room"

There was a pause and Alex cracked an eye open, looking around properly when she noticed all the gas-masked people had stopped.

"Go to your room!" The Doctor repeated. The people all tilted their head to one side at once. Rose and Jack shared a glance but Alex was still staring at the Doctor. "I mean it! I am very, very angry with you. I am very, very cross. Go, to, your, ROOM!" He pointed violently in no particular direction and the gas-masked people slowly turned and walked back to their beds, lying down where they were moments ago. The Doctor sighed in relief and Alex was busy trying to calm her pounding heart.

"I'm really glad that worked. Those would've been terrible last words" The Doctor grinned. He turned right into Alex, who practically tackled him in a hug.

"Whoa, hey, it's okay" He told her softly. Alex held him tightly and closed her eyes, breathing her own sigh of relief.

"I thought for sure…"

"You're okay, Alex"

"I'm not talking about me" She pulled away, looking him right in the eyes. "I made you a promise, but you can't make me that promise. I don't want you to go" He stared at her for a second and Alex was suddenly afraid he'd laugh at her for being so scared. She pulled away, crossing her arms over her chest just as the Doctor pulled her back in for another hug. She accepted quickly.

"You're right, I can't make that promise" He agreed. "But I will try my very best not to die, alright?" She nodded.

"Alright" She whispered, pulling away after a moment.

"Good" He smiled down at her. There was a moment of silence and he seemed to be waiting. Eventually Alex couldn't help but smile at him, and he grinned. "There we go, Alex is back, yeah?"

"Yeah" She nodded, laughing.

"Why are they all wearing gas masks?" Rose asked from across the room. The Doctor ruffled Alex's hair before she batted him away, fixing it with a scowl.

"They're not" Jack corrected. "Those masks are flesh and bone"

"How was your con supposed to work?" The Doctor asked, turning to Jack, who was settled in a chair.

"Simple enough really" He shrugged. "I find a harmless piece of space junk. Let the nearest Time Agent track it back to Earth. Convince him it's valuable, name a price. When he's put 50% up front, oops! A German bomb falls on it, destroys it forever. He never gets to see what he's payed for. Never knows he's been had. I buy him a drink with his own money, and we discuss dumb luck. The perfect self-cleaning con"

"Yeah, perfect" The Doctor agreed sarcastically.

"You forgot the flirting bit at the start" Alex added coldly.

"That was just luck on my part" Jack smiled at her. Alex replied with a glare.

"The London Blitz is great for self-cleaners" Jack continued. "Pompeii's nice if you want to make a vacation of it though, but you've got to set your alarm for volcano day" He laughed at his own joke, glancing up at them. Alex was still glaring at him and the Doctor merely looked at him. His laughter fades away and he looked down.

"Getting a hint of disapproval"

"Just a hint" Alex snapped in reply.

"Look around the room. This is what your 'harmless piece of space-junk' did" The Doctor told him, gesturing around.

"It was a burnt out medical transporter, it was empty" Jack insisted. The Doctor sent him a dark look and started off.

"Alex, Rose" He called as he was leaving. Jack watched Alex as she gave him one last glare before turning to follow the Doctor.

"We getting out of here?" Rose asked hopefully, meeting the two at the door.

"We're going upstairs" The Doctor told her.

"I even programmed the flight computer so it wouldn't land on anything living" Jack called out, standing. "I harmed no-one. I don't know what's happening here, but believe me I had nothing to do with it"

"I'll tell you what's happening" Alex returned darkly, turning. "You forgot to set your alarm clock. It's volcano day" A siren went off in the distance and Rose looked around.

"What's that?" She asked.

"The all-clear" Jack told her.

"I wish" The Doctor corrected. He turned and walked out of the ward, Alex right behind him. Jack and Rose followed.

Alex was right behind the Doctor as he turned up a set of stairs and soon enough found the door they were looking for.

"Wanna try something?" The Doctor asked, glancing at her. Alex frowned as they heard Rose and Jack calling for them.

"Try what?"

They heard footsteps pass the stairs and the Doctor stuck his head out.

"Have you got a blaster?" He called down. The footsteps skidded to a halt and backtracked.

"Sure!" Jack confirmed happily. They ran up the stairs and stopped in front of the door. Jack glanced over at Alex, who was standing against the wall, looking anywhere but him.

"The night your space-junk landed, someone was hurt" The Doctor told them. "This is where they were taken"

"What happened?" Rose asked, glancing at the door.

"Let's find out" He nodded to Jack. "Get it open" Jack grinned as he pulled out his blaster and pointed it at the door. The Doctor stepped back, standing beside the girls.

"What's wrong with your sonic screwdriver?" Rose asked quietly.

"Nothing" He told her, also speaking so Jack couldn't hear. Jack's blaster fired up and there was suddenly a perfectly square hole where the lock was before.

"Sonic blaster, 51st century, weapon factories of Villenguard?" The Doctor asked.

"You've been to the factories?" Jack asked him as he took the blaster for a better look.

"Once" He and Alex spoke at once. She had actually gone between the time they met Rose and when they picked her up. She had actually loved it, despite the whole running-for-your-life thing. But that was everyday for her now.

"Well they're gone now. Destroyed. Main reactor went critical, vaporised the lot" Jack told them.

"Like we said, once" They said together, smiling as the Doctor handed the blaster back.

"There's a banana grove there now" The Doctor continued. "I like bananas. Bananas are good" He smiled at Jack like he hadn't just told him he'd blown up a factory, and headed inside with Alex close behind. The room looked absolutely trashed. The window separating the two parts of the room was smashed and things were thrown everywhere. They looked around for a moment until Jack and Rose joined them.

"What d'you think?" The Doctor asked, glancing back at Jack.

"Something got out of here" He stated.

"Yeah, and?" he prompted.

"Something powerful. Angry"

"Powerful and angry" He nodded, seeming satisfied. Jack moved to enter the connected room and looked around at the drawings and toys littering the room.

"A child? I suppose this explains 'mummy'" He commented.

"How could a child do this?" Rose asked, standing in the doorway. There was a click and suddenly there was another voice in the room.

"Do you know where you are?"

Alex looked around to see the Doctor standing in front of a tape recorder.

"Are you my mummy?" Jamie on the tape asked.

"Are you aware of what's around you?" The voice asked again. "Can you… see?"

"Are you my mummy?" The child asked in return.

"What do you want? Do you know-"

"I want my mummy" Jamie interrupted, almost angrily. "Are you my mummy? I want my mummy! Are you my mummy?" He kept going as the Doctor stepped into the other room, Alex staying close to him. She glanced around, frowning at the uncomfortable feeling in this part of the room.

"Doctor, we heard this voice before" Rose pointed out. "Always 'are you my mummy?'. It's like he doesn't know. Why doesn't he know?" Alex thought about it but she couldn't remember why he didn't know. The Doctor started pacing around the room and Alex growled to herself, hands on her head. If only she could remember!

"Doctor? Alex?" Rose asked worriedly.

"Can you sense it?" The Doctor asked suddenly. Alex snapped her fingers suddenly, pointing at him.

"You feel that too?" She asked, eyes wide. He nodded

"Sense what?" Jack asked, looking between them.

"Coming out of the walls, can you feel it?" The Doctor repeated. He stopped pacing, just as Alex started, turning to Jack and Rose. "Funny little human brains. How do you get around in those things?"

"When he's stressed he likes to insult species" Rose told Jack.

"Rose, I'm thinking" The Doctor returned, going back to pacing.

"Cuts himself shaving, does half an hour on life forms he cleverer than, then Alex turns 'round and calls him an idiot"

"Shut up, Rose" Alex snapped, annoyed. Jack blinked in surprise at the girl.

"She just insults people" Rose added.

"There are these children living rough around the bomb site. They come out during air-raids looking for food" The Doctor explained. "Suppose they were there when this thing, whatever it was, landed?"

"It was a med-ship, it was harmless" Jack insisted.

"Shut up, Jack" Alex said quickly, stopping on the other side of the room to bang her head against the wall. Rose rushed over and guided her into the middle of the room. Alex swatted her away but stayed where she was.

"Yes, you keep saying. 'Harmless'" The Doctor replied to Jack, unconvinced. "Suppose one of them was affected, altered?"

"Altered how?" Rose asked, still standing beside Alex as she muttered to herself with her hands on her head.

"It's afraid. Terribly afraid, and powerful" The Doctor continued. "It doesn't know it yet, but it will do" He laughed. "It's got the power of a god, and I just sent it to his room" Alex's head snapped up suddenly, hearing something.

"Doctor…" Rose spoke slowly.

"I'm here, can't you see me?" Jamie's voice continued.

"What's that noise?"

Alex moved slowly as the Doctor's smile faded, wrapping an arm around Rose and moving her to her other side.

"The tape" Alex whispered, horrified that she had forgotten.

"End of the tape" The Doctor agreed. "It ran out about 40 seconds ago"

"I'm here, now. Can't you see me?"

"I sent it to its room. This is its room"

They all spun around to find Jamie standing by the tape machine, looking at them.

"Are you my mummy?" He asked, tilting his head and considering Alex for a moment. "Mummy?"

"Doctor?" Rose called, scared. She remained behind Alex, looking tentatively over her shoulder.

"Okay…" Jack spoke slowly. "On my signal, make for the door. Now!" He pulled out a banana, pointing it at the child over the Doctor's shoulder. He grinned, pulling out another banana, frowning then. Alex pulled out Jack's blaster, pointing it at the wall beside her and making a large square hole.

"Go! Now! Don't drop the bananas!" She shouted to them as they ran.

"Why not?" Jack shouted back as he was climbing through the hole.

"Good source of potassium!" She told him matter of factly, taking the Doctor's offered hand as she jumped out last.

"Give me that!" Jack said quickly, snatching the blaster from her hand and pointing it at the wall just as Jamie was approaching it. All of a sudden the wall appeared again.

"Digital rewind" He explained, tossing the banana in has hand to the Doctor. "Nice switch" The Doctor looked at both of the bananas and raised an eyebrow at Alex.

"What?" She shrugged.

"Where did you get this?" He asked, holding up the one from his pocket.

"It was in my jacket" She shrugged. She had gotten him to fix her jacket ages ago so that the pockets were bigger on the inside. "You stuck it in there a week ago" She reminded him, turning to Jack then. "They're from the groves of Villenguard. Thought it was appropriate" She explained.

"There's really a banana grove in the heart of Villenguard, and you did that?" Jack asked incredulously, looking between the two.

"Bananas are good" The Doctor shrugged happily.

"I just wanted to blow up the factory" Alex admitted. There was a sudden bang and the wall Jack had just sealed cracked. Alex jumped, one hand grabbing at the Doctor's sleeve while the other held Rose's.

"Doctor!" Rose cried, staring at the cracked plaster.

"Come on!" He shouted to them all, taking off. They ran down a short flight of stairs and kept going until they were stopped by a large group of gas-masked people coming out of one of the wards, calling 'mummy' on repeat. They turned and backtracked hastily, Alex tugging on Rose's hand as they went. They were stopped by another group of gas-masked people and turned back to find they were cornered. Right in front of the cracked wall with Jamie on the other side.

"It's keeping us here so it can get at us" The Doctor realised.

"It's controlling them?" Jack asked, blaster in hand and pointing it three different directions in turn. Alex pulled Rose behind her, standing in front of the cracking wall with Jack and the Doctor on either side of them.

"It is them" The Doctor corrected. "It's every living thing in this hospital"

"Except us. And I'd like to keep it that way" Alex reminded them.

"Okay" Jack nodded. "This can function as a sonic blaster, a sonic canon and a triple-enfolded sonic disrupter. Doc, what you got?"

"A sonic… er, never mind" The Doctor had taken his sonic screwdriver out and was staring at it disappointedly. Alex rolled her eyes. I knew that'd come back to haunt you sooner or later.

"What?"

"It's sonic okay? Let's leave it at that" The Doctor told him, turning to the group of gas-masked people on his side.

"Disrupter? Cannon? What?" Jack insisted.

"It's sonic! Totally sonic! I am soniced up!"

"A sonic what?!"

"SCREWDRIVER!" Alex shouted, fed up with their arguing. Jack turned, looking at the Doctor in disbelief. Jamie finally managed to make a hole in the wall and began to climb through.

"Going down!" Rose declared, grabbing Jack's wrist and pointing downwards and suddenly the floor was gone. They all fell through the hole in a tumbled heap and Alex felt something underneath her as Jack used the digital rewind. She closed her eyes, cursing her luck as she was sure she knew exactly what it was.

"Doctor?" She asked quietly.

"Yeah?"

Alex had landed on the Doctor. She stumbled off him quickly, muttering apologies as she tried to get to her feet.

"Doctor, Alex are you okay?" Rose asked through the dark.

"Could've used a warning" They muttered in unison.

"Oh, the gratitude"

Alex could practically hear her rolling her eyes.

"Who has a sonic screwdriver?" Jack asked skeptically.

"I do!" The Doctor defended.

"But he won't give me one" Alex added.

"Light!" Rose called, stumbling around the walls.

"You don't need one" The Doctor reminded her, ignoring Rose.

"Could've used a sonic blaster. Just picked one up while we were running for our lives back in Villenguard"

"No"

"Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks 'ooh, this could be a little more sonic'?" Jack mocked, giving Alex a weird look as she spoke the end along with him. She laughed.

"Sorry, that was always my favourite bit" She giggled. The Doctor simply rolled his eyes while Jack looked incredibly confused.

"There's gotta be a light switch!" Rose continued, even though no one was listening to her.

"Never had a long night? Never had a lot of cabinets to put up?" The Doctor asked, trying to defend his precious screwdriver.

"Seriously though, why a screwdriver?" Alex asked him. Rose finally found a light switch and the second it was turned on every person in the room sat up in a collective chorus of 'mummy'. Alex pulled Rose back towards them.

"Door" Jack ordered quickly. They all got to the locked door just as the patients were climbing out of bed. Jack tried to blast the door open but stepped back after a moment, cursing and smacking a hand against the side of his weapon. The Doctor stepped up with his sonic screwdriver as he complained

"It's the special features. They really drain the battery" He told them.

"The battery?!" Rose questioned, looking at the object in disbelief. The Doctor got the door open and they all ran in. "That's so lame" The Doctor slammed the door shut behind them and locked it quickly. Jack ran over to the window on the other end of the small room.

"I was gonna send for another one but someone's gotta go and blow up the factory" Jack accused, glaring at the two responsible. The Doctor wasn't paying attention but Alex simply grinned as if proud of herself.

"Oh I know" Rose agreed. "First day I met them. He blew up my job. It's practically how they communicate"

"Okay, that should hold for a bit" The Doctor told them, finishing with the door.

"The door? The wall didn't stop it!" Jack reminded him.

"Well it's gotta find us first. Come on, we're not done yet. Assets! Assests!" The Doctor encouraged.

"Well I've got a banana, and in a pinch you can put up some shelves" Jack listed.

"Hey, don't underestimate shelves" Alex told him with her best 'serious face'. "Shelves are very important"

"Window" The Doctor muttered to himself, walking over to it.

"Barred, sheer drop outside. Seven stories" Jack told him.

"And no other exits" Rose noted.

"Well the assets conversation went in a flash, didn't it?" Jack mocked. The Doctor looked at him for a second before turning to Alex.

"So where'd you pick this one up then?"

"Doctor…" She warned.

"She was hanging from a barrage balloon, I had an invisible spaceship. I never stood a chance" Jack told them with a fake dreamy expression. Rose bit her lip to keep from laughing while Alex refused to look in the direction of either man. The Doctor turned away, pacing.

"Okay, one, we want to get out of here. Two, we can't get out of here. Have I missed anything?"

"Yeah… Jack just disappeared" Rose added, making him turn. Jack's chair was, in fact, empty. Alex sighed and sat up on the bench, pressed into the corner. She pulled her legs up to her chest and put her head down on her crossed arms, closing her eyes as she waited.

The Doctor was sitting in a chair beside the bench where Alex sat a bit away. She didn't move from her corner, but she had looked up now, her head propped on her hand with her elbow on her knee. Rose wandered over and leaned against the bench beside where the Doctor sat.

"Okay, so he's vanished into thin air" She sighed. "Why is it always the great looking ones who do that?" The Doctor looked up at her even as Alex smirked in amusement.

"I'm making an effort not to be insulted" He told her blankly, looking back down.

"I mean… men" She tried again.

"Okay, thanks. That really helped" The Doctor smiled sarcastically up at her. Alex snorted in amusement. The radio across the room crackled to life and they all looked up.

"Alex? Rose? Doctor? Can you hear me?"

Rose and the Doctor ran over to it while Alex simply moved forward to sit on the edge of the bench.

"I'm back on my ship" Jack told them through the radio. "Used the emergency teleport. Sorry I couldn't take you" The Doctor held up the ends of the ripped wires from the radio and glanced back at Alex, who was grinning in amusement at his confusion. "It's security-keyed to my molecular structure" Jack continued. "But I'm working on it. Hang in there"

"How're you speaking to us?" The Doctor asked, curious and confused. A great combination.

"Om-Com. I can call anything with a speaker grille" Jack filled him in.

"Now there's a coincidence"

"What is?" Now Jack was curious and confused.

"The child can Om-Com too"

"It can too" Rose remembered.

"Anything with a speaker grille. Even the Tardis phone" The Doctor added, nodding.

"So this child can call us?" Alex asked, raising an eyebrow.

"And I can hear you" Jamie spoke through the radio. Alex jumped, staring at the object with wide eyes as the boy continued in a sing-song voice. "Coming to find you. Coming to fiiiiind you"

"Doctor, can you head that?" Jack asked

"Loud and clear" he responded.

"A lot better than I'd hope" Alex called over.

"I'll try to block out the signal. Least I can do"

"Coming to find you, mummy!"

"Remember this one, Alex?"

There was suddenly a nice old song playing and the Doctor and Rose turned to find Alex looking at the floor, blushing furiously. She glanced up, embarrassed.

"Our song, I guess" She excused weakly. The Doctor nodded, but he didn't seem very okay with it. Alex looked back down, avoiding another one of Rose's knowing looks.

Alex was sat on the floor in front of the shelf that held the radio, listening to the song Jack had been playing while Rose shuffled around in the old wheel chair and the Doctor was stood on the bench, buzzing his sonic screwdriver at the concrete around the barred window.

"What are you doing?" Rose asked him.

"Trying to set up a resonation pattern in the concrete, loosen the bars" The Doctor told her, still working. Alex looked up at him.

"You don't trust him, do you?" She asked, attracting his gaze.

"Wouldn't bet my life" He returned.

"Why don't you trust him?"

"Why do you?"

Alex paused for a second and Rose glanced at her, also seeming to want to know the answer.

"Other than the fact that he saved my life, and I've seen the future from all this…" She glanced between the Doctor and Rose, who waited for her to continue. "I trust him because he's like you. Except with dating and dancing" The Doctor glanced back at her, looking almost offended and like he wanted to say something before turning away again.

"What?" She asked, trying to act curious. Truth be told, she knew exactly what he was about to say, and she was hoping he would, in fact, say it. If the Doctor danced with her instead of Rose, that would mean...

"You just assume I'm…" He trailed off, shaking his head.

"What?" Alex asked again. By now Rose was looking between the two with wide eyes.

"You just assume I don't… dance" He said quietly. Alex couldn't help but grin.

"You're telling me you do… dance?" She asked quietly. She'd never tell anyone, but her innocent mind was wondering if they actually were talking about dancing.

"Nine hundred years old, me. I've been around a bit. I think you can assume at some point I've danced" He pointed out.

"You?"

"Problem?"

"What, so the universe won't implode or something if you dance?" Alex teased lightly.

"Well I've got the moves, but I wouldn't want to boast" He commented off-handedly. Alex paused, now actively wondering what they were both meaning by dancing. She glanced at Rose. 'Are we talking about dancing or dancing?' She mouthed silently to her friend. Rose's eyes got wider and she covered her mouth with her hand, trying to keep from laughing. Alex's own eyes widened in almost panic as she shot a look to the Doctor to make sure he wasn't paying attention.

'Dancing' Rose mouth back with a wink. Alex had to focus hard to breathe normally. Rose gestured to the Doctor and Alex shook her head quickly. 'I don't mean dancing' Rose mouth silently to her. 'Just dancing' Alex hesitated, glancing at the Doctor again before looking back at Rose. The blonde rolled her eyes and stood from the wheelchair, walking over to pull her friend to her feet and turn the music up. The Doctor glanced over his shoulder slightly and turned quickly back to the concrete when he saw Rose attempting to push Alex in his direction.

"Go on then" Rose said out loud, giving her friend one final push. "Show us your moves" The Doctor glanced back at her and then at Alex, who was stood behind him nervously.

"Rose, I'm trying to resonate concrete" He told her uncertainly, watching Alex for a moment, trying to decide if she actually wanted to, before she held her hand up to him.

"Jack'll be back. He'll get us out. Come on, the world doesn't end because the Doctor dances" Alex smiled. He switched off the sonic screwdriver with a click, turning and jumping down off the bench to stand in front of her. He took her hands slowly and she looked up at him nervously as he turned them over.

"Barrage balloon?" He asked, still inspecting her hands. Rose looked confused but Alex simply smiled up at him.

"You bet. 'Bout two minutes since I saw you, hanging over London, holding a damn rope, in the middle of a German air raid" She explained, smiling like she was proud of herself.

"I thought you were afraid of heights?"

"You're afraid of heights?" Rose asked, glancing at her.

"Oh, yeah" Alex nodded. "Mm hm. Just ask Jack, hyperventilating on his ship. It was pititful" The Doctor raised his eyebrows.

"I've travelled with a lot of people but you're setting new records for jeopardy-friendly" He told her. He paused a moment, looking lost in thought and Alex frowned in concern.

"Doctor?" She called, bringing him back to Earth.

"Well, um, there was one a lot like you. She's gone now" He said quickly. Alex simply nodded slowly, wondering exactly who he was talking about.

"Is this you two dancing 'cos I've got notes" Rose spoke up, watching the two amusedly. Alex blushed slightly but rolled her eyes while the Doctor glanced at her and then back at Alex.

"Hanging from a rope a thousand feet above London, not a cut, not a bruise" He pointed out, getting back on point. Alex glanced down at her hands, inspecting them herself with a nod.

"Yeah I know, Captain Jack fixed me up" She smiled.

"Oh we're calling him Captain Jack now, are we?" The Doctor asked skeptically.

"Well, his name's Jack. And he's a Captain…"

"He's not really a Captain, Alex"

Alex bit her lip and looked down to keep from laughing at his self-satisfied smirk. He couldn't be… No…

"You know what I think?" She asked cheekily as she looked up. "I think you're experiencing Captain envy" The Doctor didn't answer but took her hands, beginning a half-hearted attempt at dancing.

"You'll find your feet at the end of your legs, you may care to move them" Rose suggested to the two, grinning madly. Alex glanced up to find the Doctor was closer than she remembered a moment ago and she looked down to try and hide her blush.

"If he ever was a captain, he's been defrocked" The Doctor continued. Alex laughed.

"Yeah? Shame I missed that"

"Actually, I quit. Nobody takes my frock"

Alex looked around to find she was in Jack's ship, with him and Rose standing side-by-side, grinning at them. The Doctor stepped away slightly and Alex quickly looked away from the pair watching them.

"Most people notice when they've been teleported. You guys are so sweet" Jack teased, grinning as Alex moved to sit at the back of the ship where no one would see her blushing. "Sorry about the delay. I had to take the nav-com offline to override the teleport security"

"You can spend ten minutes overriding your own protocols?" The Doctor asked incredulously. "Maybe you should remember whose ship it is"

"Oh I do. She was gorgeous." Jack grinned in reply. "Like I told her. Be back in five minutes" He ducked down under the controls and Alex lifted her head slightly to try and see over the captain's chair.

"This is a Chula ship" The Doctor realised, looking around. Alex glanced around also, realising she should have remembered that.

"Yeah, just like that medical transporter" Jack called up. "Only this one is dangerous" The Doctor snapped his fingers and a cloud of lit up nanogenes surrounded his hand. Alex grinned, standing and making her way over.

"What are those?" Rose asked in wonder.

"They're the things that fixed my hands" Alex told her. "They're called nanogenes. They repair the body basically"

"Sub-atomic robots" The Doctor agreed. "There's millions of them in here, you see?" He glanced at Alex a moment and she grinned, shaking her head in amusement at the man. "Burned my hand on the console when we landed, all better now. They activate when the bulk-head's sealed. Check you out for damage, fix any physical flaws" The Doctor waved his hand to shoo the nanogenes away.

"Your face is still the same though" Alex couldn't help but say. He faked a look of offence and she laughed. He shook his head at her, smiling still, before turning to Jack.

"Take us to the crash site. I need to see your space-junk" He told him seriously. Alex snorted in amusement and Rose started laughing when she realised what was so funny. Both girls laughed as Jack told him he needed to fix the nav-com.

"Make yourself comfortable" He suggested, standing beside the controls. "Carry on with whatever it was you were… doing" he gestured between the Doctor and Alex, the latter falling silent with wide eyes at Jack's suggestive smirk.

"We were talking about dancing" The Doctor defended innocently.

"Didn't look like talking"

"Didn't look like dancing either" Rose added. The Doctor looked back at her, glancing at Alex, who refused to look at him in embarrassment.

"What did I do?"

Alex looked up with a small frown, twirling one of the wires from the control panel between her fingers.

"What do you mean?" She asked Jack. The Doctor and Rose were on the other end of the ship, talking about whatever, and Alex was sat beside Jack while he restored the nav-com.

"I mean, you were obviously upset with me earlier. I noticed that much" He pointed out. Alex looked down at her feet, ashamed of how obvious she had made herself. "What'd I do?" Alex sighed, shaking her head slightly.

"It's stupid. I- I'm fine" She tried to tell him, brushing her hair behind her ear hurriedly, causing it to fall back out again.

"Hey" He called gently. Alex looked up. "Tell me" She hesitated, looking down again before forcing herself to meet his eyes as she spoke.

"When you thought I was a time agent, you were flirting with me. Trying to get me to make a deal with you" She pointed out. He frowned slightly.

"I'm sorry, I didn't realise, I can-"

"That's not it" She shook her head, making his frown deeper.

"What is it then? Please?" He added at her hesitation.

"It's- well" She sighed in frustration, running a hand through her hair. "You stopped when we went to meet the Doctor. You looked at me like… I dunno, it just felt like… Like you stopped because I couldn't make you a deal. I felt like… I felt like I'd been used" She explained hesitantly, her voice becoming quieter as she went. She looked down at her feet again as she finished.

"Oh, Alex"

"I know, it's stupid, I'm sorry, I-"

"I'm so sorry"

Alex looked up quickly, surprised.

"What?"

"I said, I'm sorry" He repeated. "I never want anyone to feel that way, okay? I may be a conn man but I have standards" He gave her a soft smile and she returned with one of her own.

"You may be a conn man, but you have different reasons for it" She reminded him. "You do have morals, you're still a great man Jack. And one day, if we're lucky, you might even be a good one" He smiled genuinely at her and Alex couldn't help but smile back, giggling softly at his adorable enthusiasm.

"You are possibly single-handedly the best person I have ever met" He told her happily.

"And the flirting again" Alex rolled her eyes jokingly, making him laugh. There was a beeping from the computer and Alex glanced over.

"Okay, we're good to go" Jack spoke up so everyone heard. The Doctor and Rose both looked up at him. "Crash site?"

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