The storm was going to be pretty hellish. The whole base, it seemed, wanted to warn him about it, but Jack suspected that had more to do with the fact they wanted to keep him from following Pelham than it was concern about his safety. After all, the man of the hour was still heading out to the refinery. Jack was very keen on joining him, though, so took a moment to enjoy the sailors unlashing the helicopter from the deck of the tanker. He did love a good uniform.

Pelham's discovery had been all over the newspapers and, while waiting around, Jack had picked up on a few things that really seemed too good to be true about his story. The planet was already too drained of all conventional fuel for him to find anything, let alone something that was cleaner than anything they'd ever used before. And, because he'd been working with UNIT after River had dumped him off to find Danni, he'd decided it was worth a look into. They'd managed to get him into the press conference. Sometimes a hunch paid off, because there was now a mystery animal attack that really sounded like it wasn't what it seemed.

Pelham's assistant, Matt, waved him over. "If you're coming, you'd better hurry. There's a storm blowing. We need to leave before it hits."

"I guessed that," he replied before he started the walk across. The wind was already picking up, so he barely heard the voice calling from behind him.

"Captain Harkness! Hang on a moment." He turned to see a young woman hurrying towards him. It wasn't the first time that had happened, but the briefcase she was carrying made it more intriguing than normal.

"You're so forgetful," she told him as she panted lightly. "You left your case!" She turned to Matt, giving him a big smile and holding her hand out to him. "Lizzie Davies. Captain Harkness's assistant. I'll be coming too."

Matt ignored the offered hand and ushered them towards the helicopter. "Yes, fine. Just hurry. Mr Pelham wants to get to the refinery as quickly as possible."

Jack wasn't surprised in the slightest that Pelham was in the pilot's seat. Men like him tended to have many talents and also liked to be in control in crisis situations. He didn't comment, just motioned Lizzie in first before strapping himself into seat next to her.

He leant in a little closer. "That was a bold move," he praised. "I'm impressed."

"Yes, well, you don't get anyway in this business without being a little cocky," she replied. "I hope you don't mind."

"If I minded I would have said something before we got into the chopper," he pointed out. "Captain Jack Harkness, by the way."

"I know that," she said with a sly smile. "I'm your assistant, remember?"

"For now," he replied cheekily. "We'll see what tonight holds."

~0~0~0~

Jack remembered why he stopped going undercover. As he sat in the helicopter listening to Matt's spiel, he really felt he could have just made it to the base on his own. He didn't really care about how Pelham was going to see this mysterious Fire Ice to the masses. He wanted to know what it was, and what exactly had attacked his worker.

All Jack could see was a lot of potential to ruin the planet, but then again he also knew that humans of this era were prone to trying to destroy their home world. It was rather annoying on a good day, and absolutely infuriating on a bad one.

Still, he kept his mouth shut and kept his comments to himself. They had enough to deal with as they entered the refinery and were met with a dozen or so frantic assistants, all talking over each other as they flocked to their boss. Pelham seemed to watch them for a moment as they tripped over each other before he slammed his hand against the wall.

"Quiet!" he shouted. Instantly there was silence. Jack was actually rather impressed, but again kept it to himself. After all he was pretty sure that Pelham was the bad guy in all of this. He didn't seem as concerned about the attack as someone should be. That normally meant that he had more to worry about.

Pelham glared at his staff. "I am going to my office. I want a full report on my desk within ten minutes. Everything else can wait. The most important thing right now is to see whether we have lost any fuel barrels."

"Actually, I would think that the most important thing is your injured crewman, is it not?" Jack piped up just to undermine him. He loved to make a self-important man flustered. For a moment Jack genuinely thought he was going to get a punch to the face, but Pelham pulled his emotions under control and took a deep breath to calm himself down. "You are quite right, Mr Harkness. My assistant will show you to the sickbay at once."

With that, Pelham turned and vanished down the corridor. His assistants followed him meekly, all obviously rather intimidated by him.

Matt turned to Jack, looking absolutely amazed. "I've never seen him admit that he's wrong before."

"Well, there's a first time for everything," Jack replied with a shrug. "Show us the way, Matty-boy." He clapped Matt on the shoulder, probably a little too hard by the way he seemed to stumble even though he wasn't moving.

"Of- of course, this way."

~0~0~0~

The sick bay was, pretty much, completely pathetic. There were two beds surrounded by the bare minimum of equipment with a small office off in one corner. Obviously Pelham had wanted to cut as many costs as he could. And, probably, was arrogant enough to believe that he would never need it.

Unfortunately, Bob Clamp needed it. His injuries were quite severe but the base's medic had been able to treat them fairly easily. It was the fever that was worrying her. His temperature was higher than a human should have had, and he'd sweated out more fluid than they could keep him pumped with considering the size of the bay.

He was muttering and, as Beryl tried to dismiss his ramblings, Jack leant in closer. It was the same four words over and over again and Jack was more inclined to believe him than anyone else. He stood up, quickly disinfecting his hands.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say he'd been poisoned," Jack commented. "But he's not rambling. He's telling us what attacked him. He was attacked by a dinosaur." He turned to Matt. "I need to go to the site where he was attacked."

Matt was quick to shake his head. "There's a storm coming. It is not advised to…"

"I'm sure it's not but, the man was attacked by a dinosaur," Jack replied. "How about we get out there as quick as we can? There's a good chap."

Even though he wanted to object, Matt nodded. "Follow me, then, Captain Harkness. I'm sure we can arrange that."

Jack shot Lizzie a look. "I'm guessing you're coming with us?" he asked and she nodded.

"Couldn't keep me away," she replied. "I need to get some good photos, don't I?"

"Can't argue with that logic," Jack replied. "Alright, don't wander off, keep close and make sure you snap anything out of the ordinary."

"Like a dinosaur?" she joked.

"Nah, that's just another day," Jack retorted. "I mean something much, much stranger."

~0~0~0~

The barrels of Fire Ice seemed relatively untouched. Jack took a moment to look them over. He crouched down by one of them, wondering if he could just pop the top off one. They seemed rather well sealed, though, and he'd not brought his heat gun. He'd not thought it necessary as he'd really not seen himself getting this far. He should have known his life didn't work that way.

Lizzie and Matt hung back slightly and he knew they were talking about him, despite not being able to hear them over the roaring wind. The storm was starting to really pick up. He'd not be able to stay out much longer.

He stood back up, pulling his coat closer in the hopes of trapping in a little bit more of his body heat. He was just about to turn around and head back when he could have sworn he'd heard some buzzing. A high pitch squeal that, at first, he put down to his over active imagination and his worry over his daughter.

The second time he heard it, though, he knew he wasn't imagining it. It was hard to hear anything over the wind so it had to be close. He strode over, hand going into his pocket just in case. He'd not brought his heat gun, but that didn't mean he'd not come armed. He peered over a barrel and saw the top of a head covered in brown hair. The woman who was hiding was holding a sonic screwdriver and the moment he'd appeared she turned, pointing it up at him like it was a weapon.

He frowned. She didn't look like his daughter, or at least the Dannis he'd seen so far, but there were very few people in the universe who would carry a sonic screwdriver like a weapon. "Danni?" he called over the wind.

She climbed off the snow, brushing herself down. "Jack!" she cried back. "We didn't think you were here!"

Instead of asking her what she was doing there he just grinned and pulled her in for a hug. Immediately he felt her stiffen, as if surprised by the sudden assault. She gingerly gave him a pat on the back and then pulled away.

"When are you from?" he asked, because having a time travelling family meant that anyone could be at any point in their own personal time line.

Danni shifted slightly uncomfortable, placing her sonic screwdriver back in her pocket just so she could feel the gun that also sat in there. The cold of the metal calmed her down enough. "Um, well, I'm the Danni you've been looking for, if-if that's what you mean," she replied. "If the Doctor aimed right, anyway."

"He found you?" Jack asked, amazed. "And managed to get Missy to let you go?"

Danni shifted. "Something like that," she replied vaguely. She knew Jack instantly noticed how she didn't want to talk about it, which was great because she really didn't want to talk about it. Instead he let it go graciously. She had prepared for that conversation, but then they'd landed at the South Pole and that preparation went out of the window.

"What are you doing here?" he asked, getting back to business.

"We were coming to see you, but we landed here and we thought the TARDIS had pulled us off course," she explained. "So we started to investigate. This fuel doesn't seem like anything any human should have any access to. The Doctor's inside having a nosy, but I wanted to see what else I could find."

"And?"

"Well, this fuel is definitely out of its time," she replied. "I mean, there's no reason to say it's alien, but the time period is all wrong. Also, there's that." She pointed down to the footprint that, up until that moment, Jack hadn't noticed. It wasn't a small footprint either.

"Oh, here comes the cavalry," Danni murmured, confusing Jack for a moment. Then, Matt and Lizzie appeared at his side. Matt looked positively fuming while Lizzie was just plain confused.

"Who are you and how did you get here?" he demanded.

Danni looked him up and down for a moment before shooting him a smirk. "Danni, sweetie," she introduced. "And as you've got a dinosaur running about, how about you drop the third degree, eh?"

"A dinosaur?" he scoffed and Jack directed his attention down to the footprint.

"I think that backs up our victims claim, don't you?" he added.

"You have got to be kidding…" Matt breathed, eyes wide.

"Definitely not," Danni said. She looked up at Jack. "He your latest pick up?" she asked bluntly.

"No, of course not," Jack defended. "I don't flirt with everyone, you know?"

"Um, well…" Lizzie started without looking up from the footprint. "Actually, all you've done is flirt with me…"

"I'm just being friendly," he exclaimed. "Can't a guy be friendly anymore?"

"A guy? Sure. You? Definitely not," Danni retorted. "And to think; once upon a time I was the one you flirted with. Been away two minutes and you're already replacing me."

"Never," Jack promised. "I'm just biding my time."

"Yeah, yeah, that's what they all say," Danni retorted. "Where do you think the big fella has got to?" she asked, nodding at the footprint.

"I've got to tell Mr Pelham," Matt said nervously.

Danni rolled her eyes as Lizzie took out her camera from underneath her parka. "And I've got to get some pictures."

Matt and Lizzie fought for a moment about her right to take pictures on Pelham's property, before the pair rushed back off towards the base.

"She's totally not a journalist," Danni commented and Jack nodded.

"I think she's an activist of some kind. People aren't happy about the damage that might be happening to the continent," he explained. "She hijacked my ride here pretending to be my assistant."

"Jack," Danni groaned as they started heading towards the base after the two. "Can't you just say hello to people?"

"I didn't invite her," he protested.

"No, but she did say that you flirted with her," Danni reminded. "And that is very you, so I'm inclined to believe her."

"Yeah, yeah, so you've said," he grumbled. "What's the plan, Danni-Girl?"

"Find the Doctor, convince this Pelham guy to stop whatever he's doing, and find ourselves a dinosaur," she listed off. "I should be pretty good at that. For a while I got stuck on a planet made up entirely of lizards and other large reptiles. Spent a fortnight trying not to be eaten. I mean, dinosaurs aren't too far off, right?"

~0~0~0~

"I'm with UNIT," Danni declared. Pelham had been rather vocal since they'd walked into his office. Danni, immediately, had decided she didn't like him. He was hiding something. His outrage at a random person being on his premises seemed a lot more than just anger at someone breaking in. It was why she didn't mention the Doctor and pulled her other big card out.

"UNIT?" Pelham scoffed. "You expect me to believe that you're from UNIT and there's a dinosaur running about? Rubbish! This is just another attempt to stop me. You're as bad as those green activists from Wholeweal. Worried about penguins or polar bears."

"Well, first of all, polar bears are from the North Pole. If you'd done even a little bit of a survey on the area you've supposedly drilled up this fire-oil-thing from you'd know that," Danni replied. "Secondly, he's also from UNIT," she nodded towards Jack, "your vetting system for your press conferences is almost as bad as the government planet I broke into recently. Fun story, I'll tell you sometime." She shot him a smirk as Jack watched on in amusement. "And, thirdly, you have an eyewitness."

"What I have is a man with a raging fever and rather substantial wounds," Pelham spat back. "Of course he's raging on about dinosaurs, he probably thinks Santa Claus is his nurse." His eyes narrowed slightly. "In fact, all I see here is a trespasser who seems to know a lot about my staff. How do I know you're not the one who attacked him?"

She rolled her eyes. "Well, for starters, there's only one man who's back I scratch and he's not here right now." She spared a glance over at Jack, who didn't look too pleased at her comment. "Sorry, Dad."

He held his hands up. "Just please don't mention it again."

Danni agreed. She turned her attention back to Pelham. "Do you really think that anyone would cover up their own crime by crying 'it's a dinosaur'?" she asked him. "I mean, I know the general public can be quite idiotic, but really?"

"There's no dinosaurs, or yetis. The Loch Ness Monster has not come for a visit. You must think that I'm pretty stupid, Miss Fielding-"

"Mrs Fielding."

"But I can assure you I'm not," he continued like she hadn't interrupted. He really didn't have time for these stupid interruptions. He was only here because he needed to sort out whatever had happened before it got out to the public. He wasn't going to delay his billion-dollar idea because of a few whiny environmentalists. "All these protests and rally groups are sweet, but I've really reached the end of my tether with them."

Danni nodded slowly. "Totally understand that," she agreed. "Protest groups can really get on your nerves when they're protesting against you. However, I would also like to correct you on one little detail you've missed."

Pelham sighed heavily, letting out what sounded like a small growl. "What?"

"You're not very smart," Danni broke to him. "You've got all these plans in place to sell your precious Fire Ice, but you've let one rather large part of it slip."

"I'm sorry—" Pelham started, his face turning a red that Matt had rarely ever seen and never wanted to, either.

"You're not very observant, are you Mr Pelham?" Danni asked over his protests. "In fact, you don't seem to be paying attention at all."

"Mrs Fielding, what is the point of all this?" he asked her shortly.

"Lizzie," she replied. "She left when you started arguing with me. I'm guessing you didn't notice? We really should—"

Pelham's gaze snapped sharply to the back of the room, where the door was indeed still slightly open. "How dare… No one can just go running about! Find her, now!" He moved from behind his desk and stormed out of the room, Matt close on his heels.

Danni turned to Jack. "Honestly, it's a wonder anything gets done on this planet," she told him.

"Not all of us are idiots, Danni-Girl," he reminded her before giving a nod towards the door. "We should follow just in case."

She followed him out of the door and down the hallway towards where, inevitably, Pelham had gone. "I mean, it's not like I don't know what I'm talking about," she reasoned. "I've dealt with prehistoric creatures before. One of my best friend's is a lizard from the dawn of creation."

"Ah, Vastra," Jack recalled fondly. "I haven't seen her since…" Since the last time he was on the TARDIS, when they were looking for her. Danni didn't want to talk about it, but perhaps… "How did she react to you coming home?" he asked casually.

"Ah, well, I'm sure she'll be delighted," Danni replied a little awkwardly. "I'll get onto that soon."

"You haven't told her?" Jack asked, surprised.

"I've just not had time," Danni retorted, defensive. "It's not like I wasn't planning on it. I came to see you, didn't I?"

"It's just not like you, that's all," he offered. "I'm used to a Danni who likes to get as many people in the same place as possible."

"Yeah, well, people change," she replied shortly. She really didn't want to talk about how she'd not wanted to contact anyone yet, despite actually wanting to see people. After all, it was only recently she'd actually started to accept she was home again. Even now, even knowing and having proof she was free, she still couldn't help but look around, looking for a door out into Paradise and to Missy.

Jack knew he should apologise, but there was a large gust of wind and the walls rattled. The storm was coming in now, heavy and hard and they both paused.

"You'd think they'd have built the base out of stronger stuff," Danni commented, a little nervously. "I hope the Doctor's okay."

"I'm sure he's fine," Jack reassured her just as the lights went out. He immediately went for his gun, pulling it out ready. There was a suspected dinosaur on the loose, after all. He felt Danni back up into him just as the emergency lights came on.

"Right, stay close," he stated. "She can't have got far." He glanced down at his daughter and had to double take. She was looking down the hallway the opposite way to him, but she held a gun in her hand. She didn't even look uncomfortable, which went against everything he'd ever learnt about her or the Doctor.

"I think she went that way," she told him, turning to face the same way as him. "I don't think the power outage is a coincidence, do you?"

"You have a gun," he said, still rather surprised. She sighed heavily and pocketed it.

"I'm not doing this again," she grumbled. "Come on. The quicker we can find her the quicker we can work out what the hell is going on."

She started back down the hallway again and Jack followed, a little stunned but even more alert. Even if the power outage was a coincidence – and he was very much inclined to side with Danni on that one – then there still was something on the loose. And now it was dark and even harder to find it.

"Jack!" Danni suddenly sped up, running away from him. He followed and she dropped to the ground. Lizzie was sprawled on the floor, unconscious, and she quickly checked her over. She rummaged in her pocket but all she found was gun.

"Damn," she muttered to herself. She'd left her sonic screwdriver on the barrel of Fire Ice. She remembered putting it down and had thought she'd picked it up again. Luckily the TARDIS was parked close by so she could pick it up again, but she had to be more careful. She had just been more concerned about her gun.

But, seeing as she didn't have her screwdriver, she instead reached forward and gave Lizzie a sharp tap on the face. "Come on, wake up."

Lizzie groaned and forced her eyelids open. She blinked groggily at them. "Jack?"

"Hey, steady," Jack said as she tried to sit up. She'd obviously had taken a rather hard whack on the head. He helped her lean against the wall. "What happened?"

Lizzie rubbed her head where she'd been hit. "I got lost when the lights went out. I was trying to find my way back when—" Her eyes suddenly widened and she clutched at the Jack's arm. "It was here! Right here!"

"The dinosaur?" Danni asked, looking behind them. There didn't seem to be any damage from a dinosaur rampage. "Are you sure?"

"I didn't get a proper look," she admitted. "It was dark. I felt fur!"

"Fur?" Jack and Danni shared a look. "Dinosaurs didn't have fur, did they?"

Danni shrugged. "Well, quite a lot had feathers," she said. "Some of them might have had fur. I haven't really explored all of them, to be fair. I've had better things to do with my time."

"It wasn't big, though," Lizzie continued. "Not big enough to make those footprints, this was small, like a child…"

Danni leant back on her heels, looking up and down the hallway. She couldn't see much because the emergency lighting, but there were a few doors up and down. It reminded her too much of the hallways in Missy's Paradise headquarters, but she tried to not dwell on it too much. In fact, there was a door just behind Lizzie. The power room.

Danni made a note to ask her what, exactly, she had been doing in the power room but for now she just stood up and reached for the handle. The door wasn't just unlocked, it was actually rather warm. That came from all the power in there, she supposed.

She swiftly pulled the door closed as there was a whir of power. The red emergency lights faded as the main lighting came back on. At the same time, there was the sound of footsteps in the corridor and the bellow of a familiar voice.

"I should have guessed that you would be the cause of this!" Pelham snarled at Lizzie. He appeared with Matt at his side and a bunch of guards following him like puppies. "Messing around with the power cell, were you?"

Danni rolled her eyes. "Oh, come on, really?" she snapped. "She's obviously had a knock on the head. She didn't have a chance to mess with the power."

"That's nothing to what will happen to her if she's damaged anything! I knew there was something fishy about you lot. From Wholeweal, are you? Here to shut me down?"

"I've already told you; we're from UNIT!" Danni exclaimed. "Jesus wept your observation skills are really fucking terrible, aren't they? Look!" She grabbed his tie, pulling him forward so he could see Lizzie more closely. "See that? That's a camera. It takes pictures." She let him go. Matt seemed horrified and Pelham was too surprised by being touched by anyone to react. "There's a dinosaur running about. She was taking pictures, that's her job! Don't be so thick!"

"Danni," Jack warned and she took a deep breath to calm herself down. He was just blowing things out of proportion just because he was hiding something and it was incredibly frustrating. Even his face was annoying her at this point.

"Lizzie says she was attacked," Danni continued slowly, trying to stay calmed. "The thing that attacked her wasn't the dinosaur who attacked your crewman and it's still in the base. We need to search right away…"

"What, another dinosaur?" Pelham asked mockingly. "If there is something in this base then my men will deal with it." He turned to the guards who were standing over his shoulder. "I think visiting time is over. Get them out of here. Send them back to the ship."

"That's not going to be possible just yet," Matt spoke up nervously. "We can't get the helicopter airborne until the storm is over. That could be several hours according to weather control."

"Then lock them up somewhere!" Pelham shouted. "Just keep them out of my way. I've got a meeting with the scientific team and I don't want to be disturbed!"

With that, Pelham spun on his heel and swept back down the corridor. Matt glared at them all and held out his hand.

"Your gun, Captain Harkness." Jack wasn't exactly happy to hand it over, but as he didn't ask for Danni's he knew that they weren't completely unarmed. The trio was then marched to the storeroom, where they were locked in. Matt instructed a guard to wait outside and then disappeared after his boss.

"Remind me why we didn't just head to the TARDIS?" Jack asked Danni.

"Because do you really want Pelham to know the TARDIS even exists?" she countered, sitting down against one of the walls. "The Doctor will be here soon. We've just got to sit tight."

"Who's the Doctor?" Lizzie asked, intrigued.

"My husband," Danni replied shortly. "He's also exploring. He shouldn't be long, though."

"I want a word with your husband," Jack said. "He dropped me off for a break and never returned. He just disappeared from the universe."

"Yeah, so I've been told," Danni replied offhandedly. "I'm sure he'll listen to none of your complaints then point out that I am, in fact, back home so it doesn't matter anyway."

"Well, he still should have come got us when he came to save you," Jack grumbled. He was her father, after all. He had just as much claim to have saved her as the Doctor did.

"I'm not arguing with you on his behalf. You're both grown men and I'm not getting in the middle of it." Jack sat down next to her, sensing that he'd hit a nerve he didn't know was even exposed.

"Were you there long?" he asked quietly.

"Long enough," she replied shortly. "If I had my stupid screwdriver I could open the door for us. Or, if he carried his phone I'd be able to ring him. I'm going to have to have a word with him."

"Danni…"

"Drop it," she snapped. "Jack just… just drop it."

Lizzie looked between the two. The atmosphere was rather heavy and, wherever this woman had appeared from, something had happened. And, if she'd been an actual journalist she'd probably be able to work it out. She wasn't, though.

"Is leaving even a good idea?" she offered. "I mean, we're already in a lot of trouble as is it."

Danni shrugged. "Stay here, then," she replied bluntly. "But the moment he turns up we're going to go find out what's actually going on. I'm sure that wherever Pelham is will be where the information is."

"How's he going to get us out, though?" Lizzie asked. "I mean, we're locked in and there's a guard."

"Guards are easy," Jack dismissed. "And, judging by the storm, the base is probably going to shut down for a while. With Pelham in his meeting and his little monkey—"

"I knew you fancied him," Danni teased lightly.

"-following him around he's not going to be an issue either," he finished, ignoring his daughter's comment. "It's just a matter of time before…"

The door clicked, unlocking before Jack could even finish his sentence. The door opened and the Doctor's head peered around, his gaze scanning around and immediately finding his wife.

"I should have known you'd get yourself caught," he admonished as he opened the door fully. "I told you to stick with me instead of going off with your own father."

"No you didn't," she said as she stood up. "In fact you were just as convinced as I was that he wasn't even here. You're the one who wanted to split up."

He didn't even greet Jack, which was mainly down to the glare that Jack was sending his way. He knew that he had a couple of questions to answer from the man and he didn't particularly want to answer them now. Instead he nodded towards the young woman who also seemed to be trapped in the room. "Who's that?"

"Jack's companion," she explained briefly. She walked to his side and immediately felt a little calmer. "There's a meeting going on we really need to be a part of."

He waved his arm to let her go first. "Sounds delightful, my Pet," he replied and she strode out with the expectation that she would be followed. He loved to see her so confident, in fact he took a moment to watch her walk away just to enjoy it.

When he turned back around he was met with Jack's rather angry face. This he liked a lot less. "When this is over you're going to tell me where the hell you went," Jack told him firmly, with no room for argument.

The Doctor held his hands up in surrender. "Wasn't going to keep it to myself," he replied cockily.

Jack felt like strangling him. He got on with the Doctor most of the time – his eleventh body aside – but that didn't mean that man didn't infuriate him. "You should have come got me before you saved her."

The Doctor shot him a look like he was completely confused. "Who said I saved her?" he replied. "Come on, all you humans do is chitchat. We don't have time for idleness. There's something rather fishy going on."

He turned, leaving Jack and Lizzie stood there. His words had taken Jack by surprised, but it was Lizzie who spoke up first.

"Did- Did he say 'you humans'?" she asked. "Like-Like he isn't one."

Jack just patted her on the arm. "You get used to it," he said before following.

"- we think it was a dinosaur of some kind. The footprint was definitely suggested it was," Danni was saying. "But Lizzie was attacked by something different."

"There isn't a lot of equipment," the Doctor shot back. "The drill is only there for show. No one is doing any work."

"Pelham became very suspicious when I told him he was from UNIT."

Jack watched them with a fond smile. He'd seen them do this before; shoot information back and forth as they tried to one up each other. This was the first time he'd seen this Danni and, he had to admit, everything was just a little bit confusing. She was just so different to the timid blonde Danni who must have come before her. However, this felt a lot more natural and he knew he'd continue to try and find the Danni he knew in her whilst learning the new personality.

He also didn't miss the resemblance to himself and, he had to admit, he kinda loved it.

The Doctor stopped by a door, getting closer so he could listen through it. "This is where I saw him go through," he whispered. Danni joined him. There was the sound of someone talking, but it was muffled and the words weren't clear at all.

Pelham's reply was, though. "You told me that we would have no problem extracting the Fire Ice in quantity! We had an agreement. If I find that you have gone back on that agreement then you know what will happen! Think about that!"

The two Time Lords jumped back and the group pushed against the wall as the door slammed open and Pelham came out. He was so infuriated that he, and Matt who quickly followed, stormed off down the corridor, bellowing orders.

"Well, someone's cross," Danni commented. She looked up at her husband, a smirk appearing on her face. "Maybe we should go clean up his mess? I'm sure I can charm them back on side?"

The Doctor could see the sparkle in her eye. He could hear the flirt in her tone and the challenge in her words.

"You're so enticing," he said bluntly, much to Jack's dismay.

Danni just looked incredibly smug. "I know," she replied. "And you love it." The Doctor watched her walk into the room and hoped, beyond anything, that he could react to her flirting soon.

"Sorry to barge in, but after that argument I think that you could us a helping…"

She trailed off and the Doctor and Jack shared a look. They both quickly followed her in. From behind them, Lizzie gasped as the other three just stared in disbelief.

Bright intelligent eyes stared from delicately scared faces. Elegant crests and fins jutted from the hairless heads. The scientists weren't human.

"What are they?" Lizzie asked in amazement.

"They're Silurians," Danni replied, sounding rather surprised. "And that question was rather rude."

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Hello everybody! Hope you're all well! Don't forget to drop a review and let me know what you're thinking of the story so far :D I answer them at the end of the next chapter (most of the time. I do try!)

As always, make sure you go read the Quick Reads book this is based off. It's called The Silurian Gift by Mike Tucker and is an Eleven story that I've edited.

Reviews!

serena - Thanks sweetie! Hope you liked this one too :)

whitedwarf - Thanks sweetie! I'd been sitting on that for a little while so I'm glad you liked it :)

serenitysaiyan - Oh yeah, there's going to be moments where she checks. Old habits die hard and all that. It's a good little book, it's only a Quick Read one so it's like 100 pages at most, but it's a good old fashioned romp!

AGBreads - Thanks sweetie! I'm sure she'll fall back, but for now she's got enough proof to actually believe it :)

Authora97 - Why thank you! Hehe, yeah, he knows that there's absolutely no reason to be jealous but that doesn't matter XD

bored411 - They are! It's so good, isn't it? I hope you enjoy it. It's a good little read :)

Quinnmarie - Yeah, she's got it! Stories about what happened are going to slowly trickle out over the series, but it definitely won't be everything and she will keep a lot to herself. I hope you enjoy it :D