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Jack stumbled as he was thrown into a cell. He heard the door close and lock behind him. Somehow they must have found out that he was with the Doctor, and he didn't particularly care how, he just had to find a way of escaping.
Turning around, he looked at his surroundings. There were two guards outside his cell, each holding a gun. There was a table on which they'd put his phone and wrist device that they'd taken off him before throwing him in the cell. He walked up to the bars and leant against them, already formulating an escape plan.
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The Doctor was nervous. He was being taken to the TARDIS but Jack was nowhere to be seen. He looked around himself but the only people there were the guards. And Yvonne, of course.
They turned a corner, and he saw the TARDIS in front of them. He was taken to the doors, and the guard holding his arms let one go, but kept hold of one. He reached into his pocket and fiddled with the TARDIS key that they'd returned to him. But he wasn't about to use it.
"Where's Jack?" he asked Yvonne, who was standing near him.
"He's busy," she answered.
"I won't open the TARDIS without him."
"TARDIS?"
"Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. So Where's Jack?"
"He's busy."
"What's he doing?"
"Does it matter?"
"Yes!"
"Just open the damn thing." The Doctor looked insulted.
"Don't call the TARDIS a damn thing! You'll hurt her feelings." Yvonne raised an eyebrow.
"Her feelings?" she asked and he nodded.
"The TARDIS is alive," he said proudly.
"I see," she muttered. "Can you open 'her' then now?"
"Not until Jack comes," the Doctor answered. Yvonne rolled her eyes.
"He's not coming," she said simply, turning and walking back the way they'd came, "take him away." The guards grabbed him and began to pull him away.
"No! Where's Jack? What have you done to him?!" he shouted as they started to drag him away. "Yvonne!" he shouted after her, but she didn't answer. He struggled but it was no use as they dragged him away.
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The Doctor watched Yvonne from behind the bars of his cell. Next to her stood a table with his belongings on it. She picked up the physic paper.
"And what's this?" she asked.
"Physic paper. Where's Jack?" she rolled her eyes.
"He's fine, I told you. What's physic paper?"
"Shows you whatever you want to see." She turned the paper over in her hands, then put it back down. She picked up the sonic screwdriver. "I've told you what that is."
"Yes, a 'sonic screwdriver'. What exactly does it do?"
"Well, it's very good at putting up shelves," he answered. Yvonne was about to say something, but a man came into the room.
"Miss Hartman," he said to her. The Doctor watched as she dropped the sonic screwdriver back down on the table and walked out the room.
"What is it?" she asked angrily.
"We've located the other two women," the man replied, "we've got a group of guards there now." Yvonne's anger faded away as a smile came to her face.
"Excellent," she said, "send them in when I give the signal. First, take Jack into the interrogation room."
"Yes miss," he said as he walked down the corridor. She looked over as a scientists walked out of the room containing the Doctor's cell. She walked up to him quickly.
"Carry on with the testing," she ordered, then walked down the corridor herself.
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Jack sat impatiently on the chair, watching Yvonne. There where two guards ready to stop him in case he tried anything.
"Now tell us the truth, Jack. Who are you?"
"I'm Captain Jack Harkness." She laughed and shook her head.
"Captain Jack Harkness is currently in Torchwood 3 in Cardiff. So who are you?
His twin brother?" it was Jack's turn to laugh and shake his head.
"Actually, if you must know, I'm from a parallel universe. You know when all the Cybermen disappeared? They come through to my universe. Ripped through the void, and invaded my Earth. They created a whole in the fabric of reality between the universes."
"And that's why you're here now? You and the Doctor?" he nodded. "So what does this have to do with Rose?" Jack took a deep breath as he decided whether or not to tell the truth. In the end he saw on reason not to.
"She's from our universe, too. When we closed the gap between the universes, she fell through and was trapped here. We came through to find her." Yvonne nodded slowly.
"What about the other girl?" she asked, "Is she with you?" Jack nodded. "I suppose you thought they'd escaped." Jack felt suddenly worried as she turned to the television screen behind her. She pressed a button and it turned on, displaying CCTV footage of Rose and Martha. Jack knew they couldn't have lasted long when Torchwood were after them. "On my command they will be captured and brought here," Yvonne said. Jack sat back in his seat.
"What do you want me to do?" he asked.
"Open the TARDIS," she answered. Jack smiled.
"No chance." Yvonne raised her eyebrows.
"Very well," she said, lifting her arm. She them clicked her fingers, and almost instantly guards appeared around Rose and Martha, capturing them both. Jack watched as his friends struggled to no avail. Yvonne turned off the screen. "Take him away," she ordered. Jack didn't bother to fight as he was taken by the arms and pulled out the room.
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Rose and Martha stood in the same cell, waiting anxiously. Rose stood against the bars, looking out at the room around them. On a table in front of them were they're belongings that had been taken from them. They both looked at the door as it opened and Yvonne walked into the room.
"Hello again, Rose," she greeted. Rose didn't say anything. "Are you going to introduce me to your friend?" Rose turned to Martha, who stepped forward.
"My name is Martha Jones," she said, slightly nervously. Yvonne nodded to her, then turned back to Rose.
"I never thought I'd be talking to you like this," she said.
"Me neither," Rose muttered.
"I think you know what we want."
"I have no idea," Rose said. Yvonne sighed and walked to the table, and picked up a key.
"We want you to open the TARDIS," she said simply.
"You've got the key, why can't you open it yourselves?" Rose asked.
"We've tried, it won't open for us. Perhaps you know better than we do," she walked up to Rose, and the held the key up in front of her.
"I'm not going to open the TARDIS for you," Rose said with a laugh. Yvonne's smile faded and she stepped back.
"Be like that if you wish," she said, "but I would hate for anything to happen to the Doctor," a small smile crept back onto her face, as a chill went down Rose's spin.
"You wouldn't," she whispered.
"We already have," Yvonne replied. "But we may stop if we have his ship to explore in," she said slyly. Rose's mind raced. She knew she shouldn't open the TARDIS, but she couldn't let them hurt the Doctor.
"What have you done to him?" she said darkly.
"The normal. Tests, experiments… right now I believe they're injecting him with chemicals to see what effect it has on his body." Rose and Martha's eyes widened as Yvonne turned to a plasma screen behind her. "Would you like to see?" she asked, as she pressed a button on the screen. The screen flickered as an image appeared, and Rose and Martha nearly choked at what they saw.
The Doctor was slumped on the ground chained to the wall, surrounded by scientists. He looked pale and tired. A scientist in a white lab coat walked up to him and injected something into his neck. He winced and gritted his teeth, tucking his head into his chest. He coughed and choked, taking short, sharp breaths. Moments later, the same scientists returned with another syringe and another chemical and injected it into him. As he did, for a moment nothing happened, then the Doctor suddenly flung his head back and screamed in pain.
Rose and Martha stared in horror, both now against the bars, anger rising up in them. The Doctor cried out again as a new wave of pain spread through his body. Finally, they couldn't take any more.
"Stop it!" Martha shouted angrily, "You can't do this!"
"Leave him alone!" Rose shouted equally angrily.
"Why should we?" Yvonne asked calmly.
"This isn't right!" Rose argued, "It's not fair! You can't do this to him, he has rights!"
"Oh really? He doesn't have human rights, does he? And I haven't heard of alien rights."
"But you can't do this!" Martha yelled, "He's not some test subject, he doesn't belong to you!"
"If it's alien, it's ours," Yvonne replied smoothly. Rose glared at her with all the anger she could, and kicked the bars.
"Stop hurting him!" she demanded, throwing her fists against the bars. Yvonne simply smiled smugly at her.
Suddenly, the room was filled with the sound of an alarm. Everyone in the room looked around in surprise. On the screen, the scientists looked around themselves as the Doctor leant back with a small, relieved smile on his face.
Yvonne sighed angrily and walked out of the room.
"What is it?" she demanded off the first security guard that passed her.
"Captain Jack Harkness," he said, "he's escaped."
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Jack dashed down the corridor, skidding around the corners past bewildered passer-bys. They should have known better than to have him taken back to his cell by a couple of very gorgeous guards. They should have reacted faster when he snogged them both, at the same time, instead of just standing them staring at him as he ran away. If they had perhaps he wouldn't have escaped. But they didn't, and he had.
He hurtled past a group of scientists as an alarm suddenly went off alerting everyone to his presence, or lack of. Within seconds he was being chased by guards, and he found himself careering into a lift, narrowly missing the closing doors.
He gasped for breath as the lift began to move, resting for a few moments before looking at his writs device and telling it to lead him in the direction of Rose and Martha. It displayed their location and calculated the quickest way to get to them. He looked up at the screen above the lift displaying the floor. He hoped he'd be able to get back down to the floor they were on and reach Rose and Martha without getting caught. It was a long shot, but he always loved a challenge.
He quickly pressed a button on this wrist device and the lift ground to a stop. A smile came to his face: Torchwood won't have been expecting that. He pressed another button and the doors were forced open. The lift was stuck about half way below the floor, so he climbed out and gave a quick grin to the people staring at him before running down the corridor.
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The Doctor was back in his cell, his only company the two guards that were watching him. He sauntered up to the bars and leant on them casually, putting his hands in his pockets.
"Not very interesting in here, is it?" he said, watching the two guards intently, "What with all that going on out there, and you're stuck watching little old me in here. I'm hardly going to escape am I?" he lowered his voice, "Don't you want to know what's going on out there? Go on, no one's going to notice if you just take a look out. Just a quick little peep," he waited, but got no response. "Jeez you two are like the guards at Buckingham Palace, you are," he said with a big arm gesture, walking away from the bars. Still no response. "Pfft," he sat on the wooden bench in the cell, folding his arms.
At that point their radios suddenly crackled to life, as a distorted voice came through them.
"All available guards, pursue the escaped prisoner. Repeat, all available guards to lower levels now," the voice said. The Doctor watched as the two looked at each other, then one headed out the door.
"Ooh, so he gets to see what's going on," he said, standing up again and walking up to the bars, "and you're still stuck in here. That's too bad," he leant against the bars just next to the guard, who was concentrating on ignoring him. "You should never leave one guard alone with a Time Lord, you know, because there's always the small chance," he began to lift his arms, "that he might do this," he suddenly reached through the bars and grabbed him by the sides of the head and closed his eyes. A second later the guard lost conscious and the Doctor gently lowered him to the floor.
He then turned to the table that was just in front of the cell. Yvonne had dropped his sonic screwdriver conveniently close to the edge when she left. He walked up to the bars and stuck his arm through, only to find that he was about an inch away from the screwdriver. He sighed, and began to push his arm through even further.
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Rose and Martha were excited. Finally, it looked like they were going to escape. There was only one guard watching them now, and they were sure it was only a matter of time before the Doctor or Jack came to them.
Just as expected, from the ceiling they heard a noise. The three of them looked up to the ceiling. The guard held his gun ready, pointing it at the ceiling. There was a click, and the grating on the vent above the guard moved, but the guard didn't seem to notice. A second later, Jack jumped out, landing square on the guard. Rose and Martha laughed as Jack stumbled to his feet.
"Sorry mate," he said to the unconscious guard. He then knelt down and picked up his key card and turned back to the cell. "Hello, ladies," he greeted with a grin.
"Hello Jack," they both replied as he walked across to the side of the cell and swiped the key card through a device on the wall. The door of the cell clicked open, and Rose and Martha ran out.
"Come on, we'd better get going," he said, heading for the door.
"Why don't we go through the air vents?" Martha asked, "won't it be safer?"
"Nah, they know I was there, they'll be expecting it now," he pulled a futuristic looking gun out of his pocket. He noticed Rose and Martha's stunned face and laughed. "Relax, it's a stun gun," he said as he opened the door and walked out.
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Jack, Rose and Martha ran down the corridor at full speed, skidding around the corners avoiding the guards running after them. They burst out into a storage room, filled with alien artefacts.
"Split up!" Jack ordered, and they scattered into different directions as the guards came out after them.
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Yvonne strode angrily down the corridors of Torchwood. Now not only had Jack Harkness escaped, but so had Rose and Martha. The only person they had left was the Doctor and she was damned if she was going to let him escape.
"Miss Hartman!" she spun round to see a young female scientist running up to her, clutching a wad of papers in her hand.
"What is it?" she asked as the scientist reached her.
"We were doing tests on the Doctor's DNA, scans to find any traces of it outside of Torchwood," she explained breathlessly, "and we found this," she handed Yvonne a piece of paper.
She quickly scanned the text on the sheet, and as she did so a smile came to her face.
"Bring them here," she ordered, handing the paper back to the scientist and carrying on down the corridor.
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The Doctor could feel the sonic screwdriver on the tips of his fingers. Just a bit further…
Suddenly there was a crackle as the guard's radio came to life. He looked down at it in surprise as a voice came through.
"Alien DNA located outside of Torchwood. All available guards to report to info room 3. DNA located at address: Number Three, Swales Road, Greater London."
The Doctor's eyes widened as the familiar address was read out.
"No…" he whispered in horror, as for a second he was paralysed by fear. He knew exactly what this meant. They'd found Aurora.
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Jackie hummed to herself as she stirred her tea. Pete had gone out and Jenna was at nursery, so it was just her and Aurora. The Doctor and Rose had been adamant that she must protect her at all costs, but she wasn't entirely sure why. Nothing out of the ordinary had happened and they'd been gone for ages.
She picked up her tea and walked back into the living room, where Aurora was sat on the floor playing with a toy. She sat on the sofa and began to sip her tea. As she leant back she watched Aurora play, and heard the Doctor's words float through her head.
Whatever you do, don't let Torchwood get her.
She frowned as she thought about his words. Rose worked at Torchwood, they weren't enemies. What would Torchwood do with Aurora?
Her musings were interrupted by a knock at the door. She sighed and pushed herself up, putting her cup on the table by the sofa and walking through to the entrance hall. As she opened the front door, she gasped at who she saw.
"Yvonne Hartman, Torchwood. We've come for Aurora." Jackie stared for a second at Yvonne and the guards behind her, then slammed the door shut and ran through the house to Aurora.
She screamed as she heard the door being kicked off its hinges behind her. She scooped Aurora up into her arms as she ran through the living room. Behind her came crashes as the guards ran after her, not caring what they destroyed along the way.
She ran through the kitchen and out the back door. The sounds of the guards behind her grew louder as she ran across the garden. Daring to glance behind her, she saw the guards gaining on her. She ran numbly in fear, as more guards appeared around her. Suddenly she found herself in front of a metal fence. She spun around, only to find guards approaching her from all sides. There was no escape. She clutched Aurora close to her and closed her eyes in defeat, awaiting the brutality of the Torchwood guards.