A/N: Hello people. Well here's the next chapter. Hope ya like. Thankyou Briar for being my beta and for the title of the chapter.

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Jack woke to a gentle caress on his cheek, looking up, he saw Bria standing close beside him. For the third time he found his breath catching in his throat as she smiled down at him. "Bria, wha-" he began, only to find her fingers on his lips.

"Shh." She bent closer, and fastened her mouth over his. Jack returned the kiss, feeling her body as he ran his hands up her ribs and over her back.

Bria moaned and Jack woke with a start, breathing heavily. He shook his head, slightly disturbed at his dream. He had never dreamt quite like that before, yes, his dreams had involved girls before, but never had they been so tangible. He could almost feel her lips on his again. Shaking his head he attempted to regain control before his thoughts put him in the need for a cold shower.

Bria moaned again and began to toss her head from side to side. Jack looked over at her, one of her hands was clenched on the pillow beside her head and her movements were becoming more frantic. Jack got up from his chair, moving towards the bed.

As he moved to touch Bria's hand, Jack was suddenly unable to breathe. He fell back, grasping his throat and choking, he noticed there was thick black smoke everywhere. Jack could smell the smoke from burning wood and the sickly odour of burning flesh. He could feel heat from flames and hear the roaring as fire consumed fuel, there was also screaming and fighting, and the sound of men laughing.

Vaguely, through stinging eyes, he could see Bria thrashing on her bed.

As Jack fell to his knees, overcome with lack of oxygen he heard a voice. It sounded like Bria, but it was so far away. "Elysium, Elysium." In his fogged mind, he wondered what it meant.

The Doctor jerked awake, nearly pushing Rose off the sofa as he did so. "Doctor, what the…"

"It's Bria, there's something wrong." Without another word, they got up from the sofa and sprinted down the corridor towards Bria's room.

What they saw as they approached the door shocked and surprised them both. Jack knelt on the floor grasping his throat, he seemed to be having trouble breathing. Bria was thrashing about and crying out as though in the throes of a nightmare.

Without hesitation, both the Doctor and Rose ran to Jack's side. As soon as they entered the room, they began to feel the same heat from a fire. Rose began to choke as they dragged Jack from the room, sitting him against the wall outside Bria's room.

Almost as soon as they exited the room, Rose found herself able to breathe again. Jack stopped choking and opened his eyes. Having seen he was Ok, the Doctor ran back into the room. He could feel the effects of what had taken Jack down, but it didn't affect him as it had his companions. Weak apes he thought briefly as he reached the bed.

"Stay back!" He ordered as Jack moved to re-enter the room. To his relief, Jack didn't question it, the memory of what had just happened still fresh in his mind.

The Doctor managed to pin Bria's flailing body with his own, while calling her name in a bid to bring her back from whatever terror was gripping her. When calling her didn't work, he decided on a different approach. Closing his eyes, he concentrated. Bria, come back. Leave your terrors and come back to me.

In his minds eye, the Doctor could see Bria, she was surrounded by darkness and reaching out to him, screaming all the time. He concentrated with all his will on grasping her outstretched hand and pulling her towards him.

Bria came awake, sobbing. The Doctor gathered her in his arms, rocking her back and forth. Rose and Jack watched from the doorway, both reminded of what had happened on the TARDIS earlier.

Eventually, Bria appeared to settle down, she stopped sobbing and merely nodded when the Doctor whispered something in her ear. The Doctor rose from the bed, leaving Bria sitting against the wall, staring into space, or more accurately, time, Jack thought as he watched her.

The Doctor walked out of the room and placed a hand on each of their shoulders, steering his companions back towards the other room. "What about Bria?" Rose asked.

"She'll be OK, we need to leave her for a bit. C'mon."

When they reached the other room, the Doctor turned to Jack. "What happened?"

"Not a clue, Bria Just started thrashing about, and all of a sudden I couldn't breathe, felt like I was choking on smoke."

"Smoke inhalation's nasty. I'd better check your lungs."

"Sonic screwdriver?" Jack queried.

"No by dunking you in cold water to see how long you can hold your breath. Of course with the sonic screwdriver. Now take your shirt off."

"I thought you'd never ask." Jack grinned.

"Don't get any ideas, and you can stop laughing right now, Rose Tyler!" Rose looked up from where she was sitting behind him on the sofa and managed to keep a straight face for all of five seconds before a broad grin broke across her face and she bent over, giggling.

Her giggles broke off when she was hit on the head by Jack's shirt. She looked up to find the Doctor grinning at her and Jack chuckling. Rose stuck her tongue out at them both and sat back in her seat.

The Doctor ran the sonic screwdriver over Jack's chest and was surprised by the results. Jack noticed the surprise on the Doctor's face. "What's wrong?" He asked, slightly worried.

"Nothing, absolutely nothing."

"Then why the face?" Rose asked.

"I would have expected some damage, considering the breathing difficulties. But there's absolutely nothing wrong. It's all normal, well as normal as you get anyway." Both he and Rose smirked.

"Hey!" Jack cried in mock indignation.

"So what does that mean then, Doctor?" Rose asked.

The Doctor sat down on the sofa and stretched his long legs out in front of him before answering. "It means that whatever was going on in that room was purely an effect of Bria's nightmare. She must have been projecting it somehow without meaning too. Or, it was having such an effect on her that there was no way she could contain it." He turned to Jack. "What was it like when you were in the room?"

"Like being in the middle of a battle, or burning building. What?" The Doctor had looked up, realization on his face.

"Not a building. A village." Rose and Jack looked at him blankly. "Bria said her village was destroyed, that's gotta' be what it was."

"There was something else."

"What?"

"I heard a voice; I think it was Bria's. She was screaming a word, I think it was Elysium. Just that one word over and over."

The Doctor looked serious. "Something else must have happened when that village was destroyed, something that affected Bria badly."

"What? Besides everything being burned?" Rose's tone held traces of sarcasm.

"Yes."

"So, what now?" Jack asked.

"Now, we find out what it was. Bria did mention consequences." He said, emphasizing the last part of the word. "This must be the other one." He stood up and began to head towards the door, before turning back.

"Oh, and Jack?"

"Yup?"

"You can stop showing off now and put your shirt back on." He grinned from ear to ear as Rose walked past Jack and dropped his shirt on his head.

Jack muttered a few choice words under his breath and pulled his shirt on before following them out the door.

A/N: Well there we go. Tell me what you think, pretty pretty please. Reviewers are the best type of people, even those that write a couple of words.