A/N: This is the first time I've written as Jack, so I apologise if he's a little out of character...
Also, I'm totally obssessed with fitting things into the cannon, so everything's pre-Torchwood. Without having watched the entire series of Torchwood yet I'm trying to explain how Jack's Torchwood got set up in the first place. Of course, it ain't gonna be right, but can't blame me for trying can ya?

Chapter 15 – Women And Their Hormones

It wasn't getting into the base that was the problem; it was finding the Doctor which she'd had a hiccup on.

Common sense said to Rose that by following the trail of guards she should easy be able to find the Doctor with no problems. After all, if something is worth a lot there'll be a ton of protection for it – and the Doctor wasn't exactly your average Joe.

Getting in had been easy. Too easy. Infact, it was almost like someone had wanted them to get in. They didn't have to show any ID, any conformation of authority, pow, kersplat, bang, goodbye guard with a whack to the head.

She'd expected a fight in the corridor. Nothing happened.

Laser battle? Fist fighting? Gun wars? That cool scene with the massacre of all the Japanese people from Kill Bill? Attacked by a load of genetic mutants from the labs? They had all been possible scenarios she'd thought possibly could happen, but none of them did. At least - not yet.

She had to keep her guard.

It wasn't until they reached the tunnel to the Quarantine Rooms that she'd experience her first real fight, but oh boy, was it worth it.

"Halt!" A voice yelled from behind the pair, and Rose and Howard both turned simultaneously, a sweet smile stretching across Rose's face. The guard immediately looked surprised, gasping wide at the sight of her. "You!"

"Me!" she agreed, turning into the Doctor. "Hello, there. I'm looking for the love of my life. Reckon you can tell me where he is?"

"Ma'am, please come with me quietly, or I may have to use force," the guard said firmly, hand hovering over the gun in his waist hoist.

Rose just continued to smile, shaking her head in a negative. "Not today, matey."

Thwack.

Rose flinched as the guard's head made contact with the fire extinguisher, making a rather daunting 'clang' before he hit the floor.

"Rose!" shouted a familiar, yet impossible voice.

"J…Jack?" Rose stuttered, her eyes widening as Captain Jack Harkness stepped forward into the little light of the otherwise darkened corridor, his undeniably handsome face in a manic grin.

"It's good to see ya again, Rose." He smiled, and before Rose knew it she had stumbled forward towards him with open arms, tears falling quickly down her face as she threw herself onto him.

"Oh God Jack, I thought you were dead!"

"So did I, Rose," Jack replied, the grin not falling from his face.

"How did you survive?"

He paused, clicking his tongue thoughtfully. "One moment I was in a jacuzzi flirtin' with Winston Churchill, the next I was lyin' in the Gamestation, very much alive. I got hit by a Dalek laser Rose – I should be dead."

"But why are you here? In this government base?"

"I work here, Rose. I'm an 'aliens expert'."

"Allegedly," Rose muttered, before grinning widely and looking up at him. Then Jack stopped, pulling Rose away from him and holding her firmly at arm's length, his eyes casting downwards to her womb.

"It's the Doctor's," Rose said immediately before Jack could even open his mouth to ask. Then he started grinning like a maniac again. With his eyebrows raised openly.

"Well congratulations, Rose!" He beamed. "'Bout time you two stopped foolin' around! Was it good?"

Rose sighed, exasperated as she folded her arms and rolled her eyes at Jack. "Is sex all you think about? And for your info, it was bloody amazing."

"There's a little baby Doctor in there!" Jack cooed, and he glanced quickly up as Rose's falling face caught his gaze.

"Where is he Jack? What have they done?"

"I'm sorry Rose, I couldn't stop them. The Doctor, he's…" Rose unfolded her arms, panic suddenly finding her heart.

"He's what?" she whispered, not wanting to believe the possibilities crossing through her mind.

"They gave him penicillin, Rose," Jack said gravely, staring hard at her. She just gawped back with an uncanny resemblance to a goldfish, unable to comprehend what he had just said. He looked at her face. "I'm sorry, Rose, I couldn't stop 'em, I swear."

"You, you…" Rose stuttered, her jaw wide open. "You're with these people?!"

Jack nearly hit himself on his head for not taking her reaction into account.

"No Rose, it's not like that…" he protested, aware he was arguing pointlessly against a pregnant woman with crazy mood swings. It was like Real Madrid versus Ackington Stanley.

"Oh yeah, then what is it like? Ay? AY?!" she demanded loudly. "You know he's practically anaphylactic to the stuff! You knew and you still let them!"

"Calm down a sec, would ya Rose?"

Wrong move.

"CALM DOWN?!" she screamed, and Jack's ears started stinging. "CALM DOWN?! I AM CALM! I'M SO FUCKING CALM I COULD WIN A FUCKING NOBEL PEACE PRIZE!"

"Rose…" he started forward to touch her.

"DON'T YOU COME NEAR ME YOU BASTARD!" Rose continued to howl, pushing Jack's hand from her. "YOU TWAT! WHERE IS HE?! TELL ME!"

"Quarantine Bay 5," he squeaked, actually terrified of hormonally tilted Rose.

"THANK YOU!" she yelled, swinging around on her heel to head in the opposite direction of Jack. Howard just shrugged apologetically at Jack.

"Hormonal women," he said, before bolting quickly after the fading Rose down the corridor, and the two of them turned the corner.

Jack didn't move, just watched the space where they had disappeared from view with interest. Three seconds later they appeared again, Rose walking back to him as if nothing had just happened.

"Err…where's Quarantine?" she asked finely as she reached Jack.

Jack just grinned, raising his hand to point to his left where a another corridor was.

"That-a-way."

"Cheers." Rose nodded curtly to him, moving to strut off down the corridor with Howard in tow – though she didn't quite get that far.

"Good work, sir!" someone suddenly yelled from behind her, and Rose swung around in alarm to see a small group of guards standing a little while down the corridor, loading their guns with a few distinguished clicks, smiles etched on their faces.

Rose turned back around to face Jack, her jaw wide open. Had he been planning this? To get her to talk just so he could bide time for the guards to arrive? How could he do this? How could he do this to her and the Doctor? Betray them like this?

Jack turned to Rose and Howard, folding his arms with a small smirk on his face.

"Too easy, guys," he said aloud to the guards, and Rose felt herself melt into a small puddle on the floor. No. This wasn't possible.

"Though," Jack continued, rubbing his chin in thought. "I did think I saw another few, possibly four. They got a whole gang here." He pointed back the way the guards had came, and they all turned to look in the other direction on instinct.

Rose could only watch, mildly confused as Jack mouthed in over expressed syllables to her four words she had never thought he'd say.

Hit me and run.

Too confused to do anything else, she threw out an immediate punch at breakneck speed, catching Jack full on in the jaw before bolting down the corridor with Howard close behind her.

At the cry of pain the guards down the corridor saw Jack doubling over, massaging his jaw as two figures ran off into the distance. Of course, by the time the guards had reached him his jaw had mended itself – another thing he'd have to ask the Doctor about – but he was giving Rose time to find the Doctor and get him out of this God awful place.

"Sir? Are you okay?"

"Don't worry 'bout me," he straightened up to face the cluster of guards, covering his jaw with a hand to stop them seeing the instant healing. "Got a friend who calls himself a Doctor, he'll fix me up later. We've gotta find 'em guys; spread out. You two…" He gestured to two guard in the pack of six, then pointed down the right hand corridor. "Check down there. You two…" He pointed at two more, and then the corridor behind him. "Down there. You two backtrack, check the tower," he said to the remaining two. "And I'll check down here. Check areas and hold your position."

"Yessir!" they all yelled and saluted hard, before bolting off down their respective corridors in a quick march.

"Like candy from a baby…" Jack beamed brightly to no one in particular, before following Rose and Howard to Quarantine.