A/N: #Heeeeeey heeeeeeey I wanna be a rockstaaaaaaaaar!#

How cool was Torchwood tonight? Jack's memories made me cry :( Poor Jack.

IT'LL END SOON I PROMISE:P

Chapter 39 – And That Makes 103 Pages

"Ready?"

Eva didn't answer for a moment, her tongue between her teeth as she concentrated all her energy on the task before her. Her hands passed over her father's broken bones, temporarily numbing the pain long enough for this.

"Done," she announced, pulling back.

"Alright," the Doctor said, quickly testing the integrity of them. They were still painful but enough to bear. "Nice one. Thanks."

Eva smiled at him, disappearing in a shimmer of golden light. Jack handed the Doctor a jagged piece of rock to which he swiftly sliced across his palm with a hiss of pain. He flexed his hand for the moment, bringing out the blood onto the floor in a puddle before licking his palm, gathering blood in his mouth.

"He's comin'," Rose announced as the dungeon door clicked loudly. The Doctor quickly smeared more blood around his lips and on his shirt, before lying on the ground next to the puddle, closing his eyes. He heard the door creak open, signalling the entry of a hypnotised Mickey Smith.

"Jack! What's happenin'?" Rose said frantically, cradling the Doctor's head in both hands.

"I don't know Rose…" Jack answered, reaching up to the Time Lord's neck to check for a pulse, before hovering his hand over his mouth. "He's just about breathin'."

Mickey had reached the cell door now but hadn't moved to open it, just staring at the sight infront of him.

"Doctor please don't leave me, please…"Rose said desperately, screaming in surprise as the Doctor coughed and spluttered suddenly, bringing up half a pint of blood onto the floor. "No!"

"What's wrong?" came Mickey's monotone voice from the other side of the bars.

"What do you care?!" Rose almost screamed as she held the Doctor's head tightly, "he's dying!"

"Doctor just stay with me! Breathe deeply, you're gonna be just fine!" Jack was saying.

"Does he require medical attention?" Mickey's voice asked, sounding closer.

"He's relapsing, if he doesn't get treatment soon he'll die…" Jack muttered, loud enough for Mickey to hear.

Rose kissed the Time Lord's forehead. "Doctor fight this! Please, we need you!"

"He can't hear you," Mickey suddenly said, unlocking the door and stepping inside, moving over to them.

"Help him Khthonia!" Rose wept. "You love him too, don't you?"

Mickey bent down to the Doctor, reaching up to check his eyes. In one swift movement Jack moved around behind him and hooked his arm around his neck, pressing against his throat in a full blood choke. He struggled for a few moments in Jack's arms, before collapsing into unconsciousness.

"Sorry Mickey boy," Jack said to the unconscious man now strewn out onto the floor, helping to get the Doctor onto his feet.

"C'mon," the Doctor said quickly, pain shooting up his legs as he jogged out the open cell door, but just about bearing it. He led the three down the corridor to the dungeon door, checking left and right before slipping through the gap. He turned back, addressing Rose and Jack, "you two head left, you know the plan. I'll go right."

Rose and Jack both nodded. "See you in Hell," Jack said with a salute. The Doctor saluted back, turning to leave the two.

"Wait," Rose suddenly said as she jumped forward towards him, grabbing his shirt and pulling him back around to face her. "I don't care if you taste of blood," she said, reaching up and pressing her lips against his. "I love you, be careful."

"You too," he murmured against her mouth before they both pulled away, and the Doctor turned and fled down the corridor. Rose watched him go with tears in her eyes.

"He'll be fine Rose," Jack tried to reassure her, but all she did was bite her lip.

Stabbing pains were already coming back to his legs but he ploughed on, determined to complete his task. He could still taste Rose from her last kiss and he was resolute in making it work.

Fatigue and nausea were beginning to take hold again, brought on by the sudden rush. He had to stop for a moment and lean against the wall, wondering how far Rose had got, and if she would make it out. Jack had promised he would make sure that she did, and that was good enough for him.

He was well aware that might have been the last time he'd ever see her, but it hadhad to be done. Thinking of Rose, he pushed himself off of the wall and began to jog once more.

"Doctor!" Jack's voice suddenly yelled and the Doctor whirled around to meet the ex-Time Agent sprinting towards him. The Doctor's eyes widened in shock.

"Did she get out?!" he yelled, hoping and praying Jack hadn't come back to tell him Khthonia had done something. To his utter relief, Jack nodded as he came to a stop infront of him.

"She sent me back to check on you," he answered the Doctor's next question. He wasn't really surprised. "And also to give you this." Jack reached up to the Doctor and took his head into both hands, kissing his forehead. The Doctor looked stunned, and even more so as Jack drew back and grinned. "Actually, that was a lie. I wanted to give you that." Jack didn't even bother to wait for a reply as he took the Doctor's arm and pulled him to run down the corridor.

But they didn't get very far.

"Jack…!" the Doctor moaned, pulling Jack back to stop as the pain began to remount in his legs. "Jack…" He collapsed to the ground, unable to take it any longer as he groaned loudly in pain.

"I'll carry you!" he said quickly, reaching down to take the Doctor already knowing there was no point to it. Within a few seconds there was a bright flash of purple and the Doctor was temporarily blinded, before he heard a loud thud of a fallen body somewhere close to him.

"Jack!" he called in complete ignorance to her, turning over towards the direction of the sound. His vision slowly began to clear and he could see Jack lying across the corridor from him, face down with his eyes closed and smoke radiating eerily out of a hole in his back.

"Sorry sweetie, he's dead," She said without a hint of compassion. The Doctor ignored her, pulling himself up to move over to his best friend with agony coursing through his broken bones. He stumbled over to him, collapsing next to his dead body and quickly checking his pulse. Dead. He readjusted Jack's body to a more comfortable position. She watched him with vague amusement. "And frankly Doctor, soon you'll be sorry you aren't dead too."

"Save it," the Doctor said simply, savouring what he knew to be his last few moments in open space. It wasn't until he actually raised his gaze to her did he realise her womb was no longer swollen, and she held a small baby in her arms. His baby.

"I named her Erida," She carried on,

"Greek Goddess of Hate," the Doctor summed up in a single sentence, letting his head drop back to Jack, who suddenly gasped in air as he launched out a hand to grab the nearest available object, which happened to be the Doctor. His eyes bolted open, sitting up and staring at nothing.

Khthonia watched, a little surprised but the joy was obvious in Her stare.

"How intriguing, a mortal that cannot die," She thought aloud, "you're going to be much more fun than I originally thought."

She suddenly looked back to the Doctor, fixing him with a piercing gaze. Jack could only watch helplessly as She narrowed her eyes slightly and a few moments later the Doctor fell to the floor beside him, unconscious.

"Doctor…" Jack muttered, turning over to look at the Time Lord, feeling Her eyes watching him.

"You won't be seeing each other for some time," She stated, Her eyes locking with his. "A verylong time, in fact."

The last thing he heard before he passed out was her murderous laughter echoing in his ears.

Rose Sigma-Tyler dragged herself out of the moat, shivering with the freezing cold as the air rushed straight through her. Hugging herself, she turned back to the castle and told herself he and Jack would be just fine.

"I love you Doctor," she whispered into the darkness, turning to disappear into the forest.