I do believe this is a new record, 4 chapters in less then a week.(thats like, over 4,000 words!) I have never written that much in such a short time before! Crazy! anywho, this chapter is one that I did struggle with, and I'll bet you'll figure out where, maybe not why, but it worked out in the end. So enjoy!
"Oh no, this is bad, this is very bad..." Gwen didn't understand why Jack continued to repeat this to himself over and over. Jack started to shake Alice, roughly, to awake her from her trance. When she didn't respond, Gwen ran to find anything that would wake her. Jack picked her up from the bed, and started to carry her to follow Gwen. As they dashed around the Torchwood base, they missed the reawakening of Alice in Jack's arms. She was shocked at first, not knowing why she was being carried, and froze. When she realized it was Jack holding her, she reached her hand up and touched his face. Jack, startled, tripped over a box and fell, while holding Alice, into the fountain. Alice squeaked and held on for dear life, while Jack prepared both for impact. With a giant splash, they both landed in shambles in the water. As Alice bobbed back up to the top, she saw Gwen rushing over to aid her. Realizing they'd need towels, She detoured to the cabinet to find some.
"Jack?... Jack?...Jack?" Alice questioned at first, than yelled for him.
She started a panicked search for him in the water. Splashing and yelling, she didn't notice the dark shadow in the water. As she turned around, looking for Jack on the other side of the pool, she screamed. Jack pounced out of the water, grabbed Alice, and dunking her in.
Gwen, hearing all the yelling, hurried back to the pool of water. What she saw when she got there was this; a tall, matured man, her boss, playing water-fight with a sixteen year old girl, in a yellow T-shirt, in a secret facility's fountain water. Sighing with relief, she threw the towels she had collected on a chair, and started toward the door. She knew that Jack never really got time to bond with Alice because of his job. Even if they lived in the same building, he was always busy with something important. So Gwen had decided to take her leave and let the two have some fun with their time.
"You two! Don't you be catching any colds or flues with your horseplay. We need you both healthy if we want Jack to be himself, you know!" Jack flashed her his signature smile, while Alice nailed him in the face with a soaking wet, rolled-up towel, leaving a red mark. They splashed and carried on for almost an hour, laughing, giggling, and just having merriment, which neither had had in a long time.
"Alright, little lady, we need to get you dry. Don't argue. You heard Gwen, no catching the flu." Jack hulled her up on to his shoulder and carried her like a bag of potatoes. Alice pounded him on the back, yelling to be let down, with no success. He grabbed the dry towel for her, Putting her down to dry herself, and went to retrieve one for himself.
"So, Alice, you've had us pretty busy the last couple of hours, what's going on?" He said this as he stripped off his wet shirt and dried out his hair.
"I'm not sure, I think whatever it is though, is falling apart inside me. I feel like I need to be running, hiding, from something; but I'm not sure what." Alice had never really thought about what was going on inside her, it was as if there was a warning system hiding in the back of her mind. She mussed over this as she plopped herself down in her favorite chair, Jack's.
"I'll be alright. I haven't had any serious problems yet, just panic and, apparently, saying things that I don't even know I'm saying. Other then that, I'm pretty normal, not that you can beat that, mister 'I-am-so-wonderful-ever-girl-and-boy-loves-me.'"
"Hey now, don't you be getting sassy with me, I'm not the only one, miss 'left-by-herself-so-I'll-just-leave.'"
"Whatever! I'm still better then you anyway! Besides, if it weren't for me, things wouldn't about to get really interesting."
"And why do you say that?"
"Because last time I looked at this file, there were only three pages, now there's four."
"What?..." Jack came racing across to see what she was talking about. And there, in File 253, was a new page of information. On the page was an equation, long and complicated, but what shocked Jack most about it was how it was arranged; just like the rift equation, with just a few different numbers. Jack picked it up to study it better, just to make sure that it wasn't just a fluke with the equations.
"Hey, Jack, you need to read the back of the paper..." Looking at her face, he decided that what was on the back was much more important than the front. On the flip side was writing in red pen, with long, tall lettering. Jack followed every curve of every swooping letter, reading the note twice. He always had faith in his Doctor, but this wasn't something be wanted from him. On the back of the paper read the words,
'He is coming, he made it through the void and the rift. Jack, watch her like she was your own, or he WILL destroy everything. He is coming.
Signed,
The Doctor and Rose.'
As if that wasn't shocking enough, the rift activity alarm went off, at least, they thought that's what it was. Alice ran over to see what it might be, and froze on spot. Standing right in front of their rift camera was the man himself, someone she thought she'd never see again, the Doctor. And behind his head, and his little bowtie, was a blue police box, the TARDIS.
I just gave you guys the best prize ever, a SURprise! Yay! I hope you did enjoy it, sometimes I think I rush through the plot a bit, and it just sounds sloppy. I'm trying to keep it at a steady pace. If you liked it, please review! I love reviews, and my reviewers love to get mentioned, which is what I also love doing. I just love entertaining, and its more fun with more people! Heres to my reviewers!
BananaLollypop: I find it funny that you're going through the Doctor Who phase, I'm still in mine! Netflix is my summer life right now, because its on there. I just got in on the Matt Smith seasons, and personally, i liked David better... Oh well! Another good BBC I'm watching is Sherlock, oh my gosh, its amazing.
Don't feel bad about school, I am just glad that my school didn't have any snow days, or I would be at school right now, instead of typing up this chapter. So now you have something to look forward to!
xDemonChickx: I am so glad you have returned to us! People never really understand how much they mean to the writer unless the writer tells. I am ever greatful for both of my reviewers, and I'm glad that you enjoyed my lastest chapters!
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