AN: I'm on holiday for a week from Saturday so I'm afraid the next update will be next week. However do not fear as I'm taking my laptop and will write the next chapter (maybe even two) whilst I'm there and will post as soon as I return. Enjoy!
Rose opened the TARDIS doors a crack checking the coast was clear before stepping out, Jack in her arms. She had to make sure that no one saw her else the game was up. Jack seemed to realise how dangerous their situation was because he remained silent the whole time Rose was darting down corridors trying to avoid being spotted by anyone.
She managed to find her way around most of the Torchwood building unhindered, until that is, she found that most of the rooms that had anything important in had security codes.
She had to reach the Doctor before they hurt him or worse. Jack couldn't grow up with just his mother. He was half Time Lord for starters, he needed his dad to help him realise everything he could do.
The Doctor convulsed once more, his whole body screaming out in protest. His tortures didn't look like they were going to relent anytime soon. In fact the Doctor found the lack of emotion in Torchwood extremely disturbing considering most of its occupants were human.
The Doctor panted quietly, sweat pouring over his body. The only thing he could hope for was that he regenerated soon. Maybe then they'd leave him be. But what would Rose say? What would Jack say? Would Jack even recognise his on dad? The Doctor didn't have time to contemplate this before he was shot again, his consciousness slipping away.
Rose looked round the corner carefully and pulled her head back sharply when she saw two men heading her way. Jack whimpered in protest as Rose backed away into a corner behind some boxes.
"Shh, baby," Rose whispered, stroking Jack's head gently. "We're going to find Daddy."
Jack stuck his thumb in his mouth, burying his face in Rose's shoulder. When the men had passed Rose stood up and wandered the other way down the corridor, pressing her ear to different rooms in turn wondering which one was her best bet.
Before she could make a decision however she suddenly found herself light headed and had to lean against a wall for support. Something was wrong, really wrong. The Doctor was hurt, badly and Rose knew she'd have to find him soon.
Shaking her head, Rose put a hand to the door just to her right and taking a deep breath opened it. Inside she found a group of scientists discussing something; when she opened the door though they all looked up.
"Umm," Rose swallowed. "Wrong room?"
They all looked at her disbelievingly and she guessed that her ploy hadn't worked.
The Doctor could see nothing but black. The only thing he knew was pain and the occasional sound of voice as they discussed what to do with him next. The only thing that kept him sane was the thought of Rose and Jack needing him.
He tried desperately to rouse himself, to fight back, but nothing he did could make the pain go away. His body was fighting a loosing battle and he knew it wouldn't be long before they forced him to regenerate. He only hoped that Rose and Jack would be prepared enough to accept it.
The scientists had called for back up whilst they held Rose captive and when back up had finally come they had done the worst possible thing. Two big burly men, similar to the ones who'd taken the Doctor away, came and took Jack.
As much as Rose fought and protested, her baby was whisked away in one direction whilst she was dragged in the other. Now she had no thought for anything but saving her child, even the Doctor would have to wait.
She could hear Jack's plaintive cries as he was taken away from his mother and it tore Rose's heart in two. She couldn't stand the thought of her baby being scared and alone.
She didn't pay attention to where she was being taken and when she was finally led into a room and dumped down in a chair she didn't notice the person sitting on the opposite side of the table.
She stood up and tried to make a run for the door, tears streaming down her face as she sobbed for her baby. The men sat her back down again and this time she didn't fight back. She knew it was no use fighting. She was only likely to injure herself and then she'd be no use to Jack.
The guards left locking the room behind them and Rose covered her face with her hands, crying almost uncontrollably. It wasn't until someone said her name that she looked up. The person that met her gaze took her breath away.
"Jack?" She asked, her sobs stopping as quickly as they'd started. Captain Jack Harkness was sat opposite her, very much alive.
The Doctor could feel the burning sensation that meant regeneration was near, coursing through his body. The voices floating through the blackness were talking in animated voices now and the Doctor found his stomach sinking when he heard a very familiar cry.
"Jack?" The Doctor tried to lift his heavy head as he listened intently for the tiny whimpers that his son was uttering from somewhere near by.
"Daddy!" The Doctor pulled against his restrains. That was most defiantly his son. If his son was in the hands of Torchwood then by god there was no force on earth that would stop him shutting them down. Plus if Jack was their captive that meant Rose was as well.
But the Doctor's body had other ideas. It had taken too much of a battering and to have any chance of saving Jack; to have the energy required he was going to have to regenerate.
"What happened?" Asked Rose as she and Jack hugged tightly.
"I went to set the bomb and just before it went off Torchwood transmatted me out," Jack replied the tears rolling down his face. "I found out that it'd been them who'd been trying to get you and the Doctor and the reason they transmatted me away is because they thought I was the Doctor. They'd got the signals mixed up. I've been here for two and a half years trying to figure out where you two were and trying to raise a force strong enough to take Torchwood down. I never thought I'd see you again!"
Rose sobbed again as she clung to Jack tightly.
"Do you remember ages ago, when you met me and the Doctor from the future with our son?" She asked quietly.
"Yup," Jack replied, pulling back to look at her.
"They've got him," Rose said her lip wobbling dangerously. "They've got my baby and the Doctor. You've got to help me Jack."
"I know where they'll have taken the Doctor," Jack said his face suddenly etched with worry. "They'll be trying to force regeneration so they can use the power to create a force field powerful enough to keep even a Dalek under control."
Jack took Rose's hand and led her towards the door, unlocking it with a special I.D tag and running down the corridor only hoping they'd reach the Doctor before it was too late.
"Scuse me, Jack Harkness coming through!" Jack said holding his I.D tag up for people to see. "Torchwood level one clearance."
They swung round and corner and legged it to the room at the end. Jack opened the door once more and they entered just in time to see Yvonne watch with delight through the glass as the Doctor erupted with golden light, his whole body regenerating.
Time seemed to slow down around Rose as she looked from the Doctor changing to her son Jack being held roughly in the arms of a guard and being forced to watch the whole thing.