"Jack!" the Doctor roared, as he stepped out of the TARDIS, followed by a very confused Martha and Donna. He glared at the Torchwood staff that had come running at the sound of the TARDIS materializing inside the Hub.
"Doctor… what a surprise… I guess you just couldn't keep away from me in the end," Jack said, patronizingly oblivious to the infuriated look on the Doctor's face. "Good to see you again Martha and WHO is this?" Jack continued eyeing Donna.
"Stop it Jack," the Doctor hissed as Jack looked up, finally noticing the Doctor's mood.
"What's wrong Doc?" Jack asked taken aback by the look in the Doctor's eyes.
"You know perfectly well what's wrong..." the Doctor hissed as he took a step towards Jack. "You and your meddling almost destroyed my ship! What the hell did you do to the rift that it interrupted the vortex and almost got us all killed and got the universe close to being torn apart! You and your bloody meddling…." the Doctor ranted to a confused Jack.
"Wait, Doctor," Jack said, and was ignored as the Doctor continued to rant about his idiocy and complete disregard for everything and everyone around him.
"Doctor…" he tried again with the same response.
"DOCTOR!" he yelled, finally gaining the Doctor's attention.
"I didn't do it! I have no idea what you are talking about, there has been almost no rift activity for WEEKS and we haven't touched anything, especially not anything that would have had any affect on the vortex!" Jack practically yelled.
The Doctor's anger melted away, leaving him looking very confused and slightly sheepish.
"Really… well …sorry 'bout that, I was sure it was rift activity that was affecting the vortex, if that wasn't you then who was it?" the Doctor said as he pondered this new information.
"I need to do some scans. Come on back to the TARDIS, sorry about that Jack won't bother you again." The Doctor said as he turned towards the TARDIS.
Jack took a step forward. "Doctor, what's going on?"
"Nothing you need to worry about," the Doctor replied absent-mindedly as he continued to walk back to the TARDIS.
"Yes, it does concern me 'cause in your little rant just then you said something about the universe almost being ripped apart. I think that DOES concern me so you'd better tell me what is going on!" Jack said as he faced the Doctor, determined not to be brushed off. The Doctor, realising that he would never be able to leave unless Jack had his way, sighed and quickly explained what had happened in the time vortex.
"… Now that you know I'll be off" the Doctor said as he turned once again to leave.
"I'm coming with you," Jack said confidently. "This is something big and you're going to need all the help you can get! There is no way that I'm going to be left behind, so why don't we simplify things and you just agree now."
The Doctor once again realized that this was a fight that he was not going to win. "Fine you can come but we have to go now the longer what ever is doing this is allowed to continue the worse the damage will be." The Doctor said sighing with defeat.
With that the Doctor lead the way back to the TARDIS closely followed by Martha and Jack with Donna trailing behind, resolving to bully the Doctor inside the TARDIS into telling her who this new guy was and why he was coming with them.
As the group disappeared into the TARDIS and it slowly disappeared, the Torchwood staff where left standing dumbfounded, each wondering the same two questions. "Who the hell were they, and what the hell just happened?"