Hello? Is anyone still out there? I don't blame you guys if you stopped reading long ago, I really feel bad that it has been taking me so long to update. I just got a bit depressed, which led to a massive case of writters block.

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Chapter 6 - Jack

Laura was making her way to Jackie's Cafe after a hectic day at work. She was preoccupied with a text message she had just received from her boss, reminding her to pick up the coffee on her way to work tomorrow. She was about to press send on her reply, when she felt herself collide with someone else, knocking her to the ground.

Her cell phone and the papers in her hands went flying everywhere. She looked up and saw a handsome young man trying to gather all of her papers. He had brown hair, and a handsome face. He was wearing a blue coat like those worn by people in the army during world war 2. Once he had gathered all of her papers, he stood up and offered her his hand. She accepted it, and as soon as she was on her feet, he smiled, "This isn't how I usually introduce myself to beautiful young ladies, such as yourself," he began, but he was inerupted by a growling noise coming from a couple blocks down the street. "Thought I shook them," he said, sounding a bit annoyed. Turning back to her he said one word, one single word that made her hearts skip a beat, "Run!" he said taking her hand and beginning to run down the street. For one split second her mind wandered back to one of the many times The Doctor had uttered that word to her, and she was back with him and The Master in the tardis. Another growl from down the street pulled her back to reality.

After turning several corners and many near collisions, the man stopped abruptly, causing Laura to run into him. "I think we lost them," he said with a smile before adding, "I'm Captain Jack Harkness."

"I'm Laura," she stated, "This may be an odd question, but what are we running from?"

"Your going to think that I am completely crazy, but were running from giant alien snail-men," Jack said with a totally strait face.

"Snailurians?" Laura asked before quickly realizing her mistake and adding, "I mean, How giant are we talking about?"

He stared at her for a few moments before saying, "Pretty big." Just then, another deep growl filled the air, closer this time. Jack grabbed her hand, and took off running again. They ran a couple blocks before he stopped abruptly, "I need to find some way of stopping them."

"Snail's bodies contain large amounts of water, so their skin is wet and porous. If you add salt on one side of the skin it creates an osmotic pressure. Thus, to dilute the salt, water travels through the skin membrane shrinking the snails volume." As soon as the words left her mouth, she realized her mistake, "I mean... thats what my grandmother... Dorothy, used to say, when she had snails in her garden, eating her lettuce." She studied his face, trying to see if she had managed to fool him, but she was sure that she hadn't, he was too smart for that.

"Okay," he said thoughtfully, "Follow me, I think that there is a cafe a couple streets over." With that they set out, at a somewhat, less hurried pace, for the cafe.

Once there, they got things ready. Stood by one of the patio tables, all they could do now was wait.

"So, Jack, how did you get tangled up in this?" She asked as she leaned over one of the chairs.

"It's a long story," he stated, turning to watch as a young woman and her two children ran by, and then turned back to face her.

"I've got nothing but time," she answered with a smirk.

"What a touching scene," a deep, rhaspy voice inteuupted their conversation, "Who's your friend Jack." They both looked up to see a huge snailurian.

"Laura, my name's Laura," She responded, realising instantly that she shouldn't have responded because she shouldn't have understood. Now both Jack and these aliens knew she wasn't a typical human. Jack shot her a confused look while the snailurian studied her curiously.

"Your not human," The snail began, but much to Laura's reliefe Jack didn't seem to be listening and cut him off.

"Leave this planet and I won't have to hurt you," He ordered.

The snail watched him for a moment before letting out a deep throaty chuckle. Jack sighed and gave the signal, two boys that Jack had payed to stay and help started throwing glasses full of salt down from the roof. The snail let out a growl of pain. Laura motioned for them to stop and the two boys compliead. She walked up to the snailurian, and bent down so that only it could hear her, "Tell your men to leave, you shouldn't have come here in the first place."

"I know who you are, you shouldn't be alive," He responded as he crumbled to the pavement.

"Your right," She said calmly.

"Are you protecting this planet?" He asked calmly. After she nodded he pushed a button on his weapon. "You don't remember do you? The last time we met?" He asked weakly.

"No, I..." She stopped, for the first time she noticed the scar under the snailurians eye, "Kreed?"

He smiled, "You said you like Earth, I wanted to come and see what was so great."

"You can't just invade a planet for fun," She replied as a tear rolled down her cheek. She watched as his eyes closed and his body slowly disintegrated. She stood up and turned back to Jack, "I think the threat is over." She blinked away the tears in an attempt to hide how upset she was.

Jack nodded, "You should go home." She complied and began walking home. Jack studied her as she walked away. Something wasn't right about her, and he was going to find out what it was.