"Song?" Jack repeated.

"That's what I said," Kelly replied, frowning a little. "Why?"

"Did she know anything about her mother? Mia's?"

"No. She was abandoned at the orphanage when she was a baby."

"Was she told why?"

"She's powerful," Kelly answered. "That's all she knew."

"Of course. They'd do anything to get their hands on one – again. Sit down, Kelly."

She sat.

"Can we have a few minutes alone?" Jack asked the rest of the team.

"Behave yourself," said Gwen quite teasingly, leaving first. Toshiko, Ianto and Owen followed, the latter two glancing back as they did so.

"Mia's a time-lord," Jack said, sitting down also.

"And what is it?" Kelly asked.

"Alien," Jack stated the obvious first. "From the planet Gallifrey. Two hearts; thirteen lives."

"Thirteen lives?"

"Yup," Jack smiled. "She'll live a thousand years at least. Her father did, and the amount of danger he got himself into …"

"You know her?" Kelly queried.

"Her parents. I think. He's got to be her father; he's the only one left. Well, not anymore, I suppose."

"Do you know how I can contact her?" Kelly asked.

"I'm sorry, no," said Jack. "She could be anywhere in time or space," he ignored Kelly's gasp of shock. "Best bet is to stay here. He's got to come here to refuel some time. I just can't guarantee that it'll be the right Doctor."

"What do you mean, 'the right Doctor'?"

"I told you. Thirteen lives. He was on his tenth last time I saw him. Though he can't have had a daughter then, he would've mentioned it."

There was a short silence, during which Kelly watched Jack think.

"It might be his eleventh … yes, it must be, from what River said …"

"Who's River?"

"Doctor River Song. Archaeologist. Almost as good as me."

"Aren't you the modest one?" Kelly muttered. "And she's related to Mia how, exactly?"

"Mother, as far as I'm aware."

"So she's this Doctor's wife?"

Jack pondered her question for a moment. "Possibly. She never really struck me as the kind of person to get married …"

"But she's Mia's mother?" Kelly asked.

"Must be. It's not exactly a very common name, is it?"

Kelly shook her head. "So how do you know River?"

"We met a few years ago," Jack told her. "Though it might not be that long ago for her."

"How?"

"Time travel. If she's still got that vortex manipulator, it'd be easy. If she hasn't, there's always the TARDIS."

"Any explanations as to what either of them are?"

"A space hopper and a sports car, as the Doctor said," he smiled. "This is a vortex manipulator."

He placed a device that looked rather like an overlarge watch on the table. "Put it onto your wrist, key in wherever you want to go in time or space, and away you go."

"The TARDIS is a spaceship-time machine, if you like," he continued, as she examined the vortex manipulator with interest. "It's broken," he added. "The manipulator. So don't bother trying to sneak off with it to visit your sister."

"I don't know where she is, anyway," Kelly sighed. "Go on."

"It stands for Time and Relative Dimension in Space. It's disguised as an old police telephone box from way back. It's pretty easy to spot. Big blue box. Chances are Mia'll be with him, in the TARDIS. And there's nowhere safer for her – until she steps outside."

He seemed amused by Kelly's intrigued and worried face.

"What do you mean, until she steps outside?"

"The kinds of trouble the Doctor lands himself in," Jack shook his head with a smile. "And anyone with him gets dragged in. Rose is stuck on a parallel world. Donna had her memory wiped – if she remembers she'll die. Martha was the smart one; she got out before she ended up dead. And I die all the time."

"How exactly are you alive, then?" Kelly asked him.

"Immortal. Thanks to Rose. I was killed by a Dalek – another alien, not as good, unfortunately – and she absorbed the time vortex and brought me back to life … forever."

He rubbed his forehead.

"So you and Owen are almost in the same boat," Kelly murmured.

"We're both dead, yes," Jack sighed. "But at least I can still live. He can't."

Deciding to draw away from the subject, Kelly asked, "So there's no way I can contact Mia?"

"Not unless there's some form of miracle and her father answers the phone," Jack snorted, though he pulled out a mobile phone and handed it to Kelly. "It's ringing."

She pressed it to her ear.

"Hello?" a Scottish woman's voice asked.

"Hey!" another voice came from the background; male this time. "It's my phone! You're not meant to answer it!"

"You never answer it!" the Scottish woman argued. "Hello?"

"Hello," Kelly said. "Who are you?"

"Amy Pond. Who wants to know?"

"Amy Pond?" Kelly mouthed to Jack, who shrugged.

"I'm Kelly Rhodes," said Kelly. "You wouldn't have a girl travelling with you, would you?"

"You mean Mia?" Amy questioned. "You're the girl she keeps talking about, aren't you? From the orphanage?"

"Yes, I am," Kelly said, with a smile. "Is she there?"

"Yeah. MIA!"

"WHAT?" came the distant voice that Kelly recognised. Her smile grew.

"PHONE!"

"WHO IS IT?"

"KELLY!"

There was the sound of feet, and then Mia's voice.

"Kelly?"

"Hello sis."

Basically just a little Q&A chapter. Heading back to Mia's POV now.