Welcome To Torchwood!
Chapter Four
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Note: Okay, so I decided to cut this chapter short, because I'm tired and cold and you all want this. The 'Next Time' from the last chapter is going into the next chapter. –cringes- sorry you have to wait a bit more!
Excuse me, Dan Cowie – Jack is NOT obsessed with Rose! You have some issues man.
Dedicated to: Dan (Just so I can prove it that Captain Jack Harkness is NOT obsessed with Rose Tyler) and I-Confuse-Everyone who asked for a decent snog. I have no idea how I'm going to do that, but I can try (and who is going on my updated people I thank list as soon as I get the time – probably never, but you're thought of, so you can't razz me about it anymore).
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Previously…"We need you here!" Gwen blurted before she could stop herself. "We need you more than… the Doctor… or Rose! We need you… I need you – " Afraid she had said to much, Gwen whirled around and ran out of the strange blue box that was just too weird for her anyway; no matter who was in it.
Jack blinked a few times, totally taken aback. Then he smiled.
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Jack spun round as several people began making large noises as they trouped inside the TARDIS, and noticed the stunned silence that followed soon afterward. Grinning, he step forward and slapped Ianto on the shoulder. "This, my friends… is the TARDIS," he told them all proudly.
"Yeah, I was just going to say that," the Doctor butted in, sighing. "Thanks for taking my entry line."
"You said to me, so you shouldn't feel so miserable," Rose reminded him, giving him a smile and a pat on the cheek.
The Doctor turned around and grinned softly at her. "True," he replied, as he took her in his arms, leaning down to gently snog her.
"Okay, okay, enough," Jack said after a while when they were still snogging and wouldn't stop. "We have innocents here among us today," he said pointedly, looking in the direction of Ianto and Gwen.
"Excuse me?" Gwen asked with incredulity. "Don't get me started on what me and my boyfriend get up to – "
"I think that's enough," Tosh interrupted, though smiling kindly at Gwen.
"Too much info," Owen agreed.
"RIGHT," Jack responded after a few moments of silence when the Doctor and Rose simply chose to ignore him, doing their own thing. "Guys? 'Hullllo?" He gave a sigh. "I am so going to regret this." With that he barrelled towards them – and just at the last second Rose and the Doctor separated and Jack flew between them and into the wall of the TARDIS loudly.
Rose burst out laughing while the Doctor cocked his amused grin while the team grinned and tried to hold back their laughs and smiles by coughing and hiding their faces behind their hands.
"Ooh, that was good," Rose said grinning to the Doctor as he came over, but before he could wrap his arms around her again, Jack got up and came over swiftly, pulling her from the Doctor's grasp.
"Whatcha doing Jack?" Rose asked, a mischievous glint in her smouldering brown eyes.
"As much as I regret saying this, I have better things to do today then watch you two snog. Doctor, can I talk to you for a moment?" Jack requested. The Doctor reluctantly nodded and Rose grinned at him, walking over to the Captain's bench and casually taking a seat. She watched as Jack and the Doctor talked at the far side, and then she turned to Toshiko, Owen, Ianto and Gwen who were very quietly and very carefully going around the TARDIS console room, casually checking out this and that and found themselves amazed.
"I wouldn't touch that, if I were you," Rose called to Owen, who looked like he was about to push a giant big red threatening button. Owen simply smirked and looked up at Rose, his eyebrows furrowed. He couldn't believe that a girl was telling him what to do.
"I'm not stupid," he muttered in her direction.
The Doctor looked over behind Owen's shoulder and grinned at Rose.
"Could've fooled me," she countered airily, a slight smile on her face.
Owen blinked.
"She's right, you know. Don't, under any circumstances, touch that button. Go… eat a banana or something," the Doctor said to Owen.
Owen scowled and walked over to see what Tosh was doing.
"Yeah, I can do that…" the Doctor was saying loudly, so Rose could hear fine. Jack mumbled something and nodded in her direction. "You sure, Jack?" the Doctor asked. He received a firm nod. "Okay, but I get…" Rose heard a laugh and watched as her lover and friend shook hands firmly. "Done," she heard the Doctor say in an equally firm voice.
Rose's curiosity was aroused as she looked over at Jack and the Doctor. What were those two planning?
Gwen walked over to her on the seat and gestured hesitantly to the couch. "Can I have a seat?"
"Sure," Rose replied warmly, patting the seat beside her.
"Do you know what Jack and the Doctor were talking about when you came over to introduce yourself to me?"
Rose's gaze sharpened as she looked into Gwen's eyes. Gwen saw a spark of… was that sadness?
"I'm sorry if it's a sore subject," Gwen said quickly, ready to change the subject at any given moment.
"What are you talking about?"
Gwen blinked. "Umm… you seemed so… sad."
Rose looked at Gwen questioningly. "I don't feel sad. I feel fine. And to answer your question, no, I don't know what they were talking about. I really don't care."
"Aren't you the slightest bit curious?" Gwen asked.
"Sure, but…" Rose hesitated. "Sometimes it's better not to know," she whispered in a far away voice… as if she had learned.
"Maybe," Gwen replied slowly. She was about to say more when Jack and the Doctor both started spinning around the console panel, pressing buttons and turning switches. She turned to Rose. "What are they doing?" she asked, puzzled. "They look like lunatics!"
Rose simply smiled and laughed, clapping her hands in delight. Above all the weird and wacked out conversations, the thrill of stepping onto new ground with her friends, the joy of making jokes during a run-for-your-life sprint, Jack and the Doctor's excitement and delight at flying the TARDIS topped it all. She had missed this. It just wasn't the same without Jack.
When Jack beckoned to her with a grin on his face, Rose laughed again and stood up to walk over to him. Gwen hesitated, not sure if that include her or not. She felt the heat rushing to her face as Jack nodded to the Doctor, who pushed a few sequences in. Stepping back, Jack held out a hand to Rose. The song "Moonlight Serenade" began to play. Music. Music that obviously held memories for both of them; given the way Rose smiled, laughed softly and without hesitation put her hand on his shoulder and rested her head on his shoulder, and Jack sighed just as softly and wrapped his arm firmly around her waist, murmuring something like, "Do you remember…?" in her ear.
Rose gave a delighted laugh and murmured something back that was too quiet for Gwen to hear. The Doctor apparently heard it, and grinned along with Jack.
Gwen got the feeling that she was intruding – she didn't like the feeling – and she glanced over at Owen, Tosh and Ianto who were staring wide-eyed at Jack and Rose. She sidled over to Owen, leaned forward and tapped him on the shoulder. He ignored her, so she asked, "What is it?"
"I didn't know Jack could dance," Toshiko replied for him.
"I didn't think Jack would ever want to dance. He's seen so much…" Ianto's voice faded.
Owen just stared at them, disbelief written all over his face as he watched Jack dip Rose.
"What?" Gwen asked him again. "Owen? Are you there?" she teasingly waved a hand in front of his face and he shot around and glared at her. Gwen laughed. "It's rude to stare," she pointed out.
Owen sighed and shook his head at her before turning back to the couple that were still dancing.
"Moonlight Serenade" ended and a boppy tune came on.
Rose laughed again with delight as Jack gently moved her over to the Doctor and they stared to bop around, Jack now sitting in the chair, out of the way and grinning madly as he laughed.
Rose kind of went 'Wooh!' as the Doctor dipped her and swung her back up again.
"Oh, that was fun," she told them both, grinning. "Thanks, guys." And as a token of her appretiation, she ran up to Jack, gave him a hug and then ran over to the Doctor who picked her up and swirled her around before snogging her.
"Anything for you, my angel," he whispered and she giggled, content being held against his chest.
"Okay, that was really cheesy. And I thought I was the cheesy one. I mean, who ends a day by saying, 'go home, eat lasagne, kiss your boyfriend. Do that for me.'?"
"You do, Jack," Owen, Tosh, Ianto and Gwen all said at once.
Jack shrugged. "Meh." He grinned as he turned to his team. "You should have seen me when I was travelling with these two – "
"He was full of it, he was," Rose interrupted, nodding.
Jack grinned again. "I had a good reason."
"Oh yeah?"
"There was a very beautiful girl to impress."
"Aww, so sweet. However, Captain, flattery only works if there's an element of truth to it," Rose told him, still grinning.
"I'm serious," Jack protested.
"Modest she is," the Doctor agreed.
"Wait just a minute. Doctor, what am I?"
"My beautiful angel," he responded immediately, giving her a hug.
"To which I respond by smiling and allowing him to snog me," Rose told the others grinning, as the Doctor did just that.
"Where's mine?"
"Jack – wait, you were talking to the Doctor, weren't you?" Rose guessed, finally picking up.
Jack laughed. "You know me too well, minx."
"No, I just know you well enough. No one can know you too well, Jack, for your full of unexpected surprises at every turn," Rose corrected affectionately as she smiled at her friend.
"But you like me better that way," Jack added, smiling back.
"Wouldn't have it any other," Rose immediately replied, beaming.
"Oh, and I'm not obsessed with you, Rose."
Rose blinked. "Where did that come from?"
"Oh, just an inkling I had that someone (-cough- Dan –cough-) thinks that I am obsessed with you, so don't get any ideas. I'm not."
"Okay, good."
"Brilliant."
"I'm supposed to say that," the Doctor protested.
"You can say it now," Jack suggested.
"Okay… brilliant!"
"Right…"
"Rose, why don't you find everyone rooms for the rest of the day?" the Doctor suggested to Rose.
"Sure, Doctor," she said brightly and suddenly grinned at Jack. "Your room is still there, bud."
"Fantastic."
"Hey…"
"Sorry," Jack said hastily before the Doctor could make any more comments. "Be back in a joff." He ran into one of the corridors and down to his old room.
"Doctor, rooms? Or does it matter?"
"You be the judge, Rose. The TARDIS is more than half yours now," he replied with a grin that melted her insides.
"You spoke with her? And she's okay with it? She doesn't have any problems? She doesn't mind? She said yes?" Rose asked breathlessly, daring to believe him.
"YES! Now go on," the Doctor replied laughing as he shoved Rose out the door into the corridor.
Rose began walking gleefully down the hallway and the rest of the team followed her… through the ship that seemed to have no end.
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A/N: hope you like.