Chapter rating: M because a certain Captain has a very very dirty mind XD

A/N: AT LAST! Torchwood! 8D (and some humour because I simply can't write Jack without humour somewhere XD)

The Doctor's Child

07. You Are Not Alone

Captain Jack Harkness was not ditching his paperwork, nor was he "napping", no, he was meditating. It always helped him centre himself, meditation. Of course, if his meditation happen to include a very convincing fantasy with Ianto Jones, a bottle of banana daiquiri and a swing, no one had to know!

But anyway, Captain Jack was there, not napping, when the insistent bip of his wrist vortex manipulator brought his sadly to reality, just in time to look totally fresh and appearing to be working, when Gwen Cooper walked in with a frown.

"Jack, it looks like the Rift Movement Detector is acting up. It picked up a trail but it keeps showing the message "He's back"! Is it something important?" She asked him a bit worried.

Jack nearly jumped when he realized exactly who the Rift Detector had, well, detected. He took a look at his Vortex Manipulator, its scan was indicating the same thing.

"It's nothing Gwen, don't worry, just an old friend dropping by! I think I'll go say 'hi'!" Jack replied, putting on his best "I'm cute, let me do what I want" smile, sure, Gwen was more and more immune to it but not completely yet.

He congratulated himself on still "having it" while walking out after reassuring his Welsh friend that there was nothing weird and everything was going to be alright and no, he wasn't going to run away again. But he was forgetting something very important… the Welsh girl wasn't the only one he was working with… and a certain adorable tea-boy calmly joined him as he walked to the SUV.

"Sir, I must ask that you don't go anywhere without me…" The younger man said calmly.

"If you want, Ianto, but it's not that big a deal, just a friend dropping by!" Jack promised, trying his smile again on the man, but this one was already immune to that particular smile, maybe if he broke out the "let met do this and I'll screw you brainless against the closest flat surface… not necessarily horizontal….", it could work?.

"Sir, I must insist…" Ianto continued, his calm behaviour compromised by the odd glint in his eyes, oh, jealousy… this was going to be fun.. NOT.

"All right, but don't read too much on what the Doctor says okay? You've met him, he's… something…" Jack said, unable to find a word to describe the Time Lord.

With another nod, the Welshman and the American got into the car and drove to the coordinates where the Rift Detector had perceived the landing of the T.A.R.D.I.S.

Jack had to blink slightly when he saw a young couple standing in front of the ship, at first glance, the red hair immediately made him think of Donna Noble, but he knew this couldn't be her, he'd kept tabs on all of his old friend's companions and he knew she was living a normal life, her memory wiped clean to save her life. And this girl looked younger (and slimmer) and the boy with her had to be her boyfriend, because it had to be rare to find friends that stood the cheer might of an angry redhead without having been faithfully trained to do so.

Ianto and Jack walked cautiously closer and stopped just far enough not to be immediately spotted, but close enough to hear the end of the conversation.

"No Amy! I really don't think that'd be a good idea!" The boy said with an aggravated sigh.

"Oh and why is that, Rory?" The girl retorted with a strong Scottish accent. "You've seen his face! He bloody well FELL. ON. THE. FLOOR… whatever the news those scans gave him, they were heavy, Rory! I just want to be here for him, he looked so lost!"

"Excuse me? Are you the Doctor's new friends? Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones, old friends of his… what's the matter? Normally the T.A.R.D.I.S. doesn't need a pit stop on the Rift more than once a century or two!" Jack asked, displayed a curious attitude as he tried to hide his smile from the two slightly suspicious companions.

He thought it was kind of cute, seeing the Doctor's newest companion react all puffy and jealous when meeting the older ones.

"Are you really a friend of his?" Amy asked, suspicious as ever.

"Yeah, but you wouldn't have heard too much of me, the Doctor tends not to do well with former flames" Jack replied with a slight wink to the girl, stopping himself from giggling at the shocked and revolted expression on the Scottish's face.

But she quickly came back to the matter at hands and explained succinctly the situation to the two older males. Jack and Ianto traded a look and Ianto nodded as Jack turned back to the couple.

"So, Amy, Rory, right? How about you go to that small café over there with my friend Ianto, I'll go try to make some sense of the situation with the Doctor, okay?" He proposed with a smile.

Amy and Rory exchanged a look of their own and with a bit of hesitation, accepted the offer. Just taking the time to see them go, Jack quickly entered the T.A.R.D.I.S., taking in the new deck theme. He let his eyes roam around and saw quickly the huddled form of the Doctor, standing under the control deck's glass floor and… was he on a swing?... back off hormones, now is really not the time!

Jack walked down to where he could see the Doctor's back swaying on some kind of swing, next to the T.A.R.D.I.S.' heart.

"Doctor? Hello!" He said softly, walking up to the man.

Already from the back, he could see that the man had regenerated again, but his smile turned a bit leering when he was finally able to see him up front.

"Did you realize that every regeneration, you get younger? Do you think next time you'll be a teenager?" Jack asked with a grin.

The Doctor simply smiled weakly at the Immortal before sighing again, his eyes going back down to the bunched up clothe in his hands.

Jack startled badly as he realized his perception mistake. It wasn't some bunched up clothe. It was a tiny BODY enveloped in white clothe! A BABY?

"So who's the happy parent?" The Captain asked hesitantly not really prepared for the mournful and slightly wet puppy dog eyes this new regeneration sent his way.

"Jack… this baby has two hearts and Time Lord regenerative DNA…" The Doctor said in a rough whisper as Jack's eyes widened dramatically. "He's Gallifreyan…"

The 51st century man stared with amazement at the newborn sleeping peacefully in the other man's arms.

"This is unbelievable!" He whispered back, extending his arm to maybe caress the baby's head but aborting the gesture when he saw the Doctor lean in on himself, as if trying to protect the babe. "Do you know what this means, Doctor?"

The Gallifreyan man looked up at his Immortal friend who was smiling his large dashing smile at him.

"Doctor… You are not alone…" The Captain said with a grin that the Doctor couldn't help but share.

They're both so fluffy XD

Review: (n) The best way to spend a banana. IT'S FULL OF POTASSIUM!