Chapter 10:

Fix it Jack/Bad Wolf

By: Izzy

She walked mindlessly into her room, her head was pounding. She knew she needed to talk to the Doctor but the thought scared her even more than the pain in her head. She knew the things she said she couldn't explain, so how was she going to? Or avoid the issue as she always did. Somehow she knew avoiding this wasn't going to be easy. She sighed, and rubbed her face. The TARDIS hummed pleasantly in her head.

"Jess, what am I gonna do?" she asked. She sighed as she moved to her sofa and leaning back, closing her eyes. "He is going to ask questions I can't answer."

All you can do is try and talk to him, Jess said.

"You're right," Rhiannon said. She opened her eyes and looked around. "Wait a minute, I heard you in my mind."

Yes you did, Jess said. That's because I boasted your psychic power so you can here me.

"But why don't you do that for the Doctor?" Rhiannon asked. "Isn't that dangerous?"

Not dangerous and because it won't work with him, Jess said. Rhiannon was throughly confused. Plus talking to you is more fun. She heard Jess laugh in her mind. Back to your first question. You need to tell him the truth.

"Yeah," Rhiannon said rolling her eyes. "The truth will set you free." She shook her head. "Tell him that in my dimension there is a show called 'Doctor Who' and it's all about your life, however in it you never meet me."

No, you freaking idiot! Jess exclaimed. The other truth. How your unlucky number is six and as the sixth month approaches you are feeling insecure.

"But that isn't the full reason I am feeling insecure," Rhiannon said. "But that is partly true. Six is my unlucky number. But that doesn't a count for everything I said."

It a counts for most of it. Jess replied. If he asks about the other stuff say you don't remember saying it.

"But that would be lying I remember everything," Rhiannon said. "I promised that if he asked me I would never lie."

You may not have too. Jess said with great amusement in her voice. Jack is going to talk to him on your be half. I think you should go and listen.

"OK," Rhiannon said as she walked out of her room to see Jack walking around the corner to the console room. She followed behind but stayed back enough so that she could hear but was unseen by both men.

"Doctor," Jack said. "I need to talk to you."

"What?" the Doctor said gruffly. She could tell by his tone of voice that he was not happy.

"Why haven't you gone to go check on Rhee?" Jack asked.

"Well why haven't you?" the Doctor retorted.

"She's not my girl," Jack said. "Plus I honestly thought she was in here with you."

"Nope," the Doctor said. "I haven't seen her since Blon was turned into an egg. Speaking of we will be at Raxacoricofallapatorius in an hour."

"She is hurting Doctor," Jack said. There was a long pause. She started to panic that the Doctor was going to lash out on Jack she moved so she could peek into the console room. She saw the look on the Doctor's face, he was afraid.

"I know," the Doctor said sadly. "Depression. About her past."

"And she's insecure," Jack said. "She just lost her family two years ago. Even to us humans that is a small amount of time."

"But how do I help her?" the Doctor asked. "How do I make her feel secure about us?"

"If it was me I would take her somewhere she'd love," Jack said.

"Somewhere she'd love?" the Doctor repeated.

"Yeah," Jack said happily. "We both know how much she loves Japan. I mean she speaks Japanese after all."

"Yeah," the Doctor said still sounding and looking sad. "But why did she think Rose and I are the ones that deserve to be together?"

"Well she has told me and Rose that she feels that Rose is prettier," Jack said.

"Rhee is fantastic," the Doctor said. She smiled and she placed her right hand over the necklace that he gave her. "I just wish she'd see that."

"Show her," Jack said simply. "Take her to Japan without me, and show her the Feudal Era."

"The Feudal Era?" the Doctor asked. "Why then?"

"Her favorite anime," Jack said. "It takes place in the Feudal Era."

"What's her favorite anime?" the Doctor asked.

"Inuyasha," Jack said with a smile. She couldn't see the smile but she could hear it in his voice, it was his cheeky 'I'm so impressive' smile. She sighed quietly.

"I don't know that one," the Doctor said.

"It's about a 15 year old girl that falls down a well and through time," Jack said. "She meets a half-demon boy and falls in love with him."

"At 15?" the Doctor asked.

"Well the falling in love took a while," Jack laughed at the Doctor's reaction. "You should watch it with her one day."

"She's never asked me to," the Doctor said sadly. "Did she ask you to watch it with her?"

"No," Jack said. "She was watching it in her room and I was going to get her for some exercise and I got sucked in." Jack laughed. "She restarted the whole anime for me since I didn't know what was going on."

"It's a love story?" the Doctor asked. "I thought she hated romance stories."

"Well she doesn't hate all them," Jack said. "She just hates most of them. She says love is not like that in real life. Real love is hard work."

"She's right," the Doctor said. "Go get her. We're about to land." She heard that and ran back to the door way of her room. Jack came back around the corner and saw her standing there.

"You were listening," he stated.

"No I wasn't," she said.

"You're not a good liar," he smiled at her. "You're smiling from ear to ear." He was right and she couldn't help it. She was happy that the Doctor wasn't mad at her just worried about them as a couple.

"That is only one of my favorite anime by the way," she said smugly. "I like lots of anime."

"I know," he said. "But it is in your top 10."

"I'll grant you that," she said as she tried to contain her happiness. She took a deep breath and nodded. He led her into the console room. "Hello, Doctor." She suddenly felt nervous about this, and she didn't know why. The Doctor just told Jack that he was worried about her not mad.

"Hi, Rhee," he said.

"I'm sorry," she said. "I was not myself." She sighed. He stayed quiet and the TARDIS hummed in her mind trying to get her to continue. "I had a nightmare again. It was about losing you and I couldn't deal with it so I drank." She was trying not to remember the details of either of the nightmares she had that night.

"You should have woke me up," he said as she walked closer to her and she to him. "I would've reassured you that I'm not going anywhere so long as you'll have me."

"I know but," she started and he put his finger on her lips as she has done him so many times before. She smiled beneath his finger.

"No buts," he said with a loving but serious look on his face. "Talk to me. I know I say I don't do domestics but for you I'm willing to break a few rules. Even a few of my own." She searched his eyes to see if there was doubt or if it was a lie. She found neither and was over joyed. He removed his finger and leaned in and kissed her. She kissed him back. He pulled her close and both forgot that Jack was even still in the console room.

"Aw, you two are just so sweet," Jack said. They broke the kiss and Rhiannon turned away from the Doctor, blushing.

"Rhee," he said. She turned back to him. "Before we go to Raxacoricofallapatorius, will you come with me?" She nodded. He grabbed her hand with a smile on his face. He led her back into the depths of the TARDIS. And the TARDIS remained quiet about where he was taking her, so she waited. He stopped her in front of a set of double doors. "Close your eyes." She did as was told. She heard the doors open and he placed his large hand on the small of her back which made her shiver. He guided her into the room. "Stop here." She heard the doors close. Then a large click sound and bright lights turned on. "Open your eyes." The excitement in his voice was underwhelming.

"Wow," was all she could say, upon opening her eyes. It was a large stage and a couple tables. But the stage was beautiful red curtains with golden trim, the floor of the stage was redwood, the microphone was an 1980s microphone, and the back drop was a cosmos. "You made this for me?"

"Yeah," he said. "I love to hear you sing. I thought you needed a proper stage to sing to me and other companions we'll have."

"Want me to sing to you now?" she asked.

"Do you want to sing to me?" he asked with a cheeky grin on his face.

"Sure," she said. "Any requests?" She got up on the stage.

"The first thing you think of," he said. He took a seat in a chair in the front so he could see her best. She nodded and the TARDIS began to play 'Mummers Dance' by Loreena McKennitt. She began to sing right on cue and he again was blown away by her voice and the passion she sings with.

Jack walked in shortly after she started singing, he had never heard her sing, he was blown away with how good she was. A woman of many talents. She exercises with him, studies with the Doctor, writes love stories for Rose, and sings. Rhiannon is so talented Jack was in awe of his best friend. But he had to be honest with himself, she meant more to him than a simple best friend, she was like his older sister. Older sister he liked that thought, he didn't have any family left so Rhiannon was welcome to be his family. Then a thought crossed his mind, if she was his older sister that means the Doctor was Jack's brother-in-law. He snicker at the thought.

She finished singing and dancing on the stage, she smiled at the Doctor as he clapped and whistled. Jack joined the Doctor in praising her. "That was fantastic!" the Doctor said.

"I didn't know you liked to sing Rhee," Jack said. "You're terrific!" She blushed at all the praise she was getting.

"Thanks guys," she said. "But sadly I need to go shower before we got to Raxacoricofallapatorius." She got off the stage and left the room.

"I'm glad she's OK," Jack said.

"I'm still worried," the Doctor said. "She isn't dealing with the problem." Jack sighed, they both knew this is how she was. She hides instead of dealing with her problems, but Jack knew part of the problem that the Doctor must never know. Foreknowledge is a bad thing.

"She wouldn't talk to me about it either," Jack said. "She told me she wanted to tell you, but I think she is afraid of that part of herself."

"What could she have done that is so bad for her to feel that way?" the Doctor asked. Little did the boys know that the woman they spoke of was on the other side of the door listening. She sighed, she needed to tell them and talking about it once was better than multiple times. She walked back into the room.

"I was married once before Matt," she said. They looked at her in shock.

"There's more to it than that, right?" Jack asked. She nodded.

"His name was Micheal," she started. "He abused me and had me doing things I regret." She took a deep breath and let it out slowly trying to keep a hold on her emotions. "Then after doing all this to me he called me a slut and told me I wasn't worth the trouble I put him through." The Doctor took a breath this time and let it out slowly as anger gripped him tightly.

"So you married this guy first?" Jack asked. She nodded again.

"He was my first husband," she said. "They say you marry your father." She sighed, and that made the Doctor's control over his anger snap.

"You mean to tell me your father made you do those kinds of things too?" he asked almost yelling.

"No," she said. He relaxed a bit. "But he told me I was worthless and that I wouldn't do anything with my life." That did it he was in full Oncoming Storm mode. He knew since she was from another universe that he couldn't go give either men a piece of his mind but that didn't stop him from wanting to do it. Universes be damned. He took a deep breath and let it out slowly. He looked up at her face and his hearts broke, she was concerned for him. Here she just told him that her whole life has been filled with abuse and she was concerned for him. "Are you alright Doctor?"

"Are you alright?" he asked. "You're the only that went through that not me."

"I'm mostly fine," she said with a sad smile. "It's in the past. It's just once in a while I get hit with nightmares and they bring back doubts. Fears. After six months most of my relationships head down hill fast." He got up from the table and hugged her as she started to silently cry, not because of the past but because of their future. She wanted him to hold her forever, but it was short lived because the TARDIS made the groaning that let everyone know they had arrived. He moved away from her.

"Well you best hurry," he said with a goofy smile that made her smiled brightly at him. She ran down the hall to her room. She sat out an outfit she wanted to wear, a red shirt, black mini skirt, and black flats. She swiftly showered but when she got out her outfit she had chosen was replaced by a emerald green sun dress but the black flats were still there.

"What are you playing at?" she asked. She was met with no answer. She sighed and dressed in the sun dress and flats. She met the guys in the console room.

They got back from Raxacoricofallapatorius unscathed. Well a side from mental scaring. "I swear if one more of them hugged me I was going to find a way to make vinegar," Rhiannon huffed. They guys laughed at her and her huffiness. Suddenly a bright light came from behind her and she shallowed hard as panic spread across her face. The Doctor's face mirrored hers. She blacked out.

She woke up in a dark room and for a moment she for got what was going on. "What in the world is going on?" she said, as she tried to stand but failed falling back to her knees.

"It's all right. It's the transmat." Rodrick said. "Does your head in. Get a bit of amnesia. What's your name? "

"Rhiannon." she said.

"Just remember do what the android says." he said. "Don't provoke it. The android's word is law.

"Positions, everyone! Thank you!" the floor manager called.

"Come on, hurry up." he said as he helped her to her feet fully. "Steady, steady."

"I was with the Doctor and Jack." she said as she finally remembered what was going on. She shallowed hard. One of the moments she had been dreading. The Weakest Link.

"That's enough chat." the floor manager said. "Positions! Final call! Good luck! Anne droid activated!"

"Yay," Rhiannon said with great sarcasm in her voice. "The Anne droid."

"Welcome to The Weakest Link!" Anne said.

"Seventeen, sixteen, fifteen." the floor manager said. "Thank you, people. Transmitting in twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, and cue!

"Let's play The Weakest Link." Anne said. "Start the clock. Agorax, the name of which basic food stuff is an anagram of the word 'beard'?"

"Bread." Agorax said.

"Correct." Anne said. "Fitch in the Pan Traffic Calendar, which month comes after Hoob?"

"Is it Clavadoe?" Fitch said.

"No," Anne said, "Pandoff. Rhiannon, in maths, what is 258 minus 158?"

"One hundred," Rhiannon said simply.

"Correct." Anne said. "Rodrick." Rhiannon got the same amount wrong that Rose did. And Rodrick did the same to. She sighed heavily.

"Oh, my God!" Rodrick exclaimed. "I've done it! You've lost!" Rhiannon didn't throw a fit she knew that it was no use.

"Rodrick, you are the strongest link," Anne said. "You will be transported home with one thousand six hundred credits."

"Oh, thank you, thank you so much." he said. The Doctor came running in right on cue. She smiled sadly at him.

"Rhee!" he yelled panic laying claim over his voice. "Stop this game!"

"Rhiannon, you leave this life with nothing." Anne said.

"Stop this game!" Jack yelled with just as much panic as the Doctor.

"I order you to stop this game!" the Doctor demanded.

"You are the weakest link." Anne said.

"Look out for the Anne Droid, it's armed!" Rhiannon shouted to them but stayed put because she knew that moving was no use. She sighed. The Doctor watched as the beam turned her into dust. He felt dead inside. She was gone, the only woman to steal his hearts. He wanted to cry but he was so dead inside not even tears would flow. He didn't hear anything going on around him. He even didn't feel anything when the man grabbed him from behind and escorted him to a cell. As the guards processed them he felt Rhiannon in the back of his mind again. He couldn't believe it, so he reached out to make sure that he was not dreaming.

She could feel the Doctor reaching out to her mind so she reached back. She opened her eyes and sighed because she knew she was in the Dalek ship. Fear gripped her but she knew that the Daleks don't respond well to fear so she tried not to look afraid. She found it weird that they were leaving her alone. She stayed where they had her. Even after what felt like hours they left her alone. She was getting worried but then they started moving about in a panic. " Alert." a Dalek said. "Alert. We are detected."

"It is the Doctor." another Dalek said. "He has located us. Open communications channel."

"The female will stand." the first Dalek said.

"She will not," she said.

"Stand!" it shouted. She rolled her eyes and stood. The moment she was upright a holo monitor appeared and the Doctor was on the screen with Jack and two employees from the Game Station. "I will talk to the Doctor."

"Oh, will you?" the Doctor said cheerfully. "That's nice. Hello!"

"The Dalek stratagem nears completion." the Dalek said. "The fleet is almost ready. You will not intervene."

"Oh, really? Why's that, then?" he asked.

"We have your associate." it said. "You will obey or she will be exterminated."

"No." he said. Everyone gave him a strange look, well everyone but Rhiannon, she smiled at him.

"Explain yourself." it demanded.

"I said no." he said,

"What is the meaning of this negative?" it asked.

"It means no." he said,

"But she will be destroyed." it said.

"No!" he shouted, She could tell he was in full Oncoming Storm mode, and when he is like that there is nothing he can't do. "Because this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to rescue her. I'm going to save Rhiannon Jane Riwitis from the middle of the Dalek fleet and then I'm going to save the Earth, and then, just to finish off, I'm going to wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!" She could feel the Dalek's fear, and that made her smile wider.

"But you have no weapons, no defenses, no plan." it said.

"Yeah." he said. "And doesn't that scare you to death. Rhee?"

"Yes, Doctor?" she said with a smug smile on her face. Only she could have such a smile on her face in the middle of a Dalek fleet.

"I'm coming to get you." he declared. He turned off the monitor.

"The Doctor is initiating hostile action." it announced.

"The stratagem must advance. Begin the invasion of Earth!" another Dalek said.

"The Doctor will be exterminated!" another Dalek said.

"Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!" the Daleks chanted.

Notes: This was a quick post yay! I think its good this time not my best work but hey can't be perfect all the time. I know I cut out a lot of dialog with Rodrick but Rhee wouldn't have whined near as much as Rose even without foreknowledge, and Rodrick is a dick I never liked him just like i never liked Adam. They best be happy I didn't kill them. -evil laugh- But anyway the next chapter is the one i think everyone's waiting for.