A/N: Short chapter, I know! But on word, it looked a whole lot longer... A filler chapter, exploring Belle's past and possibilities for the attack.
"Well, give us what you got then!" Jack said impatiently, as both anger and confusion built up inside him. Anger at the secrets his employees were keeping, confusion as to why they were keeping secrets.
Apologizing quickly, he raised his hand up, a gesture to show he was listening.
"Okay…" Ianto breathed out, glancing at Tosh who nodded her encouragement, hesitating briefly, before continuing.
"These are the health reports." He said, and Tosh handed the slightly crumpled medical sheets over to Jack, who began to read, a frown creasing his brow.
"What?" The Captain muttered quietly, before reading them again. "Impossible… That's just not possible…"
Handing the sheets back to Tosh, he shook his head in disbelief. "Well, not humanly possible…"
Tosh took Jack's speechlessness as a prompt to speak again.
"And yet it is. I've checked these four times, and they're correct! Not a single flaw in the results. Every single time, this-" She pointed to an image on the sheet, "Is always there. That same little fluctuation, as if her body is trying to change into something. It's her DNA, Jack, there's something there which makes her not human. And I'm sorry, Jack, but I don't think she's even part human."
"What?!" Jack exclaimed, pushing up off her chair, and Owen mused the scenario before him.
"Now, this is what they need to include in Corrie!" He murmured, but no-one noticed his comment as confusion unfolded.
"Not human? But she was born here! Her mother and father, they were-"
"A lie." Ianto finished, and Jack stared at him, bewildered.
"what?" He whispered, and Ianto nodded softly.
"I'm sorry, but she lied. True, an Emma and Steven Parati did die that day at Canary Wharf, but they never had children. Emma was pregnant at the time, but she's not her biological child."
"So they adopted, then? Just because she's not biological, doesn't mean-"
Ianto looked at his lover sadly, watched as he grasped at straws in an attempt to salvage their potential friendship and her future. But he had to know the truth, they all did.
"No, Jack. She said she's nineteen, but that means that for Emma Parati to be her mother, she would have been conceived at the age of six, and I think we know that didn't happen."
"A broken lie," John hissed, before smiling spitefully. "Guess we should of known, trying to be all nicey-nicey to us, practically stuffing flowers down our throats!"
"Shut up!" Jack snapped back, stepping towards the Doctor's human counterpart, who also stepped forward, challenge written across his face.
"Gonna make me, freak?" He sneered, and Jack set his jaw.
"Do you really want to threaten me?" He retorted, and John pulled his fist back quickly, pushing forwards with force towards Jack-
"Oh no we don't!" A cheery voice interrupted, and Jackie exclaimed "Doctor!", shaking Rose awake, who embraced him tightly, whilst holding back John's fist. As Rose pulled back, he breathed in deeply, dropping his human twin's hand and fixing both him and Jack with a cold stare.
"No fighting." He said coldly, and the pair nodded in silent agreement, before the Doctor's usual cheery personality rose again.
"Thanks for that! Anyway, she's not human?" The Doctor said seriously, and Ianto and Tosh made noises of confirmation.
Letting out a long whistle, he clicked his tongue thoughtfully, before turning and fixing them with a piercing gaze.
"Tell me everything you know."