***Should have said this before: Doctor Who isn't mine, I just grew up with the show, and play with it for fun***
Aileas walked into a ramshackle looking shop, where a woman in a suit looked up at Aileas walking in. "I'm sorry, we're closed," she stated quickly and efficiently.
"Oh I apologise I will leave. Only, what was your name again?" Aileas asked nicely, with only a hint of tension underneath her words.
"Ms. Thomas," the suited woman replied, looking at Aileas questioningly.
"Right, well Ms. Thomas you are going to have to call in Captain Jack Harkness and let him know that you have a bi-cardial humanoid standing in your closed shop, as she is directly related to the Doctor," Aileas stated matter-of-factly, crossing her arms and raising an eyebrow at the now gaping Ms Thomas.
"Yes, yes… right away of course. Make yourself comfortable," Ms. Thomas stuttered out, turning around and heading back into Torchwood 3.
Aileas sat down in one of the shabby plastic chairs that made up the only furniture in the small room. She smiled to herself with satisfaction as she waited for Ms Thomas to return. While Aileas waited, Ms Thomas ran into the bowels of Torchwood 3 to her superior, who quickly made contact with their field agent.
Captain Jack Harkness did not enjoy being summoned. He liked being connected to the universe through Torchwood 3 and liked how accepting they were of his immortality, but he was always very unhappy being summoned like a lap dog. He actually told his 'superior officer' to stuff it before his boss elaborated that they had a potential hostile alien being that would not speak to anyone except him. That interested the Captain. It was even more interesting that his boss, who was quite limited when it came to Jack's vortex manipulator, told Jack the base code for Earth, letting Jack warp back to Torchwood 3 in a matter of seconds.
Aileas felt the time vortex shift around her and stood as the Captain returned to Torchwood 3 with her help. She, of course, let Jack's boss take all of the credit for establishing the base code. After all, Aileas was trying to keep a low profile until she was whole again. Even more importantly, the base code would change within the next six months anyway, due to the cataclysmic events of the Time War finally reaching the Earth in the form of a subtle shift in time/space. Aileas' skin crawled as Jack entered the front room for Torchwood 3, and she felt cold tendrils of inherent wrong climbing up her spine and assaulting her brain. She hurriedly closed and walled her sense of time off, giving the Time Lady a headache, in order to be able to talk to Jack without revulsion. Before closing her brain, however, she sensed a small budding consciousness, a pulsation of pure time emanating from his pocket.
"And what does a potentially hostile alien want with little old me?" the Captain boomed as he took in the plain looking woman in front of him. A head shorter than the Captain, she looked human in every way to Jack except for the pride and age she held in her eyes.
"Hello Jack, it is nice to meet you. And I will tell you right now the only thing that I am potentially hostile towards is your attachment to whatever is in your right inside pocket," Aileas smiled as she walked towards him. "My name is Aileas Sigma, from the Prydonian chapter, one of the most noble houses of the Time Lords. Well, married into the house anyways. You have travelled with my husband and I require the TARDIS fragment in your pocket in order to find and reconnect with my husband. Do you understand, Jack?"
Jack stood staring at Aileas, mouth agape, for several moments before snapping back into focus, "You really are another Time Lord?"
"Well, technically a Time Lady. But yes Captain I am another Gallifreyan wielder of Time. Now that section of coral that is in your pocket…" Aileas reminded him.
"Oh yes! Sorry, of course," Jack fumbled in his jacket pocket for the lump of TARDIS, finally extracting it and handing it to Aileas.
"Now I am going to need a few things in order to blend in with the times as well as a place to stay. Could you please get your superior officer Jack?" Aileas asked not looking up from the lump of coral-looking substance about the size of her hand.
"You don't want to know where I got a piece of TARDIS?" Jack inquired; genuinely puzzled as to why the Time Lady in front of him wasn't more surprised he was in possession of Gallifreyan material.
"Not at all Jack as I know exactly where you got it. A man with sandy hair and a larger-than-average nose walked up to you earlier today, maybe three hours ago, and handed you this and walked away without a word," Aileas said offhandedly as she continued to assess the TARDIS piece in her hands, "Now will you please go get the head of Torchwood 3 so I can speak to him about a position or at least a place for me to live and an income?"
Jack understood that he was dismissed and replied tersely, "Right away ma'am," giving a salute and exiting the room.
Aileas looked at the small fragment of a TARDIS in her hands reaching out, trying to see if there was a consciousness attached to the seedling in her hands. She got no voice from her soon-to-be ship but was not discouraged, as she knew it was rare for a seedling to present with a personality that early. Aileas looked up from her new ship and closed off her mind once more when Jack and his boss walked back into the front room of Torchwood 3, the latter looking decidedly inconvenienced.
"Now, alien," Jack's boss started.
"My name is Aileas, Ay-Lee-ahs, not 'alien', it would comparable to me calling you, 'human' instead of by your actual name. I never actually got your name," Aileas pointed out as she took in the unassuming man with dark brown hair, dull brown eyes and a drab brown suit to match.
"I won't be telling you my name Aileas, you can call me by my code name Gamma," the bland man decreed as he looked at Aileas' clothes with distain, "The first thing we need to do is get you normal clothing so you don't stand out like a sore thumb. Jack will take you to the Torchwood flats across the square and a couple blocks down. He then will go shopping with you in order to help you pay for the clothing you choose with the Torchwood credit card."
"Okay then Gamma, whatever you say. Harkness it looks as if you are with me for the day. Lead on, oh Captain my Captain," Aileas chirped cheerfully. The two started to leave the building, but Aileas stopped and turned around to face Gamma, "Also, if you ever try to bark orders out at me again, sir, you will learn very quickly what Venusian aikido looks like. You will also find that I am quite proficient," Aileas warned the bland man menacingly. Aileas then shot a dazzling smile at Jack before leading him out of the building, on to Aileas' new flat, the Time Lady clutching the piece of TARDIS safely in her left hand.