Chapter 2

'Have you seen the doctor recently?' Rose asked suddenly, as Jack sat her down on the couch in his office. 'Since I'm back in this universe, I need to see him again.' The sense of urgency in Rose's eyes grew and Jack knew he needed to answer truthfully, as much as he'd like it if Rose spent her time with him instead.

'We've been monitoring the rift activity and have got sound recording out there, and I got Tosh to program the hub to alert us of any sign of the TARDIS. And I guess since you're not aging, we can wait as long as we want, now can't we?' There was a hint of flirting in his voice, but Rose ignored it.

'What do you mean we? I'm the one that doesn't age.' Rose replied to him.

'Oh, well, that's quite complicated, let me tell you. I don't know much about it, but it something called 'Bad Wolf.' That's all the Doc would tell me.' Jack responded with a devious smile. 'You know, if you want, while you're waiting you can work for me. You said you were employed at Torchwood in your universe, right? Seems you've got the skills to me. My team might question it, but who cares about them.' Jack shot her his signature smile and she nodded in reply.

A crash came from another entrance and Jack turned around. 'Sounds like the team's back. Picked up a weevil, too! Let's go join them in the fun, shall we?' He held out his arm to Rose and she looped her arm in his as they walkd down the hall. The cells were a bit dark and depressing, but when Rose saw the weevils housed down there, she didn't think it so horrible anymore.

The team was pushing something into a cell and Rose observed her new colleagues. There was a taller cute guy, of course not as cute as her doctor, there was an Asian woman standing next to him, a dark haired woman with an air of authority about her, and another man with a slightly larger build standing behind who smiled when Jack walked in. He looked at me questioningly, but waited while the others finished with the weevil.

They closed and locked the cell and turned to greet Jack. When the dark haired woman spotted Rose, she couldn't help but ask. 'So, who's this?' Rose could see the same question was in everyone's eyes.

She waved at them. 'Hey. I'm Rose. Rose Tyler.' They all looked at her with no recognition of the name and Rose turned to Jack for further explanation.

'Uh… Yeah, this is Rose Tyler. Long story short, we need the same doctor.' Jack answered, referring to the many times he had mentioned 'his doctor' to the team. 'She's got the credentials and she'll be joining our team… indefinitely.'

The dark haired woman looked at her curiously while the cute-ish guy gave her a look of suspicion. The larger built man looked at her curiously, with a hint of what looked like… jealousy? Rose wasn't quite sure.

Finally, someone spoke- the dark haired woman. 'I'm Gwen, Gwen Cooper.' She said before turning back to the weevil, scanning it with what Rose recognized as a general portable scanner, which checks for various diseases. The Asian woman turned from her laptop to look at Rose. 'Tosh,' She replied simply and turned back to her laptop.

The cute-ish guy then introduced himself. 'Doctor Owen Harper.' He shook her hand.

Finally, the larger-built man stepped forward and held out his hand politely. 'Hi. I'm Ianto. Ianto Jones.' He told Rose with a sweet voice.

With introductions over and the weevil scanned and contained, the team walked back to the main floor of the hub. Rose still couldn't get used to the vastly different setup of this hub versus her own. Tosh walks straight over to the more complicated of the two computer setups and settles herself, pulling up the various screens monitoring rift activity around Cardiff.

While Jack led Rose up to his office, the rest of the team huddled together. Owen glanced upwards and turned to them. 'He clearly knows her. But where's she from, she's not from UNIT, is she? Doesn't have that warrior air about her, for sure.'

Ianto glanced up. 'How close do you think they are?' The two in the window above laughed about some joke they shared. Ianto was clearly uncomfortable with the idea of another of Jack's close friends being in the proximity.

Jack and Rose come back down the stairs and the team quickly breaks back up, Ianto jogging into the kitchen to make coffee. Jack passed by all of the team members, checking all the readings as Rose wandered around the hub, acclimating to her new surroundings. The pterodactyl flew around in a start, getting itself used to the new scent of the strange woman.

A beeping sounded from Tosh's computer and she turned her head to look at the flashing red chart. 'Jack, big burst of energy from the rift. You'd better go check it out.'

Jack called out to the team. 'Owen, Gwen, Rose, come on!'

Rose jogged over to the rest of the team and Owen hands her a spray can. 'This is-' she cut him off. 'I know what it is Owen, I've been a part of Torchwood before.' She turned around to follow Jack, leaving Owen even more baffled and curious of her past than before. Owen picked up another tool and handed it to Rose, as she knew how to use it.

The team of four ran up the stairs out to where the readings were coming from. Jack broke off to quickly unlock the car, which was parked over in the nearby lot. The sun had just set and the area was deserted of humans, all the workers in the nearby buildings left ten minutes beforehand. However, across the stretch of open space, there were three weevils.

'Alright guys, split up and catch these guys.' Jack called out.

Rose spoke up quickly. 'Hey Jack, we didn't have very many weevils. I don't know how to handle these.'

Jack turned to face her, and then called back to the team. 'Team, let them go. We've got a training session to give.' They turned around and walked back to Jack. Jack pointed silently to the weevil hanging around in the corner.

'What we do, Rose, is corner them.' The team surrounded the beast. 'Then we get them to the truck. Open up the back, would you?' Rose jogged quickly to the car and pulled open the trunk. She turned back to the team in hopes of seeing as much of the capture process as possible.

The group was leading the weevil by spraying it with cans, the same cans that she had in her pocket currently. She stepped out of the way as they neared the truck and Jack tossed her a pair of handcuffs. It didn't take her too long to figure out what to do with them. From behind the subdued weevil, she snapped the heavy-duty cuffs onto its arms. Owen closed the trunk and they all hopped in to drive the creature back to the hubs where it couldn't roam about the city anymore.

They pulled into a back entrance that Rose was unaware of. She discovered as they were walking, that it led back to the cells she had seen before. Jack opened up the doors while Owen, Gwen, and Rose led the subdued weevil to the cells. As they were approaching the cells, the weevil began to slowly regain its energy. They began moving it faster, in hopes to lock it in a cell before it had an outburst.

Jack was rushing to type in the code of the next empty cell when the weevil got angry. It, seeing the two people in front of it, slashed backwards in hopes of finding an escape route. Its sharp claws caught Rose as it spun, and Rose could feel the warmth of blood along her left arm, stomach, and right wrist as she fell to the ground.

Ianto appeared at the bottom of the stairs and relieved Owen of his task to go help the bleeding blond. Rose could hardly focus on the face in front of her, let alone the pain across her body. Her vision was blurring, but she vaguely recognized Owen standing above her. 'Good.' She though. 'A doctor.'

Ianto, Gwen, and Jack wrestled the weevil into the cell quickly, avoiding the sharp, flailing claws that had just injured their new teammate. They couldn't quite wrestle it in, however they were succeeding at keeping it away from the bleeding girl on the floor.

'I have to get her to the medical bay! I can't fix her like this, she's losing way too much blood.' Owen called out to the team, hoping they could spare a person.

'Can you handle it by yourselves?' Ianto called to Jack and Gwen over the snarling of the weevil. They nodded, and he sprinted to Owen. He reached Owen as Rose closed her eyes and Owen nervously tried to awaken her again. He glanced around several times. For the first time in a long while, Owen actually looked seriously concerned. 'Way way too much blood…' he whispered to himself, but Ianto could still hear him.

Ianto coughed and Owen noticed his presence. They picked her up together while Owen tried to keep pressure on her long wound unsuccessful in stopping the bleeding. They rushed up the stairs and sprinted through the hub and to the medical hub. Tosh, upon seeing this, jumped out of her chair and jogged over to the medical bay, leaning against the railing to watch from afar.

Owen looked over the girl. 'Shit. She's not breathing.' He tried to get her breathing again, but he knew he also had to stitch up her wound and get more blood in her. With the wound finally stitched up, Jack and Gwen sprinted into the medical bay overhang next to Tosh, who had her hand over her mouth.

Ianto could see that Jack's eyes were strained, as this woman seemed to be very important to him. He wanted to comfort Jack about it, yet he knew it wouldn't be possible until this was all over. When Jack saw that Rose wasn't getting any better despite the best efforts of their top-notch doctor, he leaned his head again the railing.

Owen, after unsuccessfully trying to get the girl breathing again, placed his fingers on her wrist. 'One…Two…Three…Four…' He counted up to a minute without feeling a single pulse. He hung his head before glancing up at the distressed audience and slowly shook his head. Jack leaned down against the railing again.

After several minutes, as Owen was putting up his equipment, Jack jerked his head upwards and then jogged down the stairs, placing himself next to Rose. Owen, while cleaning, kept hearing the captain mutter things about 'the doctor.' No doubt, it was about the doctor those two had been waiting for, Owen decided.

The team over the course of the next ten minutes dispersed back to their posts while Jack stayed put next to the girl. 'You just got here…' he whispered to her in a rasping voice. 'You… you can't go now… not now…' Tears fell down his face as he squeezed the hand of the blond. 'Rose…'

Half an hour later, Gwen came back to the railing to check on her boss. Seeing him still sitting down there, she began to leave.

'Gwen, I'm coming now.' He said in a coarse voice, as if he had been crying. When she turned around to see his face, the redness of his eyes proved this theory correct. She turned back around and walked back to her desk. Jack reached the top stair and glanced back down at Rose, wondering how she was so unlucky.

Rose sat up rapidly and took in a long deep breath. A golden light flowed out of her mouth. Jack sprinted back down the stairs, a smile plastered upon his face. His eyes lit up with hope. 'Rose!' he called, loud enough for the rest of the team to hear.

'Bad Wolf.' He heard come from her mouth softly before she collapsed back down onto the table, unconscious. Owen appeared at the bottom of the stairs and quickly began to set up an IV for her, in case she didn't wake up within the next 24 hours.

Hours later, the team was packing up to leave. Tosh had gone home finally and Gwen had left early for her weekly date night with Rhys. That left Owen, Ianto, and Jack. Owen had finished packing up and had given Jack instructions if Rose was to not wake up by morning. Ianto was cleaning the coffee machine, something he insisted on doing before he left once every week.

That left Jack alone down in the bay with Rose, awaiting the girl's return to consciousness. 'See you tomorrow, Jack.' Owen called down the stairs before leaving through the front door. Ianto, Jack assumed, was still cleaning. He was no doubt going to say goodnight before he left.

He heard the change in her breathing telling him she was waking up. He picked up the girl and carried her up to his office, setting her on the more comfortable couch. Rose slowly opens her eyes, and slowly sits up with a hand on her head as if she had a headache. Then memories seemed to flood her and she ran her hand over her stomach, feeling the perfect flatness of skin that has not scarred.

Jack sat down on a swivel chair and watched her as she fully returned to consciousness. 'Hey, how're you feeling?' Jack said quietly to her. 'What do you remember?' He asked her, wondering if she could remember waking up and whispering 'bad wolf.'

'Oh… I remember… there was a weevil. It scratched me… Owen was trying to heal me and I fell unconscious… then I woke up here.' She replied, as if it weren't too unusual.

Jack paused for a moment. 'You died Rose. You died, then came back to life. Just like I can.' Shock was plastered on the girl's face, proving Jack's idea that she hadn't known she was immortal like him. 'You can stay the night here, with me if you want.'

Rose nodded. 'Yeah, I've got nowhere else to go.'

Jack smiled. 'I'll be working for a while, but you're welcome to fall asleep right there. Sadly, I've got nowhere else you could stay… Is that okay?' Rose nodded in reply and quickly fell back asleep on the couch, excited for seeing the team again tomorrow.