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She is Returning

Summary - Rose Tyler returns home and is reunited with The Doctor but first she has to gather together his former companions to join him for the final battle.

Ch 2 - Time to see the Captain.

Ianto and Gwen ran down the narrow alleyway as fast as they could. The lizard-like creature they were chasing was jumping over things as if it were part cat as well. Suddenly a bright flash of light blinded their vision. They both shook their heads and rubbed their eyes and saw a woman standing there with her arm outstretched. The lizard ran straight into it knocking himself backwards onto the pavement. The woman's blonde hair fell in front of her face as she placed her black military boot on his throat. She reached down and took the object that he was holding in his hand.

"This yours?" she asked turning around to face them.

She had big doe eyes and was wearing a purple leather jacket.

"Yes" Ianto answered as she tossed it to him.

Jack told Ianto and Gwen to take one way and he would try to cut the creature off at the other end. He ran until he came up to a wall with graffiti on it he was going to ignore the writing as usual when the writing disappeared and new writing started to appear, he watched as an invisible graffiti artist wrote on the wall. He saw the words BAD WOLF and an arrow. He stood there for a half second contemplating if he should listen to the writing. He remembered seeing those words before on the wall of the dance hall he went up those stairs and met the real Jack Harkness, so he nodded to himself and turned and went left.

As he was running he heard his vital device beeping and saw that if he had gone right, he would have run straight into a fleet of Daleks that just landed there. Someone had just saved his life.

Ianto and Gwen stood there silently looking at the woman. They all looked up as they heard a familiar buzzing sound. The woman pressed buttons a wristband she was wearing and a giant gun appeared in her arms. The Dalek rolled into view and a red laser beam shot out of her gun and hit the Dalek right in the middle and it exploded. The lizard creature tried to use that as chance to escape but the woman took a smaller gun out of her giant one and without looking shot a beam out towards him trapping him a force field.

Ianto and Gwen just stood there in stunned shock. She turned around and faced the creature.

"Director, I heard the announcement but I thought I'd just have a little peak. I promise I won't do it again" the creature pleaded with her.

The woman then touched her wristband again and both guns disappeared. Her hand went to her ear. "I have him, take him up and put him a cell" She looked at the creature and shook her head sadly at him.

"You know that creature?" Ianto asked.

"Yes, he came over from my planet, his name is Laz he's a con artist" she replied "He probably stole that from you hoping to sell it as an antique on our world"

"Antique?"Ianto asked.

"That technology is at least a decade old on my planet" she replied

"You're not from this planet?" they asked in unison.

"Well…." Rose started to reply

"You got it, great" Jack said as he ran up behind them. Jack took a step backward as he saw who was standing in front of him. "Rose" he whispered

"Hello Jack" the woman said calmly.

Having had few minutes to compose themselves they looked at Jack then the woman. "Of course he knows her" Ianto whispered to Gwen.

"Rose…Rose Tyler it's really you?" Jack said loudly walking slowly towards her. "How?" he stopped when he was right in front of her. She threw her arms around him and returned the gesture burying his face in her hair. "I thought…I thought I'd never see you again" he said as he pulled away and stared into her eyes. "I thought I'd lost you forever" He smiled and leaned in and kissed her, Rose shocked at first leaned into the kiss.

Jack pulled away but still held on to her arms. "The way you said my name, did you know I was going to be here?"

"Yes, I've been waiting for you"

"How?"

"I could feel your presence the moment I came through to this world Jack" she replied "I gave you a part of me so now I can feel you where ever you are"

That explained the weird feeling he himself was having. All of sudden he felt like he had found something that was lost. But he couldn't put his mind on to what it was. She brought him back to life.

Ianto and Gwen looked at each other confused. "What?"

"Sorry, I should introduce everyone, Ianto Jones and Gwen Cooper" he said pointing to them "And this is Rose Tyler" he said with a grin and not taking his eyes off of her. He was afraid that if he looked away she would be gone.

"Jack" she said "The Dalaks…they opened the Void on my earth. I came because I had too; I had to stop them before..." she paused

"Before…what?" He asked he felt his heart beat quicken, the sound of her voice scared him. Rose was one the bravest people he knew and she sounded terrified.

"Before…the darkness comes" she replied staring at the sky.

They walked into the Torchwood hub, Rose looked around without really taking anything in. Ianto was quiet because he was trying to figure out why the woman looked familiar, he had a feeling that he's seen her before. He could clearly see that Jack loved this woman. Jack has been around for a long time so he knew there were others. But his relationship with this woman seemed different somehow. He was still trying to figure out what she meant when she said she gave him a part of herself.

"I have something that might be useful for us" Jack said. That woman standing in his hub wasn't the same Rose he knew. She was older that much he understood that but this woman looked broken. He could barely look into her eyes or he would start to cry. Something happened to her over on that other earth that changed her.

"How long have you known Jack?" Gwen asked as they watched Jack's figure disappear into his office.

Rose looked at the brunette woman still in shock at how much she looked like the Gwyneth she met 1869, along with sharing the same name the similarities were uncanny she would've thought she was her, if that Gwyneth hadn't died. "It's hard to explain, or put a number on it"

Gwen looked at her; this woman was more confusing than any of the rest of the people from Jack's past that keep popping up. "When did you meet him then?

"1941" Rose answered calmly

Gwen looked at her again with shock "1941! You met Jack in 1941!"

"The height of London Blitz, she was hanging around on a barrage balloon" Jack replied walking out of his office holding a big black gun.

"Well you know me I want the best seat in the house for all the action" she replied with a little smile.

He laughed "That you do" he loved seeing her smile again. But it wasn't the Rose Tyler smile he was used to, the one that could light up room and made you smile too. There was so much sadness in her eyes.

"You took that from the gaming station?" Rose asked pointing towards the gun in Jack's hand.

"Yes, I thought it come in handy in the bedroom" He replied smiling Ianto "But then I realized that it could do much more then make clothes disappear" he tried to get her to smile again and again all he got was a little turn of the mouth. "What happened to you Rose?" he thought to himself.

Jack told them about the alien race he came across in the 1950's that had invincible armor. So just on a hunch he used the defabricator and it took the armor right off…along with everything else. "Let me tell you, you'd want them to keep their clothes on" He said visibly wincing at his own memory.

Gwen and Ianto felt like fish the way their mouths kept opening and closing. Jack rarely talked about his past and the people they met from Jack's past were very secretive too. Even Martha didn't say much.

Jack wanted to hug Rose and keep her safe it's what he always wanted to do. He knew she didn't need protecting she could handle herself. But this broken version of Rose was breaking his heart.

Tbc…..