WARNING: Adult Theme mentioned.
Disclaimer: Again, I do not own The Doctor or the TARDIS, I wish.
The Doctor and Adina.
The team had done all their calls and arranged everything and Jack had sent them home. Gwen to Rhys and Tosh and Owen together. They had done more than enough for that day and Jack was very thankful. Phoenix hadn't been back to the hub and Jack was worried that she wasn't coming back and the Doctor hadn't appeared yet either. Ianto had finished cleaning up and switching everything off and then made his way back to the office where Ianto knew Jack was sat behind his desk, thinking again. Ianto was worried about him. He had hardly left the office and had only just managed to eat one slice of pizza.
Ianto stood at the door and watched him for a minute. Jack had his feet on the desk again but Ianto didn't mind it this time. Jack was looking at something on his desk, something that Ianto hadn't seen there before so it was something personal to Jack. Jack had his thumb on his bottom lip and it was rare he did that. Ianto wanted to help him but he wasn't quiet sure what he could do. Ianto knew that Phoenix and Jack had history but he didn't know that much about it and how far that history went. Ianto walked into the office quietly and sat in the chair on the other side of the desk.
"I thinks it's time you got some sleep Jack," Ianto tells him and it scares Jack as he hadn't heard Ianto come in.
"Sorry Ianto, I didn't hear you come in," Jack tells him pushing a file over the thing that he had been looking at.
"What was that you were looking at? You don't need to hide it from me Jack, you know that," Ianto tells him and Jack moves the file, picks up the thing and hands it to Ianto.
Ianto studies it and sees that it is a photo of Jack and Phoenix stood on a beach. Jack was stood behind Phoenix with his arms wrapped around her waist and his chin on her shoulder and they were both smiling, happy, truly happy.
"Is this the picture that Toshiko told us about that Phoenix has?" Ianto asks him handing it back to Jack and he put it in his top drawer of his desk.
"It's my copy of it. I have been carrying it around with me for a long time," Jack tells Ianto, looking over the desk at him.
"You need some sleep Jack. You are exhausted," Ianto tells him seeing the tiredness in his eyes.
"I have to wait around for the Doctor and to see if Phoenix comes back," Jack tells him taking his feet off of the desk and turning to Ianto.
"I can do that Jack. You go to bed and I will wait up. You need sleep Jack," Ianto tells him, mothering him a little but Ianto knew he needed it.
"You need your sleep as well Ianto. I should stay up just in case," Jack tells him not sure who he was trying to persuade.
"Ok then. You stay here and I will stay in this chair and we will wait together," Ianto tells him with a smile and Jack smiles back.
"Sometimes you are really bossy Ianto Jones but I like it," Jack tells him as he gets up and stretches, his shirt all crumpled up from all the sitting at his desk that Jack had done, walking around the desk to Ianto.
"Shall I make you another coffee or get you something to eat?" Ianto asks him getting up and grabbing for the empty cup but Jack catches his hand before it gets to the cup and he pulls Ianto's hand to him.
"Stop mothering me Ianto. I'm a big boy now but there is something I want," Jack tells him with the smallest of grins but it was still there and Ianto was glad to see it no matter how small it was.
"And what is it that you want Jack?" Ianto asks him stepping closer to him, putting his other hand on his chest.
"You," Jack simply replies and pull Ianto in a deep, passionate kiss.
Phoenix walks into the hub via the cog door, the alarms not sounding, lights not flashing, she had disabled them as she didn't want to wake Ianto and Jack as she assumed they were asleep in Jack's bedroom. In her hand was her huge bag, barely closed and bulging out at the sides. She puts it down on the coffee table and starts to empty it, the coffee table almost wobbling under the weight of the bag. She emptied the contents of the bag into four piles, each pile equal in size. Once the bag was empty, Phoenix closed the bag and left it on the coffee table as she walked to the office door and opened it and almost jumps in shock.
Jack and Ianto were in the office, Ianto slightly bent over the desk, shirt open, tie off, jacket off and his trousers and boxers down. Jack was stood behind him, hands on Ianto's waist, also with his shirt open, braces down, trousers and boxers down. Their faces contorted in ecstasy and pleasure as they made love in the office. Jack and Ianto look up at Phoenix, seconds before climax, their eyes wondering what she was doing at the door, their mouths unable to respond.
"Great. Another memory I can't wipe from my own mind," Phoenix replies and leaves the doorway and goes back into the main hub area.
"ADINA!" Jack shouts out at the moment of climax not meaning to, it having nothing to do with him making love to Ianto.
Both Ianto and Jack get themselves dressed again, Jack running to the door of the office.
"Phoenix. Wait," he calls after her as he does the zip up of his trousers, Ianto arriving right behind him doing his shirt up.
"I've done what I came to do and I'm leaving now," Phoenix tells him as she picks the bag up and heads for the cog door.
"The Doctor is coming Adina," Jack tells her and she stops dead in her tracks, dropping the bag from her hand.
"Why Jack? Why have you done that? Why have you called him and stop calling me Adina. You know I hate that name. I'm not her," Phoenix shouts at him, not daring to turn around.
"We aren't willing to let you sacrifice yourself for us Phoenix. I am not willing," Jack tells her as Ianto slips his hand into Jack's, offering him support.
"Then you are a damn fool Harkness. I am doing everyone a huge favour so just let me get on with it," Phoenix tells him, picking her bag up again.
"Why am I a damn fool?" he asks her just as she is about to leave again.
"You know what Adina has done. You know what Adina is capable of," she tells him and at that precise moment, a wind kicks up in the hub, a blue light begins to faintly flash and Phoenix and Jack hear a familiar sound, the sound of the TARDIS materialising in the hub.
Phoenix heads for the cog door quickly and just as she is about to reach the cage which was still open, the cage slams shut, Ianto pressing the emergency button in Jack's office to seal the doors. The door of the TARDIS opens and the Doctor steps out. Dark haired, suited, long coat and dashing like the last time Jack and Phoenix had seen him.
"Jack. Adina," the Doctor says as he familiarises himself with his surrounds.
"Why does everyone insist all of a sudden on calling me Adina. It's Phoenix. P, H, O, E, N, I, X," emphasising every letter trying to make her point.
"Phoenix. Remember who you are talking to," Jack reminds her as he looks at the Doctor, Ianto suddenly releasing Jack's hand.
"Just because you have an emotion woody for him, doesn't mean I have to. Now are you opening the door or shall I?" she asks Jack, her right hand, her strongest hand burning brightly, dropping the bag again.
"Jack called me here because you are in trouble Adina. Why are you in trouble this time?" he asks Phoenix, pushing her to the edge.
The bright light extended up Phoenix's arm and she was soon consumed by the white light, her eyes now fully white as she turned to them.
"Of course it has to be my fault. When it comes to Doctor, it always is. Though remind me who was it that left who behind? If you insist on calling me Adina, maybe Adina should show herself," Phoenix tells him as she puts her arms out to her side and begins to levitate.
"Phoenix, stop this. Think of Ianto. He is mortal," Jack almost pleads with Phoenix who was now a few feet above their heads, burning brighter than anything that Ianto had seen before, his jaw dropping.
"I left you behind and you know full well why I left you behind Adina," the Doctor replies, refusing to back down over the name.
"I had no choice. You saw them, you tried to get them to see the error of their ways but they were hell bent on destruction. You know how close they were to raining that destruction down on anyone in their way, eventually Earth, the planet you hold so dear. I had no choice," Phoenix shouts at him as Jack turns to Ianto.
"Hide Ianto. Hide down the hatch and seal it behind you and whatever you do, don't come out until I come and get you," Jack tells him and Ianto sees the fear in his eyes and hears it in his voice, Jack knowing what could happen now as she was almost in full demigoddess mode.
Ianto does as Jack asks him and almost dives into the hatch. He looks back at Jack who was moving into the hub, wanting nothing more than to take Jack with him but he knew that Jack had told him for a reason and he enters Jack's bedroom, closing and sealing the hatch behind him.
"You could have given them a chance, a chance to change. Everyone deserves a chance to change Adina," the Doctor tells her.
"Grrrrrrrrrrr. I didn't make the choice easily Doctor. Do you think it is easy for me to deal with the fact that I wiped out an entire race? I have their memories, their dreams, their hopes, their fears in my head everyday, unable to get rid of them, living with them everyday. I had no choice," she tells him again, electricity sparks jumping from the water tower to Phoenix as the hub starts to shake.
"Phoenix stop! Why are you doing this Doctor? I asked you here to help and not for this," Jack says now stood almost between them.
"Why would he help me? He left me behind. I wasn't normal. I wasn't right. I shouldn't exist even though it was his own race who created me. He guilt he carries around with him. He doesn't care why I am here as long as I don't anything he doesn't agree with," Phoenix tells Jack, the hub shaking more and more, the rift alarm sounding in the hub.
Jack rushes to the computer to see why the rift alarm was sounding and looking at the readings, the rift was throwing out flares all over Cardiff but mostly near the hub.
"Phoenix stop. You are tapping into the rift now and you know how dangerous that is," Jack tells her looking right at her, squinting as she was so bright now.
"Why are you here? Why Earth? What have they done?" the Doctor asks her walking away from the TARDIS and across the hub.
"They have done nothing. Is that what you think? I am here to destroy Earth? I couldn't possibly be using my abilities to save and protect Earth, the planet that you are meant to protect," she asks him, the hub shaking more and more, the rift alarm sounding time and time again as the Doctor looks over to Jack.
"She's telling the truth. A dark entity is coming to absorb the life from Earth," Jack tells him turning the alarm off.
"My word isn't good enough for you? Why did I expect anything different from you?" Phoenix tells him, burning as bright as a star inside the hub, getting brighter by the minute as she absorbed more energy.
"What's coming?" the Doctor asks her.
"The Devourer. He and his foot shoulders are coming to Earth, to Cardiff. In five days they arrive to destroy Earth and I WILL stop them," Phoenix tells the Doctor, the brightness surrounding her starting to fade and not because she was calming down.
"Come down Phoenix. Your too tired for all this," Jack tells her as she comes down, her brightness now fading quickly, the hub not shaking so much.
"Five days? This isn't good. Even I can't stop The Devourer," the Doctor tells them.
"That's why I'm here. Not to destroy Earth, to save Earth," Phoenix tells him, her feet finally touching the ground almost right next to Jack, the bright light almost totally gone now, Phoenix looking rather pale, paler than she usually was.
Phoenix started to feel little headed as she hadn't down that in a long time. Phoenix's legs give way as she had used more power than she had store, Jack close enough to catch her and sit her down on the nearest sofa.
"How are you going to deal with The Devourer when you haven't got the energy to deal with me Phoenix?" the Doctor asks her as Jack sits her down.
"Let me worry about that. I am fully capable of dealing with it, I just need to work on my strength," she tells them both, one of them on each side of her, the Doctor finally softening up to her.
"You can't get the strength if you don't eat, don't sleep, don't let people help you," Jack tells her moving some of her hair from her face, looking deep into her eyes as she turns to him.