The story unfolds!


The Lieutenant put the cube into a full scanner in the TARDIS, setting it to a full scan and record all input and output data. She looked at the 100s of tags she couldn't bare to archive them yet, she threw them in to her desk draw to file later. She was in the office of her ship, her ship, her TARDIS her own space. There were many rooms to it the main control room was where she normally worked. A lot of repairs where needed after her ship had flown through the planet's atmosphere, she made a mental note that flying though a planets atmosphere with low defences was not a good idea, however warm or cold it was. She was glad it hadn't been completely destroyed and being stuck on earth wasn't so bad, the company was good. Even with a boomerang effect she could escape for a while. With patience she could fix it but it almost gave her an excuse to come back. She found herself enjoying Jack's company more and more she got on so well with Gwen who seemed much happier recently and Ianto was cute, he wasn't used to her yet but she knew he was intrigued by her but coming back had been hard for him. She left the scanner running and walked out into the Hub. Gwen and Ianto were in the conference room already sat down and ready for the day's work.

"Good morning." The Lieutenant said happily.

"Good night last night?" Gwen asked friendly. The doors opened and Jack walked in as Gwen finished her question.

"It wasn't bad." She smiled giving Jack a look. "Yourself?"

"Oh yes, went out for dinner with Rhys. I think the shock of me being home nearly caused him to spontaneously combust."They all laughed.

"Well you'll have less over time now." They all looked at the Lieutenant, "looks like I'm going to be around a while, if you'll have me that is." Gwen looked at Jack.

"You asked her to stay?" she sounded overjoyed.

"No but I think she wants to," he smiled, "you want a permanent place on this team Lieutenant?"

"I thought you'd never ask Captain!"

"So you're staying?" Ianto asked warily.

"It looks that way." She smiled and looked at Jack.

"Yes it does and speaking on a personal note I hope it's for good." Jack winked at her as she smiled at Ianto. Suddenly a loud beeping noise came from the leather strap on the Lieutenant's wrist. She looked at it frowning. Then she was gone, running down from the conference room into the large work area of the Hub running past all the work stations she slammed into the wall where the TARDIS was concealed the door burst open and she flew through it.

"Whoa, that wall has never had a door before." Ianto raised his eyebrows at Gwen they had made it out of the conference room just in time to see the door close behind her. Jack was already at the wall and opened the door again, following the Lieutenant, the scanner was going crazy.

"Why is it doing that?" Jack sounded concerned.

"I have no idea!" she ran her hand up the scanners screen, "there," she pointed to the screen, "if this was a bomb that short circuit wouldn't be there." She pulled it across onto the black wall, Jack marvelled at the technology she was now manipulating with a flick of her fingertips. The equation hovered on the wall in mid air. She started to pull it apart analysing each segment of it.

"Wait, what's that?" Jack pointed to a small encrypted slice of data that was reeling numbers through so fast it was a blur.

"It's working out a calculation; it wasn't doing that before, when I altered it." She moved over the screen, "I need an energy scanner; I need to see what it's doing." Jack was already at the door, pulling it open and yelling out into the Hub.

"Ianto, we need a scanner here pronto!" he came back to the Lieutenants side; she pulled out her sonic screwdriver pointing it at the scanner overriding the lock, shutting down the scanner. Ianto arrived in the door way, he looked amazed at the space.

"It's...it's huge." Jack took the scanner from him pointing it at the cube. The scanners screen displayed swirls of energy going in and out of the metal casing.

"I've seen something like that before." Jack mused.

"The Risen Mitten." Ianto said mystically, the lieutenant looked over her shoulder at him.

"And I thought you where the sane one."

"Oh he is." Jack smiled lightening up again. Ianto raised his eyebrows and carried on,

"no it's this glove we found, it could bring the dead back to life but only for a minute or so, the more in control of the glove you where the more time you could get," Ianto explained. "But that's the problem with gloves;" Ianto continued "They come in pairs."

"That glove gave life and bought death." Jack informed her.

"Literally." Ianto added.

"Right so this does give life?" she looked between Ianto and Jack. Jack breathed out heavily.

"Clearly it does." They all stared at it a little bit stunned. The lieutenant slightly less panicked now closed the scanner and let it continue its analysis of the device. Turning off the other equipment she'd been using. Jack left the room. Ianto stared around the room. The lieutenant watched him a slight smile on her face. He eventually looked at her. He looked into her eyes as if searching for the answers there.

"I don't mean to be rude but what the hell is this?"

"It's a TARDIS that stands for time and relative dimensions in space, it's a space ship to be precise it's a 510TT capsule practically indestructible it can resist gunfire, grenades and temperatures of up to 3000 degrees but needs extra shielding against more advanced weapons."

"You fly this?"

"Fly isn't exactly the word but kind of yes. When I fix it I'll take you for a spin!" she laughed.

"It's broken?" he broke his eyes away from the large central column and control system.

"Yes, when I came through your atmosphere some of my shielding came down, it was pretty fried but it's getting there!"

"So you're from...?" he trailed off.

"A very long way away! I travel a lot, well I try to. I can travel through time, space and other dimensions sometimes even parallel worlds I still have a way to go to be able to do that again though."

"So you are still planning on leaving then?" she smiled and didn't answer him question.

"Let me show you around." His face said it all he was intrigued.

"There's more?" he pointed at his feet.

"Yes Mr. Jones there is so much more!" the smile on her face grew. She walked out of the main control room. It was a large round room, it was very clean and every surface was a buffed metallic gold. The control panel was in the centre, it was glowing on and off. The large central column reached right to the roof. The control panel was tidy, screens flicked with information and Ianto could see cogs and wires of the intricate system beneath the opaque material that housed the controls. Ianto went over looking carefully; he seemed scared to touch anything.

"This is the main room, it's also got my sleeping chamber, a wardrobe – which under no circumstances am I letting Jack anywhere near as it contains clothes from every possible time, planet and universe in both male and female!" she stopped when she saw the look that Ianto was giving her.

"You really aren't human are you? I mean I thought..." he trailed off.

"No, I'm not. Didn't Jack tell you or Gwen?"

"No they didn't." He paused then smiled, "I've always hated playing catch up! So what are you?"

"I'm a Time Lord."

"A Time Lord?" he repeated and she nodded. "So you're an alien?" she laughed.

"Yes I suppose I am! I've never really thought of it like that!"

"So you travel in a space ship and you're from another planet and even though you look human you are in fact an entirely different species!"

"Well I may look human but there are several major differences as well as similarities!" Ianto looked even more shocked if that was even possible, she thought she had better tell him. "Time lords have two hearts and our core body temperature is around 15 degrees. Also our bodies alter slightly when we are among another species, so as I'm among humans I'm more like a human just in the hormone and chemical sense though." She thought she would leave it at that, no need to mention regeneration yet she'd save that for later, or the fact that she was the most powerful person in the universe she thought she'd leave that for later as well. She watched as Ianto breathed out heavily.

"Two hearts..." she pulled a stethoscope out of her pocket and offered it to him. He smiled.

"No, it's ok I believe you." She put it back into her pocket. He looked back round the TARDIS, "This is pretty crazy!" he ran his hand through his hair, "and this," he gestured to the TARDIS, "is amazing where did you get it?"

"I so wanted to ask that question." Jack said as he entered the room.

"I didn't get it, I built it. It's one of only a few ever built, most are grown but I worked out how to build a shell and just grow the heart of it then fuse the two together. The heart of a TARDIS has to be grown, it's a living thing and it takes millions of years to grow an entire one..." Jack cut her off.

"But it takes a brilliant mind to build one." She smiled at Jack and nodded.

"The heart of a TARDIS is grown from a kind of coral, which makes the entire ship alive, it gives it a life force, but you must never look at it, its strong, powerful, telepathic, psychic and creates part of the force behind the chameleon circuit that hides the ship," she paused afraid she had got carried away, then concluded, "It also allows anyone who travels in it to understand and speak any language in the universe." Jack didn't look surprised. Ianto was in shock.

"Well yours is tidier than the Doctors."

"Well his is much older and is falling apart!" Jack headed for the door, the Lieutenant followed but Ianto stayed where he was. Jack looked back at him and was about to call him when the Lieutenant put her hand on his shoulder.

"Leave him, he can't do any harm." She gently pushed Jack out of the door. He stumbled slightly and started to laugh. They went back to the conference room.

"Oh his face was a picture!" Jack bounded over to the table and sat down.

"He was so cute." Jacks head snapped up looking at her. "What? he is." She said in mock shock.

"Yeh he is." His face glazed over a bit. The Lieutenant laughed.

"If he's still in there in an hour I'll go and get him." She sat in the chair opposite Jack. Jack flicked the wall mounted falt screen on. Pulling up the data collected from the cube. Gwen came in and sat down, Ianto followed soon after with a fresh tray of steaming hot coffee. They sat there's scrolling through the data, sipping the coffee.

"Jack this is all the data you have on that...Risen Mitten?"

"Yes," Jack started. Ianto coughed quietly they all looked at him,

"No actually, we have data on the second glove as well." Louise looked at Jack with a small smile,

"I like the fact Ianto's here to keep you in line can we compare there's two sets of data with that third?" Jack nodded and opened up the third file of data. "Now set them to compare and let's see what we can get." They watched the screen in a nervous yet excited silence. Small yellow highlighting ran across some of the calculations, but it wasn't complete.

"Are you sure there's nothing else?"

"There's the life knife we never took any analysis on it." Gwen said off handily trying not to remember the incident with it before.

"Well there is no time like the present." Jack got up, "I'll go get it from the safe!"


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