I say a little prayer
"Why are you here" Rose asked, tears still running down her cheeks.
"Well your father here" Jackie said and hit the tall man beside her on the arm, "went and shot the president, didn't he?"
"You what" Jack exclaimed.
"Jacks, I already explained this, Harry Saxon is not a human, he's an evil alien…""He was the bloody president and you shot him" Jackie screamed. "And now we're on the run, all because of you lot."
"But how are you here" Jack asked, clearly confused.
"Like I said" Mickey piped in. "It's dimension manipulators."
"Unfortunately they only last for two hours, max, then we get pulled back through again" Pete Tyler explained.
"So, what do you want us to do" Gwen asked.
"You need to open the rift completely. That way we can come through and stay" Mickey said.
Jack suddenly looked weary. "We can't do that!""Why not" Rose asked.
Jack sighed. Of course Rose wouldn't understand. "Because it's too risky. We open the rift, everything can come through, anyone. We can't control it."
"I don't care" came her swift answer.
"Look mate, I know it's dangerous, but we can't stay in the other world. We were already on the run when Mickey managed to get his hands on these" he indicated the disk in his hand. "If we go back we'll be executed!"
"I'm sorry" Jack said. "But it's too risky!""So we'll just send them back to be executed?" Rose yelled. "It's my family, we have to do something."
"We'll figure something out" Owen said. "We still have an hour or so, right?" Both Tosh and Pete confirmed. "Right, so maybe Tosh can work her magic?"
Jack finally nodded. "We go back to the hub. Ianto, call a taxi."
Rose had wanted to go with her family and friends, but there was no room in the taxi so she was forced to endure the ride back to the hub sitting next to Jack, who was scowling almost as much as she was.
Inside the hub introductions were made: Pete introduced himself as leader of Torchwood in the other world and Rose's alternative father, as well as his team which, besides Mickey, consisted of Jake, Duncan and Tim, who had been the one to carry over Rose's younger brother Tony. Jack then introduced his team and asked Pete to join him in his office.
"I understand your reluctance to open the rift" Pete said as he sat down.
Jack nodded. "That disk, is that how Rose got through?"
"No, she would have been pulled pack after two hours. We don't know what happened when Rose disappeared, but there was a lot of rift activity… To tell you the truth, I don't know if she's all Rose anymore" Pete said in a low voice.
"What do you mean?"
"Obviously I don't know her as well as Jackie, but I know what to look for. And Rose… There is something off about her. Sometimes it's like the air around her is electric and her eyes sorta glow. When she disappeared she was on a mission for me, she was investigating the president and we were worried that she had been made, because she was just gone one moment."
"She got hit by a car when she first came through, got a concussion and a few broken ribs, but she walked out of the hospital herself without problems and the broken ribs haven't affected her at all."
"Like I said, mate, something's off."
Tosh and Mickey had been working away at the computers for almost an hour when Mickey finally gave up. "It's useless. Unless the rift is opened we get pulled back in" he looked at his watch "fourteen minutes."
"So open the rift." They all turned to look at Rose. "Open it!"
"You heard what Jack said, it's too dangerous" Gwen tried to reason with her.
"I don't care, open the rift!"
Gwen looked at Tosh, who looked at Ianto who looked at Owen. "Oh, me? Right, well… We can't because, well…. It would be bad and Jack would be cross" Owen fumbled. Truth be told he was all for opening the rift, because seeing Rose in pain like this was worse than anything that might drift through the rift when they opened it.
"Owen please" Rose pleaded.
"Fine" he relented and started to find the necessary parts to open the rift.
"Owen! We can't do this" Tosh exclaimed. She really didn't like disobeying Jack and she absolutely hated the way Owen was affected by Rose.
"Like we have a choice. Are we gonna send them back to be executed" Owen argued. "Ianto give me a hand here."
Ianto sighed but gave Owen a hand anyway. He wasn't sure he actually liked Rose, he definitely didn't like what was going on between her and Jack, whatever it was, but looking at the six people, one of which was a two year old, he couldn't not do anything.
Gwen made a frustrated noise and started to help Owen and Ianto putting the pieces together and finally Tosh gave up and started to work on the computer.
"Three minutes" Mickey called, as Jack and Pete exited the office.
"What the hell is going on?"
"And the rift is open" Owen yelled and then it felt like all hell broke loose.
After seven harrowing minutes Jack finally managed to close the rift. It looked like a small hurricane had blown through the hub and even Myfanwy had flown off the safety.
Gwen got up on shaky legs and dusted some debris of her. "What the hell happened?"
"The rift happened" Jack yelled out in the room.
"Is everyone alright" Gwen called out and several voices answered with somewhat muttered "ok's".
"What the hell do you think you're doing" Jack yelled and pushed Owen.
"Would you seriously send them all back to be executed" Owen yelled back.
"It's not our call!"
"Then whose call is it? It's my family" Rose cried.
"And that's the only reason you did this?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Because it would seem like opening the rift is the quickest way to get him come crashing down here."
Rose looked at something behind Jack's head. "I didn't know that."
"Of course you didn't, you're just a silly shop girl, aren't you? But you can be sure he'll come looking now and I strongly doubt he'll be very happy we risked the entire universe to save your bloody mother!"
"OI" Jackie yelled, but was completely ignored.
"I don't care" was Rose's only reply.
"And what about the millions of people you just put in danger? Huh? What about them? For all we know a whole fleet of Daleks has flown right through and his taking over London as we speak! What you did was wrong! Now live with it!"
Big, fat tears fell down Rose's cheeks as Jackie hurried towards her daughter and hugged her. The rest of the two teams just looked as Jackie tried to comfort Rose and Jack stormed out, followed by a distressed looking Ianto.
The remaining people in the hub had silently spent a couple of hours cleaning up. Rose, Jackie and Pete had retreated to the board room to talk, while Jack had apparently decided to go awol, much to Ianto's chagrin.
Gwen sighed as her phone rang. "Hey Rhys, I'll be home in a couple of hours, yeah? No, nothing, just a…" She looked around. "It's just been a really long and confusing day. I'll see you soon."
"So I guess you two are done arguing all the time" Owen asked.
"I think we called a truce" Gwen said in a tired voice. "Do you think Jack will come back?"
"He did seem quite upset" Tosh said.
"He just need time" one of the newcomers chimed in.
"Mickey, was it" Gwen asked.
"Yeah, Mickey Smith. And don't worry about Captain Cheesecake, he probably just needs to cool down."
"You know him" Ianto asked.
"Yeah, met him when he travelled with Rose and the Doctor."
"The Doctor? What Doctor" Gwen asked, curious for anything that could tell her more about Jack.
"He hasn't told you about the Doctor? What about Rose, hasn't she said anything?"
"Well, she mentioned she travelled with a man that was a doctor…"
Mickey couldn't contain his laugh. "That man couldn't fix a bandage on a scraped knee if his life depended on it. Trust me, he was not an actual doctor."
"Mickey, can I talk with you for a minute" Rose called from the boardroom. Mickey nodded and hurried up the stairs.
"Well this is odd" Ianto said.
Gwen was just about to reply, when Tosh's computer started to beep. "What's that?"
"It's rift activity. Something's coming through, something big!"
A question: Was it just me who got the impression that Weeping Angels was once Time Lords, from watching 'The End Of Time'? I just thought there were several clues through out both episodes, but maybe it's just me?