Imogene had walked into a stand-off. That was the only way to describe the scene before her. On one side of the hub Jack and Ianto were standing holding hands and looking at a stranger full in the face. The man was quite good looking, tall with dark spiky hair and was dressed in a brown pin-striped suit with white trainers. Gwen, Tosh and Owen were standing aside from Jack and Ianto and a red-headed woman was standing near the stranger. The strangest thing about the scene before her was most likely the large blue police box that was standing in the archway that led towards the archives and cells. Clearly they had been in the middle of one heck of an argument when she came in and the silence was broken as the man looked Imogene up and down and smirked slightly.
"Recruiting them a bit young aren't you Jack?" the stranger asked.
"Who are you?" Imogene asked as she walked over to her brother.
"Oh sorry, I'm The Doctor and this is Donna Noble." The Doctor answered and Donna smiled at Imogene.
"I'm Imogene Jones and I'm almost afraid to ask but why are you here?" Imogene replied.
"We were brought here by her, she wouldn't tell us why but one minute we were supposed to be going to Barcelona, the planet and the next thing we knew, we're here." Donna replied gesturing towards the blue police box.
"The box took you here?" Imogene asked and Donna nodded.
"Back to the matter at hand; the fact that you're pregnant. This is only the twenty first century! What if UNIT find out? You know they'll most likely take the child away and dissect you or something." The Doctor snapped at Jack.
"We've covered the necessities." Jack argued.
"Can you be sure? You may be able to deal with aliens but not with children." The Doctor snapped.
"If you actually shut up for two seconds and listened to us you'd know that we've taken every step from faking a surrogate mother down to the last detail to looking for a new place to live to recruiting new staff to ensure that this works out. You can't honestly think we've not been coming up with every possibility and overcoming it. Humans are not as thick as you Mr High-And-Mighty-Time-Lord think we are!"
The Doctor looked stunned at the outburst from Ianto who up until then had been unerringly polite towards him and Donna. Imogene felt she should put in her two-penny worth as well.
"Who do you think you are anyway? Waltzing in here and acting like you know what's best for us? We're a family. It mightn't be an ideal family but it's ours. We've already faked records for me and the same will be done for the baby." Imogene snapped.
"Why should you need records faked?" Donna asked.
"I was born in 1983 and fell through the rift in 1998 and ended up here with telepathic and telekinetic abilities. My records have all been faked. As far as anyone outside of Torchwood knows I was born in 1993 and used to attend a boarding school which shut down last June due to the recession. It's been hard work but I've managed to live a relatively normal life since last August and there's no reason why my niece or nephew won't be able to do the same. So why don't you stick your superior attitude up your smug alien…"
"Thank you Imogene." Jack said cutting across Imogene.
"Besides you can't take Jack away without our consent." Tosh said moving towards Jack and the twins.
"Yeah if you take one of us away," Owen began.
"Then you take all of us." Gwen finished. Everyone looked at The Doctor who seemed to be slightly lost for words.
"Looks like you've been beaten Spaceman." Donna said dryly.
There was silence as they waited for the Oncoming Storm to blow into full force. Finally The Doctor walked forward and hugged both Jack and Ianto and offered his hand to Imogene.
"You're right of course. I'm sorry but you have to remember that the Jack I knew believed in acting first then thinking." The Doctor apologised.
Jack tightened his grip on Ianto's hand. "Well I was a different man back then."
"So what are you going to do about the baby when it wants to be born?" Donna asked.
"We're calling in some backup for that. Martha and Mickey are coming from UNIT and Martha will be able to help with the C-section." Tosh said.
"Staying on this thought I don't suppose you'd have any information for us to have about male pregnancies?" Owen asked the Doctor.
The Doctor grinned at them and bounded off into the TARDIS talking at a million miles an hour. Donna cast her eyes skyward at them and ushered them all into the TARDIS. Tosh and Gwen gawped at the interior of the TARDIS and Donna got them both to say the infamous 'bigger on the inside' line. Owen joined the Doctor at the console as he got the information and put it onto Owen's USB which he had grabbed from his desk. Jack was holding onto Ianto's hand as he showed him the main console and was whispering to the TARDIS. Imogene was stroking one of the large coral shaped pieces and could feel a musical voice in her head.
And there's the little child out of her time…
"What the heck?" Imogene muttered.
You have abilities stronger than other humans therefore you can hear me while the others can only sense my emotions.
"OK is there anything you want to tell me?" Imogene asked and what she heard caused her to break out in a large grin. "I promise I won't tell. Thanks for letting me know at least."
My pleasure child, you and your brother are so important to my lonely Captain. You make him happier than I have ever seen him and the infant shall be proof of that. This is why I brought my one and his companion here. I didn't realise he would get so angry.
"That's OK I guess. You expected him to be happy yeah?"
Indeed child, however my one can act superior and without regard to people's emotions.
"Well tell me something else I don't know like the answers for my February modules in Maths and Science?" Imogene asked the time machine.
What do you think?
"So that's a no then?" Imogene laughed. This conversation which to the others seemed to be occurring just with Imogene had stoked interest from them.
"You were able to talk to her?" Donna asked.
"It's because your telepathy levels are stronger than anyone else's in here, apart from mine of course." The Doctor explained.
"What did she tell you?" Ianto asked.
Imogene only smirked at her brother. "Spoilers…"
AN: I've been trying to decide whether the baby will be a boy or a girl. However if you guys could offer name suggestions I'd be grateful and it'd help influence my choice. Please?