[Hello everyone! I'd say that I missed you but it's only been two days so I didn't really have time to. Hmm, I should really pace this out more. ]

I remember a year ago I was standing in the crowd
waiting for my chance to break through, my chance to live again.
Now it seems I've found some friends who finally understand
what it takes to make this dream come true, we'll be here till the end.

In Fate's Hands- Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Utopia: part 1

Last time

'I'm looking for the Doctor,' she told the woman, as she stumbled inside. A man with spiky brown hair and a blue suit popped out from behind the central console.

'That's me,' he replied.

She didn't answer, just looked around in awe, 'Wow,' she gasped, 'he wasn't kidding.'

'Who?' the girl asked.

Before Winter could reply there was a thunderous noise and the whole of her surroundings began to shake. She stumbled towards the doctor and held onto the bars near him.

'What the hell's happening?'

'Seems like The TARDIS is keen on kidnapping you,' he replied, 'Welcome on board miss…' she thought for a moment, of the team who she had left and the Captain she now wished she hadn't.

'Nemo,' she replied, 'Just, Nemo.'

He held out a hand for her to shake just as they came to a stop. The Doctor looked at the screen in front of him and then up at his two companions.

'Oh, that's not good.'

Martha appeared to the Doctor's right hand side as he held onto the console with both hands and a foot.

'What was that?'

The screen before them was spinning with different cog-like symbols. They seemed to mean something to the Doctor though.

'We're accelerating into the future! The year one billion, five billion, five trillion, fifty trillion, what? The year one hundred trillion, that's impossible.'

Winter slipped her bag from her shoulders and chucked it to the side allowing her better grip. Typical, she gets to travel with Jack's legendary Doctor and the time machine's going to crash into the impossible future. Why couldn't things just go as planned for once?

'What do we do?' Martha yelled.

'Just hold on,' the Doctor replied.

'Oh that's comforting,' Winter called.

They both looked over at her and the Doctor flashed a hint of a smile, 'Cheeky one, you are.'

'I learned from the best,' she replied.

'And who would that be?'

The TARDIS shuddered to a halt and the light dimmed. Winter took a few steps forward and lent on the console. Her side stung and she really needed to tell Jack where she was…well once she had found out anyway.

'Well,' the Doctor broke the silence, 'we've landed.'

'Not exactly smooth riding is it?' Winter rubbed her bandages.

'So what's out there?' Martha glanced at the door.

'I don't know.'

Martha smiled, 'Oh! Say that again that's rare.'

'Not even the time lords came this far, we should leave, we should go, we should really really go.'

'But we only just arrived,' Winter moaned. To tell the truth the thought of another trip like that made her feel a little queasy. The Doctor suddenly broke out into a grin and she rushed back over to the door. It creaked a little as she swung it open and took a shocked look at the floor. 'You know you asked me who I learned my cheekiness from?' she called back.

'Yeah?' she looked around at the Doctor who was slipping on his coat. Taking a step outside she jerked her thumb to the ground.

'Him.'

The Doctor walked out and rolled his eyes. Martha gasped and rushed to the man's side. She flew back into the ship in a panic. Winter sat at his head and stroked his hair smiling. She should have known he would have found a way to come with them.

'Hello again.'

She looked up at the Doctor and noticed he was looking at Jack. Martha reappeared and rambled on about Jack's coat causing Winter to snigger.

'I think he came with us,' The Doctor told Martha.

'How do you mean? From earth?' Martha looked up confused Winter rolled her eyes and fought the urge to poke Jack in the ribs.

'He must have been clinging to the outside of the TARDIS.'

'That sound like Jack,' Winter said, pulling herself to her feet she nudged him with her foot, 'Never knows when to let go.'

The Doctor nodded and Martha looked up at them, 'You two know him?'

'Friend of mine,' The Doctor told her, 'used to travel with me, back in the old days.'

'Same,' Winter replied raising her hand slightly to gain Martha's acknowledgement, 'minus the travelling bit.'

Martha looked like she was weighing up some big decision in her head, 'But he's… I'm sorry there's no heartbeat, there's nothing, he's dead.'

Jack suddenly shot to life, frightening Martha to death and causing Winter to roar with laughter. Like a light in the dark Jack's voice rang out although the words weren't exactly what she'd wanted to hear.

'Captain Jack Harkness and who are you?'

She shook her head and let Martha introduce herself.

'Nice to meet you Martha Jones.'

'Oh don't start,' The Doctor said exasperatedly.

'I was only saying hello!'

Nemo giggled, this scene had obviously played out before and she was only too happy to stand back and watch. Martha pulled Jack to his feet and he took stock of the situation.

'Speaking of which, hello.'

She looked up and noticed he was staring at her.

'I though you were going to London?'

'Meh, London, the end of the universe, what's the difference.'

He smiled and she skipped over to give him a hug.

'How's the side?'

'Good.'

'Alright then,' he gave her a slightly disbelieving smile but she stepped back so Jack could look over at the Doctor. 'Doctor.'

'Captain.'

'Good to see you.'

'And you, same as ever. Although, have you had work done?'

'You can talk!'

'Oh yes! The face! Regeneration, how did you know this was me?'

'The police box kind of give's it away, I've been following you for a long time. You abandoned me,' he accused.

Martha was looking back and forth between the two like she was watching a tennis match. Winter crossed her arms and waited for Jack to get his feelings out in the open so they could have a look around. It was all very well for them in their long coats but she was wearing a t-shirt and it wasn't half chilly.

'Oh no! She's alive!' The Doctor told Jack

'You're kidding!'

'Parallel world, safe and sound, and Mickey and her mother.'

Jack leapt forward and hugged the Doctor.

'Come on then, lets actually go somewhere, it's my first trip out and we've only move five feet from the TARDIS,' Winter turned away from them to look excitedly out to the horizon.

The Doctor looked over to her and then turned back to Jack. 'I take it she's with you.'

'Oh yeah.' Jack grinned at Winter.

'Daughter?'

They both started and looked up and garbled a series of, 'God no!', 'no, no way, no,' and 'hundred percent not.'

Martha and The Doctor looked on with raised eyebrows and Winter took a side look at Jack, swiftly changing the subject, 'Please can we move, I'll freeze if I stand here much longer?'

The Doctor looked her up and down and shook his head. 'Honestly, you lot, end of the universe and you're still complaining about the weather, oh, that was a bit rude wasn't it. Sorry, I'll get you a coat.'

Winter watched open mouthed as he disappeared into the TARDIS. Jack smiled and shut her mouth with his fingertips under her jaw.

'So let me get this straight?' Martha asked Jack, 'What do you mean he abandoned you?'

Jack launched into his life story, only too keen to have someone else to preach too. Halfway through the Doctor strode out of the TARDIS doors and threw something to her. She rushed forwards to walk beside him as she slipped the comfy dark green leather jacket over her arms. It was a surprisingly warm and it had deep pockets, always a bonus.

'Did he have to tell her this story?' The Doctor murmured, probably to himself but she replied none-the-less.

'As far as I can work out I'm the only one he's told that story too since it happened and she did ask. He's just glad to have some who understands all this to talk to.'

The Doctor slowed down and Jack and Martha overtook them.

'So you two are close then, if he's telling you all his deepest and darkest secrets.'

'I wouldn't say he told me all of them but we're close, yeah.'

The Doctor nodded, 'And you're not his daughter.'

'No?'

'So who are you then?'

'Just a friend.' She could feel the Doctor's gaze on her and relented, 'We work together. He helped me when I was in a bad place, gave me a home and a family. We're friends.'

'Just friends?'

She blushed a little and busied herself with her new pockets, did they even have a bottom?

'Ah.'

'We're not...'

'No.'

'Just friends.'

'Really?'

'Yeah. We're friends. Besides, I've got Pip and it's not like my life is missing excitement. I mean, look at this. This is amazing. It's so weird, it feels like... I don't know, just a place, but I keep having to remind myself it's the future and miles away from Cardiff.'

'More like gigaparsecs.'

'You made that up.'

'No I didn't. It's one billion parsecs.'

'Alright "Star Wars". All I mean is that it's incredible and, you know, thanks for letting me tag along.'

'Well, didn't have much of a choice really.' He looked down at her and gave her a wicked grin, 'You're welcome.'

They walked along in silence, listening to Jack tell his story and admiring the wide expanse of land.

'So there I was stranded in the year two-hundred one-hundred ankle deep in Dalek dust and he goes off without me but I had this…'

Nemo rolled her eyes at Martha's curious and awed gaze. The Doctor seemed to be getting more and more agitated with the story.

'He's not the only one who can time-travel.'

'Oh, excuse me!' The Doctor cut in, he pointed disgustedly at the manipulator and sneered. 'That, is not time travel. It's like, I've got a sports car and you've got a space hopper.'

Nemo burst into giggle and the Doctor smiled at her. She glanced back and Jack sent her a glare.

'Alright, so I bounced., he carried on despite the interruption, 'I thought, twenty-first century, best place to find the Doctor, except I got it a little wrong. I arrived in 1869, this thing burnt out so it was useless'

Winter skipped ahead slightly. It was darker than she had imagined it would be. Then again she'd never really imagined the end of the universe before. It was pretty quiet as well. No animals, no wind. Just, silence. Ahead of her was an edge. Had she been a sensible human being she would have stayed far away from it but, she was Winter, and therefore she stood right at the edge and peered over the edge of the pit. She felt the others join her and, as the Doctor explained that what they were seeing was once a town, a hub of activity where people lived, ate and slept, she felt a pang of sadness. It was empty.

'Where are they all then?' she asked quietly.

'They're gone.'

'But where. Whole civilisations don't die out without a big reason.'

'Well you don't get Roman's walking around any more,' The Doctor pointed out.

'Yeah, but there are still Italians living in Rome, they just build on top of the old ruins.' She countered.

Jack smiled, 'Don't try and trick this one with a quick answer Doc she's smarted then she looks.'

Winter glared at him and he stuck his tongue out.

'It could have been anything,' The Doctor said, 'disease, famine, time, war, everything ends eventually and a lot of the time it happens much more quietly than you would believe. We think of a life ending with a bang, normally it's no more than a whisper.'

'But the planet must have an atmospheric shell, we should be frozen to death.' Jack muttered, looking up at the sky.

'What, you aren't?' Winter quipped.

'Well, your friend, Martha and I maybe. Not so sure about you Jack.'

'But, like Nemo said, the people…do they just not survive or..?' Martha broke off.

'Well, I suppose, we have to hope, life will find a way, maybe they adapted to the situation. Mixed into the dominant society, must have been hard,' The Doctor replied.

Jack pointed to the left, 'Well he's not doing too bad.'

They followed his finger to see one man running from a troop of people carrying burning torches.

'Is it me or does that look like a hunt. Come on.' The Doctor was off across the barren land.

Jack grabbed Winter's's hand and they took off after Martha. 'Oh I've missed this!' He yelled.

They came head on with the hunters as the man barrelled into Jack. She stared at their deformed teeth and strange facial tattoo's and piercings. Jack pulled out his gun and The Doctor yelled at him. They took off as Jack fired into the air.

'If that bullet falls down and hits me I will haunt you for the rest of your life Jack Harkness!' She screamed. She heard him laugh in response.

'If we can get to the silo we'll be safe,' the man told them.

'Silo?' The doctor asked.

'Silo,' Jack replied.

'Silo sounds good,' Nemo agreed.

'Silo for me.'

Martha and the Doctor ran with the man as the strange crowd chased them.

'If I'd known it would be this much of a work out I might not have had so much "Welcome back Jack" ice cream,' she groaned.

'I'm a firm believer in mixing ice cream and exorcise,' Jack quipped. She looked over at him, wide eyed and he flashed her a cheeky grin. She would have blushed if she hadn't already been flushed from running in the cold night air.

They rounded to a large metal gate and Winter eyed the men with the large guns as they screamed to see their teeth. She looked around and bared her teeth like a maniac. With a sigh of relief she let Jack pull her into the silo after the Doctor, Martha and the stranger. He put and arm over her shoulder which she shrugged off. It was hard enough to stand straight after all that running without his extra weight.

She screamed suddenly and jumped as the man at the front gate fired his machine gun.

'Oh don't tell him to put his gun down,' Jack moaned.

'He's not my responsibility,' The Doctor defended

'And I am? Huha that makes a change.'

'Would you two please shut up?' Winter snapped as she gripped her side.

They both shot her surprised looks as she straightened up and forced herself to lower her arm. Jack would only fret. The gate soon grabbed their attention again as the man behind it began speaking and then backed off. It swung shut with a clang and they were safe.

'Thanks for that,' The Doctor commented as they followed the man with the gun.

'S'alright, let's get you inside,' He replied.

The man they had come in with spoke but the only words that made any sense to Winter was; 'tell me, just tell me, can you take me to Utopia?'

'Oh, yes sir, yes I can.'

Winter mouthed 'Utopia?' to Jack and he shrugged. They followed the two men into a main hanger. A woman with a clipboard greeted them. She looked a bit rough but Winter ran a hand through her slightly greasy hair and guessed she probably didn't look much better.

'Names please.' Jack stepped forward always eager to introduce himself.

'Captain Jack Harkness and…'

She turned to Winter and repeated the question leaving Jack a little put out.

'Nemo.'

The woman waited.

'Just Nemo, nothing else.'

The woman nodded and repeated the process until she got to the Doctor.

'Name please.'

'Hello, I'm The Doctor.'

She looked up sharply, 'A Doctor? What of?'

'Everything.'

Jack shook his head and followed as the woman directed them to follow the corridor around. The Doctor strode ahead and grabbed the first man in black he could find. The man began handing out small pieces of metal.

'You, hello, I need you to do me a favour I need…'

'Is it true is Utopia possible!' the man they had found broke in.

The Doctor look at him in shock and a hint of anger.

'Don't you worry sir, we'll get you to Utopia,' The man in black replied.

The Doctor pushed back into the conversation, 'Look please I need you to fetch my… my thing…it's like a box. A big blue box, I'm sorry but I really need it back, it's stuck out there.'

'I'm sorry but my family were heading for the Silo did they get here?'

Jack was examining his piece of metal as was Martha, all three gave each other "beat's me" looks and pocketed it.

'The systems are down but you can check the paperwork. Crete. Passenger needs help'

A little boy appeared from the side passage and immediately took control.

'A blue box you said?' the man asked the Doctor.

'Big, tall, wooden. Says "police",' The doctor told him relieved to finally get some air time.

'We're driving out for the last water collection, I'll see what I can do.' He turned and disappeared into the maze of passages.

Martha followed Crete who led them expertly through the passages until they arrived in a slightly wider passage, filled with people. They lay everywhere they could. It was like the pictures Winter had seen of the London Tube air raid shelters during the German blitz. People squashed together. Making do.

As they got further in Winter realised that she knew this scenario from her own life too. This was how she had lived in London, and in Cardiff when they had first arrived. Bundled up with people you didn't really know. Never getting the chance to wash properly or clean the clothes you wore every day. It was a horrific way to live but she had found a group in Cardiff to bunk down with. A close knit group of people almost her age who had contacts and get-rounds. She'd been clean and safe a fed. To a point. It was unnerving to be back in a situation so similar. The Doctor was eyeing her so she strode forward a little more in case her face gave too much away.

Behind her Jack let out a cry of disgust as the smell that she knew a little too well hit him.

'Don't you see though, the ripe old smell of humans. You survived. Oh, might have spent a million years evolving into clouds of gas. And another million as downloads but you always revert to the same basic shape, the fundamental humans. End of the universe and here you are. Indomitable that's the word. Indomitable!'

The Doctor stopped at a set of doors as the reunion of the man they had found and his mother took place. Winter lent against the doors and Jack approached a man nearby.

'Captain Jack Harkness and who are you?'

'Stop it,' The Doctor chided, almost by habit, as he flicked what Winter presumed to be his sonic screwdriver against the panel, 'Give us a hand with this. Jack and Martha approached the door and attempted to work out the code. Winter laughed at the looks Jack kept sending over his shoulder and coughed out Ianto's name. Jack glared playfully at her.

The Doctor stood back and ran the screwdriver over her head where the join was. Without any warning the door slid back and Winter lost her balance falling through the door. Jack was too busy catching the Doctor who had gone in straight after her and she slipped.

'Nemo!' Jack yelled.

Luckily for her the walls weren't smooth. They had square patterns jutting out about two inches. She was still, however, hanging from the wall almost six meters down from them and her side was in agony.

The Doctor was hung over the side his arm outstretched, 'I'm sorry, I can't get to you,' he yelled.

She shook her head, 'That's fine.' She gritted her teeth and tried to find purchase with her feet, just the smallest amount and she risked reaching up with the hand on her good side and pulling herself up. She had to keep moving, her fingers were getting steadily more and more sweaty and she was still a few meters down. She took a deep breath and reached out her other arm, grimacing at the pain it caused.

'Hey, hey. Look up, look up at me.'

She looked up to see Jack lying on his stomach and reaching down for her. 'Come on. All the things you've climbed, you going to make it to the end of the worlds and not see how it finishes?'

'Never was one for, endings,' she grunted as the gains another two feet.

'No, but it doesn't have to be an ending. That's the fun, it always surprises me.'

'After all this time?'

'Every damn day.'

Her foot slipped and she gasp as she clung on with her hands.

'Come on, Nemo, come on kitten, little bit further. You can do it. Just get to me. Just reach me.'

She set her mouth in a grim line and found purchase with he feet once more, climbing another two feet and then a third. Jack was almost in reach.

'That's it.'

'You're not mad I'm here right.'

'What?'

'It's your doctor and you're travelling again and... you're not mad I'm here.'

'No. Are you kidding?'

Steadily she made her way further and further until he reached out and grasped her wrist, taking it firmly in one hand he pulled her closer until he could hook a hand her her shoulder and haul her over the side and back to solid ground. Both breathing heavily he brushed some hair out of her face and knocked her forehead with his. 'There's no one I'd rather be here with.'

She smiled and got up, allowing herself to wrapped in a warm hug from The Doctor. 'Well that's me told, don't lean on mysterious doors,' she quipped, laughing a little and trying to ignore the throbbing pain in her side.

The Doctor wasn't listening, he was much more interested in what was behind the door other that the large pit.

'Now that, is what I call a rocket,' Martha exclaimed as they gazed at the large metal structure with wide eyes.

'They're not ready to load their passengers,' The Doctor whispered.

'They said they were going to Utopia,' Martha replied.

'I thought he was just overstating you know, like when you walk into a sweet shop and say you're in heaven.' Winter said.

'The perfect place. One-hundred trillion years, it's the same old dream.' He glanced down at the abyss below. 'That really was quite impressive.'

Winter looked up, slightly taken aback when she realised he was looking at her and didn't manage to thank him before he changed topic again, this time to Jack, 'Do you recognise those engines?'

'No. whatever it is, it's not rocket science, but it's hot though.'

'Boiling,' The Doctor agreed. They pulled back and Jack closed the door. 'But if the universe is falling apart what does Utopia mean?'

Winter jumped as an old man in a white shirt and velvet waistcoat appeared behind her.

'The Doctor?' he asked Jack.

'That's me,' The real Doctor replied.

'Good! Good! Good!' He dragged The Doctor back down the corridor with him and Winter, Martha and Jack tailed behind in confusion.

The Doctor turned to face them as he ran, 'Good apparently!' he grinned.

Winter couldn't help but smile back at his boyish face. He finally stopped in a large room filled with wires and tubes and consoles and stuff Winter guessed only the Doctor would understand. A woman with a bluish face and bulky, almost bug like qualities welcomed them and Nemo had to remind herself not to stare. She was no different, just like the blowfish people back home.

Martha struck up a conversation and Nemo let her hands trail over the wires on the wall. She'd been moving around so quickly she hadn't stopped to think. She was in the future. Trillions of years in the future and she was excited but god, did her side hurt. Jack appeared beside her and bent down to her height.

'You alright?'

'Yeah just, just need to, to sit.'

He slid his hands under the jacket and pulled one back sharply, ushering her back to a table and motioning for her to sit on it. Slipping the jacket over her shoulders he pulled the strap top up, 'Jack!' she scolded.

He held his hand up and she shut her mouth and let him pull the top off. It was stained through with brown and, more worryingly, bright red, blood. He pulled his bag off his shoulder and grabbed a small first aid kit from the front pocket. She sighed and leaned back, letting him pull off the new bandages.

'Jack! What are you...' the Doctor exclaimed before he saw the bloody smears on her belly. He rounded the machines and joined Jack as he cleaned and placed pressure on her wound. 'When did this happen?' He pushed his glasses further up his nose.

'Few days ago. Nothing special.'

Both men looked up incredulously.

'You got stabbed!' Jack snapped.

This brought Martha rushing over but Winter shooed them all away.

'I realised that when she stabbed me thanks but it's fine, Jack's dealing with it. Go back to your impact patterns and unstable footprints or whatever it is you were talking about.'

The Doctor seemed to weigh up the choices and then got up to sort out the old man. Jack took out a needle and held it up.

'This is going to hurt, you know that right?'

She breathed out slowly and lay back on the table, laying her arms over her eyes and mouth to hide the incredible pain and Jack started sewing.

'You called me kitten earlier,' she managed to growl out, 'where did that come from.'

'Really, I'm in a position to cause you pain and you want to pick out an embarrassing thing I said at a moment of weakness.'

'I'm already in pain,' I need something to take my mind of it.'

'I don't know, it just came out. Why, did you hate it?'

'No, about time I picked up another name. It's been like one-hundred trillion years since the last one.'

He chuckled and finished off, sitting her up and tugging new bandages around her. Pulling a face at the bloody top he pulled a shirt from his bag, throwing it open on the seat near Martha and slipped his shirt over her shoulders before pointing a finger at her.

'No more dangling off walls you got it. I can't keep doing this.'

She nodded and slipped gingerly from the table to a seat next to it.

'Oh, my, God!'

Nemo looked over and laughed when she saw Martha pull the hub's hand from Jacks bag.

'Seriously?' she asked Jack, 'If I asked you what one object would you take to a desert Island, please tell me it wouldn't be that thing.'

He smirked but kept quiet. Martha was still making a fuss, 'You've got a hand? A hand in a jar, A hand in a jar in your bag!'

The Doctor seemed equally taken aback, 'Well that, that, that, that's my hand!' he cried.

Winter looked at his hand and then back to the jar, 'What?'

'I said I had a Doctor detector,' Jack replied.

Winter finally understood his intense protection of the item, 'Oh that's what it is!'

'Chan, is this a tradition amongst your people, tho,' the blue woman asked.

'Not on my street!' Martha really wasn't taking this well, 'What do you mean that's your hand, you've got both your hands I can see them.'

'Long story, I lost my hand, Christmas day, in a swordfight,' The Doctor told her.

'What and you, grew another hand?' Martha joked.

He looked up and nodded, 'Um, yeah, I did yeah. Hello.'

Her face fell as he waved at her.

The old man was intrigued he leaned over the hand and addressed the doctor, 'Might I ask, what species are you?'

'Time lord. Last of.' The Doctor leaned back as if waiting for an amazed response, 'Heard of them? Ledged or anything? Blimey end of the universe is a bit humbling.'

Nemo smirked and sat back down in the comfy seat.

'Chan, it is said that I am the last of my species to, tho.'

The Doctor leaned forward as if just realising she was there.

'Sorry what was your name.'

The old man answered, 'My assistant, and good friend, Chantho, a survivor of the Malmooth, this was their planet, Malcosero. Before we took refuge.'

'The city outside, that was yours.'

'chan, the conglomeration died, tho,' Chantho replied.

'Conglomeration!' The Doctor grinned, 'that's what I said.'

Jack turned around and murmured, 'You're supposed to say sorry.'

The Doctor looked stunned and then leant forward trying to be serious again but looking a little comical all the same. 'Oh, yes, sorry.'

'Chan, most grateful, tho.'

Martha was still getting over the whole hand business, Jack however brought the conversation back to the topic of the tattooed men who had chased them. The old man explained that they wanted to escape the men, who they had named the future kind, and reach Utopia.

'Oh every human know of Utopia, where have you been,' The old man chastised.

'Bit of a hermit,' The Doctor explained.

The old man didn't look convinced, 'A hermit, with er, friends?'

'Hermit's united, we get together every ten years, swap stories about caves, it's good fun, for a hermit.'

Jack put his hand over Winter's mouth as she tried to burst out laughing.

'So um, Utopia?'

The old man beckoned fourth and they all joined him at a screen to see a small glowing blob in the distance. The old man told them the story of the small signal calling them across the stars. Jack's hand gripped Winter's as they both glanced around the room.

'Professor? Professor?' The Doctor called to the old man as he squeezed his eyes shut as though he was in pain.

He brushed it off and ordered them away until The Doctor said something that stopped him in his tracks, 'Except, that rocket's not going to fly is it? This footprint mechanism thing, is not working.'

The Professor sighed but fought back, 'We'll find a way!'

'You're stuck on this planet and you haven't told them have you? That lot out there they still think they're going to fly.'

'Well it's better to let them live in hope.'

'Quite right too,' The Doctor exclaimed, 'And, I must say Professor … what was it?'

'Yana.'

'Professor Yana, this new science is way beyond me but all the same a boost reversal circuit in any time frame, must be, a circuit which reverses the boost so I wonder what would happen if I did this.' He flipped a switch and the lights across the whole room went mad. Winter didn't understand, entirely, what was happening but she could guess. It was finally working.

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[Sonotalady: Thank you and you're welcome, everyone needs a break after an exam :D ha ha! never underestimate a future monkey :) I'm really glad you're happy she's going with the Doctor. I have a feeling she wouldn't be too pleased to hear the doctor call him wrong, no. hopefully he'll make the sensible decision to say it when she's out of the room. I wouldn't insult Jack when she was in the room (or maybe I'm just a coward) I'm also really glad that you understand my point of view on Winter. I'm in the process of writing the chapter when she realises she starting to grow up, it's really hard not to see it as an end but more like a beginning. She has to realise that Jack isn't always going to be around to save the day. And although it's wonderful that she trusts him, I think she needs to realise he's not always right. I think I'd let my students design my dress if I was a teacher too. Takes the pressure off and if it's awful I could just give them bad marks, HA! I did actually write a book, more to prove to myself I could do it to be honest. My problem is that I have little spurts where I'll do nothing but write, I won't eat, I won't talk to anyone, I don't go out and I hardly sleep. And then long periods where nothing comes to mind. Really sucks when you have lots of people relying on you for updates. Luckily it hasn't been too bad with this one. (Fingers crossed.)

DWgeek2010: I'm so glad that you think the story's good. It means an awful lot to me. I took a look at your story so I hope you got the review! I've subscribed as well so I can't wait to see what you come up with next :)

Zaxiness: She was always going to side with Jack even if he started shooting them I think she would have just yelled at him. I'm glad your excited about her going with the doctor because the events in the next few chapter will start of a recurring story line that will most likely continue until the story's end. It came to me one night as I was just about to fall asleep and I just had to write it in. I'm really excited about it so I hope it goes well. If I have my way Pip will end up Old and fat doing nothing but lazing around and making the old cheeky noise, but whose to say what will happen in the future. Yeah! I'm in England. Just outside London actually so lucky me I get to be really fangirly and go to some of the places they film :D in fact I went to Cardiff on holiday this year and forced my family around all the Torchwood locations like a good fangirl. They weren't quite as impressed as I was but hey, some people are just weird. *joins in the happydance*]