[Hello, well, general comment. Lots of people commenting on John being a bit nice. Personally I think he can be nice but I think when you see this half of the chapter you'll realise that although he's being nice, he's also being a bit patronizing and remember he did lock her in her room, that's not exactly the nicest thing anyone's ever done.] Honestly I do get it but, if you look a John really I think you can see that he's basically Jack without the Doctor's influence over his life. It's all shoot first ask questions later but tht never makes him specifically bad. I really like John's character and given more time I think he could be a hero. Maybe I'm just sentimental. Who knows.

Walking through town is quite scary

And not very sensible either

And if there's anybody left in here

That doesn't want to be out there

I predict a riot.

Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict a Riot

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: part 2

With a clang that gave the cog door a run for its money, the door to Winter's room burst open. She jumped into the air and Pip clambered behind her head in shock. No one stood at the other side. She glanced at the clock, two hours had passed. So John had been slightly off. She stealthily made her way out to the main hub. John's voice echoed from the Hub as he hummed to himself. Taking the closest rope in her hands she clambered up and along, towards the autopsy room.

Pip made his way round in front of John and as he spoke to the blowfish and pulled out the pieces he needed Winter rounded behind him. He looked up and saw the monkey in front of him. 'I thought I left you with..?'

She dropped to the floor behind him and he spun around. The blade of her sword an inch from his neck.#

'Hello there.'

'H…hi., she replied as harshly as she could with a stutter, and held out her hand.

He put the small pyramid on her palm and she pocketed it. There was a noise to the side and they both looked up. Winter looked straight back so as not to give John an advantage but he was too shocked to do anything as he watched the entire Torchwood team appear in front of him. She noticed Jack's wrist strap in his back pocket and slipped it out heading up to stand with her friends.

'Pretty and resilient,' John told them as she leant against the wall next to Ianto. 'Is that even fair.'

'Maybe you didn't realise, you can beat, shoot, threaten and even poison us and we keep coming back stronger every time.'

'Well, I think you aught to know, your boss is splayed out on the…' he trailed off as Jack walked through the door hands in pockets. '…pavement.'

Jack smiled at him and leant on the metal barrier.

'Now that's impressive. Seriously, you could earn a fortune in the Vegas galaxies with an act like that.'

Winter smiled as Jack stared imperiously down at John.

'Go on, how's it work.'

'I can't die.'

John let out a slight laugh, 'No but really.'

'No but really,' Jack repeated. 'You can't kill me. No matter how many times you try. I can't die. Ever.' He smiled and made his way down the staircase.

'Yeah but what does it cost you?' John asked. 'Every time you have to drag yourself back here how does it feel? All the pain and trauma. Plus you're reborn into this god forsaken mess. I pity you.'

Jack laughed but then lent in angrily. 'These people. This planet. All the beauty you could never see, that's what I come back for.'

Winter swelled with pride as she heard Jack defend her planet. John still wasn't impressed though.

'What's in the canisters?' Gwen asked.

'Come clean time Captain,' Owen told him.

He looked between them all, 'Yeah alright. That woman I told you about. Had herself an Arcadian diamond. It's the rarest gem in the demaseen cluster, and just when I got my hands on her she only generates her own personal rift storm. If my lovely assistant would be so kind.' He motioned to Winter who glared at him and handed the pyramid to Jack, 'God I hate technological geniuses.'

'You said this was a dying woman's request,' Tosh accused.

'Yes she was dying, I shot her. Thought my luck had changed when I found out it had ended up here. So I'm thinking fifty fifty he told them. Even split, good deal. Unless anyone fancies and orgy?'

Jack shook his head and put a hand on John's shoulder pushing him up the stairs past Winter. She put a hand on Jack's chest, stopping him and handed over the manipulator. He smiled gratefully and kissed her cheek. 'Feeling better?'

She gave him a confused look.

'John said you decided not to...'

She raised an eyebrow and he sighed.

'And I guess I should have realised he was lying. Where were you?'

'M…my room. L...locked'

He rolled his eyes and led the way into his office. They stood John across from Jack and he placed the puzzle on the table.

'Open it.' Jack ordered.

'What? Now you forgot 'please', don't your manners get brought back to life too?'

'Now!' Jack replied.

John sighed and stepped forward, carefully placing the triangle over the pyramid. 'This should give us the location of the diamond.'

There was a fast beeping and another hologram appeared. This time of a woman. 'There she is.'

Jack sat up and Winter stood straight to see over his shoulder.

'The woman you murdered,' Gwen reminded him.

'You travelled several galaxies for this,' the woman said. 'Well done.'

'Thank you gorgeous,' John replied.

'Except, there's no diamond.'

Winter smiled and Jack smirked at Johns shocked look.

'What?'

'Only this.'

The puzzle began to unfold and John stood like a rabbit in headlights.

'No no no!' He looked between the device and the woman. 'There's gotta be a diamond, it's all about the diamond!'

The device suddenly shot through the air and attached itself to his chest.

'It's an explosive device which will latch on to the DNA of who ever killed me. It'll detonate in ten minutes. It can't be removed without exploding.'

Ianto pulled out his stopwatch.

'so, don't bother trying, goodbye, lover. See you in hell.'

'No wait!' John yelled as the woman disappeared. Gwen looked round at Jack.

'You can't be serious, ten minutes.'

'Get it off me!' John shouted.

'Actually nine minutes fifty, forty nine, forty eight.' Ianto held up the stop watch. 'Always at the ready.' Winter giggled.

'Okay, how big is this explosion likely to be Jack?' Gwen asked.

'That technology, that size, big.'

'So we should really get him out of the city,' Owen pointed out.

'Nine minutes thirty seven,' Ianto added.

'You've got to help me please,' John stumbled towards Jack.

'Why?' Jack asked.

John screwed up his face like a spoilt child and lashed out, punching Jack in the face and grabbing Gwen. They raced forward but he already had her hand cuffed to his.

'What have you done?' Gwen asked.

'It's hyper steel,' he told her, 'impermeable, deadlock sealed, no way to undo them unless you have, this key.' Like some kind of magic show he swallowed the key.

Gwen grabbed his throat, 'You are unbelievable.'

'And yet you still find me strangely attractive. Now you lot better find a solution pronto or you'll be blown up with me.'

'Would shooting him stop the DNA trigger?' Owen asked.

Jack held a hand out, 'No.'

'So what are we going to do now team, the orgy's still on offer by the way, especially now I've got the cuffs out.'

Ianto pulled the stop watch out again, 'Nine minutes four seconds.'

'Tosh, the rift predictor program have you perfected it yet?' Gwen asked.

'Pretty much,' She replied.

'Anything in the next few minutes?'

'Gwen, no way,' Jack told her.

'What's she talking about.' John asked.

Winter grabbed the keys from Ianto and rushed out to start the SUV. She jumped in the back just as Ianto, Tosh, Gwen and John burst through the doors and piled in. Gwen pulled out of the garage and sped back towards the car park where the man had fallen from the roof, earlier that day.

The car was in commotion everyone yelling a time or a reading or (in John's case) a sexual comment. Winter shut her eyes and zoned out. She was so tired.

Her mind wandered and the noise began to fade away into a gentle hum, wait a minute. That wasn't any old hum. It was … she opened her eyes and took in a quick breath. She was standing on the grating of the TARDIS, the control room was illuminated with its usual greenish hue and the Doctor sat in the captain's chair a book on his face and his head leant back. She smiled at the snores coming from under the book and approached him. He shifted when she lay a hand on his arm and reached for the book. To her surprise it fell from his face before she could quite touch it. He grunted and his eyes opened a sliver. For a moment he seemed to stare at her but then he turned to face the console and yawned. She laughed and his head snapped to face her.

'Nah.' He whispered to himself.

Gently she pulled him and he stood then she began pushing him through the TARDIS. He didn't seem to be too worried by the pressure but she found it odd. Obviously he couldn't see her but he could hear her and she'd been able to affect the book slightly. And for the life of her she had no clue how but she was pushing him towards his bedroom. He opened the door and slid his shoes and jacket off before climbing into his bed. She smiled and swept his hair back from his face.

'Thank you,' he murmured, before going completely unconscious.

She laughed again, 'You're welcome,' she replied.

'What for?'

Winter's eyes snapped open and she looked over at Ianto as they span around the car park heading to the top floor.

'P…p…pardon?'

'You said 'you're welcome' to thin air,' he told her. 'And you didn't stutter.'

She shook her head recognising where she was and furrowing her brow.

'Th…thinking,'

They all bundled out of the car and she marvelled at the rip in time that had appeared across the way.

'Out!' Gwen ordered, 'Get out!'

John stumbled out of the car and Winter approached the rip.

'You're not really going to sacrifice yourself are you?' he asked.

Gwen began walking forward, 'We have to go.'

'What? What about a last minute rescue? What's the point of being on a team if you don't get a last minute rescue?'

Gwen spun around and spoke up, 'Tell Jack, Tell Jack I…'

Just at that moment Jack and Owen spun around the corner in a new sports car. Jack leaped out and headed straight for John, knocking him to the floor and injecting something into his chest.

'Owen, it's not working.'

'What are you doing?' Gwen yelled.

'Trying to confuse the disk!' Owen replied.

'Why didn't it work?' Jack asked.

'I don't know!' Owen yelled back.

Toshiko joined in the babble, 'Jack do something!'

'I've got to go Jack.' Gwen told him.

Jack leapt towards John and pulled him off the ground as he did so the bomb suddenly broke off and fell to the ground. Everyone stared at it in shock. Only Winter acted, leaping at it and taking a running shot, throwing it into the rip. There was a sudden blast of energy sending them all flying into the air. They stood up to find the sky had gone suddenly dark.

'What the hell?' Jack stared at his watch.

'Jack? What's going on why has it gone dark?' Gwen questioned.

'The rift's reverted to the moment he came through,' Jack replied. 'Everything's jumped back to the beginning of the night.'

'And you were never here.' Gwen glared at John.

'Now we've got to avoid ourselves great,' Jack told them all.

'It's a temporal displacement. Makes your tongue tinkle doesn't it, lovely,' John told them.

Gwen stared incredulously at him, 'What was in the syringe?' she asked the others.

'Torchwood DNA,' Owen told her. 'DNA from all of us fused and injected into his heart, temporarily corrupted his DNA, temporarily confused the disk.'

'You mean there's a bit of all of you inside of me? Sweet god that's all I need,' John moaned.

'Thank you,' Gwen told them.

'I want you gone,' Jack told John.

'Well we've got to work out a way to get these off first,' Gwen motioned to the hand cuffs.

Once John had regurgitated the key and Gwen had vented her anger on his nose, John turned to the team and waved. He headed over to the side and programmed something into his manipulator.

'You know I meant everything I said,' he called.

Winter looked up and saw he was looking at her. She walked steadily towards him until they were only a meter apart. 'In your room.' He smiled and she blushed slightly. His voice lowered. 'Like I said I don't often say this, but I'm sorry.'

She sensed a real emotion beneath it all so joked back at him, 'S...eem t...to s...ay it a lot l...lately.'

He grinned and leant over kissing her cheek. She heard Jack make a disgruntled growl, John grinned.

'I love making him do that,' he murmured before speaking up again. 'See you around Doll.'

She nodded to him and backed away a little. Light shone around him and he turned as if just remembering something, 'Oh!' He looked over at Jack. 'By the way, I was going to tell you. I found Grey.'

Winter's eyes widened and she looked over at Jack. He looked stunned. The light faded taking John with it.

'Who's Grey?' Gwen asked.

'It's nothing,' Jack replied, glancing at Winter. 'Let's get back to work.'

They piled back into the car and Winter squeezed into the back.

'So,' Ianto asked, a hint of jealousy in his voice. 'What was he doing in your room.'

Winter smiled and Jack glanced back from the driver seat to smirk at her.

'l…lock…king m...me in it.'

'And what did he say?' Jack asked.

'N…n…n…nothing.'

Silence ensued.

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'So where the hell do we go now?'

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Next chapter may not be up until Tuesday/Wednesday depending on what time I'm let out of school Tuesday after that I'm home for Christmas so they should flood in that's the plan anyway. If you like it… Review!