[Hello everybody. Well let me introduce you to the episode I've been most excited to show you for ages! I love this chapter. It's been edited and re edited and triple checked and deleted and re-written until it got to you. I even just read it for fun a few time. I wish I could be there reading it to you because there are bits that I'd love to comment on. But hey ho, I hope you enjoy it.]

You don't remember me but I remember you
I lie awake and try so hard not to think of you
but who can decide what they dream?
And dream I do...

Evanescence - Taking Over Me

Victory of the Daleks

'I said patriotic!' The Doctor exclaimed.

Winter smiled as she walked through the door with Amy. She patted down the flared blue skirt and Shrugged, adjusting her brown leather belt until the buckle was central.

'Last time I was in the 1940's I was wearing jeans and a glittery fox t-shirt,' she told him. 'At least this time I'm in a skirt.' She fiddled with the buttons of her low cut blouse and Amy slapped her hand.

'Would you stop doing that! You look fine!' she cried exasperatedly.

Winter grumbled but Amy took no notice.

'Anyway Doctor this is patriotic!'

'Amy Pond! You! You are wearing orange and she, well she…'

Amy raised an eyebrow. 'Yes?'

'Is obviously not comfortable in that outfit! Besides what's patriotic about it?'

'She looks more patriotic than you do,' Amy commented. 'Besides, don't criticize my hard work!'

The Doctor snorted. 'Hard work!'

'Yes. It took a small scale war to get her to wear a skirt, as it is I had to let her keep that necklace that, frankly, wouldn't complete any outfit.

Winter took in a quick breath and the Doctor looked at her worriedly but she just smiled falsely and pointed to the door. 'What year is it?'

'1941. Why?'

Winter held back a slight smile and shook her head. 'Nothing, nothing… just… you wouldn't happen to know the exact date would you?'

The Doctor narrowed his eyes, blatantly suspicious. 'No.'

She reminded herself to smile and pranced off towards the door. 'Come on then.'

Pip scampered up the railing and onto Winter's shoulder and she looked up horrified.

'Oh! What has the nasty lady done to you?' She glared at the union flag collar around Pip's neck and tutted pulling it off and flinging it at Amy.

'I thought it looked cute!' Amy defended.

'You wear it then.' Winter shot back.

The Doctor hurried forward. 'Now, now ladies. Let's not fight.'

'Who's fighting?' Amy asked.

Winter looked over at him like he was mad. 'We weren't fighting.'

He glanced between them and rolled his eyes before heading past them both towards the door. He pushed the door open and peeked out. 'Anyway.'

They both followed him out into the small room.

'Winston Churchill.' He flourished his arm towards the man but both women knew exactly who he was.

'Yes,' Winter remarked slowly, 'and an awful lot of guns.'

The Doctor turned to look back at her. 'You worked for TORCHWOOD.'

She raised an eyebrow, 'I was generally on the other side,' she told him, with a smirk.

'Doctor?' Winston asked stepping forward. 'Is it you?'

'Oh, Winston my old friend.' The Doctor grinned.

Winston held his hand out to shake his but pulled it back a little and motioned as if asking for something.

'Ha! Every time.'

'What's he after?' Amy asked, it was clear from her voice that she wasn't too keen on having guns pointed at her either.

'TARDIS key of course.' The Doctor explained without looking back.

'Think of what I could achieve with your remarkable machine.' Winston exclaimed. 'The lives that could be saved.' Oh, this man sure new what buttons to press.

'Ah… it doesn't work like that,' The Doctor replied.

'Must I take it by force?'

'I'd like to see you try.' Winston smiled and ordered the men to lower their weapons.

Winter and Amy visibly relaxed.

'You rang?' The Doctor prompted.

Winston smiled and jerked his hand, motioning for them to follow him. They left the TARDIS behind and headed into a short corridor that had dust falling from the ceiling. Amy was getting rather excited about being in the cabinet war rooms but Winter had another thought playing on her mind. The date.

She pushed past the Doctor and Amy, who were discussing the top secret base, and moved to stand next to Churchill.

'Sorry, I know this is going to sound odd but you wouldn't happen to know the date would you?'

He looked at her and smiled. 'Nothing sounds strange when in connection with that marvel of technology.' Winston told her in his deep voice. 'It is exactly three pm on the seventeenth of January.'

She stopped in her tracks and so did he. The Doctor walked right into Winter's back bouncing right off and falling to the floor .Winston handed Winter his cane as he signed off on some documentation.

'And just one other thing?'

He raised an eyebrow at her.

'The exit would be?'

He pointed up a flight of stairs. 'That way but it's locked.'

She grinned. 'Not a problem.'

Before the Doctor was even on his feet again Winter and Pip had raced up the stairs. She pulled the Doctor's old sonic screwdriver from her pocket and hit it. Okay so it was only good for one function (opening and locking) and it only worked when it wanted to (please let that be now) but it was a chance!

The light flashed but eventually buzzed and she slid through the door locking it again and racing away from the Doctors yells for her to stop. She had to get to Westminster.

TTT

'Now what?' She asked Pip when they reached Big Ben. He looked at her and scampered off her shoulder trotting along the road back onto Westminster Bridge. She smiled at him when he leapt onto the side. 'What are the chances Pip?' She stroked his chin gently.

'One in a million.' A voice replied.

She smiled and turned around to see the younger Captain standing in front of her. 'Or more because I got a surge of alien tech about twelve minutes ago and I've been wondering around down here, tracking you for the last five.'

She smiled and reached up to hug him. He grinned and pulled back to examine her. 'Take it, it's been a while for you. Nice hair.'

She blushed and tucked the blue strands away.

'You look older.'

She rolled her eyes. 'Gee thanks.'

He stopped and took her arm so they could stroll along the bridge. 'I didn't mean it like that.'

'Oh, I'm sorry, you meant older in a good way.' She mumbled sarcastically.

He nodded. 'Yup.'

The ladder to the ship descended and she was so busy watching it appear from the sky that she didn't notice him lean down close to her.

'I meant more mature,' he murmured in her ear.

A shiver ran down her spine and she let him hoist her onto the ladder. Peregrine disrupted the moment and scampered onto Jack's head before leaping onto the rope ladder and scaling it in seconds.

'Hello to you too,' Jack grumbled.

Winter laughed and he smiled, stepping up onto the ladder and programming it to rise. She grasped his coat tightly to stop herself from falling and carefully examined his face. She'd missed him. Oh, fine it had only been a little while since she'd last seen him but, well, he hadn't himself then. This happy, flirty Jack had been missing for a while.

The trapdoor opened and Jack helped Winter to climb into the ship before pulling himself inside.

'I like the skirt by the way.'

She blushed and gaped at him, looking down at it and gripping the fabric. 'Oh my God I totally forgot.'

'Don't worry,' he reassured her. 'I didn't peak.' He winked at her and she slapped his arm playfully. Pip pawed at a small door at the back and Jack smirked. 'Looks like someone's hungry.'

Winter glared at Pip. 'All you ever think about is your stomach!'

Pip tilted his head as if to say, 'Yeah, and?' and she shook her head tiredly.

'Don't worry, I think I actually have some fruit in the back room.' Jack lead the little monkey through the back and into a small alcove she hadn't noticed. But when he returned Pip wasn't with him.

'I wouldn't leave him in there if I were you. You'll have nothing left.' Jack smiled coyly and sauntered forwards until he was right up in her personal space.

'Quiet frankly,' he told her. 'I'm not bothered.'

She smiled and waited for him to step closer but he didn't. She examined him closely and realised something strange, something she hadn't expected, not from this Jack anyway. He was waiting for her. He wanted to know if she wanted to do this. Did she? She missed him yeah, but this wasn't exactly him was it. Was it? This was wrong. Totally wrong. She should leave right now, go back to the Doctor and Amy. She plucked up all her courage and took a step.

Then with one tug of his shirt she pulled Jack down to her level (not as low down as before, she thought, with a smile) and crushed her lips to his. She could feel him smiling as his arms snaked around her waist. A guilty side of her reminded her just how bad an idea this was… but the way his hands were sliding down her back, she couldn't care less.

TTT

'You can't tell me any of this,' she told him later, her eyes down and her finger painting tiny patterns on his chest.

'Hmm?'

'When I first met you, I told you you didn't know me, yet. Well. When you meet me. You can't tell me. Not a word. Not until this happens for my time line.'

His arm flexed slightly under his head and he stretched his legs out. 'And how am I supposed to know…'

'You'll know,' she laughed. 'You have an eye for fashion Harkness.'

'That's Captain Harkness.' He chuckled reaching down and tickling her sides.

She squealed and leaped from the bed taking the sheets with her.

'Oh, my! Someone's ticklish.' Jack grinned and hopped down from the bed, stalking after her.

'No…no! Jack Harkness. Don't you dare!' she yelled as he chased her across the ship. There was no where to run so it wasn't surprising that he caught her. She collapsed at his feet in fits of giggles as his fingers traced her sides in fast tickling motions.

'Alright I surrender! I surrender!'

He grinned and sat down behind her. The skin of her bare back burning under the heat radiating from his chest. There was a gentle tapping behind them and they both turned their heads to look.

'Should we let him out?' she asked guiltily.

Jack shrugged and turned back to her. 'Do you want to let him out?'

She met his stare and groaned to herself as she pressed her lips against his… this man was going to kill her, she was sure of it.

TTT

'So you're human, that's obvious but you come from a period with time travel technology. Put that together with the retro look and I'd say some time just after the beginning of the 52nd century.'

Winter laughed and squeezed his arm as they strolled down the road towards the cabinet war rooms. 'Not quite.'

He buckled his knees slightly in mock frustration. 'Ohh! I really thought I had it.'

She laughed and pulled Pip a little closer in her free arm. She'd been right, he'd polished off every fresh and edible thing in that room, Jack would have to go shopping.

'You know… you've never asked me what I'm doing here,' Jack pondered. 'Does that mean I've told you about this?' he motioned to the outfit and she smirked.

'Let's just say you might want to keep an eye on the sky on the twenty-second.'

He smiled as they reached the door and he knocked. 'Twenty-second, huh?'

She grinned and looked to the door as it cracked open and a soldier stepped out.

'State your name and business.'

Jack immediately straightened up. 'Captain Jack Harkness, 133 Squadron, Royal air force. Escorting this young lady into the building.'

Winter could see the man about to protest but she recognised him as one of the men who had pointed a gun at them when they had arrived so added. 'Doctor's orders.'

Jack gave her a confused look but the soldier nodded and stepped back allowing them through. They walked inside arm in arm and Winter smiled when she saw the Doctor further down the corridor.

'Honey I'm home!' she cried, letting go of Jacks arm and leaving him in the shadows as she skipped forward.

'There you are! Where on earth have you been, first you disappear then I'm up to my eyes with… Who's that?'

Winter caught a dark look on the Doctor's face and instantly regretted her light headed decision to bring Jack inside.

'Don't yell. Not in front of him. He doesn't know.'

The Doctor glared at her and she shrunk back slightly. He pointed at Jack's figure taking a few seconds to figure out what to say. 'Get rid of him. Before you mess up the timeline even more.'

She nodded trying desperately not to burst into tears. He was angry, scratch that he was furious. She'd really done it this time.

He walked through a door to the side and she heard him call, 'Just tying up loose ends.'

She felt Jack's hands on her shoulders and she turned around trying to look normal. Pip left her arms and trotted off to the TARDIS. 'That you're boyfriend.'

She shook her head but couldn't force an answer out. What would he do when they were back on the TARDIS, surely he wouldn't kick her out.

'Then what's he got against me?' he asked.

She shook her head again.

'Yeah well, he sounds like a jerk.'

She smiled slightly. 'A jerk?' she giggled.

He grinned, happy to see her smiling again.

'Yeah, a complete and utter jerk.' He swooped down and kissed her before she had time to laugh again only stopping when they heard a cough of amusement from behind them. Amy smirked and waved as she followed the Doctor out of the corridor and down some stairs. Winter blushed and turned back to the Captain.

'I'll see you soon Jack.' She smiled, kissing him once more in case she didn't get a chance too for a while.

'Oh, so it's soon is it?'

She laughed despite her considerably lowered mood and took a few steps away, finally letting his hand drop. She took a breath and walked a little way down the corridor. Just before turning into the cupboard with the TARDIS in she turned to look at him. Just one more look. He had so much more to come and she may never see this young care free Jack again.

He stood tall and saluted her with a wink. She smiled before leaving him behind and disappearing into the TARDIS.

TTT

Winter was sitting on the captain's seat when the Doctor and Amy entered the TARDIS again. Amy sensed the tension between her two companions and raised her eyebrows. 'Come on you scrawny … monkey.' She picked Pip up off the side and held him a little distance from her before hopping up the stairs and through to the rest of the ship.

The Doctor stood at the bottom of the ramp, hands in his pockets and a blank look on his face. She waited, and waited, and waited but he still said nothing. Maybe the best idea was to explain what was going on.

'Look, if I could just explain...' She began but he marched up the stairs and interrupted her.

'No! No… you don't get to explain anything! Of all the stupid and completely irresponsible things to do! Did you think?' He circled the console flicking switched with some force. 'Did you think for even a second about the repercussions of your actions? A lost earring, a conversation! Anything could interrupt the timeline of this planet!'

He stripped his jacket off and flung it on the railing before rolling up his sleeves angrily. 'I thought, you, of all people would have had some notion of how to deal with timelines! But no 'I'm Winter and I'm sad and a little lonely so I can do whatever I like' well, I've got news for you, you're wrong! You may have just changed mine, yours and Jack's timelines forever. I hope you're happy!'

'It had already happened,' she said, softly.

'Don't mumble Nemo, this is serious and you may have just stumbled in to a massive paradox with…'

Winter hopped off the Captains seat and yelled at the top of her lungs. 'It had already happened!'

The Doctor stopped and looked up at her like a deer caught in headlights. 'What?'

'Back when I worked for Torchwood the rift cracked. Jack, Tosh and I all fell through but I literally tripped and ended up in London a few months earlier. The fourth of January according to Jack. I ran into him by mistake and when I finally got home our Jack remembered. Apparently, he knew me the moment he saw me so he hired me to keep tabs on me. When we were talking he said that a few days later he met you and Rose and got caught up travelling with you.' She sat back down again and waited for him to make the connection, it didn't take him long.

'But I met Jack on the twenty-second of January, that's not a few days later, that's weeks.'

'Exactly, I remembered the story, I mean I'd heard it enough and I thought he'd made a mistake but when I asked him he got all uptight and changed the subject. So, I made the connection and realised I must have gone back and met him again weeks later.'

The Doctor sighed and leant against the TARDIS console. 'And the seventeenth is days away from the twenty-second.'

'I told him he had to keep it secret until he was sure I already knew. He's not stupid Doctor. I know he'll remember in time and it will lead me right back here. As for earrings I wasn't wearing any and we didn't spend that much time talking so no need to worry about that either.' She realised what she had just inadvertently let slip and blushed furiously.

He looked over at her and gave her a tired smile pushing away from the console and walking over to her. He stuck his hands in his pockets and bowed his head, peering at her through his eyelashes.

'I think you owe me an apology.'

I'm sorry,' he told her quietly.

'I'm sorry, I didn't quite hear that.'

He repeated the statement a little louder and she nodded before getting up and turning from him. She got to the doorway leading to the rest of the TARDIS then turned around to make one more point clear.

'Just so you know, I haven't felt lonely since you picked me up.' She smiled sadly. 'Maybe I should have.'

She left the room and made her way down the corridor to the bathroom. Alright she knew he was sorry but it wasn't just his little rant. It was leaving Jack behind again. It was the lovely memory of that afternoon tainted. It was being tired and feeling like she couldn't do anything right, it was that he hadn't even trusted her to explain what had happened, it was the moment of panic as she walked back into the TARDIS when she thought of Ianto and wondered what Jack must think of her knowing that she came back to his past self and did this so soon after everything. It was that, for just a few hours, she had forgotten Ianto.

She sighed and entered the large room, locking the door behind her. What she needed right now was a bath and a cup of tea.

TTT

The kettle turned itself off and Winter poured the steaming water into the cup of tea she was making. She didn't drink coffee any more…

'Is there any more water in that?' she heard the Doctor enter behind her and sit down at the table.

She nodded and poured another cup. Setting the two cups down on the table she took the seat opposite him and stared at him while he fiddled with his fingers nervously.

'I know you're sorry,' she told him. 'I didn't mean it, you just riled me up. To be honest Ianto was the only person who didn't do it. He was always pretty careful about what he said and how he said it.'

The Doctor nodded understandingly.

'I'm not used to following rules, Doctor. As a kid we had a code but barely any hard and fast rules and then with TORCHWOOD… I'm not saying I'm ever going to be the perfect companion, I'm just saying bear with me and I'll work on it.'

The Doctor smiled and took a sip of tea.

'Just, could you do something for me?'

'I suppose so, it might depend what it is.' He bowed his head and looked at her, interested.

'I've seen a lot of people die recently and it got me thinking. If something happens to me…'

'I'm not going to let that happen.'

She shook her head at his interruption. 'If something happens to me would you find Jack and tell him. Tell him straight away. Don't wait around. And make sure he's alright. Take him with you if you have to just promise me you'll look out for him.'

The Doctor seemed hesitant but nodded.

'Promise?'

He sighed and leaned across the table. 'Promise.'

She sat back and nodded conclusively just catching the Doctor's ending murmur.

…

'It's not going to happen though.'

…

Coming up…Weeping angels.

'Sonotalady': Who isn't jealous of Winter. I'm going to put blue in mine when I go off to University but for now I'll just live through her :) I thought it would look good against the TARDIS. Almost like a symbol of their link. I pimped Pip out a little bit in this one and you'll see Winter's reaction lol. I loved the tip! They were really good. You my friend, are brilliant! I was a little dubious at first because that's a hard pairing to work with but they did it really well. Ha Ha I'm guessing you're talking from past experience here? No I don't have school, we're on half term break at the moment so I'm free to party hard. Don't worry I'll have a few shots for you :) as for the Bow tie. Personally I really liked it right at the start so it never shocked me that he was wearing it (I quite liked the fez as well) there will be a mention but not yet. And I don't think it's from Winter.

'Rachy Babes': Thank you.

'Sashaxh': Ah well, due to this being a Torchwood story (mainly) I didn't know what my reader had, or hadn't watched. I for one don't actually watch the Sarah Jane adventures very often so I have written a version of Sarah's wedding with Winter but it will go up in Words Have Meaning Names Have Power not this story. I'm also planning on doing death of the Doctor at some point, if I get that far. Anyway, I'm really glad you brought this up because if I miss something that you lot want to see then I'm not really doing my job properly so if you notice anything else Please point it out :) I'm glad you like the story and I completely agree. I love Ianto and Jack as a couple but sometimes you just want something else. There really aren't enough, good, Jack/OC in fact I can only think of one of the top of my head.