'Zaziness': Bloody hell! Really. God! I've seen the pictures it looks awful! Well I hope these chapters cheer you up a bit. Not much else I can do really. We did say there was a rift where you lived since it was opposite to Cardiff, I guess someone's been playing around with it…Oh my god you've just given me such a great idea! Anyway, I quite like the Roman outfit too. I think she may go back to her normal clothes but I have a feeling she's quite into dressing up now so we may see one or two different outfits. I always knew that there would have to be some major downfalls to being connected with the TARDIS because there are so many good points. We'll see more of the good points soon but I didn't want to jump straight into them or people would think I hadn't thought of the bad things until afterwards. Hopefully the authors note at the bottom will answer the rest of your questions. :) nice to have you back, I hope Petruchio wasn't too phased by the earthquake

'sonotalady': YEY for fluff! And yey for a little thing you may notice at the end of this chapter :)

'The Small But Powerful One': I'm glad you liked it. The spin-off is coming along quite well so should be up soonish.

'Sashaxh': WOO!

'Rachy Babes': Awesome, I'll be in touch about that :D

You had me at hello!

It was many years ago

Baby when you

Stole my cool

Cause you had me at hello

Hello –Beyoncé

'This is your new room.' Winter explained as she lead Pip through one of the doors. The little monkey opened his eyes in wide surprise. It wasn't a bed room. It was a forest. 'I saw how much you liked the forest on the Byzantium so I put a hammock in here, and there's a flap in the door so you can get in and out. Do you like it?' he sped around like a headless chicken on caffeine and she slowly backed out of the room smiling. Well, one down.

With a small push the door to her room swung open and she slipped inside. Jack was sat in the middle of the bed, his legs crossed. His shoes chucked into the corner and his coat flung over the end of the bed. She sighed and picked it up, heading to the wardrobe to hang it up before straightening his shoes. 'First thing I'm going to do is teach you to clean up after yourself.' She told him. He smirked.

'Wow! Never thought I'd hear you say that. Our room used to be a tip.' She froze. That's right, it did. She hadn't thought about it before but his observation had reminded her of something. When she had woken up in the TARDIS after it had changed. Everything was suddenly neat and ordered and she'd like it. She could remember wondering why because she had never been too keen on perfect order before, but suddenly it had made her feel happy. Maybe the changes the TARDIS had brought about weren't merely physical. What if they were mental too? She'd changed, would he still like her? 'Hey? You still with me?' she shook herself out of her thought-stream and nodded. Of course he would, being tidy wasn't exactly the biggest change in the book.

She sat down at the dressing table and her hands rose up to her hair so she could begin unpinning the curls (that had already started to fall flat). Once untangled from the half-moon shaped headdress she was able to pull it off her head, letting the hidden blue strands tumble forwards into her eyes. 'You died you hair?'

'Are you going to point out every difference?' Winter smirked. Jack smiled and held out a hand. She got up from the dressing table and took his hand, it was warm and rough, just how she remembered it. With a tug he pulled her up onto the bed and she settled in between his legs, her back pressed against his chest.

'I like the hair,' he told her softly, his breath playing against her ear, 'I like the tidiness. And do you know what? I think I like the height most of all?' she smiled.

'Why?'

'Because it means I don't have to bend down to do this.' He pulled her around to face him and pressed his lips against hers. She smiled and laughed when he pulled back, hitting his chest playfully.

'So, do you want to know why I'm dressed as a Roman goddess or not?' he smiled and ran and finger down the exposed skin of her neck.

'If you make it quick.'

TTT

He couldn't recall the last time he'd taken time to do this. Just lie back and watch her sleep. The Roman robes had been discarded and replaced with black flannel PJ bottoms and a strap top and now she was where she belonged, tucked safely in his arms. He chuckled. She was doing it again moving her feet in her sleep, slow steady padding movements, like a puppy or a kitten dreaming of chase. He'd had these thoughts before. Long ago when the hub was still there and the team were all alive. Before Gwen had joined and before the whole universe went mad. Back when they were Nemo and Jack, best friends, the guy from the future and the girl from the street. Both with troubled pasts and uncertain futures supporting each other through thick and thin. He could still remember the pain when she turned her back on him to open the rift, and the elation when she re-joined his side, going against her team mates because after everything that had ever happened to her, she trusted him.

She snuggled closer and sighed in her sleep and he strained his memory. Pushed it back hundreds of years. Back to when he was just another con man, waiting for a time agent to turn up. They had, but not before she had. That first time he saw her on the bridge, talking to the monkey. Fine he hadn't 'known she was the one' or anything mushy like that. But he couldn't bring himself to use her like he had so many others. There was something different about her. A cute naïve side that she hid well with her confidence and witty remarks, but it was still there. When he had seen her walk through the rip in time his heart had sunk. Seeing her again just weeks later had sent his mind whirring. Panicked because he wasn't certain how to react to his feelings, ecstatic because she seemed to feel the same way and confused, because he'd know her for less than a day but he already felt he knew her.

When Winter had first joined Torchwood Jack had made himself a deal. He could minorly flirt with her and stay friendly but there was to be no innuendo and nothing to make her get the wrong idea. She had seemed too young, to innocent, despite the knife she had taken to keeping in her belt and the sword at her side. Sleeping in the same bed as her was always supposed to be more like a child climbing into its parents bed for comfort in the wee small hours but slowly the deal melted down until it was unrecognisable. Despite the major flirting, the never ending innuendo and night after night sleeping with her in his arms, she never got the wrong impression. He had seen it, before. Never mentioned it but he had seen, the way she looked at Ianto and him, sometimes he doubted even she realised. It was almost an unconscious sadness, yet she had let them be together, suffered in silence.

A slight whimper caught his attention and he reached up, smoothing her hair softly. It wasn't the wrong impression now though. And somehow, she had realised it. Somehow after every trial they had been put through, they had survived, she was his, and he wasn't going to put her through it again. 'Shh Kitten. I'm here.'

TTT

Right, this will be the longest authors note for a while but it is important for the future of this story. Most of you have noticed that I'm coming to the end of the last series of Dr Who. Now, I'm going to put your minds at rest straight away. This isn't the end. I'm planning on doing several things. First off I'm going to do one or two of my own adventures with the Doctor, Amy, Rory, Winter and Jack (and Pip). I'm also working on a collaboration type thing with Rachy Babes. Some of you will have read her story 'Wonderland', featuring Winter, this new version will take place in between Winter's 'death' on the Byzantium and her arrival in Rome, however it's not integral to the main story so it's your choice to read it or not. I'm also working on 'death of the doctor', one of the Sarah Jane adventures. Lastly I AM planning on doing the new series of Torchwood. I'm not certain about Dr who yet, it depends if I think I can fit Jack and Winter into the episodes. I may do one or two, I may do none of them. All of this depends mainly on my work load. As a lot of you know I'm working on my A-levels at the moment and these are REALLY important, therefore I'll only be writing when I can afford to. I'll try to put something up AT LEAST once a month, but obviously this may not always be possible as a lot of work goes into each of these chapters. However I'll try to put something up even if it's just something short.

So, just to recap, this isn't the end, there will be more, but the updates will defiantly be slower. I'll keep the updates under the same name so you lot can keep up without having to check fanfiction ever few days.

See you soon my little monkeys :)