HELLO MY LITTLE MONKEYS! I hope I haven't lost any of you in the transition period between 'no Jack' Dr who and 'with Jack' Dr who. I've missed you all awfully! No I mean it I have, it's so depressing to come onto my e-mails and see nothing waiting for me but a bad facebook picture and a hell of a lot of spam. Oh and that reminds me, just a quick reminder to you all that you can follow me on Twitter, ' XAlex_JohnsonX '. let me know you're a reader and I'll follow you back (not in the literal sense of course, that would just be creepy.) Anyway, you don't care about that, what you want and need to know is the following:

I got my unconditional university offer for a certain Uni in Wales which I am VERY excited about.

I am very much looking forward to the new series of Dr who starting on the 23rd.

When people ask who may favourite band are, I will now tell them, 'Karen and the Babes' (look it up)

I am officially besotted with Matt Smith and have gathered a small group of friends together who are willing to kidnap him for me :)

Oh! And I am now 18! Woooo!

More info on what I plan to do with this story, down below but for now I'll give you this little chapter that I wrote, well, quite soon after stopping What's in a name actually.

We're the new face of failure

Prettier and younger but not any better off

Bullet proof loneliness

At best, at best

Collect the bad habits

That you couldn't bare to keep

Out of the woods but I love

A tree I used to lay beneath

Kissed teeth stained red

From a sour bottle baby girl

With eyes the size of baby worlds

Me and you

Setting in a honeymoon

If I woke up next to you

If I woke up next to you

Fall out Boy–I'm like a lawyer with the way I'm always trying to get you off (me and you)

'And here's me thinking you were coming out in lingerie.' Jack grumbled as Winter entered from the bathroom in jeans and a black strap top.

'Why would you think that?' Winter asked, confused, as she pulled on some converses and clipped a sliver and purple necklace around her throat.

'Well you said you were slipping into something more comfortable.' She shrugged.

'This is comfortable.' He sighed and she smiled at him, crawling across the bed to straddle him. 'Hey, we've been in this room all morning, I think it's time we venture out into the unknown.' He took her hand and frowned, noticing something that hadn't been there before.

'Is that a Cartier love bracelet.' Winter looked down at the metal bangle and nodded, she knew that not being able to take it off would get her into trouble. 'Where did you get that from?'

'Fawks.' She replied, 'I met her again. Parallel universe. All very exciting but in case you haven't noticed I'm sitting on your lap and not hers, therefore I think we all know who I chose.' He didn't take his eyes away from the bracelet so she took his face in her hands and forced him to look at her. 'Listen, I love her, I love you. You of all people know that it's possible to love two people at the same time, but I chose to be with you. Forgive me if I keep her bracelet on, I'm here, I'm with you and I wouldn't change things for the world alright? So forget the jealousy, get out there and find me something to prove I'm yours how about that.' He grinned and pulled her closer.

TTT

'There you all are!' the Doctor commented as Winter and Jack entered the console room at the same time as Amy and Rory. 'This always happens when I have couples in the TARDIS, hardly see them for weeks and then they expect something amazing.' Winter smiled and rounded the console to hug him.

'Sorry, we can go somewhere dull if you like. But if you find somewhere good I'll play scrabble with you tonight.' The Doctors face brightened and he span around the console.

'How do you do that?' Jack asked, coming to stand at her side. She grinned and tapped her temple.

'TARDIS in my head remember.'

'Ahhh inside information.' They smiled and followed the Doctor out of the control room, jumping down off the plinth the TARDIS had landed on and into what appeared to be a thriving marketplace.

'Wow.' Amy's eyes had widened in surprise, 'You brought us shopping?' Jack slid his hand into Winter's and whistled loudly. Pip raced out of the TARDIS and up onto his shoulder making Winter laugh.

'Neat trick.' He smiled and scratched the monkey's belly.

'Yeah, we had a lot of time to perfect it didn't we buddy.' Winter looked over at the Doctor who was waving his arms about and yelling to Amy, a thought struck her mind and she looked up at Jack, grinning widely she caught his gaze. He frowned confused but she motioned to the packed street to their right and he silently understood. His grip on her hand tightened and they crept slowly away from the Doctor. Once at a safe distance they turned and ran through the throng of people, laughing like wild things.

The people parted as Jack pulled her through the crowds and they stopped just outside a stall full of colourful bandannas. Jack grinned and let go of her hand, flinging his arm across her shoulders as they strolled down the road. 'You think he'll forgive us?' Jack chuckled.

'Maybe,' she replied lightly, 'I'll just find him a present.'

'Gifts for other men? I'm hurt.' She smiled and poked his ribs.

'You're the one buying.' He rolled his eyes.

'Ah, the drawbacks of chivalry.'

'Yeah but the rewards are worth it right?' she joked. He smiled and leant over to kiss her.

'Oh yeah.' She laughed but it was cut short with a gasp from the pedestrians around her. Jack looked around as the people glared disgustedly at the pair of them.

'Why are they all staring?' She mumbled through the side of her mouth. Jack smiled falsely at the audience. He mumbled his reply through his teeth but she just about caught it.

'I haven't a clue.'

'Excuse me.' They turned to find a man, who could only be described as a giant, addressing them from the front of a small group of uniformed men and women.

'Yes sir?' Jack replied politely.

'I'm afraid you'll have to come with me.'

TTT

'I don't believe this' Winter complained from her side of the room. The pair of them had been shoved into separate cells at the opposite sides of a long corridor. Jack was laying back on the stone bench and Winter had pulled herself onto the roof bars and was currently hanging upside down from them, Pip at her side. 'Arrested for indecent behaviour. Honestly it was only a bloody kiss! Why is it that we can't go twenty minutes without getting into trouble?' Jack glanced at his watch.

'I think we might have just made it to twenty-four actually.' Winter rolled her eyes.

'Oh well that's alright then.' Jack smiled without opening his eyes.

'You know, if you hang like that for too long all the blood will rush to your head.'

'Good,' she replied, 'better for thinking.'

'Not if you faint kitten, then you'll fall on the floor and I can't melt through these bars to catch you.' He looked pretty laid back but she could hear a hint of genuine worry slip into his voice.

'I'll get down if I start to feel woozy, promise.' He reached over to scratch his stomach and the long sleeve of his shirt rode up so she caught a glimpse of leather. 'Oh!' Jack's eyes snapped open and he looked over to her.

'What?'

'The manipulator.' Jack sighed and looked down at it.

'No use, the Doctor soniced it remember.'

'Number one, I don't think 'soniced' is a word, and number two I'm not talking about that manipulator.' He sat up interestedly as Winter swung down from the bars. 'Pip, do you think you could fetch my Jacket?' the little monkey saluted and slid through the bars with ease. Jack snorted at the sight of the monkey freeing himself with one step and pulling the coat of the table in the hallway before sliding back into the cell as if nothing had happened. Winter felt around in the pockets and smiled at the grasp of leather. She pulled out the smaller vortex manipulator and waved it for Jack to see.

'Where the hell did that come from?' he exclaimed. She smiled and fitted it onto her wrist. Fawks stole it for me to get me home and the other you fixed it up for me. Only Fawks' directions were a little off which is why I ended up in Rome.'

'You could have told me all this last night.'

'You told me to do it fast remember.' He smiled devilishly and she chuckled flipping the leather cover open. 'Right, if I come into your cell and then we get out of here, how does that sound?'

'Great, up until the part where we have to find the Doctor again.'

'Still got the comm system on this manipulator.' Jack frowned.

'I thought I was the dashing hero, I'm going to lose my title if you keep saving me.'

'Stop getting chased by rhinos then.' She laughed, 'Come on, tell me how to program this thing.' He gave her a few basic instructions and then nodded to her.

'You might feel a bit woozy after this, especially after hanging on those bars for so long.' She rolled her eyes and pressed the button down. A familiar sensation, like being in a rollercoaster, twisting and turning, churning up your stomach, assaulted her senses and she closed her eyes tightly. Without warning she was thrown to the ground and fell into a pair of warm arms. 'Wo wo wo… you alright?' her head lolled slightly at the change. 'Small moves are always the worst, you'll be fine in a bit.' She nodded into his chest and ignored his commentary, deciding instead to focus on how nice it felt, snuggled against his chest. All too soon he pulled away and pulled her down onto the stone bench while he fiddled with the manipulator. 'It's kinda nice, the one you've got. He did a good job with it. Doesn't take over your wrist.' She smiled.

'Look at you, complimenting your own work.' He laughed and made a final adjustment.

'Right, well we can't get inside the TARDIS 'cause she has all sorts of defences but we can get pretty close. I doubt anyone will have realised we're gone by the time we get there so no need to worry about getting stopped.' Winter grasped his arm tightly and held onto Pip and he pressed the button down and a slightly lessened version of the previous sensation coursed through her body. When she opened her eyes she found herself staring at the same policeman from earlier.

'What were you saying about worrying?' She asked Jack. His eyes widened and the three of them set off for the TARDIS down the end of the street. As they raced through the crowds of people they ran head long into the Doctor, Amy and Rory who had been perusing a gift stand.

'And where have you been?' Amy questioned. Winter darted a look behind her at the growing group of officers and pushed them all forward.

'Run now, talk later.' She yelled as the group gained on them. Pip raced ahead of them with Winter's key in his hand. He leaped up onto the plinth and then onto the door, twisting the key in the lock, letting the door swing open with him still clinging on. Jack, Amy, The Doctor and Rory pelted towards the plinth and up and through the open doorway but Winter was lagging behind, her body tired out from the space hopping. Jack poked his head out of the door, panicked.

'Come on Nemo! Nemo come on!' She groaned and flung herself towards him. He grasped her hands and pulled but something else grasped her foot. Jack's hands were sweaty from running and she was slipping. She kicked out desperately and the officer attached to her leg grabbed what looked like an inoculation gun from his belt. He pressed it to her leg as she kicked at him, pulling the trigger and sending a jet of some alien drug coursing through her veins. She felt the effects quickly as her legs refused to respond to her brains commands. Jack yelled something over his shoulder and the Doctor appeared at his side, Pip on his shoulder. The little monkey had a large spanner grasped in his hands which he flung down at the unsuspecting officer. As soon as he let go the Doctor and Jack heaved Winter over the side, slamming the door shut. She was sweating profusely and her head lolled from side to side as her eyes rolled upwards.

'It's alright Jack.' The Doctor muttered soothingly, 'It's just an Arathusian sleeping draft in concentrated form. They use it to cure hyperthermia which is why she's burning up, government forces started using it as a stunning injection when they realised how little damage it did but how quickly it knocked people out. Take her swimming, that should cool her down.' Jack's horrified look receded as the Doctor walked away, she was fine. He sighed and swept her up into his arms taking her through to the conservatory. Pip left them at the door and Jack pushed it open with his hip, kicking it shut behind them and calling.

'Lock.' He lay her out on one of the deck chairs and peeled off the layers down to her underwear before doing the same to himself. Gently he lifted her into the water. Sliding in and floating on the surface he pulled her against his chest. Talking to her quietly. 'Well that was fun. I guess, although remind me to get you more used to the whole space hopping thing, if we have to use it in another sticky situation, I don't want to have to carry you while we run away. It'll do wonders for my image but less so for our speed.'

Winter came to, lying against his chest in the water. She heard his chatter and shivered in the water as it washed the sweat from her body, that hadn't been the nicest experience. 'You know what I was thinking in that cell.' He told her. She kept her eyes shut, pretending to be out of it. This was the only sort of time that Jack Harkness really talked to her. Bared his worries, his fears, his thoughts. Normally he was so guarded that moments like this were very special and to be elongated as much as possible. 'I was thinking that that bracelet didn't really annoy me. What annoyed me was that other than that daft hat of mine there's nothing to show people that your mine, your taken.' She forced herself not to smile. Captain Jack Harkness proclaiming that he needed to prove she was taken. As if that had ever stopped him. 'So I was thinking. What could I give you, so people would know you were spoken for?' There was a pause, 'no, not spoken for, I don't think I could ever speak for you. Besides you'd only butt in.' she held back a laugh. 'Stupid thing was the only thing I could think of was a ring.' The gasp that almost escaped her throat had to be lessened into a steady breath of air, was he thinking what she thought he was thinking? 'But it's way too soon for that, for me and for you. At least I think it is, is it?' He sighed frustrated, 'I don't know.'

After a long pause she decided that he'd most likely finished procrastinating and she began to move her head as if waking up. His grip tightened on her and he stood up in the water, supporting her carefully. 'Hey, how do you feel?' she frowned.

'Like I could do with a mug of coffee and a chocolate hob nob.' He laughed and wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her closer.

'Don't you do that again you hear?' she smiled into his shoulder.

'May not have a choice,' she replied, 'but would you accept it if I tried?' he rolled his eyes so she planted a kiss on his lips.

'Fine, but only because you asked nicely.' She turned to walk out of the pool but he pulled her back, flush against his chest. 'Since we're already in a certain state of undress…' He hinted, she laughed and shook her head.

'I promised I'd play scrabbled with the Doctor remember.' Jack didn't listen, just began planting a trail of kisses up her pale neck. She feebly pulled away but his arm tightened, possessively around her. 'Maybe…' she sighed and gripped his arms, 'Maybe, I could spare a few more minutes.' He gave her a feral smile and bit gently into her neck. 'Maybe an hour.'

Right, I know some of you will be wondering where the hell this is going from now on with so many exciting things happening in the world of Dr Who. First thing to say is that I will be carrying on. I plan on doing the new series of Dr Who and the new series of Torchwood. Dr who is pretty planned out, in the sense of, I have a new recurring storyline and a thrilling end planned out. It's SO exciting! Torchwood I'm slightly more worried about, I'll have to wait and see how it pans out. If I think I can fit it in, great! If not I have a few ideas to get Jack there and leave Winter on the TARDIS for a while.

My latest project at the moment is the dr who Christmas special which is going quite well so far with a few amusing scenes on the way.

The next Topic to address is Pip. I love Pip. You LOVE Pip. He's not going to die. (I thought I'd just throw that in there to put you minds at ease) my problem with Pip is he was actually supposed to die a long time ago but you lot kept him alive. I have nothing against my faithful companion but he is very difficult to write for. To make both myself and you, happy, I have come up with a compromise. I am currently working my way through a couple of chapters of Pip based stuff. There won't be much of it but there will be Pip and 2 newish characters who may…or may not… become important later on. Depending on how I'm feeling about the whole situation.

Sarah Jane. Having watched the two Sarah Jane episodes with the Doctor I am toying with the idea of writing them up. I already have the basic draft of 'death of the Doctor' but I'm still deciding whether to do something else or keep working on it. If I put them up they'll be in 'Word's have meaning, names have power' rather than 'What's in a name' because one of them is severely out of it's timeline at the moment.

Speaking of timelines. I've actually tabulated this story in all of it's universes. Basically it's like a massive timeline of Writing about Winter showing what order the stories and chapters go in. (including the short stories you wonderful people did and Rachy Babes' crossovers so far.) If anyone would like a copy, message me your e-mail address and I'll send one through.

OH and speaking of the little stories you lot did for me so long ago…well…I'd quite like some more :) so if anyone has a little idea floating around in their heads, or you just want to do a little character study. Or you just want to use your dirty mind to fill in gaps I generally leave (I'm looking at YOU Rachy Babes…not that I'm complaining :P) Please have a go, even if you're a first time writer, even if you think you're awful, that's how we all start out (trust me some of my old stuff is eye bleed worthy) anyway, like I said, please have a go, stick it up on fanfic or just message me and I'll send you my e-mail for you to send it through. I'd Love to hear from you all :)

Hmmmmmmm I actually think that may be it for now… Review!