'The Small But Powerful One': I'm glad you liked it :D, I know the wait was pretty long but when I started this story I was already finished season 1 and half way through season 2, now I'm having to work not only with what little snippits I can find but also alongside my A-levels (not remotely fun) anyway when I have a few little things to get up before the next series so hopefully you won't miss me too much :) I'm unbelieveably excited about the new series it's looking really good and hopefully it'll give me loads of material to work from. Although I am rather worried about the new series of Torchwood. I'm holding out hope that it'll be good but I don't want to get too into the excitement and be disappointed so I havn't decided what I'm doing about that yet.

'Sonotalady': Hurrah! Yes! I have returned! It is a bonus living in the country something is being made for, on the other hand it's also a pain because you can't talk about it until everyone has seen it. As it is I 'm going to have to wait until you lot (or as many of you as possible) have seen the new eps before I commit them to paper. Seems only fair that I don't blunder in and spoil everything for you. I hope your exam went/goes well :D I'm sure you'll be fine, if you're passing over writing for Winter I'm assuming your pretty serious about doing well ;) I think you have a right to feel proud, you gave her their petname. You name is on the timeline of stories. I think everyone who has contributed to this story no matter how small should feel proud because it's you lot that made Winter what she is today.

'Rachy Babes': this WAS going to be full of me yelling at you for destroying the hub, killing one of mine and Winter's favourite characters 'I WANTED TO INTRODUCE HIM TO PIP!' 'Shut up Winter! Sorry about that…what I'm trying to say is that, as we have discussed, you have now redeemed yourself and therefore I will refrain from yelling (and attempt to keep Winter away from the keyboard). I must admit I'm rather looking forward to writing for this series and I can't wait to get onto my recurring theme :D I love you too darling. Soon things'll start going DOWN! WOOOHOOO! xxx

'Zazziness': your story is now up on 'Words have meaning…' hope you like it :D

It takes acquired minds to taste, to taste, to taste this wine

You can't down it with your eyes

So we don't need the headlines

No, we don't want your headlines

We just want…

Everybody live like it's the last day you will ever see

Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pressure now?

Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing

Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pressure?

Alright, so you think you're ready?

OK, then you say this with me

We were born for this

Paramore – Born for This

'I blame you for this.' Winter complained as the TARDIS shook uncontrollably. Jack looked over incredulously.

'Me? What did I do?'

'You and your tinkering with the wires downstairs. We were perfectly happy until you decided to do some DIY.' The TARDIS seemed to hum in response and Jack frowned playfully.

'Maybe you're just not flying it right.' The Doctor rolled his eyes from the Captain's chair and pushed past the young woman who had raised a finger up to point at Jack.

'She's doing fine.' He intervened, 'and out of interest, what did you do to the wires because we appear to be flying backwards.' A slight blush rose on Jack's neck and Winter smiled. She pranced over and kissed him quickly.

'See, I told you.' Without another word she jumped the barrier and landed on the bottom floor of the TARDIS heading straight for the panel she had seen Jack play around with. She produced the Doctor's green sonic from her jacket pocket and yelled up. 'The red wire's crossing over the three blue and heading into the yellow socket. The grey ones are wrapped around the green crystal thing and the light is flashing three times and then one long flash. What do I do?'

'The yellow socket should be empty and the red wire should be attached to a green one.' The Doctor called back, 'Everything else sounds fine. You'll need the sonic…' she heard the pause and stifled her giggles as she surveyed the device already in her hand, 'Where's it gone?' he exclaimed. His head appeared, upside down, at the edge of the floor and she waved it in his face. He rolled his eyes (which looked quite comical the wrong way up) and pulled away from the side. 'I should have known better than to let a pick pocket and an ex con-man into my ship.' Winter laughed and Jack started a light teasing match with the Doctor as she fixed the wire panel. A cry of triumph from upstairs told her she'd been successful and she escaped the confines of the ground floor, to peer up onto the main platform. The Doctor motioned to her and she threw him the screwdriver before pulling herself up to lean over the bars. He raced around the console and soniced the panel of mauve switches before tossing the screwdriver to Jack and then heading over to the doors, throwing them open with a flourish. 'ahhh!' he disappeared outside. Jack looked at Winter. Winter looked at Jack. Both shrugged and headed for the door.

Outside was amazing. That was the only way she could describe it. The whole area was a burnt orange colour, sand and rock was all they could see for miles and the sky contained one burning sun giving off rings of refracted light. Their hands intertwined and Winter laughed quietly.

'Where the hell are we?' she asked, smiling.

'The west land of the Crimson heart.' He replied.

'Or what's left of it.' Jack joked, kicking a large chunk of metal. The Doctor frowned at him.

'Well, it's a little dilapidated but so are you and we don't hold it against you.' Winter snorted and slapped Jacks chest playfully, at his incredulous look, before letting go of his hand and running over to the edge of the cliff. Jack leant on the TARDIS as he surveyed the scene.

'Go on then, what happened?' Winter asked the Doctor.

'A war, this is a battle field. As far as the eye can see, one great war.'

'And…What are we doing here?' He span around and raised his arms in the air as if welcoming an old friend.

'History Harkness', Harkness-i, Hark… oh why couldn't you have picked a better surname. There isn't a plural of Harkness.' Winter blushed furiously and turned to him, rather shocked.

'You don't need one, I'm not a Harkness. I'm just Winter.' She didn't catch the sharp look of upset on Jack's face, but the Doctor did. He also saw something else. Something large and black and holding out a hand. Orange lightning flashed in their direction and the Doctor threw Winter to the floor. They heard a yell from Jack and a strange popping noise then, nothing, just silence. The Doctor coughed uncomfortably and got off Winter leaving her to pull herself off the dusty ground. The TARDIS was gone and so was Jack! The Doctor spun around, this way and that, as if trying to get is Barings.

'What happened?' She asked, rushing over to the spot the TARDIS had stood in.

'Ah, that is very not good.'

'What is?'

'That is extremely very not good.'

'WHAT IS?' she yelled. He turned to face her.

'I don't know.'

'Then what do we do?'

'I don't know.' He replied.

'But the TARDIS has gone! With Jack! What do we do?'

'I…Don't know. I have to get a message to someone who can help.' She threw her hands in the air.

'Like who, Torchwood's gone, Jack's with the TARDIS, Amy and Rory would just panic about being stuck on some holiday planet. Who do we call? And how?'

'I don't know.'

'So what? We just sit around here?' She pulled the hat from her head, ran a hand through her hair before turning around to face the planet again. Sitting down on the nearest piece of junk she rested her head on her hand and looked up at the suns. After a few minutes of silence she finally spoke.

'It's like Tattoine.' The Doctor sat down beside her.

'Star Wars. I'm showing you the wonders of the universe and all you can think about is Star Wars.'

'Back at the Hub, when we were bored, Ianto and I used to have this game. You picked a film and worked out who would play what characters if you had to pick people you knew.' The Doctor scoffed.

'That's easy, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fischer, Mark Hamill.'

'People you knew, Doctor.' She reminded him. He looked at her.

'Yeah, I heard you the first time.' She smiled and shook her head. 'Well, I think you'd have to be Leia.' She raised an eyebrow.

'Why, because I'm stunning and diplomatic at the same time as being stubborn and great in a fight against the forces of evil?'

'No, because the only person who could play Han is Jack and he's in love with you.' She elbowed him lightly and teased.

'Well you kept me from him for some time so does that make you Vader or Jabba the Hut?' He scrunched his nose a little.

'I am most certainly not a giant slug.' She laughed. 'I'll be Luke, always the hero, always seeing the good in people.'

'You do realise that makes you my brother.' He grinned and looked up at the landscape, a giggle at his side broke through, what could have been a deep thought and he looked over to find Winter's eyes watering.

'What?' she took a couple of breaths and coughed out a garbled sentence.

'I think that makes Amy and Rory, C3-PO and Artoo.' He stopped smiling and his face went blank. At first she thought she'd upset him by mentioning his other two companions but then he grasped her hand.

'What did you say?'

'Amy and Rory could be C3-PO and R2-D2.' He shook his head.

'No, no, no the exact words, the exact precise words.'

'I think that makes Amy and Rory, C3-PO and Artoo…' the Doctor leaped to his feet and cried out with joy. He pulled the makeshift seat out from underneath her, once again leaving her on the floor. 'What are you…' he thrust the piece of metal into her hands and ran around the cliff top picking up wires and thin metal sheets. She sighed and waited for him to return, whereupon he grabbed the hunk of junk from her hands. 'What, what is it?'

'Clyde, Sarah Jane's friend, he's bursting with Artron energy. You saying Artoo reminded me.' He looked up expecting realisation and receiving a blank look of total confusion. 'Clyde is the boy who knows Sarah Jane, he touched the TARDIS when it was being sent back and forward in time. It radiates a type of energy that…ah ha!' a strange bleeping sound ricocheted off the rocks and she looked down at the machine, fascinated.

'And this helps how?' he smiled.

'Like this,' taking her hand he pressed down a button and a voice filled the air where the bleep had been.

'If they're lying that mean's the Doctor's still alive.' The Doctor rolled his eyes but she could still see him smiling at this voice she didn't recognise.

'Of course I'm still alive Jo,' he spoke, 'I'd have thought that was obvious, catch up.'

'What? I beg your pardon.' Winter smiled at the shock in the mystery woman's voice as Sarah Jane's voice joined the conversation.

'Clyde is that you?'

'Of course it's not it's me. I'm using Clyde as a receiver, I've keyed into his residual Artron energy so I can organise a very complicated biological swap across 10, 000 light years, hold on.' The Doctor began fiddling with the controls again. 'Ah.' Winter looked over and he held up a hand. But not his hand. Sure it was attached to his arm but it was black, and smaller than his hands. 'Hmm, not quite right.' His own hand grabbed hers again. A strange electrical feeling ran up her back and she stretched onto her toes, leaning back ever so slightly. When she opened her eyes she was faced with Sarah Jane, an older woman with blonde hair and two teenagers only one of which she recognised.

'Good, so, gosh that was different, hello everyone!' Winter shook her head to steady the dizziness and looked around her as the congregation questioned the Doctor. They were in a building. Earth by the looks of the fire extinguishers. Knowing their luck most likely Wales. Not that she had anything against Wales, but she'd love to see something different every once in a while. Scotland, how about Scotland, she'd never been to Scotland. 'Ah yes! The Claw Shang Sheath of the 15thfuneral fleet.' She looked up to see what appeared to be three large vultures in robes striding towards them. 'I've been looking for you.' Winter raised an eyebrow.

'You have? You told me you 'didn't know" she made quotation mark movements with her fingers but he shushed her. The two teenagers eyed her curiously and she pushed passed them carefully to stand at the front of the group.

'Have you been telling people I'm dead?' The Doctor asked. Winter pulled her bow from behind her back and stealthily switched it on.

'I apologise.' The first vulture said, 'The death notice was at least a little too soon. Although I can rectify this. Immediately.' Said vulture raised his hand and the same type of orange lightning that had started this whole mess on the other planet, shot out of his hand. The Doctor fell to the floor and she acted. Raising the bow to the Shang Sheath, she pulled back on the energy that created the string and arrow. Chin up, back straight, eyes forward. Pull back until you ache, and release. The energy arrow shot fourth into the group of vultures, disturbing the stream of orange lightning and singing the vultures robes. The Doctor shook with blue light and suddenly a young mixed race boy was standing in his place, Clyde. He turned around and looked down at himself before addressing his friends.

'I was on a planet…' he began.

'Never mind that now!' Winter yelled, 'RUN!' they took off down the corridor and Sarah Jane held the door open for everyone. When they jumped through the Door it was the Doctor, not Clyde who joined them. 'Will you stop coming and going.' She grumbled. He smiled and slammed the door shut before pulling it open again and speaking to the woman from UNIT outside.

'Sorry I was…slamming it.' He re-slammed the door and turned back to the group behind him. Winter surveyed the room. Small no obvious means of exit other than the door and, oh, would you believe it.

'Enough with the damn ventilation shafts,' she complained, 'they're so cliché.'

'Right!' the Doctor proclaimed, 'we need to lock this door. Come on, use the sonic lipstick.' Winter slipped the bow back into the harness between her shoulder blades and placed her hand on the hilt of her sword.

'Haven't you got the screwdriver?' Sarah Jane asked.

'They took it.'

'Along with Jack, and the TARDIS.' Winter reminded him. The Doctor ignored her, tapping his head instead and taking the two older women's hands.

'We're running out of time, I need you, Sarah and you, Jo.'

'Need us for what?' Jo asked.

'Remember the old days where we go zooming off to far away worlds.' Without another word the three of them disappeared in a flash of blue light and were replaced by Clyde.

'What!' Winter gaped, he'd left her behind. She growled in frustration and headed over to the computer terminal. Hopefully it would be easier to use than the TARDIS microwave, that wasn't an easy mess to clear up. Mumbled voices and a knock at the door forced her to look up and she saw the three teenagers with their ears to the metal.

'But she's on our side isn't she?' A tall boy asked. She pushed forward and sighed.

'You really think she's safe if the Doctor locked her out of the room with the Shang Sheath?' Cyde asked and Rani nodded.

'Think about it, someone inside UNIT had to fake the DNA results. Colonel Shareen, she's in league with the Shang Sheeth.'

'Now you're talking.' Winter smiled and headed back over to the terminal.

'Hey! It's you again!' Winter smiled and turned quickly, giving a small wave before turning back to the terminal.

'Yeah hello, it's me…although there's no need to sound so surprised, it's been ages since I last saw you, for me that is.'

'I'm sorry, but who exactly are you.' The tall boy, with unruly blond, hair asked. Winter hunched over the screen before spinning around to face them.

'My name's Winter, I'm 23 years old, I worked for Torchwood for 5 years and I travel with the Doctor.'

'So you do travel with him!' Clyde grinned.

'I do now. Like I said it's been a while.'

'You're human?' The tall boy asked.

'100 per cent. Well, maybe not 100, I'm linked with the TARDIS and it's had some odd effects on me so I doubt I'm 100 per cent human anymore.'

'Then why are your eye's purple?'

'Genetic mutation. Sorry, what's your name?'

'Santiago Jones, Jo is my grandmother.' The boy replied. She smiled widely.

'Santiago. Nice, I like that. Right then you lot. Any of you good with computers?' She grinned at them and stepped aside. Rani managed to pull up a map of the building and she pointed out their position in the centre of the base but just as she said it, an alarm sounded and the entire base began to seal off. They were trapped. Santiago span around in shock as the ventilation shaft opened and a small blue man exited the shaft.

'Hurry, hurry, follow me!' he exclaimed. Winter looked at the three teens as they headed for the shaft.

'We trust him?' Rani shrugged and Winter looked back to the door. Follow the creature through the damned ventilation or stay trapped in here. She groaned to herself and climbed into the small opening, shimmying along after the alien. They exited in a joining of the various tunnels and Winter helped the other three hop down onto the floor. The den was basic but still comfortable looking and the five of them settled at the edges.

'Hiding's not bad.' Rani explained to them all, 'because we've got to keep you safe Clyde, see whatever the Doctor's doing. He needs you for that body switcheroo.'

'Oh great! great!' Cyide complained, 'Struck in grosk-ville.' Winter blocked out their complaining and look forlornly at the pizza. Where was Jack. She wasn't really worried for him, he'd be back, but she didn't like not having him around. When he was nearby she could be calm, engage with people and be herself. Watching these kids discussing their parents and lives she felt out of it. Their lives were pretty normal compared to hers, but if Jack was there she was certain she'd have the confidence to join in. 'so go on then. What's your story?' Winter looked up to find the three teens staring at her expectantly.

'Hmm, um, what do you mean?' Santiago snorted.

'Come on, you must have some great stories. Fighting aliens, working for the alien hunting organisation.' She frowned.

'Well, yeah I suppose… um, what do you want to know?'

'How about the bow. You didn't have it last time and there's no way it's man-made.' Rani pointed out. Winter smiled fondly.

'It was a present, from a girlfriend.'

'Girlfriend, so you're ga…' Rani hit Clyde's chest and spoke.

'An alien?'

'Kind of.'

'WOW.' Winter was about to open her mouth when the doors slammed shut and walls began to flash red.

'Heating.' The small blue man told them. 'hot hot hot'

'They're trying to boil us' Rani exclaimed. The teens began hammering on the doors so Winter yelled.

'OI!' they all turned to look at her. 'it's heating up, the first rule of thermodynamics states that heat is work and work is heat, therefore the more you exert yourself…oh for crying out loud, what I'm trying to say is that you hammering will do absolutely nothing. We need outside help so start yelling!' a few moments later the shaft door opened and a head popped out to greet them. Winter smiled from the back slightly light headedly. The heat was beginning to get to her. The Doctor began to shuffle backwards followed by the procession of teens. Winter lifted the blue man into the shaft and followed him out of the ventilation, congregating with the Doctor in the small room.

'You alright?' she nodded and he smiled before leading them out into the corridor. 'The Shang sheath have Sarah and Jo. We need to get to them and find out what they want.' The three kids and Winter ran with him, down corridor after corridor until they came to a door. From the other side of the door they heard Sarah Jane shout out to them.

'They want the key, they've got the TARDIS, and a memory weave.' The Doctor and the teenagers began to bang on the door and fiddle with the control panel beside it. Winter frowned, something was prodding and poking at the TARDIS, she wasn't having this. She closed her eyes and reached out for the warm sensation at the back of her mind, there was a sound in Winter's head a sound similar to that of the TARDIS taking off. It was unhappy, angry even and it needed to fight back so the Doctor could think of something to save it. She knew it was a bad idea, the more she let the TARDIS take over, the more control it would have over her mind but this was important she had to buy them some time. With a quiet sigh she gave herself over to the ship. The Doctor turned in time to see her collapse.

'Oh that is all I need.' He complained.

TTT

They opened her eyes and she was in the TARDIS at the doors. They didn't see anything but the doors and They didn't look back as They stepped forward and seemed to melt through. Sarah and Jo were strapped to upright tables and the UNIT woman stood with one of the Shang Sheath. The TARDIS growled through Winter's mouth at the thought. 'We shall not allow you passage.' Everyone turned to look at them stunned. 'We are closed to all, passage shall not be granted.' They knew these were just words. They couldn't stop them gaining the key, but it did act as a distraction and Winter had always been good at that.

'We don't need your permission.' The unit woman told her. They refused to panic, smiling instead before replying.

'But you shall need my forgiveness.' This was the perfect end to the distraction as the Doctor had, apparently, come up with a plan.

'Sarah, Jo can you hear me! Listen to me, both of you, I want you to remember, no, no, no, no, no, I want you to remember everything, every single day with me. Every single second. Because your memories are more powerful than anything else on this planet. Just think of it Sarah, remember it Jo but properly, properly. Give the memory weave everything, every planet, every face, every mad man, every loss, every sunset, every scent, every terror, every joy. Every Doctor, every me.' Winter's mind was suddenly filled with memories that weren't her own and it hurt. She threw herself back from them and gasped to life on the floor of the corridor, startling the teenagers.

'Did it work?' The Doctor grinned and she got up rubbing her head, 'or did I get a massive headache for no reason.' He slipped a hand into hers.

'I do wish you would stop fainting on me, it's very inconvenient to explain.' She frowned.

'I don't faint. My consciousness travels. It's totally different.' The door sparked and the Doctor let go of her hand pacing over to the left.

'Now we're in trouble. The weave is going to blow up, and we can't get them out.' Winter rolled her eyes.

'Well I can tell you've really thought this through.' The Doctor frowned at her. 'Would the bow help?' he shook his head.

'This might!' Winter grinned and turned to find Jack striding down the hall. He flipped the screwdriver to the Doctor before swooping down to hug Winter. 'You disappear on me again and I'll tie you to my person.' Winter smiled.

'I think you'll find I stayed in the same place, it was you that disappeared on me Captain Harkness.'

'All I'm saying is next time it happens the cuffs are coming out.'

'Is that a promise?' he grinned at the comment but frowned when the Doctor bashed his head against the door.

'It doesn't work, there's too much interference from the weave. Jack frowned and motioned to everyone else.

'Come on guys, let's get you out of here. Leave the Doctor to it.' He ushered them back down the corridor as fast as he could move them. Rani looked back tearfully.

'We can't just leave them!' Winter nodded to Jack and he grabbed the two boys collars, she took hold of Rani's hand and dragged her after him. They heard the explosion from the doorway they had hidden in and Jack let go of the boys. All three teenagers ran back towards the sound of the blast. Winter steeled herself. Where there was a blast, there was fire. A hand slid into hers and she looked up at Jack. He smiled gently. She nodded and they slowly made their way back to survey the scene.

Winter grinned at the Doctor and the kids, leaning over a coffin and chatting happily to Sarah-Jane and Jo inside it. Jack pulled her back towards the TARDIS leaving the old friends to have a few moments before they were likely to be off.

'How did you do it then?' Winter asked.

'Do what?'

'Escape!' he laughed.

'I didn't have to. I fell back into the TARDIS when the blast hit near you. When I opened the door I was in this UNIT base in an empty room. I think 'what the hell' and went for a look around. I was on the top floor when I saw the heat being diverted to one section of ventilation and I thought, 'I wonder who'll be caught in that.' He looked down at her pointedly.

'Not by choice I assure you.' Jack laughed and stroked the hair out of her face.

'I'm sure you had fun without me hanging around like the over baring boyfriend.' She pulled him down for a kiss and when they moved apart growled.

'Don't you ever leave me with him again!' He laughed and pushed the TARDIS door open for her. She stepped inside and pulled the bow off her back, slipping it onto the wooden chest and heading upstairs. The Doctor opened the door and led the four children and two women inside the TARDIS Winter grinned and winked at Jack he watched as she pressed a tiny purple button and the screen flashed pink. The Doctor looked over at the screen and frowned. He jumped over and looked between the entrants and the console.

'What?' he screwed up his nose and then bounced over to Sarah Jane. Pulling his screwdriver out he began running it up and down her figure. When it bleeped he moved on to Jo.

'What are you doing Doctor?' Winter asked, feigning ignorance.

'The TARDIS has picked up an alien life form. Apparently it just entered so it isn't you two. That means…' He looked around at the children. 'One of you is an alien.' They all looked between them and Sarah Jane put a hand on the Doctor's arm.

'Are you sure?'

'Of course I'm sure! The TARDIS doesn't do this sort of thing for fun you know.'

'All the same Doc, why don't you check.' The Doctor glared at Jack but headed up to the console and typed a command into the typewriter. He looked up to the screen and froze, a light blush coloured his cheeks and he coughed lightly before heading around to stand in front of Winter. He glared at her and stood right up in her personal space, leaning over and pressing down the purple button she had fiddled with.

'Well?' Sarah Jane asked.

'You're all fine.' He told them not looking away from Winter's face.

'Then what was the TARDIS picking up?' Clyde pushed. The Doctor coughed again in embarrassment but everyone was staring at him, he refused to turn around but closed his eyes gently.

'Me.' He replied. The kids giggled and Jack chuckled along with them. Winter smirked and lent forwards to kiss his cheek. She slipped out from between his lanky body and the TARDIS and headed out of the room.

'Come one kids, how about a tour of the new and improved TARDIS.' She heard an excited rabble begin following her as she headed for her room. She opened the door and took her coat off, placing it on a hanger she put it back in the wardrobe. When she turned around Rani was admiring a picture of Jack and herself on the table.

'So you're with that man who turned up before the room blew.' She smiled and took the picture from the younger girl.

'Yeah, that's my Jack.' She put the photo back down and headed out of the room, 'come on, this way.'

'What about your girlfriend?' Clyde asked. Winter rolled her eyes and let them fall into step beside her. 'She's from another universe, I don't get to see her much. Besides she's got her eye on someone else too. It's complicated.'

'Go on then, how did you get into this travelling stuff?' Rani probed, pushing Clyde out of the way.

'Like I said, I worked for TORCHWOOD. Then we were sort of, shut down.'

'When did you start working for them?'

'I don't know, late teens, I'm 23 now, although you wouldn't think it.' They headed into the kitchen and Winter stopped and turned. 'Right, the tour starts here and ends when the Doctor calls us.'

'Don't we get to see everything?' Clyde complained.

'Sorry darling but if I promised that you'd probably be dead before we got half way through. Besides, I doubt even the Doctor knows all the in's and outs of this ship.'

TTT

'It's nice to see you again Captain.' Sarah Jane told him as Jo chatted with the Doctor, she pulled him into a tight hug. 'I heard about Ianto Jones, I'm so sorry.' Jack nodded thoughtfully but her next sentence caught his attention. 'I've been keeping an eye on Mrs Williams as well.'

'Gwen?'

'Yes, She doing rather well I think.'

'Really.' Sarah Jane smiled and nodded.

'And it seems you are too. I knew there was something between you and that girl.' Jack laughed. 'She seems to be quite a handful.' She glanced over as the Doctor joined them.

'A handful? I don't think I've ever had anyone so prone to pulling practical jokes. And she's setting new heights on the jeopardy friendly scale.'

'And yet you can't help but love her.' Jack laughed. The Doctor nodded.

'Besides I don't think it helps that the TARDIS slips ideas into her mind sometimes.' Sarah Jane and Jo looked at each other with a thoughtful glance. 'What?' They looked at the Doctor and Jo shrugged.

'Well, when we were attached to the memory weave she walked out of the TARDIS. She started talking like. I don't know it was just odd.' Jack frowned.

'But she was outside the room?' The Doctor waved his hand dismissively.

'She did her little death defying trick.' He turned back to Jo, 'What did she say?' Jo's eyes crinkled as she tried to think.

'Something about not letting them into the TARDIS'

"We are closed to all, passage shall not be granted." Sarah Jane quoted.

'We?' Jack asked. The Doctor frowned and rounded on the console. He pulled out a draw and took out a long thin rod which he slipped into a small hole on the worktop. The screen flashed up wish old images from inside the TARDIS. He flicked through them using the dials on the side of the screen.

'This was taken a few hours after I regenerated.' A picture swirled into view and they watch in silence as the on screen Doctor rounded the console with a brand new screwdriver.

'Old and dull! This one's far bigger. And look,' he pointed it at Winter who was smirking a few feet away, 'it's green.' She flipped the old screwdriver over in her hands. She looked sad and the Doctor approached her. 'You can keep that if you want. Call it a, a house warming present.' He darted across the room, tucking his new screwdriver into his pocket and whispering to the TARDIS. 'Thanks dear.'

'You're welcome.' Winter, absentmindedly, replied for the ship. The Doctor rolled his eyes and continued to power up the console.

The Doctor looked up at Jack and the two women. 'I never noticed before, just ignored it as a mistake but… she's speaking for the TARDIS like she is the TARDIS.' Jack looked at him worriedly

'Is that bad?'

'I don't know…it could mean something but…'

'But what?' The Doctor shrugged.

'We have to wait and see. I'd keep an eye out though? If she stops sleeping again then come and find me straight away.' Jack nodded. A low rumbling alerted them to the TARDIS landing. Winter and the kids appeared at the door all laughing at some private joke. The Doctor dropped his concerned look and Jack followed suit. They all exited the TARDIS into Sarah Jane's attic to give the Doctor, Sarah Jane and Jo time to say goodbye. Jack raised an eyebrow at the talking computer but Winter tugged him over to the sofa. She grabbed a piece of metal off the side table and pushed Jack down onto the seat. He chuckled as she sat back against him and held up the device.

'Go on then. What's this?' He smiled and wrapped his arms around her waist.

'It's a radio from a chula ship.'

'Nothing exciting then.' She sighed. He smiled and took it gently from her hand.

'Well I wouldn't say that.' He pulled a screwdriver from the side and called over to Rani. 'Could you hand me the speaker over there?' She frowned as she looked at the side. 'The disc with the wavy edging. She picked up the item and all three kids watched as he began attaching the speaker onto the radio. A low fuzzy noise filled the attic and then a song broke through, growing louder and louder until they could guess what it was. Santiago grinned.

'Elvis?' Jack smiled.

'Hey don't knock it, this is streaming straight from the early 70's.' Rani's mouth dropped.

'Seriously.'

'Yeah, Chula ships had time travel capabilities so their radios were able to pick up on signals from most time frames.' Winter frowned as Jack got up and set the radio down on the side but blushed as he pulled her up into his arms. She smiled when he span her around and laughed as he began humming alone. 'And when you smile the world is brighter, You touch my hand and I'm a king, Your kiss to me is worth a fortune, Your love for me is everything. I'll guess I'll never know the reason why, You love me like you do, That's the wonder, The wonder of you.' She giggled and looked over to the side where Sarah Jane and Jo were leaving the TARDIS. With hurried affection she pounced on the children, hugging each of them quickly and headed back to the door. Jack followed and turned as she did when Rani shouted over.

'See you soon guys.' Jack frowned.

'We will?' Rani laughed at everyone's confused faces but waved them into the TARDIS. The Doctor smiled at them as they headed inside.

'Right, where to next?' Winter gave him a disbelieving look and pointed to Amy's coat hanging on the Captain's chair. 'Oh, Oooh. Right, well, hang on…Ah. And if she asks where we've been say… say we…ah…went to a museum. She doesn't like museums.' Winter smiled and poked him.

'She likes museums fine, she just doesn't like being dragged around one so you can keep count of how wonderful you are.' Jack looked between the jesting pair and tilted his head.

'Did I miss something?'

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