And onto the main mystery. Now I do have to warn you that it may be a little confusing because these eps were filled with moments that work best on screen but I've tried my hardest to get them up here as coherently as possible. Also you may want to know that I've put links to all the Winter stories you wonderful people have done and all of the Fawks series as well.

'PurpleFluffyPancakes': Oh God I've read books like that, terrible. *shakes head in disgust* I'm glad I could help, feel free to ask any more questions whenever you have them :)

'total-animal-lover': Winter's used to odd things happening so I think she won't be as fazed. I'm more worried about her reaction when he really dies. I don't think she'll believe it, or she'll be distraught.

'Rachy Babes': seriously? Live, damn, I've been to like one concert so far and at the time I'd never even heard of the band. Yeah Jack's being daft but he honestly thought it was time to ask her and he'd spent so long working his way up to asking that he wasn't ready to contemplate her saying no. Especially as she couldn't tell him why. Doctor's message was just a last minute thing but I love it, it'll be good. :)

'sonotalady': I love the Kitten thing, it's just stuck. It just slips out sometimes and it's great for silly little comments from the doctor.

Here it comes it's all blowing in tonight
I woke up this morning to a blood red sky
They're burning on the bridge turning off the lights
We're on the run I can see it in your eyes
If nothing is safe then I don't understand
You call me your boy but I'm trying to be the man
One more day and it's all slipping with the sand
You touch my lips and grab the back of my hand
The back of my hand

Guess we both know we're in over our heads
And if all we've got, is what no one can break,
I know I love you, if that's all we can take,
the tears are coming down, they're mixing with the rain,
I know I love you, if that's all we can take.

A pool is running for miles on the concrete ground
We're eight feet deep and the rain is still coming down
The TV's playing it all out of town
We're grabbing at the fray for something that won't drown

Mat Kearney – All I Need

A low humming was welcomed by Winter's ears as she awoke in a warm bed. She smiled but the smiled faded when she remembered the events of the day before. The proposal, the Doctor, the TARDIS. 'Nemo. I need you to trust me.' She tried to force her eyes open but she felt Jack's hand cover her eyes.

'What…what are you doing?' she asked groggily.

'I need you to keep your eyes closed for me.'

'Why?'

'I'm going to explain just promise not to open them until I'm done.' She nodded, still half asleep.

'We got back to the diner and River explained the numbers. She got letter 2, we got letter 3 and the Ponds got letter 4. Delaware got one marked 5.' He told her.

'So?'

'Sooo, there was one missing.' He paused, 'Nemo, if you knew you were going to die and you needed to find out why but you couldn't go yourself what would you do?'

'God Jack It's too early to ask me philosophy questions just spit it out.' A loud bang jerked her fully awake and her eyes snapped open as an excited voice cried.

'I'm sorry I couldn't wait, ah! Nemo! You're awake, Oh it's so good to see you, you're hairs hardly blue at all now that won't do at all and you…' Winter watched in utter confusion as the Doctor leaped onto the bed and bounced up and down a few times before patting her head and racing around the room staring at everything and anything inside it…they were in the TARDIS. In the room she shared with Jack. He was sitting next to her, his hand over his mouth and half his face, covering almost everything but his 'did you have to?' face. Winter slid off the bed and stalked over to the Doctor. He automatically covered both cheeks with his hands. 'You're not going to slap me are you? River slapped me and it wasn't an experience I'm in a hurry to repeat.' She didn't answer, only pushed him against the wall and pulled his Jacket open before feeling around in his inside pocket. 'Um Jack…Jack I…Your girlfriend appears to be assaulting me.' Her stunned expression returned as her fingers fell on metal once again and she pulled the sonic from his pocket. But when she put a hand on her own pocket she could feel the sonic she had taken from him earlier. 'What are you doing with that?' he questioned. Now she understood. The Doctor who had died was a future version of this man, he had sent the letters to his friends and an earlier version of himself. This was a younger Doctor. She smiled and slowly wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him closer. 'Oh, Well, this is much better then slapping. Obviously, I mean a slap is supposed to be unpleasant.' Winter pulled back from the hug and laughed handing over his sonic.

'Sorry Doctor, just, haven't seen you in a while.' He grinned and rocked back and forward on the balls of his feet.

'That's alright, it's always nice to have a hug…although maybe without the frisk beforehand.' He laughed and shot Jack a look of minor confusion when he didn't give a smutty reply. Winter's smile faded slightly but she forced it back onto her face and looked back over at the Doctor.

'Control room?' he smiled and led the way.

TTT

'1969 that's an easy one, funny how some years are easy. Now 1482, full of glitches. Now then, Canton Everret Delaware the third, that was his name yeah? How many of those can there be, well three I suppose.' The Doctor danced around the console in a familiar fashion, but as he turned to Amy she left for the lower levels and when he turned to River and Jack they disappeared after Amy. He stopped in front of the console, bent over a panel and glanced up at Rory. 'Rory…Is everybody cross with me for some reason?' He looked over at Winter and gave a rather good impression of a startled fish, although she had a feeling he wasn't trying to.

'I'll find out.' He replied and followed the path everyone else had taken. The Doctor touched a finger to the screen and continued working but his face betrayed his feelings of confusion and worry. He caught sight of Winter, sitting on the Captain's seat and smiled sadly.

'Aren't you going to join them?' He asked. She shook her head. 'Why not.' In a single motion she crossed the room and kissed his cheek.

'They have nothing to say that would interest me right now.' He looked startled for a moment but nodded gently, then he took her hand in his and squeezed it warmly.

'Is something wrong?'

'No,' she replied, 'No, I'm ok, I'm the queen of Ok I am.' He smiled and bent his head forward to look into her eyes.

'That's a rubbish title.' She cocked her head but smiled back.

'Yeah, I guess it is yeah.'

'You can tell me you know. Whatever it is, you can tell me.' She sighed and looked up at the Doctor. The man who, not 2 hours ago, she was tearfully setting alight to. Did she tell him, that's what they were discussing downstairs, almost certainly and she knew the answer. No one would want to know the way they would die. The unexpected was always preferable because you were able to lie back and enjoy life. She placed her hand over his and played with his fingers, carefully moving them apart and then together, examining each one in turn.

'Jack asked me to marry him.' She told him. If the Doctor was surprised he did a very good job hiding it, his face betrayed no emotion but concern for her, so she continued, 'He asked while we were in Berlin in the 1930's.'

'And you said no.' He replied. It wasn't a question, it was a statement, she frowned and looked up at him.

'How did you know?'

'Well I'm not an expert in proposals but I believe the bride and groom to be are normally less subdued about the idea.' He teased. A small smile passed her defences causing his to grow a little bigger.

'I don't know why, I just…I just… Cant. Not now.' The Doctor nodded and pulled her forward, wrapping his arms around her.

'It's perfectly understandable.' He told her, 'you're frightened of that sort of commitment. Not only has your every relationship, romantic or not, ended somehow badly but the man asking is Captain Jack Harkness and you know better than most people what he's like.'

'It's not that.' She replied, gripping his jacket in one hand and pressing her other to his neck. He pulled back and looked into her eyes.

'Oh… oh.' A loud beeping noise interrupted the conversation and the Doctor turned back to the console. He pressed a few buttons and looked down at the glass flooring at the people below, with one dive onto the floor he leant over the edge and yelled down to the companions below deck. 'I'm being extremely clever up here and there's no one to stand around looking impressed. What's the point of having you all?' Jack jogged up the stairs and frowned at the pair of them.

'You've got Nemo.' He pointed out. The Doctor rolled his eyes and pointed at Winter without looking at her.

'Does she look impressed to you?' Winter snorted with laughter and sat back to watch him work.

When they stopped he looked up at the screen and she pulled her large black coat off revealing the short, tight, nude coloured, strapless dress she was wearing underneath. 'I can't get anything on the scanner, we're being cloaked, um, just give us a mo.' He began to speed over to the door but stopped short when he caught site of her. 'Um, I could have sworn you were wearing more clothes a minute ago.' She stood up and frowned at the dress.

'Sorry, I asked for 30's fashion and this idiot comes back with 30's pin up girl.' Amy slapped Rory's chest and he visibly turned his head to look at ANYTHING else. Jack grinned and eyed her up and down, she sighed and went to grab the coat again. Only it wasn't there. She looked around herself and it was nowhere to be seen. When she turned back to the people in the room Amy and River were giggling and the Doctor had his hand on his face. Jack, was gone. 'Oh…' she realised, her voice lowering to a growl, 'Oh, I am going to kill him.'

'Yes, well maybe when this is done.' The Doctor replied, heading down towards the doors. They all began to follow but he turned and held his hands up. 'Wooa, woa, woa, woa! You lot, wait a moment. We're in the middle of the most powerful city, in the most powerful country on earth. Let's try and take it slow.' He disappeared out of the TARDIS and she sighed.

'Are we going to listen?' Jack asked, entering the room a safe distance from his girlfriend. River raised an eyebrow at him. 'Yeah, I thought so.'

Winter held Jack's gaze as he helped River to hook up the scanner to the main console power systems, trying to deduce the whereabouts of her coat through her non-existent telepathy skills. He just grinned in his most cocky manner and followed the others out into the oval office. She fought with her confidence pacing back and forward between the console and the door. On the one hand Jack obviously liked her in this dress and if he was happy with her again she'd be far more comfortable but on the other hand this dress was far too revealing for her liking and rather uncomfortable to run in as she had to keep tugging it down or up to keep her dignity intact. The last decision was made when she heard Richard Nixon say something one should never say when Winter was in hearing distance.

'What is that box?' She bust forward from the doors and stood hands on hip in the centre of the room, at least two guns pointed in her face.

'It's a police box!' She replied, frustrated, 'Can't you read?' She was suddenly aware that every occupant of the room was staring at her. She blushed and tugged at the dress, the only good thing about it so far was that the two men pointing guns at her were too busy attempting to get a grip to notice that their guns weren't actually pointing at her body, just the furniture.

'I'm your new undercover agent.' The Doctor covered promptly, bringing the attention back to himself. 'I'm on loan from Scotland Yard, code name, The Doctor. These are my top operatives, The legs, the nose, the brawn and Mrs Robinson.' River mumbled something and one of the FBI agents looked at Winter and stammered.

'A…and she is?'

'Taken.' Jack gloated.

'Kitty Fisher.' The Doctor decided, winking at her. She opened her mouth but settled for smiling at his impertinence and leaving him to it.

'Who are you?' Nixon pressed.

'Now, boring question. Who's phoning you is interesting because Canton 3 is right,' The Doctor told the president, pointing at a middle aged man who Winter assumed must be the younger version of old Mr Delaware from the beach. '…that was defiantly a girl's voice, which means there's only one place in America that she can be phoning from.' Winter rolled her eyes and ignored the FBI agents, sitting down on the sofa and pulling a pillow onto her lap to help herself feel less exposed. Something told her The Doctor was getting into this.

TTT

'So let me get this straight.' Winter crossed her legs over as she sat in the Presidents chair sucking on a lolly the doctor had revealed from his pocket, her arms covered by his tweed jacket. 'For the past few months you've been receiving phone calls, always to your private work line, always at night.' Nixon nodded, 'And it's defiantly a girl but she uses boys names and she's frightened of a space man.' The Doctor grabbed a map out of Amy's hands and threw it across the desk. Winter stood up and lent across the table so she was head to head. 'right then, tell me what you're looking for.' He stayed silent, running his eyes over the map. 'Alright then make me guess.' She grumbled, he sniggered and didn't even glance up at her. 'What? You don't think I can get it?' He didn't reply, only kept his eyes on the maps. She bristled and glanced over at Jack who shrugged and handed her another map. She looked down at it and narrowed her eyes. 'Right then,' began, 'you're looking at Florida because NASA is in Florida and she mentioned spacemen, you're looking at maps so you're obviously trying to find the girl.' She snatched the map he was studying and held it up, 'and you're concentrating on towns and cities so it can't be terrain therefore it's most likely something to do with the streets.' He frowned at her and took the map back, turning it upside-down before flinging it over his shoulder. 'Ah! So I'm close.' Jack laughed at the Doctor's grumpy look. 'you made a big deal about the fact she was a girl so it's linked somehow…' a small smile turned up the corners of the Doctor's mouth as she stumbled across the last bit of the riddle. 'Jefferson … Adams… Hamilton…' Her eyes sparkled with excitement as she grinned up at the Doctor. He looked up in surprise. 'They're street names!'

'Oh, I'm never playing cluedo with you.' The doctor complained. Jack sidled up beside him and patted his back.

'Trick is to get her drunk.' She's too busy coming onto you to take in any clues.' Winter blushed and a few men in the room gave supposedly conspicuous look in her direction.

'This is ridiculous.' Winter moaned, heading back towards the TARDIS, 'I'm going to get changed.' One of the men stepped between her and the box and held his hand up to stop her. The whole room stopped when they saw where his hand landed. She took a deep breath and spoke very calmly to him. 'Darling, I'm going to give you until the count of three to get your hand off my bust or I'll let my very protective boyfriend snap your arm in two.' He gulped and nodded, 'One…' he snapped his hand back like he'd been burnt and she smiled stepping around him to get inside the blue box. Jack followed her, glaring at the agent who backed down without a word. He stepped inside after her and called her back as she passed the console.

'Nemo.' She turned, surprised to see him. 'I'm going to wait you know.' He smiled at her confused look. 'And I'm going to keep asking. I'm not used to backing down, not when it comes to you.' He leaped up the steps and joined her by the console. Taking her hand and wrapping an arm around her waist. 'I'm going to keep asking until I wear you out,' he leant forward and began to gently kiss down her neck, 'Because I'm a selfish bastard. And you look beautiful in that dress.' She blushed and smiled when the monitor blinked and music began to filter through every surface.

I'm confessin' that I love you
Tell me, do you love me too?
I'm confessin' that I need you, honest I do
Ah baby, need you every moment

'In your eyes I read such strange things, babe. But your lips deny their true lovin'. Will your answer really change things? Makin' me blue? Makin' 'em blue,' She sighed as he sang along and swung her gently around the console room. 'This is why I didn't want to come back.' He told her quietly.

'Why?'

'Because every day is so… stressful, we never get time to just do this. Enjoy each other's company. Either the Doctor will wonder what the noise is. Or Rory and Amy will be bored and stumble in.

I'm afraid someday you'll leave me
Say, can't we still be friends? [Incomprehensible]
If you go, you know, you'll grieve me
All in life on you depends, oh baby, do you know, ohh

She frowned and looked up at him. Jack Harkness. All hers, standing here bold as brass and complaining that he didn't get enough alone time with her. She had to giggle, it was such a funny idea. Captain 'shoot now ask questions later', Captain 'I'm so sexy that I can flirt my way out of any situation', Captain 'I don't settle down'. Yet here he was starting a domestic with her. He rolled his eyes at her reaction to his serious comments and continued to sing along with the music. 'Am I guessin' that you love me? Love me babe. Dreamin' dreams of you I've been wanting long. I'm confessin' that I love you, Over again.' In one move she swung to a stop and pulled him down by the lapels of his jacket, locking her lips over his.

'I do love you.' She replied when she pulled back. 'I just need a little more time to think…to work things out.' He pressed his forehead to hers and nodded slowly.

'Not now you two!' the Doctor chastised as everyone re-entered the TARDIS.

'See what I mean about the whole interrupting thing?' Jack complained.

'Winter I'm going to need my jacket back.' The Doctor told her as they took off. The door slammed and Winter and Jack looked up to see Canton staring up at the towering ceiling of the TARDIS control room. Rory appeared to be handling it so Winter pulled Jack closer to the doorway.

'Come on, we can be first out.' He smiled at her enthusiasm and before even the Doctor could get to the door they were out and into the warehouse beyond. Well, that's what it looked like. 'Why is it always warehouses?' she complained, 'We got warehouses back in Cardiff. Why not Disney world or universal studios, or any theme park?'

'Easy they haven't been built yet.' The Doctor replied. 'Besides what's spooky about Disney world?'

'The 'It's a small world' ride.' Amy put in without a thought. Everyone turned to look at her, eyebrow's raised. 'What?' she defended, shrugging her shoulders. 'It was creepy.' Jack chuckled and took Winter's hand, leading her forwards. She noticed his hand fluttering towards his gun but she elbowed him and took it away from him.

'You know what the Doctor will say if you start shooting people.' She whispered, 'Besides there's a little girl around here somewhere, what if you hit her.'

'Listen to your girlfriend Harkness.' Winter jumped at the Doctor's voice and turned around to see the other had joined them. Canton whistled.

'She packs heat too? Where did you find her?' Winter groaned and slipped the gun into Jacks pocket so he would have to think before using it, then, ignoring his grin of pride, she turned and walked in the opposite direction, tugging the dress first down and then up. When they got to the other end of the warehouse River swung her torch around, casting the beam of light over covered rubbish and old junk.

'Now why would a little girl be here?' she asked

'I don't know.' The Doctor replied. 'Let's find her and ask her.' Winter clutched Jacks arm and pointed forwards. Beyond them was what looked like an operating table. Made of metal and surrounded by tubes and dirty wires.

'Is that a..?' she murmured, her voice breaking slightly. He shook his head.

'No, the cyber-converters need the whole slicing and dicing bit at the top.' She rolled her eyes at the manner he replied, he was obviously waiting for something exciting to happen.

'It's non terrestrial though,' River informed them, 'defiantly alien, probably not even from this time zone.'

'Which is odd because…' The Doctor broke of and raced over to a pile of boxes, rummaging around inside, 'look at this.'

'It's earth tech.' Jack frowned.

'Contemporary.' River agreed

'Very contemporary, cutting edge!' the Doctor added, 'This is from the space program!'

'Stolen?' River asked as winter pulled the oxygen tank up and the Doctor pulled the helmet out of the box.

'What by aliens?' Amy looked on in confusion and Winter watched her hands tighten in fists as the Doctor slipped the helmet on.

'Probably.' He replied.

'But why, if you can make it all the way to earth why steal technology that can barely make it to the moon?'

'Maybe 'cause it's cooler!' he replied, shoving the visor up so they could see his beaming face. 'Look how cool this stuff is.'

'Cool aliens.' Winter smiled as the tension left Amy's body as the Doctor's easy going manner soothed her nerves.

'Well what do you call me?'

'An alien.' Jack snorted and patted the Doctor's back before catching Winter's eye and nodding over in another direction. She followed him warily, it was pretty cold out here but somehow she knew the shiver that ran down her spine wasn't due to the small gusts of wind that burst through the cracks in the windows and ceiling.

'Do you think he's worked it out yet?' Winter asked. Jack glanced down at her and then pulled a small torch from his pocket, shining it in the direction they were moving.

'What we're hiding?' She shook her head.

'No, he doesn't know that, I'm certain. I mean what's going on here. I mean we all know that his brain works faster than ours and generally when he talks his mind is already a few sentences in front but…he doesn't always tell us when he knows what's happening.' Jack shook his head and hopped over a puddle of water.

'I don't think he knows.' She sighed and looked around the warehouse remembering the last time she'd been in one. She couldn't exactly call it a happier time, they'd been on the run from pretty much everyone after all. And with Jack disappearing at a moment's notice and children being forced from their families. No, it wasn't a happy time at all. 'What are you thinking?' She stumbled over a cable and Jack reached out to steady her. 'Sorry, forgot how useless your sense of balance is.' He joked. She frowned but he saw the playful glint in her eyes. When she was steady again she answered him.

'Have you been keeping up with Gwen?'

'Gwen?' She rolled her eyes.

'Yes Gwen, you know. Welsh, pretty, mother, boyfriend who constantly wants to punch you. Although I doubt that last factor narrows it down much.' He laughed and nodded.

'Yeah, I've been keeping an eye on her.' She frowned.

'How?' he smiled.

'The Torchwood servers are still online, every time we entered a time zone that matched up with her timeline I'd hook up my manipulator to the system and do some searching.' She gasped and prodded him.

'You told me you were just fixing it.' He shrugged.

'I didn't always get any information. What's the point in getting your hopes up for something interesting when there was nothing to be said? And if something bad had happened I knew you'd tear yourself up that we hadn't gone to see her again.' Winter frowned at him and pointed in his direction.

'Don't you start keeping new secrets from me Jack Harkness.' He held up his hands in surrender. Leaving it at that she glanced around the room and shrugged. 'There's nothing here. Come on, let's head back.'

'Help me!' A child's voice rang through the warehouse. Jack look at Winter and Winter looked at Jack. Without a word both grinned and sped back towards the voice and their friends. As they rounded a corner Jack wrapped an arm around her stomach and yanked her back. Stood before them was the space man. Winter had a second to glance over at Amy before the young woman pulled the trigger on the unconscious Canton's gun. Jack used the same second to witness the visor retract and reveal a little girl's face.

The shot broke the false silence and everything seemed to stop.

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