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Both Jack and River stared at the empty cell, where was the Doctor?

The other arrived in short and also saw the empty cell.

"It's empty", said Jack desolately.

River turned round and went to check the other cells, the Smith-Jones and Sarah Jane also went with her.

Amy looked around the cell, it was dark and filthy. There was straw strewn around on the floor and chains connected to the wall.

"This place is horrible", she said as she walked around it, her eye caught something red mixed among the straw and she stopped and bend down.

"There's nothing here", said River as she came back into the cell.

"He was here", said Amy as she stood up.

"What?", said Jack.

She held her hand open for him to see.

"What with that?", he asked, confused.

"It's his bowtie!", she exclaimed indignantly, "He doesn't go anywhere without his bowtie!"

"That could be anyone's bowtie, Amy", Jack tried to reason with her.

"Listen", she began impatiently, "I tried to make him stop wearing that damn bowtie for Years, I think I would know how it looked!"

River came closer and looked at the bowtie, the Doctor never wore his red bowtie again after he had lost Amy and Rory, which means he was going on a very special event and wasn't planning on fighting any invading or angry alien.

Rory came forward and took a look at the bowtie, "That's his bowtie, I'm sure."

Jack stared at them for a while, had the Doctor's bowtie really gotten that much attention?

"If you are sure about it then it must be so", said Sarah Jane eventually.

"Then he was here", said Martha.

"Guys!", they heard Clara yell from the machinery room.

When they arrived at said room they saw a wide round circle of light between two long upright machineries.

"What happened?!", yelled Jack.

"She was playing with the button and suddenly that thing appeared", said Mickey, who had been there when it happened.

"What were you thinking?", he accused.

"I-I'm sorry?", she tried.

"No, don't be sorry Clara", began River earning a stare from everybody, "That is a Time and Space Teleporter."

"What with that?", asked Mickey as Jack's eyebrows rose in comprehension.

"That whoever has the Doctor must have taken him away using this", she explained.

"She's right", said Jack.

"You are agreeing with River?", said Mickey disbelievingly.

"Will we check what's on the other side then?", asked Amy.

Jack went to stand in front of everybody and asked, "Who wants to go?"

Vastra spoke first of all, "I'm afraid that we will not be able to go", she said.

"No?", said Strax almost with a sad note.

"No", she confirmed and began to step aside.

"I will go", said Amy and looked at Rory who nodded and went to stand beside her.

"So will I", said Martha.

"And me", said Mickey immediately after her.

"I'm also coming", said Sarah Jane.

"Count me in", said Clara.

"Then that would be all of us, except for Madame Vastra, Jenny and-", he stared at Strax.

"Strax", supplied Madame Vastra.

"Strax", repeated Jack.

Strax gave a slight grumble at that.

Vastra came forward to Jack holding Jenny's arm, "I want to thank you for protecting Jenny, Jack", she said earnestly.

"Pleasure, Madame", he grinned at her and kissed her gloved hand, "Jenny", he also kissed her hand.

"Stop it", warned Martha as she walked towards the circle of light, "Who will go first?"

"I will go first", said Jack and Martha nodded.

He walked towards the circle of light, took a breath and stepped through.

The others stood there, waiting for a few moments for Jack to come back and call it clear.

"What if he's in trouble and needs help?", said Rory after a while.

"He will be fine, just you wait", said Martha with a smile.

Just then Jack came back through

"You might want to come see this", he said urgently and went back through the circle of light.

The others look at each other concernedly, Martha hurried and was the first to go through, Mickey was right after her, the Ponds, Clara and Sarah Jane followed after as Vastra and Jenny saw them off.

They arrived at a relatively modern looking room full of colossal machinery that were obviously not of earth nor of this time, it also seemed to be abandoned.

"Over here!", they heard Jack yell from the corridor.

They ran into the corridor and found Jack standing near the corner of another corridor, "Do you remember that the robot said he was in cell seventeen?", they nodded, "Well down this corridor all the doors are numbered", he walked down the corridor and they followed him.

Jack stopped in front of a door numbered seventeen, he opened it and it was empty.

"It's empty", said Amy desolately.

Jack shook his head, "Look closer", he said and explained, "Look at the chains connected to the ceiling, they have signs of being forced and look at this wall", pointed at the wall where, unknowingly to him and the others, self-called Nick's contraption had stood.

The others looked at the wall, it had clear burn signs.

"You think he escaped?", said Martha.

"Exactly", said Jack, "The only question would be where he is now."

"And how long ago he escaped", said River as she walked around in the room.

They all searched the building through for a long time, Sarah Jane found the Doctor's tweed jacket in a room, they searched it and found his sonic screwdriver, psychic paper, six bags of jammy dodgers, a yo-yo, a cup of tea-with its contents, an apple and a big fluorescent light.

"How is this tea still warm", said Mickey perplexed as he stared at the steam swirl out of the cup.

"Never mind the tea, who eats this much jammy dodgers?", asked Jack perplexed.

"The Doctor", said Amy and Rory at the same time.

"I'm concerned for the Doctor", said Martha, "How will he do without his sonic screwdriver and psychic paper?"

Nobody could answer her; their only hope was to find him as soon as possible before he ran into some serious problems. Because as they all knew, the Doctor didn't find the problems, the problems found him.

They continued to search for any other thing that might probably help them, in the following hours Clara and Sarah Jane searched together as they chatted, Amy and Rory searched through the other cell rooms with the Smith-Jones and Jack and River argued and fought constantly over many different insignificant things.

"Look here", said Clara as she approached Jack and handed him a calendar.

"It's of the current year", she said happily.

"We are back to our time?", he said skeptically and got out his phone, "Let me call Torchwood and check", he said and walked away.

"What could these people be doing both at the 19th century and at the 21st?", asked Sarah Jane.

Jack came back and said, "According to them we left only a few hours ago."

"Then I need to check something", said Martha as she ran out the backdoor.

Mickey shrugged as he and Jack exchanged glances and went after Martha.

The other followed after and found Martha on the phone speaking with UNIT, "I need you to find out who is the owner of this building on this direction", she said as she walked down the street and gave them the direction.

Rory walked down the other side of the building, looking around as the others waited for Martha to finish her call.

"What do you mean there's no place in England with that direction?", she asked indignantly.

"Because we are not in England", said Rory, "We're in San Francisco", he pointed at the distance.

Martha hurried to his side and saw what he was talking about, the Golden Gate Bridge.

"Yes", she said over the phone, "We are at San Francisco, not too far from the Golden Gate."

Martha finished her call and frowned.

"What is it?", asked Mickey.

"The building belonged to a guy who mysteriously disappeared and hasn't been found again and then a millionaire bought it almost immediately and hasn't used the building at all since then", she explained.

"That's weird", said Amy.

"Yeah, what's more, I think we are being watched", said Jack as he began to look around.

"By them!", exclaimed Clara as she pointed behind Jack.

There were coming four black vans down the street at full speed.

Jack swore as he got out his gun, River, Martha and Mickey did so as well and pointed their guns at the vans. The vans stopped in front of the building, there jumped out two men out of each van and came to stand in front of the group.

"You are trespassing private property", one of them boasted in his deep voice to the group.

"Oh yeah?", said Jack sarcastically, still pointing his gun at them.

"You will accompany us to see Mr. Chang", he said.

"Who?', said Mickey.

"The owner of the place", explained Martha.

"What makes you think we will come?', said Jack.

"You will come the good means or by the bad ones", said the suited man seriously.

Jack was about to answer him when River said, "We will come."

"What?!", exclaimed Amy.

"Let us just say that it is easier to deal with your enemy if he is standing before you", she smiled.

"That is insane River", Rory tried to reason with her.

Jack glared openly at her now, "Of course, give us away to them, you probably have a deal with them, what did they promise you, money, immunity, what did they promise you?!", he yelled at her.

River rolled her eyes at him, "I will be going alone then", she told the men in suits and shades.

"Wait", said Martha suddenly.

"You too Martha?", asked Jack aghast.

"No, this sounds like something the Doctor would say", she said and Mickey nodded in agreement, "I am going with her."

"She's right", said Amy, "It sounds as him."

Everybody else nodded and Jack could not argue with them anymore and pocketed his gun again.

"Let's get over it then", he said not too happily.

Two of them climbed into the back of each car and rode for quite a while till they stopped in front of a skyscraper, were ushered into the lift and finally into Mr. Chang's office.

At the head of the office sat a Chinese, middle age looking man in front of his desk. He stood up as they neared his desk, "May I know how did you enter my property?", he asked them.

"How we entered doesn't matter", began River, completely ignoring Jack and his intent glare, "We came here searching for the Doctor, don't you happen to know something about him?"

"What are you of the Doctor?", he asked looking skeptically at her.

"Yeah, we would all like to know", said Jack as he crossed his arms and stared at her intently.

River ignored him again and said, "We are friends", she lied.

"Really?", he asked skeptically again and changed his stare from River to Clara.

Clara shifted uncomfortably under his intense stare.

"You are Clara Oswin, aren't you?", he asked her.

Her eyes went wide open, "How do you know my name?"

"The Doctor told me that you would probably arrive sooner or later", he smiled at her.

"Don't listen to him", said Jack immediately.

"It could be a trap", said Mickey seriously.

"Yeah, how do I know it's not a trap?", she said nerviously.

Chang laughed, "Because I'm also a friend of the Doctor, 'Soufflé Girl'", he said with a grin.

Amy and Rory exchanged a glance and Jack said skeptically, "Soufflé Girl?"

"Only the Doctor calls me that", she said and began to smile.

"So it's true?", began Sarah Jane, "You're his friend?"

"Since 1999", said Chang with a smile, "He really helped a friend of mine and me once", he told them. "He said that his TARDIS was set to pick up a girl called Clara Oswin or as he constantly referred to her, 'Soufflé Girl', and might one day just appear in the abandoned warehouse", he explained.

"He just forgot that the TARDIS hates me", she said dejectedly.

"That's weird", he commented, "She rather liked me", he said much to Clara's dismay.

"But tell me", he began, "Does she still look like a gothic bookstore inside?"

"A gothic what?", she said perplexed.

"Ah, never mind that, let's go see the Doctor, he has been staying with my friend for the last couple of weeks", he made for the door.

"Couple of weeks?", choked Martha, "How long has he been here?"

"For-", he paused in thought, "Quite a time I should say, ask Grace."

"I take it that Grace is your friend?", asked Jack with a grin as they walked to the lift.

"Stop it", warned Martha.

"What?", asked Jack innocently as they all got into the lift. It was a large and spacious lift, they could all stand in it without feeling cramped.

"I'm calling UNIT", announced Mickey as the ambient music sounded in the background.

A ride on the lift and a call to UNIT later they arrived at the garage where a limousine was waiting for them.

"How did you meet the Doctor?", asked Clara to Chang as they rode down the highway.

"That is a long story that couldn't be told in one ride", he said thoughtfully, "Nor in two", he added later.

The limousine rode into a nice neighborhood and stopped in front of a grant looking house with all curtains closed.

They all climbed out and took a look at the grant house.

"Your friend Grace must really well off", commented Jack.

"She's an expert heart surgeon", he told them.

They suddenly heard glass crashing and a woman's screaming come from the house.

"What's happening in there?!", said Martha alarmed and another crash was heard.

"We're going to find out", said Jack and ran up the stair with the Smith-Jones and River just behind him.

"Wait", tried Chang but they ignored him.

Jack kicked the door open and followed the sound of another crashing into the kitchen.

When he entered he saw a woman wrestling with-he heard Martha gasp behind him.

The Master.

Cliffhanger!

Have I ever told you that I love cliffhangers? And the Master too, I totally love him.

In case anyone wonders this is the John Simm Master.

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