"What happened?" A pale faced Jaime croaked as she lay in bed in the Med-bay. It was six days after the incidents on Fiction and TFP. They'd almost lost Jaime but they managed to get her stabilised but it seemed like she'd fallen into a coma-like state. When the Doctor scanned her he realised she was healing herself...but slowly. Soon it was a waiting game.
John, who hadn't left her side since the whole thing happened, sat up straight. "Jaime, you're awake!" He exclaimed and she couldn't understand why she felt relief wash off him in waves. He hugged her, then he started shouting for the Doctor and Rose. Her head ached a lot. She felt sick and she was hungry or perhaps she was thirsty. Her mouth felt so dry. "I'm hungry." She mumbled. "And thirsty." John laughed. "I'm not surprised. You've been sleeping for six days." Now this confused her. Why had she been asleep for six days? And what was the reason for her to be in the Med-bay? John sensed her apprehension over this news and pushed several grimy strands of hair from her eyes. "But you're okay now though. It was a very close call." What the hell was he talking about?
Rose was the first one to reach the Med-bay and when she saw that Jaime was awake she smiled. "I was beginning to worry you would never wake up. How're you feeling?" Rose asked, reaching the girl's bedside. Jaime stared, getting more confused by the second. When the Doctor entered the Med-bay she felt he was more subdued...until he saw her. He smiled and it suddenly turned to happiness. But there was an underlying hint of guilt. Why did he feel guilty? Why were they all happy she was awake? And why was she in the Med-bay?
"What happened? She asked again, this time with a scared tone. Now she felt a wave of worry wash over her. "What do you remember?" The Doctor asked her as he sat next to Rose. "Uhh..." She dug deep in her memory finding the latest to be hazy. "...I remember somebody sticking something sharp on my hand, then I was transported halfway across the planet. I tried calling John but I don't think he could hear me..." They understood what she meant by 'calling' as in telepathically. "...I was gonna lock onto the TARDIS but I saw some flowers and they looked nice but they smelled weird...different...and then...I can't remember after that."
The Doctor sighed. "Jaime, you weren't transported halfway across Fiction. You were teleported to TFP." Jaime tried to sit up but her body hurt for some reason. "Easy, you're still recovering." John warned her. "Why?" She croaked and a cup of water appeared on the bedside table. John picked it up. "Here, drink this." He handed it to her and Jaime took several thirsty gulps. "Hey, take it easy!" Rose told the girl. "It turns out the 'All-Powerful' as they put it, are banned from Fiction. The use of Mind Control apparently illegal. So they saw fit to teleport you to their sister planet." The Doctor continued and Jaime remembered on Helter, Elemental abilities and Mind Control were illegal as well. "The flower you picked up is the Chimera. It only grows on TFP and when picked the pollen seeped into your skin, causing you to hallucinate and sending you on a bad trip." Bad trip? Jaime knew enough to know that the words 'bad trip' was associated with people taking drugs. Those flowers drugged her! "By the time we found you, you were very much out of control so I had to sedate you, but it also had an inhibitor. Considering you're an Omni-Psychic it gave you a bad reaction, so much so you ended up convulsing. Not only that but the haemorrhaging worsened so much that if you over-used certain mind straining abilities it will kill you instantly."
Jaime stared and John sighed sadly. This was worse news than ever. In fact it was worse than the first time he told her she was dying. "Can we go back and tell them off?" "We can't...we don't think that is a good idea." John said. How could they tell her she had unintentionally destroyed a planet and doomed another. Meanwhile Jaime felt there was something they were not telling her. She could practically sense it from John. "What happened? What did I do?" "You don't have to worry about that." John instantly answered which made Jaime cry. "What's wrong?" Rose asked while John gathered her into a hug. "Why can't I be normal!" She cried.
Still weak from waking up Jaime had something to eat in the Med-bay while the Doctor went off to the lab. Apparently she'd lost her painkillers on the Forbidden Planet and her headache was worse than normal and the TARDIS was doing her best to comfort the girl. Once she'd finished breakfast John and Rose helped her to her room where she took a shower and changed into some clothes she was more comfortable in with...which would be her hoodie, long sleeved t-shirt and cargo pants with light green converse. She still ached and Jaime noticed some already fading bruises on her body, having no idea how she got them.
Once fully dressed Jaime left her room and let the TARDIS guide her to the others. Surprisingly they were in the console room and the Doctor was excited about something. "I think I've found Easter," he said. "Nope...I KNOW I've found Easter. The one human holiday of the year that always moves around and I've found it." She sat on the jumpseat next to Rose thinking what his next adventure might be. Didn't 'Planet of the Dead' take place around Easter time? "So you want to go to Easter I take it?" Rose asked with a smile. "Who wouldn't!" He looked up to see they'd been joined by Jaime. Her face was still pale and he knew she was suffering. "How are you feeling?" He asked, approaching the teenager. "Sick!" She replied and he smiled thinly. Of course she would be feeling that way. "Here you go," he reached into his pocket and handed to her a fresh bottle of painkillers. "You worried me so much!" He said and hugged her, then she hugged back. "Don't do it again." He added with a bit of humour. "I won't." She replied.
"But I still want to go to Easter!" The Doctor continued after stepping back from Jaime. "Only..." He looked at back at her. "Only you're still too ill." She could protest this but she didn't want to get stuck on a planet full of deadly killer Stingray. And one Psychic was enough for the poor passengers. "We could always go another time." Rose suggested but the Doctor shook his head. "No, I can sense it. This is a one off chance." "I suppose I could stay behind and look after Jaime," J.D spoke up from where he was leaning against the railing. "You two go on your date." Jaime giggled at this while the Doctor frowned. "It's not a..." Rose looked at him. "...oh never mind. Are you sure?" He checked with John and the Half-Time Lord nodded. "Alright, brilliant, Molto bene!" The Doctor said and set the course for London. They clung to whatever could hold them up as the TARDIS hurtled through the Time Vortex, finally landing in the Royal Gardens. "Right. You look after yourself," he said to the teen and turned to John. "And you, don't let her out of your sight." "I won't." John replied. Now the Doctor grabbed Rose's hand. "Allons-y!" They both said and they exited the TARDIS.
The console room was quiet as John sat down beside her. She shifted and leaned against him and he put his arm around her shoulders. "So...just us two!" J.D said. "What do you want to do?" She remembered that Torchwood would be in trouble, at the mercy of the British Government all because of the 456. "Jaime?" He'd sensed her worry. "Can we go to Torchwood?" She requested. "Torchwood? Okay!" He stood up and went to the console. Jaime winced suddenly. "She knows 'When' but do you know how to fly her?" John narrowed his eyes at her. "Of course I do!" He said indignantly and Jaime chuckled. Setting the co-ordinates and pulling the lever the TARDIS once again dematerialised and went hurtling through the Vortex. It would be perfect flying if it hadn't been so rocky...like it usually was.
They finally landed and Jaime exited first into the hub. It seemed mostly quiet as if everyone was out. "Hello!" John called out. "Anyone here?" He wondered why it was so quiet until Mickey jogged into the main hub. "Boss? Jaime?" "Where is everyone?" John asked. "Down in the medical bay. It's Gwen." "She's not hurt is she?" He panicked as they walked through to the medical area. "No, it's better!" Mickey was practically smiling. As they stood at the top of the stairs Jaime knew that Gwen was pregnant with her first child and Jack was in deep trouble, but she wondered why her intuition wasn't kicking off. "Jack! You've got a bomb in you!" She shouted.
"What?" Everyone exclaimed as Jaime ran down the stairs to Jack, her eyes wide. "She put a bomb in you!" She said. Everyone stepped back from the Immortal. "Who did?" Ianto asked. John took out his Sonic and scanned Jack. He found nothing suspicious. "Relax, there's nothing there apart from organs and a high amount of Artron energy." He followed Jaime down the stairs. In fact the teen was quite stunned by the news. That wasn't supposed to happen! "Why would someone put a bomb in Jack and where did this happen?" John asked. "At the hospital!" Jaime frowned because she found it quite hard to read Jack. "You were at the hospital looking at alien...things...in some dead people." Now Jack looked confused. "But I haven't been to the hospital today," he said. "And we've received no call about alien things in dead bodies."
This wasn't going well. Why was it different? "The kids!" Jaime now said. "The kids are all standing still and chanting 'we are coming'!" They all looked at her as if she was crazy. "I've not seen anything strange with the kids." Gwen said and Jaime gasped. Now this was odd. "Are you feeling okay?" Jack asked her. "It's the 456! They should be invading!" Jaime practically shouted and it was Jack's turn to gasp. "How do you know about that?" He asked. "Uhh...what's the 456?" John enquired. "Oh...in 1965 it was this alien we were meant to have a deal with. They wanted some children in exchange for a flu vaccine. But their ship blew up before they could even reach Earth. So no exchange was made and the kids were taken back to where they came from." He noticed the look of disbelief on John's face. "Believe me Doc, it wasn't one of my favourite moments when working for Torchwood back then."
Jaime's reaction was different, her mouth was wide open and face was even paler. It blew up? Their ship wasn't supposed to blow up. So what the hell happened? Why did it happen? "But how did you know of the 456? Jaime?" Jack noticed how pale her face was. "Are you feeling okay? What's wrong?" She barely heard him as she began to faint clean away.
"Woah!" The Doctor caught her and Martha went to help him. "A bit off her game isn't she?" Mickey stated. Once the teen was put on the bed John turned to the others. "She had a run in with a Chimera flower or two." He said. "What? Seriously? How'd she even manage that?" Jack said. "What's a Chimera flower?" Ianto asked him. "The Chimera is a flower that can cause some serious hallucinations. But how did that happen? Because its only supposed to grow on the Forbidden Planet." John looked to Jaime back to Jack then to Martha. "We had to give her a sedative that had an inhibitor in it but it disagreed with her quite badly. Keep an eye on her."
Then he indicated for Jack to follow him and they walked into the main hub. "What do you know?" John asked. "Uhh, that TFP suffered a 15.8 Magnitude quake that shook the planet off its axis into the path of one of it's suns. Then because they collided with each other most of it's twin planet Fiction was scorched from the sun's flare." John narrowed his eyes suspiciously. "And how would you know that?" "Learned about at the Time Agency." The Half-Time Lord grunted. "And how would they know that?" "Oh. They had a personal witness there and they recorded in the history books. Why? You guys want to solve the mystery?"
But John sighed and sat down on the break room sofa with a shake of his head. "Doc?" "No. The mystery is already solved. It was Jaime." "Sorry? Say that again?" A stunned Jack sat next to John. "The Chimera flower would normally have a bad effect on the person who picked it...perhaps a mild hallucination for those that were used to it. But for Jaime she didn't just pick one but a couple and she had some really bad hallucinations. Didn't know who we were by the time we found her. She generated a huge tornado made out of air, fire, ice, electricity..." "Part of Aerokinesis I guess." Jack muttered. "Pretty powerful." "Yeah. She's generated one before on Helter but that was to get rid of some Gelth. But this one was completely different. It was a storm. One big megastorm because of the way the Chimera was affecting her system. It activated much stronger and more dangerous abilities including a stomp that shook the ground."
Jack was wide-eyed and he figured he knew what the Doc was about to say. "Then she took flight, zooming into the sky and we could feel the Timelines shift. She comes back down and we have to leg it into the TARDIS and we feel this huge explosion outside. The Doctor was the one who had to sedate her, and when he went out to get her he described the surrounding area as an apocalypse." "Jaime destroyed a whole planet? What was she doing on TFP anyway?" "Oh, it was unintentional...she didn't mean to do it. As for why she was there. The 'All-Powerful' were banned from Fiction...something to do with Mind Control so the authorities teleported her to TFP."
J.D sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "She was in a coma for six days because the inhibitor in the sedative disagreed with her Omni-powers. She only just woke up several hours ago." "Shit! I'm sorry." Jack was stunned. "But does she know what she did? Have you told her?" John shook his head. "We discussed it but we thought it best not to. But it's going to be hard hiding something that big from an Omni-Psychic."
The next question Jack was going to ask was a really personal one...until Mickey interrupted them. "How come she thought Jack was going to blow up? Or even thought aliens were taking over kids?" What was that about?" The Immortal frowned at the question. "She did say that Torchwood was a TV show in her universe didn't she." The Doctor spoke up and Jack nodded. "Well maybe all those events actually happened in the show and she thought it would happen in this universe." "Yeah. But if it did happen here Jack could have blown up Torchwood and us with it." "Blimey!" John realised while Jack grimaced.
A little while later Jaime woke up with an even worse headache and groaned as she lay on the bed in the Torchwood Medical Bay. Martha heard her and went to check on her. "Are you okay? You had us a bit worried earlier." However, she noticed the girl's face was even paler. Jaime growled oddly in reply and it was was not to dis-similar to the way a Weevil growled.
Martha jumped back, frightened. "Doctor!" She shouted. "Jack!" Closing her eyes Jaime put her hands over her head and dry wretched. She knew what was wrong because she felt it last time she was here. She heard footsteps that sounded far too loud. "What is it?" Jack asked as John went to check on Jaime. "I don't know. She just sort of growled like a Weevil." John heard this and frowned. "Jaime, darling? What's happening?" He asked as she moaned again. "Is it Janet again?" He persisted and had to quickly step back when she threw up. "Ohh, ewww!" Jack said while J.D grimaced. "Jack, can you do something about that Weevil of yours!" He asked and Jack nodded, going off to look for Gwen so she could sort Janet out. "Don't worry, darling, you'll be okay." The Half-Time Lord soothed as he ran his hand through her hair. "Why can't you activate your Psychic Shield, huh?" She barely replied, just moaned and whimpered.
Martha got busy cleaning up the puke, then she looked at Jaime. "What happened for her to get this much worse?" She asked out of curiosity. "I know you said she came into contact with a hallucinogenic flower but it seems quite recent." John smiled grimly. "It is, technically." He said. "Six days ago she was affected by the Chimera and during those six days she was in a coma because the inhibitor disagreed with her." Furrowing her brow, Martha asked; "Wait? Are you saying she just woke up? Then you brought her to Torchwood?" "She wanted to come," John defended. "I guess she wanted to save Jack even though she didn't need to." "I heard the TARDIS earlier. Where are Rose and the other Doctor?" "They've gone on a date in Easter 2009. Bit of a first time for him."
Jaime shifted slightly and began to sit up. "Oh, hello! Are you feeling better now?" John asked the girl. She nodded silently, feeling the telepathic pressure ease. The interference from the Weevil was getting worse and for some reason the hub was safe and Jack didn't blow up, the kids weren't standing still and the four-five-six weren't coming and... "Jaime?" John shook her from her thoughts and she looked at him with a frown. "You're an Omni-Psychic, you have Psychic Shield, how come you're not using it?" She shrugged, looking confused. She didn't know half the stuff she did and was unable to do them again. "You don't know how?" She nodded and he sighed. "Maybe the Doctor can help you rebuild your walls later." "Why can't you do that?" Martha asked as Jaime shuffled off the bed. "Because I'm only Half-Time Lord and my psychic abilities only half work." J.D explained.
Martha sort of understood as they walked up the stairs into the main hub. Jack and Gwen were back from the cells. "How are you feeling now Jaime?" The Immortal asked. "Okay." She croaked and then asked out of curiosity. "Do you have a Daughter called Alice?" "What?" John looked between Jack and Jaime but the look on Jack's face said it all. "What about Steven? Does he exist?" This time Jack just smiled and Jaime didn't need to be a Mind Reader to know that Steven did in fact exist. She giggled and jumped Jack quite happily who laughed. At least something good came from this small change. Steven didn't need to die to save the world. Ianto wasn't going to die either but she still couldn't help think why the Four-Five-Six ship blew up. "How did you know?" Jack asked, knowing she couldn't read him because of his Immortality. "The Torchwood TV Show." She whispered and he nodded.
"I didn't know you had a Daughter!" Martha said. "There's a lot of stuff you don't know about me!" Jack replied, letting Jaime back down. "Right then," J.D said as a distraction. "We need to check on the baby, then I need to find a Vision Express because I have a Voucher...or whatever it's called. "Should have gone to SpecSavers!" Martha stated and Jack laughed. Meanwhile John just looked blankly between the two.
After giving the coral a well needed check, shatterfrying it, Jack drove J.D and Jaime to the nearest Vision Express which was in the St David's Centre. While he was looking at the glasses and maybe getting his vision checked, Jaime sat in the waiting room getting distracted. There were feelings of puzzlement, love, happiness...depression...but then seconds later that one feeling disappeared and Jaime gasped sadly, tears coming to her eyes. "Are you okay Miss?" A shop worker asked and the girl nodded before standing up and wandering out of the shop. She just wanted to be normal, just for one day!
Across the way was a Virgin Media shop and she was reminded of the advert's David Tennant did for them. She still continued to wonder if there was a version of him in this universe. Maybe he wasn't an actor. Maybe he was doing something else...like being a school teacher or working for the government or paying football for his local team... Someone pushed past her, knocking her out of her thoughts. "Watch it!" The man said a bit unkindly. People were a lot nice in Swansea. "Oh, go suck a sausage!" She replied, voice echoing. The man blinked and walked away while Jaime gasped and clamped her hands over her mouth. That was an accident, so much of an accident...she didn't mean to do it. Now he was probably going off to find a sausage...or worse...to suck. Oh, why couldn't she just be normal for once!
Her thoughts soon turned back to the Virgin Media shop but then she noticed there was a Help for Heroes in this universe too! In her universe a soldier wearing a Help for Heroes jumper was attacked in broad daylight and brutally murdered, then it was all over the news so much it gave her bad dreams. But it made her wonder...did the same thing happen in this universe or was it prevented? Feeling curious she walked over to the shop and looked in. They were selling jumpers and t-shirts and wrist-bands and by the looks of it key chains and magnets. "Can I help you?" The shopgirl asked. Jaime shook her head timidly. "Just looking." She practically mumbled and the shopgirl went to do her own thing. The jumpers and t-shirts were really cool and she wanted one, she really did...but she didn't have any money on her and...how did the Doctor buy things like food? Did they just appear in the fridge and cupboards like that or...
A loud scream, panicked, pulled her out of her thoughts. "Huh?" Running out of the shop she felt everyone's fear as they ran from whatever was scaring them. What she saw, quite frankly, scared her. There was a Weevil in the shopping centre. Oh, sure, it was late night shopping but why would a Weevil want to come into the shopping centre? It was a bit odd! Then it was joined by a second as the first one crouch-walked, sniffing the air. *Doctor! Trouble!* she telepathed to John, hoping he'd finished his eye test. A third Weevil joined the other two Weevils. This wasn't right, why would they come into a public place like this? *Big trouble.*
Jaime stood still as she could, eyes wide, as a fourth and a fifth joined its brothers...and maybe sisters. This was mad. Just so frickin' mad! The Doctor came running out of Vision Express. Followed by a couple of shop workers who were curious. They saw the Weevils and screamed, catching the attention of the creatures as they ran. "Weevils? What are they even doing here?" J.D asked but Jaime shrugged slightly as even more Weevils turned up. "This is definitely a job for Torchwood." He said and took his phone out to call Jack. The Immortal answered in three rings. "Doc?"
"You finished looking at glasses yet?" "Almost," John replied. "Your local shopping centre has an infestation." "So call environmental health." John smiled grimly. "Weevil's, Jack. They're coming in through the front door." "What?"
The lead Weevil sniffed the air and stopped when it saw Jaime. It growled oddly and then she felt the telepathic pressure return. Only now it wasn't one Weevil but ten of them and counting. Hands going to her head and falling to her knees Jaime screamed out in pain. "What's that? What's going on?" Jack asked. "Telepathic Psionic attack." J.D hurried. "You lot better get here real quick!" He ended the call and went to help Jaime. She was still screaming loudly in pain and he didn't know if he could anything for her. The were far too many of them and she didn't know how to use Psychic Shield. What was worse was that she'd only just woken up from a six day coma. Oh, and now her nose was bleeding too. "Don't worry, Jack's team will be here any minute." He soothed the girl only he wasn't sure she even had a minute to spare. He looked back the Weevils, an angry scowl on his face. "You leave her alone right now! You're killing her!" He shouted, though they probably only knew how to growl at each other. So he took out his Sonic and pointed it at the lead Weevil. One of the Weevil's suddenly sprang forward and pounced on J.D, knocking the screwdriver out of his hand.
Through the pain of the telepathic attack Jaime could feel outright fear from the Doctor, then felt his pain. The Weevil was hurting him and she couldn't do a thing to help him. Suddenly a Pulse Wave emitted from her around the same time the telepathic pressure eased off. Through watery eyes she saw that the Weevil's were on the ground, stunned. The one that was hurting J.D was also on the ground. Standing up with wobbly legs, Jaime had anger in her eyes. Then she growled oddly at it and pointed at the other Weevils. It growled back and she growled angrily so it slunk off towards it's brothers and sisters.
Arm bleeding where he was bitten John watched in amazement as the Weevil obeyed Jaime. When it was with the others he quickly picked his Sonic up and held it out as a weapon, hands shaking. Some of the Weevils were recovering including the lead Weevil. Now Jaime felt that interference again only it was low level. The creatures were trying to 'talk' to her again. Somehow her Psychic Shield thingy had activated but her head still ached fiercely. She growled very angrily at the Weevil while John watched. He couldn't understand it, was she actually communications to them? Could she actually understand them? He heard running footsteps and saw Jack, Mickey, Martha and Ianto coming in from the other way.
"What's happening? What's going on?" Jack asked as Martha checked on J.D seeing that he was injured. I...I think she's talking to them." The Half-Time Lord said. "I don't know how." They listened as Jaime and the lead Weevil growled at each other. "How exactly is she doing that?" Ianto asked. "It's like when Doctor Dolittle talks to the animals...something like that!" John explained. "Yeah, we'll she should tell them to leave the shopping centre." Jack said, his gun at the ready in case anymore decided to attack. Jaime's growling got more animated, frustrated even, then she swung her hand and slapped the lead Weevil telekinetically. Much to the protest of everyone else. But the lead Weevil yelped and stumbled backwards as Jaime continued to growl.
Next she gesticulated at the door they'd come through. To everyone's amazement the Weevil's began to leave one by one until it just left the lead Weevil. This time Jaime growled to it softly where it growled back, turned tail and scuttled out of the shopping centre. The teen stared and would have collapsed to the floor if Jack hadn't caught her. "Easy, I've got you, you're alright now." Though he could see she was not as her face was pale again. "What was that about?" He asked. "They think...or thought...I was one of them." She frowned. "I told them I wasn't. But they're all so scared because they're in a strange world but I told them Torchwood would always protect them." "Great, thanks." He was obviously sarcastic. "What happened to the telepathic attack you were experiencing?" "I think she might have activated her Psychic Shield. There was some sort of Pulse Wave too." She heard John utter.
Looking at him she saw how much he was hurt. "Doctor!" She pushed Jack away from her and dived at John, hugging him and wincing when she heard him grunt in pain. "Sorry!" She croaked. "It's okay, just a little scratch, that's all." "That's more than just a scratch," Martha admonished. "You're worse than the Doctor when it comes to 'little injuries'." "If she can speak Weevil does that mean she's part Weevil?" Ianto worried. "Or is she Queen of the Weevils?" Mickey asked. But Jaime shivered. No! She just wanted to be normal.
