Back on the planet Siren all was quiet, apart from the fiery crackle of the Fire Portal. But even that fizzled out shortly after. Seconds later there was an odd humming noise, followed by a sudden wind and an extra tree appeared in the forest. A door opened on the tree and out stepped the Dynacracker. She sniffed the air and grimaced. "Oh yeah, she's definitely been here!" She said. "Smells like burnt pork," A voice replied from beside her. "Come on! You still haven't explained why I have to stay invisible." "I don't know, just some odd feeling." Dyna answered and walked over to a dead Siren. She heard a gasp from the invisible companion and looked up to see blurred movement towards a couple more dead Sirens. "These look like they've been electrocuted. Their eyes have melted." "Lightning. Only lightning could do that. Especially Super powered lightning." She looked back down at the lone Siren. "Judging by the way this one bled out I'd say her mind was brutally invaded by a powerful Telepath." "Did Jaime do this?" The companion asked. "Yes. But whatever is wrong with her is not her fault..." "Yeah, yeah. You already said. She was abducted by the Hydra and taken to the Trickster. And now a Paradox is about to happen. And that's bad. I'm not an idiot, I know these things."

"Uh-huh, that's the gist of it." Dyna said, grinning at her companions defence. "Hey! There's people over there." The blur moved towards a bunch of green vines where several people were lying under. Some didn't seem to have any clothes. Dyna joined her companion but frowned. "It might be my imagination but I think I can sense another Time Lord. Two of them. And another TARDIS." The companion said. "It's not your imagination, I can sense it too." Dyna replied. "The Doctor is here, somewhere."

There sounded a faint snapping noise followed by a crash from up in the trees. Looking up she saw what looked to be a green pod made of vines falling and smoke could be seen from another pod. Danger senses going into overdrive Dyna held her arm out and caught the pod in a Telekinetic grip. "Watch out! That other one is about to fall as well!" "Yeah, let me get this one down safely." She eased the pod down to the ground and was able to grab the other just as it began to fall. "It's weird. It looks like all the others were cut down except for these two," the companion said. "The vine that was holding it up is burnt." "Yeah. I think I can guess why."

After carefully setting the second one down, Dyna pulled the first one apart to reveal... "It's the Doctor!" The companion said. "Indeed. And I bet the other is Wolf." The Doctor appeared to be sleeping and when she put a finger to the side of his head it revealed he'd eaten an Aphrodae...or was rather forced too. Dyna sighed and pulled out two spray tubes from her jacket pocket. "Good thing I came prepared." She handed one of the spray tubes to her companion. "Here, you do the others, I'll do these two." When the companion moved off to deal with the other Siren victims Dyna pulled apart the vines on the second pod to reveal this universe's Rose Tyler. She was sleeping as well. Gently easing the blonde's mouth open she sprayed the substance into her mouth, then her face. The Time Lady Hybrid moved back to the Doctor and did the same thing.

"I didn't think Time Lords could be effected by the Siren fruit." The companion said. "Hmm," Dyna grunted. "The Aphrodae is a very powerful fruit. So powerful it can affect Time Lords." She suddenly chuckled. "I once ate an Aphrodae. The Doctor took me to Bryce's Asteroid because he wanted to get some spare parts for the TARDIS. It's probably the most shadiest Asteroid Bazaar I've ever seen." "Isn't that the same place you got Feline from?" "Yeah. It's also the same place I ran into a Hydra in my First incarnation. Anyway, the Aphrodae was being sold on a fruit stall and because my mind was so discombobulated by the Hydra attack I stupidly bought five of them. They've got the most amazing smell ever and the sweetest taste to them. I ate one, the Doctor saw me do it and told me what it was, taking the remaining four off me. By the time we were in the TARDIS I was having these bizarre sexual fantasy's of the Doctor." "No way, you're kidding me!" "I wish I was. It was highly embarrassing...for the both of us!" She sighed when she heard a guffawing laugh and listened to the companion haranguing the Doctor. "Well, luckily he had an antidote or it could have been even more embarrassing."

Looking down at the Doctor she gently slapped his cheeks in order to wake him. "Come on Doc," her voice suddenly morphed into Welsh and sounded deeper. "Wakey, wakey! Time to wake up!" He groaned and then mumbled something. "You can sleep once you get back to your TARDIS, for now you can wake up lazy bones."

The Doctor groaned again and opened his eyes. There was a boy in his early twenties with bright ginger hair and blue eyes staring down at him. "Hello!" The boy said in a broad Welsh accent, grinned and looked up at something out of sight. "Don't say anything. Keep quiet." He frowned, confused and sat up. "Who are you?" He asked the boy. "Just a friend," he replied. "A very worried friend. Are you okay, Doctor? It's not like you to fall for the charms of the Sirens" His face was red. "I suppose we've been distracted lately." He looked around and saw the bodies of the Sirens and grimaced, knowing exactly what happened to them. "Oh, Jaime!" He mumbled. "And that distraction nearly cost both of your lives." The Doctor ignored being told off when he spotted Rose. He exclaimed and rushed to her, gently coaxing her to wake up. She groaned as he helped her sit up. "Are you okay? How are you feeling?" The Time Lord asked her. "Groggy." Rose groaned again. "What happened? Why do I feel so sensitive?" "That will be the effects of the Aphrodae," the strange boy replied. "The antidote I gave you can only do so much. To ease the sensitivity you'd need to engage in sexual activity. That's what I did anyway!"

Rose looked stunned, eyes wide. "Doctor?" He looked sheepish as he rubbed the back of his head. "Seriously?" "Yep." He even sounded sheepish. "Are you sensitive?" Rose asked the Doctor. But his face had gone even redder and without saying anything helped Rose up. "Come on. We need to find Jaime." They were going to leave and Dyna couldn't have that. She held her arm out and froze their feet to the ground. "Doctor, wait, please!" At first they struggled until the Doctor looked at the boy angrily. "Let us go right now!" He growled. "I can't, Doctor. Not until you've listened to me." "Who are you?" Rose asked. "I'm just a friend, here to help." "If you really want to help you could at least let us go!" The Doctor said.

Reluctantly Dyna melted the ice with little fire sparks, watching as the couple shifted about, trying to avoid the sparks. "What do you want?" The Time Lord now asked. "Are you aware you're currently in the middle of a Paradox?" "What?" The boy nodded his head. "I tracked its start from the remains of Planet Fiction, not sure what happened there, and now I've find you along this line." "What?" He said again. "I think I get it," Rose spoke up. "Are you saying he's causing a Paradox?" "No," the boy said. "I'm saying he's PART of the Paradox. You're looking for Jaime but if you're part of the Paradox then you won't find her." The Doctor frowned. "I...suppose it makes sense. We arrived here too early." "Got captured by Sirens and then Jaime arrived, raised hell and left." The boy cheeked. "I suggest you go to Torchwood and wait there while I find Jaime for you. I'll send you a message once I have."

They looked at the boy mistrustfully. "Who told you about this Paradox?" The Doctor asked. "Are you a Time Lord?" Rose asked next. "That's on a need to know basis and you need to trust me. No, but I am of a similar species." Dyna saw recognition from the Doctor. "That's what the other one said on Platform One." He narrowed his eyes suspiciously at the boy. "You're a Hybrid with the ability to Time Travel and see Time Lines, just like her." "Yes. That would be right."

The Time Lord paced a bit and grabbed Rose's hand. "Alright, I'm going to trust you," he said to the boy. "I'm trusting you to find her. I don't know who you are but I trust you. Let's go Rose." The Doctor and Rose rushed to the TARDIS and Dyna waited until they heard the wheezing/groan of his TARDIS leaving. "What did you do that for?" The invisible companion asked as Dyna's features morphed back to her original form. "The Doctor hasn't met us yet, that's why." "Oh yeah, that is so River Song." "Urgh! Don't remind me of that interfering witch." Dyna growled. "Come on, lets get all these other people home."

"Do you really think you can trust him?" Rose asked the Doctor who was sitting on the jumpseat and staring off into space. He couldn't get the image of Jaime laughing insanely at him out of his head. What had happened for her to get like that? What had she possibly seen? Not only that but she'd even asked him 'why they hadn't told her' and he could only presume it was about what happened to the twin planets of Fiction and Friction. Maybe he should have told her, then they wouldn't be in this mess! She was just another in a long line of people he'd failed to save... "Doctor?" Rose put her hand on his arm and he snapped out of his thoughts, looking at her. "Hmm?" "I asked if you could really trust him." She repeated. "We don't really know him and he might want Jaime for his own means." But the Doctor shook his head. "I trust him," he said. "I mean, we met one of his fellow species on Platform One and she was nice enough." Rose still looked worried though. "Is there really a Paradox?" She asked next. The Doctor frowned. "I didn't notice because we've been so worried about Jaime...but, yes. I could sense it once it was mentioned." "What about us Doctor? I'm still feeling sensitive..." She looked down at his trousers. "Clearly you are too!" Despite the antidote they were given their faces remained flushed so Rose couldn't tell if the Doctor was blushing or not. "Do you think we should...you know..." The Doctor just groaned. "No, Rose, not like this. But I think I've got something in the Med-bay that can ease it." Rose sighed and followed the Doctor into the inner TARDIS.

In Torchwood, Cardiff it had been five weeks since Jaime had been taken by a Hydra and John was using the meeting office as a research centre. He'd managed to come across several more appearances of Jaime in history. He still wondered how she managed to escape the Hydra or even the Trickster. And he was confused as to why she was wandering about throughout time and not making her way back to them. The door opened and he was joined by Gwen who had a cup of coffee. "How are you doing?" She asked, handing him the cup. "Fine!" He grunted. "Just fine." She noticed he didn't look 'fine' at all. He looked tired. And she supposed sleeping on a camp bed in Jack's office would do that. It would be enough to put anybody off camping for life.

The Welshwoman was about to tell him it wasn't such a good idea to dwell until she heard a wheezing/groaning sound. John's head snapped up, eyes wide. "It's the TARDIS!" Gwen said as the Half-Time Lord snatched up a folder and rushed out of the room. The TARDIS was materialising in the main hub. "Is that Rose and the Doctor?" Jack asked as he and Ianto came back from the Archive. When the TARDIS fully materialised the door opened and the Doctor exited the Time ship along with Rose. "Uh-oh, welcoming committee!" Rose muttered. The Doctor grimaced, sensing John's agitated state. "Where have you been?" J.D asked. He even sounded agitated, not to mention he looked tired.

"Look, we searched and we..." "I know!" John interrupted. "I know she's not with the Trickster. She's out there somewhere on her own!" The Doctor looked stunned. "Here!" John handed him a folder. "What's this?" He asked. "The Black Bullet." John replied. "Sounds like a comic book Superhero." Rose said as the Doctor speed read through the folder. He sighed. "It's not a comic book hero. It's Jaime." "What?" Rose took the folder and looked through it. "Is there somewhere we can go?" The Time Lord asked and John nodded. "This way." He led the Doctor to the meeting room and they were followed by Rose, Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Martha and Mickey. When he saw all the work on the table he whistled in wonder, impressed. "Well you have been busy! When did you know?" "When I found that folder. Go on then, how come it took five weeks?" The Doctor raised a brow. "That long? No wonder you look like..." "Look like what?" John asked. "Shit?" Rose helpfully finished. J.D looked annoyed. "Slept on a camp bed. It wasn't very comfortable."

The Doctor grimaced. "Not what I was thinking," he said. "Why don't one of you tell me what you found." They sat down and it was Rose who spoke up first. "Hold on, isn't this around the same time we were in London during the gas mask zombie invasion?" She was still reading 'The Black Bullet' folder. "Yeah," Jack spoke up. "It is." The Time Lord was nodding, thinking. "Remember when I noticed the wall was cracked outside the TARDIS and I wondered what happened?" The Doctor said and Rose said she did. "She'll have connected to the TARDIS and got into 1941 that way." He looked at all the work and picked up a print out of the New York Times front page. "She was on the Titanic. I remember seeing her there in my Seventh incarnation." "We figured that when we found that little story there," Jack spoke up. "About the combusting girl that predicted the Titanic sinking."

Martha frowned, suddenly realising. "Doctor, what about Hooverville?" She enquired. "What about it?" J.D and the Doctor asked making Martha look from one Doctor to the other. "Uhhh... Solomon's lookouts found a girl in the park who was feverish, claimed she'd been on a sinking ship in the middle of the Atlantic. I thought she might have been delirious." The Doctor's eyes widened. "Oh! Martha, you're brilliant. That was Jaime!" "Only Solomon thought she combusted." "Except she didn't. She opened a Fire Portal." "In 1912 she Pyroported," Rose said. "How can you tell?" "Opening portals leaves trace amounts of Artron emissions. But the thing about Portals they're likely to open up anywhere. She'll be more safer connecting to the TARDIS."

"Tiaanamaat!" John suddenly muttered. "She was there on Tiaanamaat." "Sorry? What's that?" Mickey asked. "It's an Asteroid Bazaar in the Akhaten System." The Doctor replied. "Yes, she was there. I remember seeing scorch marks caused by the Fire Portal. She was also hidden in plain sight." "Perception filter?" Jack asked. "Where'd she get one if those from?" "She has a natural perception filter. An Unnoticeability." The Doctor told him.

Mickey picked up another printed out piece of paper. "Here's an eyewitness statement from a soldier in a German Prisoner of War camp. They were all locked down for the night, but by the time morning came they found all the doors open and every German guard dead. They had all bled 'thick gloopy blood' out of their noses, ears and eyes." Martha grimaced. "Yeah, sounds familiar. Definitely Jaime." The Doctor said and something else on the table caught his eye. He picked it up. "Fire Retardant Girl." He read. "What's this about?"

"That happened last year. We were investigating an increased amount of Weevil attacks being reported," Jack replied. "Turns out an underground fight club was kidnapping Weevils and using them in fights. An explosion happened in a disused warehouse...or so we thought. The fire was so hot it only left incinerated remains of the illegal fight club." The Doctor winced. "It was the Fire Brigade that found the remains, everyone in there were dead, apart from a girl lying in the middle of a fighters cage. No burns or smoke inhalation were found on her. Described as having brown hair, brown eyes and 'futuristic looking clothes.' We were called to the scene but by the time we got there she had already disappeared." The Time Lord was deep in thought. "What do you think might have happened?" Rose asked him. "It's possible, if it was her and I think it might, that she created a firestorm. A fire so hot it incinerates everything in its path and is barely controllable." The Doctor replied. This wasn't making things any easier for him.

"We also found a video," Gwen spoke up. "It's from the events of Boxing Day 2004 in Indonesia." "You mean the Boxing Day Tsunami?" Came the reply from Rose. "The very same." Jack told her. "Have a look." The video played on the screen and they saw a beach where a little boy was playing and a Tsunami was obviously on its way. The person holding the camera and the people who were with that person were apparently shouting to the boy to move. But from where they were on high ground he couldn't hear them. Then something happened. Fifteen seconds before the wave hit an odd fire ring randomly appeared, followed by an obvious female tumbling out of it, landing on the sand. She stayed on the sand until she suddenly scrambled over to the boy, grabbed him and disappeared just as the wave hit. The excitement from the people's voices in the video who witnessed it was evident. "What are they saying?" Ianto asked, the only one who hadn't seen the video yet. "What was that? Where did they go?" The Doctor translated. "The devil! The devil took him." He scowled, annoyed. She was not the devil, she was Jaime and he'd just been shown an example of why Portals were dangerous.

"She just saved a boy from certain death." Rose sounded stunned. "Is that a cause for Reapers?" "No. Not in this case. The Paradox will keep them away." John looked at the Doctor. "What Paradox is this? Better yet, what's the reason for all this wandering around?" "Ah, yes...about that!" The Doctor told them of the Paradox, why he was part of it and about the Time Lord-like Hybrid who rescued them. "Are you telling me you placed your complete trust in a total stranger?" Jack asked, stunned. "And you believed him?" "We came across one of his kind before. On Platform One. She seemed harmless enough." "Really? What exactly are these Time Lord like species?" "She didn't say. Neither did he. All I know is that they're Hybrids with the ability to Time Travel and follow Paradoxes." Jack still remained suspicious along with Martha and Mickey.

"Hold on, what were you doing on Siren?" J.D asked the Doctor. "That's probably the one planet that should be avoided at all costs." The Time Lord tugged his left ear nervously. "We followed a signal and we thought she might be there. Only we came too early..." He heard Rose snort. "Oh, we came alright!" He rolled his eyes while Jack laughed. "Alright, we ARRIVED too early and got...caught out." John shook his head. "So did she turn up?" "Yes, eventually." "And you didn't stop her?" The Half-Time Lord asked, annoyed. The Doctor sighed. "We were a bit tied up at the time." His face had gone red as Jack started laughing again. "Well at least someone had fun!" J.D muttered. "As for Jaime," the Doctor continued. "When I did see her she didn't appear to be of sound mind." John stared at the Doctor and even Rose looked stunned. "What? What do you mean?" "It's possible the Trickster got the Hydra to leave her on Fiction so she could see what happened to it. It's very possible she lost her mind, escaped the Trickster in some way and is now wandering around getting herself into trouble. And as a way of getting back at me the Trickster put her in a Paradox." "And no doubt she thinks we're to blame." Rose said and J.D nodded. "In a way she's probably right. We should have told her instead of keeping it quiet."