Auhtor's Note: Small update (sorry; didn't manage much. But at least I'm able to sit again. Hurray!)

Happy easter to all of you! (if you happen to be celebrating it)

Jack leaned by the box and held his breath in commotion.
He couldn't stand it any longer.

Jack turned around, facing a horror-stricken Martha; she stared at him wide eyed.
"We've got to open this box."

Martha's mouth opened and shut without her saying a word; then she stared at her feet.

"Martha I can't let him die in there!" Jack started shouting again, "We've got to do something!"

Martha shifted a bit uneasy.
"The Doctor..."
"I don't care what he said to you, I can't stand it any longer" interrupted Jack.
"But I..."
Jack was becoming more and more agitated.
"For God's sake Martha, we've got to help him; we can't let him do this on his own."
"But he said he had to do it himself" contradicted Martha.
"I don't care what he said," yelled Jack, "And if he won't let us in we'll force it open!"

Jack lunged at the box and kicked it a few times before Martha flung herself at him.

"Step away from the box!"

Martha turned around and found a furrowed face staring at her; its skin seemed to be covered in small arranged emeralds; they glistened menacingly as the creature in front of her opened its eyes even more.
Martha hardly even noticed the sonic screwdriver pointed in her direction.

"What are you...?!" Jack turned on his heel and stared speechless into the invader's face.

"Step away from the box," repeated the alien creature in front of them, more insisting than threateningly; it breathed out deeply and lowered his hands a bit, signalizing them to calm down.

"This is the Doctor's screwdriver," mumbled Martha.
Jack put one and one together and leapt at the creature in front of him. Martha had trouble restraining him with the help of Ianto, who had followed the intruder.
"You...this is your...!"

"Stop it! Please...all of you. Just stop it."

Not only Martha's jaw had dropped but Jack's seemed to have hit the floor and bounced back into its previous position.

For a moment Jack had nearly forgotten about the Doctor in the box behind him.
And he couldn't believe that he was staring the Doctor right in the face.

But not his Doctor.