Mistressnmoon: Hey guys! So part of the reason I got this out so quick is because it's so short. Now that isn't because I broke up an episode, but rather this is an episode from Torchwood, and it's one of those episodes that doesn't really feature Jack in it that much. So... I like to think of this as a nice little filler chapter. It's fairly boring to me, and to be honest there isn't much going on. But I decided, after writing three pages of what will now be the next chapter (which I'm very excited to write), that I wanted one with Jack. And I couldn't do it after because I already know what I'm doing for the next to chapters. So instead you guys get a filler chapter. Yay? Anyways, thanks for reading, and I hope you like this chapter!


aandm20: It's okay, Robin is going to have a few fun adventures, and then possibly meet up with the Doctor. But she'll see him again at somepoint :D

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Chapter Seven

After flailing my arms for a moment, I finally gathered my balance, and managed to not fall flat on my face. I really did hate using my watch; it was like using a bike after having been driving around in a sports car, compared to the TARDIS at least. With a sigh, I glanced around and saw the giant reflective mirror sculpture thing that was in front of me. And according to the note Electra left me, which I had finally read, Jack was in there with the new Torchwood team; not the team that had blown up the Sycorax spaceship. Well… I doubt that the team was there since it was well past midnight, but if I know Jack then he was probably living in there. Not to mention that they probably had some type of security system, which is why I glanced around and when I saw that nobody was in sight I yelled out,

"Jack! Get your ass out here!" I waited for a few minutes, and when he didn't show up, or make note of the fact he was living underground, I yelled out, "Jack! Don't forget that you owe me a drink, you trigger-happy idiot!" My entire body stiffened when I felt someone hugging me from behind. Before I could stop myself,

I jabbed the person in the stomach, and flipped them over my shoulder. A gasp was quickly exhaled from my body when I saw that it was Jack. "Well shit. You should know better then to sneak up on me, Jack." Jack let out a pained chuckle, before he stood up, and placed his arm around my shoulder.

"I've been through worse, Red." This time I let out a chuckle of my own, thinking back to the Dalek's, and how Jack couldn't really die.

"I would imagine so." It was then that I noticed we were just standing on a piece of tile, no longer walking. I raised an eyebrow at Jack, wondering why the hell we weren't moving, when we suddenly started moving down. I watched in amazement, this place was truly amazing. When we reached the bottom, I turned to Jack and gave him a wink while joking, "It's bigger on the inside." I grinned when I heard Jack laughing, stuttering out,

"It sure is Red." We stood in silence for a minute or two, before Jack started walking towards a staircase, and I was quick to follow him towards what looked to be an office. "So, what are you doing here Red?" Once we reached the office, that I believed belonged to Jack, I slid into a chair across the desk from where Jack was sitting.

"I'm here for that drink you owe me." The two of us had a small stare off, before I let out a scoff and asked, "Why the hell do you think I'm here?"

"Why aren't you with the Doctor Robin? And where the hell is he?" I averted my eyes, and bit my lip, not wanting to answer. I made the mistake of looking up, and once I saw Jack's face I told him,

"I don't know. I left him and Rose, so I don't know where they are, and they don't know where I am." Jack threw me a concerned look, silently asking me why I left. "I didn't belong with them Jack, they're… They're so much better then me. I couldn't do anything when he Sycorax attacked Jack. I use to be able to storm in there, and do something to stop them. But I couldn't do anything. So I left." I glanced away again, and quickly spoke up before Jack could say anything, "Enough about me. What about your team? And don't forget about that drink… though I think that'll have to wait until tomorrow since it's so late…" Jack let out a sigh, before he turned around and pulled out glasses and alcohol. I gave a grin as he started pouring the amber liquid into the glasses, and started telling me all about his team.

I'm sure by the time his team joined us in the morning, completely sober with no sleep, I knew just about everything there was to know about his team and then some. Though I knew about them, they didn't know anything about me; which is why Ianto was shocked when he came into Jack's office with coffee to find the two of us laughing hysterically. My laughter died a bit, as I gave the man a smile, and stood up to introduce myself.

"Hello, you must be Ianto. I'm Robin. Robin Williams, an old friend of Jack's."

"Just call her Red." I turned and gave Jack a glare, before laughter escaped my lips, and I forced myself to turn back to Ianto.

"Sorry about him, I try to teach him manners but he just never seems to learn. But as I was saying, pleasure to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too. Would you like any coffee?"
"Nah, don't do coffee. Not my thing in the least." After that Ianto left Jack's coffee on his desk, and left the room. Once he was gone I turned to Jack and told him, "He's cute. And you like him."

"No I don't Red."

"Sure you do, you like everyone." I stuck my tongue out at the man, before he opened his mouth to talk.

"Have you forgotten what I told you already?" I squeaked, and pulled my tongue back in my mouth; it had been way too long since I had seen Jack. "Come on, Owen wants us in the autopsy room."

"By us you mean you. But I'm coming." I chuckled, and followed Jack out of his office and to the autopsy room. The two gave me an odd look when I arrived with Jack. "Hi, Gwen and Owen, right? I'm Robin. Nice to meet you."

"That's Doctor Owen Harper." Without even thinking about it I rolled my eyes at the man, and asked sarcastically,

"Do I look like I care if you're a doctor?" I grinned when he didn't answer, and instead the woman standing with Jack and myself on the balcony answered,

"Nice to meet you too, are you joining the team?" I glanced between Jack and Gwen, laughter bubbling in the back of my throat.

"I don't think so. Just paying Jack a visit." She gave me a nod, and I could see that she was curious about Jack's past. I bet if Jack weren't here then his team would be asking me endless question about him, because from what he told me his team didn't know anything. Aside from the fact he had the Doctor's hand. I mean they didn't know that it belongs to the Doctor, but still. At some point, when I finally started paying attention to the conversation, Gwen was singing the human body parts song while Owen was throwing things at he to try and get her to stop singing.

"Stop singing!'

"The leg bone's connected to the hip bone…"

"Please stop singing. Anything to stop you singing." Jack and myself both burst into laughter, finding their actions super amusing. They clearly liked each other, which is a minor issue since Gwen had a long term, really serious, boyfriend.

"I dunno what you two are laughing at!" I ducked, and laughed more, when Owen started throwing things at the two of us. "Stop singing. Please don't sing, please don't sing. Not listening, lalala. Right, okay." Owen kept throwing things, and I saw that he was throwing them at their last teammate, the ever lovely Toshiko.

"What's going on?" I bit my lip slightly, feeling bad that the woman clearly was feeling left out. Even more so since I really didn't know these people while she did.

"You know the skeleton we found at the building site. Well, Amanda Burton here has just completed the post mortem."

"Okay I can explain…"

"As you may remember at the building site, Owen said this was a woman killed by a single gunshot." I barely held back my grin, seeing that this was leading towards some major teasing.

"Yeah ok I'd been there like a minute."

"Since then he has had to tweak some of his initial conclusions. The first being that this isn't in fact a woman but a man." I grinned, and glanced at Jack to see my own humor reflected in his eyes.

"A young man. A very girly man."

"But still, ultimately, a man. Then there was the cause of death, Owen said GSW, uh uh, the correct answer was…"

"Unidentified trauma but…"

"Unidentified trauma?" I glanced towards Toshiko, the only one who didn't know what that meant.

"Umm. You see it's in RTA's when something like a steering column or a post goes into a body at great velocity. But the one thing that could be ruled out was…"

"Gunshot wound…" I chuckled when Gwen suddenly hit the balcony bar, as if she was trying to imitate a buzzer

"Gunshot wound! Was there, in fact, any part of your prognosis that was right?"

"I got that it was a… skeleton."

"Yes you did!" Gwen placed one of her fingers on her nose, and pointed at him. I laughed along side of Jack, and after quickly introducing myself to Toshiko, who seemed rather distracted, I followed him up to his office as he dialed on his phone. Toshiko was quickly following the two of us to his office. I took no time in making myself comfortable on the chair that I had been sitting in earlier. I placed my back against one arm of the chair, and let the back of my knees rest on the other arm as Jack paced about his office.

"Jack um… Robin…. So you know anything about Greek mythology?" I rolled my eyes at Jack when he spoke into his phone,

"Security Visa, 45895 Harkness."

"I know a bit Toshiko." Jack sat down in his seat, the same one he sat in last night as he told her,

"I know a little too, why?"

"You ever heard of Philoctectes? It came up in a pub quiz." Then why not just look it up online? Maybe it just wasn't something she thought was worth looking up.

"You went to a pub quiz?"

"Yeah. No I love pub quizzes, down at the Prince of… Tights." Jack and I both looked at her, not really believing what she was saying. But if Jack wasn't going to question his employee then I wasn't going to question her either.

"Philoctetes was an archer recruited to fight in the Trojan War, he got in an argument and was marooned on the island of Limnos for about ten years."

"Just left there?" Neither Jack nor I answered, and Toshiko started to wander out of Jack's office. But before she reached the door Jack called out to her,

"Hey what's happening with that list for UNIT?"

"Hmmm…. Oh yeah I'm still working on it." She seems to be very distracted… I wonder if this is how she normally acts?

"Right well… you know… when you're ready." Toshiko paused, almost as if she wanted to talk, before she walked out. I frowned, turning to Jack to ask if that's how she normally acts, when he talked into his phone,

"Prime minister, is this a secure line ? Can you tell me why Torchwood operations have become part of your security briefings to the leader of the opposition ? The deal is…" I pouted, before I left Jack's office in search of lunch.

After finding lunch, and making it back into the office without any fuss, I saw Toshiko standing in the room with the alien technology they had found with the skeleton. I met with Jack at the doorway, and we both stood there as Jack told Toshiko,

"So I've just come from a really interesting conversation with a detective inspector."

"Right." I frowned at the woman, thinking that she still seemed to be highly distracted, more so then she sounded like from Jack's stories. I trailed after Jack, as he entered the room, until the two of us were standing near the alien technology they had uncovered.

"Interesting because, firstly, the man had the biggest hands I'd ever seen and secondly because of the story he told me about you saving a woman and her kid from being murdered by her ex-husband?"

"Yeah.. No I was going to tell you about that." I stared at the woman, my eyes narrowed on her, while I asked her,

"Then why haven't you?" She looked between Jack and myself, probably feeling a bit cornered, before she looked away from either of us and answered my question.

"I dunno. It wasn't a work thing. Just a thing. Stuff happens all the time that's not pertinent to here." I raised an eyebrow at the woman, before skeptically asking,

"So… you do this all the time then?"

"You secretly fight crime, is that it Tosh?" I glanced at Jack for a moment, realizing that he was more upset then he was showing. He worries about his friends when he thinks something is wrong; one time he followed me for a week after I stood him up before telling me that he thought I was pregnant, which hadn't ended well for him. Anyways, if he was worried about Toshiko, then there was probably something wrong, unless Jack thinks she's pregnant in which case he's going to end up stranded on another planet.

"I didn't want it to look like I was showing off."

"The guy they arrested, Henderson said you heard him muttering to himself as he was walking along and that's what tipped you off." My eyebrows furrowed together in confusion when I heard what Jack had said. Why would someone be muttering about it? Honestly, when people are about to commit a crime or kill someone they usually are very silent and act creepily normal.

"Humm. Couldn't really work out what he was saying at first and then I, it was like, Jesus!" I turned towards her, my confused expression still in place, as she tried to laugh it off like it was nothing; when clearly something was up.

"That's weird, cos when I'm about to murder someone I'm really careful not to talk to myself about it while I'm on the street." I nodded in agreement; glad that Jack's statement echoed my earlier thoughts.

"No, sure. I mean that's lesson one." Jack and I both made a non-committal humming noise, and after an awkward moment of silence Toshiko asked,

"I was wondering how you were getting on with this?" I glanced towards the machine, silently wondering to myself what the hell it was.

"It's ongoing."

"Can you dismantle it?" I glanced at her, curious as to why she would want to dismantle it.

"Like I said, it's ongoing." I nearly wacked Jack on the back of his head for being so rude, but refrained from doing so since it was his team after all. Toshiko turned around, like she was going to leave, when she suddenly looked back at Jack and myself. I noticed her flinch slightly, before she started staring at Jack in wonderment. Jack also noticed her staring at him, because when she didn't say anything he asked her,

"What? Have I got something on my face? Is it food?"

"No sorry, I zoned out." I narrowed my eyes at her, wondering why she seemed to be so out of it. It wasn't because I was here, was it?

"Well listen that was a good save Tosh. Well done…" Toshiko was quick to thank him, and leave. I watched her walk away, a small frown on my face.

"Since when were you Mr. Mysterious?" Jack turned to me, all serious, as he tried to give me a strict face.

"Robin. I've been alive for so long, I have to be secretive." For a moment we had a stare off, before I broke it and turned towards the door.

"I know. More then you think I do." I started walking towards the door, and paused at the door for a moment to say, "And I'm going to go take a nap in your office, hope you don't mind."

Several hours later, after being woken up, and one rather explanation of what was going on from Owen, I was standing on the balcony next to Jack, him holding the transporter they had found. It didn't take long before Toshiko entered the hub with a blonde woman following her closely. I averted my eyes, a little uncomfortable, when the blonde started flirting with Toshiko. Because of this I was quick to interrupt the two by asking them as question, while Jack help up the transporter.

"Is that what your looking for?"

"Robin! Jack!" I walked behind Jack as he walked around the balcony, and down the stairs towards the two women.

"Friend of mine, lets call him Vincent. That was his name after all. Regular guy, girlfriend. Likes his sport, likes a beer. Starts acting a little strange, a little distracted. Suddenly he disappears for a couple of months. He comes back and we've got to start calling him Vanessa. Since then I've always been a little nervous when a friend behaves out of character." Ah Vincent. Not the man's name, but an interesting fellow. I remember what that happened. Regardless, Jack and I stared at the blonde woman, until I spoke up,

"I'm sorry, but we haven't been properly introduced, have we?" Jack leaned over the railing,

"Jack Harkness, and Robin Williams! My guess is your not from around these parts ! Now this," I glanced towards Jack, shifting my eyes away from the woman, to see him holding up the transporter. "This, huh. Is incredible." Jack and I then walked around the room, and somehow exited behind Toshiko and the other woman.

"And do you know what it is, Toshiko?" Toshiko looked at me, after I had spoken, before she glanced between Jack and me.

"It's a transporter. Mary was a political prisoner, she was exiled here. Look, Robin, Jack…"

"You got half of that right, dear. Mary, it is Mary right? Do you wanna tell her the really interesting bit?" Mary continued to stare at Jack and I, and when she didn't answer my question Jack started talking,

"No? Ooh chatty isn't she? I don't know how you got a word in edgeways, Tosh. It's a two man transporter. But whatever you people may be, you may be squids for all I know. A two squid transporter, room for one prisoner and one guard! You wanna tell us what happened to the guard Mary?" And finally, the woman started speaking,

"I killed him! But I was disturbed." I glanced away from the moment, just for a second, when the door to the hub opened and the rest of the Torchwood team slowly entered the room. Mary barely even acknowledged the team as she continued to keep her attention on Jack and myself. "Then another came, a soldier." I noticed Gwen had entered the room behind Jack and I, while Qwen had entered the room behind Mary. "He tried to shoot me. So I plunged my new human hand into his chest and plucked out his heart!" I barely shifted my eyes when Ianto entered the room, standing next to Owen who stated,

"And that's what you've been doing since."

"This form needs to be fed." I kept my eyes on Mary as she wandered between where Owen and Ianto were standing, and where Jack and myself were standing.

"All the punctures, all about the size of a fist. All those people, you killed all those people."

"I fled before any more soldiers came, I had so much to explore! And how I loved this body, so soft so wicked." I gave the woman a frown when she then touched herself in a rather suggestive manner. "Such powers body has in this world ! Within a few years the forest had gone. Transporter was safely buried under the spread of the city, I didn't care. I wasn't exactly in a hurry to get home." Jack and I both glared at her before we both shouted at her,

"And you've been killing ever since!" I noticed from the corner of my eye that Toshiko was putting on a necklace, before my full attention was placed on Mary again.

"I knew there might come a time when my situation here became complicated. But I was safe as long as I knew where the transporter was." So that means she's been in the area forever, and that she knew the moment that Torchwood had the transporter.

"And then the machine was uncovered."

"As soon as the air touched its surface I could feel it." I glared at the woman as she continued talking, only dropping my glare when Toshiko suddenly shouted out,

"Owen, no!" Before I could blink, Mary had grabbed Toshiko from behind and was holding a knife to her throat. I continued to glare at the woman, before telling her with a cold fury,

"Let her go." At eh same time Jack shouted out,

"Let her go! Mary! Let her go!" Mary simply ignored us, and instead told Toshiko,

"Toshiko, tell them to give me the transporter."

"I can't Mary!" I continued to glare when Toshiko started to struggle against the knife, thankfully not harming herself in the process. Mary then shifted her gaze towards Gwen, making me frown at the woman.

"How's this? I'll exchange Toshiko for that one." Wasn't Mary suppose to be in love with Toshiko? Beside, neither of them would be harmed while I'm around. "Your choice."

"Just put the knife down…"

"You might want to listen to her, Mary." Instead of paying any of us any attention, she decided to antagonize Toshiko.

"Did you hear him? He didn't want to, did he?"

"Please don't…"

"That's what they think of you. That's who you've been working for, for all these years." I frown, ready to defend the Torchwood team, before realizing that I really couldn't. I wasn't part of this team, nor did I want to be. It made me a little glad when Owen tried to defend himself just a little bit.

"That's not true Tosh, don't listen."

"But not me. Whatever I've done, it doesn't change the way I feel about you! We have a connection Toshiko, something real…" She says as she holds Toshiko at sword point.

"Ok you want the transporter. We want Toshiko! I think that's a fair swap." I glanced at Jack, wondering if the lack of sleep was getting to him, before remembering that he had reprogrammed it. "Give me the knife and I'll give you the transporter myself." Jack then physically offered the transporter to Mary, who looked at him before shoving Toshiko away. Once more I glared at the woman, before moving closer to Jack, ready to help him if this managed to go wrong. Mary also moved closer to Jack, before taking the transporter away from Jack as quickly as she could. Jack was still standing on the other side of the transporter, and I was standing next to him, as he held it close to Mary.

"You two smell different to them."

"That's nothing, it's when you compare teeth with a British guy. That's when it's really scary." As if it were a reflex, I hit Jack on the back of his head. This didn't seem to disrupt the conversation, because Mary asked Jack and myself,

"What are you two?"

"I don't know." I frowned at Jack, before stating,

"And neither do I." Our answers seemed to upset Mary, because she suddenly shouted out,

"And you would have put me in a cage!" Mary, who had just noticed that the transporter had clicked into life, seemed to be confused as she asked,

"What's happening?"

"Oh that?" I asked, with a grin on my face, as Jack released the transporter which had locked onto Mary. The two of us quickly stepped out of the way, as Jack told her,

"I reprogrammed it for you. It's set to enable." I watched as Mary vanished with the transporter in a long flare of disappearing light, flying through the roof of the hub, headed towards the Sun. We all followed her, and where she was headed. "Sort of now…"

"Where did she, has she gone home?" I gave Toshiko a sad look, already knowing exactly where the woman had been sent.

"I reset the coordinates."

"Where to?"

"To the centre of the sun. It shouldn't be hot. I mean we sent her there at night and everything." I gave Jack a glare, really why did he have to be such a jerk sometimes!

"You killed her!"

"Yes!" I gave Toshiko another sad look, before following Jack out of the room while Toshiko tried not to cry. Once we were in Jack's office I shouted at him,

"That was not called for! You had best talk with her later, or I'm going to come after you!" Jack turned with an annoyed look on his face, before it slowly faded to a tired look.

"Fine. I'll make sure I talk to her later, I wouldn't want to face your wrath after all." The man paused for a moment, a mock thoughtful look on his face, before he continued talking, "Speaking of your wrath, don't I owe you some drinks?" I paused for a moment as well, pretending to think it over, before I shook my head.

"Nu-uh." I grinned when I saw Jack's confused look, rightfully so since I keep bothering him about that. I gave him a wink, "If you give me that drink, then there won't be a good reason for me to visit. So I think I'm going to hold out on that, and get that drink from you when you least expect it." After a few seconds of silence, Jack's laughter filled the room, and a grin stretched across his face.

"Only you, Red. Only you." Once more I winked at Jack, and opened my mouth to tell Jack,

"Don't forget to talk to her, and don't forget about that drink. Because I'll be back for it." Jack shook his head, still grinning, before he told me,

"It was nice to see you Red, don't take as long next time!"

"I don't make any promise. But don't worry, you'll see me around." And with that I hit the different buttons on my vortex manipulator, and disappeared on the spot.


Mistressnmoon: So like I said, it's a bit of a filler because this is where is would fit. I also realized that when Robin isn't in a scene she's usually out getting food... It seems to happen a lot. But it works, so I'm not going to change it! Anyways, what did you think? Dose anyone want another short filler showing what Robin's up to? Or would you rather I just go ahead with the real plot and work on the chapter I already started?