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Back To The Future! (30/??)

2009-12-21T15:34:24Z

BACK TO THE FUTURE! (30/??)

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: Will Torchwood save Lily...

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

Chapter Thirty

“I know that it sounds completely crazy Doctor, but I know that girl was telling the truth,” Ianto said after explaining what had happened to the Time Lord.

“It does sound crazy,” the Doctor nodded thoughtfully. “But crazy’s my middle name.”

“So you believe me?” Ianto asked, surprised.

“Of course I do Ianto Jones! You’ve always struck me as the type of person to believe any old story. If you believe this girl then we will do our best to help her. I will see if the TARDIS knows something.”

He disappeared back into the blue box, leaving Ianto and Jack waiting anxiously for any information. Unable to wait any longer, Jack led Ianto into the TARDIS to see what the Doctor was up to. As soon as they crossed the threshold the door slammed closed and the TARDIS began moving. Jack and Ianto clung to the railing as she hurtled through time and space.

“Doctor?” Jack called. “Where are we going?”

“I have no idea!” the Doctor called back. “I didn’t tell her to go anywhere.”

***

Lily’s eyes drifted open, blinking against the bright light surrounding her. She slowly climbed to her feet, feeling a little woozy.

“Where am I?” she croaked, her throat hoarse.

“Oh good,” John Hart’s oily voice came from behind her. “You finally awake. I was starting to worry that you wouldn’t come back.”

Lily turned toward the sound of his voice. He was on the other side of some rusted bars. Lily realised she was in a cell, three of the walls were sand and stone. The outside room where John stood was the same as her cell. Only instead of a small cot there was a desk and chair. It reminded Lily of an old west film she had watched with her Tad as a kid.

“Where am I?” she asked again, her voice more forceful this time. She took a menacing step toward the horrible man.

“I wouldn’t worry your pretty little head sweet cheeks,” John grinned. “I will tell you that you’re not on earth anymore, or even in your own time. We’re going to make a nice little home here, just you and me my love.”

“You think I’ll be spending all of eternity with you stuck in this little cell? Fat chance,” Lily growled at him. “My family will remember who I am, and they will come for me.”

“I sincerely doubt that,” John shook his head. He moved over to the desk behind him and pulled a small black remote from the drawer. “You see this little thing? It’s quite powerful. Does lots of things, including wiping some nasty unwanted memories. Well in this case it wiped the memories I didn’t want.”

“Why do you want to spend the rest of your life with someone who hates you?”

“I love you,” he shrugged. He almost sounded sincere…almost.

“You don’t know me,” Lily argued. “You can’t possibly love someone when you don’t know them.”

“That’s where you’re wrong. I told you I’ve been watching you. Little snippets of your life for the past twenty-one years,” Hart explained. “I know a lot about you.”

“It’s still not love, it’s obsession. If you truly love someone you wouldn’t lock them up and take them away from their family and you certainly wouldn’t kill them.”

“It was the only way to get you here. I knew you wouldn’t come willingly.”

“Let me go Hart.”

“No,” he shook his head. “You’re not going anywhere. Sooner or later you’ll learn to love me.”

“I won’t,” Lily assured him. “I love only one man and I will always only love one man.”

“He’s not a man.”

“The Doctor is more man than you’ll ever be Hart,” Lily spat, anger boiling through her again.

“Be quiet,” he snapped. Lily could feel his annoyance. “Just shut up, or I’ll shoot you again.”

Lily was quiet, but only because she didn’t want to be shot again. She was still weak after being infected, she didn’t know how her body would handle dying a third time in such a short period.

Hope was beginning to fade as Lily considered the possibility that her family wouldn’t come. She thought that she had gotten through to Ianto, but what if she hadn’t? What if he didn’t contact the Doctor and just forgot about her? Would they ever remember her? She hoped so, and if they didn’t she hoped that they were happy.

Tears sprang to her eyes then. She already missed them all, especially with the prospect of never seeing them again. Her dreams of having a future with the Doctor shattered before her. Getting married, maybe having some children, seeing the universe and being happy together.

“Please,” she whispered to herself. “Please someone help me.”

As she continued to silently plead, she was suddenly assailed by emotions that were not her own. Anger was the predominant one, mixed with some fear, confusion and sadness. There was a familiar edge to the emotions she could feel.

The Doctor and her parents were coming for her after all.

Unfortunately it seemed that Hart also knew they were coming. He jumped to his feet, unholstering his gun and hurried to the cell door. Lily tried to fight him off, but she was still too weak. Hart grabbed her by the hair, yanking her out of the cell.

“Move and I’ll break your neck,” Hart warned, pointing his gun at the door.

A few seconds later Jack, Ianto and the Doctor burst through the door. Jack and Ianto had their guns trained in front of them. Three pairs of eyes were trained on Hart, burning with rage.

“Let her go,” Jack growled at him.

“Do you even know who she is?” Hart questioned.

Jack hesitated for a moment. “No,” he responded.

“She’s an amazing actress isn’t she?” Hart asked, smiling.

“What?” Lily thundered.

“She’s been part of the ploy all along,” Hart continued to lie. “She was the bait to get you here. Part of my little trap. It’s always been you Jack, you’re the one I want to be with.”

Lily gasped as another wave of rage washed over her. It was so intense she feared she might pass out. A red haze was creeping over her vision, copper coated her tongue and her veins burned painfully.

Everyone was angry and it was pulling her under. It took all of her energy to stay conscious.

“It’ll never happen John,” Jack shook his head. “You make me sick, now let the girl go.”

The girl. It was like a kick to the gut.

“Why?” John demanded. “Why can’t you just spare a couple of years for me?”

“I love Ianto,” Jack told him. “I can’t be without him, and I hate you.”

The rage intensified within Lily, making her knees wobble dangerously. John let out a primal scream and threw Lily to the floor behind him.

His hand shook as he pointed his gun straight at Jack, it exploded in a flash at the same time that the rage erupted in Lily’s chest. She watched as Jack crumbled to the ground, blood pouring from his chest.

Ianto yelled for his husband and rushed to his side, pulling him into his arms. In a lightening quick movement Lily was on her feet, the rage had taken over.

She couldn’t think of anything other than the fact that John Hart had just shot her father. With everything she had, Lily thrust her fist forward.

John Hart had been about to turn his gun on the Doctor when he stopped. Shock registering on his face as he looked down at his chest.

There was a bloody fist protruding from the centre of his torso. He stared wide-eyed at it for a few seconds before he collapsed in a heap on the floor.

Lily stared down at the dead time agent, her eyes glazed and vacant. Blood dripped from her fist onto a pool on the floor.

She had killed John Hart…

TBC…

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Back To The Future (29/??)

2009-12-20T20:44:27Z

BACK TO THE FUTURE! (29/??)

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: What has John Hart done...

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

A/N: Sorry it's been sooooo long since I posted but my laptop is rubbish and I lost EVERYTHING! I promise however that I will continue with this story and post often from now on!

Chapter Twenty-Nine

“Who are you?” Ianto asked the strange young woman, in her pyjamas, standing before him.

“What…? I…I don’t understand. How…? Ho can you no know who I am?” Lily questioned, stunned. She took a step backward, away from her father.

“Should I?”

“Of course you should! I’m your daughter!” Lily exclaimed, she could feel her world crumbling around her. “Please Tad, tell me this is all just some sick joke.”

“I’m sorry Miss, but I honestly don’t know you,” Ianto shook his head, looking concerned. “I don’t have a daughter. I don’t have any children.”

“Please,” she pleaded, tears brimming over her fear filled eyes. “Please don’t do this to me. I need you Tad…I’m scared.”

Ianto was staring at Lily with wide-eyed concern. He couldn’t deny that there was something familiar about her, but he could put his finger on what it was. The urge to reach out and hug her was overwhelming, but why?

“Maybe you should see a Doctor Miss…”

“I don’t need a doctor!” she raged. “At least not a medical doctor. There’s nothing wrong with me!”

A plan was beginning to form in her mind now. For it to work however, she would need Torchwood’s help. She had to convince Ianto that she was telling the truth.

“Please,” she begged, her eyes pleading. “I know that you don’t believe me and probably think that I’m insane, but I need your help. I mean isn’t that what Torchwood is all about? Helping people? Will you please help me? Tad?”

Ianto didn’t respond, he was too stunned to even nod.

“Just look at me,” Lily continued when he didn’t respond. “You’ve always been good at judging when you’re being lied to. Do you think I’m lying?”

Staring at her for a long second, Ianto finally shook his head. She didn’t look like she was lying. In fact she looked like Jack.

“Thank you,” she sighed. “Ok, I need you to get Dad…I mean Jack, to call the Doctor. He probably won’t remember me either, whatever John Hart’s done I’m positive he would have erased the Doctor’s memory of me too, but the TARDIS. She’s a different story. I don’t think Hart would know enough about her to know she’s a sentient being with a memory. The TARDIS will be able to tell you who I am, I’m sure of it. She’ll be able to find me. I’m going to go find Hart. I want this finished once and for all. I’m sick of hiding.”

“John Hart?” Ianto growled, the name had broken through his shocked daze.

“Yes, he’s made you forget me. But you will remember. You have to. Just get to the TARDIS, I know she can fix this. Please, hurry.”

Lily turned away from her confused father and hurried to the door. She paused, turning back to Ianto, her hand poised on the handle.

“I love you Tad. Please tell Dad that I love him too and…The Doctor. If anything happens to me, please just make sure that he knows I love him more than anything in the world, except you and Daddy of course. Please just make sure he knows it.”

She was gone before Ianto could respond. He was still for a few moments, processing everything he’d been told in the past fifteen minutes. The girl had seemed so familiar, but his daughter? He’d like to think he’d be able to remember his own daughter.

The resemblance though was uncanny. She had Jack’s eyes, his own hair. Was it possible? Could the seemingly crazy young woman be his child?

“Jack!” Ianto screamed, he flipped the switch to open the hidden door into the Hub and pounded down the corridor. He bounced impatiently as the lift descended slowly to the secret base situated under the streets of Cardiff. As soon as it stopped he threw the door open and rushed into the Hub yelling for his husband.

“JACK!”

“Ianto?” Jack rushed out of his office, catching Ianto in his arms. He held him at arms length looking down at his husband with concern. “What’s wrong?”

“Lily,” he huffed, trying to catch his breath. “Forgot…daughter…ours…John…Hart…”

“Ianto, honey, I can’t understand you. What’s this about John Hart?” Jack asked, his concern growing. “And who’s Lily?”

“Lily’s our daughter,” Ianto explained, finally able to breathe again. “I know it sounds crazy Jack, but we have a daughter. John Hart’s done something to our memories. He’s made us forget our daughter.”

“Ianto what are you talking about? We don’t have a daughter.”

“We do! Lily, she came into the Tourist Office. She’s our daughter Jack. John Hart’s after her. He made us forget her. We have to help her Jack. She said that the Doctor’s TARDIS will be able to help us.”

“Okay…let me get this straight,” Jack help up his hands. “Some girl we don’t know and have never seen before bursts into the Tourist Office and tells you that she’s our daughter. She gives you some story about John Hart somehow erasing our memory of her. And she tells you that the TARDIS will make us remember? So…what? Do you believe her?”

“You didn’t see her Jack,” Ianto pressed, his eyes wild. “She looked like you, but with me dark curls. She had your eyes.”

“A lot of people have blue eyes Ianto. You have blue eyes.”

“I don’t mean she had your colour of eyes. I mean she had your eyes. Same colour, same shape and that same haunted look that burns just beneath the surface. She was telling the truth. She’s our daughter Jack, and if you truly love me as much as I know you do, then you’ll call the Doctor and help me to save her.”

“All right,” Jack finally nodded. “If you believe her, then I trust you. I’ll call the Doctor right now.”

“Thank you Jack,” Ianto breathed, brushing a kiss over Jack’s lips. “I love you.”

“I love you too.”

Meanwhile…

Back at Lily’s bungalow, she burst into her bedroom to find John Hart sprawled casually across her bed.

“I knew you’d be back,” he smirked. “So…how’s the family?”

“What have you done to them?” Lily growled dangerously.

“Isn’t it obvious? I made your little family forget you,” Hart explained as if he were talking to a slow child.

“You’re going to fix what you’ve done you disgusting, creepy, sleazy little toad,” she told him, venom dripping from her tone. Her fists were clenched tightly at her side. She could feel the smugness radiating from him which only fuelled the rage that was burning through her veins.

“I don’t think so sweet cheeks,” he shook his head, sitting up on the bed. “You see that would mess up my plan to have you all to myself.”

“I’ll never be yours Hart,” she spat at him. “If you don’t fix them I will kill you.”

Hart laughed menacingly as he levelled his arm out in front of him. By the time Lily registered the gun held tightly in his hand Hart had already pulled the trigger.

Shock registered briefly on Lily’s face as she looked down at the spreading pool of blue staining her blue pyjama’s. For a few seconds she thought that the slight purple tinge to the blood was pretty before her world went black.

TBC…

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Back To The Future! (28/??)

2009-09-02T18:51:15Z

BACK TO THE FUTURE! (28/??)

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: Who's in Lily's room...

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

Chapter Twenty-Eight

“He’s not coming.”

Lily looked up to find John Hart standing at the foot of the bed. He had a wide, creepy grin spread across his face. He looked almost smug.

At the sight of the greasy man, Lily felt a number of different things. She felt nauseous, hate and a slight thrill of fear. He was a disgusting man and she hated him.

“What the hell are you doing here?” she snapped. Her hand shifted slightly so that she was reaching for her gun instead of the phone.

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you,” Hart warned with a twisted smile. His own gun was trained on Lily, pointing straight at her heart. “Now, I know that you can’t die, but I don’t want to make a mess of the pretty sheets. And to answer your earlier question...I’m here for you.”

“You still haven’t given up on that?” Lily shook her head. “You sad deluded little man, it ain’t never gonna happen.”

“That’s where you’re wrong,” he informed her.

Lily’s eyes suddenly widened with fear, not because of the situation she was in. No, Lily was afraid because a sudden wave of confidence and desire that wasn’t her own had washed over her.

She was feeling what John Hart was feeling. This hadn’t happened since that night at dinner, at least that’s the last time she remembered. Everyone had pretty much been feeling the same thing lately.

When she had gotten sick it was fear that she would die and not come back. When she did come back it was relief to see her, and be alive. During the whole ordeal Lily had forgotten all about her strange empathic ability.

“You’re all alone,” Hart was still talking. Lily hadn’t been listening, too lost in her own thoughts, but she heard that.

“I’m not alone,” she shook her head. “The Doctor will be here at any minute.”

“No he won’t.”

“What are you talking about?” Lily snapped, anger bubbling just under the surface. “What have you done to my family?”

“Nothing,” he shrugged. Lily knew he was lying, she could feel it, that’s why she wasn’t sure if the anger that threatened to boil over was hers or not.

“What have you done?!?!?!?” she yelled this time. The anger was becoming too hard to contain.

“Calm down sweet cheeks,” he laughed at her anger, and it was her anger. “I haven’t hurt them; they’re just not your family anymore.”

“What?”

“They don’t know who you are,” he shrugged as if it were obvious.

“W-? No,” Lily shook her head. She refused to believe it although she could feel he was telling the truth. “You’re lying!”

Without waiting for John to respond, or caring about the gun he had trained on her, Lily leapt from her bed. Adrenaline pumped through her veins, spurring her forward as she ran to the front door.

She didn’t care that she was still in her pyjamas as she threw herself into her car. Lily ran every light, going well over the speed limit, but she still didn’t care. All she could think about was getting to her family.

In less than five minutes she was pounding across the dock toward the tourist office. She raced through the doors almost colliding with Ianto who was organising a rack of brochures just inside the door.

“Tad!” she squealed, throwing her arms around his neck. “You’re all right! I was so worried about you!”

Ianto stiffened under her arms and Lily could feel the confusion rolling off of him in waves. Taking a step back, Lily was surprised by the angry expression clouding her father’s features.

“Tad? What’s wrong?” Lily’s voice cracked under the strain.

“I’m sorry,” Ianto spoke politely, but there was a cold edge to his tone. “But who are you?”

TBC...

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Back To The Future! (27/??)

2009-07-08T19:23:30Z

BACK TO THE FUTURE! (27/??)

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: Lily's on bed rest...

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Lily looked around her bedroom and sighed. She was lying in bed, tired and sore. It was becoming a habit now, and she was becoming increasingly annoyed. Everyone kept reminding her that she would get her strength back soon, but she’d been dead for a long time and her body needed to finish restoring itself. So, until then, she was on bed rest and plenty of fluids.

After over two weeks in bed, Lily was becoming antsy. She wanted up, she wanted to walk about and get back to work, just wanting to put the whole ordeal behind her. What she wanted most was to start her new life with her family and the Doctor.

“Good morning,” Ianto beamed as he carried a tray of food into his daughter’s room. “You look good this morning, starting to get some colour back.”

“Whoopee,” Lily said sarcastically. “Some colour, strike up the band!”

“Lily there’s no need to be snippy.”

“Yes there is,” she pouted. “You’re not being held captive in your own bed. Until that happens you don’t get to tell me not to be snippy.”

“It’s only for a few more days Halaw,” Ianto reasoned. “Martha said you should be back to your old self by Friday.”

“But I’m bored,” she complained. “I’ve read every book and magazine in the house, watched every DVD and daytime TV bites.”

“You’re the worst patient in the world did you know that?”

“Yes,” she nodded, sticking out her tongue. “You’ve reminded me of that fact at least a dozen times in the past two days. You’ve also told me I’m exactly like my father at least two dozen. I still don’t see what’s wrong with being like dad.”

“Neither do I,” the man in question appeared in the doorway.

“It’s unfair because you’re both determined to make my life hell,” Ianto threw at his grinning husband as he sat the tray of food on Lily’s lap.

“You wanna spoon feed me, or do you think I’m capable of doing that myself?” Lily asked her Tad.

“Lil,” Jack warned, stepping further into the room. “Give your Tad a break will you?”

Lily sighed. “Fine.”

“Thank you.”

“Daddy’s girl,” Ianto muttered playfully.

Jack laughed. “Please she’s such a Tad’s girl.”

“I’m right here you know,” Lily laughed. “I love you both equally, and I’ll love you even more when I’m allowed out of this bed.”

“Soon,” Jack promised. “We don’t want to take any chances with you in such a weakened state.”

“I know,” Lily sighed. “I appreciate everything you have done for me. Thank you.”

“You’re welcome,” Ianto smiled, kissing the top of her head.

“Sorry sweetie, but we need to get to work now,” Jack sighed. He was never happy to leave his daughter lately.

“Ok,” Lily nodded, pretending to be upset.

“The Doctor will be here in less than half an hour,” Ianto told him in a warning tone.

“Which means don’t get any funny ideas,” Jack added, his look mirrored that of his husband’s.

“Who? Me?” Lily grinned. “Would I ever...?”

“Yes...you would,” Jack smiled despite himself.

“Yeah, you’re probably right,” Lily laughed.

“Please, just this once listen to us. Stay in bed, for us, please?” Ianto pleaded, squeezing her hand slightly.

“I promise Tad,” she surrendered; she couldn’t deny her father anything when he gave her that face.

“All right, we’ll call you when we get to the hub,” Jack promised.

“Ok Daddy.”

Jack took Ianto’s hand and started to lead him away. At the door Ianto stopped, turning back to Lily.

“Love you Halaw.”

“Cara 'ch hefyd Tad,” Lily smiled.

Ianto left then, following behind Jack. Lily waited until she heard the front door click closed before climbing out of bed. She sat her uneaten food on her dresser and walked around to the other side of the bed. Weakness took over before she could reach her bedroom door and she had to climb back into bed.

Lily glowered down at her legs as the helplessness washed over her. She hadn’t felt this useless since Gray killed Tosh and Owen and she couldn’t help. The thought of her family fighting without her made her feel nauceous.

Not wanting to dwell on the depressing thoughts, Lily grabbed her favourite book, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, off of her bedside table.

The book had been a birthday present from her parents when she turned sixteen. The copy was quite worn and dog-eared now after reading it several times a year. Before turning to the last page she had read, Lily ran her fingertips over the inscription on the inside cover.

Halaw, it read.

Happy Sixteenth Birthday Darling Daughter. You have brought so much joy and love into our lives. Keep Shining!

We love you.

Tad & Dad xxx

A small smile played across her lips as she flipped to her age and began to read. It was her favourite part, when Elizabeth and Mr Darcy first meet.

Lily had soon gotten lost in the enthralling love story. So lost that she hadn’t realised how much time had passed since her parents had left.

It wasn’t until her eyes started getting heavier that Lily set the book aside and glanced at her clock. She had been reading for nearly two hours.

Frowning, Lily remembered Ianto telling her that the Doctor would be at the house in less than twenty minutes. He had been helping out at the Hub while Jack and Ianto spent time with Lily. It would have taken Jack and Ianto ten minutes to get to the Hub and another ten for the Doctor to arrive at the house.

Believing that something terrible had happened, Lily leaned over for her phone. Her hand was inches from the receiver when a familiar voice stopped her in her tracks.

“He’s not coming sweet cheeks.”

TBC...

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Back To The Future! (26/??)

2009-07-06T21:41:27Z

BACK TO THE FUTURE! (26/??)

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: Are the team beginning to lose hope...

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

A/N: For those of you who have seen Torchwood tonight....EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chapter Twenty-Six

Lily’s eyes flew open and she gasped for air. She was lying in a dark room, a soft bed beneath her. When her eyes adjusted she realised she was in the same room she’d been in before her death, but she was alone now.

Where was everyone? She asked herself. Had they given up hope? How long had she been gone? At least she wasn’t in the morgue...not that would have been awkward.

Still extremely weak, Lily gingerly sat up, swinging her legs around so that she sat on the edge of the bed. Winded briefly, she clutched the side of the bed until her breathing calmed. Getting to her feet was even harder, she felt as though her insides were tearing again.

Finally she was standing, but it took a few moments to steady herself. Very slowly she walked over to the door, bracing herself against the frame for a few seconds. Then, holding on to the wall for support, Lily made her way along the dank corridor towards the main Hub area.

It took her five minutes to reach the main area, but it was silent, almost empty. The only person there was Ianto, standing at his workstation, his back to Lily. A small weak smile touched her lips at the sight of her Tad.

“Tad,” she rasped, still clinging to the wall for support. Jumping slightly at the sound, Ianto turned to face his daughter, his face lighting up instantaneously.

“Lily!” he exclaimed, rushing forward and swinging her up into his arms. “You’re alive!”

“Yes,” Lily gasped, a soft laugh bubbling past her lips.

Ianto was overcome by emotion as he looked into Lily’s face. She was still deathly pale and extremely thin and weak looking, but her blue eyes sparkled again, finally full of life.

“Where is everyone?” Lily asked, uncomfortable with her father’s teary eyed staring.

“Let’s get you a seat,” Ianto said, avoiding the question and helping Lily to the old couch that had been there since Ianto started. “You look exhausted, you need rest.”

“Tad,” Lily dragged out the word. “What’s going on? Where are they? Where’s the Doctor? They aren’t out making funeral arrangements are they?”

“No! Of course not!” Ianto insisted, shaking his head. “We never gave up, especially the Doctor. He refused to leave your side.”

“Then where is he?”

“Are you hungry?” Ianto asked, ignoring the question again. “You should probably eat something.”

“Tad stop avoiding the question!” Lily growled, although it didn’t sound as harsh as she intended. “Where are they all? Please just tell me!”

Lily’s pleading melted Ianto’s resolve and he sighed. “The team have gone to stop the Doctor,” he admitted.

“Why?” Lily asked, confused. “Stop him from doing what?”

“We...we finally found the aliens that...poisoned you,” he gulped. “When the Doctor found out he flew into a rage and left. The team went after him, they caught up to him, but they can’t stop him.”

“Where are they?”

“Splott.”

“You have to take me there,” she told him, her voice more forceful than before.

“No Lily,” Ianto shook his head, matching his daughter’s tone. “You’re too weak; you’ve been gone for eight days now.”

“I don’t care; I’m the only one who can stop him. He can’t do it Tad; it’ll be too much for him. Please Tad; you have to take me to him.”

“All right,” Ianto relented. He hated to see the fear and pain in her eyes; he’d seen her in enough pain lately.

“Thank you,” she breathed in relief.

Lily struggled to her feet and took a few shaky steps toward the door. Surprising his fragile daughter, Ianto scooped her up into his arms and carried her out to the car. They got a few funny looks, but Ianto didn’t care. Lily was still weak, she probably would be for a while after being dead for so long, and he wasn’t going to let her walk all that way by herself.

A short while later...

Ianto pulled the car to a stop outside of a run down block of flats in the centre of Splott. They could see the Torchwood SUV’s parked just outside an old garage a few feet away. Hurrying around the front of the car, Ianto helped Lily to her feet. He moved to lift her into his arms again, but this time she waved him off.

“I’ve spent the past two weeks lying in a bed, I want to walk,” she told him, moving slowly, but steadily toward the front door.

“Ok,” Ianto agreed, but he stayed close behind her just in case.

When they reached the main entrance to the first flat, they could hear angry whispers coming from the stairwell to their right. They both recognised the Doctor’s and Jack’s voices immediately.

Trying her best, Lily moved as quickly as possible toward the door. She was still too weak to open the heavy door however, and had to move aside and allow Ianto to open it instead. They were greeted by six guns and seven angry expressions.

“Don’t shoot!” Ianto called, holding up his hands. He stepped in front of Lily blocking her from the other’s view.

“Ianto! What the hell are you doing here?” Jack demanded, lowering his Webley.

“I made him bring me,” Lily explained stepping into view.

There was a flurry of movement before Lily knew what was going on she’d been lifted off of her feet. Several pairs of arms were clinging to her; happy sobbing replaced the angry shouts.

“Let her breathe!” Ianto exclaimed, sure they were bound to hurt her in her weakened state.

Everyone let her go, moving back as far as they could in the small space. Lily turned and looked up at the Doctor who stood on a step above her. He looked stunned, staring at her in shock. One side of Lily’s mouth lifted in a small half smile, tears falling down her pale cheeks.

“Hi,” she whispered, aware that Jack’s arm was still around her waist.

The Doctor nodded his head, still staring at her. He didn’t speak, just continued to stare.

“Please don’t do this,” she begged him suddenly. “I don’t want to lose you, please. Let Torchwood handle this, just come back to the Hub with me.”

“I can’t,” he shook his head. “They hurt you and they will have to pay for it.”

“They will,” Lily assured him. “But I need you right now, and if you do this you’ll no longer be the man I fell in love with. Please, Doctor for me? Please.”

The Doctor didn’t answer. He was still staring at her as if she was some sort of hallucination and not really there. Lily was fading, she was still weak and was becoming extremely tired, but she couldn’t leave. Not without the Doctor, she had to make him come with her, to see sense.

She opened her mouth to argue some more, but the exhaustion overcame her and she staggered slightly. In that second the Doctor snapped out of his trance and rushed forward, pulling her into his arms.

“I thought I’d lost you,” he whispered, a single tear slipping down his cheek.

“Never,” she shook her head. “I will always be here. Forever.”

TBC...

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2009-07-06T09:40:11Z

BACK TO THE FUTURE! (25/??)

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: Are the team beginning to lose hope...

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

A/N: NEW TORCHWOOD TONIGHT WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chapter Twenty-Five

Over the week that followed Lily’s death, the Torchwood team were strangely quiet. They only spoke to each other when it was work related, each engrossed in finding the alien that killed a member of their small family.

Slowly each of them was beginning to lose hope...

Alone in the boardroom Gwen quietly cried to herself. It had been a few days since Lily had died and Gwen was starting to believe she wasn’t coming back. There was no change to the young woman; her organs showed no signs of putting themselves back together.

“Oh god,” Gwen whispered, covering her mouth with her hand as a loud sob escaped her lips.

Gwen couldn’t imagine what was going to happen without Lily. Not only would it destroy the Doctor, Jack and Ianto, but the whole team would fall apart. She loved Lily as if she were her own and felt as protective of her as she did Owen and Tosh. They’d all had a hand in raising Lily, especially Rhys. Lily was closer to Rhys than anyone else; they still had dinner together once a week.

When Gwen had told Rhys about Lily, her husband had fallen apart. They had held each other while they cried, unable to accept that she might not come back. Now it looked as though they might just have to accept it.

Find your way back to us Halaw...

Martha was pottering around the autopsy bay when her emotions got the better of her. She slid down the wall, clutching her knees to her chest and started to cry. Every medical device Torchwood possessed showed that there was no change to Lily’s stats. She was still empty, pale, cold...dead.

Martha would give anything to see the younger woman smile again. To see her bright blue eyes sparkle mischievously just like Jack’s. It was if trouble just gravitated towards them. But there was also so much of Ianto in her, her kindness, her uncanny ability to calm those around her in a crisis, always putting others first, knowing how to make the perfect coffee and her compassion.

The world would be a sadder place without Lily...

To Tosh, Lily’s death was like losing part of her heart. The young woman was like a sister to her, they always did so much together. Dinner, movies, shopping, girly nights in. They would sit up for hours just talking, Tosh felt lost without Lily.

The Torchwood children...the Torchwood six...the Torchwood five just didn’t sound right...

Beth was hovering around outside of the medical area where Lily’s body still lay motionless. She and Lily had never really been that close. When they were kids they played together all the time, everyone called them and Tosh the three musketeers, but then Beth had gone to high school. After that she’d met Patrick and had started spending all of her free time with him.

Now Beth felt guilty. Lily and Tosh had been her best friends and she left them behind for a man. Well no more.

I promise Lily, when you come back we’ll be closer than ever before...

James hadn’t entered Torchwood since Lily had died. He just couldn’t face it. Lily was the one person he could talk to. She was his best friend and confidant. Now she was gone and he felt lost, empty. For the first time in his life he hated Torchwood. He blamed it for Lily’s death. He would never go back.

I’m sorry Lily, I just can’t...

Owen couldn’t think. Every time he tried to think about something his thoughts wandered to Lily and his heart broke. So he just didn’t think about anything at all except...

I love you Lily...

The Doctor was sitting in his usual spot at Lily’s bedside when Jack burst in.

“We found them!”

Anger flared in the Doctor’s chest and he stood. “Where?”

Jack gave him the location and the Doctor stormed out of the room. The Captain hot on his heels.

“Where are you going?” Jack demanded when they reached the cog door. Everyone was watching them, frightened by the Doctor’s livid expression.

“I’m going to kill them.”

The Doctor then left, leaving them in stunned silence. After a few moments the team, except Ianto who didn’t want to leave Lily, left to catch the Doctor before he did something that would change him forever.

If Jack had been a few seconds later, the Doctor would have been there when Lily’s eyes flew open.

TBC...

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Back To The Future! (24/??)

2009-07-05T22:06:16Z

BACK TO THE FUTURE! (24/??)

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: Lily's gone, Ianto is struggling and Jack tries to speak with the Doctor...

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

Chapter Twenty-Four

It had been twenty-four hours since Lily had lost the fight for her life. She still lay in the small bed she’d been in before; the blood spattered sheets had been changed now. The Doctor hadn’t left her side in days. The others tried to get him to take a break, but he refused to move. At first he argued with them, now however he just ignored them, staring fixedly at Lily.

Jack and Ianto took turns watching over Lily and the Doctor. Both were distraught over the loss, but they were doing their best to hold it together, it wouldn’t do anyone any good for them to lose it now. It wasn’t until a few days after Lily’s death that Ianto could no longer hold it in.

He’d been sitting at her bedside, holding her lifeless hand in his. Her skin was stony white, her full lips drawn and blue and her dark curly hair lay limply around her head. It was in that moment, holding her hand feeling her getting colder, that Ianto snapped.

He got to his feet calmly, placing Lily’s hand gently on the bed and left the small room. He felt as though he was about to explode, but he remained calm as he walked through the Hub to Jack’s office. Once inside he closed the door gently before turning to his husband.

“Ianto?” Jack whispered, climbing warily to his feet.

“I want her back,” Ianto moaned. “I need her to come back to us, I want my daughter.”

Ianto lost it, unable to hold his emotions in check any longer. Sinking to his knees he sobbed hysterically, clutching his face in his hands.

Jack rushed forward, pulling the younger man into his arms. Seeing Ianto this way broke the dam that he had built to stem his own tears. The two men clung to each other crying for their daughter.

“She’s not getting any better Jack,” Ianto managed through his sobs. “She just keeps getting colder and paler. I think she’s gone Jack! Martha did a scan earlier and there was nothing. No sign that she’s coming back together. What are we supposed to do? It’s supposed to be the three of us, for all eternity.”

“I know,” Jack whispered. “I know.”

The truth was he didn’t know what they were going to do now. He couldn’t fathom life without Lily. She gave them a purpose, something to look forward to. Now there was nothing, their future was empty and bleak. It was one of those moments that Jack truly hated his inability to die, he wanted nothing more at that moment.

But if you weren’t immortal, you wouldn’t have Ianto and Lily now would you? A voice echoed inside his head. You’d be all alone, in fact you would be dead and Ianto would probably be dead now too. Lily wouldn’t exist and Torchwood would be the same awful place it once was.

Jack couldn’t argue with the voice inside his mind, he couldn’t imagine never meeting Ianto, never getting married or never carrying Lily. He loved his family wouldn’t give that up for anything. He had to have faith, faith that Lily would find her way home. So, instead of arguing with his subconscious, Jack sat quietly with his husband and prayed something he hadn’t done in a very long time.

*****

Another twenty-four hours passed and still there was no change to Lily. The team were starting to lose hope, but the Doctor still refused to give up. He stayed vigil at Lily’s side, waiting for her to wake up.

“Come on Lily,” the Doctor whispered against her cold ear. “Come back to me my love. Cara 'ch yn anad 'm addef buchedd.”

“Doctor.” Jack making his hourly check. “I think you should get some rest old friend.”

“I’ll rest when Lily comes back,” he snapped.

“We all want her back, but you need to accept that it might not be possible. I know it’s hard, it’s painful for all of us, but we have to ready ourselves for the possibility.”

“No.”

“Doctor...”

“No!” the Doctor snapped. “I will not accept her death. She’s coming back I know she is. There’s no other option, she’s coming back.”

TBC...

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Back To The Future! (23/??)

2009-07-04T17:25:51Z

BACK TO THE FUTURE! (23/??)

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: Time...

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

WARNING! Just for you Thrace! I apologise in advance, you will definitely need some tissues for this.

Chapter Twenty-Three

The Doctor sat at Lily’s bedside all night, with Ianto and Jack checking in regularly and Martha scanning her now and then. In the whole time Lily remained unconscious, only muttering now and then. Sometimes she called out a name, mostly the Doctor, sometimes she muttered about coming back and sometimes she screamed about the pain.

Martha’s last scan told them that Lily’s lungs were gone and her heart barely had anything left, still the disease kept her alive, just as the aliens had promised. The Doctor hoped that she would regain consciousness he wanted to talk to her before she went, especially if this could be the last time he ever spoke with her.

“Please wake up Lily,” he pleaded quietly, squeezing her hand gently. It felt like paper under his skin. “Please let me hear that musical voice of yours just one last time.”

“Doctor?” Jack came up behind the Time Lord causing him to jump slightly.

“Nothing’s changed,” the Doctor answered his voice hoarse.

“I know,” Jack whispered. “I came in to see how you were holding up. You’ve been in here all night, maybe you should rest for a while.”

“No,” he shook his head adamantly. “Not until she wakes up, I need to talk to her.”

“All right,” Jack nodded, he took a seat on the chair opposite the Doctor and lifted Lily’s other hand carefully.

They sat in silence for awhile, both lost in their own thoughts. Thoughts that were plagued with pain, fear and guilt over what was happening to the woman they both loved.

After an hour of silence, Lily’s eyes flew open. Both men sat up instantly, calling her name, but she didn’t respond. Instead she opened her mouth and began screaming as she had the previous day. Her body convulsed in pain for a few minutes.

“What’s going on?” Ianto demanded, running into the room. He had obviously heard the screaming.

“She opened her eyes suddenly and started screaming again,” Jack answered, his voice breaking.

Martha was right behind Ianto. She quickly lifted the scanner off of the side shelf and rushed over to Lily. Holding the scanner as she had every hour for the past twenty hours.

“Everything’s gone,” Martha told the small group who were watching her expectantly. “The only thing left is bone and her brain.”

“Daddy,” Lily’s weak voice filled the room. They had all been so intent on Martha no one had noticed she had stopped screaming.

“Lily?” Jack looked down at his little girl.

“The pain’s gone now,” she told him. “It’s almost time.”

“Lily,” the Doctor leaned over to her.

“Hi,” she whispered, turning her glazed over eyes on the Time Lord.

“I love you,” he whispered, kissing her forehead.

“Love you too,” she tried to smile, but her lips barely twitched. “Tad, I’m sorry, you’ll have to deal with dad alone for a while. I promise I’m coming back though.”

“I know baby,” Ianto nodded. “I know you are. Don’t you worry about anything all right? Everything will be fine.”

“Ok,” she whispered, her eyes were slowly beginning to drift closed. “I have to go now, but I’ll be back soon okay. Don’t be sad. Tell everyone that I love them.”

“We will,” the Doctor promised.

“See you soon,” Lily whispered before her eyes finally closed.

They all knew she was gone. They just prayed that she was going to come back to them.

TBC...

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Back To The Future! (22/??)

2009-07-04T09:44:17Z

BACK TO THE FUTURE! (22/??)

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: How long does Lily have left?

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

WARNING! Just for you Thrace! I apologise in advance, you may need some tissues for this.

Chapter Twenty-Two

“How is she?” the Doctor demanded of Martha when she joined the small group on the main floor.

After Lily’s episode, Martha had thrown everyone out of the room. They had all been getting in the way, panicking about what had happened.

“She’s stable, but still unconscious,” Martha sighed.

“Is there anything we can do about the pain?” Jack questioned hopefully, he never wanted to see his daughter that way again. It had been like a knife to the heart.

“I gave her some morphine, but I’m not sure if it’ll do much good. She’s calm just now, but I think that was just a taster of what’s to come.”

“Oh god,” Tosh breathed, sinking to her knees. Owen, who had turned up a few minutes ago with Gwen, was at his sister’s side instantly. He held her tightly, stroking her long dark hair.

Ianto and Jack were clinging to each other hopelessly, praying silently that their daughter would be able to come back from what was to come. Gwen was sitting silently at her desk, her shoulders shaking slightly. Beth hugged her mother, while the Doctor stood in the middle of the floor. He was staring into space, his eyes blank.

“What do we do now?” Gwen finally spoke, looking up from her computer. Her eyes were red and puffy and her cheeks tear stained.

“There’s nothing we can do,” Martha shook her head sadly. “All we can do is make her comfortable, and pray.”

Everyone was silent as the gravity of the situation finally set in on them all. They all knew that the chances of Lily coming back from her organs liquefying were slim, if not non-existent.

“I want them found,” Jack snapped, pushing away from Ianto. Anger was suddenly ignited within him, showing in her piercing blue eyes. “I want the bastards that did this to my daughter and I want them dead, do you hear me?” His team all consented their understanding. “Good, now get to work, I want them now!”

Everyone hurried to get to their workstations, Martha and the Doctor went back to Lily. She was still out cold, but was muttering in Welsh.

“Alla d bacia. Alla d bacia. Alla d bacia,” she whispered, her tone clouded with pain and fear.

“She’s repeating the same thing, over and over, she was doing it before as well,” Martha told him. “Do you know what she’s saying?”

“She’s repeating ‘I can come back’,” the Doctor explained, tears in his eyes. He hated seeing Lily like this; it hurt more than if it were him in pain.

“Doctor,” she suddenly cried out. “Doctor it hurts, please make it stop. Please Doctor I want it to go away. Help me!”

“I wish I could Lily,” he whispered to the unconscious young woman. “I love you.”

Martha felt a sob climb up her throat as she watched the touching moment. The Doctor took Lily’s hand in his, pressing a gentle kiss across her pale knuckles. She had never seen the Doctor this way with anyone before, it was obvious that he truly loved the young woman.

“She doesn’t have long left now,” the Doctor turned to face his old friend. “Her organs have started to liquefy.”

Martha looked past the Doctor to where Lily lay. Blood was slowly dripping down her face from her mouth and nose.

“Oh god,” she whispered. Martha hurried to a side shelf and grabbed some tissues and gave them to the Doctor. “Clean her up, I’m going to get the scanner.”

The Doctor accepted the small box wordlessly and watched Martha leave before turning back to Lily. She had gone back to muttering ‘I can come back’ in Welsh as he wiped the blood from her greying skin.

“How is she?”

The Doctor turned to face Ianto who had silently entered the room behind him. “Honestly?” he asked, looking back at Lily. “Not good, I’m estimating another twenty-four hours at most.”

“She’s bleeding!” Ianto exclaimed, rushing forward as more blood fell from Lily’s mouth and nostrils.

“We believe her organs are fading now, Martha has gone to retrieve the scanner,” the Doctor explained, he sounded defeated as he stared down at the love of his life.

Ianto didn’t say anything, instead he stood at Lily’s other side, gripping her weak hand carefully in his. He listened to her muttering, pain ripping through his chest. It truly was the hardest thing in the world, watching his little girl fading away.

He knew that Lily was a young woman, she’d be twenty-two soon, but he still saw her as his little girl. The baby that Jack gave birth to, the toddler that walked and talked faster than any baby they had ever encountered, the little girl that started school and fell in love with her little puppy, the teenager that never rebelled, and the young woman who told him he was the best Tad a girl could ask for. She was all those things, amazing, smart, sweet, loving, but she would always be his little girl and she was dying.

Martha reappeared a few moments later, Jack trailing behind her. Obviously she had explained to Jack what was happening, his face looked sombre as he joined his husband and they linked their fingers.

The room was eerily silent as Martha held the handheld scanner over Lily and waited for the readouts that would confirm their fears. Even Lily was silent as if she was still aware of what was happening around her.

“Well?” the Doctor snapped impatiently as Martha stared down at the scanners findings.

“Her stomach, intestines, pancreas, liver and kidney’s are almost gone. The disease is now starting to work on her lungs. It won’t be long now until there’s nothing left.”

Martha began sobbing, her knees felt wobbly beneath her. Jack was at her side in an instant holding her up, his own tears streaming down his face. Ianto leaned his forehead against Lily’s his tears dripping on her pillow, while the Doctor sank to his knees. He was holding Lily’s hand against his cheek.

Lily now only had hours left, and the team still wasn’t sure she would be able to come back.

TBC...

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Back To The Future! (21/??)

2009-07-03T18:18:23Z

BACK TO THE FUTURE! (21/??)

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: Ianto's losing it...

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

WARNING! Just for you Thrace!

Chapter Twenty-One

“Ianto?”

Looking from the coffee machine, Ianto found Jack standing a few feet away. At the sight of his husband Ianto broke down. Hysterical sobs racked his body as Jack hurried forward and pulled him into his arms.

“Why Jack?” Ianto managed through his sobs. “Why her? Why Lily? I don’t understand, she’s the sweetest person in the world and yet all this bad stuff keeps happening!”

“I don’t know why my love,” Jack soothed, rubbing the younger man’s back. His own tears rolling down his face. “I wish I did know, I wish there was a way to stop it.”

“Tell me she’ll come back?” Ianto begged pulling away enough to look into the Captain’s face. “Please, I don’t care if you have to lie, just please tell me our daughter will come back.”

“She’ll come back,” Jack swore, pulling Ianto close again. “She’s strong, stronger than all of us. If anyone can come back from this it’s Lily, she’s a fighter.”

“Like her dad,” Ianto whispered, his hysterics subsiding.

“Like both of us.”

“I’m sorry I yelled at you earlier.”

“Don’t be, I deserved it,” Jack tried to smiled, but failed miserable. “It worked anyway. The Doctor and I were both being idiots. We were hurting Lily just as much as this disease. You made us see that.”

“Don’t leave her again Jack,” Ianto whispered, clinging to his husband’s shirt. “Don’t leave me against; I can’t watch her waste away alone. I need you.”

“I’m here, I promise.”

“Where’s the Doctor?” the younger man asked, pulling himself together.

“He’s will Lily,” Jack answered, helping Ianto straighten his tie. “I don’t think he’ll be moving anytime soon.”

“Did you ever see it coming?”

“What? Lily and the Doctor?”

“Yeah,” Ianto nodded.

“Never,” Jack shook his head. “Not in my wildest dreams. Now that it’s happened though I’m relieved. I was so worried about them having to go through life alone, although I never thought of them together.”

“I will admit I was shocked at first, and I can’t deny that the thought of murdering the Doctor crossed my mind. Not that I’ve had time to process it however, I think I’m finally getting used to it. At least this way she won’t be alone.”

“Neither of them will.”

“If Lily can pull through.”

“She will,” Jack assured.

“What if she doesn’t...do you think the Doctor would survive losing her?” Ianto and the Doctor had never really been close, but a bond had formed between them since he found out about his love for Lily. Now the Doctor was family and Ianto couldn’t bear the thought of losing both of them.

“Honestly? I have no idea, I hope he can.”

“Me too,” Ianto nodded sincerely.

“I love you Ianto,” Jack whispered, brushing a gentle kiss over his husband’s lips.

“I love you too sir.”

*****

When Lily awoke, it was to a searing pain shooting through her abdomen. A small moan escaped her lips acutely aware of the Doctor resting his head on the bed near her feet.

It took all of her concentration, but she refused to scream. She bit down on her lip so hard that she felt blood pool at the corner of her mouth. It would have hurt, but all she could feel was the agonising pain from her stomach.

She was doing a good job of not crying out and waking the Doctor or alerting anyone else. Her entire body was clenched tightly. It wasn’t until her heart monitor began screaming loudly from the strain that anyone noticed.

The Doctor instantly sat up and Jack, Ianto, Tosh, Beth and Martha were suddenly running through the door. They all crowded around her bed, checking monitors and shining lights in her eyes.

“Lily what’s wrong?” Ianto asked, trying to take her hand. Her fingers were too tightly clenched for him to hold it properly.

Lily didn’t answer, her teeth gritted to stop from screaming. They continued to try and make her speak, to tell them what was wrong. She couldn’t speak, she knew the second she loosened her grip she was start to scream.

“Lily please talk to me,” the Doctor pleaded with her, holding her shoulders.

In response to the Doctor’s touch, Lily’s body began convulsing. Tremors shook her small, thinning frame viciously. The pain intensified and Lily was no longer able to keep her body under control.

A primal scream filled the room as Lily’s head and back pounded the bed, her body shaking wildly. The others began to panic, but Lily couldn’t hear them over the sound of her own screaming. Her body felt like it was on fire, the pain too intense to bear.

Finally with a shuddering breath, Lily’s world went black.

TBC..

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Back To The Future! (20/??)

2009-07-02T22:47:22Z

BACK TO THE FUTURE! (20/??)

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: Jack finds the Doctor & Ianto isn't happy...

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

A/N: Looking for a new beta reader to give etmuse a break if anyone is interest please let me know!

Chapter Twenty

Jack was shocked when he reached his favourite roof and found it already occupied. The Doctor stood on the edge of the building, staring out at the city before him.

“Doctor?”

“Hello Captain,” the Doctor greeted him without looking away from the view.

“What are you doing here?”

“Thinking,” he answered. “Lily told me that you come up here a lot when you need to think. I can’t do it Jack.”

“Do what?” Jack asked, anger bubbling before the surface. He was starting to worry that the Doctor was about to leave his daughter now when she needed him the most.

“Tell her,” the Time Lord whispered sadly. “How do I tell her I failed? There’s no cure Jack, nothing we can do to save her. All we can do now is make her comfortable and watch her die.”

“There’s nothing?” Jack didn’t want to believe it. There had to be something out there that would stop Lily dying so terribly.

“Nothing.”

“Oh god.”

“It’s my fault,” the Doctor sighed, his voice hitching. Jack knew the Time Lord was trying to hold back his tears.

“It’s not your fault Doctor,” Jack assured him. “If anything it’s my fault, they were targeting Torchwood. It should have been me examining that device.”

“You’re both wrong.”

The two men turned to find Ianto standing a few feet behind them. He looked angry and was glaring at the two of them.

“This is those god damned aliens fault! It has nothing to do with either of you! But you two are so wrapped up in your own guilt you can’t see that Lily is the one who’s suffering the most right now. She needs you both now more than ever and you two are avoiding her. Do you realise that she might not come back from this? DO YOU?” he screamed, his fists balled up at his sides. It was a very rare occasion when Ianto was ever truly angry, and when it did happen it shocked everyone to silence.

“She could die...permanently!” he continued to yell. “This could be the last moments we’re able to spend with her and you’re hiding on a roof! Lily is down there in hysterics because of you! She thinks the man she loves has abandoned her and that her own father is mad and blames her for this! Now we’ve finally got her out of that room since we now know she’s not contagious. Martha and Beth are making her comfortable. I suggest that you two pull yourselves together and get your asses back in the Hub. You Jack Harkness, I’ll be having words with you later!”

Ianto turned then and stormed away from the stunned men. After a few silent moments, the Doctor turned back to Jack.

“Lily wasn’t kidding was she?” he asked, still shocked. “Ianto really is a force to be reckoned with.”

“When it comes to his daughter? There isn’t a force stronger than my husband. Ianto would do anything for Lily, it’s killing him that he can’t do anything right now. Me too.”

“He’s right though isn’t he? By not telling Lily the truth, by not being there we’re essentially making this worse for her.”

“He’s always right.”

****

When the Doctor and Jack returned to the Hub they found the team in a small room near the medical bay where they had set up a bed for Lily. Martha had hooked her up to a heart monitor and several other machines. The heart monitor was beeping erratically, showing that Lily’s heart was racing then slowing.

The Doctor’s own hearts constricted in his chest when he saw her lying there. Her once bright blue eyes were glassy and vacant, her pale skin looked almost translucent and her once vibrant brown curls lay limply against the white pillow under her head.

He couldn’t believe she had deteriorated so much in the short time he’d been gone. There was almost nothing left of the fiery woman he’d fallen in love with.

“Doctor,” she whispered, a ghost of a smile crossing her chapped lips.

“Hello Lily,” he nodded in greeting, fighting to keep his voice even.

“That’s not much of a greeting,” she struggled to reprimand him.

Moving slowly and cautiously, the Doctor went to Lily’s side. He gently brushed a kiss against her dried lips. “Hi,” he breathed, resting his forehead against her burning skin. “Better?”

“Not really,” she whispered. “It’ll do though.”

“I’m so sorry.” No longer able to keep his emotions in check, the Doctor let go. Tears fell from his eyes, sliding down his cheek until Lily brushed them away with her free hand.

“Not...your...fault,” she tried to smile again. “My...fault...not...careful...’nuff.”

“You couldn’t have known.”

“Neither...could...you,” Lily panted, obviously tired.

“Sshhh sweetheart, you should rest,” the Doctor whispered, kissing the tip of her nose.

“I’ll...c...c...come...b...b...b...back...I...p...p...promise.”

“I love you,” he told her, unable to voice his fear that she’d never come back.

“Lily,” Jack approached tentatively.

“Hi...daddy.”

“I’m sorry I left baby girl,” he rushed, taking her free hand.

“S’ok,” she assured him.

“No it’s not. I shouldn’t have left like that,” he shook his head adamantly.

“S’ok...d...d...daddy. I...tired...sleep...now...ok?”

“Ok baby,” he nodded, kissing her forehead. “I love you.”

“You...too...both...you,” she answered, looking up at the Doctor and Jack.

“Sweet dreams.”

As soon as Lily’s eyes closed she was asleep, but she didn’t have sweet dreams. Her sleep was plagued by visions of pain, death and the feeling of nothingness. The empty block that waits to greet you when you die.

That’s what was waiting for Lily...nothing.

TBC...

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2009-07-02T16:58:04Z

BACK TO THE FUTURE! (19/??)

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: Lily feels guilty and Jack loses his temper...

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

Chapter Nineteen

Lily was humming softly to herself, rocking back and forward, her arms clasped tightly around her knees. She was going to die, that was the only thought going through her mind at that moment. She was going to die and this time it would be permanent.

Jack and Ianto didn’t know, but she had heard everything, including their speculation over her chance of survival. She didn’t like her odds anymore than her parents did. Lily knew it in her heart she was going to die and it would be the last time she ever did.

The uncomfortable pain she had been experiencing for the past few hours was slowly beginning to intensify. Fear gripped her, cutting off her air as she remembered the alien’s assurances; the pain was only going to get worse.

She wouldn’t scream, no matter how bad it got, she would not force her family to listen to her shrieks. They were going through enough having to watch her die; they didn’t need to hear her as well.

“Lily?” Tosh’s voice broke through Lily’s morbid thoughts.

“Did you contact him? Did you reach the Doctor?” she asked hopefully, but she already knew the answer.

“I’m sorry sweetheart,” Tosh shook her head, her wide eyes filled with sadness. “He’s still not answering his phone, but I’m sure he’ll be back soon.”

“It’s probably for the best,” Lily sighed, looking down at her hands. “I don’t want him to see me like this; I don’t want him to watch me die. Tosh, I’m so scared. What if I don’t come back? What if this is it, this is how I die forever? I don’t want the Doctor to see that...”

“Lily Gwendolyn Harkness-Jones!” Jack’s angry voice filled the air and Lily looked up to find him watching like before. “I don’t want to hear you speak like that! You will come back, am I making myself clear? We’re not losing you, not now...not ever! Fight Lily, you have to fight, you’ve came back before and you’ll come back this time, understood?”

Lily stared at her father, stunned by what he was saying. Tears welled in her blue eyes and slid down her cheeks as hysterical sobs shook her small frame. Jack suddenly looked horrified; he hurried forward but stopped short a few feet from the glass wall. He wanted to hold his child, to comfort her but he couldn’t.

He was helpless, he felt like he couldn’t do anything except watch as his only child slowly died from some strange alien disease. His anger and frustration at Lily suddenly turned inward, directed at himself. He was her father, he was supposed to be able to protect her, not yell at her when she was sick and scared.

With a frustrated cry he turned on his heel and strode to his office. Grabbing his long coat, Jack left the hub, ignoring Ianto’s pleads from him to come back.

“This is my fault,” Lily sobbed into her knees. “If I had been more careful when inspecting that stupid container then none of this would be happening. I was just so distracted by the Doctor’s anger, I thought maybe I had done something wrong and I was trying to figure out what.”

“No Lily,” Ianto approached the room that held his daughter captive. “It probably would have gone off sooner or later regardless. This way you were able to save us all.”

Lily looked up into her Tad’s eyes; the pain there was almost unbearable. She knew that even though he said the words he didn’t mean them, he would gladly give up his own life to save that of his child. Lily of course would never allow that to happen. Her Tad would never die again, not if she had anything to say about it.

“I love you Tad,” Lily whispered softly. “I will do as Dad said; I’ll fight to come back, for you, for him and for the Doctor. My love for you all is stronger than anything any alien can throw at me. I will come back to you, I swear I will.”

Ianto didn’t know what to say, in that moment he felt like the child whose parent was risking herself to save him, but promising to come back for them. It should be the other way about; he should be risking everything to save her. He was the father; he was supposed to look after her.

“I love you Lily,” he told her, not knowing what else he could possibly say. “I love you, forever.”

TBC...

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Back To The Future! (18/??)

2009-07-01T19:58:21Z

BACK TO THE FUTURE! (18/??)

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: Lily's getting worse...

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

Chapter Eighteen

“Lily open the god damn door!” Jack was yelling through the glass at his stubborn daughter.

“No,” she shook her head. It was obvious she had meant the statement to be more forceful, but she had coughed up a lot of blood in the last 24 hours and was too weak.

The whole team had been trying to no avail to get Lily to open the door to the room she had locked herself in. She was still refusing, saying it was too dangerous as she may be infectious.

“Lily please,” Jack pleaded, knowing it was no good.

“I said no,” Lily whispered, she was slumped against the glass wall. Her normally pale skin looked almost translucent, her eyes were closed with dark circles under them and she was too weak to even stand anymore, but still she wouldn’t let them in.

“Jack!” Ianto suddenly called from Lily’s workstation.

“What?” Jack called, not wanting to leave Lily.

“There’s an outside communication coming in,” Ianto informed him.

“From the Doctor?” Jack asked hopefully. No one had heard from the Time Lord since he had left the day before to see if she could find out more about Lily’s condition. Jack was anxious for the Doctor to come back, hoping that maybe he could reason with his stubborn daughter.

“No,” Ianto shook his head, looking up at Jack as he joined him in front of the monitor.

“Hello Torchwood,” an almost mechanical voice filled the air. “By now you will probably have received our little gift. You won’t understand what is happening to you, so we will explain. Right now our virus is shutting down all of your organs, once that is done your insides will slowly begin to liquefy.

“Everything will turn to mush; eventually there will be nothing left. Not to worry though, the disease is designed to keep you alive during the process so you will feel every ounce of pain inflicted on you. That slow throbbing you are feeling at the moment will only intensify over time until all you will be able to do is scream and wither in agony. The whole process should take a week, so good luck.

“Don’t waste your time hunting for a cure. There isn’t one. Good luck.”

“Jack?” Ianto whispered at his side when the message was finished. “Will she be able to come back from that? If all of her organs are gone, will she come back?”

“I...I don’t know,” Jack answered, his eyes wide with fear.

A single fat tear ran down Ianto’s cheek as he leaned back into his husband’s tight embrace. Lily was going to die in a matter of days, but this time it might actually be permanent.

TBC...

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Back To The Future! (17/??)

2009-07-01T17:07:57Z

BACK TO THE FUTURE! (17/??)

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: What's wrong with Lily?

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

Chapter 17

Lily sighed and sank onto the floor of the small glass room she was currently locked in. She had been using the room to investigate an unfamiliar piece of alien tech they had found at a rift site a few days before. When fiddling with a few of the dials on the device it had emitted a large puff of gas, Lily had sealed the room immediately, locking herself inside in the process.

Until the team found out exactly what the gas was, Lily had refused to let them in. She had rigged the door so that only she could open it from the inside; this had already broken the Doctor’s sonic screwdriver. He hadn’t been thrilled by that, but Lily had promised to make him a new one. He had seemed fairly happy, excited to see if she could actually replicate the technology just by studying the old broken one.

Of course his feeling of excitement soon died when he realised the dire nature of the situation. The woman he loved and was working so hard to protect could very well be in mortal danger. He had tried his hardest to convince Lily to open the door before giving up and cursing her stubbornness.

“How are you feeling?” Martha asked, she had been asking the same question every fifteen minutes for the past three hours.

“I feel fine,” Lily told her. “I’m starting to get a headache though; I don’t like being locked in.”

“I know, but you’re the one who won’t let anyone in remember?” the older woman pointed out.

“I don’t want to risk it,” Lily sighed. “What if it was poison? I don’t want to infect anyone else, plus my body heals pretty fast.”

“Our scans show that there’s no gas left in the air,” Martha tried to reason. “If you would let me in I'd be able to examine you.”

“And what if I’m infected and contagious? Then you’re infected too, you could die Martha,” Lily shook her head with finality. “No, I’m not taking any chances, not with the people I love.”

“You’re so much like Jack it’s scary,” Martha glared, but the harshness of the gesture was negated by the affection in her eyes. “Stubborn, pigheaded and always putting everything else before your own wellbeing.”

Lily shrugged, a small smile playing on her lips. “I can’t die, you can, why risk one of you getting hurt when we know we can come back from it?”

“You can’t protect us all forever, we will die eventually.”

“Yes, I know, but at least it’ll be from old age and not some rampant alien. We’ve lost enough in this line of work; I won’t stand by while someone else is killed.”

“There was nothing you could have done Lily,” Martha shook her head. “You couldn’t have stopped it love, it had to happen.”

“Doesn’t make it any easier, or me feel any less guilty.”

“I’ll say it again; you’re so much like Jack.”

“That’s a good thing is it not?”

Both women looked up to find Jack watching them from a few feet away. He was smiling, but it didn’t reach his concerned filled eyes.

“At least I didn’t get his ego,” Lily laughed, wishing her father would stop staring at her like she was going to drop at any second. They still didn’t know if there was anything wrong with her.

“Oi!” Jack exclaimed, moving closer to the glass wall. “You’re not too old to go over my knee you know.”

“You’ve never smacked me in my life Dad; I hardly doubt you’re going to start now.”

“I know, but still...less of the cheek.”

“Yes sir!” Lily saluted, grinning broadly.

“She’s your daughter,” Martha shrugged, laughing when Jack gave her a look.

“Don’t remind me,” Jack joked, but again his smile didn’t reach his worried eyes.

“You found anything yet?” Lily asked the question she had been dreading.

“No not yet,” Jack shook his head. “Beth and Tosh are still analysing the readings, the Doctor left to see if he could find out anything and your Tad and Owen are in the archives.”

“Where’s Gwen?”

“Rhys Junior had a doctor’s appointment; she had to leave to take him.”

“Is he alright?” Lily was suddenly worried.

“Fine, it’s just a routine check-up, but he needs to get his jab and Gwen wanted to be with him.”

“Oh, ok.”

“Well I’m going to go and see if I can help Beth and Tosh,” Martha excused herself. “I’ll come back to check on you in a little while.”

“I’m sorry Daddy,” Lily finally sighed.

“What for?” Jack was confused, she hadn’t done anything wrong.

“I should have been more careful with that stupid device.”

“It wasn’t your fault Lil.”

“Well, at least I figured out what it is,” the young woman shrugged, ignoring her father’s statement.

“What?”

“A storage device,” Lily explained. “Designed to hold any substance in a pressurised environment.”

“That can’t be good,” Jack shook his head, his worry increasing.

“No...” Lily began.

She started coughing uncontrollably, cutting her off mid sentence. Jack could tell from the sound it was coming from her chest, not just a tickle in the back of her throat. The anxiety he felt before was nothing compared to what he was feeling now as he watched Lily practically choke. With one last, loud cough the glass between them was sprayed with blood.

“Oh crap,” Lily whispered.

“MARTHA!” Jack yelled at the same time.

They were beginning to think that the gas had been poison after all.

TBC...

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Back To The Future! (16/??)

2009-06-30T20:34:00Z

Chapter Sixteen

The Doctor returned the evening after he had left, but it wasn’t to see Lily. He stormed past her when he arrived in the hub, moving straight for Jack’s office. Slamming the door, he shut himself and the Captain in the small room.

“Doctor?” Jack asked cautiously, noting the furious expression on the Time Lord’s face.

“Give me a minute,” the Doctor growled through gritted teeth. His hands clenched into painfully tight fists at his side.

Jack waited patiently for the other man to calm down. He knew that if he tried to press for more now it would only make the Doctor worse.

Finally after a few tension filled minutes, the Doctor visibly calmed and sank into the chair across from Jack. He shook his head, hiding his face with his hands.

“Are you all right?” Jack asked, cringing. It was a stupid question, of course he wasn’t all right, that much was obvious.

“I almost had him,” the Doctor moaned through his fingers. “He was in a casino on one of the Vegas planets. I had him in my sights, but I lost him. I was so close Jack, close enough to kill him so that he couldn’t come after Lily anymore and I let him escape.”

“You didn’t let him escape,” Jack reasoned. “John’s slippery, you shouldn’t blame yourself.”

“It’s like she’s a magnet for dangerous men,” the Time Lord sighed, finally looking up. “First Marcus, now John Hart and she’s so frustrating, protecting her is harder than anything I’ve ever had to do!”

“She attracted you didn’t she? She must be doing something right,” Jack pointed out with a smile. “As for the protection, my daughter is stubbornly independent. Lily doesn’t like to be taken care of and unfortunately that’s my fault. She never really had me and Ianto there to take care of her. I know that one of us could have stayed behind while the other worked, but I was too selfish to be away from Ianto for too long.”

“I know what you mean,” the Doctor nodded thoughtfully. “When I’m away from Lily it’s like there’s a gaping hole in my chest, like both of my hearts have been ripped from my body. I feel like there’s a part of me missing; even now when she’s only a few yards away from me, I miss her. Sorry I guess you don’t want to hear this about your daughter.”

“Actually I do want to hear it,” Jack chocked out, touched by what the Doctor had confided in him. “It’s a relief to know how much you care for her. I also want to thank you; you’re travelling all over creation to keep her safe.”

“I don’t have a choice,” the Doctor admitted. “I can’t bear to let anything happen to her. The thought of it causes me physical pain.”

“Maybe you should tell her that,” Jack suggested. “She needs to hear it.”

“Believe me I’ve tried,” he sighed, covering his face with his hands again. “Every time I have to leave I want to tell her that it kills me to go. I just can’t find the words, I try but the meaning behind them overwhelms me and I don’t know what to say.”

“Well Doctor, I hate to say it but you’re going to need to find the words,” Jack informed him. “Lily’s afraid that you’re going to go off on some grand adventure all day and not come back. She thinks you’ll just forget about her.”

“I would never forget about Lily, I couldn’t,” the Time Lord shook his head. “She’s my life now, she means everything to me. The universe could never compete with that, it all means nothing without her.”

“Then tell her that,” Jack urged. “You seem to have no problems telling me, so tell her. Put her mind at ease or she’ll live with that constant fear every time you have to go.”

The Doctor opened his mouth to respond, but a loud, shrill alarm drowned out any sound he made. Jack jumped to his feet, moving hurriedly to the door.

“What’s going on?” he demanded as Martha hurried past him.

“It’s Lily!”

TBC...

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2009-06-29T13:52:21Z

Chapter Fifteen

Lily sat on her parent’s couch, her arms wrapped tightly around her knees. Jack and Ianto had gone to bed hours ago, when they had gotten home from the restaurant. The Doctor had left shortly before that to continue his search for John Hart so that Lily could be safe again.

Although Lily missed the Doctor he wasn’t the reason she was unable to sleep. Something weird had happened in the restaurant, something she couldn’t explain. The four of them had been sitting having a nice quiet meal together when all of a sudden a wave of emotion that wasn’t her own had flooded her.

Gasping at the sudden intensity of the young waitress’s desire for the Doctor, Lily had actually had to grip the table for support. When the Doctor had moved to Lily to see if she was all right the waitress’s lust had turned to jealousy. This feeling was doubled by Lily’s own jealousy of the young woman lusting after her partner.

Lily had wanted to tell the Doctor and her father’s what was happening, but she was afraid. She didn’t understand it, maybe she was just crazy. It definitely wasn’t normal to sense other people’s feelings, especially at an intensity that could knock you off your seat.

Staring at the fireplace, Lily pondered her strange ability. She wanted to know what it meant, but she knew that the only way to find out would be to tell her family. Could she do that to them? Could she worry them needlessly, making them think there’s something wrong with her?

“Lily?” Jack’s voice broke through her thoughts. “Are you all right?”

“I’m fine,” Lily nodded, her voice hitching slightly, betraying her lie. She looked up to find her father standing in the doorway.

“What’s wrong?” he asked, worried. He moved further into the room to sit beside his clearly upset daughter. “Do you miss him?”

Lily thought for a moment, he had provided her with the perfect cover. She wasn’t sure if she wanted to lie to him, she’d done enough of that in her lifetime. Taking a deep calming breath, Lily steeled her nerves, readying herself to tell him the truth.

“Yes,” she whispered. “I miss him terribly.” Lily tried to tell him more, to tell him what happened at the restaurant, but her voice caught in her throat. She couldn’t say the words.

“I wish I could say that it gets easier with time baby girl,” Jack sighed, wrapping his arm tightly around her shoulders. “But I still hate being away from your Tad. It’s like when he’s gone, part of me is gone too.”

“Yeah,” Lily nodded. “I know what you mean. It’s actually painful to be away from him, for me at least.”

“What do you mean?” he asked, noting the wistful edge to her voice.

“I don’t know,” Lily shook her head. “I know that he loves me, it’s just sometimes I wonder if he loves me that much. I don’t know if it causes him pain to be apart, or if he even misses me when he’s gone. Sometimes I worry that he’s going to go off on one of his adventures and forget all about me. What if one day he never comes back?”

Jack’s chest tightened as he realised the depth of Lily’s pain. His daughter’s love for his Time Lord best friend ran deeper than anyone had realised. Jack doubted that even the Doctor had noticed the way Lily truly felt. He could see now from the way her arms were wrapped tightly around herself that she was desperately trying to hold herself together, to stop herself from falling to pieces.

“He’ll always come back to you,” Jack assured her, shaken by his sudden revelation. He was more worried about Lily and the Doctor’s relationship than he’d ever been before. Was Lily strong enough to withstand the pain being away from the man she loved caused her? Or would she someday leave her family to be with the Doctor.

“How can you be so sure?” Lily asked, her pale blue eyes glistening with unshed tears.

“He loves you, it’s obvious. Plus to be honest, I think he’s rather afraid of your Tad.”

This made Lily laugh and Jack saw that some of the tension left her body. Her arms weren’t wrapped so tightly around her knees, and her shoulders weren’t as hunched as before. Jack was relieved; maybe her family was enough to keep her sane while the Doctor was gone.

“Tad could strike the fear of god into the worst of aliens if he wanted to,” Lily grinned, her head resting on Jack’s shoulder.

“The man is scary,” Jack nodded.

Lily was thoughtful for a moment, before she spoke again. “Dad?”

“Yeah Lil?”

“Have you ever come across...an empath?”

“I’ve heard of them, but I’ve never met one. At least not to my own knowledge.”

“What do you know about them?” Lily pressed, interested. “How do they do what they can do?”

“Well from what I’ve read, people who have that ability already had a strong sense of what other’s around them felt. They have a great compassion for others and are amazingly kind. I think that it just builds from that, but I can’t be sure. Maybe the Doctor can tell you more about it.”

“Ok, I’ll ask him when he gets back.”

“Why do you ask Lil?”

“I was just curious, I remember seeing something about an empath in the archives and it sparked my curiosity. It didn’t really say much about it though, so I thought maybe you would know.”

Jack frowned and Lily feared for a moment that he might not swallow her story. After a few silent moments his frown relaxed, but he still didn’t look convinced.

“I’m going to bed,” Lily announced before Jack could ask anymore question. “Good night Daddy.”

“Good night sweetheart,” he smiled, kissing the top of her head. “Sweet dreams.”

“I love you,” Lily beamed as she climbed to her feet.

“Ditto,” Jack nodded as he watched her leave.

There was something about her queries that had him worried. Lily was hiding something and he was going to get to the bottom of it. It pained him that even after all that had happened she still couldn’t confide in him. Maybe her lonely childhood had scarred her worse that he and Ianto had first imagined.

TBC...

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Back To The Future! (14/??)

2009-06-29T12:42:41Z

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: Lily's getting ready for dinner and Jack has a question for the Doctor...

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

Chapter Fourteen

Jack and Ianto arrived at Lily’s house just as she found her hairdryer. They found the Doctor sitting alone in the living room, chuckling to himself. Ianto was just glad that the Time Lord wasn’t in his daughter’s room with her; there were just some things a father would rather remain in denial about.

“What’s so funny?” Jack asked, confused as to why the Doctor was laughing when he was alone.

“Your daughter knows some colourful language,” he told the other man. “She was having some trouble finding her hairdryer and tripping over some clothes she left on the floor. Some of the words were in Welsh so I was just imagining Ianto here swearing like a trooper.”

“She didn’t learn them from me,” Ianto assured him. “That’s Gwen’s doing, that woman swears like a sailor.”

“BOLLOCKS!” Lily could be heard shouting from her room.

“Everything all right Lil?” Jack called.

“Fine!” she told him.

“Then watch your mouth young lady!” Jack shouted back.

“Sorry, I just....ah shit!”

“LILY!” Jack and Ianto shouted this time. The Doctor was laughing again.

“Sorry, I think I just broke my toe!” Lily appeared at the door, still dressed in her bathroom but limping painfully.

“How’d you manage that?” Ianto asked, as the Doctor stopped laughing and hurried to Lily.

“I dropped the hairdryer,” Lily answered sheepishly. The Doctor lifted her into his arms and carried her over to the couch.

“Are you all right?” Ianto asked, concerned although he had no need to be. Lily was even faster at healing than either of her fathers.

“I’m fine, it just stings a little,” she shrugged as if it were nothing.

“Are you sure?” the Doctor wanted to know, inspecting her swollen toes.

“Yes,” she nodded. “See it’s already getting better,”

She was right; the swelling was already beginning to go down. The Doctor carefully brushed his fingertips over the toe as the swelling completely disappeared.

“All better,” she beamed, jumping to her feet to test her new toe. “Sorry it’s taking so long, I’ll be out in just a minute.”

“Can I ask you something Doctor?” Jack asked once Lily had rushed from the room.

“Of course Captain,” the Doctor nodded, thrusting his hands into his pockets.

“The first time I saw you after what happened to me, you told me that you had left me because I was wrong,” Jack started. “Do you still feel that way?”

“You want to know if I think that Lily is wrong,” the Doctor nodded. “And if she is why I’m with her.”

“Pretty much,” Jack nodded. Ianto was watching silently but he too was interested in the answer.

“I can’t deny that some part of me, deep down, thinks that Lily is somehow wrong. It’s a small part of my Time Lord wiring, but a much larger part of me loves your daughter so much that there could never be anything wrong about her,” the Doctor explained. “In every way that’s important Lily is right. She’s smart, funny and the most genuinely sweet person I have ever come across in my entire existence. Lily makes me feel normal, she makes me feel alive and I’m going to spend the rest of eternity trying to make her happy.”

Jack nodded, seemingly happy with the answer. The tear that shone in Ianto’s eye also indicated he believed what the Doctor had said. Both fathers believed in that moment that Lily had found the right person for her. The Doctor would take care of her forever, they both truly believed that.

“All right, I’m ready,” Lily breezed around the corner.

The Doctor’s breath caught in his throat. She looked breathtaking in a pair of pinstriped black trousers and a fitted silver blouse. Her long hair was clipped to the side of her head and fell in long waves to her elbow. She barely wore any make-up and the Doctor thought she looked better this way.

“You look beautiful,” the Doctor whispered.

“Thank you,” Lily beamed. “Are you two all right?” she asked her fathers.

“Fine,” Jack nodded. “Shall we?”

He held out his arm to Lily who accepted it with a smile leaving Ianto and the Doctor to follow them. Lily tossed a set of keys to the Doctor so that he could lock the door behind them.

“You can keep those,” she called over her shoulder. “Got them made for you.”

“Thank you,” the Doctor nodded, smiling at the ‘Doctor’ key ring she had made in the shape of a blue police box.

“You’re welcome,” Lily beamed over her shoulder as Jack opened his car door for her.

As the Doctor joined the small family at the car he smiled. It was a strange concept for him to be doing something as human as going to dinner with his partner’s family, but somehow it just felt right. It felt as though this was what he should have been doing his whole life.

TBC...

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Back To The Future! Interlude 01

2009-06-28T20:33:55Z

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: The Docto is taking a shower...
Warnings: SMUT!!!!!!!!!

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

Interlude One

The Doctor was using Lily’s shower when he heard the door open and close. Frowning, he peeked around the shower door to see Lily standing at the sink in her underwear, brushing her teeth. She looked stunning with her long hair falling straight down her back, clad in a very scanty baby blue bra and matching thong.

She turned when she spotted him looking at her in the mirror. Smiling around her toothbrush, she looked him up and down the way he had with her. He laughed at the obvious invite in her eyes, but he ignored it and closed the shower door.

Lily rinsed out her mouth and walked over to her large walk in shower. “You done yet? I have to have a shower too you know.”

In response, the Doctor opened the door and pulled Lily under the spray still in her underwear. He laughed as she let out a small squeal and swatted his arm.

“You could have warned me!” she laughed. “I would have taken this off before it got soaked.”

“Where’s the fun in that?” he grinned, looped his arms around her waist and reached up and undid her bra.

“Behave,” Lily smiled. “We don’t have time for that right now. My dad’s will be here any minute.”

“Uh-huh,” he murmured, slipping her bra to the stall floor. He kissed along her collar bone and across her shoulder.

Shivers rocked through Lily as the Doctor pressed her against the wall, their bodies pressed together. She could feel his growing erection against her thigh and shimmied her hips slightly to tease the tender area of her lover’s body.

The Doctor groaned and crushed her lips under his own. She smiled and slid her tongue into his mouth to deepen the kiss. As their tongues fought for dominance, Lily’s hands roamed down the Doctor’s slim but toned chest until she had him in her hands.

Wrapping her fingers gently around his long hard dick, she began at a slow pace. Her fingertips barely touched him as she moved; an impatient moan escaped the Doctor as his hand joined hers and tightened her hold on him.

“Lily,” he whispered, breaking away from their kiss.

He returned his lips to her warm skin, peppering kisses along her jaw. He sucked gently at the sensitive skin just below her ear, and made a wet trail down to the base of her neck. Her breathing quickened as he continued down her chest. His tongue flicked out over the pert nipple of her right breast and she let out a soft moan. Taking this as encouragement he circled the darkened skin, teasing her gently.

Lily’s body bucked from the wall, her thigh grazing the tip of cock as she continued to pump it with rigorous precision. His impatience returning, the Doctor cupped Lily’s thigh, pulling her leg around his waist and pressing them further against the tile wall.

Her hand let go of him as the tip of him brushed across her hot core. She lifted her other leg to wrap it around his waist, crossing at the ankles to lock him in place. The Doctor took her hands in his and pressed them against the wall as he entered her, slowly at first.

He looked down into Lily’s light blue eyes, eyes that saw everything, that could penetrate his very soul. Their passion rolled off of them in waves, Lily felt as though she would spontaneously combust at any second. She was close to the edge as the Doctor picked up the pace, thrusting deep into her then pulling almost all of the way out before thrusting back inside her.

“DOCTOR!” Lily screamed, she was teetering near the edge now, the hot water from the shower actually felt cool against her fiery skin.

As she finally fell over the edge into ecstasy, Lily felt the Doctor contract within her, his brown eyes looked black as he lowered his head to her. They kissed as he filled her with his essence. Luckily being in the shower made for a quick clean up, but neither were in a rush to move.

The Doctor let go of Lily’s hands, wrapping his arms around her waist to hold her in place. Lily’s palms rested on the Doctor’s shoulders as they continued to kiss, long and deep. The Doctor loved the way Lily tasted in his mouth, sweet like cherries. She was always eating cherry tic tacs and it made her taste amazing.

“I love you,” the Doctor rasped as they finally pulled apart.

“I love you too,” Lily beamed, sliding her legs back to the floor. She wobbled slightly before regaining her balance. “Crap,” she muttered when she saw the time on the shower radio. “My dad’s will be here any minute.”

“You had better hurry then my love,” the Doctor laughed, smacking her bum as he stepped out of the shower.

He was dressed before Lily was even out of the shower. She rushed around the room drying her damp skin while hunting for her hair dryer. He laughed as she let out a frustrated cry when she tripped over a discarded pair of jeans.

“If you’re not going to help then you can go and wait in the living room,” she smiled sarcastically at him.

“All right,” he shrugged, still laughing to himself.

He had just sat down when he heard the front door open followed by a loud noise. Lily had found the hairdryer.

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Back To The Future! (13/??)

2009-06-28T10:00:41Z

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: Jack doesn't take Ianto's death well...

Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

Chapter Thirteen

“No!” Lily screamed, a small part of her mind told her she was overreacting. Ianto was immortal like her and Jack and he would come back soon. That voice was drowned out by another voice that was screaming extremely loudly over her father’s death. “No! This shouldn’t have happened! He shouldn’t have to go through that!”

Jack stared at his daughter from the doorway, his eyes wide. He wanted to go to her, to comfort her, but this was his fault. He should have taken better care of his husband; he’d managed to keep him alive for thirty years, sometimes sacrificing himself in the process.

His own death had never mattered much to Jack, but Ianto and Lily were everything to him. It pained him that Lily had already died three times in her life; he had never wanted Ianto to go through it as well.

The pain from clawing your way back from nothing was the worst thing in the world and Jack wouldn’t wish it on his worst enemy. There were just something’s that a person should never experience.

Rage suddenly took over Jack and he sent a stack of papers flying to the floor. Lily yelped as Jack continued on his destructive mission, toppling chairs and shelves, he even managed to send a filing cabinet crashing to the floor.

“Daddy,” Lily whimpered, pressing her hands to her ears again. “Please Daddy, stop.”

Jack ignored his child, the anger he felt for himself blocking out every other emotion. All he saw was red; he wanted to cause himself pain. A small voice broke through the haze, telling him he was scaring his daughter, but the anger quickly silenced it as Jack continued his rage.

“JACK!”

Turning at the sound of a familiar voice yelling his name, Jack came face to face with Ianto. He was still covered in blood and looked a little weak but there wasn’t a mark on him. He was different though, Jack recognised the haunted looked he sometimes saw in his own eyes as well as Lily’s. It was the look from being dragged out of the dark nothing that was death.

The anger Jack felt suddenly evaporated and he sank to the ground, sobbing heavily. Ianto was at his side in an instant, pulling the older man into a tight hug. He whispered soothingly into Jack’s ears trying to calm his other half.

“Jack,” Ianto whispered. “I wish you hadn’t trashed this place, I’m going to have to clean this mess now.”

Jack laughed through his tears, before remembering Lily. He looked up to find that his daughter was still sitting in the corner, hands pressed over her ears and sobbing into her knees. Getting to his feet, Jack went to Lily’s side, Ianto hurried with him. He hadn’t noticed the young woman until Jack had looked at her.

Ianto suddenly felt sick, this is what his death had done to his family. He hoped than now the initial one was over and done with, they might handle it better if it were to happen again. Pulling her hand’s away from her ears, Ianto made Lily look at him.

“Tad,” she whispered, her eyes were red and bloodshot and her cheeks stained with tears.

“It’s all right now Halaw,” Ianto told her, pulling her into his arms. “I’m fine, everything’s fine.”

“I’m so sorry Tad,” Lily sobbed. “I should have realised that thing knew you were there. I should have warned you, this is all my fault.”

“No Lily,” Ianto shook his head, holding her at arm’s length so he could look into her face. “This was an accident, occupational hazard. It wasn’t your fault, or yours Jack, neither of you is at fault. We all knew it was to come at some point. I don’t know about you, but I’m glad that it’s over with. Now I know what to expect for next time and so do you.”

“Is everyone else all right?” Lily asked, she figured it was useless to argue with Ianto.

“Owen has a couple of scratches,” Jack answered. “He got knocked to the ground by the thing that...well you know. He’s all right though; Gwen shot the thing before it could sink its teeth into him.”

“Did you get both of them?” Lily wanted to know.

“Yes,” Jack nodded. “Mickey and Tosh are disposing of them as we speak.”

“No autopsy?”

“We don’t want to take the chance that someone else will be poisoned,” Jack shook his head.

“Can I stay with you tonight?” Lily asked Ianto, she didn’t want to be away from him right now.

“Of course you can sweetheart,” Ianto nodded, kissing her forehead.

“I’ll leave Gwen in charge, we can go home now,” Jack told them. “We should have a shower then we could go out for a family dinner.”

“That sounds nice,” Lily smiled. “Some family time will be good, we haven’t had a chance since I came back.”

“Shall we invite the Doctor?” Ianto asked, shocking Lily and Jack. “Well...he is part of the family now, isn’t he?”

“Yes,” Lily nodded, smiling eagerly. “Is it all right with you Dad?”

“Of course,” Jack nodded. “I’ve always thought of the Doctor as family.”

Lily quickly climbed to her feet and ran off in search of the Doctor. She found him in the medical bay with Martha; they were cleaning blood off the table. Lily stopped at the rail, a sudden wooziness coming over her at the sight of the blood. Normally blood didn’t bother her, but she knew whose blood this was and that did.

Sinking to her knees, Lily pressed her chin to her chest and took a deep calming breath. It didn’t help, the burning smell of copper filled her nose and she gagged.

“Lily!” the Doctor was by her side in an instant. “Are you all right?”

“Feel a little woozy, must be the blood,” she answered as he lifted her to her feet and helped her to the sofa on the main floor.

“Feeling better?” the Doctor asked once she pulled in a few calming breaths.

“Much,” Lily nodded, resting her head on his shoulder. She closed her eyes so that she wouldn’t have to see the blood that stained the front of his shirt.

“Lily, are you all right?” Jack asked, he and Ianto were suddenly standing in front of her.

“She’s fine Jack,” the Doctor assured him. “She just got a little woozy when she saw the blood Martha and I were cleaning. Ianto how are you feeling?”

“Fine,” Ianto said in a distracted tone, he was more worried about his daughter.

“We are going to leave to get cleaned up then we’re going for dinner,” Lily informed him, looking up into his deep brown gaze. “Would you join us?”

“I would love to,” the Doctor nodded.

“Good, why don’t you two get changed at Lily’s house,” Jack suggested. “Ianto and I will get washed up at home. Then we will pick you up.”

Lily understood that Jack would want some alone time with Ianto after what had happened so she didn’t argue. Instead she nodded and allowed the Doctor to lead her out of the Hub while Jack left instructions for the team.

She was happy as they climbed into her car. Her father was alive.

TBC...

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Back To The Future!!! (12/??)

2009-06-27T15:11:41Z

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: What happens with the new alien's? Will the Torchwood gang be ok?

Sorry it's taken so long to update I've been really busy. Anyway here's the next chapter. Sorry for any mistakes I beta read it myself.

Chapter Twelve

“Doctor!” Lily called out.

“I heard,” the Doctor was already at her side.

The Torchwood team could be seen on the edges of the screen now, ducking behind cars, guns drawn in front of them. Ianto had the one on the left, Jack the one to the right.

“Be careful,” she whispered into her mouthpiece.

“A bullet between the eyes Captain,” the Doctor told him. “They’re too dangerous to keep alive I’m afraid. The rest of their body is pretty much solid. I wish there was another way...”

Lily briefly took her eyes off the computer screen to look at the Doctor. His face looked anguished, he truly hated to take another’s life, even if it were a disgusting alien. With a small sad smile, she turned her attention back to the screen and her family.

“Thanks Doctor,” Jack said. “Owen, Gwen, I want you covering Ianto, stay back and let him handle it. Mickey, Tosh you’re with me. Beth I want you to stay back, we’ll need you as our onsite medic.”

Everyone assented to their orders as they moved closer to the roaming beasts. Lily gripped the Doctor’s hand, feeling helpless by the fact that all she could do now was watch. The Doctor hugged her shoulders with his free arm as they watched Jack and Ianto edge slowly towards the seemingly unaware aliens.

“Lily?” the Doctor’s voice broke through the silence.

“Mmmm?”

“How do you do it? How do you understand all those numbers and equations, half of it isn’t even from this lifetime let alone this planet?”

“Don’t know,” Lily shrugged, now wasn’t really the best time to be talking about her uncanny ability to understand something after only seeing it once. “TAD!” Lily suddenly screamed.

The creature he had been sneaking up on had turned suddenly and sank six rows of razor sharp teeth into his shoulder. All hell broke loose then, guns blazing, people yelling, her Tad screaming and the god awful wail of the creatures.

Suddenly the Comms were silent and Lily lost the CCTV feed she had been watching. Her fingers moved at lightning speed as she tried to get another visual on her father.

“Dad?” she yelled into her mike. “Dad can you hear me? Talk to me or I’m coming down there!”

“Doctor,” Jack’s voice sounded anxious and scared. “Does Martha have an antidote ready?”

“Yes,” the Doctor answered.

“Its right here Jack,” Martha also acknowledge. “How bad is the damage?”

“We’re coming in,” Jack ignored Martha’s question. “Doctor, take Lily into my office and don’t let her out until I come for her. I don’t want her to see Ianto like this.”

“I’m not going anywhere,” Lily growled warningly as the Doctor made to take her hand.

“I don’t think that’s going to be too easy Jack,” the Doctor was backing away from his growling lover.

“I don’t care Doctor, use force if you have to!” Jack snapped, sounding worried. “Lily just do as I say and get into my office. I don’t want you to see your Tad like this. Please Lily.”

“All right Daddy,” Lily chocked, tears spilling down her cheeks. She knew now that it had been Jack who had disabled the cameras. Ianto wasn’t in good shape and Jack was trying to save his daughter the trauma of seeing him like that. Especially since she still had nightmares after what Marcus did to her father. “I’ll stay away.”

“Thank you sweetheart,” Jack whispered, obviously trying to fight back tears of his own. “I love you Lil.”

“I love you too Daddy, and tell Tad I love him as well.”

“I will.”

Lily removed her Comms and walked over to her father’s office, she felt the Doctor behind her. “No,” she turned and placed a hand on his chest to stop him. “I want you to help Martha, please. I know he’ll come back, but I don’t want him to have to go through that. I still remember the first time I died and I was only three. It’s an awful experience and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, so please, please try to help him.”

“I will,” he agreed with a nod. He pulled her to him for a swift kiss that ended all too quickly, before he turned to Martha. “All right Doctor Martha Jones! Let’s get this place ready.”

Lily entered her father’s familiar office and closed the door. She sank into Jack’s chair and rested her head on the cool wood of his desk. The Hub was silent for a few minutes before the sound of Ianto’s screaming filled the air.

Cringing Lily pressed her hands over her ears and clamped her eyes closed. Pain ripped through her chest as she fought the urge to go to her Tad. She wanted to comfort him, to try and ease his suffering, but she knew that she would only be a hindrance.

Her sobs became loud hysterics and she moved to sit on the floor in the corner. She knew that if she couldn’t calm herself she was going to throw up but the sounds of Ianto’s pained screams filled her mind. She couldn’t think of anything else.

“Please stop,” she whispered, hugging her knees, her eyes still firmly closed. “Please just stop, someone help him, please. Let my Tad be all right.”

When the screaming still hadn’t subsided, Lily pressed her hands to her ears again and began to sing the first thing that came into her mind.

“At last, my love has come along,” she loved this song, and often watched the video of her parent’s wedding where Jack sang it to Ianto. “My lonely days are over, and life is like a song. Ohhhh yeah, at last, the skies above are blue. And my heart was wrapped in clover, the night I looked at you.”

“Lily?”

Jack’s voice interrupted Lily’s singing and she looked up. Gasping when she saw her father’s blood stained clothes, her Tad’s blood, she became hysterical again as her chest heaved with loud sobs. Even if her Tad wasn’t dead, which she suspected he was from the look in Jack’s eyes, he had lost a lot of blood and Lily couldn’t handle the thought of her father as he lay bleeding on Martha’s table.

“I’m sorry Lily.”

TBC...

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2009-03-30T21:25:47Z

Chapter Eleven

Tears filled Lily’s eyes as she thought of what a horrible person she had been to the two people she loved most in the world. Hurrying forward, she ran for the bathroom, just making it to the bowl before she retched.

When she was finished, and had rinsed out her mouth, Lily slumped against the wall. She felt awful; maybe the reason that bad things kept happening to her was because she was a bad person.

“I hate you,” she whispered to herself, sobbing quietly.

“Lily?” Ianto’s voice called through the closed door. “Are you all right, Cariad?”

“No,” Lily sobbed, hugging her knees.

“Can you let me in?”

“The door’s open,” she told him.

Ianto opened the door and looked down at the woman he still thought of as his baby girl. He locked the door behind him and took a seat beside his daughter, pulling her into his arms.

“I know this is hard for you, Halaw,” he whispered, stroking her hair. “You’re not used to having people around you all the time. You’re like your father; you like to be alone sometimes. But until we find John Hart none of us want to risk losing you.”

“That’s not why I’m upset,” she cried, burying her face in his shoulder. “I know I was mad about that, but I don’t care anymore. I understand why you don’t want to leave me alone.”

“Then what’s wrong?”

“I...I’m...I’m a horrible person!” she wailed, clinging to the front of his suit jacket.

“What?” Ianto demanded, shocked. “Where did you get an absurd idea like that?”

“I’m horrible to you and Dad! I always make you feel bad for working all the time when I was younger. It’s an inexcusable way to behave. I don’t do it intentionally, sometimes it just comes out. I’m so sorry, Tad. I love you both so very much and I hope you’ll forgive me.”

“There’s nothing to forgive, Halaw,” Ianto told her softly. “Your father and I weren’t always there for you and we deserve the occasional ribbing for it. We both know you don’t mean to be like that, but you were hurt. Anyway, I don’t see why your father is complaining since you’re exactly like him. He seems to forget the tantrums he’s prone to, only his tantrums lead to shooting people.”

“I love you.”

“I love you too, my sweet girl,” he whispered, holding her close. “Now how about we get back to work?”

“Can’t we sit here for a while?” Lily asked. “Just for a little while, please?”

“Of course, sweetheart,” Ianto nodded, a small smiled playing across his lips. It was rare that he got any time alone with Lily. He was enjoying it being just them, even if it was on the bathroom floor.

They sat in a comfortable silence for fifteen minutes, Ianto’s arms never loosening from around his daughter. It was nice, just being able to sit for awhile, enjoying each other’s company.

“Everything all right in there?” Jack’s voice interrupted their quiet.

Lily, now a lot happier, climbed to her feet and threw open the door. She was then in her father’s arms, hugging him tightly. Jack was shocked by the action, but hugged her back.

“I love you, Daddy,” she told him. “So very much, and I’m sorry for acting like a spoilt child. I promise I will never make you feel bad again.”

“I love you too, Lily,” Jack nodded, shooting Ianto a bewildered look as the younger man got to his feet. “Em... there’s been a rift spike a few miles from here. Lily, I want you here on comms. Ianto, you’re with me.”

The main area of the Hub was in chaos as Lily took her place at her workstation. She booted up all of the satellite and CCTV footage of the area along with the many systems she used.

She was very aware of the Doctor watching her from a few feet away, but she didn’t turn to look at him. Their latest mission came first; she would deal with the fallout of her tantrum later.

The Doctor was suddenly beside her, causing Lily to jump; she hadn’t heard him approaching. He looked impressed as he watched her work the various systems, occupying her monitors with ease.

“You know what all this means?” he asked, motioning to one system that was displaying a lot of different numbers.

“Yes,” she nodded, not taking her eyes off the screen she was studying. It didn’t bother her that he was asking questions; her brain had always been able to concentrate fully on more than one thing at a time.

“Lily?” Owen’s voice crackled over the Comms.

“Next left, Owen,” Lily instructed, focusing on the tracking device before her. “I’m picking up a reading on the scanner; whatever it is, it isn’t human. I’m looking through the CCTV and satellite imagery right now to see if I can get a good look.”

“Lily, I want to know what this thing is,” Jack informed her. “Preferably before we get there.”

“I’m looking,” she told him. “Take the second right, about fifty yards ahead of you.”

“You got a visual yet?” Jack asked a few seconds later.

“No, all I see is people, nothing looks out of the ordinary,” Lily explained, staring at the images in front of her. “Whatever it is it’s sixty yards in front of you.”

“Where, Lily?” Owen wanted to know. “I don’t see anything.”

“You’re right on top of it,” Lily told him, staring at her numerous systems. The two Torchwood SUV’s had now appeared on the CCTV she was staring at intently.

“There’s nothing here, Lily.”

“Wait, it’s about forty feet off the ground,” Lily said as she read another reading her computer was churning out. “Should be level three of the multi story car park a few feet to your left. I’m hacking into the CCTV as we speak.”

“That’s something you should have picked up on before, Lily,” Jack grumbled over the mike.

“I’m only one person, Jack and I ain’t Supergirl. My brain does have its limits; I can’t possibly take in everything. Anyway, I’m telling you now aren’t I?”

The Doctor felt oddly proud as he watched her fingers move so quickly over the keyboards they were almost a blur. She was amazing; it was as if she was part of the computer herself. He’d never seen a human, even an extremely smart human, be able to process so much information in an instant. She understood even alien technology the moment she saw it, it was outstanding.

“What the fuck?” Lily breathed, staring at the CCTV footage of the garage.

“Lily,” Ianto’s warning voice came from her earpiece.

“Sorry, Tad,” she replied automatically.

“You can wash her mouth out later, Ianto,” Jack said, although it was clear he didn’t appreciate his daughter’s choice of language either. “What is it, Lily?”

“Disgusting is what it is,” she answered, staring at the slimy blob-like creature stalking the parking area to the west of the level.

“Oh, that’s an Oefyi that is,” the Doctor leaned over Lily’s shoulder to get a closer look. Lily was surprised to see he was wearing a Comms device of his own. “Nasty little buggers they are. I’d be careful, Jack. They’re poisonous; approach with extreme caution.”

“Thanks, Doctor,” Jack said, an edge to his voice. He didn’t like the situation one little bit. “I want everyone to hang back, Ianto and I will take care of this thing. Martha, liaise with the Doctor, I want to be able to treat whatever injuries this thing can cause if need be.”

“Of course.”

Lily looked up, surprised to see Martha standing at her own station a few feet away. She hadn’t even noticed anyone else was still in the Hub. The Doctor left her side then to help Martha develop an antidote to the alien venom in case anything happened to the team. Lily felt the familiar ripping sensation in her chest when the Doctor left her, but she ignored it. There were more important things to worry about at the moment.

“Lily? Where is it?” Owen was asking, causing her gaze to snap back to her monitors.

“To the North West wall of level three,” she answered. “It’s just slithered behind a Toyota Yaris.”

She watched the camera intently, studying the creature’s path. Suddenly, something on the corner of the screen caught her eye. She quickly brought up a second camera picture on a separate screen.

“Shit!” she exclaimed.

“Lily!” Ianto yelled over the Comms.

“Sorry, Tad,” she said automatically again. “But it was a ‘Shit’ moment. There are two of them.”

“Shit!”

TBC...

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2009-03-27T22:09:48Z

Chapter Ten

It had been a month since Lily had seen John Hart in her bedroom. Not that he had a chance of getting to her. There was always someone from Torchwood with her, plus the Doctor whenever he could. When the Time Lord couldn’t be with her, he called her all the time to make sure she was all right. Martha said she had never seen him use the phone she gave him so often.

Lily was being to feel claustrophobic under the constant supervision. She was having lunch with Owen when she finally snapped. He’d just told her that he and Tosh would be spending the night with her for the third day in a row.

“I can’t take it anymore!” she exploded as they walked back towards the Hub. “I’m sick of never being alone, always being followed. I’m not a child. I don’t need to be babysat. I think I’m quite capable of dealing with John Hart myself. I just want...no, I need some space!”

“I know, Lily,” Owen sighed. As her best friend, he’d been the one she complained to for the past month. “But until we find him, no one wants to take the chance. It’s not worth our lives to leave you alone.”

“If it’s my dads you’re worried about, don’t be,” Lily told him, feeling hopeful that he might actually leave her alone for a little while. “I can handle those two, and no one would have to know anyway.”

“Believe me, Jack and Ianto would pitch a fit if I let you run off alone,” Owen grinned at the young woman. “But it’s not them that we’re all worried about. We’ve all heard the stories of the famous Time Lord temper. We don’t want to risk your new partner’s wrath.”

“Stupid Time Lord,” Lily grumbled. She was becoming increasingly annoyed by the Doctor’s overprotective nature.

“Well he’s your Time Lord,” Owen laughed, although there was a note of resentment in his voice. “And he loves you, Lil. He wants to protect you, just like the rest of us.”

“I know,” Lily sighed, putting an arm around Owen’s waist. “You know me. I’m not used to being taken care of. Very independent.”

“I know, you never let me forget it.” Owen shook his head, draping his arm across her shoulders. “You’re just like Jack.”

Lily stuck out her tongue and punched him playfully in the ribs. They walked along the bay, quietly enjoying the comfortable silence and each other’s company. They were nearly back at the Plass when Lily spotted the Doctor leaning against a nearby railing. He was watching the pair intently.

“Doctor!” she exclaimed, her face breaking into an excited smile. She hadn’t seen him in two days and missed him terribly, even in that short period of time. Letting go of Owen’s waist, she ran forward and into his arms. Air whooshed from his lungs from the impact of her body against his.

“Ooof,” he wheezed, setting her back on her feet. “Excitable today, aren’t we?” He flashed his cheeky grin. “Everything all right, sweetheart?”

“Fine now,” Lily sighed into his chest.

“Owen.” The Doctor nodded in acknowledgement as the other man joined them.

“Doctor.”

There was a cold edge to their voices as they spoke to one another. It almost made Lily forget that she was annoyed with the Doctor...almost.

“Doctor, you really need to stop scaring my friends into suffocating me! I can’t stand being surrounded by people all the time anymore!”

“It’s just until we find John Hart,” he told her, stroking her back. “I’m working on finding him, but he’s a slippery bastard.”

“Well, either you find him soon or I’m going to snap! I just want some peace.”

“You can have peace...when we find John Hart.”

Lily let out a frustrated scream and moved away from the Doctor. She ran off toward the Hub. If the Doctor wouldn’t listen to her maybe her fathers would. Owen and the Doctor followed closely behind, their closeness only fuelling her rage.

When she reached the Water Tower Lily jumped onto the invisible lift and started it before Owen and the Doctor could reach her. She knew it was childish, but they could take the long way round.

For a few seconds Lily was happy as she descended into the Hub. For those few seconds, she was alone. When she reached the bottom however, her sour mood returned and she rounded on her father who’d been waiting for her.

“I’ve had enough!” she snapped at him. “I can’t stand being watched like a child! I’m an adult, I should have a say in this!”

“Lily, calm down,” Jack soothed, taking a step toward his furious daughter.

“NO! I will not calm down, I’ve been calm and it gets me nowhere! Maybe if I pitch a fit you might start listening to me!”

Everyone was watching her now, but she didn’t care. She was furious and fed up of everyone ignoring what she wanted. It was her life after all, not theirs.

“Enough, Lily,” Jack warned. “You say you want to be treated like an adult, well maybe you should start acting like one. All I see in front of me right now is a spoiled child who isn’t getting her own way.”

“Learned from the best, didn’t I, Dad?” Lily growled. “And acting like this was the only way to ever get your attention!”

“That’s not fair, Lily,” Jack sighed, he looked sad now. “You can’t keep throwing that in our faces whenever you’re upset. It’s going to be a long eternity if you do.”

Lily’s rage stopped cold. Did she really do that? Did she really use her childhood pain to get what she wanted from her parents? If she did then she was an awful person, her fathers loved her and had done the best they could under the circumstances. She understood that now...didn’t she?

Guilt and shame washed over her; she hated herself. She had never intentionally meant to hurt her parents, but she had. She did every time she mentioned the fact that they were never there. They were with her now and they loved her more than words could express - how could she cause them this much pain?

“I’m awful.”

TBC...

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2009-03-18T17:04:57Z

Chapter Nine

“What’d I do?” Lily exclaimed as her father stormed over to her.

“My office...now!” he told her, pointing to the room. “You too, Ianto.”

Lily and Ianto followed Jack into the small room; the Doctor was perched on the edge of the large wooden desk that filled most of the small space. He had a small, amused smile on his face, which relaxed Lily ever so slightly. Jack closed the door behind him and sat in his chair, leaning forward to steeple his fingers.

“What’s this about, Jack?” Ianto asked, suspiciously eyeing the Doctor.

“Lily, would you like to explain it to your Tad?” Jack asked his confused daughter.

“Sure,” Lily nodded. “As soon as you explain it to me.”

“Doctor?”

“I told him, Lily,” the Doctor informed her.

“You WHAT?!?” Lily exploded. “How could you? You promised that it would be up to me to tell them when I was ready!”

“I thought it was the right thing to do,” the Doctor explained. “Before John Hart told them for us.”

“Told us what?” Ianto demanded, getting angry. No one had explained anything to him yet. “Will someone please tell me what is going on?”

“I love him, Tad,” Lily whispered, staring at the Doctor.

“What?” Ianto asked, stunned.

“I love him,” Lily repeated, finally looking at her father. “Although right now I don’t know why!”

“Jack?” Ianto looked to his husband for support. The Captain was out of his chair in seconds, wrapping his arms around Ianto’s waist.

“I was just as surprised,” Jack told him, kissing the younger man’s cheek. “But the Doctor has assured me that he loves her too.”

“But...” Ianto trailed off. He wanted to yell, to be angry with the Doctor, but he couldn’t. If he was honest with himself, he was actually relieved. Lily wouldn’t have to go through life alone like he and Jack had feared, and neither would the Doctor. Plus, he could see from the way they looked at each other that they were in love; it was obvious. His baby girl was noticeably happier when she was with the Doctor; it was a wonder he’d never realised it before.

“Tad? Are you all right?” Lily’s worried tone broke through his thoughts.

“I’m fine, honey,” he nodded, blinking so that he could focus on her face.

“Are you angry? I mean are you okay with this?” she asked cautiously.

“Are you happy, Halaw?”

“Extremely,” she smiled as she looked back at the Doctor, her face glowing.

“Then that’s all that matters,” Ianto nodded.

“Dad?” Lily looked to Jack.

“I’m happy if you’re happy, Lil,” he nodded. “As long as you keep her happy and protect her with your life,” he added for the Doctor.

“Always,” the Time Lord promised.

“If you hurt her...” Ianto started.

“Tad!” Lily exclaimed, taking the Doctor’s outstretched hand.

“I’m your father, Lily,” Ianto told her. “It’s my job to threaten your boyfriends.”

“I won’t hurt her,” the Doctor assured him with a nod.

“Doctor, could you please give us a moment alone with our daughter?” Jack asked politely.

“Of course.”

The Doctor’s kissed Lily’s cheek as he left the small family alone. Both Jack and Ianto noted the pained looked that registered on Lily’s face when the Doctor left.

“Lily, I thought after Marcus you were going to stop keeping things from us,” Jack said softly once he was sure the Doctor was out of earshot.

“Habit,” Lily shrugged a bitter edge to her tone. Her old teenage defences kicked in whenever Jack or Ianto reprimanded her. “You two were never around for me to talk to for the first sixteen years of my life. It’ll take more than five years to fix the damage that caused. You’ve still got another eleven.”

“Lily,” Ianto sighed.

“I’m sorry,” Lily told them. “I know that your absence wasn’t your fault. I understand now. It still doesn’t make those sixteen years any easier to live with. You want know why I’m so mature? Because I had to be. I felt like I brought myself up. I took care of myself while you two took care of the rest of the world. I guess I’m still a little bitterer than I thought.”

“Lily, we’re...”

“Don’t,” Lily shook her head. “Please don’t apologise, it just makes it worse. I’m sorry though, I didn’t mean to hurt you.”

“It’s all right, Halaw,” Ianto smiled weakly. “We know.”

“I was afraid to tell you,” Lily whispered after a few minutes of silence. “I didn’t think that you would understand. I thought you’d be mad.”

“Lily, sweetheart, you thought we’d be mad because our daughter fell in love?” Jack was surprised.

“No, mad at who I’d fallen in love with,” she explained. “I didn’t think that you would approve of me wanting to be with the Doctor.”

“We’re not mad, baby girl,” Jack assured her. “I just wish you felt you could talk to us about anything. We’re always here for you.”

“I know, I do,” Lily nodded. “It’s just some of my childhood insecurities creep up on me sometimes, and I forget that I can talk to you now. I’m not that lonely little girl anymore.”

Ianto stepped forward and pulled his daughter into a hug, figuring that actions spoke louder than words. He whispered a few soothing words in Welsh before releasing her.

“So we’re ok now?” Lily asked.

“We were never not ok,” Jack nodded.

“Oh, just one more thing,” Lily said as they headed toward the door.

“What?”

“Can we not call the Doctor my boyfriend?” she smiled. “It just doesn’t seem appropriate for a centuries old Time Lord.”

“Deal.”

TBC...

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Back To The Future! (8/??)

2009-03-16T21:10:31Z

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: Lily gets an unexpected and unwanted visitor...

Thanks et_muse for beta'ing for me and listening to my whinging!

A/N: I know it's been a while and I'm really sorry been having some internet problems but its fixed and to make it up to you will try and post 9 and 10 tonight if not then def in the next couple of days!

Chapter Eight

“I think you look gorgeous.”

Lily’s back stiffened at the sound of the familiar voice behind her. She leaned back away from the mirror and opened her eyes. Gasping when she saw the second reflection in the mirror, she whirled to face her intruder.

“You’ve looked better of course,” Captain John Hart leered at her. “Like when you tried to kill me, but a little soap and water and you’ll be good as new.”

Lily was in shock, too stunned to actually speak. She stared wide eyed at her father’s old lover, the man responsible for her death not once, but twice in the same day. The fear that had begun to bubble inside her chest wasn’t because she was afraid of the sleazy time agent in her room, she could handle John herself. She was scared of the Doctor’s reaction if he found the Captain in her room.

“What?” he asked. “Cat got your tongue? Don’t you say hello to an old friend?”

“You’re not my friend you evil son of a bitch,” she spat at him. “You killed me!”

“It wasn’t permanent,” he pouted. “Come on sweet cheeks don’t be mad at me. What was I supposed to do? Let Gray kill me?”

“Yes, now get out of my house,” she growled dangerously.

“I don’t think so,” the Captain shook his head.

“What do you want Hart?”

“You.”

Lily laughed. “Excuse me?”

“I came here for you,” John explained. “I’m going to take you away with me.”

“Good luck with that.”

“Don’t need luck,” he grinned.

“Why? Why me? I thought you were madly in love with Jack? Not that you have a chance there either.”

“Yeah, I figured when I met you that I would never be with Jack. You are enough like your father though, enough that I could have you instead of him.”

“You’ll never be with me either Hart,” Lily shook her head. “Now piss off.”

“Oh you think now that you’re with the Time Lord, what’s his name? The Doctor? That will stop me?”

“How’d you...”

“I’ve been following you love,” he shrugged as if it were nothing. “Since the day we met. I’ve seen everything sweet cheeks. Very impressive the way you snapped that guy’s neck, by the way. I’m guessing that Daddy didn’t show you that trick? I was wondering where you learned it.”

“Nowhere,” Lily whispered, looking at her hands. “It was instinct; I had to protect my family.”

“You are so much like him,” John was in front of her now. “It’s all in the eyes, so haunted, full of self loathing and wisdom beyond your years. Beautiful.”

Lily’s head snapped up as he cupped her cheek. “Get off me or so help me god I will break your neck.”

“Lily?” the Doctor’s voice called from the hall.

“Be seeing you sweet cheeks,” he grinned, kissing her cheek before disappearing.

Taking a calming breath, Lily ran her fingers through her hair and wiped the black from beneath her eyes. It didn’t really help much, but at least she looked marginally better. After what had just happened she needed to feel his arms around her. She wouldn’t tell him what had happened though, she didn’t want to see him like that again.

“Hey,” she beamed at him, opening her door. “Sorry I took so long, I must have spaced out.”

“I thought I heard voices,” he told her, glancing around the room.

“T.V,” she pointed to the small set on her dresser. “I switched it on for background noise.”

He didn’t seem completely convinced as he continued to look around the bedroom. Lily had never been a good liar; it was one of the few things she couldn’t do. He didn’t push the issue though and for that she was extremely grateful. Instead of pressing her, he chose to take her hand and lead her down the hall.

“Are you hungry?” he asked when they reached the kitchen.

“Not really,” she shook her head. That was the truth, she actually felt nauseated after her encounter with John Hart. She wanted to get to Torchwood to tell her parents; they needed to know that the crazed murderer was back in Cardiff.

“What do you want to do today?” the Doctor wanted to know, his wide grin lighting his features.

Lily shrugged. She knew there was probably no way of getting to her parents right now. Not without the Doctor finding out what had happened. Maybe she could give him the slip somehow, pretend to go to the bathroom and slip out of the window. The thought of leaving him sent a searing pain through her chest, but she tried to ignore it.

“Are you all right?”

“I’m fine,” Lily squeaked, flinching at the obvious lie.

“What’s going on Lily?” the Time Lord demanded. “That wasn’t the T.V. I heard in your room. What are you hiding from me?”

“All right,” she sighed, there was no chance of lying her way out of this now. “Before I tell you though, you have to promise you won’t get angry again, all right? I can’t take that, you scared me and I’ve never been that afraid of anything. Do you promise? Please?”

“I promise,” he nodded calmly. “I will remain as calm as I can.”

“John Hart paid me a little visit,” Lily explained, closing her eyes and flinching against the tirade she expected. When nothing happened she squinted up at him. His jaw was set, but he remained unmoving.

“What did he want?”

“Me,” Lily whispered carefully, relaxing her body when he didn’t erupt. “He said he’s been watching me ever since the day we met, that he wants me because he can’t have Jack. He said that not even you can stop him.”

“He obviously doesn’t know much about me if he thinks I can’t stop him.”

“Well he knew that you were a Time Lord and that people call you the Doctor. He also knew that we’re... together.”

“Come on,” he tugged her toward the door. “We’re going to Torchwood; Jack needs to be told about this. You can drive; I’ll leave the TARDIS here.”

He pulled her along behind him as he led her out to the car. Lily smiled slightly as he held open her door, even when he was angry he was still a gentleman.

Ten minutes later, Lily was parked a little away from the Hub. She decided to take the Doctor in through the invisible lift, since he always used the main entrance or just parked the TARDIS in the Hub.

“You might want to stand closer,” she told him as they stepped onto the lift. “Don’t want you falling off.”

Using the comms device strapped to her wrist to start the downward journey, she smiled at the Doctor’s curious expression as they descended into the Hub. The others were waiting on the main floor, having obviously seen them on the many cameras they had positioned around the Plass.

“What are you doing here?” Jack was the first to speak as Lily stepped off the lift and into Ianto’s arms.

“We have a problem,” she told them quietly, looking up at her Dad.

“Captain,” the Doctor interrupted. “I think you and I should talk.”

The Doctor followed Jack into his office and closed the door behind them. The blinds were closed so no one could see them and it made Lily nervous. What were they talking about?

“Halaw, what’s going on?” Ianto asked his daughter. Everyone was watching her as intently as she watched Jack’s closed door.

“Captain John Hart was in my bedroom this morning,” she explained, looking up at her family.

“What did he want?” Owen demanded as Ianto tightened his hold on her.

“Well...” Lily hesitated. “Erm... since he can’t have Dad... well... he wants me. He says I’m a lot like Dad, the next best thing, and no one will stop him from taking what he wants.”

The group erupted yelling loudly. Ianto, Owen and Gwen were swearing in Welsh. Tosh was making threats to cut off parts of John Hart’s anatomy, Martha was using words Lily hadn’t known the usually composed woman knew and Beth was muttering under her breath looking murderous.

Over the loud noise from her family’s reaction, she head one distinct voice loud and clear. Her Dad was at his door, hands on hips as he glared at his daughter.

“Lily Gwendolyn Harkness-Jones, you have some serious explaining to do young lady!”

TBC...

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Back To The Future! (7/??)

2009-02-25T21:00:29Z

Title: Back To The Future!
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Martha/Tom, Doctor(10)/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own Torchwood or any of its characters
Summary: Lily wakes up the day after her date with the Doctor. He isn't there, was it all a dream?

Thanks et_muse for beta'ing for me and listening to my whinging!

Chapter Seven

Lily’s eyes fluttered open as bright light filtered through her bedroom window. Had last night been a dream? Her date with the Doctor seemed too surreal to have been reality. She had probably just been so exhausted last night that she’d collapsed in bed still wearing her clothes.

Rolling over, Lily closed her eyes and tried to get back to the amazingly vivid dream. She couldn’t though and opened her eyes. She gasped when she saw what lay on the pillow next to her. A long single pink rose was nestled carefully on the blue cotton and an envelope with her name on it lay on top.

She recognised the handwriting immediately and rushed to open it.

Lily,

Thank you for the wonderful evening. I’m sorry that I had to leave; I got a note on the psychic paper from the Xoyuvilalek asking for my help. I couldn’t bear to wake you, you looked so peaceful. I hope you’ll forgive me for just leaving. I’ll be back soon, I promise. In the mean time have some fun with your family. I will see you soon.

I love you Lily.

The Doctor x

Lily beamed happy to know that it hadn’t been a dream after all. Her perfect night had been real. Now she understood why her parents were always happy when they were together, and couldn’t keep their hands off each other. Love was the most wonderful feeling anyone could ever experience.

Her happiness over the previous night was short lived when she realised she didn’t know when he would be back. The discomfort she felt when they were separated suddenly became a searing pain in her chest.

He’s coming back, she assured herself taking a calming breath. He said so in his note. He loves you, he’ll be back as soon as he can.

The noise of her front door opening and closing broke through her panic. She sat up straight, listening intently for some other noise coming from the house.

“Lily?” her Tad’s voice called.

Lily sighed in relief and released her grip on the gun beside her bed; she had moved to lift it when she had heard the door. “Just coming!” she called back, climbing to her feet.

“You look awful Lil,” Jack gasped when she joined her parents in the living room.

“Jack!” Ianto exclaimed, swatting his husband’s shoulder. “Are you all right Cariad?” he asked Lily, going to her side.

“I’m fine,” Lily whispered, her bottom lip wobbling dangerously. The look reminded them of when she was a little girl and was scared or in trouble. It was usually the latter.

“Lily what’s wrong?” Ianto questioned. “I thought you weren’t going to keep things from us anymore?”

“I had a nightmare,” Lily answered, feeling guilty. “I’ve been getting them a lot lately.”

She wasn’t really lying, not completely. She had been having nightmares since she’d seen Tosh killed. That had only gotten worse after Marcus tortured and nearly killed Ianto; she saw herself snapping his neck every night. The worst nightmare was remembering how it felt to disappear into nothingness. The dreams hadn’t become unbearable until she had failed to save Megan Smith.

Right now however, that wasn’t why she was upset. She hated not telling her parents about the Doctor, but she was afraid of what they might think, especially since he was going to be leaving all the time to help people.

“What was your nightmare about?” Jack asked, patting the couch beside him.

With her parents sitting on either side of her, she took a deep calming breath. “Marcus mostly, but I see Megan Smith a lot as well. I see that thing suck her soul out, I can still sometimes feel her in my arms.”

“That wasn’t your fault Lily,” Jack soothed, pulling her close.

“I know that, but it doesn’t make me feel any less guilty,” she sobbed into his shoulder as Ianto rubbed her back.

She felt bad for deceiving them, but it was the only way to cry about the Doctor being gone without them getting suspicious.

“Maybe you shouldn’t come in to work today,” Ianto suggested, stroking her long dark curls.

“No I’m fine... really,” Lily said through her tears.

“You’ve been through a lot in the past two months Lily,” Jack told her. “You deserve a little time off.”

“I don’t want to be alone,” she cried. “Can’t I come and sit in the Hub at least? I won’t work, I promise, I just don’t want to be by myself.”

As Jack was about to answer there was a knock on the front door. “I’ll get it,” Ianto said, getting to his feet before Lily could move.

“Ianto Harkness-Jones!” the Doctor’s voice boomed when Ianto opened the door. “That name’s a mouthful that is, mind if I call you just Jones?”

Ianto looked confused as he followed the Doctor into the living room. Lily hid her face in Jack’s shoulder. She was still sobbing, but they were tears of joy instead of pain now. She took a few deep breaths, trying to control her emotions and restrain the growing smile.

“Doctor?” Jack was just as surprised as his husband.

“Captain Jack!” the Doctor beamed happily. “It’s good to see you again old friend.”

“What are you doing here?” Ianto wanted to know.

“The TARDIS brought me,” he explained. He was staring at Lily with concerned curiosity. “Is everything all right?”

“Lily’s a little upset,” Jack explained, rubbing his daughter’s back. “She’s been having nightmares, which is perfectly understandable, considering what she’s been through.”

“What do you mean the TARDIS brought you?” Ianto asked when Jack had finished speaking.

“It’s hard to explain really, but from the first moment Lily stepped foot on the TARDIS they’ve been connected somehow. The TARDIS must have sensed Lily’s pain and brought me here to help her. Such a worrier, that TARDIS.”

“I think the only way to help her is to give her some time to heal,” Jack told him.

“I told you, I don’t want to sit at home doing nothing,” Lily moaned, still hiding her face. She had stopped crying now, but knew she looked awful and she didn’t want the Doctor seeing her as such a mess.

“Lily please,” Jack pleaded, exasperated. “Just take one day off to rest.”

“Your Dad is right Halaw,” Ianto backed up his husband.

“Fine!” Lily snapped, jumping to her feet, but making sure her hair hid her face like a curtain. “I’ll stay at home! Maybe I can take up knitting!”

“Aw come on Lily,” Jack called as she stormed from the room.

She didn’t listen as she ran down the hall and threw herself onto her bed, burying her face in her pillow. After a few minutes Lily heard the front door open then close before footsteps approached her room. She felt too guilty and ashamed by her tantrum to look up at whoever entered her room. She didn’t even look up as whoever it was sat on the edge of her bed.

A gentle hand stroked her hair and the fire that shot through her at the contact told her it was the Doctor who sat beside her. Feeling even more embarrassed she buried her face deeper into the pillow, so that she could only just breathe. She wished a hole would open up and swallow her so that she didn’t need to face the man she loved after acting so spoiled.

“Lily,” his voice was soft and careful. “What’s the matter?”

“I...I...” she sobbed, suddenly she had no idea why she’d reacted this way. Her parents were just trying to take care of her the way parents were supposed to. “I don’t know,” she finally wailed. “I don’t want to be alone, it gives me too much time to think, but that’s no reason to act that way.”

“Think about what?” he asked.

“What I did,” she whispered. “What I’m capable of.”

“You mean killing Marcus?”

“Yes,” Lily nodded into her pillow. “I didn’t exactly tell you everything about that.”

“I know,” he whispered calmly.

“How?”

“Jack explained a few minutes ago. They had to leave because of rift activity.”

“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you.”

“It’s all right. Can I ask why you felt you couldn’t tell me the whole truth about that day?”

“I didn’t want you to think that I’m a monster,” she sighed.

“I could never think that Lily,” he shook his head. “You are the most caring and sweet person I have ever met on this planet, on any planet. No one could ever think of you as a monster.”

“Do you have to leave now?” she asked, changing the subject. She didn’t want to talk about it anymore, even if he didn’t think she was a monster she did.

“No,” he answered. “Jack asked if I would stay with you until this evening, when either he or Ianto will be able to be with you. Ianto wasn’t thrilled by the request; I don’t think your Tad likes me very much. I think he might suspect something between us.”

“It wouldn’t surprise me if he did,” Lily shrugged. “He’s very intuitive, he sees more than most people think.”

“I’ve noticed,” he smiled slightly. “Lily please look at me.”

“No,” Lily shook her head. “Go wait in the living room.”

The words caused her great pain, but she didn’t want him to see her in the state she was in. She was sure that her hair was a mess and last night’s mascara was probably running down her face from the tears. Not to mention she hadn’t brushed her teeth yet.

“And if I refuse to wait in the living room?”

“Then I’ll be keeping my face buried in the pillow all day and will eventually suffocate.”

The Doctor laughed. “You’re as stubborn as Jack. Poor Ianto, you would think the poor man had enough with his pig-headed husband. Now he has an eternity with both of you as stubborn as you are.”

“You have an eternity with me too remember,” Lily pointed out, still hiding her face.

“That’s true, maybe I’ll have to rethink that if this is what you’re like,” he grinned cheekily. His plan worked, Lily sat up and glared at him.

“Oh really?” she asked, raising her eyebrow. “Well at least you don’t need to spend eternity with an energiser bunny on crack.”

“That’s better,” he smiled, cupping her tear stained cheek in his hand. He chose to ignore her comment about him being an energiser bunny on crack. “You’re beautiful Lily Harkness-Jones.”

“You’re just saying that to make me feel better,” she pouted.

The Doctor leaned forward and kissed her petted lip gently. “You will always be beautiful to me my love.”

“Uh-huh,” she nodded sceptically. “I look like a panda having a bad hair day.”

“You know Rose never cared about what she looked like around me.”

Lily growled before she could stop herself. Rose would always be a sore spot for the young woman. She knew how much the Doctor had loved Rose, and probably still loved her.

“Yeah well Rose will be all old and wrinkly now,” Lily snapped. “I on the other hand will look this way for thousands if not millions of years. Now get out so I can get changed!”

The Doctor sighed, muttering something that sounded a lot like ‘women’ but he didn’t argue as he left the room. Lily waited a full five minutes before she moved. She trudged to the full length mirror in the corner of her room and stared at herself in the reflective glass. Her earlier assessment of her appearance had been dead on.

“I look awful,” she exclaimed, closing her eyes and resting her forehead on the cool glass.

“I think you look gorgeous.”

TBC...

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