Title: Good and Broken

Author: doctorsgal1792 on Fanfic, Mrs Harkness on DavidTennant, and Beccs! on TIL

Beta: Chloe2450 on Fanfic, Chloe on TIL

Rating: T

Pairing: Jack/OC

Disclaimer: I do not own Torchwood, Doctor Who, or any of it's affiliates. RTD and the BBC all own them! My name isn't RTD...and I don't run the BBC (tho I aspire to work for them!). If I did own them...I'd live in England! Wouldn't I?! And i wouldn't spend my time writing these fanfics...and dreaming about Jack Harkness...so bleh!

Summary: This picks up where my one shot 'Letting Go' left off, it's another In-Between-Qual to The Masters Daughter. But this is a proper story. Some adventures that happen before the epilogue of my last story! There is an alien running about Cardiff, the usual, causing chaos. To make matters worse, something VERY unexpected happens to Ellie and now she and Jack have to face the consequences while trying to defeat the alien. The summary may sound dumb, but it is good! So...please R&R. Thanks

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Chapter 1

Grieving

"Donna Noble? Meet Jack Harkness and Ellie-"

The Doctor paused, having no idea as to what name Ellie was going by now.

"Still Saxon...I had to get my transfer files from the Uni I was going to when I was in London. The name they had on their files was Saxon...I told them I'd rather not have that...but they couldn't change it. And you wouldn't believe how much it costs to legally change your name!" she said with a half grin.

"Wait...Saxon? I thought you looked familiar...you're Harold's daughter aren't you? I saw you a few times on the commercials, the news programs and such; promoting his campaign." Donna said.

"Yeah...well..." Ellie trailed off.

"He wasn't really her father. I'll tell you about it later," The Doctor whispered.

Donna nodded in understanding, "Well it's brilliant to meet you" she said.

"Would you like to go into the Hub?" Jack asked.

"Sure, might as well give it a go; been to Cardiff enough times!" The Doctor answered with a grin.

Jack then took Ellie's hand and led The Doctor and his new companion to the slab, "Step on," Ellie said with a smile.

The Doctor shrugged and stepped onto the slab, followed by Donna.

"This is the best bit," Ellie said into The Doctor's ear as Jack began to hit some buttons on his wrist strap.

Then with that, the slab began to move down into the ground, "Woah! That is brilliant, a hidden lift?!" Donna cried as she held onto The Doctor's arm.

"Same thing I said the first time I went down," Ellie said with a grin.

Suddenly Ellie let out a soft gasp of pain as she clutched at her stomach. Jack looked at her, alarmed, as the lift stopped.

"Are you alright?" he asked as he placed his hand onto the back of hers to give her stability.

"Yeah...just felt a bit queasy there for a second," Ellie answered as she covered her mouth with her hand. She then removed and smiled, "I'm fine...maybe I'll just go get a glass of water to be safe."

Jack watched as she hopped off the lift and headed up the stairs to the kitchen, he then looked to The Doctor and Donna.

"So this is home," The Doctor said.

"This is brilliant," Donna exclaimed as she looked around the underground base.

"Yeah, it is pretty neat," The Doctor said as he too, hopped off of the platform and looked around.

Suddenly there was a screeching from up above; The Doctor and Donna both looked up, "Is that a pterodactyl?" The Doctor asked as the creature flew by quickly.

"Yeah, it's Myfanwy," Jack answered as he also hopped off the lift.

Just then Ellie came back out with a cup of water, she looked slightly flushed but smiled. "So how have things been Doctor?" she asked.

The Doctor scratched the back of his ear and shrugged, "Oh you know, this and that. Defeating the hordes of alien's across the universe. The Adipose scandal? I dealt with that, that's how I met up with Donna again. Then the Sontaran's invading...and everything in-between in the sky." he answered with a grin.

"That has to be fantastic," Ellie said as she sat down in front of Gwen's desk.

"Well I offered you two a ticket," The Doctor replied as he popped into a chair.

"Yeah...well...Cardiff can be pretty amazing too. Plus...the adventure of University," she replied with mock happiness.

Jack then came and pulled two more chairs over, one that Donna sat down in and then one that he sat in himself, "Oh yeah...we've had fun with that...things that have required Ianto, myself and Ow-" Jack stopped, his mind instantly began to play images of Owen dying.

Ellie looked to him and took her hand in his, she squeezed it in reassurance, he looked to her and smiled, "Sorry...uh I was saying, there was this time that Ianto, Owen, and I had to go to the school and get her. This guy was giving her troubles, wanted to go out with her and he wouldn't take no for an answer. That was quite the adventure...turned out he was an alien from the planet Pringo," he continued.

"So it was a bit of a good thing he was harassing me. It was annoying yeah...but he had plans to impregnate a bunch of the girls on campus with his weird alien baby," Ellie said with a shrug.

"Oh that's always fun!" Donna cried sarcastically.

"Oh definitely," Jack commented.

"He wasn't a Nostravite was he?" The Doctor asked.

"No, but we did encounter them! Got Gwen, our liaison with the police, pregnant the night before her wedding," Jack answered.

"What's a Nostravite?" Donna inquired.

"They pass an egg onto someone by biting, then the mother comes in like a midwife and waits for the right time; gets her child and then kills the human," The Doctor explained grimly.

"Nasty...was Gwen alright?" she asked.

Ellie nodded, "Yeah...the man she was marrying, Rhys, he saved her life with a Singularity Scalpel," she answered.

"You lot really do get some cool stuff," The Doctor commented.

"That's what happens when you live on top of a rift," Jack said with a grin.

Then the Doctor jumped up, "Going so soon?" Ellie asked.

"Well we'll stay around...but you both look a bit drained," The Doctor answered.

"I've been locked up in the school for the last day and a half...I do kind of miss my bed," Ellie commented as she stood up.

The Doctor looked at her with a raised eyebrow, and Ellie quickly went to explain, "We had some...attacks, so to say, on the city. Blew up some buildings and the minute the school received word, we went into immediate lockdown. For some reason they decided to keep us in there until the senile headmaster was positive that it was safe."

"Ah...I can imagine how tired you must be then...and how much you want to get in your own bed," Donna sympathised.

"Well...yeah," Ellie laughed, "It was brilliant meeting you though."

"And you," Donna replied.

"We might stop in tomorrow; maybe tag along on a field case?" The Doctor asked.

"That would be great," Jack answered as he stood up.

"Alright, see you in the morning," The Doctor said.

"Goodnight," Jack and Ellie replied.

The Doctor pulled Ellie into a hug, "Night Ellie," he whispered lovingly, as if a father whispering to a daughter, and to be honest, Ellie was an orphan so The Doctor felt partially responsible. Ever since they cremated the Master together...he told himself he would watch over her, and make sure Jack took care of her, because he truly believed The Master had loved Ellie.

A few minutes later, they all said their good nights. Once Jack had shut things down in the main area where most of the work happened, he and Ellie went up to his office and down the hatch into the room that they often shared.

For awhile, they sat there, with Jack's arm around Ellie, and the woman curled up into him as much as possible. They were both silent, but wide awake; because the truth was, even though they didn't speak of it, they both knew that the other was experiencing emotional pain from Tosh and Owens' death. Seeing The Doctor and Donna had been lovely and kept their minds off of it for a little bit, but they couldn't help but think of their fallen comrades. It was impossible to try to think of anything else. But after awhile Ellie made it to sleep...and sometime around quarter to five in the morning, Jack followed suit.