Con Man

We ran out of the room that stored the Vortex Manipulators and down the hallway to corridor one and down to the door on the left that Kovarian told us to. I know I shouldn't trust her, but she lead me to River's vortex manipulator so I think we have a chance that it is correct.

Jack and I stopped at the door to what Kovarian said was the shipyard. I swallowed and nodded to Jack. My arm had just begun to hurt, the numbness having worn off. "Ready?" Jack asked me.

"Yeah." I said and raised my gun. "I love you."

"Love you too." Jack said.

We both nodded and I waved Mary's card over the black box one last time and the door slid open revealing a shipyard, but also a dozen or so men between where we were and the ships that we wanted to get to escape.

"There they are!" A man yelled and pointed at us. I didn't let them get any farther than that. I ran up to the closest person and shot them, killing three more after. Eight more to go.

Jack ran up beside me, killing five, and both of us ducked for cover behind a ship. We heard the two men that were left alive cursing and calling for backup. I looked up at the ship we were hiding behind and immediately recognized it from The Empty Child.

This was it. This was Jack's ship. Jack noticed I was distracted. "Susan?"

"Yeah, oh, sorry. This is the ship. I mean your ship."

"You sound pretty sure." Jack remarked.

I rolled my eyes. "When am I not sure about stuff in the future? Well, only your future to an extent. Come on, lets grab us a space ship." Not letting Jack comment. I readied Mary's gun. I noticed I was low on ammunition. A couple more rounds and I would be out.

"I'll cover for you." I told Jack, I didn't wait for his response and went and started firing at the remaining guards. They cursed and started firing back. Jack took this distraction to sneak onto the ship. I heard a few gunshots from inside, hoping Jack was okay and I followed him in and closed the hatch, the two guards running to the ship, but the door closed before they could get on.

I sagged in relief but we weren't out of this yet. I followed a small hallway to the front of the ship where two dead guards were on the floor and Jack was sitting in the Captain's seat. I sat in the co-pilot's. "Hey." I remarked as I sat down. "Ready to get out of here?"

"You bet." Jack replied.

"Do you know how this works?" I asked him.

"Nope!" Jack exclaimed. "But it's worth a shot." I watched as Jack pressed a couple buttons and we disappeared from the shipyard and appeared in space.

We were silent for a couple minutes until Jack started laughing so much he snorted like a pig a couple times and that got me laughing as well. Then what I did came crashing down on me. I killed people. Mary dying. Me shooting Kovarian. I couldn't stop laughing so I started sobbing and laughing at the same time.

Jack got up out of his seat and picked me up to the beds shortly behind us. There were two bunk beds on the right and two on the left. Jack sat me down on the bottom left. "Come on, lets take a look at that shoulder."

"Medical supplies are in the bottom bin." Came a female voice.

Despite all his training, Jack jumped. "Who is there?"

"I am the computer. May I request your name and position?"

"Um, Captain and Jack Harkness."

"My previous owner is dead. Is that a correct assumption?"

"Yes." Jack said, getting the medical supplies out of the bottom of the bins. He prepared what was probably an anesthetic. "Okay, Susan. You're going to feel a tight pinch."

"I know what a shot feels like." I snapped then I winced. "Sorry."

"It's okay." Jack told me, putting the needle into my left arm near where the bullet was lodged. Then Jack grabbed what looked like tweezers. "I'm going to have to pull the bullet out."

I grimaced. "I figured as much."

"On the count of-" Jack started.

"Oh just pull it out already!" I yelled and Jack plunged the tweezers into my shoulder. I yelped in pain and grabbed the side of the bed, my knuckles turned white. "Shit that hurts!"

"Of course it hurts, it's supposed to." Jack retorted. He finally managed to pull the bullet out and put it on a small metal plate. It was the best thing Jack could find the time. "You're going to need stitches."

My eyes widened. "Oh no. That's where I draw the line." I said.

"Sorry about this." Jack said.

"Sorry about wh-" Out of no where Jack gave me a hard punch to the head and unfortunately I everything went dark.

When I woke up my head and shoulder where pounding. More my shoulder than my head. I sat up, blinking the sleep out of my eyes. I saw Jack sitting in the pilots seat, flying us through space. I stood up and immediately felt dizzy but then steadied myself.

I slowly walked to Jack and sat down in the co-pilot's seat. Neither of us spoke for what seemed like an hour. Then I said, "Thanks for stitching that up."

"I thought you didn't want me to stitch it up."

I winced. "Sorry. I had one hell of a day yesterday."

Silence. Then, "Where do you want to go from here?" Jack asked.

I swallowed. I hated being the bad guy. "I think I have to leave." I said softly.

"What?!" Jack exclaimed. "Why?"

"Jack." I whispered. He stopped complaining. "When... when I first met you, I wasn't with you. When you first meet The Doctor, I'm not with you. This is where I leave you and go back to the past."

"What do you mean?" Jack asked. "Is this one big break up speech?"

"WHAT?" I shrieked. "No! Of course not! It's just... to preserve the time lines. I can't be with you when you meet The Doctor and Rose for the first time. That doesn't mean that I can't be with you though. Ugg, time travel timey wimeyness is so hard to explain!"

"Okay then." Jack said, calming me down by holding my hands. "Start from the beginning."

I took a deep breath and began. "Well, after this I suppose you get into being a con man."

"Con man?" Jack asked.

"Yeah, you're way of getting back at the agency. You try to con them. Then you hurtle a alien ambulance at a weird spacecraft traveling through the vortex, The Doctor and his companion, Rose's, ship. You aim the ambulance to land during the first Earth's World War 2, 1940 something. You con them and they ask you to come with them at the end of the adventure. I can't tell you what it is about. I could change stuff. Then you travel with them until you get stuck on Earth for a while, then you find The Doctor again and meet me." I stopped.

"What?" Jack asked. I thought he was taking this rather well.

"That will be the first time I have meet you." I paused. "I'll still be Human. I won't know any of the things that have happened during my stay in the 51st century. I'll be still new."

"How do you change into a Time Lady?" Jack asked.

I smiled sadly at Jack. "Spoilers. I whispered. I took a deep breath then said, "So you understand what you have to do to keep the timelines in check?" I asked. "I gave you a brief overview of what I know about your future. Too much could cause a huge problem."

"Yes, I understand." Jack said.

We were both silent for a while. "Jack, you know I won't forget you. When I get back home, I'll come straight to you."

"Promise?" Jack asked, his voice cracking a bit.

"Yes. I promise." I said. "Do you know how to work this thing?" I asked Jack. "I didn't have time at home or at the Agency to learn how to do it."

"Yeah," Jack said. "Show me your arm." I gave him my left arm, wincing when I moved harder than I thought I was going to.

Jack flipped open the flap to my vortex manipulator. "What date?"

"Um, Just after Christmas 2013."

"Okay." Jack pressed some buttons then took his hand off. "That should do it." He said. "Where do you want to go?"

"Cardiff, Wales." I replied.

Jack pushed another set of buttons then looked at me. "Do you know the base code?"

"No." I said. "I only know two numbers that keep on rotating. It's 4 and 9."

"Ah, got it." Jack sat back. "You're good to go."

I didn't say anything but stood up. Jack stood up as well. "Well, thank you for letting me stay at your place."

"No problem Susan." Jack said.

For a moment, both of us were frozen to the spot, neither one of us wanting to go, both of us staring at each other. I suddenly reached forward and developed Jack in a hug, kissing him. That went on for about two minutes then we broke apart, my face blushing and wet with tears.

"I'll see you again." I said, stepping back. "I swear. Cross my hearts." I brought my arm up, ready to press the go button. "Love you Jack. Remember that."

And I vanished.

To be continued in... Parallel Passion !

A/N: Thank you to those who have read, favorited or followed this story! It really means a lot because this story is an original idea, added into the Doctor Who universe, not the same old, where we follow an OC through each season. It always blows my mind how many people take their time to read this story. Thank you so much, again!

The squeal should be up sometime in late September or early October. It will be that late because I am starting College on August 25th and I don't know how much homework and studying I will have to do, but I suspect a lot. I will try to get some of it done before I start though.

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