TARDIS/Rift Manipulator. *blinks a lot*
Title - Branches
Author -
laurab1Characters/Pairings - Jack, Ten, TARDIS/Rift Manipulator
Rating - PG
Length - 290 words
Spoilers - TW: general series, DW: 1.9-13 and 3.11-13
Summary - Separated, but still very much alive pieces of three sisters are the very last things she expected to find.
Disclaimer: alas, none of these people are mine
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Note - written for
szm's
Anti-Ship War.
Branches
by Laura
She materialises inside the Torchwood Three Hub, somewhere they haven’t been before. Her Doctor has to speak to their Jack immediately.
“Hey, beautiful,” he greets her, before asking, “Doctor. What brings you here?” as he lets himself in.
As her Doctor tells Jack about the robotic dinosaurs he just encountered, she reaches out, just to see what’s in the Hub.
Separated, but still very much alive pieces of three sisters are the very last things she expected to find.
There’s a small piece of coral; under Jack’s love, care and attention, she’s slowly growing, gradually acquiring more life. Five hundred years’ time... Then there’s a larger piece of coral, which has physically grown into the Hub, joining her life to the computers, helping to power them. Finally, there’s a time rotor, put to use as a machine to manipulate the Rift with. The life in this machine, this sister, is almost barely there.
Summoning her two stronger sisters, the three of them “comfort” the weaker one.
Who then begins pulsing and beeping rather frantically.
Jack and her Doctor eventually notice the noise, and stop working on the holographic robotic dinosaur they're very carefully constructing.
“Rift Manipulator!” Jack exclaims, and leaves.
A few minutes later, he comes back in. “It’s...purring. In fact, I’d say - "
“What did you do?” her Doctor asks, cutting him off.
Jack comfort, she tells her two men.
"The very best kind, sweetheart," Jack says, and smiles wickedly. “Like I said, purring. The old girl just had some fabulous sex with my Rift Manipulator, Doc. And judging by the sounds they’re making, the organic computer and the coral on my desk joined in. Tosh is gonna love that one.”
Her Doctor just nods, before going bright red.
-end-
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