Sacrificing My Love For You

Sacrificing My Love For You


As soon as they entered the hub, Rose spotted the resident Pterodactyl, Myfanwy. She chuckled, and marvelled at the creatures fluent and graceful movements, as it flew high above over their heads.

She deadpanned “Only you Jack. Only you would have a Pterodactyl flying around in your headquarters. Are you over compensating for something, then?” Owen and Gwen, they heard her comment, and snorted, as Jack shot her a disgruntled look.

Jack replied, as they entered the hub fully, and stopped in the centre. “Wow, Rose. Your wit and sarcasm, it has sharpened over the last one hundred and twenty years, hasn’t it?”

The whole team took in the new arrivals that Jack had brought in with him. Jack cleared his throat and said, “You guys, would you all come over here. I want to introduce you to some of my old friends.”

Jack gestured to Rose “Owen, Tosh, Ianto and Gwen, meet, Rose Tyler. She was the head of Torchwood one, in an alternative reality, after she fell through the void when she was twenty.”

Owen spoke up “You don’t look no older then twenty, actually.” Rose replied “That might have something to do with the fact, that I cannot die or age. When I do die, I always come back, and fully healed.”

She smirked at Owen, and told him. “Appearances can be deceiving. I assure you, I am one hundred and twenty years old. I was head of Torchwood one, since I was forty. I only recently handed the reins over to my second in command, after eighty years.”

Everyone eyed her. Tosh and Gwen, they took note of how beautiful and professionally sophisticated she looked, with natural coloured makeup, and her golden blond hair, placed in a formal, tight pleat at the back of her head.

She was dressed in a tight, finely cut, expensive designer, black suit, which had white pinstripes. It was paired with a dark sapphire coloured silk, low cut blouse. And black heeled ankle boots, which finished the whole look.

Tosh and Gwen could not help but envy the fact, that this woman was over a hundred years old and still looked as if she were only twenty. She looked natural, calm and confident in her own skin, and surroundings.

Gwen suddenly commented “You said you don’t age, and when you do die, you come back unharmed. How come, are you just like Jack?”

Rose smiled sadly, and replied “Yeah, I am. I’m also the reason Jack is the way he is. It was an accident really. But because of the accident, both I and Jack are left like this.”

She added “Anyway enough about me, I’m sure I can answer any questions you have for me later on. I am here to help with the current threat, after all.” She gestured to Jack, with a nod.

Jack continued, as he gestured to the ninth and tenth Doctors. “This is the Doctor, in both his ninth and tenth incarnations” he gestured to each in turn.

Tosh asked “You mean there are more then one of you?” Her question was directed at nine. Nine, who had just recently met her, smiled and said, “Currently in your time, there is ten of me. Eventually there will be thirteen of me.”

He added “How long has it been for you, Toshiko Soto? I only met you less then two months ago?” Tosh returned the smile and replied “Oh, it’s been almost seven years since I last worked for Unit.”

Jack turned to the tenth Doctor and said, “You never mentioned that you know, and had met Tosh, in your ninth incarnation?” Ten grinned and replied “Oh yes, I met her before I met you, Jack.”

Tosh eyed ten then nine. She said, “You look nothing like, how can you be the same person?” Ten answered “Toshiko, when I die, and my body is beyond salvable, I regenerate. Meaning every cell in my body dies, and is burned away, and replaced with new cells.”

Nine added “Regeneration, it includes, a different body, meaning a new face, different mannerisms. As wells as a different accent, voice, personality, and likes and dislikes.”

Ten continued “But our memories of all of our past incarnations remain intact. Occasionally we even show a personality trait or mannerism from a previous incarnation.”

He concluded “Each incarnation is just under the surface of the current incarnation. Meaning my ninth self, his memories, mannerisms are just under the surface, I’m still him.”

Gwen asked “So you’re an alien that can change into a different body when you die, but only thirteen times?” Ten nodded “Correct. I’m an alien, a Time Lord actually. I’m nine hundred and six years old.”

He added “I see all that was, is and ever could be. I feel the rotations of the planets. I can see a planet and solar system dieing and being born”

Nine added “I’m nine hundred years old, and have two hearts and a double immune system that works twice as fast as any human immune system. Meaning I don’t feel the heat and the cold to the extent that a human does. My body temperature is much cooler then a human.”

Jack said, “Ok you four introduce yourselves.” Owen went first “I’m Doctor Owen Harper.” He added “And I’m not human.” Tosh went next. “I’m Toshiko Soto. I am an expert computer technician and physicist. And I’m not human either.”

Ianto went next “I’m Ianto Jones. I’m the resident tea boy, receptionist, and researcher. And I am completely human.” Ianto smirked at Jack, Owen and Tosh, as he said he was completely human.

Gwen finally took her turn. “I’m Gwen Cooper, was Williams at one point. But I’m now a widower. My husband Rhys, he died in a car accident a year ago.” She added “I was a police officer, a PC, before I joined Torchwood. And yes, I like Ianto, am completely human.”

Rose asked, as she gestured to both Owen and Tosh. “What do you two mean, you’re not human?” The tenth Doctor stepped forward and stood beside Rose. He narrowed his eyes, before sighing and saying “Because they’re just like you and Jack. That is how and why they’re not human.”

He added “What I’d like to know is how, when I highly suspect you two have had no contract of any description with the Time Vortex?” He turned to face Jack, and raised an eye brow.

Jack replied “Owen was shot in the heart just over three and a half years ago. He died, preventing Martha from having to suffer the same fate.”

He added “I found the second glove to another we had used previously. It brought Owen back. Unfortunately, he had no heart beat, no pulse. He didn’t heal, as whatever injuries he sustained never healed. In all purpose he was a walking and talking dead man.”

Tosh continued from where Jack had left off. “I found a ritual for the goddess of love, life and death. I couldn’t bear to continue to watch Owen suffering.”

She continued “He couldn’t sleep, eat or drink, or be intimate with another. Everything that we all took for granted on a daily basis, it was restricted to Owen.”

She went on “I decided to end his suffering. I made a sacrifice, allowing Owen’s life to be returned to him.” She added “But there was many, many strings attached.”

Jack continued “She had to make a self sacrifice. Both she and Owen in return for having his life returned to him, they had to take on my inability to die and come back fully healed. This was all because I was apart of the ritual.”

He added “But that’s not all. The goddess also added on her own little clause. She made it so their hearing, sight and reflexes were sharpened beyond that of a human.”

Owen added “If I die, then so does Tosh, and vice a versa.” He continued “If she was to get shot, she would receive the bullet, but I would receive the echo of it. I would have the wound and the blood loss and would die.”

Jack allowed both Doctor’s to read his mind, as soon as Owen had finished. ‘Tosh got the worst of it. She can feel and sense what Owen feels’

He added ‘This means she is able to feel his pleasure, and him pleasuring others. Owen doesn’t know this. Tosh doesn’t want him to. She refuses to trap him, and make him feel even more guiltier then he already does’

He concluded ‘Tosh is in love with Owen, it was her love that gave him back his life. Unfortunately he does not return her feelings. This means she can’t ever be with another. She can only be with Owen. It is a part of the clause and agreement’

Nine and Ten discreetly shot Tosh a look of genuine pity. They were both horrified. How could such a warm and loving woman endure having to feel the man she loves, pleasuring another that isn’t her? Also knowing he does not return her feelings for him.