Torchwood

Alyssa instantly recognized where she landed, she smiled as she looked around. She was in Torchwood, the one Jack ran. She walked through the halls in order to find Jack only to realize he wasn't in the base at the moment. She sat on the spinning chair at her desk. Last time she was here, Jack got a desk, so if she ever reappeared there she wouldn't be entirely bored while waiting for them. She turned towards the computer and booted it up. She began searching for alien encounters, which were simple. The Hoax of the spaceship that crashed into the big ben. The big rock spaceship that held the Sycorax and the giant Christmas star that came to kill. She looked down at the date and facepalmed as the reason she looked at events with Alien contact was to find out when exactly she was. She was months before the events that included the Master. She blinked when a distant memory broke its way to the surface of her mind. Her hanging out with the Master laughing just having fun. A tear escaped her eye as she remembered that she didn't know exactly when she will see her brother again. Who was one of her best friends when she was younger. She was broken out of her thoughts as she heard people talking as they entered Torchwood. Alyssa instantly stood up and ran forward and into Jack's arms who smiled at the blond who was hugging him. "Alyssa?" he asked, she smiled at him as she backed up and said "Hey Jack, had fun on your mission?" he nodded and looked at the others who were very confused because the last time they saw her she was her old face. "Oh right, sorry," Alyssa said as she turned to the others "I regenerated, getting shot is not fun." She turned her attention back to Jack and said "Do you want to spar? I think I am a bit rusty in this new body."

"wait you were shot when did this happen?""Some time in the future Jack, please don't become the overprotective brother, can we please go spar?" Jack nodded and they went down to the gym that was in the base.

The began sparring, Alyssa's new body getting the moves Jack first taught her easier than her old body, they took a break to drink some water, "I guess this new regeneration is a fighter," Alyssa said smiling at Jack,

"Alyssa I think you have a bunch of pent of frustrations what's wrong?" Jack said Alyssa refused to respond as she walked back to the center of the room. Jack just walked to the exit "Wait where are you going? I want to keep going!" Alyssa said,

"We are done sparring Alyssa until you are ready to talk to me!" Jack said as he turned around to stare at her. He waited for a few minutes. The two just stayed staring at each other. Waiting for one of them to bend. Alyssa was finally the one to break her gaze from Jack. She walked over and sat on one of the benches, Jack soon joined her. "It was this last trip I was on, we went outside the universe and landed on this small asteroid, We were lured there thinking there were more Timelords, but there wasn't, we were tricked. There were two people there, and I didn't flinch when they died in front of me. I know that it wasn't me when that happened but I think it is something that will happen again and again.""It won't" Jack instantly said, "I know you, Alyssa, you aren't one to just stand by and let someone die. You were just angry at them, I bet the Doctor was too. Alyssa, you help the Doctor so much, and you don't even realize it, it's okay for you to lean on him as well it's okay for you to take a step back!" Alyssa smiled at that, and she looked down at her hands "But that isn't all of it is it?""The Tardis was a female for a short while but she told me that if I were to ever stop jumping around I will die," Alyssa said, Jack sucked in a breath which Alyssa took no notice to him and continued" I want to help the Doctor save people, and I want to help him. Yet how can I tell him that if he ever finds a way to stop me from jumping I will die, he has already lost so much and he continues to lose people. How can I ever tell him that eventually, he will lose me too?"

"Simple Alyssa, you don't tell him. No scratch that, you can't tell him not till he tries to keep you in one place. That kind of thing Alyssa would destroy him if you want to protect him the best way to do so is by not telling him." Jack said finally before taking her into a hug, she said nothing before Jack pulled away and went back to the middle of the room and said: "you wanted to continue sparring." Alyssa smiled as she walked over to him and they once began sparring.

Alyssa didn't jump until two weeks had passed, learning more about hacking from Tosh. While she learned different skills from each of the members of Torchwood before she finally jumped away.

Author's Note: I know this is a short chapter. This is like a brief intermission between The Doctor's wife and the next episode which will be The End of the World.