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Chapter 4: "I Recon You Owe Me A Drink..."

The Doctor paced the small holding cell restlessly as Jack and Ianto mixed a bunch of stuff together. The smell was making his over-sensitive nose itch in distaste. Jack had locked him in the cell temporarily while he sorted out the 'cure', although cure probably wasn't the right word... He supposed it more suppressed the wolf gene permanently, so no one would get hurt and they'd look normal again. The wolf didn't seem too happy about that idea and had growled and snarled, and complained loudly when Jack tried to lock him in the cell.

Oddly enough, the Doctor had, by now, gotten used to being a wolf. Not that he wanted to stay that way, but it hadn't been as bad as he would've thought... The ear scratching was certainly nice, and he found he could get away with things he normally couldn't like this; He'd not-so-subtly been sniffing Jacks' crotch while he read, just to see if he could get a reaction. Apparently he could and Jack had growled at him, in mild annoyance and told him to stop behaving like an animal in public. The Time Lord had sniggered in the back of his head, and he was glad Jack thought it was all the wolf and not him.

For some reason Jack actually smelt oddly nice... He wondered if it was just the wolf, or if he would still smell the same when he turned back. He also kind of wondered if the smell would still have the same effect on him that it did when he was a wolf. He supposed Jack wouldn't mind if it did, as for himself, he really wasn't so sure anymore...

Jack suddenly stood up and came over to the holding cell, opening the door and putting a bowl of foul smelling liquid on the floor in front of him. He doubted it tasted much better. The wolf seemed to agree and turned his nose up at it.

"If you don't drink it on your own I'll hold you down and tip it straight down your throat." Jack warned, and the Time Lord urged the wolf to do what it was told. He really didn't want Jack to have to do that and he had no doubt in his mind that he would.

The wolf growled unhappily, but drank the stuff. It tasted awful. The wolf gave Jack a dirty look when he'd finished, then shivered violently and the Doctor felt its muscles spasm and twitch, and he fell over as the wolf suddenly lost control of his motor functions, and he found he was able to move on his own again.

'Oh, that's better!' He thought and stood back up, shaking himself vigorously. The wolf was still present in the back of his mind, but it no longer had control over his body. 'Sorry...' The Doctor thought at it. 'But you're just a little bit more trouble than you're worth...'

Jack crouched down and looked in his eyes, asking hopefully; "Doctor?" He nodded, and Jack breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank god, I don't have to worry about that anymore! Now do me a favour and change back, so we can get the Queen of England back in her own mind..."

The Doctor sat back on his heels and concentrated for a minute, and he felt his body changing, easily this time, the fur and claws retracting, and his teeth shrank back to their normal size, the tail disappearing with a strange sucking sound as his spine contracted and shortened, and the muzzle shrank back to his usual features.

He shook his head when everything was back to normal and grinned up at Jack, saying loudly; "Thank Rassilion that's finally over! You know, I think I was beginning to get a complex! Being a wolf is an odd experience in and of itself, but the not having control of my own motor functions thing was starting to get just a little bit creepy!"

"Er, do you remember anything at all, or was it sort of like being asleep?"

"No, I remember everything okay. It's sort of like being stuck in the passengers' seat of a car; you can see where you're going and hear everything okay, but you're not the one driving."

Jack suddenly looked embarrassed and shifted his coat slightly. "Er, you're not gonna hold that against me, are you? 'Cos I swear I thought it was you at that point..."

The Doctor shook his head. "I'm not going to hold it against you, but I recon you owe me a drink..."

"Yeah, fair enough, but first we have to fix this..." He pointed to the (thankfully) still sleeping werewolf in the next cell, and the Doctor picked himself up off the ground, carefully.

"Hm, two legs again... Odd after having four for so long..."

"I imagine it would be, although personally I think the tail definitely suited you." Jack said, smirking, and the Time Lord gave him an indignant look.

"Oi! That's enough of that, or I'll make you buy me lunch as well..."

"I could do that." Jack said, with an odd look on his face and Ianto asked; "What is he on about? And why does he owe you lunch...?"

The Doctor didn't answer and Ianto looked from one to the other, noting the odd look on Jack's face and asked, incredulously; "Jack! You didn't...! Did you? Please tell me you didn't...!"

"Technically, it's not beastiality if he starts it..."

"Oi! I did not start it! The bloody wolf started it and I was in no real position to object! Not that I didn't try to, at first..."

"At first?" Jack asked, pausing in a half crouch over the unconscious werewolf. "Does that mean you stopped objecting after a while?"

"Maybe..." The Time Lord said, cryptically.

"That is not a satisfactory answer to that question, Doctor, and you know it. At about what point did you stop objecting?"

"Right about the time I realised I was fighting a losing battle, so I sort of just stopped thinking like a Time Lord and started thinking like a wolf, and it didn't seem quite so bad after that..."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means that it actually wasn't as entirely unpleasant as I would've imagined..."

"You have imagined it then?"

"What! I didn't say that!"

"Yes you did."

The Doctor shook his head. "No, I didn't!"

Jack grinned strangely and said; "You liked it."

"What!"

"Oh, come on, Doctor, stop lying to both of us... You're a bad liar."

"I'm not lying, I'm just..."

"In denial." Jack said, smugly.

"I... What? How on Earth do you figure that out?" The Doctor asked, defensively.

Jack grinned, and pointed, saying; "In case you hadn't noticed, you're still naked..."

"What?" The Time Lord looked down and swore in some language Jack didn't understand, turning slightly and trying to cover himself up. "You could've said something sooner, you pervert!"

Jack sniggered, and tipped a bowlful of bad tasting liquid down the werewolfs' throat, then stood up. "Yeah, I was perving, but at least I'm honest about it..."

"You do realise that if she wakes up, I'm going to be caught naked in front of the Queen of England, right! Give me your jacket!"

"No way! You already nearly destroyed this jacket twice today, no way am I letting you wear it! And it might interest you to know that on top of being naked, you're still wearing a collar..."

"What!" The Doctor yelped, and demanded; "Where's my TARDIS!"

"Outside, in the street."

The Doctor growled quietly under his breath and Jack looked at him oddly. "Did you just growl at me?"

"Yes, why?"

"Guess you're still a little wolfy after all then..."

"The wolf's still there, if that's what you mean and I could probably change back and forth if I wanted to, except now I'm in control, not him."

"Could be useful..." Jack said, as the wolf in front of them started to change back. Jack picked up the still unconscious Queen Elizabeth and removed the shackles from her wrists, and said; "We should get her back to Buckingham Palace before she wakes up... Less to explain..."

"Right, good thinking... I have enough Monarchs that hate me already..." The Doctor said, padding after Jack, holding onto the end of the chain so it didn't scrape the ground.

"Y'know, you look kinda cute taking yourself for walkies..." Jack said, grinning.

"Shut up, Jack."

"Hah uh, not 'till you admit that you liked it."

"Are you seriously still on about that?"

"Yep."

The Doctor shook his head as they reached the street, and Jack grinned manically as he did the bolt to the TARDIS door, hiding in front of Jack, as he put the Queen down, gently, fishing for the key in his coat pocket.

He could feel Jack pressed up behind him as he hid between the door of the TARDIS and Jacks' body, and the Doctor suddenly realised the entirely awkward and suggestive position he had put himself in. Apparently, so had Jack.

"You know, I could always drop my pants and do you doggy style against the wall..."

"Jack! Not funny! Now open the door!" The Time Lord yelped, but part of him actually found the idea quite appealing... Dirty, and sort of wrong, but appealing nonetheless. It didn't help that the wolf was still conscious in the back of his mind, and he could feel Jacks' hot breath on the back of his neck, and his large chest was pressed against his still naked back, his leg rubbing slightly in a rather inappropriate spot. He was sure Jack was doing it on purpose, and he suddenly discovered that he still had the werewolfs sense of smell... That really wasn't helping either...

Jack finally extracted the key from his pocket and fitted it to the lock, his arm reaching around the Doctors' middle to get to it, and he was certain the damned immortal was smirking behind him as he pushed the door open and the Doctor bolted in, quickly, wanting to put some distance between them before he did something he might regret...

'Yeah, right... You are such a coward... and he's right, you are a bad liar...'

Jack closed the door and the Doctor punched in the coordinates for Buckingham Palace, and when they arrived Jack carried the Queen to a sofa, laying her down carefully and covering her with a blanket, tucking a piece of paper into her hand. "Sort of an apologetic explanation letter..." Jack said and the Doctor shook his head, not even wanting to think about what Jack might have written...

Jack closed the door of the TARDIS again and said; "So... Where to now?"

"Er, now, I'm not sure... and where are my clothes, by the way?"

Jack shrugged. "Dunno. I think I sort of misplaced them when I was trying not to get eaten by you..."

"Jack..."

"No, really! I did! Nice look, by the way..." He grabbed the end of the chain that was still shacked round the Doctor's neck and gave it a tug, pulling him forward and catching him as he nearly fell over.

"Oi! You did that on purpose!"

"Yeah... But you still haven't fessed up yet..."

The Doctor pulled back on the chain a bit, but Jack held him firmly in place and said; "I'm not letting you go 'till you tell me the truth... All of it, no half-truths..."

The Doctor shivered a little when Jack pulled him closer, the end of the chain wrapped securely around his arm, which was resting behind his back, leaving the trapped Time Lord with no hope of ever pulling away from him.

Jack was beginning to smell annoyingly pleasant again and his breath was tickling his neck, his body firm and worm against him. It wasn't helping that Jacks' shirt was practically non-existent from all the rips and tears, left by werewolf claws and teeth...

"You're seriously not going to let me go until I say it, are you?" The Doctor asked, hopelessly.

"Nope, I'm not. So you might as well grow some courage and admit it."

"Fine, I'll admit it; I liked it, a lot, for some strange reason, Can I have my clothes back now?"

Jack shook his head. "No."

"Why not?"

"You've missed something out."

"I have not..."

"Yeah, you have."

"What?"

"Outside, when I was opening the door; you seriously considered letting me..."

"Sort of, for a moment..."

"More than sort of. You're still thinking about it..." Jack said, and the Doctor shook his head and replied; "You're not helping you know... I'm trying to be rational here, and you're half naked, holding me inappropriately close by a length of tow chain, and for some damned annoying reason I can still smell you the same as I could when I was a wolf, and it's making my brain all fuzzy and confused, because I'm honestly not sure if it me or the wolf, or a bit of both..."

"Hm, I'd say it's a bit of both... Tell me the truth; you've thought about it before..."

"Wondered about it is probably more accurate..."

"Means the same thing to me." Jack moved his knee suddenly, brushing in between his legs and the Time Lord yelped, cursing himself mentally as he suddenly wondered if this could possibly feel as good without the wolfs insistent presence...

Jack seemed, as usual, to know what he was thinking. "You're still wondering... You can't help but be curious about basically everything and this is no different..." Jack said, grinning knowingly.

The Doctor groaned, and said; "one of these days I'm going to start paying more attention to that old Earth saying 'curiosity killed the cat.'"

"Maybe, but not today..."

"Unfortunately, not today, no... Stupid wolf! Why did you have to go and get all physical with him? Why couldn't you just roll over on your back and be done with it?"

"Y'know, I read somewhere that the werewolfs' mind also reacts to what its hosts mind is really thinking on a subconscious level and plays off that..."

"I hate to admit it, but you're actually right, but you're also right about me being a bad liar..."

"I know... and you did look kind of cute with a tail..." Jack said, leaning forward and licking behind his ear, softly.

It still felt damnably good and the Doctor shivered, and whined a little, saying; "Jack... If I cross that line with you of my own volition, there's no going back...Not for me. I'm not one of your random, casual encounters that's going to wake up the next day, alone, shrug my shoulders and get on with my life as though you never existed, Jack. I can't and I won't. I don't know how much of this is just a game to you, but for me, it's not, it's more than that; It's a commitment, and one I'm not willing to make lightly... People I care about get hurt, Jack. They always do... I never truly committed to anything before because of that... I already lost my entire species, my family, my home planet... I can't bear to lose anymore, Jack, I can't... And now I'm afraid because I know that if I do this, you're not going to go and get killed on me, you'll come back, every time, and I don't know if I'm ready for that, Jack. I don't know if I'm ready to trust that you're not going to hurt me some other way... I'm afraid because I know that I have no excuses this time, no reason not to throw it all out there and hope for the best... No reason other than my own fear, my own insecurities... You want the truth, Jack; the truth is, I'm scared. Terrified. I know what I want now, and I'm afraid of letting myself have it. Scared because I know that if I let myself fall, I'll fall hard and if someday, suddenly, you're not there to catch me at the bottom, it's going to hurt so much worse than anything that's ever hurt me before... Worse, because I've spent hundreds of years putting up walls and blocking things out – hiding from my own emotions, my own pain – never letting myself get too close to anyone, because I knew that someday I'd lose them and it would hurt, badly... The fact that you're not going to get hurt or die on me for possibly hundreds, if not thousands of years frightens me to no end, Jack, because I know that if I lose you it's because you left... That's worse than if you were dead, Jack, for me, it's so much worse... If we do this, Jack, I want to do it right; No games, no casual flings whenever you feel like it... Commitment, Jack, just you and me... I know what I want, but do you, really? Is this what you want, for the rest of your immortal life, and mine, Jack? Look me in the eyes and tell me it is, and I'll jump, Jack... I'll jump out headfirst into the darkest, most uncharted parts of all of time and space itself and I won't look back... I'll jump, and hope to all of creation that you catch me... Look me in the eyes and say it, Jack, mean it and I'm yours..."

Jack stared sown at the centuries old Time Lord, looked in his eyes and saw fire and ice, rage and passion, and hope and loss, and a deep-set guilt and grief. He saw the whole of time and space locked away in the Time Lords' gaze... He saw everything that had once been kept hidden and secret, in his mind, saw the raw power of the vortex that ran through his veins and he saw, as well, the frightened, terrified child hiding himself away from the universe, and keeping his hearts locked up in chains to keep them from getting broken any more...

Jack looked the Doctor straight in the eyes and said, quietly; "It is what I want, Doctor... It's what I've always wanted, that you were too afraid to give me. I've been waiting for you to jump for a long time, so that I could be the one to catch you when you fell, so jump. Close your eyes, leap and don't look back. I know what I want, Doctor. I always knew what I wanted; you. All of you and everything that comes with it. It's okay to be afraid, hell, I'm gonna live for near on forever and I'm afraid, scared shitless, actually. I'm gonna live to see a thousand planets die and be reborn and maybe even see the end of the earth as I know it... That scares me more than I'd like to admit, but I'll live through that and so much more as long as I know that you're gonna live through it with me... You can change as many times as you like, Doctor, but I'm still gonna be here to catch you. I always was... Now you look me in the eyes and tell me that you want the same thing."

The Doctor looked back at him and said softly; "I do. Scared as I am, I do want it, Jack... You have no idea how badly I want it..."

"Yeah, I do." Jack said, with a slight grin. "And while we're on the subject of being brutally honest, I really don't think I mind seeing you with fur every month... Although you are kinda sexy standing here all naked and tied up..."

"Jack!"

"What? It's true!"

"I already figured you didn't mind about the fur, but honestly, I just thought you were being crude all those times you kept saying I look good with no clothes on..."

"I wasn't just being crude; I was being crudely honest." Jack said, grinning even wider.

The Doctor shook his head. "You're mental..."

"Yeah, probably... You still think I smell annoyingly good?"

"Annoyingly enough, yes... and move your leg, my head is starting to go fuzzy again..."

"Who says that's a bad thing?" Jack asked, moving his knee even further between his legs and the Doctor yelped and shivered, a little groan leaving him when Jack leaned forward and licked his ear again. His large body felt even hotter pressed up so close to him and the Doctor gave an odd whine when Jack put his free hand behind his head, pulling his face to his, gently, kissing him softly at first, then a little more firmly and the Time Lord groaned again as Jack pushed his tongue into his mouth, and the Doctor leaned into him further, liking the unfamiliar yet pleasant feeling of Jack's tongue running over his own, and he tasted oddly sweet and musky all at the same time.

Jack moved his hand around to his front and trailed it slowly down the Time Lords' chest, past his waist, to the top of his thigh, grabbing his leg suddenly and hooking it around his own middle, pulling the other one up so that he was straddling his waist and the Doctor put his arms around Jacks' neck, as he carried him through the TARDIS to the bedroom, laying him on his back on the bed and leaning over him.

"You have really long legs, you know that?" Jack said, and the Time Lord wriggled beneath him, his legs still curled around Jacks' waist and replied; "I'll take that as a compliment..."

"Hmmm, I kind of like it..." Jack said, moving forward and pushing into him, slowly and the Doctor dropped his head back, gasping loudly and arching his back, clinging to Jack tightly as the universe turned inside out.

Jack was thick and hot inside him and the Doctor cried out again when he started moving, hitting something deep inside him that sent pleasant shivers down his spine. 'Oh, my god! This is definitely better than last time!' The Time Lord thought and the wolf in the back of his mind agreed with him. This wasn't dominance, this was just plain good! The wolf might not entirely understand about pleasure, but it still felt it.

Jack groaned loudly at the feel of the Doctors' tight passage, clenching and unclenching around him and he shuddered pleasantly, almost not daring to believe that he was finally getting what he'd wanted since the first day he'd ever met the Time Lord; The Doctor, naked and tied up, bucking and squirming beneath him, gasping and moaning his name as he moved inside him, the Time Lords' long legs curled tightly around his waist, hands gripping his hair, his dark eyes wild with a raw and untamed passion... Jack had no doubt that if he had to live forever, then he could definitely stand to spend most of his forever like this, with his Doctor... His Doctor. He rather liked the sound of that...

And then he looked in the Time Lords' eyes and he could see the whole universe turning and falling before him, hear the rush and rumble of a million planets, all talking and crying out in a million different voices... and right at the heart of all that crazy, chaotic and noisy universe, he saw the burning, raging light that was the heart of the TARDIS... The hearts of his own Doctor, beating fiercely to the drums of his own heartbeat, his own immortal existence... and swirling and raging around them both, the sheer, raw power of the time vortex that shaped and held the very universe in which they existed...

Jack screamed and bucked, releasing violently and the Doctors' name fell from his lips – the loudest sound of all, along with the Time Lords' own shouted cries... "Jack!"

The Doctor heard Jacks' wild, ecstatic screams and felt him shudder and release inside him, and it was like everything suddenly exploded, all at once and for a moment everything went black and silent in his head, then only thing he could see or hear was Jack... Wonderful, hot and solid Jack, screaming his name for the entire universe to hear; "Doctor...!"

The Doctor held onto Jack for all he was worth, clinging to the only solid thing he could find in his universe, as everything spun wildly for a moment and he could see the light of space and time reflected in Jacks' eyes, as waves of the most intense pleasure he had ever experienced rippled through him...

He came down, slowly, panting and gasping loudly and Jack was breathing rather heavily, still shaking a bit, above him and the Doctor groaned as he left him, carefully, lying down beside him on his back and the Time Lord rolled onto his side, putting his head on Jacks' broad chest, and curling his arms around his neck, lightly, whispering breathlessly; "O my god, Jack... Does it always feel that good...?"

"Only with you." Jack replied, a little hoarsely and the Time Lord looked up at him, curiously.

"Really?"

Jack nodded. "Yeah, really. Correct me if I'm wrong, Doctor, but I think I just saw the inside of your head... Is it always so – loud and chaotic?"

"Yeah, all the time... Except for one moment when everything sort of – exploded – and then went silent... I think if you weren't immortal it probably would have killed you..."

"I think it almost did... But I swear I'd die a billion times over just to see and feel that again..."

"That could be arranged..." The Doctor said, absently, thinking that he'd actually really like to do that again... Somewhere in the back of his mind, the wolf howled his agreement...

***Fins!*** lol.

A/N: I know, I took a long time getting this chapter up. Lol. I have hardly any free time these days, so yeah, FINALLY! Managed to finish typing it up! Lol. Different and a little bit weird, I know, but hopefully enjoyable nonetheless. Lol. One day a plot bunny popped into my head with this idea and it just wouldn't leave me alone! Lol. So yeah, if anyone bugs me enough about it I may write a sequel to it. Lol. (I kinda have a few ideas bashing around in my brain for one if I could be bothered or enough people wanted me to write one...) lol. Ah well, hope I get some reviews for this... lol. CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is welcome. Lol. Flames will simply be laughed at and used for barbeque fuel. Lol.

Cheers, JSB.

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