The Mystery of Clara Oswin Oswald and Captain Jack Harkness 19
Interior TARDIS – in the time vortex
Clara is sat in the library reading but admiring the swimming pool in the middle of it.
CUT TO:
The Doctor is standing at the console running around like a mad man while piloting his space machine flicking dials and turning nobs. The Doctor stops in front of the main screen and adjusts his bow tie.
Doctor:
Come on girl what you got for me this time?
The phone rings the Doctor looks at the phone puzzled
Really?
The phone continues to ring. Clara walks up the stairs to the console room
Clara:
Doctor, Phone
Doctor:
Yes Clara I am aware of it
The Doctor ignores the phone
Clara:
Well
Doctor:
I'm not answering it
Clara:
Ok
She walks up to the telephone and picks it up
Doctor:
No
Clara:
Hello, this is Clara Oswin Oswald how may I help you?
Static is heard from the other side of the phone
Unfortunately he is too lazy to come to the phone now may I take a message, so he can get back to you.
Doctor:
Who is it?
The Doctor walks towards Clara who puts her hand out stopping the Doctor in his tracks. Clara puts the phone to her shoulder
Clara:
It's Jack Harkness and he says he needs your help
The console bursts into life throwing the Doctor and Clara making them hold on.
Doctor (looks up to the console):
Really?
OPENING TITLES
When the Tardis finally touched down Clara looked at the Doctor.
Clara:
Where are we?
The Doctor looked ran around and looked at the screen
Doctor:
I don't know, come on dear where are we?
The doors of the TARDIS opened
Clara:
Well it looks like she wants us to find out.
She walked towards the door and out into the new world, which lay beyond
Doctor:
Clara, Wait up. Thanks a lot dear!
The Doctor turns to look at the console then runs out after Clara.
Jack (Still on the phone)
Hello, oh come on really!
CUT TO:
Int. Living room – Wales – Day
A modern day living area with a lounge, chairs and a coffee table. The Doctor and Clara looked around. No one is home.
Clara:
Where and why are we here?
The Doctor picked up a picture frame recognizing Jack Harkness in the image and also the women in the wedding dress to his left and the smartly dressed man to his right.
Clara:
Doctor!
Doctor (staring into space then snapping out of it):
Sorry
The Doctor sticks out his tongue analyzing the environment and trying to work out where they were.
Doctor:
We are in Cardiff, Wales, 2013there is something else that I can't quite put my finger on.
The door to the apartment opened to reveal Reece Williams.
Reece:
What the hell are you doing in my apartment?
Clara:
Um…
Gwen enters the apartment.
Doctor:
Gwen Cooper I thought I recognized this place.
Reece:
Gwen, do you know him
Gwen:
No
Gwen walks up to the Doctor and looks closer
It can't be
Reece:
Gwen, who?
Gwen:
The Doctor
Doctor:
Hello Gwen Copper
Reece:
Who?
Clara:
Doctor, Who is this?
Doctor:
Keep up Clara, This is Gwen Cooper she works with Jack Harkness in Torchwood. The government funded project, which was outside the government and beyond the police they save the world a few times and once helped me save the universe.
After his speech he saw Gwen look at the image an unhappy look on her face. Reece walked up to her and rubbed her shoulders. Clara gasped.
Reece:
Was. Jack disappeared 2 years ago for the third time and after Torchwood was blown up before his second disappearance it was never rebuilt.
Clara and the Doctor shared a look. Gwen looked up.
Gwen:
Doctor it has been a while and you have missed a lot and I need to tell you what happened.
Doctor:
What happened? What's going on?
Gwen:
Torchwood is still running but not to the heights it was 5 years ago.
Reece:
What, Torchwood is still running Gwen after everything that happened 2 years ago and with Anwen
Gwen:
It was because of Anwen that I didn't tell you and speaking of Anwen could you pick her up?
Reece:
We are not finished talking about this
Reece stood up and left slamming the door behind him. Gwen sits down and Clara sits next to her, the Doctor opposite.
Gwen:
Well after saving Earth with you in May 2009. Life went back to normal within a certain extent we were still getting over the deaths of our two co-workers from the previous year. Then in the June 2009, an alien called the 456 came to Earth and was using the children a mouthpiece.
Clara gasped. The Doctor's emotions remained still unmoving
They had blackmailed the government that Torchwood was a threat and they attempted to destroy us by jumping Jack and placing a bomb in his chest.
Clara gasped.
Clara:
How did he survive?
Gwen:
Jack is immortal something or someone in the Doctor's past made him unable to die we were only able to find out because I had been scanning myself to find out I was pregnant I had just told the boys when the alarms went off.
Clara:
What do you mean something or someone from the Doctor's past? Doctor?
Doctor (looked down):
Her name was Rose Tyler. She absorbed the time vortex when she and Jack were traveling with me no one is meant to have that power it would make you into a god. Jack was standing off against 2 daleks when Rose brought him back from being exterminated but had no control over it. Taking the power out of her caused me to regenerate into the body that you met me in last Gwen.
Gwen:
That makes a lot of sense since Jack always spoke about a Rose Tyler. He asked me to look her up she died in a battle of Torchwood 1 destruction.
Doctor:
Not dead trapped in a parrell word which walls broke down when the 11 planets where moved. The 11 planets that only we seem to remember.
Clara:
11 planets?
Doctor:
See? Hang on you weren't in the Tardis how can?
Gwen:
Time Lock
Doctor:
Ok, continue
Gwen:
Well me and well me my co-worker, Ianto survived and ran after being shot at and everything it was a direct hit at Torchwood. Jack was bagged up and sent to a military warehouse which although separated both Ianto and I made our way to. The after breaking out Jack we planned a way to get back at the government for destroying our base…
Doctor:
Revenge a dish best solved cold much like fish finger and custard.
Clara:
Fish Fingers and custard?
Doctor:
Different era you would not understand.
Gwen:
Anyway, Jack and Ianto went to comfort the alien from Jack's past and no I don't know the full details you have to ask him. But the alien had one up on us released a chemical gas into the atmosphere killing everyone in the building including Jack and Ianto.
Gwen swallowed, tears forming on the memories. The Doctor looked at Clara who shook her head.
I'm ok, When Jack came back he found a way to destroy the 456, and I was evacuating children, which were meant to be taken to meet the 456's demands I did not know it meant Jack losing…
Gwen swallowed and took a deep depth to calm herself.
…Losing his grandson to defeat the 456. Jack lost a lot during that year our co-workers; Owen and Tosh, Ianto, his grandson, the trust of his daughter and his brother, Grey was frozen in the basement when our base blew up. It over took him he left, ran I think is a better term because he had lost too much in a short space of time. He then reappeared back into my life a 1 year later when the world became immortal and he became mortal.
Doctor:
What?
Gwen:
Jack and I were both amazed you didn't turn up for either of these events. Cutting a very long story short we were manhandled to the states by a CIA agent Rex who ended up helping us and had to transfuse Jack's blood into him with the help of another CIA agent Ester Jack's blood shut the rift through the Earth, which kept everything alive and immortal and everything reverted to normal. But Ester did not survive the aftermath explosion. Rex had been researching on the side and had found out a traitor in the CIA and was shot due to the infomation but he shot her as well but he come back to life. Like Jack.
Doctor:
Impossible…
Gwen:
My view was that to start of anyway Jack helped him adjust to life as an immortal although he did not want the help when Jack left him he went off the grid I have not heard a word in 2 years as for Jack he left. He promised to check in he did the first time but then disappeared I have not heard from him in a little over a year.
Doctor:
Well the last time I saw him was regeneration ago which must have been when he left the first time after the children. I think I tried to hook him up with someone although I don't think he went for it.
Gwen:
The first time he left was with you right the whooshing noise and moving papers
Doctor:
Yeah sorry
Doctor scratched his head embarrassed.
Gwen:
The second time he was getting over Ianto they were in love majorly. Sometimes it was awkward but Jack was always an open flirter.
Clara:
Yeah he is
Gwen:
Did you meet him?
Clara:
No, I spoke to him on the phone
Gwen:
When
Clara:
About
Looks at the clock on Gwen's mantle
10 minutes ago
Gwen gasped.
Doctor:
He was looking for me and before I could get to him the TARDIS landed me here. I guess it was to reunite you because the earth is lost without Torchwood, defenders of the Earth.
Gwen laughed
Gwen:
And Jack said you hated us
Doctor:
I did but that was a different life. So Gwen Cooper fetch a bag I am taking you to see the stars and to get your boss back.
Gwen face lit up like a child at Christmas she ran out of the room like a tornado picking up everything she thought she would and maybe Jack would need before shoving it all in a bag. She then quickly scribbled a not for Reece.
Reece,
Gone to find Jack, You can have a go at me later
Look after Anwen.
Love
Gwen.
She put on the coffee table and smiled
Gwen:
Let's go find Jack.
The Doctor ran into the Tardis followed by Gwen who gasped shocked at the interior of the Tardis
It's bigger on the inside
The Doctor and Cara laughed walking into the Tardis and shut the door.
Doctor:
Oh how I live for people to say that. Welcome to the TARDIS it stands for Time…
Gwen:
…Time and Relative Dimension in Space. Jack told me.
Doctor:
Well, Jack is a spoilsport
Gwen and Clara laughed. Gwen turns to Clara
Gwen:
Is he always like this?
Clara:
Yep and he does talk to the TARDIS and stroke it like it's real cause apparently it is so you are not going crazy.
Gwen laughed
Gwen:
He is so much like Jack it is unreal.
Doctor:
I know old girl they don't understand! Where is Jack?
The phone rings again
Really you take me here when Jack asked but not just to where Jack is.
Clara goes over and picks up the phone
Clara:
This is Clara Oswin Oswald. The Doctor is unable to get to the phone now because he is busy scolding his time machine how can I help you?
Gwen laughed. The Doctor snorted and went back to stroking the TARDIS.
Hi again Jack, Ooops sorry something came up, where are you?
The TARDIS was flung into full flight. Clara, Gwen and the Doctor quickly grabbed something.
Jack I'm going to have to ring you back something has come up.
Clara quickly hung up over Gwen's screaming
Gwen:
Is this normal?
Clara:
At the moment yes! Doctor?
Doctor:
I have no clue
Then everything stopped moving and shaking the Doctor looked at Clara and Gwen as they picked themselves off of the floor.
Gwen:
I think I'm going to be sick
Gwen ran from the room
Clara:
Doctor, Where?
Doctor looked at the again blank screen hitting it.
Doctor:
No clue
There was then a knock at the door.
Clara:
What the hell
Doctor:
Gwen you wouldn't happen to be outside
Gwen:
No at the moment throwing up after the category 9 hurricane move around
Clara:
If Gwen here then who's outside
A key went for the lock and was fiddling around in it.
Doctor, do you have plan for when someone is trying to break in
Doctor:
No why would I the lock is unpickable and only 5 people have a key maybe 6; Rose, Donna, Martha, You and me.
Clara:
Well who could be outside.
Doctor:
No clue, you and me are here Rose is trapped Donna does not remember anything and Martha I don't see as trying to get in more run away.
Clara picks up a spanner, which was underneath the console and moved alongside the door the Doctor took out his screwdriver and pointed it towards the door. The door began to open. Clara picked up the spanner above her head and as the figure walked into the TARDIS she swung it but she was disarmed and throw to the floor with the intruder on top of her.
Doctor:
Jack Harkness when did I give you a key?
Jack:
I see you've had more work done and no you didn't I pickpocketed you years back. Good thing I did.
Doctor:
Really and could awfully not kill Clara I would like to keep a companion longer than 5 minutes when you are around before you flirt or attempt to kill them.
Jack:
Haha, Sorry Clara lovely name, Captain Jack Harkness
Doctor:
Stop it!
Jack:
Killjoy! I'm only saying hello
Doctor:
I picked up someone who would like to talk to you.
Gwen walks back up the stairs to see the man who she had not seen in more than a year.
Gwen:
Jack
Jack turned a smile appeared on his face.
Jack:
Gwen Copper oh sorry Williams
Gwen:
Its Cooper kept my name Reece was not happy
Gwen walked up to him.
Jack:
I bet he wasn't. Come her
Gwen slapped him
Ouch what was that for?
Gwen slapped him again
Gwen
1 year and 8 months and 6 days Jack, every 6 months you promised
Jack:
Oops, I got sidetracked
Gwen:
Our yearly visit to the graveyard you missed I had to visit them alone because Reece refused to take Anwen to a graveyard.
Jack:
Ahhh, I forgot that too
Gwen:
Forgot, do we mean everything to you Owen, Tosh, Ianto? Anything I have even been talking to your daughter to see if you could see her again maybe I should have not bothered.
Jack:
You spoke to Alice
Gwen:
Yes, last year when I went to the cemetery she was there for Stephen. She misses you and is trying to forgive you although she said it would take time but she wants to forgive you.
Jack:
Gwen, I'm sorry and you all mean everything to me (Hugs her). Really. See I met someone who is really good for me I was helping her track down her mysterious father who she does not remember much about. I have sorted fallen for her but the thought of me coming back with her filled me with guilt on how you would react because of how quickly I have moved on from Ianto.
Gwen:
Jack, it's been 5 years for me, Ianto would want you to be happy not moping and I am happy for you too. Also I miss you.
Jack:
Brilliant she's here if you want to meet here?
Gwen:
Would love to where is here?
Jack laughed
Jack:
Really not telling people where you are?
Doctor:
I would but she seems to be in a mood with me not sure why though old girl.
Jack:
While the Doctor, I don't really know what? Clara, Gwen you want to see the sights of New York in 2020?
Clara:
Always wanted to go to New York
Clara looked at the Doctor
Doctor:
I'll pick you lot up later. Gwen will need to get back to Anwen then.
Jack and the girls began to walk out of the TARDIS
Jack:
How is Anwen?
Gwen:
Talking and wants to meet his Godfather
Jack:
Me godfather?
Jack smile grew
Gwen:
Jack, you and Ianto where always going to be godfathers whatever Reece said or what ever happened.
Jack:
Thanks Gwen that means a lot. I want to meet him to
Gwen:
Well bring your girl back to Cardiff
Jack look to start to talk. Gwen cut him off
In my century and help me out
Jack:
With what?
Gwen:
Torchwood, just because everyone died and you left I decided to continue it in Owen's, Tosh's, Ester's and Ianto's honors'
Jack had tears running down his cheeks.
Jack:
Gwen Cooper you are brilliant you know that
Gwen:
I believe I do with the amount of stress I have been put under the last 7 years since working for you!
Both Jack and Gwen laughed.
Jack:
So Clara how long have you been travelling with the Doctor?
Clara:
I'm not actually sure?
Jack:
What do you mean?
Clara:
Well the Doctor tells me things like I have met him before but I don't remember it and when I am not around he calls me the impossible women which I don't understand at all
Gwen and Jack shared a look as they turned a corner and made their way down a street. It was brightly lit with colour in ever area. A women was standing by the side of a nightclub a smile spreads across her face when she sees Jack but then falls when she sees Gwen around Jack's waist.
Jack:
Doctor always seems to get the interesting women
Gwen hits Jack playfully
Gwen:
Hey I am interesting I put up with you and your naked hide and seek stuff for 7 years.
Clara eyes widen
Jack:
Oh come Gwen you are interesting and you know it!
They reach the women and Gwen sees her awkwardness to her and Jack's current position so moves away from him. Jack looks at her like a puppy that has lost his bone. Gwen points with her head to the women
Babe!
Throwing his arms around the women and kissing her
Clara and Gwen meet Jenny, Jenny meet Clara and Gwen
Jenny:
Hey, how do you know Jack?
Clara:
I have just met him.
Jenny gasped
Jenny:
Jack!
Jack:
Jen, it is not as it sounds like
Clara:
No, not like that Jack no he's a friend
Gwen:
Yeah Clara and Jack are friends and I worked with him for 7 years before he met you
Jenny
Jack
Jack:
She's married I am not two timing you why would I?
Gwen laughed
What! Gwen, why would I?
Gwen:
Have you met you?
Jack went to answer
Wait don't answer that you have but you are an open flirter.
Jenny looked at the exchange between Gwen and Jack in shock. Gwen looked at Jenny to see her shock.
Let me guess
Gwen gives death glares to Jack
He has not told you about his past in much detail
Jenny:
As vague as he possible could be
Gwen:
Well that's Jack I'm from his past but I only know the lasr 7 years and have no intentions in stealing him from you. I'm married
Jack laughed
What?
Jack:
You are married to an idiot
Gwen:
Reece is not an idiot he's an amazing dad to Anwen unlike his godfather
Jack:
Come on Gwen don't pull that card on me. Last time I saw you Anwen was
Jack looks up trying to work out how old his godson was when he last saw him
Gwen:
3 days old Jack I was still in hospital when you visited
Jack:
Sorry
Clara:
You guys argue like a married couple and Reece seemed lovely apart from when he found out that Torchwood was still running
Jenny:
Torchwood?
Gwen:
Yes Torchwood why?
Jenny:
A memory of my dad
Jack:
You didn't tell Reece about Torchwood priceless. What about your dad Jens?
Clara:
Maybe we should take this to a better location
Gwen:
Agreed I don't want to talk about a secret government organization on the streets of a place I don't know
Clara:
TARDIS
Gwen
Do you think he would mind?
Jack:
Nah he won't
Jenny, Jack, Clara and Gwen all walked back to the TARDIS, when they arrived Clara and Gwen walked into the doors of the TARDIS no problem but when it came to jack and Jenny who where now joined at the hip Jack was nearly pulling her through the door
Babe
Jenny:
I am not going in there we will not all fit
Jack:
Do you trust me?
Jenny:
With my life but we will not fit
Jack:
Trust me
Jenny sighed and let Jack drag her into the TARDIS. She gasped in shock when she saw the inside
Clara:
What do you think?
Gwen:
It's a lot to take in but it's brilliant
Jenny stayed silent for a few minutes
Jack:
Babe?
Jenny:
I'm just taking things in? Wow! How?
Jack:
In simple terms its bigger on the inside
Jenny:
Thanks Jack treat me like a dummy
Jack laughed
Jack:
No love, I only just understand what this machine is about
Jenny laughed loudly
Jenny:
Really?
Jack smiled everyone turned as they heard the Doctor walking up the stairs to the console room muttering to himself.
Doctor:
You're back early
He looked up his eyes fell on Jenny who met his eyes
Jack:
This is my girlfriend..
The Doctor cut him off before Jack could finish
Doctor:
Jenny
Jenny stayed quite and continued to stare at the Doctor trying to place where she had knew him from
Jack:
Doctor?
Jenny gasped
Jack:
Jen?
Jack, Gwen and Clar exchanged worried looks at the length of the silence in which the Doctor and Jenny where staring at each other not moving at all
Gwen:
Doctor what is going on?
Doctor:
Shels my daughter
Jack:
What
Doctor:
When I was traveling with Donna Martha called me down to Earth after helping her she came into the TARDIS to talk when she was about to leave the TARDIS shut its doors and flung itself into mid flight which I could not control. When we arrived we were in a middle of a warzone between the humans and an alien specie called the garth the head of the human coleny force my hand at gunpoint into a progenation machine, creating a solider in which Donna named Jenny. But its impossible my Jenny dies the head of the human coleny tried to kill me and Jenny took the bullet.
Gwen:
Well there is one way to find out, Dna testing
Clara:
Or a quicker method
Clara walked up to Jenny who was still stood still in shock. She put her hand on the right side of her chest and felt a steady heart beat then moved he hand slightly to the left and another steady heart beat was heard
Well she's part timelord whatever Doctor she has two hearts
The Doctor slowly walked up to where she was and repeated what Clara had done Jenny followed the Doctor with her eyes still frozen in shock. He took a step back
Doctor:
Hello Jenny
Jenny finally snapped out of her trance
Jenny:
Hello Dad
Jack gasped in shock so did Gwen Clara smiled finally the Doctor had some family.