The Masters Return-Chapter Two
Title: The Master’s Return
Author: jack_is_love17
Rating: T, or at least for now. I want to try to not have like smut in this story…though something has been written. But in the meantime…swearing…
Warnings: Spoilers for Doctor Who Series Four finale and Torchwood Series Two finale.
Pairings: Ten/Rose, Ten.5/Rose, Jack/Other Character, Gwen/Rhys, Master/Lucy
Summary: It’s been four blissful though often rough years for Jack Harkness and Ellie Saxon. Four years since the year that never happened. They decided that they had been so excited about Elmira; they were going to try for another baby. (Yes reading Good and Broken would probably help a bit)
Now they have a son…both are soo happy with their life.
But then when Jacob is about six months old, he is kidnapped and they quickly learn that The Master is back in their lives. Ready to cause havoc with him. He’s been to another universe as well, bringing Ten.5 and one Rose Tyler with him. Now they have to call in the Doctor and everyone else, to help save the world once more. All of the Universes are at stake, and the life Jack and Ellie have built for themselves.
Chapter Two
Bringing Up Baby
A week later, Ellie and Jack walked into their flat. Jacob was wrapped up in a blue blanket, sleeping in his mother’s arms.
They looked at each other once inside and at once they lost their confidence. They were home alone with the baby…no doctor’s to help…no nurses. They were all on their own.
Ellie walked into the room that they had set up for the baby. She sat down in the rocking chair that had been placed right next to the cot, and looked around the room. The walls had been painted a soft hue of blue, with green bedding.
Jacob opened his eyes, ice cold blue eyes staring into her warm blue ones.
“Hello darling,” she whispered.
Jack walked in the room, some crackers on a plate for Ellie. He set them down on the table next to her and stared at his son.
“We did this,” Ellie murmured.
“Something we did right,” Jack laughed a little.
Jacob looked up at his father.
Jack looked at his son with some apprehension. He really hadn’t held the baby yet, he was too scared to. Jack Harkness had faced the aliens. Saved the world too many times to count…and had gone to the end of the universe. Killed so many times, at the hands of many merciless monsters. But when it came to a little defenseless baby, he was terrified to hold his own son.
Ellie looked at Jack, “He’s not made of porcelain. You holding him is no different then when you hold me,” she said.
Jack met her eyes and he slowly reached out for Jacob. Ellie handed him over and Jack took his son into his arms. She watched with a smile as he stood there and at once relaxed. He was unsure of what to say to his son, but he had never felt more complete.
Ellie grinned, she stood up and Jack took her place in the rocking chair. She grabbed a cracker off the plate and popped one in her mouth. Then she left the room and returned a moment later with the camera. At once she began to take pictures. Jack didn’t notice however, the baby in his arms becoming his one and only care in the world.
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*That Night*
At about three thirty, the baby’s screams rang through the flat.
“Ellie…baby’s up,” Jack groaned into his pillow.
“Go deal with him,” Ellie said, turning over and pulling the covers over her head.
“I have to work in the morning,” Jack protested.
Ellie sat up at once and turned on the lamp, Jack looked at her, “You did not just say that to me,” she said.
“It’s the truth though…” he said.
“Were you in labour for almost twenty four hours? Did you have what felt like stabbing in your back, over and over for all that time? Did you have your stomach cut open?” she asked.
Ellie picked up her pillow and hit Jack hard on the head with it.
“Ow!” he groaned.
“Now imagine that….over and over again…every few minutes!” she told him.
Jack nodded, “Alright I’m going!”
Jack quickly got out of the bed and rushed out of the room before Ellie could hit him again.
Ellie smiled to herself and then turned the lamp off, going back to sleep.
Jack walked into the nursery and turned on the lamp. He went to the cot and lifted the baby out, “Oh God that smells!” he cried once he discovered the baby’s ailment.
He carried Jacob over to the changing station and remedied the situation.
Jack then placed the baby back in the cot and headed for the door when Jacob began to cry again. He went back over and lifted his son again, he at once stopped crying.
“Oh I read about your type in that book Ellie bought….why on Earth would you do this to me?” he asked.
The baby just smiled.
“Before I met your mother I didn’t need to sleep so much,” he grumbled.
The baby cooed a little and a bubble came up, it stayed for a minute and then popped.
Jack smirked; he sat down next to the cot, turning the sound machine off. They were both silent as they stared at each other. Then he found himself humming a little tune, trying to find a way to get the baby to sleep.
After the humming turned into a full on song, Jacob fell asleep. Jack gratefully placed his son into the cot and turned the sound machine back on. He flipped the light off and tip toed off to his own bed.
He climbed into bed and went back to sleep.
XX
When Jack woke up the next morning, Ellie wasn’t beside him. Which was odd in it’s self, she was never up before him.
He stood up and walked to the living room where he heard the television on. Ellie was sitting on the sofa, feeding Jacob and watching the news.
“Morning,” he said.
She nodded, clearly engrossed in the story on the news.
Jack stood there and looked at the television, reports of Brad and Angelina being pregnant yet again. He rolled his eyes and headed for the kitchen. A moment later, he sat down next to Ellie, a bowl of corn flakes in his hand.
She looked at him, “Can you bring home some chocolate today?”
He raised an eyebrow, “I thought once the baby was born the weird cravings would stop.”
“What a girl can’t ask for chocolate without being accused of having weird cravings? Just pick me up some chocolate, please.”
Jack just nodded as he ate.
After a few minutes Jacob finished eating, Ellie put him in his pram and went to the kitchen. She then returned with a muffin in her hand and a cup of tea. As she sat down Jack came into the living room, fully dressed and ready for work.
She sat there for a moment, picking at the muffin.
“Ellie…I’m heading out,” Jack announced.
Ellie looked at him, “Alright…see you later.”
Jack leaned down and gave her a kiss. She smiled at him as he kissed the baby on the forehead and left the flat.
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“Wait…please,” Ellie pleaded.
The man looked at her, “Please…just give the baby back…I’ll go in his place,” she offered.
“Well…this is an appealing offer…” he said slowly.
She flinched slightly, knowing the voice and fearing it.
“Ellie, what the hell are you doing? This isn’t gonna solve anything,” Jack hissed in her ear.
“But it will get our son out of harms way…that’s all that matters to me,” Ellie replied.
Jack was going to argue, but he wasn’t going to win and he knew it.
“Very well…come here…” the man with their son said.
Ellie looked at Jack and they shared a kiss, then they walked together closer to the man they hated. Jack took Jacob at the same time the Master grabbed Ellie by the arm. She stared after her son as Jack took steps back, for safety precautions.
Jack then disappeared from sight as she and the Master vanished in a bright light, “I love you!” she screamed, but Jack never heard it.
XX
Ellie shot up with a start, sweat was dripping from her forehead. The baby was crying, so she had no time to even think about the nightmare. She stood up and lifted the baby out of his pram; she changed him and fed him. Then she ordered some delivery for supper…Jack would be home soon. Tonight they could maybe discuss what the dream had meant.
Shortly after she hung up, the door opened and Jack walked in, a box of chocolates in one hand and some roses in the other. She gasped in delight when she saw them, “Oh their lovely!” she awed.
Jack smiled and set them down on the table, he then took the baby from her arms and they shared a quick peck. Ellie went to get a vase and placed the flowers in. She opened the chocolates and popped one in just as the doorbell rang and the baby let out a cry.
Ellie sighed as she allowed the candy to melt in her mouth. Then she went to the door and opened it. The man looked in past her at Jack who was trying to soothe the baby.
“Here you are love,” Ellie said, handing the delivery man the money.
He took it and handed her the pizza and calzone she ordered. He gave Ellie her change and then left.
After they ate, Ellie sang the baby to sleep and she sat down on the sofa where Jack was watching the TV.
“I had a dream this afternoon,” she began.
Jack turned down the television and looked at her, “What about?”
“Um…the Master and he had Jacob,” she answered.
Jack looked alarmed, “What do you mean he had Jacob?”
“I mean I dreamed that he had our son and I offered to go in his place, so Jacob wouldn’t be harmed,” Ellie explained.
Jack was silent as he thought of this, “Well the Master is dead…so no worries there,” he tried to laugh a little, but it still sounded incredibly nervous…
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A/N- All I want to say is…the author notes wouldn’t be here if they weren’t important…if you have not read ‘The Masters Daughter’, ‘Letting Go’ or ‘Good and Broken’ you need to read those first. It is important.
Because if not you will be lost…sonny…Ellie Saxon you wouldn’t know unless you’ve read the first two stories, cause she is my own character. Not someone from the show.
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Much love, Beccs! ^_^