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[captainjack]

He'd been gone for a week. If it hadn't been for the Doctor, he'd probably still be gone--probably for good. He sighed as he weighed the Doctor's opinion that disconnecting some of the circuits and relays in the TARDIS would be akin to murder against the thought that he really didn't want this sort of thing happening again. It was harder than he'd

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[endlessdel]

He'd stepped back into his routine like he had never been gone but to her he had gone. She'd looked for him and she hadn't been able to find him. Sh thought he'd disappeared like Eostre, like Bob, like her siblings and like all the people she had loved. He had been gone and then he'd appeared again, like nothing had ever happened.

Staring at his smiling face, Delirium smiled at him pleasantly before she slapped him hard across the face.

[captainjack]

He blinked and the smile vanished. "Nice to see you too, Del," he said as the sting became warmth that spread across his face. It seemed that he'd been wrong...more people had noticed than he'd assumed.

[endlessdel]

"Don't you dare Jack Harkness. Don't You Dare!" Delirium said, the smile still on her face though the words and her tone of voice said she was not only having a very bad day but was past the point of angry and had creeped into pissed off. "Where Did You Go?"

[captainjack]

"I..." Jack began, then abruptly stopped. He hadn't planned on really telling anyone, but Del wasn't just anyone.

"...The TARDIS is working again and I looked into her heart," he said softly. "It was an accident."

[milfweed]

When Jack walked into the kitchen, Nancy was in the middle of pouring herself some coffee from the pot she'd just brewed. She smiled broadly at him and offered him the cup. "I can make another," she said. "You're just the man I've been hoping to bump into."

[captainjack]

"Thanks, Nancy," he smiled, gratefully taking the offered cup. "You know you can bump into me anytime you want. What can I do for you?"

[milfweed]

"Actually, I was hoping that you might take something off my hands." She grinned at him and then walked over to her bag and pulled out a container of brownies. She waved them enticingly. "Want?"

[captainjack]

"Always," he beamed, taking them from her. "So much easier on my lungs. I never got the hang of smoking brownies."

[hiseromenos]

"You were gone." I sat down, battling with the urge to say more and the instinct to understand my place, even amongst friends.

[captainjack]

"A few days, yeah," Jack nodded as he closed the book and sat his cup aside. "Did'ja miss me?"

[hiseromenos]

I lifted my chin. "Of course not." The facade--teasing, perhaps, or perhaps not--didn't last. "Only worried a little."

[captainjack]

It was nice to hear and he smiled a little wider. "I just took a little time for myself. Wander in the wilderness and all that crap. But then the rain started..."

[coffee_sir]

Ianto hadn't honestly, not for a second, suspected that Jack had disappeared. He felt sure that, should Jack ever vanish, he would feel it first, then hear about it. Without a note to reassure him, Ianto did feel mildly annoyed with Jack, but he knew others would have expressed their own personal annoyance already. They always did.

"So where'd you go off to?" he asked, first heading for the coffee, too cold from the outdoors to do much else yet. Banon busied herself with shaking all the rain she possibly could off of her fur, leaving it sticking out all over in short, strange waves and spikes. Once that was done though, she attacked Jack's shoes with her tongue.

[captainjack]

"Hmm?" he murmured, looking up just as Banon got to his feet. "Oh, I had a little problem with the TARDIS. Not really a big deal, just a little telepathic suggestion to, um,"

His voice dropped and he looked back at the book, adding nonchalantly, "...jump into a black hole."

Nonchalant was apparently French for 'bullshit'.

[coffee_sir]

That made Ianto stop in his tracks, left to stare blankly at Jack as his brain tried to process exactly what he had said.

"It... told you to do that? The TARDIS? ...Why?"

[captainjack]

"The simple answer is she loves me," he answered as he lowered his hand for Banon. "The more complicated answer is harder to explain. The Doctor thinks that now that she's aware, the island has made her, I don't know, not exactly right. It's not like she can be human, but she does have a mind."

[drama_maureen]

Maureen was not exactly in the best mood that morning. Yet another night she'd come home to an empty hut and realized that Mark was out with Tosh. She'd gone to sleep early just so that she didn't have to know whether he came home at all, and had kept herself from looking into his room this morning to see if he was there.

She was so far in Denial she might not ever dig herself out.

And speaking of denial, despite how she was feeling, as soon as she walked into the kitchen and saw Jack, she flashed him her most charming, carefree smile. "Good morning, sugar." As she walked by him, she slid a hand onto his shoulder, fingers brushing subtly against his neck, and then pulling away as ehs grabbed a banana and hopped up on the kitchen counter.

[captainjack]

"Hey there, gorgeous," he answered, following shortly behind and nudging her knees apart to stand against her and kiss her cheek. He sat his coffee aside so he could lay his hands lightly on her thighs.

"How are you doing?"

[drama_maureen]

Maureen slid her arms around his waist. She smirked. "Oh, I'd say the morning just keeps getting better. Call me gorgeous again."

[captainjack]

"Gorgeous, you are the most dangerous woman I know," he replied. It wasn't true, not exactly. He never got the feeling Maureen would rob him blind or knock him out with just a kiss, but then danger was relative.

"You want some coffee?"