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Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's hand slipped down to rest on his gun. Again.

"Sir," Benton muttered warningly, "someone would notice if you shot him, even if he is with Torchwood."

"They would have to find the body first," the Brigadier shot back, his voice not nearly as quiet as the sergeant's.

The Torchwood agent in question looked up from the file he had been studying - or so he claimed. It looked as if he was busier studying Miss Grant than the paperwork, in Alistair's opinion. "Talking about me," the man asked, grinning broadly at them. "I'm touched."

Jo giggled.

The Brigadier shot her a disapproving look, and she quickly stifled her laughter. Then he turned his gaze toward the American. "Mr. Harkness," he said dryly, "that much is quite certain."

Benton started to cough, a sound that sounded suspiciously like laughter, while Jo went off on another giggled spell. Harkness simply snorted and shook his head, a rather impressed look on his face. "It's Captain Harkness, actually," he replied. Then he paused and eyed the Brigadier speculatively. "Of course, you could always just call me Jack."

It wasn't until Benton said "sir" rather sharply that Alistair realized his hand had drifted back down to his gun.

Chuckling, Harkness pushed his chair out from the desk he'd been sitting at. "Don't worry, Brigadier. I've found all the information I needed on the Axons."

"You're leaving already?" Jo asked, her face falling. "I was hoping you'd stay long enough to meet the Doctor. He's due back soon."

An odd expression flashed across Harkness's face for just a second. It was there and gone so quickly that the Brigadier almost thought he'd imagined it. Only the startled expression on Benton's face, proof that the other man had noticed Harkness's reaction to the Doctor's name as well, kept him from doubting what he'd seen.

Harkness grinned, the last vestige of the strange look disappearing. "I wish that I could stay in your lovely headquarters longer," he said, grabbing Jo's hand and kissing it. "Unfortunately, my ride back to Cardiff is probably getting impatient."

"Then perhaps you should be leaving," the Brigadier said. He suspected that it sounded a little to eager, but he couldn't quite be bothered enough to worry about it. Harkness had turned the entire building upside down the moment he had walked through the door, and things had yet to return to normal during the four hours he'd been inside UNIT headquarters.

"Can't wait to get rid of me, huh?" Harkness asked, shaking his head. His smile didn't waver. "Well then, I guess that I better get going. I wouldn't want to disappoint you."

Harkness brushed past him, and Alistair jumped slightly when he felt the American pinch his ass as he walked by. His hand immediately dropped toward his gun again, but by the time he'd spun around Harkness was already halfway out the door. The man didn't even have the decency to hide his laughter.

The Brigadier reached up to pinch the bridge of his nose. "Sergeant Benton?"

"Yes, sir?" Benton asked. His face was unusually blank, though his eyes were sparkling with barely restrained mirth.

"If you see Captain Harkness coming through the doors again," the Brigadier said tiredly, "shoot him."

Benton coughed. Pointedly.

The Brigadier sighed. "Point taken," he agreed reluctantly. "Next time, simply shoot me."

Requests: Astrid Peth/Donna Noble, Jenny (from "The Doctor's Daughter")/The Master (Simm), Ace McShane/Erimem/Hex Schofield/Peri Brown

Stockholm Syndrome was a human psychological response which was discarded as pop psychology centuries before she was born, so Jenny had never heard of it. All she knew was that the Master wouldn't let her out, and that ropes really, really hurt when they're left on your wrists for too long.

She did not understand. She was not a prisoner of war, the Master said as much. He didn't want to torture her for information, because what information could she possibly have? He said she was his hostage. She was a weapon of a game - a war game, that's how she saw it, and when she suggested that there was something in his eyes - and that game put her father as the Master's opposition.

If this man was her father's enemy, she had warned him, but he laughed and told her that the Doctor was his best enemy, as well as his oldest friend. Still, she did not understand.

So he told her stories of the Master and the Doctor. He told her the story backwards, from paradox machines and the Eye of Harmony to planets of fire and the Rod and Sash and Key of Rassilon to war games played on planet Earth. Eventually, he told her of Gallifrey and a broken friendship.

It's funny, but when time is reversed, things seem turned all around.

Stockholm Syndrome was a human psychological response which was discarded as pop psychology centuries before she was born, so Jenny had never heard of it. All she knew is that she wanted to help the Master, and she'd do anything he asked of her for that.

Why, she'd do anything at all.

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Requests: Jenny/Romana (any), Hex Schofield/The Master (any)

It's not the north star that guides her.

At first she thought it was, a jewel in the heavens calling for her attention- bright and more alive than she would normally have given a star credit for. Of course, ever since she started this whole Doctor-hunt one of the things she has learned is that the north star is not in fact, the brightest star in the sky. Separating fact from fiction is one of the toughest parts of this pursuit. This star was brighter than the one up in the north, so, it was something else altogether.

She tries to place it though, figure out what to call this beacon in the sky.

No matter how much time she spends with her Gramps on the hill, or listening to some astronomer, she'll never understand star charts. How to plot out the heavens. Eventually she decides it's a bit wrong to try and find it it's proper name. It's probably just some silly designation anyway, like she's learned most of the stars in the sky are labeled.

She doesn't want to turn it into some letter-number combination, it's too..inhuman, to call it that. As silly as it sounds, even to herself, she likes to think that this star watches her as much as she watches it.

It's special, her star (because she likes to call it that, her star) that one right there, that no one else seems to be able to point out but her. The light that it gives, that some nights, she thinks just falls on her. Showing.. no, illuminating, the way.

Because Donna knows. This star is going to lead her to the Doctor.

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requests Sarah Jane/Adelle Dewitt(Dollhouse), Mr Smith/Alan Jackson, Sarah Jane/Trickster

Fic Post

Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart/Jack Harkness

Jenny/The Master (Simm)

Astrid Peth/Donna Noble - Guiding Star