Carter looks over at Nathan, cocking an eyebrow at him. “Fargo called to let me know you'd left GD.”

“I stopped at Beverly's on the way home, I had a couple of questions for our guests.”

“What were they doing?”

“Having a cookout on the top of the bus.” Miss Kitty appears from nowhere on the back of the couch behind Carter and wrinkles her nose when she sniffs Alex.

“Yes, Miss Kitty, that's another cat you smell on Alex. Josette and I helped him pet her cat Cream.” Miss Kitty jumps onto Carter's shoulder, getting a head rub from him like the homage she's due and begins cleaning Alex's face. Alex giggles and squirms in Carter's arms as S.A.R.A.H puts the food out now that Nathan's home.

Back at the bus Spencer and Daniel start putting food out on the tables. Jackson is in 9th Jack's arms sucking on a bottle, his eyes flickering closed as Jack removes the bottle and burps him on his shoulder. He's settled in a padded basket like baby Ianto's, Jack watching the babies sleep for a long minute until his Doctor rolls his eyes and drags him over to a table to eat.

“We can go see your friends at Torchwood when this is all over.” he promises him.

“Yan and the others are still alive then?” Immortal Jack looks over at them, fork with a bite of food on it forgotten.

“Yes, I stayed with the Doctor after. . . Did you guys deal with the Master and the year that wasn't?”

Immortal Jack and his Doctor nod. “I returned to Torchwood after that, I'd say that the Jack who lives here in Eureka did as well, judging from the fact that he's raising clones of his team.”

“Ahhh, that's where the difference is. . .”

“Besides the fact I didn't regenerate?” 9th Doctor asks sardonically.

“Yes, besides that.” 9th Jack waves a hand over his shoulder in the other man's direction. “I stayed with the Doc after that, helped him with repairs to the TARDIS after we got rid of the Master's Paradox Machine.”

The Immortal Doctor whimpers “He created the paradox machine out of my TARDIS.” Immortal Jack pats his arm.

“He didn't in your universe?”

“No, he cannibalized the remains of his TARDIS for that after he used his Chameleon Arch to return to . . .well, what passes for normal for him. When time reversed, we destroyed the machine and took the dead TARDIS into ours, humanity isn't ready yet for that kind of technology.”

The 4th Doctor snorts around his cup. He really shouldn't have been surprised to find Josette had a supply of synthetic blood laid in for him if he needed it, not when Dr. Stark was a vampire as well. He sips his blood infused tea as he listens to the others, thankfully something like that won't happen in his world.

“Anyway, after we got the TARDIS back to rights, we . . . recovered.”

“Tell the truth Jack, I said some hateful things about you being wrong when we first met up again and you paid the consequences.” The 9th Doctor rubs his back and shoulders with one hand as he looks at the others. “Jack threw himself into dangerous situations, I thought it was just because he knew he couldn't die, then I found out he wasn't eating right and realized that he was depressed and suicidal. We settled down on a planet I know of where we wouldn't be disturbed and talked. . .a lot.” Immortal Doctor reaches and wraps an arm around Jack, pulling him close as the two men look at each other.

“So when did you get back traveling with the Doc?” 9th Jack asks Immortal Jack.

“After Gwen and Owen. . . died, we got a new trainee from the United States named Xander Harris. He was settling in when long range telescopes sighted a mass entering our solar system. UNIT had a three person experimental spaceship we used to travel up when we saw a hatch on the object and realized it might have be m. . . made by intelligent beings.” he says with a grin when his Doctor looks at him. “A few things and I realized I was in a TARDIS. I went looking for the control room, the Doc showed up a few minutes later. . .”

“I was investigating a signal, you can imagine my surprise when there's suddenly a knock on the door and Jack's waving at me.”

9th Doctor snorts as he looks at his lover, 9th Jack just gives him his best innocent look. Neither Doctor believe him for a moment. “Anyway, we found out what had happened and . . .” the Immortal Doctor looks over at the others. “I gave them a quick run through of what happened.” Josette says. “Anyway, after Xander. . .died and Ianto was deaged, there was nothing left to go back to. I closed down Torchwood, we gathered up everything I didn't want destroyed, got Myfanwy into the TARDIS and started traveling.”

“Myfanwy?” the 4th and 8th Doctor ask. Both Jacks look up as a shadow passes overhead, smirking as the pterodactyl passes overhead. “Myfanwy, she fell through the rift. She's tame.” 9th Jack says. “She's currently in Cardiff in my world, still hanging around Torchwood three.”

“We've got a nice little planet, no other intelligent life has evolved yet, we stay there when we're not traveling so the Doc and the TARDIS can do repairs and run tests she can't while we're in the vortex.”

“Yes, I have a planet we've settled on.” the 4th Doctor says. “Sometimes you just have to feel the grass under your feet without the worry the natives are going to kill you.” The other three doctors nod. “Getting shot with a stone arrow tip hurts.” Jack says.

“Having to pull it out of you isn't a day in the park either.” Immortal Doctor snorts.

Immortal Jack looks at him. “Better me than you. . .or worse one of the kids Doc.”

“True.”

“How old are the children?” the 8th Doctor asks.

“We figure Ianto is around a month old. He was deaged to around two or three days old.” The Immortal Doctor says. “We figure Xander is around a year old, give or take a month. The boys aren't growing as rapidly as they would be from how they were . . .changed or it might be from living in the TARDIS.”

9th Doctor shakes his head. “No, Jackson is growing normally.” The Immortal Doctor nods at that news. “Then it might be from the regeneration chamber.”

“Or it might be they're subconsciously latching onto Jack's Immortality?” I say quietly. “Or yours?” The Immortal Doctor looks at me stunned. “Umm 900 years old and you look like your in your mid to late twenties? Especially when their first incarnation looked like an old man at 400? And regenerated from old age?”

“And how do you know what he looked like in his first incarnation?” Immortal Jack asks.

“Umm, well there's the fact that I met all ten of his incarnations,” I jerk my thumb over my shoulder in the direction of the 8th Doctor version of my father. “Crotchety old guy.” all three doctors who've regenerated nod in unison. “And the fact that Doctor Who is a tv show in my original universe.” Three Doctors look in my direction. I point my thumb in the direction of the 9th Doctor this time. “Ask him, he watched them while he was here.”