The Master's Star

Prologue

Jack Harkness sat listening to the UNIT commander as he ranted about the Master’s chaos that was still left over. “And this is all relevant how?” Jack finally asked. Martha walked up to him holding a bundle of blankets. There were soft cooing noises coming from it. “No way, he didn’t!”

“She has two hearts, Jack you should be the one to raise her.” Martha said handing the bundle over to Jack. Jack laughed as he held the little girl in his arms; her bright silvery-blue eyes looked up at him. The UNIT commander looked at him and then at Martha.

“Take care of her, if she really is a Time Lord and worst of all the Master’s Daughter then we are all in a world of trouble.” The Commander said to Jack as he left the room. Martha shrugged and smiled softly as Jack bounced so that the little girl giggled.

“How old is she?” Jack asked as he looked at Martha.

“About two years old, she is so cute.” Martha said to him.

“UNIT has had her for two years and not told anyone?” Jack seemed a little alarmed as he stopped bouncing. The little girl started to cry. “Oh shhh little one, shhh,”

“What are you going to name her?” Martha asked as Jack looked back at the little girl.

“What did they call her?”

“Samantha Jessica Saxon.” Martha seemed a little disgruntled at the last name.

“How does Samantha Jessica Harkness sound?” He chuckled as Martha genuinely smiled.

“Sounds good,” Martha walked away. Even though she was now a member of Torchwood she still had some business with UNIT to take care of, after all there was still some bad vibes that came off of both and rubbed onto the other.

Part One: 16 Years Later

Sam stared at the computer screen and waited for it to load completely. That was the one thing she hated with technology, no matter how advanced, it always seemed a little too slow for her. Gwen walked past and walked back over to her.

“You do realize that Jack is going to yell at you for that project right?” Gwen asked as Sam started typing in more equations.

“Aunt Gwen, you know how important my work is to me, please, I really want to finish this holo-Dad!” Sam shut her computer off and ran to Jack as he walked in.

“Hey kiddo, how are you today?” He asked as she launched off the ground and threw her arms around his neck.

“Great, where is my coffee and tea?” She asked sarcastically as Ianto walked in grimacing. “I am kidding Uncle Ianto, I can fix it myself, and after all you have been teaching me how…sort of.” She ran up the stairs and started to fix everyone a cup of coffee and a cup of tea for herself. As she handed the cups out she noticed Martha sitting in on the couch talking to herself about the Doctor as she called him.

“Aunt Martha, what is wrong?” Sam asked as she handed Martha the cup of tea that was meant for her.

“Nothing, I just miss someone, and now that I see your happy face I don’t.” Martha replied smiling. Mickie walked past and grabbed a cup of coffee of the tray that Sam was holding.

“Really, am I that perky?” Sam was rubbing the back of her head as Jack walked up to her and picked up the tray from her.

“Before you drop it…again.” Jack whispered to Sam as she sat next to Martha. “Oh, have you used that bracelet yet?” Sam shook her head and looked at the charm bracelet he had given her for her 5th birthday.

“No, I don’t think I am ready to either.” She had no clue what the bracelet was for but knew that it was going to be interesting. Martha and Jack looked between each other and sighed. “You told me to use it only when I felt ready, please I am still not sure who I really am…so just drop the subject.” Gwen started to walk towards them when Martha shook her head she backed off.

“I want you to just be yourself, don’t be anyone else.” Jack said as he cupped Sam’s face in his hands. “You are my little girl, and I want you to take care of yourself.” Sam nodded her head and Jack let go of her face.

“Yes dad, I promise I will take care.” Sam said quietly as she walked back to her computers and started to work again on her programming.

“You do realize that he just wants what is best for you.” Martha said walking up to Sam. She nodded her head and looked up at her father in the upstairs window. “It’s too bad that you don’t use that bracelet, but then again you are meant to do that only when you feel ready.” Sam sighed and input more calculations into the holograms. Martha looked at the program and shook her head.

“Aunt Martha, what is it, what am I doing wrong?” Sam asked as she looked at Martha but continued to type. Her hands were moving so fast that Martha could barely keep up with what she was typing in.

“Jack, your father…you do realize that he is not your biological father right?”

“Yes, I have known that for ages.” Sam looked back at the computer screen and sighed; it was taking to long for her again. She dropped to her knees and started moving around some of the wires until the computer finally caught up to her. “That’s better, now I can complete Project Owen and Toshiko.” Martha winced at the name of the projects. She had dedicated her latest project to them because they were her dad’s friends but Martha also knew that if Sam ever knew that her real father was a dead evil Time Lord then she might go just as insane as he was.

“Sam, come on we need you for this briefing!” Jack shouted down at her. She jumped, turned off her project and ran up the stairs. She sat through the briefing and waited for her opportunity to talk. They were going on the next mission and wanted her to monitor their progress as well as do some computer hacking. Mickie looked at her and sighed. They had to work together again and he knew that she was going to be faster at hacking into the computer systems than him but then again she had a hard time monitoring the rest of the team while doing it.

“So is everyone ready?” She asked as she stood up and walked over to the chair. She heard this strange noise in her head like a drumming and then it stopped when Ianto put a hand on her shoulders.

“It’s that drumming again isn’t it?” He asked, Sam nodded her head and he looked over to Martha.

“There is nothing I can do, if she is hearing it more and more…” Martha looked over to Jack and he shook his head.

“Not yet, not yet.” Jack whispered as Sam looked at all of them more confused. Ianto walked with her down to the computers and watched as she reactivated most of the program she had been working on.

“Why did you name the projects Toshiko and Owen?” Ianto asked as Sam saved and closed it down.

“They are a hologram program, something I have been working on for a year now…the computer is still to slow to keep up though.” She looked at the computer screen and started running her hackers network and looked for the one thing she need to access. Ianto walked away and followed Gwen, Jack, and Martha. Mickie walked over to the computers across from Sam and started to type.

“Alright talk to us,” Jack said to them as they pulled up the maps.

“Go east for another 15 blocks then turn right.” Mickie said as Sam pulled up the files from the targets computer.

“Damn these guys are good.” Sam cursed under her breath.

“Hey watch it young lady.” Jack snapped at her.

“Sorry but these guys have stolen about a thousand pounds from each country…about.” Sam laughed at them. “And they put up firewalls to protect it…sorry guys but your money is mine.” She hit the enter button and the money was sent to an account under a false name and then sent the money back to the companies that it belonged to. “Alright, I will now turn off their cameras…3…2…1 there you go you are in.” She smiled over at Mickie and he smiled back. Mickie looked back at his computer screen and started to type, he was keeping the cameras off while she watched other little things for him. Although she was really good at computer hacking she was still a little too young to get over confident and take it over completely.

“Sam, you are beginning to understand…” A voice said in her head as the drumming started up again. “My darling daughter, sleep now and remember.” Sam fought off the tired feeling and turned back to her computer screen.

“Sam sweetie, are you alright?” Jack asked over the intercom.

“Yeah why?” She replied with another question. There were gun shots and yelling on the other end as she shook her head. Her father always got into a fight somehow shape or form.

“You were silent for 20 minutes.” Mickie answered for Jack.

“Oh, sorry must have dozed off,” She smiled softly and pulled out a cup of tea, she spat the tea out when she tasted it, it was cold. “Yuck, cold tea!” She put the cup down and continued to type as Jack started to laugh.

“We are almost done, you can stop typing though.” Ianto said as Sam laughed.

“I already knew that you were.” She said in between laughs. “Smile you are on camera.” They all looked up at her and waved.

“Smart girl you have there.” Someone said, Sam looked closer at the monitor and saw someone standing in the distance.

“John Hart, I thought I told you to leave and never come back.” Jack said angrily. Sam growled and John Hart waved at the camera.

“Yeah well thought I should warn you that someone is looking for you,” John said, he had an arrogant smirk on his face.

“Hey John, leave my dad alone.” Sam screamed, she did not realize that she had started to speak a different language.

“What did she say?” John looked up at the camera with his eyebrows raised. She looked over to Mickie and he was staring at her with surprise in his eyes.

“I said…” She put her hands to her throat and gulped. “I said leave my father alone.” She was whispering Jack looked up at the camera and smiled, he had understood her but the others had not.

“Don’t worry, he can’t kill me remember I am immortal…practically.” Jack looked back at John and pulled out his gun. “What do you want, really?” John sighed and tossed something to Jack.

“The Rani are after the Master’s Start.” John disappeared into the excess rift energy and Jack looked at the camera and turned off his com-link. Sam looked at Mickie and saw the fear in his eyes; she sat down on the couch and looked at her shaking hands.

“What was that about?” She asked as Mickie sat next to her.

“I don’t know, maybe Jack and Martha know.” Mickie shouldered her to cheer her up. Sam giggled and looked at him.

“Do you think that they will tell me the truth…oh never mind they think that I need to use this first.” She held her wrist up to show the bracelet. The first charm looked like a simple circle with more circles on the inside. Mickie squinted to take a closer look; he looked away from it and laughed.

“It is very important, but don’t use it unless you want to…” He looked back at her and hugged her. “I think that even Rose would have loved you, she was after all my closest friend.” He stood up and came back with a warm cup of tea, put it in her hand and forced Sam to drink. The door opened after a few minutes and the rest of the team walked back in.

“Should we call him?” Martha asked as he pulled out her cell phone.

“No, let me think.” Jack said sitting next to Sam. Sam looked at him and offered him her tea. “You’ll need that, what exactly have you been hearing…the beat to the drums in your head?” Sam raised an eyebrow and tapped her leg dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun. Jack put his hand on hers and forced it to remain still.

“No,” Martha whispered as she sat in front of Sam. “I thought that it was going to be impossible.” She pulled out her stethoscope and listened to the left side then the right. “She’s healthy, but um…Jack please we need to call him.” Jack looked at her and then at Sam.

“Only if she thinks that she is ready to learn who and what she really is.” Jack whispered to Martha. Sam looked at him with tears forming in her eyes. Her bracelet started to warm up and she stood up and walked away from them.

“I’m human, completely and utterly human, I am me. I am your daughter, no one else.” There was a sound like an old engine starting and she spun around to see a blue police phone box appear behind her. She walked all around it and looked at Jack. She felt two thuds in her chest, one on the right one on the left. She started to breathe heavy as someone walked out of the phone box and looked at Jack.

“So this is Torchwood, interesting.” The man said. He turned to her and she felt the thud on her left side stop and she fell to the ground, completely blacked out.

“Sam!” She heard people yell just before she was completely out.