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The CEO and his remaining executive lackey walked towards a tightly secured elevator. Once their clearance had been verified the three were lowered into the inner depths of the R&D vaults. The defense systems were completely automated and self sufficient.

"As you can see, Doctor, we take great pride in out 100% Earth technologies. Every last circuit was thought up by Aven and manufactured on Earth... Ah, here we are... Vault Delphi Zeta... " he placed a hand on the gel pad near the door and the metal bolt opened. Inside as a dimly lit room, computers and monitoring systems lined all of the walls.

In the center of the room was a glass tank filled with pale blue stasis liquid. Inside was Jack Harkness, his wrists and legs were locked in place by heavy straps, as sensors and tubes attached to various parts of his body. His eyes were half open and around his neck was a silver mental suppressor much like Aven's.

"Doctor, I believe you've already met Captain Jack Harkness..." Aven's father smiled darkly.

"He can't hear you, Doctor," Aven's father stated with a bored tone, "and the consoles are locked to my own personal specifications. You see, Aven is too... weak hearted to actually experiment on Jack, so we supply her with samples of his tissue and invent a fake source."

At that moment the exec grabbed the Doctor in a headlock. The CEO walked towards the counter and picked up a metal collar similar to Jack's.

"And now that you so willingly followed us here, well, you don't really think we would let you leave did you?" he asked giving the Time Lord a predatory smile, "I wonder what secrets Aven could discover from your own Time Lord DNA..."

"So much anger..." the older man tsked, "You should have left when you had the chance, Doctor. You really are too curious for your own good."

With a smile he put down the collar. "You're right... this little trinket probably wouldn't work on you. Very well, I will enjoy watching you break."
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Aven's pace gradually began to slow. Something was wrong. She could taste it. The ice restraining her mind bit down but Aven's thoughts kept wandering. The man with her father... his eyes were so sad... I think I know him...

The Exec noticed her pause and squared his shoulders. "Is everything ok Doctor?"

"Doctor...?" she said with a puzzled look. She then blinked and nodded, "Y-yes, I just need you to please help me stabilize this table, I think the legs are wobbly and it keeps moving the slide around the microscope."

The Exec nodded and placed his hands on the metal table to steady it, "is this fine?"

"Yes... that will do..." she replied distractedly as she pressed a hidden button on the microscope. All of a sudden a large charge coursed through the metal of the table and into the Executive. He yelled out in pain before collapsing.

Aven's green-blue eyes stared down at him reflecting nothing. She didn't know why she had done that only that it needed to be done.

"Sorry Gerrod, I need to borrow your gun," she stated darkly as she took said weapon and hurried to the elevator. Her brain had shut down, she had forced the voices to grow silent and now... she was being moved by something she could not describe.

"Pity, we will have to upgrade the collar," Aven's father sighed and looked slightly disappointed. "You'll forgive me if I'm not impressed Doctor. You see, your friend in the tank also said he would 'stop me from using Aven' and we both know how cocky Jack ended up."

There was a click from behind the Doctor as the Executive brought out a gun and pointed it at the Time Lord's head. "I'm going to have to ask you to step away from Mister Gavant."

"On the contrary, Doctor, you don't realize who you're dealing with," the Exec replied.

"Oh come, come Time Lord, surely you can appreciate the wonders we create here," the CEO stated coolly, "haven't you ever heard that the ends justify the means? And here you are trying to poke moral holes into our logic."
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Aven felt as if blades were slowly filleting her brain. With each rebellious step, the pain in her head grew stronger and the suppressor clamped down harder. Her eyes were dead and lifeless like a doll's but she kept walking forward through the vaults. She was driven by some interior force, something deep inside her. Have to save him... have to save...

The stasis chamber lit up and churned as the liquid was drained and the tubes released Jack.

"NO! Tom shoot him!" Gavant ordered but no sooner had he raised his gun that another shot rang out and lodged a bullet in the exec's shoulder.

Aven was on the hallway blood running down her nose and from the corner of her mouth as she stared at the scene with deadened eyes. Her father's eyes widened.

"Aven, you shouldn't be here, go back upstairs," he ordered.

A burst of rebellion surged inside of Aven not caring for the pain in her head.

"No..." she rasped. Her hand gripped the gun as if it were too heavy to keep steady.

"Aven, you are damaging yourself! Cease his at once!"

"No..."

"She is out of control..." her father stated backing away slowly, "she has never been out of control... what is she...? Aven, stop this now! You will only harm yourself further"

Three shots rang out from Aven's gun all of them blasted into the main computer. At once the stasis tank slid open releasing its captive. The pain in her head felt like hot knives laced with permafrost. Each movement she was defying her father and she was being punished for it. She coughed as more blood seeped out from between her lips.

"Doctor... take... take... take..." her dead eyes fell on Jack as she was unable to finish, "go..."

[HOMG DOCTAH/JACK KISSU! Ne, who's going to RP Jack?]

"Well you sure as hell aren't taking her!" her father snapped angrily. "She is my property!"

Aven slumped against the wall as her legs began to buckle, but managed to keep the gun steady.

"Take... Jack..." she stuttered as the suppressor on her wrist began to spark and make hissing noises. "Go... go.... go......"

Tom sat up and eyed the gun the Doctor had knocked away. It didn't seem to be too far.