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When; April 13
Rating; PG-13 (Juust in case)
Characters; Jack Harkness(

sometimes_boe ) and everyone!
Summary; Who is this gorgeous man wandering City streets?
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Waking up in an unknown city was usually the sign of a good night, however, this time, Jack knows it's not a good sign, especially when his night hadn't been anything special enough to land him in a place he didn't know.

He looked around, trying to see if he recognized anything, but nothing stood out. Except for the carousel and fountain and not because they were familiar, but because, honestly, who kept carousels in town anymore, unless you were in a mall?

Jack pressed the blue-tooth set at his ear and checked his vortex manipulator for readings of the area.

"Gwen, Ianto, are you there?"

Of course, no response, that'd be too easy.

"Where the Hell am I?"

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Mercy was on her way home from the magic store when she saw a familiar face. "Jack?"

It had been surprising really, that after all of the destruction and damage caused by the recent harpy invasion, Geo’s Sweet Shoppe hadn’t sustained any damage at all. Eagle smiled slightly as he pulled the door closed behind him and locked up after the inspection. Geo would have been glad to hear that the store he hadn’t felt comfortable starting but had spent a lot of time setting up and come to really enjoy was still entirely intact.
For now anyway. Without Geo around the fate of that Shoppe was in question… Should he try and hire people to keep it going or to sell out what equipment was there…? Well, that was something to be decided later. Maybe during a stroll.
It really wasn’t a long walk from the candy store to the apartment Eagle was staying in, but just getting away for a while sounded like a better idea. So, he walked in the opposite direction, towards the fountain and the carousel. There were several people, milling around. He didn’t know all of them, but that wasn’t really unexpected. With people coming and going all of the time it could be difficult to meet everyone.
But, among these one person in particular stood out. A dark haired man who seemed to be taking in the sights and… was he talking to himself? No, he must be wearing some kind of headset. But being too far away, Eagle couldn’t actually hear what was being said. Still… he was an interesting person… Lost maybe?
Not being of a shy nature Eagle made his way over to this individual.

“Hello. You seem a little… confused?”

As someone not only hypomanic, but young and exciteable, Campbell was almost nearly always on the go if he could manage it. Trying to get things done. Running around from place to place. But he was always ready to stop if something seemed interesting, even something as small as a new face.

"You look confused," he called, backpedalling a bit. He'd, naturally, already run right past Jack. He grinned widely at him once they were face to face. "You must be new. Or y' could just be confused, I suppose, this place will do that to you. So? Which one is it?"

Lucy is on her way back to her flat. She's got shopping bags with her and a coffee. She's dressed in a short summer dress and high, high heeled sandals. She walks by just in time to hear 'Where the Hell am I'.

"At least you're not in the fountain."

Jack turned to look at the woman, confused.

"I'm sorry, Ma'am, do I know you? ...Can't say I'd forget a pretty face such as yours, though."

He might be lost, but the best way to get information from a stranger was to charm them.

Jack turned to face the attractive man walking towards him and smiled in spite of himself. If all the people here looked like this man, he couldn't exactly say he'd mind staying a little while. Not forever, of course, but a little while.

"That apparent huh? Yeah, I seem to be a little lost, in that, I have absolutely no idea where I am."

Jack hadn't given the kid who rushed past him much thought, far to preoccupied with other things, but he did notice him when he came back.

Jack stared at him for a moment, except for physically being younger and the longer hair, there was no way he could mistake that face.

"....Doctor?"

Jack smirked at the attractive woman who'd stopped. In this case, a little charm could only help him.

"Well, hello. Tell me, Do people often end up in the fountain? Or is that just for special occasions?"

Campbell laughed, a little bit disbelievingly. "What?! Nooo. No, I'm not. I'm no even wearing a labcoat." He gave it a moment of thought. "Do I become a doctor later, then, cos I wasnae expecting THAT. I suppose it must be before I'm a time travelling vampire, unless that's actually my grandad." A grin again. "No, I'm Campbell! Campbell Bain."

“That is a common complaint here,” said as Eagle smiles at the new arrival. “You have been brought to the City. I’m sorry it doesn’t have a more creative name than that, but apparently that is what they call it.”

Hmm, what are those bits of technology he has with him? Eagle couldn’t help but indulge in the curiosity and point the objects out.

“A piece of communication technology and a… scanner?”

She tucks her lips between her teeth, sighs through her nose and nods.

"Sort of a standard welcome for the City."

She holds out her hand. "I'm Lucy Locke."

Someone by the fountain looking confused and cursing could only mean one thing. Stepping into his view so he wouldn't startle the other, Ken offered him a calm smile even though the bagh nahks strapped to his thighs were anything but calming. Really, were any large bladed weapons a polite conversation starter?

"Lemme guess. New here, huh?"

Well...he was very similar to the doctor and, damn, was this guy a dead-ringer for the time lord himself, but there was still something distinctly different. Besides the hair. Which, Jack had to admit, was an interesting look and not at all a bad one.

"Sorry, some confusion on my part. See, you look exactly like a friend of mine who goes by "The Doctor."

Jack offered his hand and shot the boy a smirk.

"It's nice to meet you, Campbell. I'm Captain Jack Harkness."

"The DOCTOR?!" Oh. Wait. Claire HAD said not to do the...thing...about knowing people....from things. "I...do I really look like him? I talked t' him once, but it was over the devices and I couldnae see him." Oh man oh man oh man did this mean he was going to be THE DOCTOR? Campbell was visibly trying to not get tooo excited.

He shook Jack's hand, anyway. "Hullo, Captain Jack! So! Have you had the explanation yet, cos I can rattle through it, if y' like."

Yeah, those were pretty unoriginal...but he was more concerned with the way the other man had said 'brought'. Something had summoned him here? Why?

He put the thoughts aside for later and decided to answer the questions posed to him instead.

"It's called a bluetooth headset, it allows me to keep in contact with people...although it's not working right now."

He exposed his wrist so the open device could be seen.

"This is a vortex manipulator and it does a lot more then scan...luckily it still works here."

He grins and gives the hand a shake, his hand purposefully lingering just a moment longer than it should.

"How pleasant. It's nice to meet you, Miss Lucy Locke, Captain Jack Harkness, at your service."

Something called a Bluetooth… a very strange name. The vortex manipulator was by far more interesting! But, asking any more about that right now would no doubt be rude and potentially worry the new arrival.

“That is lucky. Oftentimes technology refuses to function in this City. Like your Bluetooth… it is usually impossible to get any signal past the barrier.”

This person was clearly more technologically advanced than most of the people he had run into in the City and for some reason when he went to introduce himself it felt important to give his full title. Something Eagle had for the most part, stopped doing in this place.
“I am Commander Eagle Vision from Autozam.”

"I guess you could say that, yeah. Do you happen to know where 'here' is?"

Jack saw the blades but chose not to comment; he still had his trusted Weebley if necessary. Besides, at least the guy wasn't covered in horns or talons.

Jack was beginning to warm up to Campbell, sure he wasn't the Doctor, but he was certainly 'eccentric' like the Doctor. However, something the other man said stuck in his head and he frowned ever so slightly.

"Explanation? No, I haven't...what do you mean you've 'talked to him once'? The Doctor's here?"

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Commander, I'm Captain Jack Harkness, mostly from Earth."

He gave Eagle a small, but sincere salute.

"Do you know what galaxy Autozam is in? I've never heard of it. Also, do you mind telling me a bit more about this 'barrier'?"

Jack wasn't liking the scenario he seemed to have found himself in. Sure the people here seemed to be about as nice as any others, but a city he couldn't leave at will didn't sit right with Jack.

“Mostly from Earth?” That meant he had been to other worlds. “It is rare to find some one who has traveled to other planets before.”

Eagle had been right then. This person was endlessly fascinating!

“We generally call it the Cephirian system. It contains four worlds that have different civilizations living on them: Autozam, Chizeta, Fahren, and Cephiro. Have you heard of it?” It was a shot in the dark, most people hadn’t.

“The barrier... I initially believed it had been set up only to keep all of us prisoners here, but apparently it was also meant to keep other creatures from entering this place.” There is a slight sadness here which is quickly over come with determination. “There doesn’t appear to be anyway to leave the City… at least I haven’t found the way yet.”

And because he wants to know more about you… he adds.

“A Captain are you? What kind of ship do you command?”

Cameron was just walking home, high heels clicking on the pavement. She was tired, certainly, but not too tired to notice a guy unknown to her cursing and looking confused, and not too tired to stop and offer him what she hoped was a reassuring smile.

"Hello."

Mercy grinned, shaking her head. Same old Jack, even if he didn't remember being here. "Sorry about that. My name's Mercedes Thompson. Mercy. You... were here a while ago, though you probably don't remember. In fact, I'm living in the house you had built here."

Nathan being Nathan, it was all but impossible for him to take a walk without getting into some kind of trouble. Having got bored of butting in on random conversations and trying to 'accidentally' trip people up, he'd decided to try his luck hitting on a pretty blonde girl who'd happened to catch his eye. This ended badly for him less than a minute later, Nathan finding himself beaten back with her handbag and with a warning to "keep your filthy hands to yourself, dickhead". Not that it seemed to bother him, judging by his laughter.

As it happened, he stumbled right into a guy who looked like he'd walked straight out of the forties. The girl threw Nathan one more disgusted look then, storming off in the direction she'd originally been trying to go. Nathan snorted, glancing over at the man he'd just bumped into with a barely restrained grin. "Oops. Sorry, mate," he sniggered, not really sounding all that sincere about it. At a pinch, he may have seemed sheepish. If you squinted. But even that much was debatable.

Jack was quickly realizing there was more to this man than his pretty face. Not only had he seemed to understand Jack's devices without knowing what they were, but he was also aware of interplanetary travel.

"The Cephirian system...it sounds familiar...but only in that 'in passing' sense. Maybe it was brought up in one of my classes back in the academy, that was a long time ago."

Jack checked his manipulator again and, sure enough, the smallest of blips told him the interference was coming from something surrounding the area, something large but nearly undetectable. "Sounds like you're pretty set on getting out of here, don't blame you, I don't intend on staying trapped here forever."

Not when he had people he needed to get back to.

"Well, space ships mainly, although, I've also led a number of troops in a number of wars, so that's were the title comes as well. What about you?"

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