Torchwood

"Jack he's going into the park keep on him!"
"Confirmation on that." Jack said in a very quiet voice into his practically invisible earpiece.
"Jack you're loosing him" Kelly shouted.
"In the park now"
"Run, Oh for god sake." A silver ford escort van burst open Kelly ran out holding a gun.
"Go, Go, Go" Kelly shouted.
"Rivers what the hell are you doing?" The man who had been in the car with her shouted. Jack hit the side of a tree out of breathe.
"Shit Rivers I lost him." Jack said.
"Great, we were so close." She kicked her tree. Her bold English voice stuck out like a saw thumb. They were obviously in America. Rivers had worked for UNIT but she had been offered a place at torchwood in the Torchwood sector. Worst of all she had to work with her ex boyfriend Jack Harkness. She hated the fact that the job she was involved in had nearly killed her. She needed the truth though. She needed to find out what was going on as well as helping people. She had always wanted a job like this when she was offered it she thought it was very 'x-files' just like her friends but she was higher up the rank. She was still an agent but she had more responsibility she didn't have to believe she knew for certain.

Kelly stood in the gym in a pale grey jumper with the words torchwood spread across it. She wore he grey gym slacks and she stood their punching a bag. Part of her anger built up from Jack and the mission that had failed. The bag went swinging across the room.
Jack walked in looking at her punching backwards and forwards.
"I'm glad your taking it out on that today instead of me."
"Shut up Harkness"
"So you are taking it out on me then?"
She turned round her knuckles full of blood because she'd been hitting so hard. Sweat down her face and round her long black tied up hair.
"What are you here for?"
"A case, a good one"
"Great I'll go get changed." She said sarcastically.
He walked out the room. She made a large kick at the bag as he did so and she headed towards the showers.
She walked out her hair now down wearing her beige coloured make up and a black suit.
She looked at a case file on his desk.
"What's this? This what you pulled me out the gym for?" She said holding it up in her hands.
"I asked you I didn't pull you"
"So this is the case?"
"Yeah."
"Harkness! We are meant to be investigating the terrorist you let get away."
"I didn't let him get away he was miles ahead of me I couldn't have caught him even if I'd tried."
"Yeah exactly you didn't try"
"I did don't get on my back about this Rivers. I'll tell you're mother" He said smirking. He knew Kelly's mum on first name terms. Her mother was just like Kelly a strong woman. Jack had learnt not to mess with strong women from this history with Kelly. She could probably kill him with one punch.

"Shouldn't environmental health be dealing with this not the torchwood for god sake?"

"Yes but there is nothing that EH can investigate to do with this right now. So what is it?"

"I don't know radiation in rocks, dated carbon. What else could it be?"

"I don't know look at that factory over there?" he pointed boldly.

"A toilet paper industrial warehouse? Jack you cannot be serious?" Rivers said reading the sign very confused.

"Yeah it's still industrial these guys might be pumping out chemicals, heavy water anything." He said looking in her blue eyes as she rolled them.

"Right then EH would have been onto them in seconds if that were the case"

"Skeptic!"

"Jack ass" she muttered under her breathe her Manchester accent sounding clearer than ever. Her voice to Americans had a beautiful ring. To Mancunians it was a bit too posh. All the kids at school used to call her posh for not putting an 'oh' at the end of everything. She hated it when ignorant children used to bellow her name "Kelleh". She always wondered if she spoke posher because she had been born and bred in London, with Rose up until she was 7. She thought if that were the case she would have a London accent. Now she feared she'd develop an American accent being around Jack and living in Washington. She had remembered when she was little watching a programme about air line hostesses and one lady was Spanish but she'd lived in Liverpool she had the strangest accent. She would've hated it if she had ended up 1/3 Londoner 1/3 Manc 1/3 Washingtonian.

"You know what Harkness? When I did my degree I never thought I'd end up in Canada in a toilet roll factory."

"Well you shouldn't have presumed."

"Well Harkness when you do a degree in Nuclear Physics and Doctorate Science you don't expect to end up in here do you?"

"I wouldn't know"

"Oh no you wouldn't that's right because your career path at my age was to become a crook!" She said smiling in a very snide way.

"Yeah well I had a life and friends when I was thirteen!"

She gave him a hard look and swore to herself she'd get him back.

"Hello, please could you tell me who your supervisor is? Or the manager maybe?" Harkness asked.
"Yeah who shall I say it is?"

"Torchwood" Jack smiled at the man and he ran up some stairs and surely enough a man came down.

"Hello sir, we're with the torchwood I'm Dr Rivers and this is Jack Harkness we'd like to ask you a few questions about the production of your product"

"Yes ma'm" the man said looking at Kelly. The man was quiet good looking and he obviously thought Kelly was.

"Sir there's been an increase in mutation in these areas we need to find out what is causing this."

"What and you think toilet paper is the problem?"

"No not necessarily but we need a list of all the chemicals your factory pumps out."

"No problem anything for a polite English lady."

Harkness and Rivers walked out of the building. Rivers' hair blew about in the wind.

"So what do you think Rivers?"

"I don't know but I know someone who can help us bear with me." Kelly pulled out a small handset and dialled someone in her phone book.

"Hello, is that Assistant Director Walter Skinner's office?"

"Yes, this is his secretary" a voice heard from over the phone.

"Well my name is Dr Rivers he might not remember me I met him about 6 years ago with someone called the Doctor, would it be possibly for you to schedule an appointment with Agents Mulder and Scully for me please?"

"Yes no problem you have an appointment at 6.15 today." The voice said.

"Thank you." And she hung up.

"Right Harkness we're off."

"Where too?"

"The FBI Washington headquarters."

"Why what do the FBI have to do with this?"

"Trust me" she said her voice sounding strong and confident.

Jack and Kelly arrived at the building and waited outside Skinners office. His secretary informed them that Mulder and Scully were already inside. The sound from the office sounded like they were in some kind of trouble but they always were. Skinner stepped out.

"Dr Rivers it is you! I was sceptical at first what can we help you with? Come in?"

Kelly did and Jack followed. Mulder and Scully's eyes lit up at the site of Rivers they obviously hadn't been told she was coming.

"Oh my god Kelly?" Mulder said.

"Hey Mulder how's things?" She said as they embraced. She looked at Scully with a big smile and grabbed her in a massive embrace they had always been close.

"Dana, I've missed you so much." Scully looked so different her hair was longer and a bit lighter. Mulder hadn't really changed.

"Kelly you haven't changed a bit, let me guess the whole time travelling thing?"

"Yeah, I'm in my right time now." She said smiling with a bit of laughter seeping from her peachy painted lips. Mulder noticed Jack he recognised him.

"Kelly I don't mean to be rude but what's he doing here." Mulder said looking him up and down.

"Well now I work for torchwood he's my partner." Kelly said.

"Hang on so you're in with this conspiracy scum?" Dana said pointing.

"No it's not the torchwood institute there trying to stop all this."

"Well now that's clear. Hello." Mulder said to Jack looking wary of him.

When they explained they agreed to help. Scully and Mulder were just glad to see Kelly again and Kelly was thrilled to see them.

"So what's new with you Dana?"

"Well I have a 4 year old son."

"Oh my god, so your married?"

"Not exactly" she said in the bathroom of the restaurant with Kelly.

"Well who's the father?" She questioned.

"Well who do you think?"

"Oh my god Fox?"

Scully just smiled.

"And he's like a proper father?"

"He's a fantastic father and we live together we're just not married."

"Wow" Kelly said.

"Well we've worked together for 14 years. It happens."

"Yeah of course I knew it would. The doctor even pointed it out."

"Wow was it that obvious? Well it's not too unobvious with you and Harkness."

"You have to be joking?"

"No I mean come on you were in a relationship once that whole love/hate best friend thing. You're not telling me there is nothing there."

"There's not and he's not my best friend the doctor is." She said pointing out.

"Well maybe but where's he?"

"Well I stopped travelling with him I realised that I could spend the rest of my life with him and have no children never get married and then I die and he still goes on living. It's fantastic but what sort of a life is that? Plus I wouldn't be too keen on a half alien baby for a start it would never leave home." She said laughing.

Scully smiled she knew that Kelly and Jacks relationship would always be like hers and Mulders and probably end the same way.