Title: Time Intertwined
Author: Bendyfish
A/N 1: 'Time Intertwined' was my first multi-chapter story that I wrote on fanfiction, I was so excited to get it posted, I just ended it when it could have written so much more to it. Actually some reviews even said that that it ended abruptly so after writing a few stories after 'Time Intertwined' I have thought to re-visit this story and add more to it. So if you haven't read 'Time Intertwined' here it is again but longer and hopefully better. Oh and by the way I have fixed the spelling error in the title (like I said I was very excited about posting my first multi chapter story and I didn't really check over it properly, I am very embarrassed) so here is the sequel of sorts or the continuation of this story. Oh and I added some improvements to the original story mainly grammar and clearer understanding of who is talking and setting the scene. In some instances I have combined chapters of the original story mainly the prologue and chapter 1 together and chapters 3 & 4 and chapters 5 & 6.
Author's Note – the prologue is setting the scene, it has no TW characters but you need to understand this part of the story to understand why TW becomes a part of the story. Bare with me readers, there will be plenty of TW in later chapters.
Oh and Tosh and Owen are still alive, I refuse to acknowledge that Owen, Tosh or Ianto die, ever, they get hurt, threaten and harmed but their deaths are much much later in the Torchwood history according to me. They still continue to be a part of the awesome Torchwood team, separate from the government, outside the police, beyond the United Nations, the 21st century is when it all changes and they are ready, as the world needs them. This story is set after Series 2 Ep1 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters I just borrow their characterisations for my story telling.
Prologue - 1975
With the many branches scratching her bare arms, the girl, panting heavily quickly looks behind and over her shoulder while running through the bush track. She is getting tired but the fear in her is what is keeping her going. "Keep going, keep going" she repeats as a mantra in her head.
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"Come on Dad, I'll race you to the next bend" Marcus laughingly said to his dad knowing that his dad couldn't resist a challenge. Marcus stood high on his bike, peddling his legs and took off with his dad not too close behind, as they laughed and urged each other to get to the bend, a pretty girl in joggers, a tight pink T-shirt and black running shorts was running towards them so Marcus and his dad slowed down as the track was wide enough for them to race side by side but not enough room for the jogger as well. As she approached she held her hands up and waved them about. Marcus and his dad slowed down but they didn't stop completely. The girl pleaded with them to stop, saying something about a man who was chasing her with a knife, she told them to turn around and stay with her. Marcus's dad looks down the track which is now straight and couldn't see anyone, let alone anyone chasing this girl with a knife. Marcus's dad says sorry but they need to move on and that there is no one down the track and says that if she wants she can come in the direction they are going. The girl was about to go with the two cyclists but she knows the man with the knife is in that direction, and says no and that they shouldn't go that way, there's a deranged man with a knife. Marcus and his dad ride off, not really believing her.
Marcus and his dad continue on their way, never seeing the 'deranged man with the knife'.
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After another 20 minutes of cycling Marcus and his dad decide to turn back to return home, all thoughts of the girl gone as they were both so involved in spending time with each other and they loved these days of father and son bonding. As they approached the bend where they saw the girl Marcus notices a lone jogger shoe in the path, Marcus slows down and sees the bare leg sticking out of the bush beyond the track. Marcus calls out to his dad, they stop, get off their bikes and slowly push back the branches of the low lying tree to see the girl that told them to help her; her open eyes staring up to the sky, her throat slit, her hands cut as if she tried to defend herself and her pink tshirt was now stained with blood and with knife cuts. Marcus's dad said to Marcus she's dead, we need to call the police, lets get home now so we can call, Marcus's dad made a mental note where she was as he knew this track well.
Once they arrived home they rang the police and reported it. The police came out, Marcus's dad showed them where the dead girl was, but when the police went to the area that Marcus's dad said it would be but there was no body, no evidence, no blood, no nothing to say that there even was a girl at all. The police checked the surrounding area and assured Marcus's dad that he couldn't have seen that girl as there was absolutely no evidence that there was a dead girl or assault anywhere in the general area that Marcus indicated. After a thorough search most of the police just didn't believe him, thinking that the sun and exercise may have affected him.
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Life goes on and the memory of the girl fades.
Chapter 1
35 years later -2010
"Rift alert" Tosh calls out over the comms "in the Radyr Woods bush lands, 10 miles from Cardiff"
"You're with me Ianto, lets check it out" Jack said looking towards the handsome Welsh man.
Ianto grabs Jack's coat and holds it out for Jack, Jack slips his arms through and Ianto brushes the shoulders of Jack's great coat and smiles admirably, this ritual practised so many times that it is fluid in motion and not even noticed by the others anymore.
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Steering through country roads dodging the occasional rabbit that raced across the road, Jack and Ianto sped to the rift site as they debated who could retrieve details faster.
"No, I beg to differ, I know where everything, and I mean everything is, don't forget that it was I who fixed up the.…..whatever it was before me, I know every entry in the archives" Ianto said mockingly.
"Ahhh my dear Ianto, you forget I lived everything that is in the archives" Jack said humoursly.
"Yeah you may have lived it but remembering it, is two different things Jack" Ianto said smiling at his lover.
"Mmmm some things are easier to remember than others" Jack said his hand reaching out to caress Ianto's thigh. Ianto looked down at Jack's hand then looked up at Jack and sighed, he hoped after he dies that he is one of the people that Jack would remember after centuries of living. It was not easy to live with someone who had lived for many hundreds of years but the hardest part was knowing that Jack would take other lovers after him and he hoped, would like to think that he is/was memorable. Ianto reached out and caressed Jack's neck.
"Oh guys, the rift just disappeared, there's nothing there…" Tosh called out in their blue tooth devices.
"Okay, no wor….." Jack said
"no residule, how can that be? It wasn't the usual 10 minute flare but the spike was large, I'm sorry….there's nothing"
"It's o…"
"Let me look again, the readings are strange, nothing for you to worry about…" Tosh continued.
"Tosh, Tosh" Jack tried to interrupt, "We…"
"No, there's something, no gone again"
"It's okay, we'll check it out anyway" Jack laughed, grinned at Ianto, they both were thinking that Tosh, their friend could ramble for hours and loved the technical side of things, she thought they were all so fascinating, that any reading was strange to her; everything was worth investigating. "It's fine Tosh, we are going to check it out anyway"
"Thanks Tosh" Ianto said laughing, quietly with Jacked. They continued on their way to Radyr Woods.
Reaching the rift site, Jack and Ianto investigated where the rift coordinates were but could see nothing out of the ordinary after searching for a good half day as well as enjoying the sunshine, something they haven't had a chance to do in quite some time. On the way home Jack suggested that they rest up before heading back to the Hub. As they lazed in the grassy park sharing an apple, Ianto's head resting in Jack's lap they chatted about their upcoming holiday to Venice passing the apple between them.
On their return drive back as they left the Radyr Woods, they noticed some police cars parked near an entry point to the local bush track and slowed their speed down, no need to annoy the police if there was no reason to, the police didn't really care for them at the best of times. And anyway Jack didn't want this perfect afternoon spoilt with him having to explain to the local police that they are Torchwood and they were outside of the police, it always got their backs up, Jack chuckled, the rift spike showed nothing strange so the local police activity had nothing to do with them so they continued on.
"Hey Ianto, what say we send the guys home early tonight, I'm thinking we try some Italian tonight in readiness of our holiday" Jack says with a twinkle in his eye, as Ianto was checking the residual rift reading in the area, even though they found nothing he still wanted to be sure mainly to rest assure the ever efficient Tosh.
"Why send the others home? That little Italian place near the Hub does a great group deal." Ianto said confused.
"Not what I was thinking." Jack said smirking, looking at Ianto out of the corner of his eye.
"Oh and what were you thinking?" Ianto answered suspiciously, although with Jack anything is possible, but he couldn't for the life of him think what Jack was thinking, what could Italian food have to do with sex.
"Oh that's for me to know and you to find out" Jack smirked.
Ianto rolled his eyes but his curiosity was peaked, and he smiled despite his apprehension. Life and sex with Jack was always interesting, never boring.
"I'll give them a call" Ianto said smiling
Jack chuckled and Ianto wondered what he was in for tonight, Jack and Italian food, could be an interesting night.
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Marcus moved back into his childhood family home when his parents had died in a road accident bringing his wife and family, they lived there, he and his wife raising their children in the healthy country air before his children moved into the city to attend university and make their own careers. Life was had its usual ups and down for Marcus, his wife passing away from cancer after the last of the children entered university, a girl, who was the apple of her father's eye. She would visit many times throughout the year and each time they would cycle the bush track just like Marcus used to do with his dad. Marcus enjoyed these times with his daughter as his sons were travelling.
Marcus was resting in front of the TV watching the news when the screen showed a scene of the bush track that he is very familiar with. It was reporting that there was a girl found killed near this bush track, her throat was slashed and stabbed multiple times and had lots of defensive wounds to her hands. Marcus has flashes of the girl that he and his dad saw so many years ago that they encountered on that same bush track but there was no girl when they tried to show the police, it was weird, they couldn't convince the police that what they saw was real, not imagined but since there was no girl, no signs of a murder, no reports of a girl missing, it was dismissed by the police and Marcus and his dad forgot about it as time moved on, until now. As he tried to shake these visions from his head, the doorbell rang. Marcus opened the door to the police.
A/N: I know you are probably wondering what does this 'Marcus' have to do with Torchwood, well read on, my dear reader, all will be revealed soon enough.
