I've finally written the first episode as a story rather then leaving it as a script. This focuses mainly on Bella and her working for Torchwood.
disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood :( But I own Bella.
"There you go. I can taste it. Estrogen. Definitely estrogen. You take the Pill, flush it away, it enters the water cycle, feminizes the fish—"Jack started to say as Suzie pulled a metal glove out of its case and slips it on her right hand. A Japanese girl was looking at her equipment, while a young man was recording them with a small digital camera.
"It goes all the way up into the sky, and then falls all the way back down on to me. Contraceptives in the rain. Love this planet. Still, at least I won't get pregnant. Never doing that again." He continued, he turned back to the team, "How's it going?" he asked Suzie who was waiting for a reaction from the glove that was over her hand.
"Nothing yet. It's got to connect, I've just got to feel it." She said looking at Jack then back to the body lying in the middle of a dark alleyway.
"Then hurry up and feel it! I'm freezing my arse off here." Owen said as he leaned in closer to the body and Suzie.
"Oh stop complaining Owen, I'm not even meant to be here," A young girl said wrapping her coat tighter around her body to try and keep some of the rain off her. "Can I go yet? I need to get up early I have a early morning lecture."
"Don't worry Bella we'll be done soon." Jack said putting his arm around Bella's shoulders pulling her towards him to try and warm her up a bit. While Jack and Bella were talking Owen and Suzie were having their own conversation.
" I can't just flick a switch, it's more like access. It grants me access." Suzie said glaring daggers at Owen.
"Whatever that means." Owen mumbled and walked off. Bella laughed at the look on Owens face.
"Shut it you." He said to Bella who was still laughing a little, but stopped immediately when the glove started to move and a blue light came out of the palm of the glove and the light around the body became brighter.
"Positions." Jack said and everyone got in their positions around the now glowing body.
"If I get punched again. I am punching it right back." Owen said eyeing up the best place to punch.
"Oh yeah like you could even make a mark on him. You hit like a little girl." Bella said, her and Owen always had these playful banters with each other.
"Just, concentrate Suzie." Jack said ignoring Bella and Owen.
Suzie holds the man's head in her gloved hand. It's still raining but none of them notice, they just concentrate on the man on the ground. The light around him gets even brighter. After a moment the man gasps for air and life. Up above them no one notices Gwen Cooper staring down at the scene below her.
The dead man now moving was looking around from Toshiko, to Owen, to Bella and finally to Jack. He looked terrified and confused.
"There was...What was? I was...Oh, my God, I was going home." He said starting to panic.
Toshiko moved closer to him so he could focus only on her.
"Listen to me, we've only got two minutes so it's important that you listen, okay?"
"Who are you?" He asked looking around again.
"Trust me. You're dead?" Tosh said sympathically.
"How am I dead?"
"You were stabbed." Owen said bluntly and Bella sent him a look that would kill him instantly.
"I'm not dead, I can see you." He stated.
"We brought you back but we haven't got long, I'm sorry but you've got to concentrate, who did this to you? What did you see?" Tosh said jumping straight to the point as they didn't have long.
"Why am I dead?" Bella rolled her eyes it was obvious that they weren't going to get anything out of him so why put him through all of this, Bella hated it when they used the glove. Yeah it made their job a little easier but it was wrong!
"Who attacked you?" Tosh asked getting a little impatient but trying not to let it show.
"I don't want to be dead."
Suzie looked at her watch, "Sixty seconds." She warned Tosh.
Tosh looked at Suzie and then back to the man, " You've got to think, just focus on me. What was the last thing you saw?
"I didn't see any...I don't know."
"Who killed you, did you see them?" Tosh said hurrying up because they didn't have much time left.
"I don't know. There was...something behind me." He said Bella sighed finally they were getting somewhere but they didn't have that much time left.
"Police said one stab wound in the back." Bella said remembering what the police had told her.
"So you didn't see anything?" Tosh asked, the poor man was in tears now.
"No."
Tosh looks at Jack and Bella so does Suzie. The man on the floor looked around and saw the looks between the four people above him.
"What happens now?" He asked,
"Thirty seconds," Suzie said looking back at her watch.
"But he didn't see anyone." Tosh said looking back at Suzie.
"Don't waste it." Suzie said looking straight at Tosh.
"What else do I say?" Tosh said looking at Bella. Bella pulled herself away from Jack and knelt down beside him.
"What's your name?" she asked in a gentle tone.
"John, John Tucker."
Jack came down and knelt next to Bella holding on to one of her hands.
"Okay, John. Not long now." Jack said in the same tone as Bella.
"Who are you?" He asked.
"Captain Jack Harkness." He said.
Gwen heard that was still in shock from what she had seen.
"Tell me...what was it like when you died? What did you see?" Jack asked. John looked confused at Jacks question. "John, tell me what you saw."
"Ten seconds," Suzie warned them.
"Nothing. I saw nothing. Oh, my God. There's nothing." He cried and with that he closed his eyes and died. The light fades and Bella stands up and pulled her coat around her again as the rain was getting harder.
"Shit, I said it was stupid, telling him he was dead." Owen said looking at Tosh.
"Well you try it." Tosh said getting to her feet.
" Trust me, like that's gonna work." Owen said getting to his feet as well.
"Told the last corpse he was injured, he wasted the whole two minutes screaming for an ambulance." Bella explained remembering that. She shouldn't be remembering things like that she was too young to have had seen all the things she had seen.
"Maybe there's no right way of doing it." Jack stated but then he looked up to the roof of the building that Gwen was on. "What do you think?"
Gwen stepped back and gasped he was talking to her. Had he known that she was there the whole time? She runs across the garage towards the stairs. She continues to run not believing what she was seeing.
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"Can I go home now?" Bella asked when they got back to the hub.
"Aw is little Bella tied?" Owen teased poking her in the sides. Tosh was laughing from her station as was Jack and Ianto who were standing next to each other on the walkway. Suzie had gone into the deep depths of Torchwood and wouldn't be seen for the rest of the night.
"No, she just needs to get up early and try not to fall asleep during the middle of a lecture." Bella said pushing Owen away laughing. "So can I?" she said looking up at Jack.
"Yeah go on. Get going, I'll see you later." He said smiling at her.
"Oh, so you are coming home later then?" Bella said with a smirk.
"Hmm maybe." He said still smiling.
"I won't hold my breath." She said walking towards the cog door, she turned and waved and said goodnight before walking out into the night.
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The next day while Bella was sitting in class not paying any attention to what her tutor was saying as usual. She often wondered how she got distinction in all her coursework, but her not paying attention was starting to show because she kept failing. It wasn't her fault she knew what she was doing but she couldn't explain it. Anyway while she was doing that Gwen Cooper was sitting in hospital getting her head seen to because of an incident that happened in a bar.
She was walking down the corridor when she heard someone speak. She looks up and sees Jack running up the stairs wearing a long, blue trench coat. She follows him and sees that the upstairs and sees that the corridor has been blocked off. She sees a porter walking up the stairs.
"Excuse me, sorry." She said and the porter turned to her, "It's all sealed off up there. Who did that?"
"Thought it was you lot." He said looking at her.
"But what's it for, what happened?" She said looking very confused right now.
"I don't know, 9 o'clock this morning, it was all sealed off, they never said. Chemicals or something." He explained then walks away.
Gwen walks up to the seal pauses for a second then walks through it onto an abandoned corridor.
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Bella was really bored by now she had been there for 3 hours now and she hadn't listened to a single word the tutor said. 'God mum will kill me if I fail this one, I should really be paying attention but I really don't want to be here. Call me if the world ends. Why did I tell them that? I want to be with them helping them.' It was then she felt her phone vibrate in her pocket. She silently pulled it out and saw that it was a text from Jack.
Weevil at hospital! Tricky one need help. J xx
Bella looked at the clock, only 2 more minutes the she could go. 2 minutes later she ran out of the classroom.
"Oi, Bella where you going?" Dan shouted out to her.
"Sorry cover for me yeah?" She said and ran out of the doors and grabbed a taxi to the hospital. When she got there she saw Jack standing outside waiting for her. She paid the fare and ran over to him.
"Ok why do you need my help? Can't you handle this one all by yourself?" She teased as they got in the lift.
"Nah, just wanted to see you." Jack laughed, "Didn't pull you out mid lecture did I?"
"Nope, just finished when I got your text." She said, "Could have said something 3 hours ago though, that had to be the world's most mind numbing lecture ever." Jack just laughed as the lift went up.
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"Hello?" Gwen called out. She saw at the end of the corridor someone, an adult wearing a jumpsuit. "Sorry, I'm looking for someone."
The weevil turns to look at Gwen. It remains silent. Gwen starts to move slowly towards it thinking that it is still a human being. The weevil just stayed where it was. As Gwen gets closer she starts to think that this person looks strange.
"Right...yeah. Clever. Anyway, I don't know if you saw a man come through here – a tall man, in one of those big sort of military coats."
The weevil still doesn't answer her. Gwen can clearly see that the thing in front of her doesn't look human. 'Could be a mask.' She thought to herself.
"Okay, if you could answer? This is official business." She said trying to sound important. She continues to get closer to the weevil and now can see it properly. She approaches it slowly and carefully. "You alright?" She smiles and points to its face, "That's good, that's a good mask sort of thing."
The weevil still doesn't do anything which is strange for a weevil normally Gwen would be dead by now but she didn't know that.
"Look, I'm sorry if I'm interrupting something, but...I think we can stop this now, okay?" She says getting scared now. The weevil just continues to look at her.
"It's all very well playing silly buggers, but I'm busy, alright? Now, I'm looking for a man in a big grey coat. I said we can stop being silly." The Weevil finally hisses at her.
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Jack and Bella stood in the lift which was slowly reaching the floor that they wanted.
"How are the exams going?" Jack asked. Bella just looked at him and shrugged.
"If I fail this next one, mum is thinking of moving down here so I can move in with her, so I don't get distracted." She said, smiling at Jack.
"Well she can't mean me, I mean look at me." He teased.
"Yeah, she means this...working for you, well she doesn't exactly know that I work for you but she thinks that Torchwood is a distraction." She explained,
"Technically, you don't even work for us, you just help out." He smirked.
"That's just the excuse you use when you get told off for me being there." She laughed, "God how slow is this lift."
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At the end of the corridor Gwen was standing on the porter entered looking around.
"Ah! There you are, I did ask when I saw Dr Mahib cos I thought it was him who said about the police—"He said walking towards Gwen and the Weevil that Gwen was still looking at. " But he said no, then I said about the chemicals but he said don't be stupid, what chemicals? So I don't know, could be anything, who you got with you there then? So much for sealing it off." He sees the weevil's face. "Oh, ha! There's a face! Nice one. Hey, I tell you mate, you should try plastic surgery. Not on the NHS mind you." He turns to Gwen, "You alright?"
"Yeah,"
The porter turns back to the Weevil and starts to walk closer, "Bloody hell, that is brilliant. That's like erm...Hellraiser. That's first class, that is." He points to the Weevils teeth, "Look at that! That! It's just like real teeth. Don't it?"
The weevil finally moves and grabs the porter and bites his neck and then blood spurts everywhere. Gwen can't move as she hears the porter scream. Just then Jack and Bella walk out the lift. They both look at the weevil then to Gwen.
"Bella get her out of here." Jack shouts to Bella. She grabs Gwen's hand and starts to run down the corridor. Bella looks back and realises that she might have to help that as well. As she sees Tosh, Owen and Suzie struggle.
"Get it down! Get it down! Cuff it!" Toshiko screamed at Owen. Bella leaves Gwen to run, and she heads back to help the others. She helps Owen and Tosh restrain it and Suzie puts a bag over it's head.
Gwen runs and runs outside the hospital were she was nearly ran over by a black SUV. She gets in her own car and chases after it.
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Bella and the others make their way back to the water tower where the hub is.
"Oi, college girl ain't you meant to be somewhere?" Owen said to Bella.
"That's ok Owen don't mention it next time you need help with a weevil I might just sit back and watch." Bella said while the others laughed. They all get on the invisible lift and enter the hub.
Bella walked into Jack's office, "Whatchya lookin' at?" sitting on his desk.
"Hi come in." He said turning to face her,
"What, the others do it why can't I?" Bella said in a jokey way.
"Good point." He said and turned back to the screen, Bella walked over and saw Gwen and Andy on the screen standing outside the water tower.
"Think she knows something?" She asked
"Maybe, she followed us here after and saw us disappear." Jack said,
"Come on she isn't the first person to have noticed something. Is she?" Bella said with a small smile in her face. And walked out to go annoy Owen.
Later she came back in a saw Jack still looking at the screen, "You know someone might think you are stalking her." Jack turned to see her leaning against the door frame. "Knock, Knock,"
"Hey, I'm not stalking, she just turned up again."
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Gwen walked into the tourist office and saw a bloke wearing jeans and a plain black top looking really bored. When he heard her come in he looked up.
"Oh, hiya. Sorry I'm late. Someone ordered pizza."
"Who's it for?" Ianto asked.
"I think it's a ...Harkness."
Ianto smiles at her and presses a blue button which was placed behind the counter, and then the wall panel behind Gwen opens up. Gwen just stares at it. Ianto waits for her to go through, Gwen looked back at him.
"Don't keep them waiting, especially if it was Bella, I won't want to mess with her." He said and sat back down behind the counter.
Gwen walks through the passageway but stops and looks back at Ianto, he just nods motioning her to go through. So she does.
Part 2...