A/N: I do not own torchwood or any of the characters in it except the ones I add.
Ok, this is my new story. I know it kinda seems my stories are generally the same, but theyre not! Each one is very different and the characters are.
But eather way, I really really hope you like it!! PLEASE R&R (read and respond)!! thanks!!. btw,I have no BETA person, but if someone would like to, I would LOVE that. Hehe. Also, I know im not that good of a writer, I am just a kid. I do this for fun! Anyway, I hope you like it!
Jack ran through the dark alleyway lit only by street lights spread far apart at each end of where the buildings open to give way to bigger, more used streets. The dark object he was running after got to the end of the building where the alleyway opened first. He turned right and Jack lost sight of him, but that didn't stop him. He raced just behind the dark figure slowly catching up, while running fast. Jack looked at his tracker on his wrist band as he got around the corner of where the dark figure turned. He quickly stopped and hid back around the building. He saw the weevel he was pursuing standing in place, it faced a large trash bin, looking at something. Jack heard as soft voice talking to the weevel.
"Hello." The voice said gently.
"Where did you come from?" it asked the large weevil.
Something gracefully jumped up from the trashcan and hovered in the air as it slowly got closer to the weevil. The thing in the air looked like a small person, a child perhaps. Jack looked at it, wondering what was going to happen. The thing in the air was too close to the weevil now, that if he jumped in and intervened, the weevil would attack it for sure.
"Jack, where are you?" said a voice in Jack's ear. It came from his com. system.
"Ianto, I'm in an alleyway between Harrowby and Burt street."
"copy." Ianto replied.
"Wait!" Jack said.
"hold on a sec."
"Sorry Jack, did you say sex?" Jack rolled his eyes. He whispered more clearly into his wristband.
"No, I did not say sex, I said second."
"O right." He heard over his com system. Jack watched what was happening in the alleyway. The weevil was still looking at the thing in the air. It wasn't in the air for very long. His little talk with Ianto lasted only a few seconds.
"Are you alright?" The thing in the air asked softly as it started lowering to the ground. Just then, the weevil attacked the thing in the air, though it wasn't in the air anymore.
"No!" Jack yelled as he started running to help the defenseless thing trying to get away from the weevil. The thing screamed. It tried to jump into the air again, but the weevil knocked it down. It then laid on the ground motionless. The weevil saw Jack running towards it and dashed off. Jack ran to the the thing on the ground and knelt by its side. Jack could see from the low lighting that it was infact a child. A little girl. She had bad wounds from the weevil, both in her neck, and her side going towards her stomach, or at least thats what jack could tell by the blood that was seeping from her,what jack could make out to be a white summer dress. She laid there motionless, but them jack saw her take a little shaky breath in. He knew he had to get her back to the hub. Jack heard rustling coming from the direction the weevil took off. He looked up and saw Ianto turning the corner of the small street it left down, holding a semi-conscious, and confused weevil.
"Got him!" Ianto said to Jack in a proud tone. He waited for an acknowledgment, but he received a different response instead.
"Ianto, I need you to get the truck, the weevil hurt this girl, we have to get her to the hub, hurry!!" Jack said. Ianto took in the site of Jack kneeling by the child.
"here." he said, dropping the handcuffed and dazed weevil to the ground and he dashed off in the direction of the vehicle. Jack heard quickly after, the sound of screeching tires against the cold cement of the road. Jack knew it was the vehicle, so he scooped up the little girl gently into his arms. Ianto ran out of the truck.
"Is she ok?" He asked concerned.
"I don't know. Grab the weevil and we got to go." Jack ordered.
"I'll drive. You take care of the girl." Ianto suggested as he grabbed the weevil and loaded it in the back of the truck.
"Ok." Jack said, getting himself and the girl into the back of the truck. They quickly loaded in and Ianto put the lights on and sped towards the hub.
Ianto looked behind him. Jack was holding his cell phone up to his ear.
Jack heard the other line pick up.
"Hello?" a sleepy voice said on the other end.
"Owen, I need you in the hub now, its an emergency."
"Jack? Its three o'clock in the morning you know." Owen said, obviously not hearing anything of what jack had just said.
"Owen, the hub, now, or this girl will die."
"What?!" Owen said. His voice sounded much more awake now.
"OK, I'll be there as fast as I can." Owen said. Jack heard a click and he put his phone away too.
Ianto drove right up to the back entrance to the hub. Jack quickly got out of the car and put the girl gently, but swiftly, back into his arms. Ianto closed the door behind them. Jack was already running to the door, Ianto quickly behind him.
They burst into the hub. Jack ran down to the autopsy table. Ianto put the cover onto of the table and Jack laid the girl on it. She looked so small compared to the table.
She couldn't have been more than 10 years old, thought Jack.
Owen ran in from the door and ran down to the autopsy room a few minutes behind Jack and Ianto. He had blue scrubs on and an undershirt. His hair was untidy and he had obviously just jumped out of bed.
"Owen!" Ianto said as he saw Owen running down the steps. Jack looked up from looking at the child.
"What happened?" Owen asked as he grabbed a stethoscope and threw it around his neck. He checked her eyes to see if her pupils responded to light, then he checked her breathing. He then checked out her wounds.
"It was a weevil. We have it in the back of the truck actually." Ianto said.
"man, it really got her good." Owen said.
"Ok, Ianto, I need a heart monitor, the medicine from the blue cabinet, all 5 scanners, and the IV drip and poll. We gotta turn the autopsy room into a medical room. Got all that?" Owen asked.
"heart monitor, medicine from the blue cabinet, all 5 scanners from the back, the IV drip, and poll." Ianto repeated.
"great, thanks." Owen said.
"oh, and wait." Ianto turned around to see what else Owen had to say.
"get the defibrillator and the oxygen, just in case." Owen said.
"right. Got it." Ianto said.
Jack looked up at these last few words. Owen looked back at him.
"Just in case." Owen repeated.
"Ok, you got everything handled? I have to got to my office." Jack said.
"Yeah. I got it." Owen said getting to work.
Jack came out of his office periodically to look down at how things were going, but he didn't really want to. The alarm bell started to ring as the door to the hub opened.
"donuts for everyone! And coffee, even better, though Ianto, we all know yours is the best, I thought you deserved someone else making it for once and..." Gwen started saying as she walked in carying a tray full of coffee and a big bag filled with assorted donuts.
"Hello?" She asked when she didn't see anyone. She walked into the room more. She heard movement down in the autopsy room. She looked down over the railing into the autopsy room. She saw Owen sewing up a little girl. Ianto came from behind Gwen.
"Gwen?" Ianto said from behind her. She turned around.
"Hi." She said.
"What happened?" she asked referring to the child.
"Weevil."
"Oh."
"Thanks for the coffee." Ianto said smiling at her.
"No problem."
Gwen handed him the coffee and he took a sip.
Gwen headed up to Jack's room. She knocked on the door. She waited a few seconds, then she heard a 'come in' from Jack. He had just adjusted himself and moved some papers over out of the view of Gwen.
"I brought coffee." Gwen said.
"Ah, thank you." He replied.
"And donuts."
"great, I'm starving." Jack said. Gwen put the bag of donuts on the desk and he opened it and took the biggest one with chocolate frosting on top.
"mmm, chocolate, my favorite!" He said, winking at Gwen.
"So, whats been going on here? What it that child down there about?" she asked curiously.
"Last night, Ianto and I went weevil hunting. I saw her in an alley way that the weevil went down and-" Jack started to say, but he was cut off by the entrance of Owen.
"Jack- I stabilized her. Her insides were all messed up. I fixed them. She'll be ok."
"Good." Jack said relieved.
"But there's one thing-" Owen said, a bit tentatively.
"What is it?" Jack asked, looking at Owen to try and read his expression before he got the news.
"She, she two hearts!" Owen said. Gwen reacted in shock. Jack's eyes grew wide.
"No, it cant be!" He thought to himself with ought saying it out loud.
"I did a scan. There is not much different than that. Her genetic make up is weird though. Kind of like human, but...not. And then there are her two hearts. I have her hooked up to two EKG monitors.
One for each heart."
"Ok, good work Owen." Jack paused.
"You know, I didn't say anything, but in the alleyway, just before the Weevil got her, she was flying."
"So, are we sure then that she is not from earth?" Owen asked uncertainly.
"Yeah, I think it is safe to assume that, though we cant be sure until she wakes up and ask her some questions." Jack said, analyzing the situation. He took a big breath in.
"How long do you think it will be until she wakes up?"
"I think it should take a few hours at least, not until later in the day." Owen said, thinking.
"Ok, keep an eye on her. I want to know right before she wakes up or if anything changes, or anything!" Jack said.
"Alright." Owen said. He eyed the coffees in Gwen's hand.
"Oh, here." she said handing it to him.
"Thanks." Owen said, he smiled, turned, then left the room. Gwen followed him out. Owen went to his desk. All except one of his computer screens were monitoring the girl. The screens to his left and right showed a screen of the feed and information that the machines were monitoring of either the girl's consciousness level, her heart, her lungs, and some other things Gwen did not know. Gwen looked around. Toshiko had arrived while Gwen was in Jack's office. She was sitting at her computer desk doing something complicated that Gwen did not know. Actually, Gwen doubted that Jack knew what Tosh was doing. No one hardly ever knew exactly what Tosh was doing on her computer. Se saw Ianto in the back tiding up the table and kitchen area. She finally turned her attention to the girl. Gwen walked down the steps to the autopsy room, the room the girl was in. She walked up to get a better look of the girl's face. Gwen gently pushed back some of the hair on the girl's face. She had beautiful light brown hair. It seemed like it didn't just fall from her head, but flowed instead. She saw there was a small flower tucked behind her ear, lost in her hair. Gwen pulled it out. It was pink, though it had started wilting. She looked at the girl's face. She had light freckles spread across her nose and cheeks like stars. She then looked at her whole body. She looked so small compared to the bed she was laying on. So many wires covered her small body. Some thing caught Gwen's attention around the girls neck. It easily blended in with the wires, but it wasn't a wire. It twinkled in the light, and the wired only lit up dully. Gwen moved the chain around her neck. She found hanging on the chain a charm. It was bright silver meddle in the shape of a star. The center of the star was cut out and in replace, embedded in was a gem or crystal, or something Gwen had never seen before. It seemed to glow dully. But the light of it seemed to come from inside it, not from the provided light of the room. It's dull glow was a light blueish color, yet it seemed all the colors remained inside it. Especially silver. It was curious, but beautiful. Gwen laid the charm back down on the little girl, swallowed in machine wiring. She sighed as she took one last look at the girl, then walked up the stairs and went to her desk to work on something at her computer.
"Jack! You may want to get down here!" Owen called. Gwen looked up from her work. It was about 6 o'clock PM. Owen had just passed her desk. One of the alarms from his computer was flashing and beeping. Jack ran down from his office. He ran down the steps and took a spot on the side of the bed. Gwen went up to the railing on top and stayed up there, watching what was happening below. Tosh stayed at her computer, but she was getting live feed and could see everything that was happening. Owen was checking all her monitors.
"What is it?" Jack asked. His hands were on his hips.
"She's waking up." Owen said after he examined the last monitor. He then turned to her IV drip. He made sure everything was working fine. One of the machine's numbers was starting to rise to higher numbers. -42. 43... Jack looked down at the girl. He saw her eyelids twitch a little. Then again. Her head moved a little too. Slowly, she started to wakeup.
