Just a side note, this is my first Torchwood fic and I have not yet finished watching the series and its been a few weeks since i have seen it, so details are blurry. If you notice anything wrong in the way of descriptions of the characters or the Hub, please let me know.
Disclaimer: I, unfortunately, do not own any of Torchwood. Yet.
I ran. As fast I possibly could I ran. Faster and faster. Good thing I had decided to wear trainers today. Not that I would have known that I would be running for my life. Particularly not in Cardiff.
It had started ordinarily enough. Waking up and forcing some breakfast down, trying to get back to healthy weight. Which was not at all easy, though many I suppose would be in heaven if their doctor told them to eat more. I can not stand it though. Not at all. After forcing breakfast down, I showered and got dressed. Normally I would call Freddy, my boyfriend. Well, at least until we started fighting. Out of the blue it was to. Random. Completely random. Anyway, not a good time to dwell on that. After eating, I walked to my psychiatrists. Trying to solve the cause of my depression. Not that he will ever understand.
And then the day was just the day. These creatures appeared during a dinner with Freddy, when I was beginning to become depressed again. He was yelling at me for not taking the meds. The meds do not work, so why should I take them? Besides, its not like I am a danger to myself. Anymore.
Into Cardiff Bay I ran, near the Millennium Center. I could have, would have sworn, if anybody had inquired, that the Bay was completely deserted. Which is why I jumped all the more when I heard a male voice call out from behind.
"Hey! Whatcha running from?" asked a semi-scrawny man. His hair was cropped short to his head, but a tad bit longer than a buzz cut. He stared intently at me. My running slowed, and I glanced around. Where was it? What was it? And why had it been chasing me?
Slowly, as if trying not to frighten me more, the man walked over. "I'm Owen. I was just walking home and saw you running. Someone chasing you?" He was standing next to me now, concern obvious in his eyes. I nodded, too out off breath to speak. He glanced around. No one.
"Some type of creature was chasing me. No idea what it was or why." I was about to begin rambling, I could tell. Feel it in my mind. But before I could continue, a new voice rang out.
"Owen!" called out a female. Looking over I saw that she was Asian.
Owen turned. "Yeah Tosh?"
"Jack says to come back in. He did not like the looks of that creature we saw on the CCT. We all have to stay here till he decides its safe enough for us to go home." she turned to go back to wherever she came from, but then paused. "And he says to bring her in with us." She gave me a pointed look.
Owen nodded and turned to me. "Coming?" he held out his arm, and for some unknown reason, I took it. He led me over to where Tosh was standing, on a piece of regular concrete. When he and I stepped onto it however, he pressed a button on his wristband and it began to move downwards! I jumped out fright, and he and the Asian named Tosh just smiled. And as we descended, my eyes grew wide at what surrounded me.
There was a huge water tower, presumably continued from the one above and a huge pterodactyl soared past us. As we descended, a new piece of concrete filled in the whole left above. And when we reached a ground, a somewhat rugged looking man with brown hair was waiting in a World War Two jacket. He smiled a giant smile when he saw me.
"Hello. Captain Jack Harkness."
