My TORCHWOOD story:
Title: An entire new world.
AN: I have based this on the early stages of series 2 before Rhys knows about TORCHWOOD. Gwen is in a car crash and wakes up to a 'New World.' BTW there is a small part in Chapter One that just explains all of the characters from Gwen's point of view. No Gwen bashing intended.
Opening Chapter:
It was 3am when I got a call from work, it was urgent, it usually is … With my new job that is … I woke up my fiancé and told him I had to go, he didn't mind, he doesn't usually … Ever since I have started my new job I have just been seeing less and less of him, sometimes I can see it in his face that he is angry or disappointed … *Sigh* At work a Weevil has probably got out of the sewers and started to terrorise people … My new job, working for Torchwood …
Chapter 1:
I'm now on my way to work driving Rhys' car, not too sure what car it is but its fast enough, just about. I would rather have an SUV like works, with flashing lights that light up the night sky and sirens that could be heard from miles away. I would get there a lot quicker.
Oh well.
I have got my "sexy red top" on as Rhys likes to call it. I smirk to myself just thinking about the first time he said that to me but that's another story. With just a simple pair of blue jeans on, my black leather jacket, keeping me warm at this late hour and my also black leather boots too big for my feet with a little heel pressing down on the excel peddle. My almost black hair now quite covering my eyes but close.
Gosh.
I can't believe how late it is, forget that I don't know how I was even able to get up, none of us at work got a good night sleep, not after what happened a few hour ago actually… Never mind that now though, that is in the past and this seems to be more important.
I just can't stop thinking about Rhys, how angry he must be with me. But he's probably already back asleep in bed, not that I can blame him. Maybe not though, he might not be able to get to sleep and watching the football. I only thought of this because it had happened before, he's told me himself. I just hope he can forgive me; this has happened a lot of times before. What will he be like when I get back… if I do get back that is, with my new job my life has been on and off the line a lot of the time.
It's weird.
I go from working as a police woman to only the most exciting thing I have ever done. I mean yeah there was stopping a few fights in the pub from people who have been drinking too much for one night but nothing much. Don't get me wrong, this job is not all good as it seems, all the blood the deaths and some of the unmentionable, it's all so gory. Sometime I just can't stand it. I had never held a gun or got threatened by on for that matter, but now I have one on me, tucked into the right-back side of my jeans so easy to reach and pull out if needed. I don't always fantasy the idea of guns, never have. You know all of the shooting people or aliens. But now I hunt down aliens and have to protect myself and other people. All these aliens I never knew about, all he technology, it's amazing!
Toshiko Sato, or as we like to call her Tosh. She loves that sort of thing, she loves finding new technology aliens lose or leave behind, to adapt them and try to figure out how to use them, finding out new things about new aliens. She's sort of a geek really, it does sound horrible but she is… She great at computer work, she loves them. She could track anything down like a Hawk on pray, it only takes a matter of minutes and she's found it. She's a Japanese woman with a great personality, very kind. This then brings me to Owen Harper…
HA, boy does he have a mouth on him or what…? Don't get me wrong, he can be a nice lad but is very stern most of the time, always picking his way into arguments and fights just to keep him entertained. He likes the whole gun idea and shooting things, it's just him I guess, if he was threatened to what he thinks is a high enough circumstance then he would shoot without even thinking about it or its consequences'. Handsome? YES! He does have that charming look about him, with pale skin and dark hair. I must say that something happened with us once for a while but we have never really talked about it since then, just ones off when him or Jack are trying to piss me off. I'm actually glad we don't talk about it now, I love Rhys and I want to be with him for the rest of our lives. I must admit that Owen is good at running and racing but I could beat him any day, he is an on-off doctor I guess well that's what he likes to call himself but he just doesn't deal with patience, he says it's easier and a hassle. I only believe him because he was the one that sorted me out when I got shot in the middle of nowhere a while ago.
Oh, I haven't mentioned Ianto Jones yet have I? He's a lovely chap and has a kind heart you don't even have to of known him for five minutes to understand what he's like. He's the one who sorts things out when there is a problem between any of us or if anything goes wrong, he'll cheer you up when you are feeling down, he's good at that sort of thing, with always a big bright grin upon his face. He doesn't like all of the fighting, chasing (by foot) or arguing that comes with this job but he pulls through. He usually drives us places, where we have to go but usually comes with us and helps out with what's going on and gets involved with the crimes and mysteries. I like to think that sometimes when he drives us all somewhere that he only does it because he likes to drive the SUV around. He's also basically our coffee boy, always asking us if we want a cup or knows that we are stressed and just makes us one. We do get offered them a lot. He makes the best coffee I have ever tasted, even better than Rhys' although I think that Ianto just uses a machine considering I have heard him muffle to Jack about breaking it if he doesn't stop arguing. Basically without Ianto the team would fall apart. He has a Welsh accent like mine but male of course, he also has dark hair and has that boyish look about him.
No team is complete without a leader, ours is Captain Jack Harkness. He's not a real captain be likes to be called that, just something he must have picked up I guess. Let's just say I could go on about him for hours, from his immortality to his trench coat he wears ALL of the time, so I'll just stick to the basics. He can't die! I'm serious, because I'm sure that you don't believe me. Every time he gets shot of thrown off a building (or another way he manages to get himself killed) he magically comes back to life either a few minutes later or a few hours. I don't get it, it's confusing. I've known about it for quite a while now even since before I joined Torchwood which is over a year ago now. No one else knew until Owen had shot him which wasn't long ago either… I only found out by accident as well all because of Suzie (a former member of Torchwood.) She had shot him through the head not knowing about his immortality, but again that's another story. Since he's immortal he never ages, well he does but doesn't show it, even if he lived to a thousand he would still look like a handsome man in his late thirties to early forties. He's nice but can be incredibly harsh when he wants to or needs to; basically it's his way or no way at all. He hates it when people disobey him and usually goes in moods with them, but only for a while, he could never hold a grudge for a long amount of time, unless you're Captain John Hart that is… He always thinks that he knows best just because he has lived longer than the rest of us, but you know what I say to that, that it is complete utter bullshit! He might have lived longer but people know more about different things and he just has to find that thing in himself to tell him. However, he probably does know best most of the time, none of us really know or understand what has gone on in his life before we met him… This may come as a shock to some of you, but he is gay, I'm not saying it is a bad thing just that he is very handsome and any woman would love to have him. (Even me at one point when I first joined Torchwood!) He has a charming look about him and a strong American accent that any woman would drool over (young or old.) I must say without the others telling me that he was gay I never would of guessed! Actually I think that him and Ianto have gone out a few times before and are still going out, they suit each other but I think that they are trying to keep it as quite as possible. Actually thinking about it in more detail, he has been married to a woman before, when they were way younger, of course they had to end their relationship because of how old they looked but he still loves her and she loves him that way until she was killed by these pesky little fairies as I watched him break down in front of me, holding her close. It was terrible, but she was an old woman which isn't even a good point really when I think about it… Jack, he always wears a long trench coat, an old one that he must have picked up a while ago, he does look really gorgeous in it though… I wonder if I can buy Rhys one from somewhere. But where do you buy trench coats from? Also, I must say that he is the BIGGEST flirt I have ever met and there have been quite a few, he never stops flirting with other people besides Ianto, boy of girl it doesn't matter. Even chatted up a few aliens on quite a few occasions. He would flirt with any alien species if he had the chance. One of the main things that confuse me about him is that he keeps going on about this right sort of Doctor, that can fix him on what has happened to him due to his immortality, I don't think that he wants to be immortal any more but just be normal and live a normal life like anyone else. But the main question is, Doctor Who?
Now, all I need to explain is the Hub. The Hub is our hideout underground where we go to work. We meet there to organise new cases and do office work. It's not all boring luckily; we have a laugh and play basketball sometimes, we always just mess around, I mean what's the point of being a grown up if you can't have a little fun?… but that's what we have to do, unless we want this job to tear our lives apart. We hardly ever are serious when in there unless it's down in the cells we have for aliens. All of our high tech equipment is there except for the things in the SUV, which we do all of our work on. No one will be able to find it, we hope. It is really complicated to get into it both ways. I won't explain that because it is just too confusing.
Almost at the Hub now, it took me long enough. I'm just tired; I can hardly keep my eyes open. I wish I could go back to bed and snuggle up with Rhys, where it's warm and safe. But I can't get distracted now; I don't want to cause an accident.
It's frustrating.
All of the alien things I don't get or don't understand, I need to ask the others most of the time actually, they must get annoyed with me even though they don't show it, asking questions all of the time. If I'm honest I don't even think that they get it themselves some of the time either. Not even Jack. Oh well, if I don't get something I'll just ask them… I mean they can't blame me for that, can they?
This does sound horrible but none of them have any family that I know of. Except Jack and Ianto have each other but that doesn't count. Also Tosh and Owen have seemed interested in each other quite recently I mean I think they haven't expressed their true feelings for each other that they truly have, or at least not yet… Someone outside of work that they go home to and look forward to seeing. I don't know a lot about their personal lives, we never really talk about it, it's either too awkward or no one mentions it. I don't even know about parents of even if they have any for that matter. I don't know what I would do without my mum and dad. They have no social lives either, I don't recall the last time that any of them were going out with and friends or mates. We don't talk about that either. I'm not trying to brag but I am the only one with an outside life outside of Torchwood. Jack, he keeps telling me not to throw my life away for my job and that keeping an outside life is important, he says it's not worth it, to let my job take control of my life.
Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit.
A traffic jam! Just what I blooming well need. Traffic lights are far away as well. Haven't been red for long either. How long is it going to take me to get past these? And what the hell are the roads so busy this time of night anyway? It's bloody past 3am! HELLO, go to bed whilst you have the chance!
*RING. RING*
Dimmitt! Probably work knowing my luck. I reach towards my handbag to the seat beside me on the left of me. I take both hands off of the wheel but before that I pull the brakes on the car. Unzipping it I can still hear it going off. I search through my bag for what feels like forever but is only actually a few seconds before I pull out my mobile phone. Great, it's work.
*BEEP*
"Hello." I say as I put the phone to my ear with my left hand and firmly place my right back onto the steering wheel.
"WHERE THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU?" I hear Owen screech down the phone. "Hurry up!"
"Fucking hell Owen, I can't, I'm stuck in traffic. What am I to do? Go around them?" I say sarcastically back at him. Trying to sound calm.
"If that gets you faster here then yeah!"
"Well NO!" I then say in a mocking voice with my Welsh accent forcefully. "What is it anyway, what's going on?" I ask unsure what to say next.
"It's too confusing. You'll have to see when you get here. It's from the Rift but everything is that's alien." Tosh says. 'Ok then,' (I think) 'well that's weird. No, I mean for Tosh she hardly ever gets confused.'
"Would you just blooming hurry up already!?" Owen half asking half just wanting to scream into my ear. He hangs up a moment later so I have no time to say anything in respond. He leaves me trying to ring back no knowing what to do. He doesn't answer and probably won't let anyone else for that matter, when I try to ring back multiple times after, how rude. Haha I just wish I could punch him right now, not that I feel like I have to or anything.
YES!
The traffic lights have finally changed, I'm about to put my car into the right gear when I notice a large man in a black huddie just walking past my car on the pavement to the left. He looks at me, I can tell by the way his head is held, facing me I only see his eyes. Light blue. Shining in the dark, like cats eyes only, well blue. 'That's odd.' I think I can't see the rest of his face; it's too dark, what's going on? A split second later after he looks over my way, he turns again to face the pavement, not slowing his pace along the cold, dry sidewalk.
*BEEP!*
Oh crap, I've held the extremely long queue for 3 in the morning. Just because of that one small thing, it was probably just a trick of the light, so I'll just forget about it and move on. But before I can even get close to the lights they turn red again. 'Well at least I'm at the front' I think trying to look on the bright side, but I know that they are all going to be really pissed off at me at work, but I can't change that now, they shouldn't have called me and expected me to be there so quick!
Maybe I should just cut through. I mean, there aren't any cars going past, only a queue in the lane I'm in. I know I shouldn't, it was my job before to stop that from happening. I'm in a rush as it is. No police vehicles in sight and I'm only turning left.
*RING RING*
Seriously, work again; do they expect me to be there in less than two minutes?
*BEEP*
"Yes, yes I know that I'm late and that you need me but I can't come any faster then I already am." I say before whoever is on the other end of the line can have the chance to speak. Although thinking it was going to be Owen, I did almost swear down the phone at him!
"Ok, ok" I hear Jack say as I mentally have a party in my head because it's not Owen, but he is getting a good mouthful when I get there. "I'm just ringing to say that you really need to stay careful when you are driving cause we are not sure of what this thing actually is and could look like anything, I mean for all we know this thing could be invisible!" Jack says quickly not leaving out a single detail.
I lock myself in quick before my brain has the chance to register what I have done.
"Ok I'm locked in but now what?" I ask not getting worried but just say a little too fast than usual.
"Don't pull over for any reason. This thing could look like a child for all we know." Tosh explains.
"I'm on speaker aren't I?" I ask already knowing the answer.
"YES!" Jack, Ianto, Tosh and Owen all say at the same time. As I laugh. "Don't worry Gwen; I'll meet you outside when you get here alright?" Jack asks even though it wasn't really a question.
"Ok, but I have to go now, the lights are changing." I say thinking that they have already hung up a few seconds later I simply chuck my phone onto my bag resting on the seat next to me.
Taking in the advice, I look both ways. With nothing in sight I slowly make my way past the traffic lights. But before I can even start to turn left…
"CRASH!"
Smack a car crashes into the right side of my car. Full on. My heads spinning too much for me to notice any close details. Except that my whole car has tipped over onto its left side of course. Bad day mot to wear a seat belt…
"Gwen?!" I hear Jack say down the phone, that's somewhere hidden beneath all of this. But I'm too weak and shocked to reply. I have smashed against the left side of the car just after the other persons car crashed into mine. No shit the glass has smashed. Bleeding a lot, blood everywhere, in too much pain to even move, so I cry silently. My head has banged on the ground. Hard. Glass everywhere, all windows broken that I can see. The windscreen has broken, cracked in a weird shape, but not broken. Glass has landed everywhere on me, too much glass looking beautiful as it falls, but when it hits the skin, it pierces it, no longer the clear glass it once was but bloodied.
"Gwen?" I can hear Jack screaming now. "Gwen? Gwen! What's happened? Gwen?!"
He's getting quieter now as my eyes begin to close "GWEN?" I Hear Jack say for the last time. And I'm gone . . .
