Before Jack gets the chance to answer he can hear Tosh calling him on the comm.
"What is it Tosh?"
"I've looked everywhere, and there was no riftactivity what so ever last night."
"Then look again."
"I have. Nothing."
"Fine. Check for other abnormalitys then."
"Will do."
He turns back to the girl who's turned her gaze over to Owen who looks rather uncomfortable.
"So," Jack says to the girl making her watch him again. "Where did you come from?"
"I fell." She says with a smile. Her voice is different now, more soft and gentle. Not at all like when she was imitating Jack.
"Where did you fall from? Through the rift?"
She laughs at him, almost condecending. But to caring to be.
"No. I fell from the sky."
"And you landed here?"
"Yes. Under some trees."
"And where were you before you fell down here?"
She tilts her head once more, meeting Jacks gaze. He refuses to look away even though he's felling like he's falling again.
"You have many questions." She says as she looks away. Jack has to catch his breath from the challange of watching here eyes. She turns her back on him and walks over to the wall in the back of the cell. She watches it for a moment before gently putting her hand up. Inches away from the concrete she can feel the vibrations from it. As she puts her hand on the cold stone she can feel every dent, every crack, every flaw in it. She smiles as the rough material leaves a small dusttrace on her fingers.
"Don't you have any good aswers?" Jack asks when he gets his heartbeats and breathing under controll again.
"You're not asking the right questions."
"What's your name?" It's the first thing Owen's said to her. She spins around, her hair flying trhough the air like a golden field in the wind. She looks straight at him and smiles.
"Lux."
A quick smile appears on Owens lips, so filled with insecurity that it quickly vanishes again.
"I'm doctor Owen Harper."
"Hello Owen."
Jack watches the two of them for a second before interfering.
"Can you tell me why you felt the need to imitate me before answering?"
She's quiet for a second, still looking at Owen, before turning to Jack again.
"It takes a while to get used to talk here. And to be able to get the sounds right."
"So you don't talk where you come from?"
"Not like you do here."
Jack sighs. He's begining to lose his patience. The girl is getting on his nerves, and he doesn't like that one bit.
"Why are you glowing?" he asks while trying to not sound too impatient.
"Why wouldn't I be?"
"That's it!" Jack says while puting his hands up. "I'm done with you for now."
And he leaves. Lux lets her eyes follow him as a walks out of sight. Then she turns her gaze back to Owen. He looks back at her and that little insecure smile returns to him, and stays a little longer before faiding away agian.
"Owen! Get over here!" Jack yells from the big metal door in the other end of the corridor.
Owen blinks a few times before he exuces himself and runs off to Jack.
Lux is left standing in the cell. Slowly she walks over to the glasswall, putting her hand on it. She glass feels soft and hard at the same time. It's cold. But the longer she keeps her hand there, the warmer it gets. She smiles at the felling of that. When she takes away her hand she can see its inprint. She walks over to the center of the cell and sits down on the floor, legs crossed. She closes her eyes and lets her body feel the room. To take in every energy that's there.
Up in the conference room Jack is pacing. He doesn't like this. That girl is wierd, even in Torchwood measurements. It's not only the fact that the girl doesn't say where she's from, it's more the fact that he has no idea of where she's from. He's seen so many different ailen lifeforms in his life that he thought he knew everything, but this girl proves him wrong. The only thing he knows about her is that she fell from the skies, has a decreasing amount of radiation and that she doesn't speak like humans. And that's not nearly enough to satisfy him.
He's interrupted in his pacing by a soft cough behind him. He turns around and sees Ianto standing in the doorway.
"Need any help calming down sir?" He says. Jack just smiles at him, loving the way that Ianto insists on calling him sir all the time.
"Some answers would be great. Do you have any?"
"I've got coffe."
"That'll do for now."
Ianto comes up to him with a new smoking hot cup of coffe. Probably the third cup of the day, but the first one to be hot when Jack tastes it. He puts the cup down and takes Ianto in his arms. The feeling of the warm body against his own slows his heartbeats down and lets his mind drift away for a moment. Ianto puts his arms around Jack in return and snuggles down in the pit by Jacks collarbone. The warm breaths against Jacks bare skin makes him moan softly. Ianto smiles as he pulls away. Jack mourns the loss of Iantos warmth, but lets go. He pulls a hand though his hair as he tries to come up with some ideas of what to do. Then he thinks of something.
"Ianto, can you find the CCTV footage from the cell and bring it here. Something about this girl is bothering me, and I will find out what."
"Of course sir. I'll be back in a minute."
Jack sits down in his chair and waits.
After watching the footage over and over again for almost an hour it hits him what's been bothering him. He stands up and leaves the conference room in a hurry. He makes his way down towards the cells again when Tosh calls for him. He stops and turns around.
"What is it Tosh?"
"Is it okay to talk to you now? Ianto said you were busy and that I shouldn't disturb you, but..."
"You can tell me if you hurry. I have something to do."
"Okay. You asked me to look for other strange things last night."
"Yeah, go on."
"I think I found something. I found a blog online that was talking about a star falling in to Cardiff."
"A star? If that hits it leaves a mark and some very loud noices that makes people want to see what happened. And there was no such thing?"
"No. The blog just said that there was a falling star that left now sound, just a falling snow."
"Great. A nutter with a blog. Look further. There has to be something reliable."
"Okay."
Then Jack turns his back on her and continues down to the cells. The information he got from Tosh gave him nothing. Everyone knows that if a star falls, and it's not even stars that fall but meteorites, they make a sound. And the energy in the hit isn't something that would go unnoticed.
As he comes up to the cell he can see the girl still sitting on the floor with her eyes closed. He doesn't care about that but starts to talk.
"I know what's been bothering me about you."
As he says that the girl opens her eyes and looks at him with a curious look in her eyes.
"You're out of sync."
"What do you mean by that?" she gently asks him.
"Your words, the sounds of them doesn't match your mouth. And I want to know why."
Lux gets up from the floor and slowly walks over to the glass. She stands right infront of Jack and looks at him. She holds up her hand andt puts it against the glass once more. Without realising it Jack is about to match her movment and place his hand against hers. But inches away from the glass he sees what he's doing and brings his hand down.
"Tell me why." He says.
"Like I said. We don't talk the same way. You use your mouth to talk. I use my soul. And since every soul is conected you can understand me as well as I can understand you. I just move my mouth so that you won't be to startled when I start to talk to you."
"So you're telepathic?"
"No, then you would be using your mind. I told you that I'm using my soul."
Jack looks confused and Lux smiles softly at him.
"Close your eyes." She says. When he doesn't she just ads: "Trust me."
Jack doesn't know whether or not to trust her, but he finally closes his eyes.
"Listen to my voice. Where do you hear it?"
"Trough my ears." He says and feels like an idiot for pointing out the obvious.
"No. Listen again. Where do you hear my voice?"
And then he can feel it. His brain tells him that he hears her from his ears. But his gut tells him otherwise. Deep inside of him, he doesn't know if it's from his heart or his spine, he can feel something vibrate. And the vibrations echoes throughout his body. Every inch of him is filled with them, and they speak to him. The sounds comes from everywhere inside of him. He doesn't understand the words if he tries to listen to them. But when he feels them he understands everything.
He opens his eyes and looks at her. She still smiles at him, and he smiles back.
"So where did you hear my voice?" she says while moving her moth to match the words.
"It echoed through my body."
"It was your soul. When you didn't bother to look at me to see if I spoke, you were able to understand what I said."
"And you keep moving you mouth so that you will look normal when you talk?"
"Yes. And it took a while to figure out how you do that."
"And you fell from the sky?"
"Yes."
They look at each other in silence for a moment. Lux slowly backs away from the glass without taking her eyes off of Jack.
"It bothers you that I won't tell you where I'm from, doesn't it?"
He nods at her.
"I come from the stars. From the far end of this galaxy. If you look up on the sky you wouldn't see me with your eyes. You wouldn't know where I was."
"Can you give me any coordinates of where you're from?"
"Next to the one star that you call Sirius."
"Thank you."
Jack leaves the cell and walks back up to the computers. Since he's not that good with them he tells Tosh to locate Sirius on whatever satellite she can find. She finds some good images and puts them up on the screen.
"Are these the latest?" Jack asks while watching them.
"Yes. They're from this morning."
"When?"
"Around nine." Tosh is getting a bit confused by Jacks wierd questions. But since he knows what he's after, she just goes with it.
"And can you put up some that's from last week?"
"Sure." She looks for a while but soon she finds some images from the same angle that's about two weeks older. She puts them next to each other and Jack moves in closer, eying them both very closely.
"What are you looking for?"Tosh finally asks.
Without taking his eyes off of the screen Jack answers.
"Differences."
"I could run them trough a scan and you would get your result back in a moment. A bit quicker than doing it youself."
"Fine, run the scan. Call me when it's done."
He leaves her and goes up to his office. Out of his bookshelf he takes a book about known planets around other stars in the Milky way galaxy. It's one of the few things he still have left from his home. Then he saw it as a traveling guide to planets that he could take a vacation on. Never in his wildest fantasy would he have thought about the idea of using it for research.
He doesn't have time for more than a quick look before Tosh calls for him to come down. As he does he can see the whole team gathering around the computer. He smiles to himself as he figuers that they all want to know why he wanted pictures of the stars.
"One thing is different between the pictures." Tosh says and makes closeups of both pictures.
They all look very closely at the pictures to see what she's talking about. No one can see any difference. So she brings the pictures even closer.
"Maybe...nah..."Owen starts, but changes his mind.
"Isn't there a star missing?" It's Ianto who says it and Tosh gives him a beaming smile.
"Where?" Gwen asks, looking all confused.
"Right there." Ianto points at a small place very close to Sirius. And when they all look very close they can all see it: on the newest picture there's a small empty space next to Sirius.
"Doesn't stars give away radiation?" Jack asks them.
"Some amount of it sir," Ianto says while looking a bit confused over the question.
"And doesn't stars glow?" Jack asks again and now everyone is looking at him like he's gone crazy.
Jack backs away from them before he gives them his conclution.
"Ladys and gentlemen, and Owen: I believe we have a star in our care."
AN: Third one up. This story just comes to me. I still would like to know what you all think about this. Just leave a litte word saying something when you've read the chapter. I will hand out cookies to all who does :) XOXO
