A/N: Merry Christmas Everyone!
Fragments- Part 2
Emily's Office
Emily's Office is candlelit. There is some wood panelling on the wall. Emily counts out Jack's money. "If you don't want it." Emily starts. Jack takes the notes. "Your next assignment." Emily holds out a folder.
"No. I'm through with you people." Jack says.
"Your liberty is at our discretion. Work for us, you assist the Empire. Sever that tie, you become a threat." Emily says.
"And you've seen how we deal with threats." Alice reminds Jack.
"It's good money, Captain. How else are you going to earn?" Emily tries to reason with Jack.
He takes the envelope then throws it back. "See what you think in the morning." Jack leaves.
"He's pretty. But you're prettier." Alice stated once Jack left.
Ale House
A girl walks up to Jack. "Can I read your cards?"
"No, thank you." Jack says again but the girl clears his table. "No, really."
The girl, lays out her tarot cards then turns them over. Tower, Knight, and a unknown design. "He's coming, the one you're looking for. But the century will turn twice before you find each other again. And a women. But it's strange. Her journey crisscrosses with yours at different times for both of you."
"Ooo. Are you for real? You mean I have to wait a hundred years to find him and her? What'll I do in the meantime?"
In Torchwood
Jack joins the staff of Torchwood, and gets a filing cabinet all to himself as he continues through the whole century from handwritten records to computers.
The Hub- New Year's Eve 1999. 10:00 pm.
Real life film of the ice rink at Somerset House in London, a flash of Red Square. A Reporter speaks into a microphone while looking into the camera. "Some parts of the world have already welcomed in the New Year. Our cameras, of course, have been out in force across the UK tonight. Let's take you first to Cardiff."
"Hey, when you joked about the Millennium Bug, I didn't realise it was gonna have eighteen legs stacked with poison. Anyone home? You know you're supposed to party like its-" Jack stops once he finds two bodies, a man and a woman. A middle aged man is sitting on a barrel. "Alex?"
"Jack. Just in time." Alex said, monotone.
"Alex, what happened? Who did this?"
"Me."
"What? Why?" Jack asked, concerned for his teammate.
"We got it wrong, Jack. We thought we could control the stuff we found. And what's it brought us? So much death."
Jack inched closer to Alex. "What happened to them?"
"It's good you're here. Always did have great timing. This place, its yours. Torchwood Three. My gift to you, Jack, for a century of service as field operative. Give this place a purpose before it's too late. Please." Alex pleaded.
"Alex, listen. It's gonna be okay."
"No, it's not. It's really not." Alex said. He is holding a silver fob watch or locket. "I looked inside. It showed me what's coming. They were mercy killings. It was the kindest thing I could do, so none of us see the storm."
The countdown to midnight has started.
"I'm sorry I can't do the same for you. Twenty first century, Jack. Everything's gonna change."
The firework show is on the television in the background.
"And we're not ready."
"Alex!" Jack shouts.
Alex shoots himself in the head. Jack gets splattered with blood.
~0~
Back at the Abandoned (now collapsed) building
Jack revives. Rhys, Gwen's husband, and Gwen are there. Jack grabs Rhys' wrist. "He was dead! I checked his pulse. He was dead!"
"All right. Shush. Jack, what has happened? Where are the others?" Gwen asked.
"What is he doing here?" Jack asked, annoyed. He had to find Susan.
"Look, I was late, okay? He gave me a lift. You okay?"
"Yeah, yeah. Susan. Toshiko. They went the other way. Gwen and Rhys start to dig Jack out.
"Susan, Toshiko, yell if you can hear me!" Gwen yelled after they manage to get Jack out.
"Susan! Toshiko! Susan!"
Tosh screams.
After a while they get to Tosh who is trapped under a ceiling beam. Susan is know where to be found.
"Stop. Stop. Stop. Tosh. Tosh, are you okay?" Gwen asks Tosh.
"You're making it worse. It's pushing down even more now. I think I've broken my arm. Gwen."
"Yeah?"
"If this pillar shifts down even more, it will crush me."
"It's no good, Gwen. We're gonna need more strength." Rhy's tries to tell his wife.
"Look, Jack has gone to find Susan, Owen and Ianto. You're gonna be fine, darling, all right. You're going to be fine." Gwen tries to comfort Tosh.
"You've got to hurry, please."
"Gwen, help Jack. Ill stay here." Rhy's insists.
"Are you sure?" Gwen asks.
"Yeah."
"I'm going to come back for you, darling, all right? You're going to be okay."
Tosh sighs. "Okay."
"Gwen, this could've been you, couldn't it? If you hadn't been late." Rhy's says, looking around, trying to keep his cool.
"Look, Rhys, I haven't got time for this now, okay? I've got to go and try and find the others."
Elsewhere, a hand pushes a piece of rubble aside. It's Ianto. "Ianto! Ianto!" Jack yells as soon as he sees the hand. Jack rushes over. "Ready? On three. One, two three. Come on."
"Argh. Oh my God." Ianto yells.
"Come on, come on, come on." Jack mutters to himself. Jack and Gwen pull Ianto out of the hole. "You okay?"
"My shoulder. I think its dislocated." Ianto tells Jack and Gwen.
"Can you take this?" Jack asked, meaning, setting the arm.
"Yeah."
"Take a deep breath." Jack puts Ianto's shoulder back. Ianto screams, of course.
"Where are the others? Owen and Susan?"
"We need your help to get Toshiko out." Jack says. "I haven't found Susan yet."
"Owen?"
Gwen sighs. "No sign yet."
"If anything happens, he can't repair himself." Ianto says.
"Of course, he can't heal, can he?" Gwen asks.
"Okay, well help Rhys with Toshiko. Then I'm finding Susan. She's been under too long already. Let us know when you find Owen. And be careful." Jack tries to get his team back to normal.
"Okay." Gwen says
"Okay? You all right?" Jack asks Gwen.
Gwen finds Owen. "Heavens. Careful. If that falls" Owen warns Gwen. Own is laying halfway out the window, a broken glass in a window frame hanging over his head like the sword of Damocles.
"Okay, softly." Gwen says. The potential guillotine drops a little further. As Gwen tries to move Own out of the way. "Okay."
"Just be very careful." Owen instructs Gwen.
"Okay, all right. I'm gonna get you out. Okay, this one?" Gwen removes loose bricks from Owen's body.
"Look, you have to do it very, very gently." Owen tells Gwen.
"Okay. It isn't going to drop on you." Gwen shushes Owen.
The glass moves closer to Owen. "Whoa!" Owen yells.
"Quiet!" Gwen snaps.
"Okay, okay, silent."
"I'm going to do this as quickly as possible. Listen to me. I'm going to get you out of this. Look at me. Trust me. Okay, Owen, hold my hand."
"Slowly." Owen says.
"Hold my hands." Gwen pulls him away before the pane of glass comes loose from its frame and falls.
Susan's POV
I woke up surrounded by darkness, with a pounding headache. Oh this wasn't good. I was trapped under debris from the building. I coughed and tried to move but I was pinned down. "Jack!" I screamed.
"Susan!" I heard Jack calling, but it sounded like from a distance. "Susan, where are you?"
"Under stuff!" I yelled back. I coughed again. "I'm pinned down, can't move that much!"
"I'm coming!" Jack yelled back. I felt some of the plaster move a bit and the weight on my chest felt lighter and I could start to see light.
After a few more seconds of Jack moving the plaster and bricks I saw Jack's face staring up at me. "Hey." I breathed. Jack reached out his hand and I took it, him pulling me up out of the whole. Jack and I hugged.
"Anything broken?" Jack asked.
"Probably just bruised ribs." I mumbled into Jack's shoulder.
"Everyone's waiting for us outside. Let's go check on the others." Jack said.
"Yeah, okay."
Outside the collapsed abandoned building
"You okay?" Jack asks Owen, I was next to Jack, holding his hand.
"Yeah. You all right? Tosh, what happened?" Owen asked Tosh.
"Broken arm, bruised ribs. About an inch away from being crushed by a girder." Tosh said.
"You were lucky." Owen remarked.
"We all were." Ianto agreed.
Gwen looked at Jack, standing by her husband. "Jack, who's done this?"
"And where's the SUV?" Ianto asked, looking around for their transport. Something on Jack beeps. Someone has left a holo-message on Jack's bracer.
A holo form of a person comes up and I recognize him immediately from the show. "Oh Shit." I said.
"Jack, what does he want?" Gwen asks, everyone noticing both Jack and I tensing.
The holo-message starts. "Ooo, deja vu. Or did I say that already? Hey, team. Of course, there might be a few less of you by now. Don't know if you liked my little gift. Of course, you can't die. And with all that life, all that time, you can't spare any for me. Oh. Say hi to the family."
"No way. It can't be." Jack mutters.
"Been a while since you've seen your brother, eh, Jack."
"Gray?" Jack asks.
"Okay, here's what's going to happen. Everything you love, everything you treasure will die. I'm going to tear your world apart, Captain Jack Harkness, piece by piece. Starting now. Maybe now you'll want to spend some time with me."
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