Flash backs and memories again. Sorry but need to for the story.
Why Are You Here?
A couple of hours later, Phoenix started to stir on the table in the autopsy room and Jack almost jumped down the stairs and went to her side. She slowly opened her eyes, letting them adjust to the light above her. When she opened her eyes fully, the first she saw was Jack's. She tried to sit up fast but she came over all light headed and braced herself on her hands.
"Take it easy. You drained yourself pretty good," Jack tells her, putting his hand on hers but she pulls it away.
"Don't touch me Jack," she snaps at him and swings her legs off of the table and attempts to get up but as she stands, her legs go from under her and Jack catches her before she hit's the floor.
"Take it easy. Where are you going in such a hurry?" he asks her, propping her up.
"Don't act as though you care Jack," she snaps at him, pulling her arm away from him.
"I do care. Just because I thought you were dead, didn't mean that I didn't think about you," Jack tells her as she haphazardly walks away from him, making it to the stairs.
"I didn't come here for that Jack," she tells him, briefly looking back at him and then moving up the stairs, holding onto the railings.
She makes it to the top of the stairs and the team all look at her. She moves to the sofa's and plonks herself down. She closes her eyes but can feel the teams eyes on her.
"What has Jack told you?" Phoenix asks, not bothering to open her eyes as she smells the sweet scent of coffee.
"He said you are a demigoddess," Owen replies, looking at her cautiously.
"Dr Owen Harper. Wouldn't you just like to get your hands on me, take me apart and see what makes me tick," Phoenix asks finally opening her eyes as Ianto arrives at her side with a cup of coffee.
"I thought that you could do with a cup of coffee and food isn't far behind," Ianto tells her, handing her the cup of coffee and she takes it, taking a cautious sip as Jack comes over to the sofa area.
"Ianto Jones. Thank you very much. Your legendary coffee," she tells him taking a sip of the coffee, putting her feet on the coffee table and closing her eyes.
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"You went and did it didn't you? You went after them on your own. You didn't listen to a word," Jack tells her as she stands in the shower, washing the blood off of her body.
"Yes Jack. I went and took care of it myself and they are alright just in case you wanted to know," she tells him, lowering her head so that the water would wash down her neck and back of her hair.
"I told you I didn't want you going off and doing it on your own. I didn't want you to get hurt," he tells her, opening the shower curtain and seeing a gapping wound to her side, the water from the shower diluting the blood running from her side.
"It's just a scratch Jack. It will heal quickly enough," she tells him, looking at him sideways.
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"I don't think that you are here by chance Phoenix and your not just here to take back your sword so why are you here?" Jack asks her, the curiosity too much for him to handle, knowing what she was all about.
"Quit with the questions already. All I can tell you right now is that there is something coming Jack, you and your team can't handle it alone and that is why I am here. That's all I can tell you right now Jack," Phoenix tells him as she takes another sip of the coffee and Ianto comes back to the area.
"Your food will be here in a few minutes. Just waiting on the delivery. I hope you don't mind but I ordered in Chinese?" Ianto asks her and her eyes light up.
"I haven't had Chinese in far too long. You are an angel Ianto Jones," Phoenix tells him as she puts her cup down and gets up.
"By the offer of food, I take it I will be staying?" she asks Jack.
"Well you haven't told me everything yet so yes, you are staying," Jack tells her, half hoping she would stay and half hoping that she would leave, memories of her always flowing back to him.
Phoenix take off her long leather coat and lays it across the sofa and then strips off her chest plate, laying it on her coat and then followed with every piece of armour she was wearing and there was a lot. By the time she was done, she was reduced to a slim woman in combat pants, U.N.I.T. issue boots and a vest top, her weapons belts still around her waist. Her tattoo was still at the top of her arm, a tattoo Jack had traced with kisses several times.
"Should I put your weapons in the armoury?" Ianto asks her and she gives him a funny look.
"No offence Ianto but no-one touches my weapons but me," she tells him and looks at Jack and he shakes his head.
Ianto leaves and goes up to the Tourist Office and waits for the takeaway. Phoenix carries on drinking the coffee, Owen, Gwen and Toshiko carry on working and Jack, Jack just stares at her. She looks at him and then closes her eyes. Jack feels a niggling feeling in the back of his head, she was trying to get in to see what he was thinking.
"Get out of there. You want to know what I'm thinking, ask me," Jack tells her and she opens her eyes again.
"Open your mind to me Jack. I need to talk to you but alone," she tells him quietly, making sure that the others don't hear what she is saying.
Jack relaxes into the sofa and closes his eyes and so does Phoenix. She uses her mind to get into his and then finds the right area.
"What is coming isn't nice Jack, isn't nice at all. It will tear through you all and that is why I am here. You all are too important to lose now, you have important work to do yet. I will help train the team, help Tosh with defences and provide the protection. We have time but not a lot so after everyone and I mean everyone has gone home, we need to work this out," she tells him, only able to hear her in his head.
She dives back out of his head and opens her eyes and then Jack opens his. The looks on their faces said it all. Very serious and concerned. Jack knew that she knew something that she wasn't telling him and he knew that that wasn't a good thing. Ianto soon appeared in the hub with a plate, cutlery and the takeaway which was in a rather large bag and Phoenix's eyes lit up. Ianto started setting it up on the coffee table and Phoenix knows that there is no way that she could eat all that.
"Ever the perfect host but I can't eat all this. Why don't the rest of you join me?" Phoenix asks the rest of the team.
They all look at Jack and he nods his head and then gets up. As the team arrives at the sofa area, he leaves and goes into his office and shuts the door. Ianto soon follows him and are alone together in his office and Ianto puts his arms around Jack's waist.
"What's going on Jack?" Ianto asks him knowing that there was more going on then what was being said.
"I'm not quiet sure yet Ianto but she wants to talk to me alone tonight and then she will tell me what is going on and why she is here. You don't mind do you Yan?" Jack asks him, holding onto Ianto's arms.
"Of course I don't mind Jack. I trust you. I know you two have history but that is exactly what it is, history. I'll go home tonight with the others and be back in the morning at the usual time," Ianto tells him, kissing him on the neck.
"It can't be good that she is here and I hate not having a clue about things. I'm usually the one with the answers and now she rocks up, someone I thought I was dead and she knows more than I do. This is going to be a heavy night," Jack tells Ianto, not sure what was going to happen that night.
For the rest of the work day, Jack kept away from Phoenix the best he could and Ianto tried his best to keep her busy, Owen and Gwen very curious about their visitor. No matter were Ianto took her, she seemed to know exactly where she was going.
"Can I ask you? How much do you know about the hub and the rest of us?" Ianto asks her, his curiosity getting the better of him now.
"I know everything I need to know and more. I know the existing layout of the hub, improvements to it, all the history of all current Torchwood staff and future events. I know all I need to and more Ianto Jones but things might change and I can't let that happen," she tells him as they head back into the hub.