AN: So here's the next chapter. Sorry for keeping you waiting. Hope you like it.
They all stare at Jack, letting the words sink in. They don't really know what to say. The silence in the room is thicker than ever.
"Come on," Jack says. "I expected more from you. We have a star in the building. A star."
The others look at each other before Tosh finally breaks the silence.
"Are you sure?"
Jack sighs.
"Of course I'm sure."
"Correct me if I'm wrong," Owen begins. "But aren't stars just gigant balls of gas floating in the vaccum of space. Or did they tell us the wrong thing in school?"
"I honestly have no idea," Jack laughs. "But everything indicates that she's a star."
"Okay," Gwen says looking at the others. "Let's say that we do have a star in our care, where do we go from here? How do we treat a star? Dose she eat? Drink? Is she dangerous? Should she be kept in the cell or do we let her out? What?"
"That's some good questions, and I don't have all the answers." Jack looks at the others and can se the doubt in their eyes. "This is new for me too, but let's do the best of it. But to answer some of your questions. No, she's harmless. We should let her out of the cell, but not out of the hub. Not yet anyway. But I have no idea of what she eats. But since it's lunch I suggest we find out. Ianto, we'll have takeout today."
"Where from, sir?"
"How about some thai, some italian, some chines and some good old fashion fish 'n chips."
"What? No pizza?" Owen asks sarcasticly.
"Sure," Jack answers with a smile. "Bring some pizza too."
"The usual from every place?"
"Yes."
Ianto nods and leaves the room to go find a phone to order all the food. As he leaves Jack finds himself looking after him, checking out his beautiful arse. When he realises what he's doing he gives himself a mental bitchslap and looks away to the others.
"So, Tosh, Gwen. Does any of you have any extra clothes here that you can lend her? The outfit she got at the police station isn't the most flattering thing."
The girls looks at each other before they shake their heads.
"Sorry Jack," Gwen says. "Mine are home. Had to wash them."
"And mine are to dirty to use at all." Tosh finishes.
"Okay. We'll take care of that later. Owen," he says while turning to the other man. "You can go bring her up here. And don't take too long."
Owen nods and walks down to the cells.
When he comes down he can see the girl sitting on the bunk staring into the wall infront of her. Suddenly he doesn't know what to say and just stands there, looking at her. A soft smile is spread across her lips, and somehow a weak smile appears on Owens lips too. Slowely she turns her head towards him with a questioningly look in her eyes.
"Are you really a star?" He asks without looking away.
"Yes."
"How is that possible? I mean, we're taught that stars a balls of gas floating in the universe, no offence. So how can you be here?"
"I believe that that is a question I should answer when your colleagues are present, don't you think?"
He nods, knowing that she's right. The others has the same questions as he does, and it wouldn't be fair if he knew and they didnt. Instead he opens the door to the cell and takes a step inside.
"Do you eat?"
"I don't know. I haven't been since I got here."
"We...erh...are ordering some lunch right about now, and...erh...we would like it if you'd join us."
"I'd like that too." She gets up and walks over to Owen. She's distinctly shorter than he is, doesn't reach much higher than his shoulders. He looks down on her and sees her bare feet.
"We really should get you some shoes," he says with a small laugh in his voice. "You never know what's been on this floor."
"No hurry, I like the feeling."
And she does. She likes the feeling of everything around her. There are so many different things and everything feels so different from one another. No two things feels exactly the same.
Owen takes Lux up to the conference room where the others are waiting for them. Everyone, except Ianto who's still out fetching all the food, is sitting around the table when Owen enters with the girl. He walks up the the table and offers her a chair. Before she sits down she bows to the others and smiles gently. There's a moment of silence when everyone is trying to figure out the next step. Then Jack opens his mouth and starts to speak.
"So," He begins in search for other words. "Meet the team. This is Gwen Cooper. You might know her allready as she picked you up at the police station. This is Toshiko Sato, our computer genious. Owen you allready know. And I'm Captain Jack Harkness."
While he said the others names Lux watched them all with a knowing eye. And both Tosh and Gwen got to experiance the sensation of falling into the depths of her eyes. But neither of them broke eyecontact since it only lasted for a few seconds.
"Nice to meet you all," she says with that soft smile. "My name is Lux." She looks around in the room before turning to Jack again.
"I believe that there is one person missing here. The other man that picked me up."
"Ah, Ianto. He's off getting lunch."
She nods and continues to look around. This room is very different from the two cells she's allready spent the morning in. This room is warm, and soft. Every wall is made of glass, and she get's the feeling that theese people really likes to see everything in every room. She can feel the other courious looks on her. She knows that they're dying to figure out who, but mostly what, she is. And she can't help but smile, because she knows that they'll never be able to fully understand what she is.
She's interrupted in her train of thoughts by the most incredible scent she's ever known. It's filling the air in the room. So many different facets. So many things that she can't put her words to it. And with them there comes a strange feeling in her stomach. Since she hasn't felt like it before she thinks that she's hungry, but she's not sure.
She turns around to see the one called Ianto walk through the glassdoor, his hands full off different boxes. And every one of those boxes have a different scent that she's just dying to explore. Jack gets up from his chair and walks over to Ianto, helping him with all off the boxes.
"Why didn't you ask someone to help you with this since you bought so much?" Jack says as he's placing the boxes on the table.
"My job is to bring you your food sir. And I do have pretty large hands to carry it all with."
"That I can vouch for," Jack smiles.
"Okay, that's all the mental images we can take before eating thank you," Owen almost spits out.
There's a slight blush on Iantos face, but Jack only laughs as they starts to unpack all the food. Lux just watches everything with a courious gaze as the food starts to show infront of her. Every scent becomes concrete. A sweet scent comes to her as they unpack the thaifood, some red sause seems to be the sorce to that. That's the only one she can identify on her own. All the other food has so many different sentences in one so she can't tell them apart.
When everything is unpacked she looks at all the food, and she thinks it looks delicious. So many different things and she has no idea of where to start.
"What is all this?" she asks while taking it all in with her eyes.
"Food." Jack answers simply. "Try it."
He hands her a fried shrimp. As she takes it in her hand she looks at it with some suspicion. It's quiet hot in her hand, but no more than she can handle. The scent from it is something that she's never experienced before, and she thinks it's increbible. She's seen before how people do when they eat, so she puts the shrimp in her mouth and begins to shew. She draws a sharp breath as all the tastes are released in her mouth. A sensation she's never known before. She knows that everyone is looking at her, and she can see their different smiles. But she can't help herself. As she swallows the food she begins to laugh while catching her breath.
"Wow," she breaths. "That was incredible."
"Calm down girl," Jack laughs. "It's just food. One might think you just had an orgasm."
The others looks at Jack in shock, Tosh and Ianto even blushes.
"A what?" Lux asks.
Jack is just about to answer when Owen cuts in.
"We'll take that another time. Now we eat some more."
And with that he puts other food items on a plate infront of Lux and instructs her to eat. Then the rest of them begins to take their own food. But none of them eats since they find it more interesting to watch Lux taste everything.
And every item on the plate infront of her brings forth the same reaction as the shrimp. Every bite is a new adveture, a new sensation and Lux is not the one hiding how she feels about it. They joy in her eyes after every bite makes the team question if they are really missing something when they are so accustomed to the things they do.
AN: So, what did you think? Did you like it? Hopefully you did. And I swear that the next chapter will come up as soon as it's ready. So stay tuned.
XOXO
