Chapter 12

Andy sighed, this wasn't the type of job he wanted to take, he wanted to work a case that was actually useful. Instead he was following a man who pretended to be a woman, who apparently was a woman. It wasn't a straightforward case, he was lucky that he was such a good Private Detective or he may have had a problem understanding everything. He had been hired by the owner of le MOD to follow Viktor Sato. Adam believed that he was really a woman masquerading as a man to play a woman. Andy wasn't completely sure as to why the man thought that, he hadn't been very forthcoming, but nothing he had seen so far could prove anything.

He had been following Viktor Sato since the night he had performed in le MOD and had quickly found out that he could be found at night in either the suite he shared with Jack Harkness or in the suite belonging to King Weevil. He was sure that Viktor was a man though, after all everyone knew Jack Harkness or at least of him, and he never took a female to his bed.

Andy hated jobs like this one, he was supposedly trying to find evidence that the public were being defrauded, when in reality he knew that he was being used by Adam to get revenge. He wasn't positive about what it was that Jack Harkness and Viktor Sato had done to the man, but he had an inkling that it was something to do with le MOD being shut down by the police once more. The place was shut more often than it was open, so Andy didn't see how Adam could really blame the pair. He supposed it wasn't his place to question his employers motives in this case, he just had to find the evidence.

That was proving harder than he had thought though, there was just something that was causing him bad luck in this case, nothing was working out in his favour. He had followed Viktor and watched him enter his hotel suite with Jack one night, and the curtains were drawn straight away. The same thing happened with the curtains at the King's suite. He had even secreted himself away in the wardrobe in the bathroom of Viktor's suite only for him to shut the door on his finger as he retrieved his jacket on his way out.

Andy was sure that his finger was broken but there was nothing that he could do about that at the moment he had to follow him as he made his way to King Weevil's place, from what he had heard of the conversation in the other room, someone wanted to ruin King because of his and Viktor's relationship. Andy supposed that even if he didn't find any evidence to prove what Adam wanted he would at least get to watch a show.

He managed to cross the hotel and get up to the window for King's bedroom, he had been at this window many times in the last few days, but as of yet he hadn't found anything that was useful to him. He watched as some woman wandered around the room, raking through things and picking up a nightgown. He thought it was too much to hope that it belonged to Viktor, he was sure that the woman had left it there and was looking for it to take it with her, his thoughts seemed to be confirmed when she took nothing else and left the room.

She was forced back into the room less than a minute later by Viktor Sato. Andy really was getting confused by all the relationships in this case. Sato was supposed to be with Harkness, but was also with King, and now this woman also. Viktor began to strip then and the woman soon ran from the room screaming at the sight before her. Andy on the other hand, well he was transfixed he now had his proof.

Viktor Sato really was Victoria, there was no way that those breasts were fake, even through the window and the bra she was wearing that was obvious. Things were finally beginning to look up for him, or so he had thought, until the woman who had been in the room with her let out a screech in the other room about 'her being a woman', and he slipped from where he was standing in shock.

Andy met up with Adam back in le MOD, he noticed that it still had not been cleared up properly from the brawl that had taken place there, maybe Adam was having trouble paying for it, after all fixing up his business was something that he had to do regularly. He told him exactly what he had seen, hoping to get out of there as quickly as he could, he really just wanted to go home and put this case behind him. The fact that the other man didn't wish to pay him was something that he had come to expect as he had looked around the room. Cases like this definitely weren't for him, hopefully someone else would take the next one like this.

Chapter 13

Jack couldn't believe it, tonight was the last show that Toshiko was going to perform, she had decided to give up Viktor and Victoria, and live her life with Owen. He couldn't blame her and he was happy for her, he just hoped that her final performance went well for her and that she was able to go out with a bang. He told her as much and they joked and laughed for a few minutes as he was helping her get ready as always when the Doctor rushed in.

"Adam's here." He spoke quickly, "With the police. Toshiko, go. Into the crowd, I'm sure Owen has a spare seat that you can sit in. Jack get ready."

It took a few moments for the reality of the situation to hit them, and Toshiko, who luckily had not started to change, left the dressing room quickly, using one of the less common routes into the main club. As what the Doctor had said sunk into Jack he began to strip, a few minutes later, just as he finished removing his clothing there was a knock on the door. He nodded to the Doctor, signalling that the man could let whoever it was in, after all Jack certainly wasn't ashamed of his body.

A police officer appeared around the door and quickly recoiled in shock, he had obviously been expecting a woman in their undergarments, not a man in all his glory. Jack just gave him a quirky grin before asking him what he could do for him. The officer backed out of the room mere seconds later, seemingly satisfied that the man in front of him was indeed a man. As soon as he left the Doctor handed him a dress, which he got into without too much trouble, but he was glad that they had a spare of each dress Toshiko would wear in his size, he would never be as thin as her.

He performed the dance that he had seen Toshiko perform a million times before in rehearsals and watched the audience as he did so. They seemed to be enjoying his performance, most likely for comic value than for anything else, he knew that he was terrible compared to Toshiko. He caught her gaze in the audience and she winked at him, a huge smile on her face as she watched him from her seat next to Owen. Ianto sat on his other side and had a smile just as big as Toshiko's, if not bigger. At least the other man wasn't laughing at him.

He was terrible and he was definitely not as athletic as Toshiko on stage, her dancers also didn't respond as well to him as they had to her. He supposed that there was nothing that he could do except get on with the show however. He knew that it wasn't the bang that he hoped that Toshiko would go out with, but he supposed that he could make this one of the most entertaining nights of her life instead, after all what were best friends for if not to make you laugh.

He didn't think that he would make it up from the final slide across the floor, and he was sure to have some bruising in the morning, but it had definitely been worth it. He had enjoyed himself and the show had gone on, without too much of a problem. He knew for a fact though that the Doctor would never let him anywhere near his stage again though, and to be honest Jack was okay with that. This type of show was not for him, to perform in anyway, he preferred to keep his physical acts in the bedroom where they belonged.

As soon as he was handed his roses, and for once they were his he took out three, placed one in his 'cleavage' then threw the other two; one to Ianto, and the other to Toshiko, because they really should have been her roses tonight. As he left the stage he couldn't help but wonder how things would go for them now that they were out of the limelight as such. He knew that Owen would be going back to Cardiff soon, and both Toshiko and Ianto would be going with him. He wondered about maybe leaving Paris himself, after all he was no longer a young or fresh new talent, not that he lost his charm.

There had to be something that he could do there, maybe he could ask King Weevil for a job at Torchwood, the Doctor could put in a good word for him, he was the reason the club had been thought of after all. From what he had seen there was a lot of admiration in Owen of the Doctor, that may just work, or maybe he could try Toshiko; it was due to Queen Victoria after all that Owen still owned his shares in the club.