A/N- Ok...how long has it been since I posted last? Seriousally, I'm sorry!!! I got buisy with the Voyage story and then my mate Suki and I have started writing a Doctor Who story and we've been working on that the last few days...and so yea...oh and then I lost the notebook to this story! And I realise the point of writing this one was to write all of those years I didn't write but you know what?! Gwen is only like...3...I can't handle writing another 4 years, because I'm sure you all remeber she was 7 when I eneded that great chapter with her going 'Daddy?'...so I think in a bit I shall start winding this one down. So yea, I think we shall finish this adventure, write a bit and then end it with maybe 10 chapters, we'll end it with the bit that leads right up to Gwen seeing the Doctor for the first time...anyways, enough of my pointless authors note and on with the dang chapter. Luff ya guys for sticking by me!!!!

A/N part 2- Oh and the whole Torchwood three gang is in this chapter, forgive me if they aren't perfect! In America were only up to...last night was Small Worlds...so yea...oh my gosh that episode made me cry!!!!!!!!!!

A/N part 3- and thank you to the most wonderfully awesome winslosr73 for her spell and grammar checks she did! my beautiful beta Suki is up in the mountains and I had no one else so I asked her. winslosr73 is totally awesome!!!! Luff ya! Thankies,

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Chapter 7

The Killer

The next morning Rose woke up to find Gwen eating some breakfast and watching one of the videos that Rose had packed for her.

"Hi mummy," Gwen said.

"Hi sweetheart," Rose said.

"Look at what Gran got us," Gwen said as she held up a choclate chip muffin that she was eating.

"'Darling...you really shouldn't be eating choclate this early in the morning..." Rose paused and then contuined, "Did you save me any?" she asked.

Gwen nodded, "Yep!" she answered.

Rose walked over to the table and glanced at the differant muffins.

She picked a banana nut and then took a bit out of it.

When Rose was done eating she gave Gwen a bath and then took a shower.

By the time she was getting out someone was knocking on the door.

Rose went to the door and answered it, on the other side stood Jack, Owen, Tosh, Gwen, and Ianto.

"Hey there," Jack said.

"Hey," Rose said, she gave Jack a hug and then stepped to the side to admit them in.

"Sorry about the mess, Miss. Gwen over there decided she wanted to take a bath with every toy that she brought," Rose said.

"Ah," Jack said with an all knowing smile.

Owen looked between himself, Ianto and Gwen Cooper and sniggered.

"Anyways, scuse me just a mo. I need to go get dressed," Rose said, choosing to ignore the snigger of laughter that Owen had produced and grabbed her jeans and top off of the bed.

She disapeered for a minute and then came back again a few minutes later dressed in some jeans and a black tank top.

"So...aren't you people supposed to be working or something?" she asked as she sat down on the bed and put on her chucks.

"Probably," Owen answered with a sheepish smile.

Rose laughed, "Well I'm gonna give my mum a ring and she's gonna come over here to watch Gwen while I go into the office. Mr. Stuart wants to talk to me about last night," she explained.

"Oh yea, Todd called me about that this morning. You alright?" Jack asked.

"Oh yea, I'm alright. Just a bit nerve racking," Rose answered.

"Well I'm glad for that," Jack replied.

Rose smiled, "What that my nerves are shot or that I'm alright?" she asked as she grabbed her mobile off of her nightstand.

"Both," Jack said with a cheeky grin.

Rose laughed as she dialed her mums phone, it was answered a moment later by Jackie who in turn showed up at the hotel room a few minutes later.

Rose gave her daughter a hug and kiss and then left with Jack and the others.

When they got to the office their was police tape that no one had bothered to take down.

Todd was in his office, which was a room just down the hall from the observatory.

When they walked in Todd was sitting with paperwork up to his head. Only at work for a few short hours and he was horribly overwelmed.

He looked up as Jack closed the door.

"Oh hello Rose, and you lot must be Torchwood three," Todd said.

He stood up and shook Jack's hand.

"Yea thats right, I'm Captain Jack Harkness, this is Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato, Gwen Cooper, and Ianto Jones. Pleasure to meet you," Jack said.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Todd Stuart. I'm just going over the case files from last night. Oh and Rose, they want you to testify. We've planted a clone, said they commited the murder. So when they take the person to court, they want you to testify," Todd said as he turned his attention to Rose.

"Right...ok," she said.

"I'm assuming that, thats not going to be a problem. Right?" Todd asked.

"No I'll be fine with it," she replied.

"Good, now...I'm guessing that what you saw last night was the same thing as what you had told us about?" Todd went on.

"Yea...it was exactally what I thought it was,"' Rose replied.

"Right...now there seems to be a pattern right?" Jack asked.

"Yea, it's mainly workers of Torchwood that are getting murdered," Todd answered.

"Mainly?" Owen asked.

"Well last night was the fifth murder. Two of the others were just realted to the victims," Todd replied.

"Has anything strange happened lately? Like a change in the athomsphere with your workers and the general area?" Tosh inquired.

"Well not really no. I suppose the apthmosphere with my workers changed when I gave promotions last onth," Todd answered.

"Last month? Isn't that when the murders started?" Rose asked.

Todd thought for a moment..."Yea...actually," he answered after a moment.

"Who was affected when you gave out the promotions?" Gwen asked.

Todd was a silent for a moment, "Well Mary-Jane Anderson, Matthew Jones, Julie Mews, Michael Johnston, and Edward Scott. The people that have been murdered so far has been Mary-Jane and her aunt Susan. Matthew and his twin Jeff, and then last night Julie was killed," Todd answered.

Everyone was silent for a moment as the facts were turned over in their heads.

"Ok...well from what position did these people leave and where did they go to?" Owen asked.

"Well all of them were in the running for assitant manager. I suppose...Rose that would be like your position. Julie was head of the tech team...we wound up giving Matthew the position. He was of course murdered and now that Julie is dead Michael is the assitant manager," Todd explained.

"So as each person is killed you're just giving the job to the person who was next in line for the job?" Jack asked.

"Well...we can't go on without an assitant manager...now can we?" Todd asked.

"I suppose not. Right, well I sughest we put up security around Michael and Edward. Twenty-four hour serveliance on them," Jack said.

"Right..ok," Todd looked down at the intercom on his desk.

He hit a button and spoke into it.

"Susan, get Michael and Edward up here, and get Jacob up here. Right now," he said.

Rose sat down and a few minutes later three men walked in. She knew one of them to be Edward, she had met him the day before.

When Edward saw her he smiled.

"Hows the little one today?" he asked.

"She's good, with her Gran," Rose answered.

"Aww, lovely," he answered.

Rose smiled kindly as the men turned towards Todd.

"So what is this all about?" Jacob asked.

Jacob was a big burly man, Rose assumed he must of been the head of security.

"We think that Edward and Michael might be in line for an attack. Jacob I called you up here because I want you to assign some of your men to protect Michael and Edward. Where they go, I want your men to go," Todd said.

"Sir...do you really think that 24 hour guards is nescacary?" Edward asked, seeming to be a bit worried.

"Yes it is, we are worried about your safety. Now, Michael, Edward, go down with Jacob and meet your guards. Jacob...I want your men to know that these two men are never to leave their sights. Is that understood?" Todd asked.

Jacob nodded and headed for the door. Jack raised an eyebrow as he exaimened the still nervous expresion that was painted across Edward's face.

Jacob walked out of the office, the men followed.

"Right...well thats taken care of now," Todd said a few minutes later.

Rose stood up, "Anything else you need from us?" she asked.

"Yea, well Torchwood three here is going to do some investigating, right?" Todd asked.

Jack nodded, "Yes," he replied.

"Well Rose if you want you can go with them and do some investigating," Todd contuined.

"Oh I'd love yo investigate with this lot!" Rose cried, excitement rising and very evident in her voice.

"Alright, you lot can go out and do that. And thanks for coming by," Todd said.

"No problem, thats what were here for," Jack said with a cheeky grin.

They all walked out a moment later and took the lift to the bottom floor.

"Jack...I thought you said that the bloke who ran Torchwood two was a strange mean. Mr. Stuart seemed very nice," Gwen said as they walked out of the house.

"Recently...oh about seven months ago that guy got sent to the mental hospitel. An alien from the planet Angelo Briar came to this grand old establishment and drove poor old man Mead crazy. He was sent to a hospital and then Mr. Todd Stuart took over," Jack explained.

"Oh," Gwen said.

"Anyways Rose, lets re-trace your steps from last night," Jack said.

Rose looked around and then walked over to the spot she had stood at when the monster had walked out.

"Well Jack, I was talking to you and I was half way up the hill when I heard the scream. You asked me what it was and instead of answereing I ran to this spot, hung up with you, and then the monster came walking out of the house, said he was sorry, walked past me and disapeered into the night," Rose explained.

"It said it was sorry?" Tosh asked, clearly skeptic.

"Rose nodded.

"So were dealing with an aplojetic monster? This'll be easy," Owen said.

Rose raised an eyebrow, "You might think that. But it's not that easy. I've dealt with this kind of creature before. The thing we need to figure out is who is controlling it. Oh...and if you see any stray pieces of paper on the ground or floor or whatever, do not...I repeat do not pick them up," Rose instructed.

"Why?" Gwen asked.

"Because the bloke who is controlling the monsters plauges his next victim with a piece of paper that has a single black dot on it. The black shadow the called it," Rose answered.

"Good to know!" Ianto said.

Tosh jotted it down onto a piece of paere.

"Don't draw it either, my boy-...mate, my mate drew it too and the monster went for him," Rose said.

Tosh nodded, "Right lets run through the list of the dead and how they were found," Jack said.

Tosh opened the bag she had been carrying on her shoulder and pulled out a large folder and opened it.

"Well the first one found dead was Mary-Jane Anderson and her aunt," Tosh read.

"I'm thinking that either this person or whatever this thing is controlling the monster also had it out for her aunt or just plain her aunt got in the way," Owen said.

"Next two were the Jones twins. Matt worked for Torchwood. I'm thinking that Jeff might of been killed because the monster got confused," Gwen said.

"The next one was Julie Mews," Tosh said.

Rose sighed, "I had just seen her yesterday too. She had been carrying papers, bumped into Mr. Edwards whose arms were laden in papers. The papers went flying and..." Rose stopped as a look of horro spread across her face.

"What is it?" Jack and Gwen asked.

"Oh my God," she murmured.

"Rose, what is it?" Jack yelled.

"Guy's," Rose began slowly as she truned to the others, "I know who the killer is."...

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A/N- Yayy! It has taken me hours to finish this chapter! One becuase, my computer kept freezing, two because I went to go eat something, three because I had to help my mom unload the car of some lumber she bought, and four Desperate Housewives was on and I had to watch it...so yea...anyways...PARTY!!!! YAYY!!!!!!

Here are cookies and drinks!!! I luff ya guys, Becky

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