The door to my house burst open as the man's shoulder slammed into the door, his long grey jacket flapping behind him. He entered with his Wembley revolver raised and from behind him came a woman also brandishing a gun, but a more standard Glock 9mm. I screamed at the sudden interruption and Braxis sprung to attention.
When I realised who had arrived I asked, "Jack?! What's going on?" but Jack didn't answerer he and the rest of his team just began to bundle everyone up and stick them in the back of a white van including me and Jay.
The Torchwood Hub really hadn't changed much, except perhaps for a few more additions to the alien technology that was scattered on tables and shelves. I clutched at Jay for dear life as Jack loomed over me. I hadn't laid eyes on Braxis since we were grabbed.
"Dolly, what were you doing with a class 8 extra-terrestrial in your home?" Jack asked me.
I shook my head, "What the blood hell should that mean to me? Class 8? Please!" I took a deep breath, "That bloody alien in there is the asshole who got me pregnant!" Jack's eyes lit up. Torchwood had never figured out what kind of alien had got me up the duff and now I think Jack had figured it out. I based this on the fact that he ran out of the room and left me alone. Soon however, Tosh walked out, saw me, and said hello.
"How'd you find Braxis anyway?" I asked her.
Tosh smiled, "We detected an anomaly near your home and since we knew you were there we came immediately." I nodded. I chatted with Tosh for another good twenty minutes before Jack emerged and took me to see Braxis. He was in a dim lit cell with dirt strewn across the plastic window. I could hear a kind of thrashing coming from cells further down but I ignored it.
"He's from a planet called Jarlowarr they reproduce…" I cut Jack off there.
"Yer, I know all that. He told me as much. How about Jay. How will Jay turn out?" I asked.
Jack shook his head smiling and replied, "Jarlowarrs are not much different physically other than their reproduction cycles, long life and psychic abilities."
What? "Whacha mean by 'psychic abilities'?" I asked, shocked.
Jack screwed up his face, "Well…" he started, "Well they can see things and often move objects with their minds. However this is seen more as a gift than a standard and not all Jarlowarrs have this. Also, Jay being half human might prevent him from getting this. However he will live a lot longer and will also reproduce the same way."
Jack gave me a minute to absorb this new information. I'd been living so long in a grey zone that it was actually a bit of a shock to get the truth and I was stunned. I didn't quite understand how this new information was going to impact mine and Jay's life but I was sure glad to have it.
"So what areya going to do with Braxis?" I asked Jack.
Jack blinked, "Send him back of course, he didn't arrive though the rift like we'd thought. He actually came in a ship that uses rift energy as fuel, that's why it spiked our metres. Technically he hasn't done anything we can punish him for, other than crash landing here."
"Hmm, okay." Somehow that didn't seem like a Torchwood thing but I guess it made sense and it wasn't like I wanted Braxis to pay child support or anything like that. I was fine on me own.
"So does this mean I can go home now?" I asked Jack.
"Yer, we'll take you back soon. Just wait out in the hub." I nodded, but as I turned to leave Braxis stood up and rushed the glass.
"I want to be with my child." He said, his black eyes gazing down at Jay's small form in my arms.
Jack shook his head, "You are a class 8 being on a class 2 planet. You cannot be here. You must return."
Braxis was almost in tears, "But how can I ever see him grow up?"
I looked between both these men and asked, "Won't Jay live much longer than me? I mean you said your 200 years old and you've got 100 years left?" Both men nodded.
"Then how about you take him when I'm gone. He can spend a hundred years here on Earth and the rest of his time on Jarwarr."
"Jarlowarr." Both men said at the same time, correcting me.
"Whatever." I sighed. I didn't know how I had thought of that so fast and without much thought but it seemed to mature. I mean I knew I wasn't going to live for three hundred years so what was the point of Jay staying here when I was gone? It was the best thing, not only for Braxis but for Jay too. He'd need a father.
I looked at Braxis and he was wiping a black tear from his eye as he nodded.
Jack sighed but said, "When then I guess it is settled. You may return in 100 years when Dolly has passed. But only for a day to retrieve your son Jay. Till then you must leave this planet."
And that was how it was agreed and soon Braxis returned to his home planet; not to return for 100 years.