Sorry this Is late but this is a full 26 pages so enjoy, I've been swapped with stuff so I am trying to get this up as fast as I can so please stick with this!
-Elle
THEY KEEP KILLING SUZIE
Torchwood.
Outside the Government, beyond the Police.
Tracking down alien life on Earth and arming the human race against the future.
The 21st century is when everything changes,
and you've got to be ready.
The SUV pulled up at the crime scene, it was blocked of by yellow tape and crawling with police We got out of the car, all in sunglasses on holding the cases of equipment.
"Ah so you're team Torchwood, my team bitches about you all the time" a dark lady said looking us over
"And you are?"
"Detective Swanson" she said
"I'm Captain Jack Harkness" he shook her hand
"So I've heard, are you always this dressy for a murder investigation?" she said Jack whips of his sunglasses
"What, you'd rather me naked?" I rolled my eyes behind my sunglasses and tugged on my ponytail flipping the end over my shoulder
"God help me the stories are true" she says as Jack puts his sunglasses back on
"So who's the victim?" I ask she looks at me with the she is way too young to be here
"That's victims, plural. Yesterday a man was murdered at 96 Oakham Street. Alex Arwyn—28 single, estate agent. Here we go, that's from the scene of the crime" she handed Jack a file filled with pictures "Today in here we get two more, Mark and Sara Briscoe, both 33 married, he's a surveyor and she works in education." I looked at the pictures filled with a bloody bed and a man-, Jack snapped the file shut
"What about the smears of blood? Is that writing?"
"Work in progress come in side and see the finished thing" Swanson said leading us into the house.
"Oh my god…" Gwen said looking at the bedroom, on the bed are the bodies laid out and lifeless their throats ripped open and blood covering the white spread, but that wasn't what made my blood run cold it was the message written in the blood of the couple
TORCHWOOD
"Looks like somebody wants your attention" the Directive said
"They've got it" Jack answered coldly
"We found a few of the killer's hairs from the first murder. Lab results should be in soon" she said brushing of Jack's comment
"Good, we'll need that, now if you could clear the room. Some of this equipment is strictly need to know" I said ushering her out
"It was only a matter of time" Swanson mutters
"What was?" Jack asked she pauses in her exit
"Torchwood walks all over this city, like you own it. Now these people are paying the price- ordinary people ripped apart with your name written in their own blood. From where I'm standing Captain Jack Harkness You did this" she said leaving the room with the rest of her SOCO team, I closed the door behind her
"Bitch" I muttered at the door Owen put a hand on my shoulder warning me against anymore
"Still, at least we've got a head start. If it's someone we pissed off, that narrows it down to … oh four or five million" Owen said snapping his gloves into place
"And that's only the humans, tosh how are we doing? And Kate see if you can identify the type of weapon used" Jack said
We walked out to the SUV where Tosh was running the victims threw the computer to see if the victims are on our database
"There's no record of Mr. and Mrs. Briscoe on our database, or yesterday's victim and no link between him and the Briscoe's. No connection between any of them" Tosh said jack looked to me for my conclusion
"Knife, no different than a kitchen knife" I said, an officer hands Swanson a file folder but Tosh beets her to it pulling up DNA results
"Jack? They've got the results on the killer's hair" Tosh said
"Initial findings say, Caucasian male, early 40's smoker drinks tequila. Doesn't match any DNA profiles. Only thing of interest is a compound we've never seen before. Recognize it?" we all looked at the file
EARLY FORTIES
SMOKER
SMOKER
DRINKS TEQUILA
NO DNA MATCH
UNKNOWN COMPOUND - ##B67
"Oh we're in trouble" Owen whistled looking at the compound
"What is it?"
"Compound B67" he says my heart drops
"You're kidding?" Jack says seriously
"Retcon, he's got retcon in his blood"
"Shit!" I almost screamed Gwen eyes wide threw her hand over my mouth, a habit that was now very common in the group.
"Maybe we are responsible" Tosh said
"Compound B67 aka retcon aka the magic ingredient in the amnesia pill"
"And this belongs to us? This killer is someone we gave the amnesia pill to?" Gwen asked as Ianto entered the conference room
"Is he remembering that he's a serial killer? Or is he becoming a serial killer because of the retcon?" Owen said more stating than asking
"Wait a minute, I've taken Retcon" Gwen said worriedly
"Then you'd better stay away from sharp objects, So Ianto how many people have we given amnesia pills to" I deadpanned Gwen looked a little hurt and it was defiantly not what she wanted to hear but the words where out of my mouth and I wasn't going to take them back.
"2,008" he answered
"Hey want if they all become psychotic?!" Owen said exuberantly
"D'you have to sound so happy" Tosh asked
"I'm just saying mean streets!"
"Tosh, narrow the list down to fit Swanson's profile. Kate start checking them out as fast as you can. Gwen, Owen there's got to be a link between the victims, find the link find the killer Get to it!" Jack said standing up we all got up to follow him, but Gwen stays in her seat
"Jack? If there is a link, why don't we just ask the victims ourselves?" She said
"Not the right time for a séance, thank you very much" Jack said turning again
"The first time I meat Torchwood you had that glove" she said
"Heh-heh, no way" Jacks face was cold
"Defiantly not" my voice shook slightly at the thought of it
"Not after what it did to Suzie" Owen finished
"It brings people back to life, we could question the murder victims" She reasoned
"That's exactly what she said, she was one of us, we trusted her and now she's dead cos of that thing" Owen said
"I don't know about trusted her but she was one of us Gwen" I said trying to make her understand
"The glove is safe where it belongs" Jack said, but Gwen wasn't done she got up and looked him in the eye
"These murders are happening because of torchwood, so Torchwood has got to do something" she said I looked at him to see him actually consider it…
"It fell through the rift about forty years ago, lay at the bottom of the bay till we dredged it up. I always figured this wasn't just lost. Whoever had it wanted rid of it" Jack said taking the glove out of the box. I was mad, I was beyond mad at Jack and the rest of the team for this.
"Yah and maybe it should have stayed that way!" I seethed Jack ignored me
"You know we never gave it a cool name" Owen lamented
"I thought we called it the Resurrection Gauntlet?" Tosh said Owen looked pointedly at her
"COOL name" he repeated
"Risen Mitten?" Ianto said they looked around "I think it is catchy" he defended
We stood in the cold storage room around the body of Alex Arwyn's body, jack had given Ianto a stop watch and he was quite content with it. Jack picked up the glove and put it on
"Jack you ok?" Gwen said
"Don't forget, the maximum resurrection time is two minutes, and that's only because Suzie had practice. The most I'm likely to get it thirty seconds." Jack said his voice almost at a yell "Tosh you ready?"
"Ready and recording, this man was victim number one name: Alex Arwyn" she said
Jack put his hand on the man's head, concentrating
"Come on, Alex come back" he said trying to give him something to latch on to
"How does it work?" Gwen asked, I hissed this was horrible I couldn't be closer than two feet to the glove without hearing Suzie's voice
"Don't do that Kathrine Jane, don't play with the grown up toys" she would say if I got close to the glove
"You just sort of feel, like reaching out into the dark finding the dead, I can't… I don't… Ah" he pulled the glove of as though it had burned him "Damn! Ahg! Nothing, sorry never was good with this thing, Owen?" he asks offering the glove to him
"I tried last time, we all had a go it only responded to Suzie" he said, well that wasn't all true I hadn't tried it. Not that I was going to say anything of course.
"Well, I never had a go" Gwen said I looked at her like she was crazy. Owen and Jack look at her before handing her the glove. Which she puts on
"It's cold" she says as she shoves her hand in
"it' warms up, the glove relies on some sort of empathy, maybe compassion and-"
"Just be yourself" I said bluntly, Gwen put her hand on Alex's head and the reaction is immediate, she gasped and arched her back looking at the roof. Alex opened his eyes
"Somebody help me! Oh my god, help me, help me!" he yelled
"Alex I need you to listen to me" Jack said calmly looking down at the man
"Somebody help Me!" the man on the table continued
"That's what we are doing Alex, you were attacked. Do you know who it was?" I asked softly but firmly
"Who are you?" he asked
"How long?" Owen asked Ianto
"Where am i?"
"Fifteen seconds" Ianto said
"Who are you?" he says
"I'm just trying to help sweetheart, I'm just trying to help" Gwen says getting to emotional for the glove, Jack looked at her seeing it to
"I want my mum. Please! Let me see my mum…" the made out before the machine flat-lined and Alex died again
"He's gone" I said moving away for the table
"Let me try again!" Gwen pleaded
"Gwen he's dead" Jack reasoned
"But I can bring him back!" she said her voice breaking
"The Glove only works once" I looked at her she didn't see it.
"But I can do it just let me try" She said tears running down her face
"Gwen look at me" Jack commanded she looked at him "He's gone" she finally relented
"That was amazing, she's a natural, twenty-four seconds!" Ianto said happily
"Give Ianto a stopwatch and he's happy" Owen snarked
"It's the button at the top" Ianto concluded, Jack looked to Gwen she looked miserable
"What do you think Gwen, do you want to stop?" he said quietly
"Yes" she answered
"Then who is going to use to glove?" Ianto asked
"Kate, last time she didn't try" Owen said they all looked at me, I wanted to run but I wasn't going to make a big scene
"Fine"
Jack handed me the glove and I stood behind the second victim Mark Briscoe, Jack looked at me as I put the glove on. Earlier I had thrown a bit of a hissy fit about the glove.
"Kate put it on!" he said I slid my hand into the freezing metal; I may have squeaked as it was pulled farther up my arm.
"Recording, victim number two: Mark Briscoe" Tosh said from her station, I put my hand to the body.
"Oh, god I can feel him, it's like… oh so now it's warm" I said as the glove heated up, Mark opened his eyes.
"Hey there, just look at me. Look me in the eye. That's it" Jack said to the man on the table
"Where am i?" Mark said
"You've been hurt, we don't have much time but we need to know who attacked you" Jack said
"Is my wife all right?" I smiled faithful even in death.
"We're looking after her, the man who was it?" I said
"It was that man, he belonged to Pilgrim, and he went to Pilgrim"
"What's Pilgrim?"
"Oh my god he had a knife" Mark whispered and you could tell he had been scared very scared
"No, Mark, he's gone. We don't have long, what was his name?" Jack pushed
"Thirty-five seconds" Ianto warned
"Max, never knew his surname" he said sensing the urgency of the situation
"Trying Max and Pilgrim get a description" Tosh said from her station
'You got to give us more so we can catch him" Jack said
"His going" Owen said softly I nodded I could feel it the rope fraying
"There was… there was someone who knew him better that woman, she was always talking to him" he struggled to get the words out
"What was her name?" I pleaded mentally trying to get him more time
"where's my wife?" he cried like a scared child
"Her name!" jack exclaimed
"Suzie" he uttered before leaving us. I stopped cold as I made sense of what he had said: Suzie.
"One minute five seconds wow Kate" Ianto said I pulled of the glove almost tossing it onto the table behind me.
"Jack? Did I hear that right?" Tosh said
"Could be anyone, could be anyone. There must be lots of women called Suzie" Owen reasoned I was still shocked at the result of the resurrection
"Not connected to this case" Jack said
"There must be lots of women called Suzie" Owen said again and I wanted to believe him but I knew he was right.
"Not connected to this case. We've been talking to the wrong corpse"
Tosh entered the conference room the rest of us were already seated around the table. Tosh put the file on the table before starting her technobabble.
"Pilgrim, a religious support group, more like a debating society" she started I sat up vaguely remembering hearing about this "Meaning of life, does god exist? All that stuff." That's a girl in class's sister went to it or goes to it "the point is, it was tiny more like a hobby, run by Mark Briscoe's wife Sara. She had all that stashed in her wardrobe. Handwritten and photocopied, that's why we couldn't find any records. She wasn't even online" Tosh she was still trying to figure out how the was possible, I smiled at her confusion. Tosh sat down adding even more to my little scene
"No mention of Suzie or Max?" Jack asked
"Not a word, she didn't even keep a register" I said looking at the file, that was surprising no count of how successful it was, nothing.
"It wouldn't be our Suzie, though. She wouldn't go to that support group bollocks" Owen said I nodded
"How do you know? I mean, were you friends? Any of you? Who was her best friend in this place?" Gwen said I shrugged I had been too busy hatting her guts to be friends
"She sort of kept to herself" Owen said shrugging it off
"Well, then. If she needed to talk maybe that's exactly where she'd go a group of strangers" Gwen pointed out. She was right
"Could be, you've got a point Gwen. Time we got to know our deceased colleague a little better"
We pulled up outside of the storage rooms, it was pouring.
"I am sooo wet" I said trying to shield myself from the rain with my skinny stick arms as we walked to the storage door
"Have I got this right? When I die, you get to keep all my possessions?" Gwen said Jack punched in the code 74118 "My whole life's gonna get stashed in a locker?"
"Rules and regulations" Jack answered
"And what if I leave all my stuff to Rhys?"
"We'll stash him away too" Jack answered as the door started to open I was still moaning about being wet, when Jack spoke again "Tread carefully people this is the life of Suzie Costello" he said mournfully I hadn't been here for three months not since we had put everything in hear from her home. The room was full of boxes with the Torchwood logo; I walked over the turned on the light. I could imagine my storage room from looking at hers, full of really nothing important but memories only the team would share.
"That's all we are in the end a pile of boxes" Tosh said sadly, Jack gave the go ahead for us to start going through the boxes. I had no luck on the first one
"Is her father still alive?" Gwen asked looking at a picture
"We don't know" Tosh answered
But you must have looked him up? To tell him his daughter was dead"
"When Suzie left Torchwood, she was on the run. She wiped all her records, I couldn't retrieve her files, she was good at computers, heck she was good at everything" Tosh said
"She was good at murder too, laugh a minute that was Suzie" I said darkly almost everyone knew of my dislike towards her if not had heard of it. I looked up Tosh was in another pile of books so I went back to mine humming softly.
"What is that?" Gwen said to Jack
"A book, Emily Dickinson poet" he answered and that is when I found it smashed between two books, a yellow flier
"Jack she's a part of it" I said in a voice I couldn't place
"That proves it then, no choice. It's time Suzie came back"
I sat on the edge of the stairs as the other crowed around her body, I held the glove it wasn't on my hand, I just looked at it. So much power in a tiny little glove,
"Do we all get frozen?" Gwen asked looking at Suzie's body warily
"Rules and regulations" Jack said for the second time that day,
"For how long?"
"Forever" I said the looked at me "What Rules and regulations don't you read?" I accused
"Recording" Tosh says I stand up and walk to Suzie's head standing behind it,
"Have you got your stopwatch?" Owen asked Ianto, I looked around the team was giving Suzie's body strange looks
"Always" Ianto said finally Tosh broke
"I'll record from my station, I'm sorry but I can't look her in the eye" she said hurrying of I wanted to follow her,
"Anyone else?" Jack asked Gwen moved slightly up the stairs out of Suzie's view
"Any advice? Since you know she shot me" I asked looking at her
"Just try and be sympathetic like you were with the last one, think of it as a chance for her to redeem herself" Jack said patting my shoulder I huffed.
I put my hand on Suzie's head, I felt my back arch up towards the ceiling but then nothing just flashes of right before her death. They went so quick I couldn't catch them. I gasped trying to find her
"I'm getting a reading, uh no! It's gone" Owen said from the monitories I opened my eyes
"I couldn't find her just memories of her last moments" I said "I think she's too far gone"
"What do we do now?" I took off the glove setting it down
"Nothing we can do, that's it we're out of options" Jack said I almost sighed in relief
"There's always the knife, when she killed all those people she always used the knife, it's made out of the same material as the glove" Owen said, I silently cursed him
"We've seen it before, like a kind of resonance, the glove seems to work better it the knife is involved like a closed circuit" Tosh clarified
"Then let's use it" Gwen said
"Small detail, the knife was used to kill people, she's already dead" I said hopping to stop this now
"All right so we kill her again" no such luck
We waited in Jack's office while he got the knife out, the wicked looking knife.
"Ianto?" Owen asked looking for a name, Ianto paused before dramatically uttering
"Life knife" we all nodded the Life knife and Risen mitten
I had my hand on Suzie's head, as Jack ran the knife down her arm
"Anything?" he asked me
"No, there was a spark but… Jack you're going to have to do this properly" I sighed I had my eyes closed trying to concentrate on finding her so I missed the interchange between Jack and Owen, Jack plunged the knife into her chest.
"What the hell" Jack said as the light exploded behind my eyes, I felt Suzie breath underneath my hand, I gasped and opened my eyes to see Suzie alive and looking around
"Suzie? Listen it's me" Jack said firmly getting her attention or trying to, I moved just out of her line of sight.
"I've got to go! I can't stay they know" She said panicking reliving her last thoughts
"Just look, Suzie look into my eyes, look at where you are" Jack repeated
"I've got to go" she said struggling
"Think back try to remember, Suzie look at me!" he demanded, Suzie looked around her eyes settling on the knife still in her chest
"Jack, oh my god. There's a knife in my chest, did Kate kill me?" she asked I stiffened at the comment she was probably right a late night with the knife nobody to see what happened- no Kate stay focused
"You killed yourself remember" Jack said coldly I was still trying to grasp the little empathy I had for her
"I shot myself" she wailed
"We've got to ask you about Pilgrim"
"No, wait a minute didn't I kill you?" she said I looked at him but he surged that off
"Never mind that, we need names and details"
"Who's using the glove?" she asked
"Long time no see" I said darkly
"Oh, wouldn't you know it, Kathrine Jane bloody Lewis" oh look all my empathy for her just flew out of the window
"Thirty seconds" Ianto looking at the watch
"When you were in Pilgrim you gave the amnesia pill to a man, Max do you remember?" jack asked
"What? You brought me all the way back, just for Max!?" she said angrily
"Well what were you expecting just a; hi, hello, how is death?" I snarked but was ignored
"We need to find him, who is he? What is his surname?" Jack almost screamed
"He was some loser"
"We're losing her" Owen said, I put all my force into it
"Stay here dam you!" I said forcing the connection
"Kate no, don't force it!"
"She is not getting away, stay here!" I screamed at her trying to force her to stay with the glove putting all my though and mind into it. I should have listen to Jack and let her go because as soon as I had said that I was thrown back by the glove into a cart full of instruments.
"I told you to stop" Jack said coming to help me up but Owen was their first, putting his arms around me and looking for the pulse on my non-gloved wrist.
"It's all right, I've got you, hold on" he said as he found my pulse, I put my arm around him trying to get up and failing and hitting my head again, I tried to mumble something. "Okay, pulse. She's all right we need to get her some fresh air, can you give me a hand?" I tried to move and get up myself but Owen wouldn't let me "For god sakes Kate take it easy"
"Um excuse me, I'm still counting" Ianto said pointing to the monitor
"Um Ianto, Suzie is dead" Owen said harshly
"No, according to this equipment she is just unconscious" Ianto said motioning to the monitor, Owen jumped up and ran to the monitors, Jack came over and helped me up putting an arm around my waist to keep me standing on my shaking legs
"He's right, she's alive! Suzie is still alive. She's bloody breathing" Owen cried in disbelief I looked at Suzie I could see her pupils moving under her eyelids,
"She can't be…" Jack said
"Dam, I really fucked up" I said hanging my head, Jack got up and grabbed the knife from her chest
"Nope still breathing theirs no stopping her She. Won't. Die." Owen said as if resigning to the truth of the situation,
"One minute thirty and counting" Ianto said the hub was deathly quiet besides the steady mocking pulse of the heart monitor.
I sat outside the interrogation room on the steps watching Suzie slumped in the chair, Jack and Gwen passed me. He put a file on the table and sat down across from her.
"How long has it been?" her voice was raspy
"Three months"
"When can I die? I just want to die. Can't you leave me alone?" she said I almost snorted
"Like you get off that easy" I said
"You seem to be stuck" Jack clarified as Suzie shot me a dirty look I shrugged and glared back she tried to look innocent and pathetic
"But, am I gonna stay like this? For how long?"
"We don't know" Gwen said shaking her head sadly
"Can I see my father?"
"No"
"You wiped your records, we had no trace of him" Gwen answered she was being to kind, to gently typical Gwen but Suzie didn't deserve it
"So he doesn't even know I'm dead?"
"Well you're not anymore" I put in she looked at me again
"This is sick" she scoffed
"I couldn't agree more" I mumbled
"You started it, right now we've got an investigation underway" Jack said pushing a folder in front of Suzie, it was full of pictures of the people we know went to Pilgrim "Pilgrim" he said starting, "You visited these meetings and gave an amnesia pill to Max, how do we find him?"
"What for? What did he do? He was just an ordinary bloke" Suzie asked confused
"We think the Retcon triggered a psychosis, he's started killing"
"How many victims?" she asked sitting up to look at the file
"Three same as you" Gwen said placing the file folder with the victims on the table for Suzie
"We need to know how much Retcon you gave him" Owen said over the PA Suzie looked up
"Owen, scared to face me?" she teased
"You frighten the shit out of me" he said I cracked a smile at his honesty
"What about Toshiko?"
"Yeah she's here, all the gang happy days. But the amnesia pill how much did you give him?"
"One a week, every week for two years" she said I blanched well no wonder
"Christ no wonder!" Owen said over the PA
"What the hell did you do that for?" Jack asked angrily
"I just, I wanted someone to talk to, about this place. It was driving me mad, and he was just, he listened that's all he just listened. Every week I'd finish talking I gave him the pill" I actually I agreed slightly you do at the end of the day want someone to talk to,
"You overdosed him" I accused
"I didn't know that! I keep getting it wrong, is that why you brought me back? It never stops being my bloody fault" she wailed dramatically I rolled my eyes
"What was his surname" Jack said not buying it either
"I don't know. All I did was talk about me It's all my fault isn't? Can't I just die?" oh shut up I thought and got up walking up the stairs to the main room of the Hub.
"Owen I need a breath" I said as I walked to the cog door. I had a pounding head ache and needed a large space. I sat on the dock by the water and pulled out my phone, three missed calls "Dam" I said reading who they were from, all Eugene.
"Eugene?" I said calling him
"Hello?"
"Hey its Kate you called me"
"Oh yeah sorry but I've been trying to get through to you all night"
"No I'm not all right, I really fuck things up and-" I said
"Slow down, hey its ok" he said
"No it's not it is really not and by god I can't tell you" I said "Look I'm sorry I called you" I quickly hung up and stared out across the bay.
"Kate I don't know where you ran off to but get your ass to the SUV pronto" Jack said over the com I smiled putting my worries and headache aside I hurried off to the SUV were Jack, Owen and Gwen were waiting
"Sorry I was at the docks" I said climbing in next to Gwen
"The Wolf bar do you know it?" Jack said in response,
"I've heard it from school but not really" I answered as we speed of to the bar
"How old are you?" the guard asked
"17" I answered boldly he looked at me and was about to ask me to leave when Owen intervened
"She's with us" he said gesturing to Jack and Gwen who nodded I turned beet red and Owen smiled and pulled me along with him into the bar. The music hit me like a ton of bricks
"As if I didn't have a pounding headache, bloody hell how do you stand this?" I ask/screamed Owen he just shook his head
"Owen, Gwen cover the exits Kate stick with me" Jack said into the coms so we could hear him
"Wait till your 18 then we'll have some fun" Owen said over the music, I rolled my eyes and lightly punched his arm
"It's the glove Kate it gets inside your head," Suzie said over the com talking about the headache
"Yah ok, stop it Suzie I don't need any more to worry about right now" I shot back at her I heard a slight chuckle
"Any sign of Lucy Makenzie?" Gwen asked
"Nothing yet keep looking, move around"
"Keep alert people, remember Max is described as 40, six-three, six four, stocky, short dark hair and a tattoo down his left arm" Jack repeated from our earlier briefing in the car
"That narrows it down" Owen said drolly I looked trying to see where he was but to no avail all the people at leased a foot or so taller than me and were their body's up against me as I tried to get threw made it increasingly difficult to think. Jack must have seen my discomfort because he led us over to a smaller less crowded aria
"You ok?"
"Yah fine just not great with all the people, let's keep looking" I said taking a deep breath and plunging back into the search Jack right behind me, "Jack I think have a match" I said looking at a man drinking at the bar, I move towards him I could only see his left side so when he got up and turned showing no tattoo on his arm I backed down listening in on the coms
"Hey do I know you?" I boy slurred next to me, I looked up he was from school why he was here beats me
"No"
"Yes you go… to, oh I go to school with you" he said I face palmed, great a drunken boy in a bar recognizes me
"Yah I know you do your parents know you're here?" I asked trying to scare him
"Yep-"
"Kate sorry to interrupt you conversation but we are here for a reason" Gwen said
"I didn't start it and I know"
"I got a match on our girl, Lucy Mackenzie the student" Owen shouted I moved towards him shadowing Jack
"That's her that is defiantly her" Suzie said
"It's too late he's going over" Owen said rushing over and pinning Max's to the ground "got the bastard" he said Suzie must have been able to get a good look him because
"That isn't him" Came her warning, I looked around in time to see another man with a knife headed towards Lucy fitting all the descriptions. Gwen was standing in between them I took off
"Gwen behind you!" Suzie shouted moments before I collided with Gwen pushing her out of harm's way, I looked up Max's knife was heading straight for me at point blank. Jack grabbed Max's arm making him drop the knife twisting it. Before pulling a stun gun on him
"That one's for Ianto, Risen mitten, life knife and the good old stun gun, come on lets get him out of here" Jack said I nodded before helping Gwen up
"Suzie, you saved my life" she said into the com
"Maybe I came back for a reason" she said softly I rolled my eyes not letting anyone sees but I was mad, I saved her bloody life not Suzie!
I sat at my computer Jack and Owen were down in the faults with Max; Suzie was back in the interrogation room with Gwen keeping her company if anyone asked me I would say they were getting to close. I watched them on the CCTV footage but I couldn't tell what they were saying.
"You ok Kate?" Tosh asked
"Yah I just have a pounding headache all be fine"
"Kate I need that paper in my office" Jack called I looked up before getting up with it in hand; I was surprised I had been able to finish it after all that had happened.
I walked to his office and sat down handing him the paper that he skimmed over it. BANG Gwen burst into the room throwing back the door and storming over the Jack
"I had a boyfriend how like to make grand entrances, it got kind of boring but he was one of twins. Twin acrobats so I put up with it. Man I really got to write that book maybe even illustrate it. I can talk for a long time, a very long time-" Jack's little story was cut off by Gwen who had started to pace stopped and leaned over the desk looking at him.
"It takes me a while to piece things together" she started
"Meaning?"
"Suzie had the glove; you put her in charge of it. Tell me Jack did you ever ask about her father?"
"No-" I started but Gwen cut me off
"GET out Kate you have been nothing but a pain in the ass ever since we brought the glove out So GO GET OUT" she said pointing to the door I was shocked I had never been yelled at before by any of the team
"Fine" I said and left the room grabbing my stuff and practically running out of the hub and into the tourist shop, I pushed out of the door ignoring Ianto's calls and stormed out of the range of the cameras I knew that they could see me on without trying. I didn't know I was crying till someone told me
"You ok mate?"
"Yes I'm fine" I said wiping my cheeks and hurrying of to my car. I sat on the hood of my car, before stretching out leaning against the windshield of my car. I looked over to the other teams cars
"I'm just taking you to see you father and that's it ok?" Gwen said helping Suzie into her car, a few away from me
"Gwen what the hell do you think you are doing" I said getting up and jumping over to the car
"Kate, what are you doing here?" Gwen said worriedly
"Gwen I repeat what the hell do you think you are doing?" I was livid
"Look Kate you can either run back to the Hub or you can stay with us" Suzie said weakly from the car, I looked into the night back towards the Hub then back at the car and without a second thought got in the back of it and closed the door behind me.
We drove for a while in silence, I could not believe I had gotten so rashly into the car. I mostly tuned out on the conversation they had trying to ignore the pounding pain in my head that was becoming more and more intense
"A bit more color in your cheeks" Gwen said looking over at Suzie
"The company is doing wonders" she said smiling but there was a cold edge in her tone that made me think she intended more from her comment. Then she said something I would never forget "That night my last night on earth, or so I thought. Before I shot myself I shot Jack right through the head" she said I sat up
"What?"
"I killed him; stone dead and then he just stood up and lived, am I right? Did that happen?" she finished I was flabbergasted and sure Gwen would shoot her down
"Yes, it did"
"SO he can survive a bullet through the head?"
"Yeah"
"How?"
"I don't know, he won't explain properly said something happened to him a while back, He said he can't die ever" Gwen said she was obviously in the dark herself
"And he gets to make decisions about whether I'm allowed to live? It's all very easy for Captain Jack isn't it" Suzie said scoffing
"Do you ever wonder?" Suzie started to ask
"What?"
"Who he is?"
"All the time" Gwen said and really I couldn't agree more. I looked at my phone knowing Jack and the rest of the team would have watched the CCTV footage of the aria after Gwen and Suzie, but I had gotten no calls or text in the last thirty minute and it was starting to worry me. But rattling around in my head is the truth: Jack Can't Die.
"Oh god driving at night" Gwen said yawning and trying to stay awake, she turned on the radio.
"Oh my god" Suzie said listening to the song,
"I don't know this one" Gwen said I vaguely recognized it
"It's ancient, my mom used to sing it to me when I was a kid. All those years ago before I died" Suzie said starting to cry, and turned to the window, Gwen shifted uncomfortably. I watched the scene, after a few uncomfortable shifts form Gwen and a few tears later Suzie looked over barely and watched Gwen's reaction before crying again.
I sat with my head in my hand staring out of the window; it felt like something was pounding up against the inside of my scull. I held down a whimper as it hit harder and harder.
"Tired?" Suzie asked Gwen
"No, I'm fine" She said yawing but trying to cover it
"Don't want you sleeping at the wheel, one corpse is enough for this car" Suzie said jokingly
"Don't say that"
"What?"
"Corpse, because you're not" Gwen said shaking me out of my trance sure enough Suzie was looking more and more alive.
"Then what am I?"
"I don't know, you're just not" she said "When you're dead, when you die what happens?" she asked
"What do you want me to say?"
"The truth"
"Are you sure?" Suzie said
"Tell me" Gwen said I shook my head, we all get there in the end why would you want to know?
"Are you religious?"
"Sort of, you know"
"Well do you believe in heaven?" Suzie asked
"I dunno"
"Yes you do, what do you believe"
"Stupid, but I always sort of think, well you know white light and all that my gran will be there. The smell of carbolic" Gwen listed fantasizing
"Your faith never left primary school"
"So what's out there?"
"Nothing, just nothing" she said in an empty voice
"But if there's nothing, what's the point of it all?" Gwen said I agreed wishing I didn't have to hear this
"This is driving through the dark, all this stupid, tiny stuff. We're just
animals, howling in the night, cos it's better than silence. I used to think about
Torchwood, all those aliens, coming to Earth ... What the hell for? But it's just
instinct. They come here cos there's life, that's all, moths around a flame creatures
clinging together in the cold." She said
"So when you die, it's just" I said
"Darkness"
"And you're all alone?"
"I didn't say that" Suzie started I felt my stomach drop
"What do you mean?"
"Why do you think I was so desperate to come back? There's something out there in the dark, and it's moving" She said I gulped and looked back out the window.
Gwen got out of the car, to go get Suzie a wheel chair when we got to the hospital.
"Suzie what is going on?" I said looking at her,
"What do you mean Kathrine Jane" she shrugged off
"You know what mean Suzie-" I stopped as Gwen came back pushing a chair and helping Suzie out I climbed out after them then I followed them into the hospital. Gwen pushed Suzie into a room where a man was hooked up to a monitor, Suzie walked over to the man. As we entered the room I was hit by a huge wave of pain.
"Ah, what the-" I said backing up against the wall, clutching my head. "God my head" I gasped, I pulled my hand way from my head, It was covered in blood. "Suzie what is going on?" Gwen looked at me wide eyed
"Oh my god Kate" she said turning from Suzie, giving Suzie a perfect shot at Gwen's head. Gwen collapsed on the floor.
"Suzie-"
"Oh Kathrine Jane you are getting shot through the head" She said taking off her head scarf and examining the entry hole "Slowly and believe me it hurts, but it is just what you deserve. Look Kathrine Jane I'm almost better."
"No, no, no" I said collapsing against the wall and sliding down it.
"Dad, its Suzie" Suzie said leaning over the hospital bed, the man stirred and opened his eyes; when he recognized Suzie the filled with shock and horror. "Hello Dad" she said before ripping the tube out of his mouth leaving him gasping for breath. "And goodbye" she said as the heart machine went berserk.
"What are you doing?" I tried to scream
"Oh, that was worth coming back for, sending him into the darkness that is just what the bastard deserves" she said pushing me into the hall way leaving Gwen unconscious on the floor and her father gasping for his last breaths. As Suzie pushed me down the hall I desperately tried to grab a nurse, Suzie saw my attempt and pushed my hand almost caringly into my lap, I tried to call out multiple times but I couldn't I was losing the battle. Finally she pushed me out of the building and back towards the car, and then she picked up her phone.
"Did you like the poem, Jack?" she asked I could barely hear Jack on the other end
"Suzie don't let her die. The glove is killing Kate and keeping you alive" Jack said worriedly
"I know"
"Then stop" I struggled to open my eyes
"I get to live, and she dies why would I stop?" Suzie said maniacally
"For Kathrine's sake" Jack argued
"She replaced me, now I'm doing the same to her. Isn't that fair?"
"Suzie we've got a tracker on that car and we're going to catch up I promise" Jack said almost more to me than her.
"And what happens then?" Suzie asked border line scared
"If she's dead, then I will kill you. Suzie Costello, I promise. I will kill you if Kate is dead when I get their" Jack said into the phone
"But could you? When there's a part of her that's me now? Could you really if I'm the only thing left of your special little pet?" she asked earnestly
"Why are you doing this?"
"Because life is all there is Jack, and you should know all do anything to stay. Anything" she finished
"Suzie stop it please, just stop" Jack pleaded I could tell he was genuinely scarred for me, and that scarred me.
"She's a real find this one. This Kathrine Jane Lewis, she is so much better than me all ways has been, I was never any good. I hoped it would be her who used the glove because… Jack I'm sorry" She said crying and snapped the phone shut. She looked at me in the chair next to her I tried to turn myself away from her and to the window so I could cry in privet.
It was early morning when Suzie stopped the car, and got out almost running around the car to get me.
"It's beautiful Kate can't you see?" she said supporting me as she dragged me down the dock, "We'll take the ferry and go out as far as we can. Keep on running because he won't hurt us. You and me I never thought" She said dragging me. I vaguely heard the SUV's tire screech and the doors open and Owen scream my name but he was shadowed by someone else. I fell on the ground unable to move
"Oh Kate, I forgot to tell you. You should be like Max for weeks I was giving you the amnesia pill in your drinks at night. Oh Kate have you gone? Kate?" She said and kissed my forehead "Safe journey" she said before leaving me sprawled on the floor slipping away into the darkness.
Everything was dark I couldn't see my hand in front of my face.
I wanted to scream and cry but I could breath.
I tried to move but I felt heavy, I couldn't see everything was dark, I thought of all the people I had failed: Tosh, Gwen, Eugene, Ianto, James, Owen, and Jack. Jack he had been so worried over the phone.
I thought about them having to tell my friends and family that I was dead. I could see the report, instead of Alive I would like all the ones before me they would change it to desist.
I wanted to scream at the thought but at what and then I felt it the thing moving in the darkness. It was coming for me and then as it was about to grab hold the light shown threw and…
"Kate, Kate look at me!" Owen shouted desperately, I tried barley opening my eyes but closing them fast when the light filtered in. Owen hugged me against his chest and rocked back and forth,
"It was so dark it was all dark" I sobbed
"Whoa, shh its okay, it's okay" he said into my hair I tried to stop.
"Kate?" Jack said I looked up at his worried expression
"Yes" I said trying to wipe the tears off my face and trying to get up
"No Kate, don't try to get up" Owen said getting up and picking me up, carrying me past the people who had gathered and into the SUV.
"Jack? Suzie said something before I almost died" I whispered Jack looked at me.
"What was it Kate?"
"She said for weeks, that she'd…"
"What was it?" Owen said firmly
"She said for weeks she'd been slipping me the Amnesia pill" I said letting in sink in
"What!" Jack said as we speed back to camp
"I shouldn't be here I shouldn't remember anything" I said hysterically
"Kate calm down" Jack said but I couldn't, Owen grabbed my arm and injected me with a sedative, I looked at him wide eyed he looked sorry. My eyes closed and I drifted into another type of darkness.
"All take Ianto and go get Gwen" Tosh's voice rang through my head "Ianto will you get the car ready?"
"Jack I need to stay if what Suzie said was true then I need to see how much danger Kate is in" Owen said
"Right" I was shifted which lead to my next conclusion I was being carried, I moaned and Jack shushed me like I was a baby. He placed me on the autopsy room table and covered me with a blanket, before kissing my head and leaving Owen to run the tests.
The tests lasted much of the next few days, before Owen finally concluded that I was fine well not really his real conclusion was something like this
"So Suzie wasn't lying for weeks she had been giving you retcon, it is in your blood but somehow you have absorbed it and continue to function normally with it your system-" Owen started I sat next to Jack in the conference room while Owen presented his findings
"Owen I just lost like a pint of blood dumb it down please" I over-exaggerated
"Your body has somehow fought of an enormous amount of the amnesia pill, think of it as the part that makes you forget didn't work" Owen said looking slightly impressed.
"So my body has fought off the amnesia pill?" I said
"Exactly"
After Owen left I confronted jack
"Were you ever going to tell m-us you are immortal?" I asked him his jaw dropped
'How?"
"Suzie and Gwen don't worry knowing you all I know is as much as I'm going to get" I said before getting up
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