Just to help the story along – not only blowfish but weevils. What are they making?

Weevils! – Chapter 10

They took about ten minutes to get to the meeting point and could see the police van there already. Ianto parked the SUV and they got out. Back to old times as he and Johnson walked either side of Jack whose coat was flowing in the breeze. A plain clothes officer came towards them.

'Aidan was right' thought Jack 'tall, dark and handsome and another time and place but not now.'

'Captain Jack Harkness' he said reaching out his hand. The hand that took it had a firm grip.

'DS Jason Thomas, we've cornered them in the wooded bit over there.'

'Agents Jones and Johnson are with me. Have you got the stuff?'

'All ready Jack' they replied

As they spoke a Land Rover mounted the pavement and ran over the empty patch of land towards the woods. They couldn't see what happened but shots rang out.

'Move' yelled Jack but the others were already running guns in hand. As they got there the car emerged again and sped away. They all fired at the tyres but the bullets seemed to bounce off.

'What the hell' said Johnson looking at her gun and then back at the car. 'Did anyone get the registration number? Jack continued to yell

'I've got it' replied Ianto. 'I'll get Aidan to run a trace ASAP.'

Then they heard screaming and ran straight into the woods. One policeman was down on the ground. The other looked on not knowing what to do. The weevil was chewing at his neck as he lay there screaming.

'Net' yelled Jack still running towards the creature. Ianto grabbed one corner as Johnson and he threw it over the weevil and pulled it back. Johnson pulled the spray out of her pocket and caught the weevil full in the face. As it went down Ianto plunged in the hypodermic and the weevil collapsed. Jack shoved the bag over the weevil's head and then they turned to the policeman. DS Thomas appeared.

'I've sent for an ambulance. Have you got the pills I'll need?'

'Pills?' replied Jack.

'Retcon pills if we give them now they'll just remember it was a vicious pair of dogs not weevils. Don't worry only I know about them. It's just easier if I know'

Johnson handed him a pair of pills. He told the police to swallow them for the shock. Both passed out. They would wake in a few minutes and remember what the first person told them. DS Thomas got in the ambulance with them. He would speak to them first when they woke up.

It was then Ianto said 'did he say pair of dogs? Does that mean that there were two of them and that Land Rover took the other? Bloody hell Jack what's going on here?'

Jack turned to Johnson 'has this happened before?'

'We're not sure. After the 456 the rift was sort of abandoned for a while until it settled down again here and we were able to assume control but we know stuff came through and there was weevil activity so perhaps some were taken then. We just don't know.'

'What could they be using weevils for and is it the same lot with the experiments using blowfish?' Jack wondered out loud. 'We need to get back to the Hub with this one and then run by Ellie the idea of mixing blowfish and weevil DNA with human and what the hell that could produce.'

'I'm guessing nothing you'd want to go out on a date with' said Ianto.