Grace POV

I was awoken by someone whispering in my ear,

"Hey Sleepy Head, I told you not to fall asleep". It was Jack. I opened my eyes to find myself slouched against him, my head on his strangely comfortable shoulder. He was smiling at me with his blue eyes. I jerked up immediately and instantly regretted it as the sharp movement sent a small wave of pins and needles into my injured arm. Somehow, my body had numbed it after an hour or so of pain. I groaned as I got head rush. I heard a muffled chuckle but chose to ignore it,

"How long was I out?" I asked,

"Ten minutes. I told you I'd have to wake you up so you should wait it out and sleep when we got there" he replied. I sighed and fell back beside him. He took a lose strand of my hair and began twirling it around his fingers.

"Sorry to leave you" I admitted. He snickered,

"Actually, I had quite an interesting chat with our driver, Tommy, here. Did you know these walls are atomic bomb proof? So thick that they used this stuff on Buckingham palace. Actually, I imagine that it where they got this stuff from since London doesn't have a survivors' camp" he told me,

"Survivor's camp?" I repeated,

"Yes, since I couldn't get any answers about history and such, I figured those groups of human's we saw were camps"

"Oh" was all I could say. Wow, how dangerous did they think we were if we were put in a car with god knows how thick walls. As if he had read my thoughts he replied,

"I don't know for sure, but I imagine they're scared of us. We just popped up on their scanners out of no where and ran when we were chased. Their orders were to capture us, unharmed but of course one guy decided he's stretch them rules a bit, and well, you know how that ended" he explained. I shrugged. I had guessed they were scared of something but we weren't to be harmed? Okay then.

"Yeah, sorry about that ma'am. But I guess they all paid for his mistakes" said Tommy in the front, obviously hearing our conversation. I wondered if he had heard what we had been talking of before.

"So I'm ma'am now?" I asked. Jack chuckled, as did Tommy.

"Yeah, sorry about before but you have to understand what I thought when I found you two the only ones alive. You are our guests when we get home now. I've offered you a seat up front but your boyfriend was very protective. Said he wanted you by his side since there's only space for one up here". I raised an eyebrow that said, 'So you're my boyfriend now' and he winked at me. It was a cunning, cheeky wink as if to say, 'you say that like it's a bad thing' but also to say, 'shh, don't tell on me'. He obviously had a reason for this and I would get it out of him later. I shook my head. Typical Jack. Our silent conversation was interrupted by Tommy,

"Welcome to home" he said and the car stopped. I look to Jack to see him grinning at me.

"Time to meet the neighbours" he said. I rolled my eyes and watched as Tommy got out of the truck and everything went silent. I couldn't even hear his boots as he walked around the car or the sound as he unlocked the wall, which turned out to be a door. I was blinded momentarily by sunlight, but as my eyes adjusted, I saw that Jack was outside and smiling at me. He put an arm behind his back and held his hand out to me with the other. I grinned and took it, stepping down from the truck carefully. The blood rushed down my legs and I wobbled a bit after so long sitting. Plus however long I was unconscious for. I wondered where we were,

"Glasgow" whispered Jack in my ear as he held my hand while my legs got used to walking again. I actually thought he had read my thoughts that time until I realised he was talking to himself, "I always loved the Scots" he continued. I smiled to myself, now there's a story I didn't want to know. I turned and felt my breath catch in my throat, louder than it should have been before I noticed Jack was looking in the same direction as myself, a look of anger on his face instead of the awe that mine composed of. We were looking at a huge city, tall buildings made of steel and shining in the sunlight. Although the silver colour was disorientated as what looked like a blue bubble concealed it. It was a force field. A big one. I suddenly understood Jack's anger. This was alien technology, stolen from a base that specialised in these sorts of things. Somewhere like Torchwood.

"Human's shouldn't have this sort of technology for at least another fifty years. This shouldn't be here" he sighed. I watched him as he shook his head and I agreed. This was wrong. I turned to Tommy who was speaking with a group of soldier garbed in the scarlet uniforms, sub-machine guns in hand, that had appeared out of no where. They were muttering quickly, so quick my ears couldn't keep up. The fact they were almost silent didn't help. At first they were tense but with a long explanation from Tommy they nodded sharply and their eyes flicked to me, only I realised they were looking past me to Jack like I was invisible. Jack's was scowling at them and he seemed to have heard the conversation. I was confused,

"What's happening?" I asked him. He hissed a reply to me so only I could hear or at least I thought only I could hear,

"They aren't going to let us inside the city because we're infected. We're going to be taken to the leader, where we will meet with Lord Edgar at his request. We will have much to discuss. We can't go back into the city unless we are safe and cured"

"So where are we going?" I asked,

"A secure building around the other side of the Perimeter. I'm sorry ma'am, but you'll have to come with us" said Tommy, abruptly stopping our conversation. One of the soldiers muttered to him in a low tone, his expression emotionless as usual. I sighed angrily, how was it everyone could hear these guys but me? I turn to Jack who had tensed and was till scowling at the men, his lips a hard line.

"What is it?" I whispered, obviously they could still hear me. He shot me a warning look as if to say, 'Later'. I sighed, a lot of talking to do then. He smiled at me and held out his arm so we could link,

"Shall we?" he said throwing me a bad boy grin. I frowned. Men.

"Oh, may as well" I said and let him take my arm. I looked up to see the soldiers frowning at me.

"You should hold more respect woman" a bold one spat before turning on his heel with his comrades, leading the way. Jack snarled after them and looked down to my confused face,

"I'm sorry" he said,

"What for?" I replied. He sighed,

"Because you're a woman. The world has gone back to its old ways. Men rule, not a woman on the parliament, nor a woman that holds any world changing position in society. It's a sexist place now. I'm afraid you'll be treated like every other female in this place" he explained. My face dropped,

"Yeah" I muttered, "We'll see about that".

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