Chapter Twelve
"Owen" Toshiko said mopping his brow with some swabs. She kept looking around worried the one of the others might come in. "Owen I'm here" she said gently holding his hand, his hand closed around hers. His body relaxed and seconds later he came to.
"That was horrible" he said as she helped him up to sit down on the table.
Owen wiped the sweat from his face "It was like a nightmare. I was in one of those computer games. I was a robot, there were loads of us, we were going around killing everyone it was horrible"
"It's alright it wasn't real"
"It felt like it" Owen paused ashen faced
"Owen what is it?"
"You were there⦠I killed you, something was controlling me, I couldn't stop it"
She hugged him "Don't worry it was some kind of nightmare brought on by that chip. You really should lay off those games"
"Believe me it's put me right off. You do know I'd rather die than hurt you, don't you?"
"Me too" she said kissing him.
Movement at the top of the stairs caught their eye. It was Gwen she was just trying to creep off again, she stopped when she saw she had been caught. "I always arrive at just the wrong moment don't I?"
"It's ok" Toshiko smiled "What is it?"
"There's been a sighting of that man you're after"
"That's great news" Toshiko said turning to Owen and whispering "Will you be ok to go?"
"Yeah don't worry about me"
"Do you want me to come too?" Gwen asked enthusiastically
Toshiko thought for a moment, it would be good to have Gwen's input, but Owen didn't want the offers to know he was infected and he might take another turn for the worse.
"Thanks Gwen, but I think this is what we were sent back for, so it need to be just us. Sorry"
"I understand" Gwen said looking disappointed "Good luck" she said as she walked away again.
"You really should tell them" Toshiko said to Owen
"No" He said adamant "They'll blame me"
"No they won't. But what if you pass it on to Jack or Ianto?"
"They haven't shown any signs, they would have by now. No it's just me" he smiled at Toshiko "Come on lets go and find Eddie before he scarpers again"
Toshiko and Owen arrived at the scene, it was crawling with police, still they had expected that, it was the police who had found him. Although Toshiko couldn't understand how they had found him first. She had searched for ages.
Andy met them "Bad news I'm afraid"
"You've not lost him again" Owen said exasperated
"He'd gone before we got here. A member of the public had contacted us, but Eddie had fled by the time we got here"
"It was probably all the sirens and flashing lights"
"Yes because your lots vehicle is so subtle" Andy said with more than a tad of sarcasm.
"Are the witness and the victim still here?" Toshiko asked before she had her own fight on her hands.
"Yes both of them are, the paramedics are checking out the victim"
Andy took them to see the witness a teenage girl, dressed up to the nines or rather down to them, considering the amount of flesh on show.
"Put your eyes back in" Toshiko whispered to Owen.
"Why do I need to look at such a fine young girl when I have you?"
"Owen you're still looking"
"Am I?"
Toshiko sighed and started the questioning knowing Owen would never concentrate.
"I don't know what happened really. The guy didn't look like the fighting kind, I don't even remember seeing him in the club"
"Was there anything else unusual?"
"Yeah, the blokes mate. He just stood there. He didn't try and help or run off and get help or anything, just stood there"
"That is a bit odd"
"That bloke was going to kill him"
"What stopped him?"
"I don't know really, he just sort of stopped and ran away"
"Was it the sirens?"
"No the police hadn't arrived yet"
"Thanks for your help"
"Yeah thanks" Owen said finally saying something
"Are you going to help with the victim or are you going to stay and drool some more?" Toshiko enquired.
"No I'll help I don't want get dehydrated" he said following Toshiko to then victim "I was just looking you know"
"I know"
"They've lost the bleeding nutter" were the first words they victim said to them. He was a young trendy lad "looked a right geek, attacked me for no reason"
"Did you say anything that might have set him off?" Owen asked
"No I didn't say a thing to him"
"Bumped into him or knocked him?"
"No, he wasn't even in the club. I came out for a ciggy, next thing I know some nutter's at my throat. Almost killed me"
"What made him stop?" Toshiko asked
"I don't know really. The look on his face changed and he ran away"
"What was the look on his face before he ran away?"
"He looked horrified"
"Thanks for your time"
"Are you going to find him?"
"We certainly bloody hope so" Owen said as they left.
