~A/N i DONT own torchwood or doctor who...or i would be hanging out with the stars at this moment... XD
SereneDisaster: - ducks for cover and peeks over the edge - !Im Sorry! i really am i had planed to pose this at the beginning of September! i promise but this isall i got done during all of this time and most of it was on the 2 weeks of holiday... !dont hurt me!...
Shannon the Chameleon: hi ya this is another chapter XD
TORCHWOOD
1X01: EVERYTHING CHANGES
...6 months later...
It was evening when I stepped out of the exit of Cardiff Uni. I was just checking up on one of our rift refugees - Alice that worked there, she came from 1940s all her family was ether old or had died ether old age or from the war. She came to us a year and a half ago, she had been over joyed when she had heard we had won the war, but was quite upset when not many members of her family was alive and if they were they were old. She was now a teacher of literature and gave evening lectures at Cardiff university. And it was days like these that I was glad I had finished my education and had a good job, and only needed to enter a Uni to make sure Alice was ok.
Just then my mobile went of breaching my thoughts. I looked at the ID to see it said 'Jack H'
"what's happening Cap?" I asked with a smile.
"Sophie, we've just got word from the police there's a body been found no witnesses and it's like the others so were going to use the glove." he told me.
We had found a metal gauntlet 3 weeks before Christmas - Donna's wedding, it was a metal glove that brought people back to life but only for a few minuets, the longest being 2 minuets. The whole team tried to use it with the exception of me as I didn't wont to risk it. It didn't work for anyone but Suzie so she was left in charge of the gauntlet and knife that came with it. I was also hoping that I could take Gwen's place later when we had to bring Suzie back. As jack told me about what we were going to do I heard horns of cars so I assumed he was in the SUV
"Are you in the SUV? If so were are you?"I asked him
"were nearing the corner of St Olwen Street" jack told me
"I've just finished checking up on Alice, you couldn't pick me up could ya? The end of the next street, please?" I asked remembering Owen gave me a lift to the Uni today and I forgot to call and tell him when I would be finished.
"yer, see you in a few" and he hung up, a few seconds later the black SUV swung round the corner and screeched to a holt.I jumped into the front and saw there was only jack on the car.
"So, what were you out for?" I asked wanting to know why he was alone out the hub and out of curiosity.
"weevil" he replied like it said everything, which it did. I nodded in understanding. Tomorrow was my 2 years of being at torchwood or "hooray you have survived working at torchwood for another year" day, and from the looks of thing my present will be seeing Gwen's face from seeing the hub under the plaza, and then a night with Owen. when we entered the hub, we were greeted by everyone and Owen came over to give me a kiss as jack took the weevil down to the Cells.
"You know you could have called me to come get you." Owen told me after he released me from the kiss, which kind of left me slightly breathless
"I know just jack was round the corner when he called." he nodded and kissed me again.
"Come on lovebirds, you can snog later! Possibly AFTER we have been to see this dead body." jack said behind us making us jump apart in surprise. This of cause making jack laugh and me smack him on the chest, huff and pull Owen to the SUV.
We pull into a alley that was surrounded by police and taped off so no one could enter, the last of the SOCO were leaving the scene. We all exit the SUV and button up our coats and head for the dead body. I turn my head slightly to the side as I walk past people i recognize as Gwen and Andy and also others.
"Who's Torchwood?" I hear Gwen ask some one. This made me smirk at Owen who walked next to me who smirked back.
"Special ops or something." the man tells her the rest is lost in the background as we were to far away.
We got to the body and saw it was a man and by my estimates 19-23 years of age. We gather around the body and crouch down. Suzie opens the kit and Jack remains standing but turns and looks around the area. I crouched between him and Owen. We star working on the body.
"There you go. I can taste it. Estrogen. Definitely estrogen. You take the Pill, flush it away, it enters the water cycle, feminizes the fish-" jack started to ramble unneeded facts.
At this moment Suzie takes the metal glove out of the case and slips it on her right hand. Toshiko is looking at her own equipment. Owen has a digital camera as he records the event and I'm taking swab samples to test back at the lab to see if anything comes up.
"it goes all the way up into the sky, and then falls all the way back down on to me. Contraceptives in the rain. Love this planet. Still, at least I won't get pregnant. Never doing that again." he commented the looked at me as I said.
"Never say never, Jackie, Never say never ever" I winked at his disgruntled face and he He turns and looks at the others.
" How's it going?" he asked us Suzie went first and looked at the glove.
"Nothing yet. It's got to connect, I've just got to feel it."Owen leans in close.
"Then hurry up and feel it! I'm freezing my arse off here." as I was finished taking samples I slipped arms round his neck to keep him warm and peek at what he was recoding he turned his head, smiled and kiss my cheek, which in return I did the same.
"I can't just flick a switch, it's more like access. It grants me access." Suzie said annoyed.
"Whatever that means." Owen grumbled
"It's like ... Suzie started but then The glove clicks and moves. "Oh, oh, oh!" Suddenly blue lights in the palm of the glove activate. The lights around the body flare a little brighter.
"Positions." Jack orders and I slip from behind Owen to next to Tosh.
"If I get punched again, I'm punching it right back." Owen grouched
" Just, concentrate. Suzie?" jack ordered. Suzie gently holds the dead man's head in her gloved hand. The sounds around them stops. I know The rain is still falling, we were just so concentrating on what we were doing we didn't hear it anymore. The lights surrounding us and the body grow brighter. After a moment, the man gasps for breath and looks around at us.
"There was ... What was? I was ... Oh, my God, I was going home." the man stuttered scared.
"Listen to me, we've only got two minutes so it's important that you listen, okay?" I told him calmly.
"Who are you?" he asked me but I ignored him.
"Trust me. You're dead." Tosh told him as she was right next to me.
"How am I dead?" the man asked us.
"You were stabbed." Owen told him bluntly.
"I'm not dead, I can see you." he exclaimed not believing him for a second.
"We've brought you back but we haven't got long, I'm sorry but you've got to concentrate, who did this to you? What did you see?" I got back on track.
"Why am I dead?" he said still wanting to know.
"Who attacked you?" tosh asked again.
" I don't want to be dead." he sounded on the verge of crying.
"Sixty seconds." Suzie called out and I nodded to show I heard.
"You've got to think, just focus on me. What was the last thing you saw?" I asked him almost pleaded. I hear Jack take a deep breath and exhales.
"I didn't see any ... I don't know." he finally said.
"Who killed you, did you see them?" Tosh persisted.
"I don't know. There was ... something behind me." he said tring to remember.
"Police said one stab wound in the back." Owen said and I glared at him.
"you tell us this NOW? Why not earlier?"
"So you didn't see anything?" Tosh concluded.
"No." Me, Tosh and Suzie look at jack and the man looks at us.
"What happens now?" he asked us.
"Thirty seconds." Suzie called out again.
"But he didn't see anyone." I told her.
"Don't waste it." she told me
"What else do I say?" I asked and looked up at jack and he kneels down to help.
"What's your name?" he asks him and I mentally scold myself for not asking him in the first place.
"John. John Tucker."
"Okay, John. Not long now." jack reassures him.
" Who are you?" john asks him
"Captain Jack Harkness."he introduced himself.
"Tell me ... what was it like when you died? What did you see?" John looked like he didn't understand the question.
"John. Tell me what you saw."
"Ten seconds." Suzie called out.
" Nothing. I saw nothing. Oh, my God. There's nothing." he panicked And with that, John again died. The lights around the body dim a little. And it seems to rain again.
"Shit. I said it was stupid, telling him he was dead." Owen complained.
"Well, you try it." tosh told him and gets to her feet.
""Trust me," like that's gonna work." he also gets to his feet and helped me up. Which rewarded him with a kiss to the cheek.
"Told the last corpse he was injured, he wasted the whole two minutes screaming for an ambulance." jack reminded us. He glances at me and Tosh and we look down at the body. Then I look at Jack.
"Maybe there's no right way of doing it." I told him then nodded. We look up directly at Gwen.
"What do you think?" we called out to her. Busted Gwen gasps and pulls back. I smirked at jack who was also grinning. We walked back to the SUV, Owen with his arm round my waist.
"who the hell was that" he asked me and Jack but mainly looking at me.
"just a nosie P.O." I shrugged "dosnt really matter" he shrugged and let it go.
I smiled at him and reminded them all.
"were still going out tonight, 2 years survival party." I skipped a little and jack who was on my other side ruffled my hair affectionately.
"Jaack" I wined but still had a smile as I put my hair right, making him grin.
"I guess we could go out, it's not like you don't deserve it." he tried to ruffle my hair again but I ducked out of reach. We had got to the SUV and got in. When we arrived at the Hub we all got our stuff (well I asked Owen to get mine) and I went to see Ianto and Matt in the archives.
"hi boys, you two coming with?" I asked them as soon as i spot them.
"what's happening like?" Matt asked. "it's my 'I survived' 2 year Annaversary and were all going to the pub. You coming?" I explained to them.
"I'm coming I guess. Ianto?" Matt asked as he filed the last of the paperwork.
"er... Oh why not? Ok I'll come." He caved when I unleashed my sad eyes on him.
"thanks Ian! It's just not the same with out ya." I told him happily. After that I ran back to the main room. Once everyone was ready we set of to the pub.
We sat in the corner table and ordered a pint each, jack and Owen larger, I got a half pint of cider, matt a pint, Suzie got a glass of Rose wine, tosh lemonade and ianto a glass of cola. It was only 15min there when Jack started to tell his story's and surprise surprise it was the one he told Rose, mickey and the doctor. So I decided to mimic that as well.
"I swear, six feet tall and with TUSKS-" jack exclaimed he was half way through his story
"You're lying through your teeth!" Owen accused him as I sat on his lap. I kissed him to shut him up for a bit.
"I'd've gone bonkers! That's the word - bonkers!" Suzie said and Tosh shook her head in disbelief.
"I mean, it turns out the white things are tusks and I mean TUSKS! And it's woken, and it's not happy-" Jack continues.
"How could you not know it was there?" Ianto asks as me and Matt shake our head at his obliviousness.
"And we're standing there, fifteen of us, NAKED-"
"Naked?!" me and Tosh exclaimed.
"And I'm like, oh, no, no, it's got nothing to do with me! And then it roars, and we are running. Oh my God, we are RUNNING! And Brakovitch falls, so I turn to him and I say-" jack says swinging his arms like he's running.
"I knew we should've turned left!" Me and Matt said together and We all roar with laughter at this punchline.
"That's my line!" jack complained.
"I don't BELIEVE you, I don't believe a word you say EVER, that is so brilliant!" Tosh exclaimed.
"he's just that good of a story teller!" I told her with a smile. "And it's the same one you told Me, Matt, Rose, mickey and the doctor. Tut tut Jack. Don't you have new material?" I asked jokingly. And he grined at the memory.
We continued to joke and tell more story's for the rest of the night, some of which were from me of the doctors adventures old and new but only thos that they can't do anything about.
"...so Rose is lying there, strapped down with something that looks like a scalpel in front of he face and she's threatening this Clockwork man, and she says, 'Ever heard of the Daleks? Remember them? They had a name for our friend. They had myths about him, and a name. They called him the... They called him the- they called him the- the- '' and she stuttered over the last bit cause she's distracted by drunken singing coming from somewhere, and guess who stumbles round the corner?"
"who?" jack asked curious
"the doctor!"
"NO! Really?!" jack asked shocked.
"yer! And he's dancing with an imaginary partner, singing, wearing a pair of sunglasses and a tie around his head" at this they all laugh
"and in his hand a wine glass with something that looks like wine and as soon as Rose sees him she says - 'look what the cat dragged in - the Oncoming Storm' and he then goes on to say that she sounds like her mother, he invented some kind of drink early - i think it was the banana daiquiri and to always bring a banana to a party." at this Owen laughed.
"he then goes and says to the clockwork man 'Oh ho ho ho ho, brilliant. It's you! You're my favorite, you are, you are the best! Do you know why? 'Cause you're so THICK.You're Mister Thick Thick Thickity Thick Face from Thicktown, Thickania.' and adds on the end 'And so's your dad.'" at this jack starts laughing so hard he almost falls of his chair.
"he then goes on to enplane why the clockwork men were scanning Rennet, they were trying to find out her milometer, her age. you see the ship was 37 years old so they think when she is 37 she would be complete - compatible and then they would come in slice of her head and use her brain as a command circuit." i paused for a moment and noticed tosh's shock, worried and disgusted expression.
"its ok tosh in the end he saves her you'll see but for a price." i quickly continue before anyone could ask what.
"so after sharing what he found he pours the wine over the drones head and announces in a suddenly sober voice that its 'Multigrain anti-oil. If it moves, it doesn't.' so after a few minuets of trying to work the central computer only for him to find out he cant close it because one was still out on the field, the drones get a message from said friend and disappear, the doctor tells them that they found the right time window and then he goes searching for said window, once found, it seems that they blocked him from coming through and the only way through is with the force of a truck - which Mickey cleverly pointed out that they didn't have one, so while rose goes and warms Rennet of her doom 5 years before it happens the doctor fixes the audio and thinks of a way through to save her. he ends up getting on the hours he found on the ship, crashing through the gate way and smashing, breaking all the gate ways. No way back" i pause for a moment with my story and then continue.
"when he crashed through this is what happened, the king had shouted 'What the hell is going on?' 'Oh - this is my lover, the King of France.' Rennette told him and the doctor said distastfully 'Yeah? Well, I'm the Lord of Time.' he then aproched what looked like the chief droid 'And I'm here to fix the clock.' he turned to the doid and told him as it drew its wepon at him 'Forget it. It's over. For you and for me.' he looked up at the smashed mirror that had once been a gate way. 'Talk about seven years bad luck. Try three thousand...' after that the droids powered down in defeat now with no purpose to stay on, later Rennette shows him the fire place, he finds out its still linked to the ship gets back, Rose tells him hes been gone 5 hours, he goes back to Rennette only to arrive too late as he watches with the king through the window as her Hurst is driven back to Paris, the king gives him a letter from her and he reads it back at the TARDIS after sutting down the link for good." i finished my story with a sad smile.
here is another one wipes forehead i was trying to get this bit that iv written to the right standed today so yer. and don't count on the next one to be soon but keep checking you never no i might surprise my self.. lol R&R XXXX sashaxh
changes made 20th sep 2012