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Bad2Wolf2Mcgee : I'm watching that on iPlayer as soon as I get time, I was out so I missed it : ( it looks awesome! Hmm…not sure what I can do about pictures and getting them on the TARDIS, Fawks has already left, "Fawks was here 4209" with a lipstick kiss on the mirror, but there may be a front cover newspaper article with doggy Fawks… The Doctor would probably have that. Well excited :D

Chapter 21

"Alright," Ianto smiled, looking down the aisles. "What do you want?" Fawks looked up at him and then down the aisles.

"Yes, I have Jack's credit card." Ianto answered Fawks' unasked question. Without a second thought Fawks darted down the aisles, dodging left and right, this was surreal, four feet pounding together she felt like a cheetah, she was so fast.

When they finally reached the hub everyone was home.

"Rachel." John looked relieved. "You're a very good looking dog." John smirked.

"No." Fawks said. "Get that thought out of your head, you sick man." Fawks warned. Granted, they couldn't hear her but John smirked and Fawks knew he'd got the message.

"You're no fun." John grinned.

"I think Fawks is going into the agility part of the competition, she's fast." Ianto said to Jack, dropping all the bags he'd been carrying.

Sat on the couch on either side of the huge fire lion were two dogs, and Fawks made their way over to them.

"Hey," Fawks said, not knowing whether they would understand.

"Hi." Ben said, the large German shepherd. Jess didn't say anything. She looked at Fawks with challenging eyes and Fawks was trying to stop from laughing. Jess was a little white fluffy toy poodle.

"Go on," She sighed. And Fawks burst out laughing. Jess simply rolled her eyes at her, and even Ben was chuckling now.

"Fawks, stop bullying Jess." Jack called over.

"Sorry, Jess, but it is a little bit funny." Fawks said.

"No, it's really not." She shuck her head.

"Oh, Come on Jess," Ben smiled. "We're going to be dogs at Crufts, at least try and act the part."

Fawks skipped over to her and tapped her.

"Tig!" And then she darted off.

"You are enjoying this too much, don't forget there are aliens going to be here." Jack reminded Fawks as she stuck her head out of the SUV and let the wind blow by her.

"This is awesome!" She laughed. "Ben, come here! Try this!" Fawks laughed. Ben jumped over Gwen and joined Fawks by the window. Jess was content to sit on Ianto's knee and shoot disgusted looks at the other two.

The three of them had been dogs for two weeks now and Fawks and Ben had decided to make the most out of an unusual situation. Jess on the other hand was content to be sour faced until the job was done. Fawks had qualified for Agility at Crufts with ease, and she hated to admit it but she had gotten her mind set that she could actually win here. Ben was competing at the obedience trials and he too had qualified. Jess, was being put into the toy group and she had already handed in an application, and forged pedigree papers.

Jack was getting annoyed as he thought Fawks wasn't taking the job at hand seriously.

"Relax, Jack, we go, we scan, we defeat the threat and then I get a trophy." Fawks said, ignoring the fact that he couldn't understand her.

Fawks trotted through the door at Jack's side, he was going to be competing with her, Ianto with Ben and Gwen with Jess.

"James Williams and Phoenix." Jack told the receptionist with a charming smile. She smiled up at him and typed into her computer. She handed him a badge and pointed him in the right direction.

"You're all set, you're number 13, and it's starting at two so be prepared and good luck."

"Come on," Jack said, nodding to Fawks and she trotted by his side. Jack tapped his comm in his ear and spoke into it,

"We're in, John," He said.

"Alright, keep your eyes out," He replied.

There was a big room full of waiting competitors that Fawks and Jack settled in.

"Fawks," Jack whispered quietly. "We need a distraction so we can have a look around."

Fawks smiled.

"On it," She said darting off between the people barking loudly. And running around a room filled with high strung agility competing dogs, well, chaos ensued, dogs were straining on leashes, some had escaped and were now running through other people, owners chasing their dogs, Fawks saw Jack ahead of her at a door he nodded to her and she darted forward, lunging through the door as he stepped back to let other dogs escape.

"Come on."

The two walked down the halls, Jack had his vortex manipulator in front of him and every now and then it would let out low bleeping noises.

"There's definitely something here." Jack said.

"Jack, we're competing in five minutes…" Fawks told him, looking at a big clock on the wall.

"What? Oh! Let's go, quick,"

"And entering the rink now, is James Williams and his dog, Phoenix." The commentator called. Jack and Fawks trotted through the tunnel into the large ring, set up with various hurdles, tunnels, weaving posts and walks, Jack looked down at Fawks who was wagging her tail at the huge crowd.

"Aren't you nervous?" Jack smiled, looking down at her. Fawks turned to him and snorted through her nose.

"Phoenix is 3 year old Rough Collie from Cardiff, where James works as a civil servant, it's been said that the two don't even have to speak and they work so well. Let's see how it goes here. It's their first time competing at Crufts." The commentator explained.

"Ready?" Jack asked. Fawks nodded, lying down, adrenaline beginning to pump through, the start of a race.

"John says win it for him." Jack passed on the message and Fawks smiled.

"And she's off," The commentator began, "My god this dog is fast and it's true what they say, James isn't even calling commands but he doesn't have to, it's as though the dog herself can read the numbers on the jumps. Look at her move, through the tunnel now like a shot, look at that dog go,"

Fawks couldn't hear the commentary or the crowd, all she could hear was her heart pounding and an instinct in her mind of run faster, go, go, win. Ok, so being a dog for weeks may have altered her instincts a little, but she couldn't care less, she bounded through the posts weaving left and right quickly. Bounding for the last jump. And then into the finish. Jack caught her in his arms and rubbed her ears.

"29 seconds, Fawks, that was incredible."

"Water would be nice…" Fawks panted, too much fur and no sweat glands were not agreeing with her now. One of the men at the sides came up to her with a bowl of water as he placed it down Fawks realised he smelt weird. Really weird, she growled up at him, he frowned at her as she snarled and Jack took the bowl off him and patted his shoulder, but when Jack's hand came into contact with the man, his wrist strap bleeped loudly.

"Wrist watch," Jack said to him in answer to the man's suspicious look.

"Ok, so he's an alien. Put the frigging water down." Fawks whined, looking longingly at the silver bowl. Jack looked back down.

"Sorry," He said. Fawks stuck her head in it and drank heavily. "We need to follow him," Fawks swallowed licking her lips and nodded, the two leaving the arena to discretely following the man, he was heading down the corridor for a stock room, he went in and Jack turned to Fawks.

"What do we do now?" Fawks asked.

"Shh," Jack said, noting a small ventilation shaft. "Can you get in there?"

"You seriously want me to climb through another vent? Me dying almost dying once not good enough for you?"

"You'll be fine, you weigh less this time." Jack stated, guessing what she was saying. Fawks sighed and rolled her eyes. Jack pulled the grating off the shaft and Fawks glared at him before clambering in.

Squeezing along the shaft it led to a stock room, dishes and leashes hung around the walls but what dominated the room was the alien stood in the middle. To be exact the Slitheen that was stood in front of a large cage that contained a creature that Fawks could only describe as the alien from the film Alien. It was sat in its cage hissing menacingly.

"Not yet, at the awards ceremony I will set you free," The Slitheen hissed.

"oh shit…" Fawks whispered. She hadn't meant to make a noise, it had just happened, both creatures turned to face the corner of the room where the shaft was only just visible by a box.

"What was that,"

Fawks couldn't turn, the shaft was too narrow, so she simply had to slowly and quietly shuffle backwards. The box was kicked aside and a now human looking Slitheen poked it's head into the shaft.

"Oi, you dog!" It growled and Fawks pushed herself back. "I recognise you… you're the creature that just did agility."

Fawks felt her back feet hit the floor outside. And she pulled herself out.

"Well?" Jack asked, Fawks looked to the door and then to Jack the door was opening, she grabbed jack's coat in her teeth and tugged him back and then let go, running back the way they came. Jack looked back to the door and saw the man glaring at them, at his side was the alien that had been in the cage, Jack's eyes went wide as he followed Fawks.

"Kill them." The man said.

The Alien hissed and slinked forwards, charging after them.

"Plan would be nice, Jack…" Fawks called over her shoulder.

"Left, go left." Jack called.

"Are you insane! That's the main arena!" Fawks replied.

"Just do it, that's where the others are, we need back up,"

Fawks rolled her eyes and darted to the left, through the tunnel that led into the competition area and came face to face with very proper owners and there toy dogs. She recognised Gwen and Jess trotting around the arena and just beyond them were Jacky, Ianto and the Alsatian that was Ben. She darted through the middle of the arena.

"Found the alien…" She panted to Jess. As screams went up around them.

"Nicely done." Ben said bounding the small gate around the competition arena. Jack, Ianto and Jacky now with guns drawn at the hissing beast. Gwen was ushering out terrified people and their snarling dogs.

"Jack…" Ianto said uncertainly as he emptied his gun into the beast. "The guns don't work."

"Of course they don't, that would be too easy wouldn't it." Gwen sighed.

"There." Jack said, pointing to one of the racks that held up the heavy duty lighting strips.

"We need to get it under there, and smush it like a bug."

"Yeah, and how we going to get it there?" Jacky asked.

"Fawks, Ben," Jess said, "You can push it back, right?"

"We can try." Ben nodded. Fawks barked up at the human members of the team, and Ianto met her eyes with a steady knowledge behind them that he knew what they were planning.

"Fetch." He smiled.

Fawks and Ben leapt forwards, snarling and barking together, the creature hissed and lashed out, making the two jump back.

"Watch out!" Gwen called over to them, the two legged members of torchwood had rushed to the sides of the arena and were now tugging at ropes, to find the one for the right rigging.

"I'm gonna jump on him!" Fawks briefly explained to Ben before darting forward and dodging under the sharp claws of the creature and bounding into its chest, teeth aiming for anything solid she could get her teeth into. The creature wailed as she bit into it's arm, lashing her head from side to side for more damage, she felt Ben bounce into the alien at her side, and she let go, jumping back away from it's snapping jaws and leaping again, knocking it back, Ben at her side.

"Ben, Fawks. Get back!" Jacky yelled over.

"Let go!" Fawks yelled to Ben, he let go and leapt back as the aliens claws reached around, it twisted and flung Fawks from it.

"Fawks run!" Jack called. The rope in his hands slipping.

"Move!" Ben yelped, Fawks and the alien looked up at the same time to see the rigging falling straight down towards them.

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