Terra POV
"Jack, I just picked up something, a construction site has found an odd object, they've called the police in for it" I say, looking at my screen. I hear footsteps behind me which I can only assume is Jack walking over to me,
"Where is it?" he asks,
"Just off the M67" I say, looking at the sat-nav on my computer screen,
"Alright lets go then," he says, I nod at this,
"Tosh, we're off" I say, getting hold of my tool case from under my desk, she nods at me and gets hers as well as her coat.
Ok so I have been thinking of telling Jack about my feelings for him, I mean I think he likes me, its now and again I see him looking at me for no reason, and the way he smiles at me and is around me. But I just can't pick the right moment, and I am a complete chicken and scared to death of his reaction.
"Where's Owen and Gwen?" asks Jack, coming out from his office,
"Don't know, I'll give them a call" I say, getting my phone out as we make our way out of the hub,
I call Owens mobile hearing it ring,
"Hello" he answers,
"Hey Owen, we're needed at a dig site, where are you?" I ask, now getting into the SUV as my bikes having a paint touch-up.
"I'm at my apartment, pick me up?" he says, I smile at this,
"Sure, we just need to get in touch with Gwen and find where she is" I say, about to look for her on the sat nav
"Oh no! It's alright I'll call her" he says quickly and urgently I look at the phone confused,
"Owen…do you know where she is?" I ask, but unbelievably he hangs up.
"We're picking Owen up at his" I say, putting my phone in my pocket, something tells me I wont need to ask Gwen where she is.
"What about Gwen?" asks Jack with his eyes on the road, I look to him until he finally looks to me and I raise my eyebrows, he does the same in surprise, then rolls his eyes, and looks back at the road.
We picked up Owen from his apartment, and surprise, surprise; Gwen was there too, they came up with the excuse that she decided to have a walk and somehow ended up at Owens place, yeah right!
After a while we finally came off the M67 and onto a dirt road where we later saw a site with tents, police cars and construction vehicles.
We park outside the site slightly just outside a tent, we get out and get equipment,
"You lot go into the tent, I'm going to talk to some of these construction workers, see how they found it" says Jack, we nod at this and walk into the tent, seeing a skeleton and an old rusted object near it.
"That's different" I say, seeing a great hole in a skeletons chest, Owen goes over to it to start examination,
"Once, just once, I'd like to walk into one of these tents and find it's a party. You know, food, drink, people dancing, the girl crying in the corner" says Jack who comes into the tent, kneeling beside me and Owen by the artefact that isn't too far from the skeleton.
"Is it alien?" asks Gwen to the side of us, from this Jack uses his wrist band to scan the object,
"I'm picking up traces of ilmenite, pyroxene, and even Dark Matter" he says, I look up surprised at this,
"Any idea what it is?" asks Tosh, kneeling beside Jack, using a yellow laser over the remains of the skeleton and taking the reading on her palm device
"Not a clue. Could be a weapon, or a really big stapler. How's our friend there?" asks Jack, I laugh at the idea of it being a stapler, which makes Jack smile at me,
"She's dead" says Owen, looking at us in a 'duh' manner,
"Yeah, thanks, Quincy. She?" I say, looking at him in question,
"Judging by the size of her skull" he says looking it over, I have to admit it does fit a woman's normal human skull size.
"How long have they been here, Tosh?" asks Jack, from this she looks at her palm device while I see Gwen handing Owen his instruments and gadgets he needs to take samples of the skeleton
"From the depth they found them ... 196 years, 11 to 11.5 months. The earth's been disturbed so I'm afraid I can't be more accurate" she says,
"What killed her? The stapler?" I ask, earing a smirk from Jack,
"Nah. See those shattered ribs?" says Owen, pointing to the great hole in the skeleton's chest,
"I reckon she was shot" he says, I nod slightly at this, it's a possibility with the right weapon.
"Well, let's get her back to the Hub and find out" I say, from this Jack and the others nod in agreement, I follow Jack out of the tent to speak with the construction workers and police to let them know what we'll be doing.
When we finally got back to the hub, I went straight to the unidentified object, wanting to see if I can figure out what it is.
I heard a lot of laughing and shouting and banging earlier but I couldn't make out what was going on, and I had my earphones in so that didn't help.
"Anybody in there" asks Jack who pulls out on of my ear buds, causing me to laugh from the shock of him suddenly beside me,
"Sorry, in my own thoughts" I say, I'm not lying either for I don't know how long for, but I've been thinking of ways to tell Jack that I have feelings for him, as well as figuring out this piece of tech.
"You know everyone else has gone home" he says, I look around and see that his words are true, I didn't realise how long I was in my thoughts.
"Oh right, well I'll go get some food, you want anything while I'm out?" I ask, he looks off into space for a bit then grins at me,
"How about we go to a restaurant, just the two of us?" he says, I look at him in shock, is he asking me on a date?
"Umm, yeah that would be great, just let me change my shirt, I have dirt all over me from this" I say, he smiles at this and nods, I go towards my room, having a very quick shower and getting dressed into some blue jeans with red flowers at my ankles from the design, a white elbow length top and a pair of red converse, and I get my black jacket out with my handbag and walk back downstairs to see that Jack has changed his shirt and has his usual army coat on.
"Ready to go?" he asks, I nod at this, he extends his elbow to me which causes me to blush and I take his elbow and we take the elevator up.