Miles groaned as he came round. The floor was cold beneath him and he realised it wasn't the metal grating of the hub workstations. He opened his eyes and saw the all too familiar shape of the Torchwood cells. He looked at his arm; it was all clean and neatly bandaged. Thanks he thought even though she'd shot him she'd fixed him up nicely! He stood up steadying himself against the wall. He looked out of the cell to see Sam sat on the floor opposite. He head in her hands. He tapped on the glass quietly and she looked up.
"Are you going to let me out of her I really need a drink!" she didn't smile. "Sam can you get me a drink?" she shook her head. "Sam come on." He looked down at her.
"I shot you."
"Yes I can see and feel that!" she smiled a little. He felt sorry for her, he didn't understand but her couldn't be cross, but he knew Jack would be.
"Sam you have to let me out of here so I can contact jack."
"I can't let you help them."
"I won't I just need to know if they are all alright. I couldn't bare it if something happened to Ianto or Louise."
"But she's the problem, can't you see?"
"What Louise?"
"She's an alien, she's a danger and jack lets her run around Cardiff he doesn't know how dangerous she is."
"Louise isn't dangerous Sam, she's a Time Lord and jack said they are peaceful people."
"Then how come she'd such a good fighter?"
"Just because she's good doesn't mean she like to do it and jacks an alien too do you think he's dangerous?"
"No he's not." She said.
"Sam he came back to life as well he's an alien if you think Louise is dangerous then so is Jack and when he gets back he's going to be furious unless you let me out." She stood up.
"I'm sorry miles but I can't let you help them. They have to contain her." She started to walk away.
"Sam, you can't leave me here." She ignored him. "Sam…Sam." He shouted. "Sam don't do anything stupid let me out…Sam."
TWTWTW
Gwen and Jack ran down the road, Gwen pulled open the door to the building and jack flew in firing off shots at the guards. They all went down and Gwen followed Jack through the trail of devastation her left behind him. They headed up the stairs they didn't meet anyone else. Until they reached the corridor Louise had directed them too. 3 men guarded the entrance to the corridor. Jack fired off two shots and Gwen a third they all fell. They ran past them and through the door, Jack saw Ianto in the doorway he stepped aside for jack to enter. Jack looked at Louise; she looked furious as if she was using all her energy not to shot the woman on site then and there. He went over to her and cuffed the woman to the chair. Louise lowered her gun and jack put some tap over her mouth. He then opened the top draw of her desk and pulled out Louise and Ianto's effects. They moved forward and put their coms pieces back in and Louise turned on the hand held looking at the map of the complex.
"We will deal with you later!" he said with a small smile. "Right so what's going on?"
"She's working for her master's." Louise said, she sounded sickened by the idea, "I think what we're looking for will be down in the 'labs' through this door, she lead Jack out of the office and pointed at the door opposite. "But there is nothing on the plans of the building for this door or anything beyond it!" Jack looked at her.
"Right then let's go, I think we'll be alright leaving her here, she seems a little tied up at the moment!" Louise opened the door with the keys off of the desk, it opened on to a long staircase and there was no light. Jack felt along the wall for a switch and turned it on. The lights flickered on and off a while as they warmed up.
"Oh that looks ominous!" Gwen said. As Jack started down the stairs and Louise followed, they all headed down the stairs, a long rectangular spiral down, Jack looked down to see if he could see the bottom but the way the light where it just looked like a black bottomless pit. They travelled down for what seemed like ages and then they reached the bottom, four doors greeted them.
"Somehow I don't think this is going to be easy." Jack said heading over to one of the doors, he opened it, "and Mind you I've been wrong before, that's a cleaning cupboard" he went to the next one, another dark corridor greeted them, Louise opened the next one over that was corridor as well. Gwen pulled open the door closest to her and was greeted by a laboratory; Jack went in and had a quick look at the weevils open on the tables. He grimaced it looked revolting.
"Right teams of two then." Gwen said. They all nodded and Jack and Louise separated and went down separate corridors. Ianto followed Louise and Gwen Jack. They both soon met other doors.
"Jack we have to split up." Louise said into the coms.
"So do we, everyone be careful we have no idea what's down here, it could be weevils it could be a Dalek or something worse."
"Though there isn't much worse than a Dalek!" Louise added. Ianto looked at her as she turned off the coms link. "You be careful." She said with a smile, "there are only so many times I can bring you back!" she joked.
"You'd bring me back again?" he asked.
"I don't think I could live without you." Louise couldn't believe she'd just said that although it was true in more ways than one.
"We're going for a drink tonight. Once we get out of here and then I'm going to get a look into the rest of your mind."
"Yes alright." He smiled with his eyebrows raised.
"I think that's the first time I've got a definitive answer."
"And your last." She said turning on her heel running down the corridor.
"Be careful." He called after her.
"There's nothing here Jack." Gwen chattered over the coms. "Empty store rooms and labs I don't think they've expanded enough to fill down here."
"Keep going Gwen there is still more; they could be hiding something down here. Keep searching." Jack looked around another door; he turned right at the next turn in the corridor.
"I think Gwen maybe right." Ianto said walking down another dark corridor away from another empty room.
"I think they're right Jack, I'm picking up no readings of any life form down here nothing only us. There are no humans, definitely no aliens, well except for me and I'm only slightly different, lower body temperature few extra organs! Not much really."
"Thanks for that, but we keep going, they could have it hidden under technology we can't detect. "
"Look I've run this over with the sonic screwdriver to level 35, there is nothing down here Jack, I mean nothing absolutely nada."
"Right fine don't check the rooms just find out where your corridors lead too." They all carried on walking down their separate corridors.
Something shifted just in the darkness in front of Louise she grabbed her gun and aimed as a man flew at her in the dark, she shot, he tumbled and another one flew at her from the left. He knocked the gun from her hand and then went for her again, slamming her against the wall, she spun back quickly planting a hard and accurate right hook to the side of the man's head, he fell to the floor as quickly as the other. She looked down at them then walked a little further out into a small room, 3 other doors off of it. She tapped her coms. "Jack I've just taken out 2 men, they are wearing bio-dampers."
"What?" he sounded shocked.
"They are wearing bio-dampers so they can't be traced. Oh and I reached the end." She finished just as Ianto burst out of the door to her right then Gwen to her left. She turned to see more people running through the doors, Gwen started to fire shots as did Ianto, Louise followed suit as Jack came crashing through the last door.
"What the…?" he fired off two successive rounds. "Where the hell are they coming from?"
"I don't know but we're out numbered." She felt her gun fire its last bullet and saw that Ianto was up against a wall, Gwen next to him.
"Alright…"she yelled, "we surrender, don't shoot." She and Jack, who had just seen Ianto and Gwen raised his hands in the air, gun in hand.
"Drop your weapons." One of them called they both did. Ianto and Gwen where shoved towards them they all stood back to back in a circle.
"This doesn't look good." Jack said quietly.
"Well you know us Jack we're the best." Louise muttered. "Who are you what do you want? Why are you down here?" she asked loudly to the masked figures now surrounding them.
"We're looking for the rogue, our trackers brought us here. Which one of you is the rogue?"
"None of us is we're here to shut down this facility."
"We are looking for one of our own the one who ran away."
"Well the only thing rogue about us is out job."
"Which we are very good at." Said Jack who grabbed Louise and spun her, she placed two kicks to the men nearest to her before landing and punching a third, Jack had already taken out 3 to his right and Gwen had stopped another. Ianto had grabbed his and Gwen's dropped weapons and thrown one to jack who had then taken out another six in quick succession, Louise grabbed the hand that wound round her throat spinning herself around grabbing the person by the hair and pulling his head to collide with her knee, she pulled his balaclava off and gasped.
"James?" jack looked over at her.
"No Jack!" he said with a smile. She shook her head.
"No, James. Jack their time lords." Her mind went into over drive.
"Everyone I order you to stop." And everyone did, only Ianto, Gwen and Jack where left moving. Jack looked at her. She left go of James who straightened up.
"Lou?"
"That would be me!"
"You look different."
"Yeh it's amazing what a bit of earth air does for you! Why are you fighting us?"
"The president sent us to find a rogue and dangerous time lord."
"There isn't one down here. You must have picked up on me and trust me I'm not rogue, I'm working here to help protect earth."
"I can see that." He looked at Jack. "Torchwood, they do a good job." He sounded sarcastic.
"Better a job than you're doing. What the hell are you doing fighting humans?"
"We were ordered."
"You don't take orders from anyone but your empress. You have no right to be here. You don't ever come back here like this again. Do you understand me?" she looked around the room at large. "I said do you understand me?"
"Yes, we understand."
"Now get out of here. Now." She added when they showed no sign of moving. They all shifted and the torchwood team watched amazed as they all disappeared into thin air.
"What was that?" Jack asked as Louise stared into thin air.
"They're here for me."
"You?" Gwen looked at her as Louise turned slowly to look at Jack.
"My times up." She sounded scared and jack looked into her pleading eyes.
"No, you're safe."
"I am at the moment but I think there are great things at stake here."
"They can't just come and take you."
"No but if someone else wants this then…"she trailed off.
"We had better get out of here, we need to shut this place sown and then go sort out Sam. Has anyone been about to get through to Miles?"
"No, we haven't tried." Gwen said. Ianto tapped his coms and he picked up Louise's gun and handed it to her.
"Miles, Miles are you there?"
"Miles is away from his desk at the moment." Sam's voice replied.
"Ah right can you get him to send us through a patch for this security system when her gets back?" Ianto asked.
"Yes I will do." Jack looked at Ianto.
"What is Sam doing answering Miles' communication line?
"We had better get back there and fast." Gwen said. They all hurried up the passage ways not devoid of all people all of them having teleported out of the basement lair. They ran back towards the entrance. Up the stairs and back into the office, Ianto cut Melissa free and dragged her out of the room.
"Louise are you alright?"
"Jack I'm fine."
"You don't look it."
"Look we have enough to deal with we'll sort this out later I've put it off for a while let's just help Gwen and Ianto get everyone out the building then shut it down." She busied round the room grabbing Melissa's phone from the top draw of her desk and her diary knowing there could be clues to other people trafficking and testing on aliens.
"Let's get her outta here then." Jack grabbed Melissa and pulled her up from the chair. "You know deep in the bowls of some government building there's a nice UNIT cell with your name on it."
"We also have to deal with Sam." Louise said as they walked through the building uninhibited by guards. Ianto and Gwen had cleared the building.
"Yeh I know that's gunna be fun." They left the building a Jack all but threw Melissa into the back of the SUV. "Ianto close this place down."
"Yes Sir." Ianto made a few precise taps on his keyboard. "There we go!"
"Right lets go. We have a problem of our own to sort out!"
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