So, you must dislike me a little now, but I'm sad to say this is the penultimate chapter of Old, New, Borrowed and Blue, ever! *gasp* So, here you go guys.

Ziggymia123 : Yeah, she is insanely evil, but strangely the most fun to write for, (clearly something wrong in my mind to enjoy torturing my own character : | ) I think when Atsu went into the rift something changed him and so he's a bit scared of most things, and Kakra is still his sister, so it's natural she cares. As for Fawks, well, she's in a bit of a pickle : (

Bad2Wolf2Mcgee : *sheepish smile* have I mentioned how much I love you recently…( you're not going to like me much here…)

Chapter 38

"You pick,"

John looked to the door that had just opened, Atsu, was dragging a bloodied sheet out, it was bumping along the floor, Atsu dropped it at his sisters feet. She looked down at the sheet and with one foot kicked it on its side. A bloody mess rolled onto the floor.

"Fawks!"

"Go on, then, John. Pick."

"Me, take me." John said immediately.

"That wasn't your choice. Her," Kakra said, kicking Fawks' onto her back. The demon lay on her back, her face wasn't recognisable anymore.

"Fawks!" Was Jess's yell.

"Tick tock, John, we won't wait forever."

John looked between the woman he loved and his son, Fawks barely recognisable.

"Me…" Fawks croaked. "Take me…" She whispered. Coughing blood now.

"It's not your choice," Kakra growled.

"it's…me you want, to…suffer." Fawks panted. "Let them…go,"

"Rachel…" John whispered, her gold eyes fell on him.

I'm dying anyway babe. I won't even make it out of here…

I won't loose you again.

I don't want to loose Kam.

Fawks looked in her lovers eyes. And saw his decision.

"No…" She croaked. "No, John… no." She shook her head.

"I-" John stopped. "What happens to who I don't pick."

"Depends," Kakra said. "We either kill Fawks or take her with us and blackmail the government with her."

"And Kam?" John demanded.

"I think we would take him with us, he's young, he has potential to be one of the greatest bounty hunters alive, or we kill him and make his own mother watch."

A small sob came from the body on the floor.

"Please…" She begged. "Me… not him, just take… me…"

"You're taking to long Captain." Kakra sang. "Brother?"

Atsu approached his sister, and she leaned towards him and whispered in his ear. His eyes lit up with a faint glimmer that he used to have.

He clicked his fingers and the shadows surrounding Kam darted over to surround Fawks.

"No!" John yelled as they rose up to form around her. There was a series of bloodcurdling screams as they formed a dome around her already injured body.

"Rachel!" Ianto screamed.

"Her!" John screamed. "Fawks. I pick Fawks!" He yelled desperately. The shadows stopped moving.

"No!" Was a drawn out scream as Kakra smiled maliciously. She ordered Atsu to take Kam away. He had began crying at Fawks' screams.

"No." Fawks roared. Throwing her hand out towards the blonde. Bolts of electricity darted from her fingers, darting across the marble floors, and crackling around and catching up Atsu's leg. Simultaneously, burning up Fawks' forearms with the power of the current running through.

Fawks panted as Atsu yelled out in pain, snatching up Kam non the less as the shadows in the room went insane.

Fawks didn't have eyes for anyone else, forcing herself past her own limits to bring herself to her feet, Atsu looked behind him to see Fawks glaring and slowly making her way towards them.

Atsu did the clever thing. He ran.

With a burst of speed and power that Fawks' only just registered were properly her last reserves she bolted forwards, her eyes slipping in and out of focus, Torchwood were providing to big a distraction, enough to keep Kakra and her realms of shadows at bay.

Atsu fled out of the building they'd been inside and Fawks didn't even register where she was as she raced after the screams of her child. She did pause as Atsu leapt across a set of tracks.

Train Tracks.

Her mind blankly recognised parts of her dream from so long ago.

Baby.

Stolen.

Train crash.

She didn't care. She had to get Kam, he was her world now, and she would put him in front of anything.

With a snarl she leapt across the tracks, following the blond male who was racing in front of her. He paused and looked down to his wrist. Fawks realised in a moment of horror. He had a vortex manipulator.

"No!" She cried pushing herself faster, her muscles burned and seared in agony, fire burning through her.

Kam looked over at Fawks from Atsu's shoulder. He screamed out to her, reaching with both hands, struggling in Atsu's arms.

"No!" Fawks roared, leaping forward, diving into what would be have been Kam and Atsu. But within the same second, Atsu had pressed one single button on the black leather strap and disappeared in a flash of blue light, taking Fawks' world with him.

She crashed hard onto another set of tracks, the gravel scuffing the already open wounds across her body.

"No!" She screamed at the empty space. She didn't have time to react, a horn blared to her left, very close, she was blinded by a single white light as a train roared along the tracks.

"Pull back." Jack roared, pulling John backwards by his coat, heading for the door.

"Fawks?" Jess questioned, looking between the rolling shadows.

"If she's still alive we'll find her later." Ianto said, dragging Jacky backwards.

"Ianto's right." John said, trying to not let his voice waver. "We need to get out."

"And her?" Jess snarled, gesturing to Kakra who was watching them struggle with an amused expression.

"She's too strong." Jack said quietly.

"We need to go!"

The Five of them turned heel and did something every single one of them hated. They ran.

TTT

Panting and gasping as they reached the little warehouse.

"We need to move," Jack gasped. "They know we're here."

"We need a car."

"Come on." Jacky said, standing straight and racing out, the rest hot on their heels.

"Where are we going?" John asked. Piling into a jeep on the street, Jess had hot wired it suspiciously quickly, and offered a shrug to Jack when he asked how she had done that. Jacky had floored it and was driving silently as across the skies of Cardiff the daylight was blanked out by hundreds and thousands of clawed shadows and the sinister echoing laugh of Kakra.

The remainder of the Torchwood team settled into a mournful silence, John looked back to the city, in the back of his mind he could swear he heard the blaring horn of a train.

Fawks woke up with a groan. Amazed at herself.

Screw Jack and his coming back to life trick, I'm god damn impossible to kill.

Thinking this she did come to the realisation she couldn't actually move. She closed her eyes and concentrated hard, her mind protested but complied, her spine. That's all she could fix and with a deep set frown that's what she did, it hurt more than she could imagine, as the pain of her neck downwards regained it's feeling with the reconnection of her body.

She cried out as her body racked with pain let itself express itself. Then she remembered, Kam. The pain of her body was nothing compared to that, she had lost. She hadn't been fast enough. Strong enough.

She'd failed.

He was gone, forever.

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