Chapter 33.
(Harry POV)
I was in the Tardis as something hit the sensors and not doubt hit the Hab sensors too. As a Text came through from Jack. WORK. He said. I grabbed my Jacket and headed down there.
"Where's Gwen?" I said.
"On her way," Jack said.
Once she got here we got into the SUV and started driving.
"Simple locating clean up operation. Find that meteorite before anyone else get their hands on it," Jack said. "Good to see you, by the way,"
"Tosh, Where is it?" I said.
"You got enough kit?" Gwen said.
"Basic tracking and surveillance," Tosh said. "The crash site, With this we can tap into CCTV networks, National Databases,"
"This is the police computer system. you shouldn't have this," Gwen said.
"Want to stop saying you and start saying we," I said.
"Crash site is 100 meters ahead," Tosh said.
Then we got there.
"Shit, The amateurs got here first," Owen said.
As we got out.
"All right, Usual formation," Jack said as we headed in but Jack went back for some reason.
But once he was back with Gwen.
"What do we know?" Jack said.
"Bog standard space debris," Owen said. "That's a technical term,"
"Yeah, Thanks," Gwen said.
"So take all the readings and let's get out of here," I said.
"Make yourself useful, Sweetheart, Pass us the big chisel from the toolbox," Owen said.
"Not Sweetheart, Gwen," Gwen said. "One syllable, sure you can manage it,"
"Not Sweetcheeks? Freckles? New girl," Owen said.
"It's a shame your tool's not big enough for the job, darlin," Gwen said.
"That's you told, Owen," I said.
"Catch," Gwen said.
"Don't, Shit," Owen said.
"Masks now," I said grabbing one passing it to Tosh.
"Owen," Jack said. "Put this on,"
As this purple gas come out and flew off.
Then I managed to get my sonic out and scan the area. It came back clear. So I took the mask off. "Air's clear, Get pack up and get back to the Hab," I said.
XXX
We got back to Hab.
"Owen, I want a analyse of that gas," I said. As we got into the Hab. "Tosh, get us the way it came into the Atmosphere, Then we can try find out where it came from,"
"I'm so sorry," Gwen said.
"Seriously stop saying that," Jack said.
"But I am. I mean, Really, I mean, really, really, Sorry," Gwen said. "God. I can't believe it,"
"Didn't they teach you health and safety in the police?" Owen said.
"Owen get me that analyse now," I said.
"Alright I'm going, I'm going," Owen said.
"On the plus side, we've got good evidence, relatively undamaged," Jack said.
"On the doorside, there's an alien on the loose," Owen said.
"Give her a break," Tosh said.
"God, this is has been the worst first day ever," Gwen said.
"We all make mistakes, Now we find and recover whatever came out of there," Jack said.
"This might help. Nightclub death been phoned into 999," Ianto said. "Circumstance sound a little unusual, Might be connected,"
"Alright, Jack, You take the others down there. I'm going to check somethings out here," I said.
"Alright, Let's go," Jack said as they left leaving with Gwen, Owen and Tosh.
When they came back.
"What happened?" I said.
Then Jack told me all about it. Then. "Like he just came and went," Jack said.
"Bloody hell, Jack," I said laughing a bit.
"Yeah, and Owen wants to go that way," Jack said.
"Don't worry Owen you keep up your BS, we can make that possible," I said. Making Jack and Tosh laughing their heads off.
"Can I take that back," Owen said.
"No," Both Jack and I said.
"We managed to get the footage of a girl that gas taken over," Jack said.
"We can't let her kill again, Find her," I said. "Tosh Have we got it,"
"Yeah, here," Tosh said.
Then Jack and I tried to find out where it came from.
"What's this supposed to do," Gwen said.
"We're using Satellite Tracking data to determine the inward trajectory of the meteorite," Jack said.
"We're trying to find out where it came from?" I said.
"Hey, Sometimes techno babble is good for the soul," Jack said.
"So this is a route planner," Gwen said.
"Not far off," Tosh said.
"Rhys, My boyfriend is a transport manager. He does this sort of stuff," Gwen said. "On a slightly, smaller scale, Though,"
"You have a boyfriend?" Tosh said.
"Yeah, Have you?" Gwen said.
"Don't have time with this job," Tosh said.
"What about you? You seeing anyone?" Gwen said.
"You've gotta be joking," Owen said. "I can get all the grief I need here,"
"None of you have partners?" Gwen said.
"Just you, Newbie," Owen said.
"I'm not being rude or anything, Well, maybe I am, but, How do you switch off from all this stuff?" Gwen said. "What do you do to relax?"
"I torture people in happy relationships," Owen said.
"Nothing new then," I said.
"Gas traces confirmed as Vorax and Suranium," Tosh said.
"Great, my 2 favourite gases, Can we do a check, and find out what we know about them?" Jack said.
"I'm all over it," Owen said.
"What's this doing?" Gwen said.
"I've taken an Image of the girl from the CCTV. This crosschecks her face with the UK population," Tosh said.
"You can't have every face in the UK on there," Gwen said.
"You still doing that you thing," I said.
"Instead of we," Jack said.
"119 suspects," Owen said.
"It's supposed to give us a single match," I said.
"The CCTV was too low Res. I've tried magnifying and augmenting but it just breaks up," Tosh said. "The software can't function properly,"
"It's narrowed the numbers down," Ianto said. "I could check through the rest, The old fashioned way, With my eyes,"
"What about the fingerprints, I took of the alley wall?" Gwen said. "It was a long shot anyway,"
"Just a bit," Owen said.
"Tosh, Try and find an better image through the CCTV cameras going that way. All over if you got to. Find her," I said.
"On it," Tosh said.
"Least I'm trying to do something," Gwen said.
"You're trying anything," Owen said.
"I'll be back, If you find a match before I get back, Just go without me," I said headed out of the Hab and into the Tardis. Where I picked up something from Bannerman Road. So I got my phone and called Maria.
"Hello," Maria said answering it.
"Maria, What is going on back there," I said.
"Harry, Oh, We just after dealing with a Gorgon," Maria said.
"Wait not those ones that can turn people into stone," I said.
"Yeah, Don't worry all gone now," Maria said. "When you coming back,"
"Hopefully tomorrow," I said.
"See you then," Maria said.
"Yeah," I said.
"Bye," Maria said hanging up.
Then I headed down where Gwen and Owen was about the throw punches at each other.
"OI, I don't care what the hell this is about. Enough, Have we got her," I said.
"Yes, She's down in the cells," Owen said.
"Good as long as she is down there. No one else is going to die. oh, and You know, strictly speaking, Throttling the staff is mine and Jack's job now let go," I said.
"So who's for Chinese?" Ianto said.
Where we were in the board room eating.
"And she said. If I'd known that's what he was, I never would have married him," Jack said.
"She knew all along," Tosh said.
"She didn't care," Owen said.
"until he started leaving black piles of mucus in the bathtub," Ianto said.
"Always the big giveaway. Aliens have no sense of house hold hygiene," Jack said.
"And you do Jack," I said.
"Oi shut up," Jack said. "Which reminds me, gotta pee,"
"So what's he told you," Owen said.
"What about?" I said.
"Himself," Tosh said.
"You lot have been here longer than me," I said.
"We were banking on you," Tosh said.
"You know him longer," Owen said.
"He hasn't told you anything, has he?" I said.
"No who he is, Not where he's from, Nothing, except him being gay," Owen said.
"Jack isn't gay, more like Bi," I said.
"How do you know," Owen said.
"Have you seen him meet people without him trying to flirt with them," I said.
"Period military is not the dress code of a straight man," Owen said.
"Trust me, that suits him," I said.
"Exactly. I've watched him in action, He'll shag anything if it's gorgeous enough," Tosh said.
"We know he's from America, right," Gwen said.
"We don't know that for sure," Owen said.
"No US citizen by the name of Jack Harkness born in the last 50 years," Tosh said.
"Maybe his identity's classified," Gwen said.
"Used to be something bug the CIA. That's what I reckon," Ianto said.
"He must have his reasons for wanting to keep things secret," Gwen said.
"That's Jack for you, Never liked talking about his past," I said.
"Sure he has, Doesn't stop me wanting to know what they are," Owen said.
"Yeah, well back in a min," I said headed out where I past Jack. "Watch it in there, You really haven't told them anything,"
"No," Jack said. "Like I said back then, I don't like to talk about it, Stay don't now," As we went back in.
"What are we doing eating when a girl fights for her life," Gwen said.
"Actually, while we've been eating the computers have been running a full bio-scan on Carys, Profiling her blood, metabolism, organs, skin, the works," I said.
"So we can see what effect the alien's having on her, They've also been taking samples of the air in the cell so we can analyse changes in the environment around her," Jack said.
"Now, that's enough," I said.
"Do you want more," Jack said.
"You've been down here too long," Gwen said. "Spending so much time with the alien stuff, you've lost what it means to be human,"
"So remind us, Tell me what it means to be human in the 21st century," Jack said.
Then Gwen lefted.
"She doesn't get it, If we do that, we risk falling for that if the alien can access her memories. It would use them against us," I said. Heading off. Into the office and starting looking for anything new. But nothing.
Then.
"You should take a look at this," Tosh said. And I headed over as did Jack and Gwen.
"What have you got," I said.
"This is the normal chemical composition of the air in that cell, And these are the readings from the last hour," Tosh said. "The aliens secreting an ultra powerful blend of airborne,"
"Pheromones," I said. "Shit, Sex pheromones,"
"Yeah, 1,000 Times more potent than anything we'd normally, experience," Tosh said.
"She's a walking aphrodisiac," Jack said.
"I did wonder why I, Actually, I sort of snogged her," Gwen said.
"We know," Jack and Tosh said.
"When was this," I said.
"Just when you got back," Jack said. "Now still wanna put her father in the cell?"
"God no, we can't let any man near," Gwen said.
"Where's Owen," I said.
"The Cells," Tosh said. We made us 3 run down there.
But We only found Owen Naked too.
"Jack, Carys is out of her cell," Tosh said.
"Cheeky bitch took my swipe card," Owen said.
"I'll deal with it. And tell Owen he needs to work on those abs a bit harder," Jack said. As the cell door opened.
"I was taking some readings, you know, keeping an eye on her, and bang," Owen said.
"You got away lightly," Tosh said.
"Be thankful she was only interested in your swipe card," I said.
"Are you all right now? Or are you still feeling a bit of a cock?" Gwen said.
"Keep an eye on him. I'm going to help Jack," I said. But when I got up there. Jack wasn't there but the door was open. So I got my Phaser and ran up stairs where I found them.
"Stay where you are?" I said.
"Fine, you want out. Here," Jack said unlocking the door. "Now give me the jar," But she threw it. "NO," As She ran out as Jack went over to where the where it landed. But there was something familiar about it.
"Jack, Is that, That isn't Dad's hand," I said.
"Yeah, Found it a while back," Jack said. "I got it working so it will let me know once he brings his Tardis here to refuel,"
Then Jack went down stairs. And Gwen came back.
"She's gone," Gwen said as Tosh came back too.
"Tosh use the CCTV, Find her and track where she is going," I said. As we headed down.
"After all I said. A severed hand is more important to you than Carys life," Gwen said.
"You want to prove yourself? Find her? Get your old pals in the police to do something useful for once," Jack said.
"All right, I'll give them a call, out out an APB Woman possessed by gas knobbing fellas to death," Gwen said.
"Or how about you just get them to call you if anyone sees her. Say she a witness to something. I don't care, just stop treating this like a fucking joke," I said.
"Oi, You'd better get in here," Owen said. As we headed to the med area. "So I'm trying to interpret the results of the bio-scan, Yeah, but it's just a mass, like there's no definitive readings. Because everything in her body keeps changing, Nothing stays constant as soon as you think you've got something clear, the metabolic rate, the blood pressure all goes wild again,"
"Because she's fight the alien for control of her body," I said.
"So Anyway, I decided to do a comparative diagnostic," Owen said. "Recreate the circumstances, accelerate the process a little see what's gonna happen to Carys,"
"Yeah, Thanks," Gwen said.
"What have you got?" I said.
"I infected the rat with a combination of the Vorax and Suranium gas traces we found at the crash site and the nightclub," Owen said.
"Looks fine so far," Tosh said.
"Once the gases start to flow round the body, the party really starts, The Heart rate triples the brain swells pressing again the skull, Then the lungs began to shrink making it impossible to breathe, The pressure increase on all the internal organs until," Owen said as the rat explodes. "Rat Jam,"
"That's what's gonna happen to Carys?" Jack said.
"I'm losing, that's what she said to me," Gwen said.
"Right now it's a struggle between where Carys ends and the alien begins," Owen said.
"Find her now," I said. As I headed into the officer and started trying to track her down. "Oi, Where does she work? Where's her boyfriends place,"
"Got it," Gwen said.
"Then Let's go," I said as we got there.
"We're too late," Gwen said.
"Tosh was right, though she went for the ex boyfriend, Lucky she's young," Jack said. "Work your way through my back catalogue, we'll be here till the sun explodes,"
"Where next?" Gwen said.
"And how long before that thing destroys her," I said.
Then we got into the SUV and started driving.
"So what's our next move," Jack said.
"Stop the entire city of Cardiff from shagging," Owen said.
"Put bromide in the water supply," Gwen said.
"No too hit and miss," Jack said.
"The Water company got pissed off last time we did that," Owen said.
"It could have used any body in Cardiff, Why her?" Tosh said.
"I just assumed it was random," Gwen said.
"It's mining Carys life to get what it needs, What else do we know about her?" I said.
"Anything you can think of?" Jack said.
"What are you all looking at me for?" Gwen said.
"You did all the profiling," Owen said.
"I don't know sorry," Gwen said.
"Tosh, Where does she work?" I said.
"Conway Clinic," Tosh said.
"You're joking," Owen said.
"What's the problem?" Jack said.
"It's a blood fertility clinic Sperm Donors," Owen said.
"That's where I would hit if it was happening to me, Let's go," I said.
Once we got there, We headed on started looking but we found piles of ash again.
"Found her," Owen said. As we surrounded her aiming at her.
"No where to run," Jack said.
"All this sex, All we see, all we think, So much beauty and so much fear," Carys said.
"The Strain on her body's too much, Any second now, She's rat Jam," Owen said.
"One more, and I'll be strong," Carys said.
"I can," Jack said.
"Jack," I said.
"I've got a surplus of alive, I'm giving it away," Jack said. "Wasn't exactly the reaction I anticipated,"
"Her body won't last much longer," Owen said.
"Use me, Leave Carys and take my body as host, Just let her live," Gwen said.
"Gwen," Jack said.
"I'm stronger than she is, I'll last longer, you might be able to save me, I don't know," Gwen said.
"Ok," Jack said.
"Jack, You can't let her," Tosh said.
"Like she said she's responsible for this," Jack said.
"Come on Leave her," Gwen said as it came out almost hitting Gwen Jack dropped the Cell down trapping it as It started dying.
"How long can it survive in there?" Owen said.
"It was pretty weak why?" Tosh said.
"How long will that battery last," I said.
"Look it's dying," Gwen said.
As it died. And the Cell shut down.
"You travel halfway across the universe for the greatest sex, You still end up dying alone," Jack said.
With that over and we got the Clean up done. I was heading for the Tardis.
"Leaving," Jack said.
"Yeah, Got another group still needing my help," I said.
"You got a place here you know," Jack said.
"I know, See you around Jack," I said.
"You too," Jack said as I went into the Tardis and sent the coords back for that room and left.
That's all for this chapter.
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