Chapter Six
Gwen Falls
Chrissie left her apartment and stood perfectly still as she heard a mermaid cry,
"Oh I do not like that at all"
"Chrissie?" Brendan said tapping her out of her trance, "Pasty is that way"
"Shut up, I'm seeing exploding blood packs but no bodies and three bodies with holes in their eyes, Owen' heart beating and a dead mermaid" Chrissie said
"Take the neighbour' dog for a walk" Brendan said
Chrissie used her hand to light the space ahead of her. If anyone were to walk by they'd have seen a non existant torch. She was scanning the water with blue Xray light too. As the dog started to bark she realised what she was looking at, a mermaid.
"Eva" She said, then crouching she scanned her, "Four bodies...you're well hidden, now why were you here?" Chrissie placed her hand on the head of the mermaid and was ported
Chrissie appeared in a fast disappearing Ocean on a boiling planet. Dead mermaids littered the seabed, some had plague and others had small pox,
"Take the ones that didn't react, they'll make the journey" Someone called, as Chrissie ported out that same someone noted the light she emmited, "What was that?"
Chrissie screamed when she returned and found Brendan standing there,
"You know your not to port without me" He scolded
"Sorry...I know but...was I right about Owen?" Chrissie asked
"Why're you doubting yourself, yes you were right about Owen" Brendan said, "They're on their way over now with a search team from SLSC"
Within an hour the exploding blood packs had been located with three of the bodies being located nowhere near the blood packs.
"That's not the last of them" Chrissie told Owen, "There's another in the water but it's well hidden, if you do an autopsy on the mermaid I think you'll find it's what killed her"
"These bodies aren't Torchwood' problem, it's scary but they're not..." Owen began
Chrissie looked over at Adrian in the distance,
"Before I forget everything, check the eyes Owen, these bodies are directly connected to you. Someone knows your alive"
Owen checked the eyes and then looked up at Jack and Adrian in shock,
"What is it?" Adrian asked
"I was killed at Pharm and these bodies are from Pharm" Owen said
"You shouldn't have to see this" Adrian said to Chrissie kindly, "I'll take you home"
"Thank you" Chrissie said
Owen went from one body to the next and then looked at Jack as he came in check on him,
"Something doesn't add up" Owen said, "There are two holes in each eye not one in one but they are all ex paitents that didn't make it out again. We arrested everyone"
"I know someone, who was there" Jack said seriously, "She could get access to bodies"
"Gwen? She's not smart enough for this kind of game, how would she know I'm alive now?" Owen said dismissively
"Maybe Daisy let it slip, she's a Time Lord, if she so much as thought of you she'd hear your heart beating" Jack said
"Daisy..." Owen sighed
"She didn't betray us, I asked her to get closer to the enemy" Jack told Owen
"Which one?" Owen said with a shake of the head, "Where did that come from?"
"Go with it Owen, say what you see, what you feel, what you think. Something' coming and I now need to prepare you, I need to elevate you to a position of unbreakable power. I'm never letting you die again but it won't happen over night" Jack said
"You needed me for something...me not the others, what were you keeping me for?" Owen asked
"I can't tell you, you're not strong enough yet...you're not like the others Owen, you're something different, you can read my mind for God sake, no one but Jasmine can do that" Jack said, he then took out a syringe, "This is a blood tonic, it may have some side affects, now that you're alive you'll need to have one of these once every second week for three months because of your father' DNA but I can't let you drive a car for 24 hours after each dose. You may as well have the first now. We can't do anything else tonight, Brendan and SLSC are still scouting for the body in the water, if the mermaid consumed her blood we'll need it to compare"
Owen nodded and Jack injected the tonic. Owen suddenly felt dizzy and passed out in Jack' arms before glowing for a few seconds.
Adrian entered his apartment, dropped his keys and sighed as he saw Liam' picture,
"What am I doing with this girl Liam?" He asked it as he took the picture into his hands and sat on the sofa with it,
He then dozed off.
The picture glowed.
Liam was in a fire cavern, he was about to attack the blonde man that had just appeared before him until he showed him a photo of Adrian,
"What's your game?" Liam asked
"Spies have ways of relaying messages to other Time Lords when one of their own is in trouble. Owen lives. Someone is out to kill Owen. Someone once concidered close. Adrian is currently holding his favourite photo of the two of you. I need you to think about that photo, not the moment it was taken. Just that photo"
"OK" Liam said taking it all in,
"Tune into Owen first and tell me what you see" The man said
Liam closed his eyes.
Liam appeared on a beach and started digging, though for what he had no clue. Suddenly he came upon a bike, the bike Owen rode as a child with the words Doctor Owen Harper on the side in red.
Liam opened his eyes,
"Someone else is in the frame" He said
"Don't tell me, tell Adrian" The man replied
Owen woke up in his bed in his apartment to find Jack crossed legged before him and Morgan by the door, watching him,
"I'm not going to die Morgan" Owen said softly
"Just checking" Morgan said before leaving the room,
"He's a soft hearted kid that one" Owen smiled
"Your hard work" Jack said
"Nah...I'm not fit to be a father figure to anyone"
"But you are, to him. You've given him stability" Jack said, "You're a father Owen, it's all downhill from here"
They laughed,
"If Martha had stood in the way would she have eneded up dead instead of me?" Owen asked
"No...I saw the same file you did I just couldn't prove it. We have two suspects. Gwen and Martha" Jack said seriously
"Martha wouldn't have anything to gain by killing me"
"So we're back to Gwen" Jack said, "She must have been assigned to kill you"
Adrian woke up, got up off the sofa and walked over to the kitchen to make himself some tea. No sooner had he done this he could hear Liam' voice coming from the photo.
"He's not there"
"I'm here!" Adrian called, not quite sure if he was going mad or why he was answering,
He grabbed the photo and stared hard at it,
"You're hurting my eyes doing that" Liam said, Adrian screeched, "Stop screaming I need to get this message out"
"Not until you tell me where you are!"
"I don't know where I am, I need you to tell Owen something, there's a bike, someone put there but it's a trap, it's someone, who knows Owen but is being framed, this is her way of getting to him. She has information about Owen' death. There's a woman, who wants him "Dealt" with. Owen needs to figure this out quick and get in there first" Liam said
"Liam" Adrian said, "Don't go"
"Adrian, I mean it, don't lose yourself over me or I'll never find you" Liam said
"I hate that you're somewhere I can't help you" Adrian said
"Hey, it's my turn to rescue you" Liam smiled
The photo now silent Adrian burst into tears and ran from the apartment. He hammered his fists on Owen' door until Owen answered,
"I swear I'm going mad I must be"
"Adrian, what's wrong?" Owen asked
"Liam' photo is talking to me" Adrian said
Owen, Morgan and Jack looked at each other.
Five minutes later they were all stood in front of the photo,
"Well it's not talking now" Owen said
"Dig up that bike!" Liam said
Owen, Jack and Morgan screamed then Owen slumped to the floor,
"No, it's not there, it's not, it can't be"
"You know what he's talking about?" Morgan asked
"Yeah" Owen said
"Someone wants you killed for good this time Owen but she's framing someone else, that' what Liam said, he also told me he couldn't tell me where he was, that it's his turn to rescue me and if I lose myself he'll never find me" Adrian said
Morgan gave him a sorry look.
"I think I know where he is and who, put him there but we can't interfeer" Jack said, "Let's get the equipment and go and find that bike"
Jack, Owen, Morgan and Adrian scanned the beach for two hours until they caught something metal. All four of them got on hands and knees and dug until they found Owen' bike.
"We're back to Daisy" Owen said
"She's the one being framed then" Morgan said
"Only one way to know for sure, we need to test the bike for finger prints, we have her's, Martha' and Gwen' on file" Jack said
At that moment Owen got a phone call from his neighbour, telling him she'd just found some bloodied prints sticking out of his post box,
"Don't touch them!" Owen said urgently, he then told Jack and the other's what his neighbour had just told him, "We can't waist time going back to come back on ourselves"
"I'll send Chrissie or Brendan" Jack said
"Send Brendan, I don't want Chrissie getting hurt" Owen said
While Owen dusted the bike for prints Brendan went back to the apartment block for the bloodied ones and tried to reassure Owen' neighbour,
"It's a bad joke gone wrong Mam, nothing to worry about" He said
"Not very funny" She sighed
"I agree, I'm just going to take this and you won't have to look at it anymore" He told her
"Why're you wearing gloves then if it's a joke?" She asked with suspicion
"I don't want to get ink on my hands" He told her and he took the paper and left.
"You took your time" Owen said slightly narked as Brendan arrived,
"Your neighbour is a very suspicious woman" He replied
"I have the ones from the bike" Owen said taking the bloodied ones, "Let's do this"
They went up to Owen' lab on the 3rd floor and ran them through the computer. They got a match for the prints but not the blood,
"Daisy' prints...Martha' blood" Jack said
"How'd you know the blood is Martha'?" Owen asked
"I remember the code, I did a check on her when she arrived at the hub the night you were killed. I was suspicious about how she knew we needed help, I covered for her, said I'd called when I hadn't and I struggled with it until Chris told me about Pole' hold over Torcwhood. Suddenly a lot of things began to make sense" Jack said
"So Daisy is in trouble" Brendan said, "You need to get her out of there"
"Assign me" Owen said to Jack
"I can't it's your own case" Jack said
"You could use a code name" Brendan said, "Faith...?"
Gwen was suspicious and Martha was nervous as Daisy was tapped on the shoulder by two army men and led away. They then both watched her being led into a car from their office window,
"Who're they?" Martha asked
"No idea...never seen them before" Gwen said
"Think this has something to do with Owen being alive again?" Martha asked
"Where'd you hear that?" Gwen demanded
"Whispers...is it true?" She asked excited
"I'm waiting for proof" Gwen said, "Coffee?"
"I'll get it" Martha said, suddenly uncomfortable
Daisy squinted as a light was turned on and she found herself in the interrogation room at the Torchwood hub. Once she realised where she was she sighed with relief,
"That's a genuine reaction, fall back" Jack said from his viewing room.
Jack and Owen joined Daisy,
Daisy folded up in Jack' arms and then Owen grabbed her for a hug,
"A beating heart. Let's keep it that way huh?" They looked at each other, "Pole cracked my head open like an egg, ACID had to step in. They patched me up but by then he knew and Gwen began her campaign"
"Wait does Pole know who Owen is?" Jack asked alarmed
"He knows but he doesn't have a face, he's not the only man here at the hub" Daisy said, "I left to get you proof" She added to Owen, "About what happened at Pharm"
"Go on" Owen said
"Did you never look at the bullet? I mean really look? It only fits a certain type of gun, Jack' gun. She took something from the safe first week"
"Something that altered what we saw" Jack realised
"Exactly, Owen told her what everything did, did half the work for her so your gun and your bullets killed Owen and there's only one reason that would have worked" Daisy said
A tear fell from Jack' eye and he broke,
"I don't understand" Owen said
"You're part T5H, part Time Lord, Time Lords can't kill their own unless they're related" Jack said
"You mean somewhere down the line we came from the same family" Owen said logically, not even concidering the whole dad thing,
Jack looked up at Daisy in shock and then at Owen,
"Uh, yeah"
"51st century man, 21st century man, there's a distance sure and it would explian the mind reading skills and intruition, if a real medium is in the room with another medium the engery is hightened, they can obtain more information. He must really hate our family to do what he did"
"What about Gwen? What was her motive?" Jack asked
"Let's go and find out" Owen said
Owen walked right through UNIT, grabbed Gwen by the shoulder and lead her into her office, shutting and locking her door,
"Owen" Gwen said, "I'm not interested in picking up where we left off"
"We are" Andy said coming out of hiding, Gwen looked at him in shock, "You see we're fully aware that this Pole fella wants to hurt Owen but he doesn't know which Owen to aim at. You however do, you did, you hounded Torchwood after that first encounter, while the rest of us just got on with things. It's time to stop lying to us. Who ordered you to kill Owen?"
"No, not doing it, he'll come for me" Gwen said
"Wrong answer" Owen said and he blew her away.