Chapter 5: Jack!

"Yes, Tosh?" Jack said into his ear piece as he pulled away from Caden. "What?" He said too loudly that people walking passed looked at them strangely. "Okay. I'm closer but still tell Gwen and Owen what happened."

Jack looked around, as if trying to figure out which way was faster. Caden didn't know what was happening, but she did know that it was something bad. "Jack what's going on?" But he never answered her, "Jack?" Getting fed up with him just ignoring her, she grabbed hold of his arms and turned him around. "Jack what the bloody hell is going on? Tell me!" He looked down at her, he opened and closed his mouth wanting to tell her but then not wanting to. "Jack, tell me! Please."

He shook his head as he looked around, but when her hand touch his cheek and slowly turn him so he was looking at her. He had to tell her, even though he didn't want to, but when she looked at him that way, he just had too. "There was a Weevil attack and a few people were killed." Then he pulled away and turned away. "I want you to go back to the Hub."

"What?" She asked wondering if she heard him right, hoping that she was wrong.

"Go back to the Hub NOW." He ordered her, as he walked back the way that they came.

"No."

Jack stopped and looked at her. "Yes you will. I don't want you there. You could get hurt."

"So could you. You could even die and then what…wait ten minutes come back to life and then die again." She told him, and in her eyes she pleaded with him, she didn't want him to get hurt or even die.

"But I don't want you there with me Caden."

"But it's my choice," She shot back at him with anger in her voice. He was putting her in a cage and he knew it.

"Damn it Caden. You are not coming with me and that's final."

"Sorry, Jack. But I'm not part of Torchwood. And if Torchwood doesn't exist to the public then I don't have to listen to you." He was shocked, but he didn't show it. He couldn't believe that she had played that card. But he knew that she was right, she was usually always are when it came to this type of decision. "I am coming with you, Jack, and THAT'S final."

He had lost the battle, she was going to come with him whether he liked it or not. But there was something he could do. "Fine, but you will do as I say and that is non-negotiable."

"Fine." She said with attitude.

"This is it." Jack said as he peered around the corner and seeing that the coast was clear, he turned back towards Caden. "Stay close to me and don't make a sound."

"What if they're right behind you?" She said with a shaky voice.

"Then tell me."

"Jack, they're right behind you!" She screamed as she tried to pull Jack out of the way, but they grabbed him when she was only an inch or two away. Jack fought back, and so did Caden at least the best that she could. Jack was just about to pull out his gun when they throw him against the wall so hard that when he hit the ground, he didn't move, Caden was on her own. Grabbing a metal pipe, she swung at the Weevils, as hard as she could. "Jack!" He didn't move, "Jack! Wake up!" She held the Weevils back, but it didn't last long. Soon the Weevil took the pipe away from her and used it against her.

She woke up to find Jack kneeling down beside her. "Jack?" He didn't say anything, he just looked down at her. She could see the anger in his eyes, but she didn't know of what. However, she had a feeling that it was her. "Jack."

"It's okay, Caden. I'm here." And yet he turned his back to her.

Looking around, she found that they were held in a cell that looked like it was a dungeon. "Where are we, Jack?" She asked as she tried to stand, but she was sore.

"I don't know, Caden. I don't know." Jack told her as he looked away from her. "This is why I didn't want you to come with me." He told her with a hardened voice, "I…" He sounded as if he wanted to say something, but he just couldn't get the words out.

"I wasn't going to leave you alone Jack." She told him as she tried to get to her feet. "I didn't in the past and I'm not going to start." With the help of the wall she was on her feet, but something was wrong.

"Why not? You couldn't get hurt in the past and now you can." Jack asked her as he finally turned to look at her.

"So would you have rather it be like the past? Where we thought that we were dreaming and none of this was real? Would you rather have it that way?" She whispered the last part. Jack looked at her with pain and truth in his eyes. Then she continued, "The reason why I couldn't let you go alone was because who would watch your back. Who would be there when you needed help? When you need someone to lean on? Someone to help carry your pain, your grief." He stared at her, "I was there in the past. I was there to be with you when you were alone. I helped you through your pain and your grief. But I still got hurt. It hurt me to see you like that. It hurt me to watch you die."

"Then why did you want to come? Why did you want to face the fact that I might die?"

"Because if I hadn't and you had died, then you would be alone."

She took a step towards him, but pain surged through her body. Going to the ground, everything that was said was forgotten. Jack was by her side with worry playing on his face. "Where does it hurt?"

"My leg." He looked over her and found a dark spot that didn't look like the other spots that she got from the grimy damp floor. Putting his hand over the spot only to received, "Bloody hell, Jack!" Pulling his hand away, blood covered his whole hand.

"Take your pants off."

"Excuse me." She looked at him shocked that he would say and think of such a thing in this time and place.

"Your wound is too high for me to push up your pant leg." He gestured with his hand, "So the only way for me to get to your wound is if you take your pants off." He explained to her, only to cause to look at him with a hard glare, before she started to undo her belt and then pants.

Jack watched as all this happened and then when he saw the wound, dread ran through his body. A whisper came from Caden, "How bad is it?"

A small smile flashed over his face, "It's just a little scratch." He lied through his teeth.

Caden looked Jack in his eyes and saw that there was more to what he was saying. "Please tell me the truth. Please." She pleaded with him, hoping just hoping that he would tell her the truth.

Jack looked up at her and watched as a tiny crystal tear slide down her cheek. Cupping her face, he gently wiped away the tear that blemished her face. Looking back down at the wound that was currently taking away his newly found life, he said, "You're losing blood fast. You have a gash that almost severs your leg in half, it missed the artery, but it still hit the bone." He took off his jacket, that's when Caden noticed, as the information that he just gave her sank in, that he still had his gun. But then a sniffled escaped Caden as she knew that she wasn't going to survive this. "You're going to be fine, Caden." He said to her, lying to himself in the process, because he too knew that it would be a miracle if she survived this, and he couldn't lose her. Not when he just found her.

Undoing his spenders and taking off his shirt, he heard a small giggle come from Caden. Looking at her as if she's gone crazy, he asked, "What?"

Shaking her head, "Nothing."

"Caden."

Hesitantly she said, "I had made a mistake once of telling Kaydence about what you look like and what you wear, while we were in Physic class." His mind took him back to that moment, and a smile graced his lips. "And a friend of ours, Cinnamon, heard and she started talking about spenders and then adding scissors and to wrap it all together she talked about it in a lisp.

Jack smile grew as he thought of that moment, and then he told Caden, "I believe you were the one to add the scissors."

Jack then wrapped his spenders around her thigh above the wound to stop the bleeding, when she told him, "Well I got that from you and all your charms."

"That wasn't what you were thinking though was it?" Jack seeing through the change of subject better then anyone else would.

Caden looked at him and then whispered, "No."

"Well are you going to tell me or am I gonna have to guess?" He asked with a cocky smile. A shocked expression covered her face, and it was enhanced by how pale she was from blood loss and the bleeding just wouldn't stop. "Well?" Caden shook her head, not wanting to say what she was really thinking. "Okay, well let's see what I can come up with…oww! No it wouldn't be that. No that wouldn't—"

"Ok, ok, I'll tell you." A smile played on her face, with just thinking what Jack would be thinking of, it could possibly only be, dancing. Wincing as he tightened the strap, "I was just thinking that if I get to see you strip when I get wounded, I just might have to get injured more often."

Jack laughed at what Caden had said and he informed her with a smirk, "I'll just keep that in mind the next time that I have to become your doctor."

Then as if the sound came from hell itself, a high-pitch whistle filled the room, but soon cut out to be a voice of an angel, Gwen. "Jack, you there?"

"Gwen?"

"Yeah it's me. Tosh was able to get your com working from this end and is tracing it as we speak. So we are on our way."

"You need to hurry! Caden's not doing so well." He told them as he took his undershirt off and then tied it tightly over the wound.

"How bad?"

"…Bad…and the bleed won't stop."

"We'll be there in ten minutes."

"Gwen make that three minutes…the Weevils—" Then the com went out, just as the door opened and showed three Weevils that looked extremely like the first three that Caden and Kaydence came across, but it was hard to tell when they all look alike. Jack pulled out his gun as he put himself between the Weevils and Caden. Then the fight began, six shots were fired but that didn't stop them and Jack used the only weapon he had left, his fist. Fear for the first time surged through his veins, at the thought of them getting to Caden, he just couldn't finish that thought because he wasn't going to allow it to happen.

Caden still on the ground, fought away the Weevils that tried to get to Jack from the side, but it wasn't long until one grabbed her hair and pulled her out from behind Jack. Seconds passed and everything went out of focus and slowly parts of her vision started to go black. However, the vision that she had left held the one thing that she truly loved with all her heart, Jack.

Jack had put himself on top of Caden shielding her from Weevils that clawed at his back. Pain surged through his body, causing him to spasm in parts of his body, but he couldn't yell, instead he just looked at the one person that held his heart, Caden. And just like every time his vision started to turn black, and then slowly he could feel his heart stop beating, but one sound catched in his ears and it echoed through out his head, "Jack you have to stay with me. Jack! No come back to me. Please come back! Don't leave…" Then everything was gone.

Slowly Caden's vision turned pure black as well, and she too plunged into the unknown.

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