Title: Tears of the Weevil
Summary: The team try to regroup and escape but Emmerich is determined to stop them.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Don't own Torchwood, the characters or anything related to the show.
"You're an idiot."
"Yeah but you still love me." Lacey smirked as the cell door closed behind her. "Let's get out of here then you can call me an idiot."
"What about me?" Owen shouted from the cell next door. Lacey rolled her eyes.
"Sure, we may have to survive first." She replied as she inspected the cell. "C'mon Tosh. There's no cell that can hold you, right?" She'd listened to her girlfriend recant endless stories of past field missions where she'd managed to escape countless prisons. The older woman got to her feet and began looking around the cell.
After a few moments she settled by a point on the door. "I don't think these were designed to hold weevils…or anything more than humans. If you can ram the door at these two points it should break the hinges." Lacey nodded and backed as far in to the cell as possible. Building up speed she charged at the metal door, her shoulder ramming in to the first spot the other woman had indicated. She grunted as she felt the impact of the metal door smashing against her shoulder. Ignoring the pain she charged again and smashed against the other hinge. Toshiko inspected the door and grinned. "Alright, now just give it one hard kick in the centre." Lacey did as she was instructed and delivered the blow with as much forced as she could muster. After knocking out the guards and collecting their things they opened Owen's cell.
"We have to find Gwen and then we're getting the hell out of here!" Owen ordered since their leader was off slipping in to the laboratories to destroy all traces evidence of Lacey and her DNA. As they ran towards the stairwell Owen frowned. "Why are you limping?" Lacey rolled her eyes as Toshiko helped support her, wrapping her arms around the younger girl and taking some of her weight.
Stopping at the stairwell Owen looked apprehensive about going up to the roof to wait for Jack as they'd all planned. After all Gwen being taken hadn't been part of the plan. "Go on up." He ordered the two women. "I'm going for Gwen."
"I'll help-" Lacey groaned as she tried to put her full weight on her foot.
"You look after your own girl." He ruffled her hair like he usually did just to annoy her, trying to act like it was just another day. Inside he was terrified that Gwen was already dead or worse. He didn't know if he'd be strong enough to cope if she ended up like Toshiko.
He left the two women to make their way up the stairwell to the roof and went in search of Emmerich and Gwen. "Thank you." Toshiko whispered in to Lacey's ear as they stopped to let the younger girl rest.
"For being an idiot?" Lacey grinned, pulling the older woman down to steal a kiss. "I could never let you go Tosh. I'd give my life for you. I swear." Her severity sent chills through the older woman as her lover clung to her. She knew how intense and determined the blonde could be, but the complete honesty in her promise still took her by surprise.
"No you wouldn't." She scorned, hugging her tightly. "I couldn't cope without you. Who'd remind me what my name was?" She laughed, earning a small giggle from Lacey.
Gwen was amazed that Emmerich did not hit her back. She didn't even raise her voice. She simply sat down at her desk and sighed. "Don't you see Gwen? Torchwood can't win, they're not the untouchable ghosts they used to be back in your day…you're just five insignificant people fighting a losing war-"
"You forgot about the old man in Glasgow." Both women looked up as Jack stood by the open door, his Webley in his hand. "Technically there are six of us." Gwen got to her feet, grinning.
"We won't lose this war…and I won't abandon my friends."
Owen smirked as he heard Jack's voice over his headset. "I've got Gwen, we're heading out. What's your status?"
"We're on our way up to the roof. Tosh and Lacey are already there. We'll meet you in the car." Owen headed back to the stairwell and towards the roof. Once he was there Owen pulled out the supplies they needed to scale down the building. After setting the equipment up he strapped them all in to harnesses. Just as Owen stepped on to the ledge the roof door slammed open, revealing Emmerich, holding Gwen's headset in one hand and her gun, trained on Owen, in the other. She was sick of being humiliated by Gwen Cooper and Torchwood. She'd make her pay.
The sound of the door slamming against the building caused Owen to jump in shock, causing him to lose his balance and fall over the ledge. As he fell he heard the sound of a single gunshot, then another three before the sound of the roof door slamming shut. "Lacey! Tosh!" He screamed as he hit the ground and the two women didn't follow. Jack and Gwen rushed to his side, concerned that the others hadn't followed, but oblivious to the gunshots.
They watched as one of the women descended, cradling the other's unmoving form. They landed in front of them, a tangle of limbs. Owen knelt beside them, checking the unmoving woman for a pulse. He shook his head, there was no sign of life and a pool of blood was forming from a bullet wound to her chest. She was dead, cradled in her frozen lover's arms.