Notes: While I'm much preferring Hollow Man, I'm glad that others seem to be liking this one so far. Thanks again for the reviews and kind words. Enjoy!
"Jack!" Tosh called as she led Tamsyn into the hub. "We've got a situtation here."
"What's wrong?" Jack asked as he ran down from his office, Ianto and Owen on his heels.
"This." Tamsyn said as she pointed to her protruding stomach.
"Owen?" Jack asked as he walked forward, looking intently at the bulge.
"The scratch from yesterday."Owen responded as he stepped forward as well, actually feeling her stomach. "It barely even broke the skin though. And you said that thing was harmless." he said. "Come on down so I can look you over properly."
"What's going on, Jack?" Tamsyn asked as she followed Owen.
"Apparently when that thing scratched you yesterday, it impregnated you." Jack said, slightly unsure of himself.
"So, I'm going to pop out a bloody alien?" she asked as Owen started taking her blood pressure. "You know, Callum and I have talked about having another baby, but this isn't what we had planned."
"Slightly elevated blood pressure." Owen said. "Just change into this gown, Tamsyn." he instructed. "I need to do a full exam." he said, almost apologetically.
"A full exam?" she groaned. "Oh, this day is just gonna be hell, I can tell." she said as she snatched the gown from Owen. "Just wanted a cup of tea and some cereal when I woke up, but no, I find myself bloody pregnant." she muttered. "Overnight." she looked around at the group who seemed to be going nowhere. "Do you mind?" she asked.
"Sorry." they muttered as they walked off.
"What are we gonna do with alien spawn?" Owen asked.
"I don't know." Jack said. "We'll just wait this out, see what comes of it." he said. "Maybe we'll get lucky and it's not a real pregnancy."
"With her luck, I think that's highly unlikely." Ianto muttered.
"Alright." Tamsyn called up. "I've changed."
"That's my cue." Owen said as he headed to examine the shocked mother-to-be.
"Well, since she came in, and the beginning of the exam, she's progressed about two months I'd say." Owen announced when he came to join the others in the confrence room while Tamsyn got changed.
"So that puts her?" Tosh asked.
"She's about six months gone right now." he answered as he took a sip of tea that Ianto had so thoughtfully had waiting. "She could be even more along by the time she gets up here."
"We should get a hold of Callum." Ianto said.
"She called him sometime yesterday, had a row with her father." Tosh said. "He's supposed to be coming in at the station about 11:45."
"One of us will be there to meet him." Jack said.
"Figured anything out yet?" Tamsyn asked as she walked in and took a seat.
"No, not yet." Jack answered. "We've never had to deal with a sudden onset of pregnancy before." he explained.
"Great." she muttered with a grimace as a pain shot through her.
"Are you all right?" Tosh asked.
"It's kicking." Tamsyn gasped in pain. "It just keeps kicking." she added as she leaned forward, grabbing her stomach. "Is there something you can give me, Owen?" she asked as she doubled over.
"Come on, I'll see what we have." he said as he took her by the arm and helped her down the stairs, the others following. "Take a seat." he said.
"Jack, please phone my dad." Tamsyn said. "I need him." she said before letting out a scream. "I think it's ripping my insides apart."
"Let's try this." Owen said as he emptied a syringe into her arm. "Let's take a look at you." he added as he lifted her shirt over her now even more protruding stomach. "Damn, you're progressing fast. At this rate you'll be in labor in an hour."
"I'm calling Henry." Jack said as he took off to make the call.
Half an hour later, Henry Lane was led into the hub by Jack, ignoring all of the stuff that usually mesmorized newcomers, and heading straight in the direction of his screaming daughter.
"Dad!" she cried when she saw him. "I'm sorry for being cross with you." she gasped as the thing inside her kicked and clawed at her from the inside. "I know why you did it all, I forgive you."
"You're going on as though this is your deathbed." Henry said, voice trembling slightly. "Forgiveness and such. When this is all over, you, Callum and I will all go out for a nice dinner. My treat."
Father and daughter sat together, talking, Henry trying in vain to keep her mind of what was happening to her. Jack pulled the others aside.
"I called Callum and his train's coming in late." he told them in a hushed tone. "Some accident on the tracks. Could be delayed hours."
"Who the hell takes the train?" Owen asked impatiently. "Why not take a plane?"
"I don't think he was taking into account his wife becoming pregnant with some alien lifeform and being just hours from going into labor." Ianto said, fear and worry starting to show in his voice and on his features.
"We need to keep her calm." Tosh said as she headed off to talk to Tamsyn. "Hey." she said as she sat down and took the other woman's hand.
"Hey." Tamsyn said, her hands shaking from the pain. "So, Nick answered your phone this morning." she said, trying to take her mind of what was going on. "I assume all went well."
"Sleeping with a bloke on the first date, Tosh?" Owen asked as he checked Tamsyn's vitals. "Not good form."
"Well at least I knew his name." she snapped, bringing a laugh from Tamsyn.
"Good one." she said before screaming again and holding her stomach. "This damn thing can kick so hard." she wimpered as she looked down and could make out a tri-toed foot imprint on her stomach.
"I hate to do this, but I think we should move you to a cell." Jack said, the others shooting him wrathful looks at his suggestion. "Look, we don't want this thing getting out. If we have it contained in a cell, we can destroy it when it's born." he tried to reason with them. "It's not a request, it's an order."
"Pulling rank, eh?" Tamsyn asked before falling over out of her chair with the next kick.
"I'll get my stuff so I can be in there with her." Owen said as helped the woman up.
"I'll take her down." Ianto offered as he scooped Tamsyn up and headed for the cells.
Tamsyn lay on a small cot, writhing in pain as Owen moved around her, preparing for the oddest delivery any of them would ever see. The others, on the opposite side of the glass could only look on helplessly.
"Where is Callum?" Tamsyn asked, gasping for breath as the pain became worse.
"He's not gonna be in til around 2:00." Jack informed her.
"I need him." she cried as another wave of pain shot through her. "Oooohhhhhhh!" she screamed as she sat up suddenly.
"Lay back down." Owen said.
"I can't." she said. "Owen, I think it's going to rip my stomach open."
"Just calm down." he said. "I've heard a lot of pregnant women say that." he said, trying to chuckle, but failing miserably.
"I'm serious." she said as the thing starting frantically clawing, blood starting to ooze from her abdomen. "Help me!" she screamed just as the thing suddenly flew out of her stomach, leaving a huge, gaping hole, her limp body falling back onto the cot.
Owen stood there in shock, when he heard a noise and suddenly found a familiar green slime mixing with Tamsyn's blood. Looking up, he saw Jack, Tosh and Ianto standing in the doorway, each holding their gun. His eyes moving to the side just a few feet, he saw Henry sliding down the wall as he stared at his daughter.
"Is she..." Tosh started, tears forming.
"She's dead." Owen whispered as he looked for a pulse. "Tamsyn's dead."
"My little girl." Henry wept as he moved into the cell, dropping to his knees next to the cot. "I did so much to protect her, but I couldn't do anything this time." he said as he closed her dead, staring eyes.
"You're sure, Owen?" Jack asked as he looked over to see Ianto hugging Tosh, both of them in tears, finding himself wiping away tears as well.
"No pulse." Owen answered. "She's gone."
"I want to be alone with her." Henry said after a few moments of stunned silence. Everyone filed out of the room to leave the grieving man.
A few hours later found Owen standing over Tamsyn's lifeless body, cleaning her up as much as he could before Jack got back from the station with Callum, per her father's request before leaving. He didn't want to be in Jack's shoes when it came time to break the news to the man that in the space a couple of months, he'd lost his wife and child.
"Can I see her?" a voice said from above him. Looking Owen saw Callum standing there staring blankly at his wife.
"Yeah, of course." he answered. "Just tell me when you're done, I need to put her away." he said as he patted the other man on the shoulder.
"I love you, Syn." Callum cried as he gave her a kiss. "I'm so sorry I wasn't here for you." he said. "I let you down." he added. He sat in silence for the next half hour, just staring at her face, wanting to take in every thing about her, half afraid that if he didn't, he'd somehow forget. Finally, he stood, giving her one last kiss and left to join his father-in-law at a nearby pub.
Owen waited until Callum had been gone for a few minutes before putting Tamsyn's body into one of the morgue lockers and closing it. He stood staring at the door for a couple of minutes before he left as well, deciding to join Tosh, Ianto and Tamsyn's family at the pub.
Jack was about to finally go to bed, it being 4 a.m., he was at last tired. He stretched his body as he walked, thinking back over the events of the day. To having to tell Callum that his wife was dead. To seeing the look on his team's face when Owen announced that she was gone. He sighed and ran his hand through his hair in frustration before shutting off the lamp on his desk.
Just before heading down the ladder to his cramped sleeping quarters, he stopped and listened as he thought he'd heard a muffled banging noise. Walking out of his office, he stopped to listen again. It seemed to becoming from the medical bay. He drew his gun and slowly made his way down, stopping in front of the morgue lockers. The banging grew louder, more frantic. Carefully, he opened the door and a hand flew up and grabbed him by his shirt, buttons popping from the strain of the hand.