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Chapter 6 - Countrycide
Torchwood went to the country to investigate a string of disappearances. Ianto bought hamburgers for all of them. They plotted on a map where the people had gone missing. they found a large, flat clearing.
"Good enough place to set up camp." Jack said.
"Camp?" Owen asked.
"Yep." Jack replied and they got in the car.
"You okay Chandra?" Gwen asked, the teenager had been spacing all day.
"Huh? yeah, sure." She muttered and looked out the window, disappearing into her mind again. Jack was driving and he put his hand behind the chair and placed it on her knee.
"We'll be okay." He muttered. Chandra moved her leg making his hand drop to her tattoo. Jack froze and stared ahead. They had two tents set up and Jack gave Owen one more.
"Want some help with that?" Tosh asked.
"Even if I did I wouldn't ask you." He snapped.
"Who wants to play that game?" Gwen asked.
"Which one?" Tosh replied.
"The one about the last person you snogged." Gwen said and Jack laughed.
"Silly way to put it isn't it?" Owen said.
"What is?" Gwen asked.
"'snogged'. It's a kid's word." He said.
"I think it's fine." Tosh and Chandra agreed.
"Look are we gonna play or not?" Gwen asked.
"Yeah, sure." Tosh said. "Let's see. Last Christmas. Owen."
"You haven't snogged anyone since Christmas?" He asked.
"Well even then I was drunk." She said and they all laughed.
"Who's yours?" Tosh asked Owen, who looked at Gwen and smiled.
"Gwen." he said. Gwen kicked his shin, making him topple to the ground.
"Eh? When did this happen?" Tosh asked.
"It was complicated." Gwen said.
"Right, Chandra. Who did you last kiss?" Owen said, pervertedly. She gave Jack a long glance.
"Jack." she whispered.
"Who?" Ianto asked, Chandra lifted her stick and pointed at Jack.
"You're kidding right?" Tosh and Gwen said at the same time.
"Afraid not." Jack said, walking over to the group.
"You snogged an alien?!" Ianto exclaimed. "Not that I'm complaining, she's pretty."
"Well if you did, I suppose you wouldn't be afraid to show us..." Owen hinted. Chandra coughed and Jack smiled.
"I think not." He said.
"Why not? you scared?" Owen taunted him.
"What do you think?" Jack replied, Owen turned back to the group.
"He's scared." He muttered, the group busted up laughing.
"Fine." Jack said and picked Chandra up off the log they sat on. "I'm not scared and I won't have my Team thinking things about each other or me." he added and dipped her into a deep kiss. Ianto looked away, thinking of Lisa. Tosh, Gwen, and Owen gaped open-mouthed that he actually did it. He let Chandra stand back up.
"I'm going for fire wood." Owen muttered.
"I'll go with you." Gwen said and they walked off into the forest. after they were fighting they split up to find a person who had been watching them. Losing it of course but finding a body stripped of it's skin and internal organs. They talked about how it could have died. Jack glanced at Chandra to find her running from the clearing.
"Chandra?" Jack yelled and ran after her, hearing the tire squeals of the car. She was gone.
Ianto and Tosh went to find the car and Chandra. Owen, Jack, and Gwen tried to find the towns people. They found one man who shot Gwen with a rifle.Owen patched her up. Ianto and Tosh were caught by the people who were killing the people. A woman came and got them from a cellar.
"What do they look like?" Ianto asked the woman.
"How else are we supposed to look?" A male voice said. He was a man in his late 30's to early 40's. He kissed the woman.
"Why are you doing this?" Tosh asked. The man shrugged and kicked her to the ground. He pulled a young man out from behind a table.
"He's just another fly in my trap. Now this, is our prized jewel." The man said and pulled a curtain back. Chandra was chained to the wall, naked with blood covering her body. Her feet chained down and her arms spread wide, like a cross. Her head lolled to one side, she was unconscious.
"Oh my god." Tosh whispered. Ianto tried to punch the man and Tosh ran out the door into a near by forest. The man chased her and eventually Owen and Gwen found him chasing her and Owen threatened the man with his gun, a police man came up.
"Now officer, arrest him." Gwen said looking around frantically.
"arrest my own uncle?" The officer scoffed and pointed his own gun at Owen. Gwen held hers up as well. it was a three way stickup. Owen nodded and Gwen dropped her gun. The two men brought all three of them back to the house. Gwen and Owen choked when they saw Chandra.
"Where's Ianto?" Tosh asked. The man pulled him out from behind the table.
"Good meat needs to be tenderized first." the man said and they saw Ianto was bruised and cut.
"You sick fuckers." Owen muttered. A humming like an engine was heard through one of the walls. Jack rammed through the wall in the tractor. He was pissed. He got out his pistol and started shooting all of the people there in non-vital spots. Owen got a hatchet and carefully cut down Chandra. Jack wrapped his coat around her cold body.
"Owen you look at her cuts and treat anything else they may have done to her." Jack said, he would have done it himself accept 1) he felt responsible. 2) because Owen was better qualified to do it. He and Gwen interrogated the man for an hour. at the end he whispered.
"It makes me happy." into Gwen's ear. Jack took him by the shoulder and took him to the Police's car (who'd gotten there earlierthe real cops) while Gwen sat petrified. Later Jack came to check on Chandra and Owen. he had poured cold water on her to get the blood off, this woke her up. She sat looking away from Owen and her body. Jack walked in and she made an attempt to close the jacket. Owen sighed and opened it again, then he saw Jack.
"Ah, she's got at least 12 to 15 cuts several are deep and need to be stitched. a few bruises and her arm's broken. slight vaginal tearing, nothing major but she'll live." Owen told him quietly.
"The last one?" Jack asked.
"Ah, looks like our man tried to cut her up from inside out." Owen replied.
"You looked that closely?" Jack raised an eyebrow.
"Well, after I'd washed her off the blood kept coming if you know what I mean." He said.
"Right, can we move her?"
"Yeah, definitely." And Jack picked her up and set her in the car. Tosh and Gwen kept her sitting up straight. They were back at the Hub and Chandra was laying on one of the operating tables with bright lights over her flesh. Owen had sewn her up and put her arm in a cast. All of Torchwood had gone home for the night (Owen and Gwen together). Jack leaned on the railing next to the room she was in.
"You're pretty brave, all this and I've not heard a single complaint." he said, trying to comfort her.
"Pfft, that's just because I still can't feel anything." she scoffed and turned away from him.
"I was worried when you ran away." He said.
"Just because I work with you doesn't mean you can control me or you're responsible for me." she said and sat up, the stitches on and around her stomach pulled.
"Careful." he said and jumped down to her. She slapped his hands away and stood on the ground. she shook her head and put on the clothes that Owen had left for her.
"Good night." she said and walked away, her bare feet slapping on the cement.
