Howdy! I like readers/reviews. Readers/Reviewers are cool. Sorry its been so long (nine days? le gasp!), and for your patience, I've given you this horrible thing. Please forgive me! ...Aw thank you, aren't you sweet?
In Oz, Downton Abbey season 1 has aired, but not season 2, so we went and bought a DVD from the UK of season 2, and I've just seen episode five. I think I cried more than I did in Day Four.
Three months after they'd been dropped off from the 1950's, Toshiko found herself in the Torchwood SUV driving from Cardiff to London. They were stupid, Jack had said. They were walking to their deaths, Jack had said. If they died, which they most certainly would, it would be helping the enemy, Jack had said. So Owen had shot him. That was how, Toshiko found herself in the Torchwood SUV driving from Cardiff to London, with her dead boss' head in her lap.
"Owen, did you really have to shoot him?" she asked incredulously. Owen huffed, and glanced at her in the rear view mirror.
"We've been over this!" He half shouted. "We need to help Yvonne, and if we hadn't have gone, Teaboy would have had a breakdown if he didn't know where his old friends were!"
"Came you blame him?" She shouted back.
"This is exactly how the conversation has gone the past fifteen times you've had it!" Ianto bellowed over the two of them, as he continued typing on the computer. "I've written it down, see?" He showed Toshiko a word document, with their exact words written on it.
"Blimey." She muttered, and Owen rolled his eyes. "But maybe you did something wrong!" She began again at Owen, ignoring Ianto mouthing along. "He still hasn't woken up yet, and we're almost there!"
"How could I have shot him wrong Tosh? Jesus, you're just over re-acting!"
"But he's usually woken up by now!" She yelled back. Now they were also getting strange looks from the cars next to them.
"Well maybe he's just-"But they were cut off by a gasp.
"Owen!" Jack roared.
"We need to help them and-"
"Guys." Ianto warned, his nose up against the window.
"Quiet Ianto, I was just saying that maybe it-"
"There are metal pepper pots smacking into the Tower."
They all crowed over to Ianto's side of the car, and true enough, some invisible force was pulling the objects from mid-air, and into the Torchwood tower.
"Daleks." Jack breathed. He jumped out of the SUV, into the Torchwood car park, followed closely by Ianto, Tosh, Owen, and a just woken up Gwen.
"How is that happening?" Toshiko asked.
"It's just got 'Doctor' written all over it, doesn't it?"Shouted Jack, as they entered the building, and started on the stairs. When they reached the twenty eighth floor, they heard Ianto gasp, and run to a pile of what appeared to be bodies covered in metal. Two more floors. Gwen had dropped from the ranks a long time ago, to help some people who were trapped under a pile of rubble. They were on the twenty ninth, when a man made of metal smashed through the window, knocked Toshiko and Owen to the floor, and bounced off the walls as it made its way up the stairs. They ran as fast as they could up the stairs, and immediately flattened themselves to the floor, when they were almost hit by a dalek. The wind, there seemed to be no other way to describe it, seemed to be drawing the daleks and metal men into a white light at the end of the room, which was so bright, that it made Toshiko cover her eyes. It was almost how she'd always imagined heaven to be. Her eyes strayed from the light, to the man holding onto a black handle type of thing on the wall opposite them.
"Doctor?" She shrieked. He was being pulled sideways into the light by the wind; his face was filled with worry.
"ROSE!" he was shouting. "!" She looked worriedly at Jack, and all three of them belly crawled to the middle of the room to see Rose struggling with the distance between her and the lever. She was being pulled into the light, she couldn't hold on much longer. Immediately, Toshiko was on her feet, and sprinted over the lever.
"Hold on to the clamp!" She shouted over the noise, and began struggling to pull the clamp right. "Owen, Jack, help me!" She yelled. On their way over, Owen was hit by a metal man, right on the head, causing him to slump to the floor. "Owen!" She shrieked. Jack bounded forwards, and joined Toshiko at the lever.
"It's stuck!" Jack yelled. "We need more strength!" Straight away, Rose was reaching out to them. "No Rosie," Jack warned. "Stay there!"
"ROSE!" Shouted the Doctor again.
"Toshiko!" Jack bellowed in her ear. "Go find Ianto! We need more muscle!" Suddenly, Rose's body swung around, smacking heavily into Jack, as she flew around the handle, and was now hanging onto it with all the strength she could muster. By now Jack was hanging onto Rose, rather than the lever, which was slowly moving back to its proper place, when Rose's fingers were beginning to slip. Toshiko glanced over to the Doctor, his face full of terror. Slowly, the light at the end of the room began to close, the white of the plaster dampening the bright light.
"Hang on!" Tosh cried. There were no more Daleks by now, just the wind, which also seemed to be lessening. She too grabbed Rose's arms, and held on tightly, but her grip was slipping, as was Jack's. In one swift motion, Rose had let go of the lever, and was holding onto Toshiko, as Jack tried fruitlessly to grab her legs. Rose's eyes moved from both of her friend's faces, and instantly, Toshiko knew what was about to happen. Rose looked over at the Doctor.
"I'm sorry." She whispered, and was pulled from Toshiko's grasp. A man appeared and caught her and was gone again, and all the winds stopped. The Doctor fell to the floor with a heavy thud. Toshiko waited for a moment, and then she heard him scream.
