Chapter 4
Tegana hadn't even made it to her own bed that night, the travelling, the events of that day and staying up too late with the team had proved just a little too much for her and she had flopped on Jack's bed before the pizza was even a quarter of the way finished.
Owen had gladly finished the rest of the pepperoni pizza along with his own meat feast one.
Jack had carried Tegana into the girl's room and laid her in her bed. He was reminded of the night that he had first found her and carried her home. She had been so much smaller then. Now she was getting heavy but still light enough to be carried with ease.
Tegana woke up disorientated the next morning, she didn't remember going to bed, at least not in this room. Gwen was already up and making a cup of coffee for herself and Tosh. Luckily there was a glass for Tegana, (which today Gwen filled with the apple juice that Jack had brought last night and Tegana hadn't finished).
"Morning, Tegana." Gwen said sleepily, she had noticed that Tegana had sat up and reached for the glass that had been on the side board next to Tegana's bed. She took her coffee and went over to Tegana's bed and perched on the end. Tosh had been tossing and turning during the night and Gwen had found it hard to get to sleep when all she could hear was the constant rustling if sheets, therefore Gwen had got little sleep that night.
Tegana, as usual, slept like a log. Nothing could wake her not even the sound of crashing thunder would make her stir. But the mornings where always a blur, Tegana would open her eyes, yet not take in her surroundings. Her mind was filled with the peculiar dreams she constantly had, some of them were so real it was as if they were true memories and not some fantasy world that her mind had created out of the things she learned and absorbed throughout the day.
"You alright?" Gwen asked feeling that Tegana had a rather pale complexion. Tegana nodded her head.
"Mornings not good?" before Tegana had a chance to answer or nod, Tosh slid nosily out of bed and sleepwalked to the bathroom.
"No." Tegana murmured. "I have really weird dreams, they don't feel like dreams, they feel like memories but they can't be I've never experienced anything that I see in my dreams." Tegana explained.
"Have you told Jack?" Gwen asked. Tegana shook her head.
"I think it might be a good idea." Gwen said.
"They're just dreams Gwen." This was Tosh's voice she had emerged from the bathroom, looking overall more energetic then when she went in. Gwen glared at Tosh. Tosh had forgotten that nobody knew who Tegana really was and something like this could provide a big clue to where she had come from.
When they were all dress and ready to go, Gwen suggested that they go and knock on the boys' room to see if they were awake.
"Knowing dad, they probably are!" Tegana exclaimed now back to her usual self.
Tegana ran out and knocked on the door; Gwen wasn't far behind but was waiting for Tosh to get out of the room so she could lock it. It was Jack that opened the door to them, ushering them in and telling them that they would go down to breakfast as soon as Owen had put on his shirt.
They were lucky enough to get a big enough table to seat all six of them around it. Jack had taken this opportunity to have a team meeting, while they munched through their toast.
"Owen, Tosh do you think you could lead me to where you found the alien ammunition?" Jack asked making that top priority on his list of things to do within that day.
"Sure, I'm pretty certain I know where it was." Tosh assured him, taking a sip out of her warm coffee cup. It wasn't as nice as Ianto's but it would do to get the caffeine running through their systems, making them energetic and lively for the day's work.
"Good that's where I want to start today." Jack told them, they had all been waiting for a rundown of all the events that Jack had planned for them that day.
"Gwen, then I want you to take us to the spot on Oxford street where Roberto Hannigan got killed." Gwen nodded certain that she could find the place again.
"Ianto, I want you to come with us today, I'll connect the tracking device to this," he pointed to his intergalactic time watch. "And any alien signals will come straight to me." Jack's voice had been getting louder and louder and Tegana thought it was best to tell him now before it got worse.
"Dad, less mention of aliens and keep you voice down people are staring." Jack looked around him Tegana was right several people where giving him funny looks, it was just that he wasn't used to conducting team meetings within a public place.
It was about 10:00 and the torchwood team where out in the wreckage of two previous nights of rioting. Tosh was pointing to where she and Owen had found the alien gun, Jack bent down taking a good look around the area, checking for anything else that was alien. He was out of luck.
Tegana wandered to the left of the team, thinking she had heard something. She found an open, off the hinge, door. She peeped round the door, it was dark but she could still make out the silhouette of a person scrunched up in the dark corner.
"Hello?" Tegana called into the darkness. She heard a grunting noise coming from the figure.
"DAD!" She shouted. Almost immediately Jack was by his daughter's side.
"What? What is it?" He asked quickly so it sounded like one long word.
"There's someone in there, I heard them groan." Tegana pointed relatively to where she could make out the figure.
"Ianto, help me." Ianto responsively perked up and followed Jack into the blackness. Together they pulled out the figure.
Jack propped him up on the wall and bent down to examine him.
"Out the way, Doctor Harper coming through!" Owen said shoving Jack out the way. Owen took Jack's place by the potentially injured man. He examined him much as to what Jack was doing before he was pushed out of the way.
The man groaned again and his eyes flickered open. On the sight of the torchwood team, he curled up in a protective ball, obviously frightened.
"Don't worry, we're here to help you, there's really no need to be frightened of us!" Jack soothed him.
"Well, not sure about him…" Gwen pointed at Jack.
"But everyone else is alright!" she added. The man let out a little laugh and Gwen felt marginally pleased that she had been able to use humour to make someone feel better. Jack frowned at Gwen and then turned back to the frightened man.
"Ignore her, she's a little crazy, could you tell us your name?" Jack asked feeling he now had his own-back on Gwen.
"Nathan." Nathan replied, sheepishly.
"Hey Nathan, I'm Jack, that's Gwen (the loud one), Owen (he's a doctor), Tosh, Ianto and Tegana (my daughter)." Jack informed him pointing to each person as he said their names.
Nathan acknowledge each person, he looked at them each as Jack pointed to them.
"Now Nathan could you tell us what happened?" Jack continued he felt he had gained Nathan's trust now and could press him into finding out what they needed to know.
"I was out in one of the raids, I didn't mean to be, I didn't want to be part of it, I just was there. I hadn't been part of any of them I swear!" Nathan said quite clearly not proud of what he had done. Gwen assured him that it was ok and they didn't mind that he was part of the raids but just wanted to know what happened.
Nathan, calmer now he wasn't so frightened or worried at what they would think of him knowing that he had been part of the riots, carried on his story.
"Well I was lifting up this telly when all of a sudden I wondered what I was doing there, I didn't recall arriving and I certainly didn't remember smashing anything to get into the place. There were people all around me, teenagers mostly. Confused, I dropped the telly and tried to work out how far away from home I was, that's when they came in." Nathan paused.
"Who came in?" Gwen asked not letting Nathan just leave the story at that.
"Two guys dressed in black carrying guns, nobody seemed to take much notice of them at first but then they came closer to me and people started to turn their heads, one of them pointed a gun at me, and the other directed it to the crowd, I was scared, I ran into that cupboard, must've hit my head for all I remember then is them going away and me waking up here." Nathan slouched having finished his story and leaning back to wait for the team to speak.
"How old are you?" it was an odd question and from Owen who hadn't said much since Nathan had awoken.
"20, yesterday," Nathan said. Owen gave Jack a look with raised eyebrows. Jack registered this in his brain for later use.
"Can we help you home at all?" Jack asked feeling there was no more need for questions.
"Um, I live down the street, but I might need a bit of a hand, I feel a little wobbly." Nathan accepted. He tied to stand and almost slipped back down but Owen caught him.
"Don't rush yourself," Owen told him. Tosh got hold of Nathan's other arm and helped him up. Tegana asked if he had brought any belongings that he needed to take home, he said that he had had a wallet but it seemed to have fallen out somewhere.
Tegana's first bet was the cupboard that Nathan had been found in. The trouble was it was too dark in there to see anything. She tried using her hands against the floor, hoping to find something but she hit nothing but dust. Ianto came to the rescue with his pocket torch that he carried around with him for moments like this.
Tegana rooted around with the torch and found the wallet; she picked it up and then paused. Next to where the wallet was something shiny and terribly small. Tegana bent down and picked it up, it felt cold in her hand. She took it carefully over to her father.
"What's this?" she asked, watching as Jack took it from her and held it up to the sky.
"I believe it is a chip, an electronic chip." Jack explained, then looked towards Nathan.
"Did you notice anything different about one of the guns, maybe the one that was pointed at you?" he asked. Nathan casted his mind back to the previous night.
"Ur, yes, I think that the one that was pointed at me was somewhat different, I think why?"
"Arh that explains it." Jack said pacing up and down, an act he only did while processing his thoughts in a matter of seconds.
"Explains what Jack?" Tosh asked on behalf of everyone else.
"The gun that was pointed at Nathan was in fact an electronic tetro blaster, used to fire electronic chips into their targets, in this case Nathan, so they can keep track of where they've been/go." Jack explained, he perched himself on a broken bit of wall and looked directly at Nathan, his mind whirling with possible ideas and answers.
"Nathan, I think it's time you got home. We'll come with you if you want." Jack told him. By the look of him Nathan wouldn't even manage to get out of the ruined building let alone get to his house without help.
Arriving at Nathan's house, they let him retrieve his keys and Tegana unlocked the door, for he still needed the support of the rest of the team. He hopped into the hallway and said thank-you to everyone.
"Oh here's your wallet!" Tegana said handing it back to him as she had forgot to do it when she found the chip. Nathan thanked her and the rest of team and disappeared into the bright yellow hallway, the door closing in front of them.
The team found themselves in oxford street standing in the exact spot where Roberto Hannigan died. Although only Gwen and Tegana really knew this at the time, Jack soon worked it out when he found the bloodstains on the concrete he was standing on.
He bent down and tested the stains; they were dried in but defiantly human.
"Nothing much here, the police must have cleared anything that was here away." Jack deduced rather irritated by the fact.
"Then what's the use staying here?" Owen asked feeling the summer breeze seep through his t-shirt, he shivered.
Jack took the hint and announced that they were going to head back to the hotel and check out the electronic chip and analyse the gun piece properly.
Back at the hotel, Tosh set up her equipment on the small table space. Tegana helped her out, having watched her many a time set up the equipment and knew pretty much how everything went.
Ianto had the laptop on, running a full scan across the whole of the London area, checking for signs of alien life. The area seemed clear, either the alien was extremely good at hiding or it wasn't actually there within the city.
Gwen and Owen had taken this opportunity to have a cup of tea, for their areas of expertise where not included in the current investigation.
After a while of thinking and staring of out the window, Jack decided to speak his mind to the group.
"I think we would benefit from going out tonight, in the riots I mean, see if we catch a glimpse of these all in black gunmen, watch the people see how they react." Jack told them, Gwen gave him a look. Jack shrugged his shoulders, with a blank face.
"You can't take a fourteen year old into the riots!" Gwen exclaimed.
"She'll be alright, as long as she stays with me, won't you Tegana?" Jack asked her, Tegana nodded, she was actually wondering how long it would be before Jack decided to go out in the riots, it seemed the obvious next step to her.
In turn for the rest of the afternoon, each person took a three hour nap, it was possible that they would be out of the majority of the night and without sleep they might lose some of the very alert senses that they all possessed.
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