Chapter 6
Tosh had this feeling that something wasn't right. Here they were with the same guy who had almost being shot the night before and yet no sign of the potential killers, who by reckoning should defiantly be out tonight. Maybe they were caught up, catching other people who should be receiving the telepathic orders, who for some reason weren't, and killing or cataloguing them.
Nathan was feeling much better now that he was away from the main action. Owen had checked him over and declared he was absolutely fine.
They had all come to the fact that age was a main factor in the riots and Tosh urgently wanted to find Jack, she wanted him to confirm that they were right and maybe shed some more on the subject.
"Nathan, are you ok to walk?" Tosh asked she was eager to find the rest of the team so she would feel a little comforted in the situation.
Nathan stood up, shook his right leg and then his left and declared he was fit to walk. Owen gave Tosh a look.
"I want to find Jack." Tosh told Owen, he then understood and they began to walk down the pavement.
Jack lifted his daughter up out from the corner they had been crouched down in. There was no sign of the two bodyguards and they had waited long enough to check they weren't coming back. He placed Tegana back down on the steps and they sauntered through the casino, not making a big rush about it just taking their time.
Jack paused at a gamer, who had just won his game. Tegana almost bumped into her father as he abruptly stopped to admire the man. The winner turned to find Jack looking over his shoulder. He was a young man around thirty odd.
"Got something to say, or you just standing there?" the guy asked a little perplexed at how Jack had ended up behind him.
"Good win. Good looks." Jack said smiling. Tegana even from where she was stood could see where he was coming from with the good looks comment but she was growing a little impatient.
"Good looks yourself…" the man held on his last word hinting for a name.
"Captain Jack Harkness." Tegana rolled her eyes, she knew her father was smitten, he only used his full title to guys that he thought looked hot.
"Captain eh, pretty impressive… you from around here?" the guy asked shaking Jack's hand.
"Er no visiting actually, work related." Jack answered. Tegana tugged Jack's sleeve.
"Dad, can we go find the others?" she asked knowing that Jack would be angry at her for breaking up the little conversation but feeling that it was a pointless stop as she could see a woman walking towards them holding two drinks in her hand and looking slightly worried.
"Hey who's this? You have a daughter?" the young man seemed quite surprised at this new fact. He had already assumed Jack was gay and it seemed odd for someone gay to have a daughter.
"Yeah, Tegana. I suppose we did oughta get going, see ya around." Jack backed away; he took an ever so slight bow and then began to hurry up the aisle, Tegana in front of him.
"What'd you do that for?" Jack questioned Tegana when they were out of sight.
"You were wasting your time, he was straight." Tegana told him, she suddenly sounded about twice her age, like she was talking to her same-aged friend and not her father.
"Oh yeah and how could you tell?" Jack inquired. He really felt intimidated by her at this moment.
"There was a woman walking towards him carrying two drinks, it doesn't take a genius to work it out, you can look back if you don't believe me." Tegana informed him. Jack took a peek round the corner, true to what Tegana had said, there was a woman with the young man they had been talking with, the woman handed him a drink and he kissed her gently on the cheek.
"Oh alright, so I can't get it right all the time!" Jack owned up as he turned back to Tegana.
"Come on let's get out of here." Jack said feeling his face warming with the embarrassment of being shown up by his fourteen year old daughter.
Jack pushed open the casino door and let Tegana go through first and then followed himself. They crossed the road together, and walked a little way up the pavement.
Nathan had suffered a few very painful headaches during their walk but with a little help from Owen's well-prepared stock of aspirins he was feeling much better now and the headache had been reduced significantly.
"Should be effective for a least two days, tell me if it isn't 'cause I may have to go back to the drawing board." Owen told Nathan. Nathan's eyes widen and he turned to look at Owen.
"What, you invented these?" he asked evidently shocked and amazed at the same time.
"Yeah, tis what I do!" Owen replied milking his glory for a moment. But his glory was shattered when Tosh spotted two familiar figures walking towards them.
"Jack! Tegana!" Tosh called. The distant figures moved their heads upwards to see who was calling them. Both parties began to hurry to each other, each unaware of the extra pair of footsteps that joined both parties.
Gwen and Ianto had run as fast as they could away from the two bodyguards and their extra efforts seemed to have paid off because now there was no sign of either bodyguard. Gwen glanced behind her and on seeing no one following them she told Ianto to stop. They did, catching their breath as they did so.
They perched on a wall letting the boy they had been supporting let go off them as they all took a well-deserved rest.
"Can we help you home?" Ianto offered the young man, knowing it was the safest and politest thing to do.
"It might be for the best, it's been a pretty tough night." Gwen added.
"Just who were those guys and why were they chasing us?" the teenager asked ignoring both Gwen and Ianto.
"Don't know and they were chasing you mate." Gwen said.
"Me?" the boy said pointing to himself.
"You weren't following the rules and they were coming to sort it out." Gwen said simply.
"Right." The boy said having not followed a word of what Gwen had told him.
"Yeah home for you." Gwen replied. They found out the address and then began to walk to it, it was quite far out of king's cross and so it was a little wondered how the teenager managed to get to the riots. It would have been easier had the underground stations been open but as they weren't the old fashioned method of walking would have to suffice.
About half an hour of walking they finally came to the end of the street and when the boy told them his house was the other end of the street, Ianto groaned. Gwen shot him a look. They continued walking until the teenager stopped at his front door. He was just going to walk straight in but Gwen halted him. She knocked on the white glossy door and it was long before a middle aged woman opened it.
"Yes?" the woman said seeing only Gwen at first.
"I believe this is your son ma'am, we found him on the street, he wasn't in a very good state so we tried to help and get him home as soon as possible." Gwen said in her politest accent.
"Oh Toby! Thank-you miss and sir. What were you playing at boy!" Toby's mother hugged him bringing him inside the house as she did so.
"I would keep him under a watchful eye and not let him go out again tonight." Gwen said. The lady was giving her a strange look.
"And who are you… I mean it's a bit unheard of for two strangers to bring a straggling boy home." She had a point for all she knew they could anyone.
"Forgive me ma'am I'm a police officer, I'm off duty and my friend here is a doctor, it was our sense of profession that brought us to help your son." Gwen lied feeling automatically guilty that she had to. But it satisfied Toby's mother and she thanked them and praised the police force and the medical staff up saying that it was brilliant to have such people around in times of need.
"If only Owen heard that, now that would have made his day!" Ianto commented as Gwen pushed past him and into the street.
"No time for that now Ianto, we've got to find the rest of the team, basically we've got to find Jack." Ianto took the hint and sprinted to catch up with Gwen who was going at an alarmingly fast pace.
Tegana hugged Tosh. She was glad to see her and Owen, it was always good to know that they hadn't been snatched away by someone or something.
"Nathan! Well I thought we got rid of you!" Jack joked, Nathan smiled and Owen explained.
While Owen was explaining, Tosh, having the advantage of being able to see clearly over Tegana's head was devastated at what she saw coming towards them.
"I hate to break it up guys but we have company." Tosh announced. Jack had noticed something coming towards them from the other side and so, with Tosh, Nathan and Owen heading one way and Tegana and Jack heading the other they collided and fumbled in trying to get away from the two armed guards.
They headed into the street, Jack in the lead trying to make a quick and hasty decision on where they were heading. His mind had not quick come up with a solution when he heard a scream come from behind him.
Whipping his head back, he was in time to see Tegana being hauled off in the hands of one of the very people they had been running away from. To the left of him Nathan was also being hauled away, despite him being much taller and heavier then Tegana it didn't seem to worry the guard at all, he just picked him up in the same fashion as the other had done Tegana and carried him as if he didn't weigh a thing.
"TEGANA!" Jack shouted breaking into a run. Whether it was the distance or the length of legs Jack didn't know but somehow however fast he ran he couldn't catch up with the guard. He watched, heart beating, as Tegana got further and further away from him and then disappeared out of view.
Owen had tried to follow Nathan's captor but he too found it impossible to catch up with them. He stopped next to Jack watching Nathan, as he struggled in his captor's arms, disappear out of his vision.
"What are we going to do now?" Owen asked Jack.
"We need to find them." Jack replied without looking at Owen.
"But Jack, how do we know where they've gone, we've lost sight of them, we'll never catch them now!" Tosh said ever the enthusiast!
"We need to find the Gwen and Ianto and get back to the hotel." Jack told them, already moving quickly ahead of them. Tosh and Owen had to take several steps to catch up with him.
They walked in this fashion for almost all the way back into the main heart of the riots, Tosh and Owen still struggling to keep up with Jack's exaggerated steps.
Ahead of them talking and walking towards them was Gwen and Ianto.
"HEY!" Gwen shouted having been the first person to notice them. Gwen went into a jog and jogged over to them.
"We were just looking for you!" She said waiting for Ianto to catch up.
Jack didn't acknowledge Gwen, he continued walking along, his face set in an expression that said nothing about how he was feeling. But then he wasn't entirely sure what he was feeling.
Ianto noticed this straight away as he joined them.
"Jack, are you ok?" he asked knowing the answer already. Jack didn't reply, he averted his eyes to the ground and refused to look up.
"Tegana and Nathan have been taken by the bodyguard guys." Tosh explained. Ianto looked sympathetically at Jack, and Gwen looked shocked.
"So we're heading back to the hotel, I think Jack's got an idea or something." Owen said breaking the slight awkward silence that followed Tosh's explanation.
"Right." Gwen said trying to get herself back into gear.
"Jack? She'll be ok." Ianto said reassuringly.
At Jack's fast pace and the rest of the team's effort to keep up, they arrived at the hotel in a matter of half an hour, which was good timing considering it had took them an hour to get there.
On getting into the room, Jack headed straight for the computer.
"Ok Jack what is your plan?" Gwen asked. Jack held up a watch to the rest of the team, they all recognized it for they were all wearing one exactly the same as the one Jack was showing them.
"Tegana's got one of these on, so we can track her." Jack said.
"I bet you're glad you made us all wear one now!" Owen commented, putting on the miniature kettle for a well-deserved cup of tea.
"Wasn't my idea." Jack said head focused on the computer screen. Almost every head looked inquisitively at Jack.
"It was Tegana's idea, I had nothing to do with it." Jack said. Only Ianto wasn't surprised, he had had the inkling that it might have been Tegana's doing when he noticed Jack had forgotten to put on the watch (nobody forgets to put on their own invention).
Jack kept his eyes glued to the screen as he quickly typed the password, found the software and clicked on the correct icon and held the watch up to the webcam until it recognized it. After that it was basically left to the computer to search out all of the watches that matched the one the webcam had registered. And because most of the watches were in the room it didn't take a genius to work out were the last one was. Jack scribbled down the exact location and turned to the rest of the team.
"I know where they are, they've been taken underground, not the tube, under that." Jack said.
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