Chapter 7

Tegana had stopped struggling with her captor and took the opportunity to memorize the route they took, in case they should be able to escape and need to find a way out. She observed and absorbed every detail she could as they passed from the open air to underground and further than that.

Nathan, unused to the concept of being snatched away, was still trying to punch and kick his way out of his captor's firm grip. He still didn't stop when finally they stopped and were thrown into some sort of cage.

Despite his screaming efforts to be noticed, the two bodyguards completely ignored their captives and after securing the door left without a hint of pity, guilt or even hatred showing, it was just blank. Nathan hadn't noticed this factor, and thought if he tried making as much noise as he could they would come back, so he started to rattle the cage.

"Nathan, NATHAN STOP IT!" Tegana had to shout to be heard over the racket Nathan was making. She grabbed hold of his arms and yanked them away from the bars.

"That isn't going to help anything." Tegana told him. She put his arms onto his lap and tried to look him in the eye but he was significantly taller than her and so this wasn't entirely possible.

"We need to stay calm and work out a plan, what you were doing wasn't a plan." Tegana explained feeling ever so slightly strange at the fact she was acting as the adult when really it should have been the other way round. This grown man was acting like a two year throwing a tantrum.

"Now, let's take a better look around us and work out what how we're going to get out." Tegana suggested.

Tegana panned the room and her eyes rested on the far edge off the room were there stood a large computer screen.

"I want to get over there." Tegana said pointing to the computer. "Can you put your strength into thinking of a way out of here?" she asked returning her gaze to Nathan. Nathan returned her gaze and nodded.

"I'm going to look for them." Jack announced standing up and grabbing his coat.

Gwen stopped him getting to the door.

"It's late, it's dark, wait till morning when we can see where we're going." She told him determined that he wouldn't leave the room. Jack looked determined to leave and search for them despite the lateness and the darkness.

"Tegana will be fine until morning. She can look after herself besides she's got Nathan with her." Tosh added hoping to make Jack see that it was a bad idea to search for them now.

"And let's face it, Tegana's probably looking after Nathan!" Owen joked and everyone laughed even Jack who chuckled at the thought but he didn't move.

"Jack, Gwen and Tosh are right, we need to wait till morning, I know you're worried, I know you angry, but please wait till morning." Ianto's words seemed to sink in to Jack's mind as he turned away from the door.

The team relaxed a little now that Jack had taken their thoughts in consideration and chose the better option. They hated having to tell him but it was for the best. Jack slumped into the chair and put his head in his hands. His mind was telling him that he had failed Tegana and the Doctor who had entrusted him with the task of looking after her.

Tegana and Nathan had checked all the bars that ran around their cell keeping them from escaping to see if any were loose. None were and so plan a failed.

Nathan began empting his pockets, Tegana did the same. There was a collection of odd pennies, a packet of chewing gum, a packet of tissues, keys and a metal paperclip. As soon as Tegana removed this last item from the list, Nathan whipped it up. He untwisted it so it looked like some sort of really thin magnet and moved closer to the lock.

"Will a paperclip work?" Tegana asked not entirely convinced about it.

"I don't worth a try though." Nathan replied fiddling the paperclip around in a clockwise direction. It clicked.

Experimentally Nathan pushed the door slightly. It gladly swung open for him. Nathan looked back at Tegana and smirked. He had done it.

They filed out of the small container after grabbing the bits and pieces that had come from their pockets and stuffing them back in.

Tegana went straight for the computer at the end of the room. From a distance it had looked like an ordinary, if a little abnormally sized, computer but on closer inspection it was anything but. There was no definitive keyboard, just randomly coloured buttons spread out across the length of the wall and nothing that could remotely relate to that of a computer Tegana was used to. In fact this 'computer' was unlike anything Tegana had set her eyes on before and she was now convinced this was no human technology.

Nathan took the time to observe his surroundings. It was clear that they were underground, the warmth and the dim lighting told him that and the walls were quite obviously made of mud and earth although quite how it was managed baffled him. The walls were so smooth that it didn't seem that anything human could have created it, but it couldn't be alien…could it?

Tegana pushed a button randomly to see if it did anything. The screen suddenly flickered on and the room was drenched in a bright white light, giving it a sense of being too close to a car's headlights on a dark night.

To both their alarm, a loud noise accompanied the bright light and while their eardrums were still ringing with the sound, entering through separate doors came the two guards who had locked them in the room.

Tegana felt herself being lifted away roughly, if it hadn't been for the blinding light and the deafening noise she would have kicked up a fuss but as it happened she was rather glad to be taken away from the din.

Nathan stopped himself from struggling. It was no use even trying, he knew that now. He let himself be picked up as if he weighed nothing and then carted away to somewhere he had no clue where.

Jack woke to the sound of the TARDIS materialising. He forced his weary eyes open and found himself staring at the Doctor.

"Hello." The Doctor said cheerily. Jack was too tired and ever so slightly confused to match the greeting.

"Well I see you like tidying up!" The Doctor muttered sarcastically as he stepped cautiously through the bombshell of clothes and magazines. He wondered if he had got the wrong time and had arrived in Jack's teenage years but then he saw the trench coat.

'na didn't get that till he was 30, never stopped wearing it mind you.' He mused while he waited for Jack to respond to him.

Jack rolled himself out of bed and found his dressing gown. He slung it on as he walked towards the Doctor.

"Alright, enough of the chit-chat. What's so important that you have to wake me up at this ungodly hour?" Jack said sounding very much irritated and annoyed at the Doctor's presence.

"Ungodly hour, but it's 10 o'clock!" the Doctor exclaimed. Jack shook his head and the Doctor frowned.

"I've been telling you all along, you need to get that clock fixed on the control panel it's a least five hours out." Jack said moving slightly so the Doctor had a clear view of his clock which read 6:03.

"Arh. Sorry. Yeah I'll get that seen to." The Doctor apologized.

"Right now you've got me up, what do I owe this pleasure?" Jack asked moving it along.

"Yeah getting to that. Now I've found Tegana's real parents and they would like their daughter back." The Doctor said.

Jack froze. His throat dried up and his eyes began to water. He had lost her. He had lost Tegana. How was he meant to tell her parents, her real parents that?

"I… lost her." Jack said quietly.

"What? Lost her? How could you Jack, I trusted you. What am I going to say to her parents now? To frank captain I'm very disappointed in you." The words came out of the Doctor's mouth yet they didn't seem to fit with the Doctor's normal tone of voice/choice of words

Jack buried his head in his hands as the words echoed in his head.

"I'm very disappointed in you; I'm very disappointed in you…"

Jack woke with a start. Ianto was shaking him violently. Pulling away Ianto's hands, Jack sank back into the bed and tried to overcome the fact that it had all been but a dream and he still had time to find Tegana and bring her back.

"What was all that about?" Ianto asked. He was sitting up straight and looking at Jack.

"Yeah come on it woke us all up, so we might as well find out what it was that woke us all!" Owen was sat up, out of bed. He had been about to help Ianto wake Jack. Jack had been talking in his sleep and then he began crying and as it had wakened both his roommates they had decided to awaken him.

"I dreamt that the Doctor came back, having found Tegana's parents and wanted to bring her to them and I had to say that I lost her." Jack summarized the dream for them.

"It'll be alright Jack, we'll find Tegana." Owen tried to make Jack feel more positive about the situation. Owen was quite sure that they would find Tegana or even she would find them. Ianto was a little less confident but confident enough to know that Jack would try his upmost to search for Tegana.

Tegana felt the cold metal clasp around her wrists and ankles. She was going absolutely nowhere. For some unexplained reason both Tegana and Nathan had been chained to the wall in a fashion that meant they couldn't move an inch in any direction.

Although it was clear that they were not going to get out of these chains both Tegana and Nathan struggled and tried their hardest to wriggle their hands and feet out of their confinement.

All of a sudden a bright light filled the room it was directed towards the wall that Tegana and Nathan were fixed against. They turned their heads away from each other, away from the blinding light. It was too bright and dazzling to be staring at for long.

The light made a small, sharp movement and bathed Tegana within its ray.

"You, the younger one, the clever one..." The voice came from nowhere but Tegana couldn't concentrate on it. She was scrunching her eyes up and trying to look away from the light.

"Who Are You?" Each word was emphasized by the pulsing of the light. Tegana didn't immediately answer but when the voice came again she quickly got her reply in.

"Tegana Harkness." She shouted to nothing.

There was a moment of silence and then the voice came back.

"That does not register in our database." Tegana exchanged a worrying glance with Nathan.

"What Are You?" the voice asked, the light pulsating once again.

"Human…" she said now being to become unsure of her true identity.

"Answer not recognised." Tegana's heart skipped a beat.

"The only person matching that name is half Zakothian and half human, and not of this time." Tegana wanted to find her father and demand to know what was going on. if she was going to have to find out she wasn't entirely human she would have rather it had come from him then some disembodied voice of whom she had no clue where or who they were.

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