In answer to a question from the reviews, I got the name Tegana from a very early doctor who episode, don't know where they got it from, but I liked it!
Chapter 16
"I've already explained about being adopted," Jack told The Doctor.
"Arh, you might have to re-tell that part!" the Doctor laughed.
Jack wasn't finding it amusing, he glared at the Doctor waiting for a full update on what he had discovered.
The Doctor's face fell when he realised Jack wasn't finding any of this funny, returning his serious face on, he got down to the facts.
"Well, I guess I better explain you see Tegana is only half human and half Zakothian…"
Jack nodded in agreement, already knowing this much. The Doctor was intrigued to find out how come this information wasn't new to Jack, but he had to supress his curiosity because he knew Jack wouldn't take well to a change of topic when he had brought up a touching subject as this was.
"And well I found that it was her mother that was Zakothian and her father…well I think he's doing his duty well enough." The Doctor eyed his friend, his look one of pure solemnity, there was no jokes involved. Jack returned this with an equally pure confused look. He didn't get it.
"Oh Captain, don't tell me you've forgotten a certain night on a planet called Zakoth with a Zakothian woman named Lysette?"
Jack recalled the name Lysette and the night he spent with her was beginning to fall into picture. He hadn't planned to go with her, he had been eyeing up the handsome waiter behind the bar but for some reason he had gone with Lysette. He remembered the hotel with its strange green lights and then it suddenly dawn on him why this was being brought up.
"Oh god, I really am Tegana's father," Jack exclaimed, his hands going automatically to his forehead in shock.
"Yep," the Doctor agreed glad that it had finally come to light in Jack's head. He looked down at his watch and jumped. "I'd better get going, I've left the TARDIS in a shopping mall, and it closes in half an hour!" The Doctor stood up, indicating to Jack that he was leaving. Jack stood up and still half dazed showed the Doctor to the door. The Doctor didn't press him when he didn't say goodbye, he left him to his thoughts and began to race to the shopping mall.
Jack wondered up the stairs and halted at Tegana's door, his daughter's room. After all these years of believing Tegana was an orphan and now he was looking at his own flesh and blood. Walking into the room, Jack planted a kiss in his daughter's forehead and then left to get himself ready for bed.
The next morning, Jack was just placing the breakfast on the table when Tegana rolled down stairs and sat at the table awaiting her breakfast. Jack smiled at her, putting the two slices of toast in front of her.
"Morning!" He greeted her. Tegana frowned; he wasn't usually this jolly in the morning.
"What's got into you?" She asked very curious of his apparent change of attitude to mornings.
"Oh I just found out some very good news yesterday evening and it still hasn't quite washed off!" Jack replied purposely making Tegana want to know more.
"What news?" Tegana asked clearly taken in by Jack's teaser.
"Well you remember I was talking about the Doctor?"
"Yeah, the guy who never seems to catch you and leaves messages instead…" Tegana relayed the information she collected on the mysterious character she'd never seen.
"Yeah, well he had some information about your parents,"
Tegana's eyes lit up. Ever since Jack had first told her that he wasn't her father she had been wondering about her real parents.
"You remember I told you I wasn't your father…"
Tegana nodded solemnly, wondering where this was going.
"Well turns out I lied." Jack grinned at Tegana as she began to take in the news.
"You mean to say that for all this time you were led to believe that I was your adopted daughter and then to tell me this, ten years later only to promptly discover that you actually are my father?" Tegana summarise the situation.
Jack took a moment to organise the sentence Tegana had just said before answering it.
"Yeah, something like that!" Jack muttered getting up and placing his bowl in the sink. He looked at his watch and jumped, it read 10 to ten half an hour since Ianto had arrived at the hub.
"We'd better get going! Ianto's probably wondering where the hell we've got to!" Jack said hurrying into the hallway to collect everything he needed for the day's work.
Tegana hurried her breakfast and quickly placed the dirty plate and knife in the sink before joining her father in the hallway and helping him with some of the things that they needed to return to the hub.
Ianto was waiting at the hub. He had put most of the stuff that he had brought back in from the car in their correct places but was struggling with the last few when Jack and Tegana arrived.
He heard them arrive they were being very noisy chatting as they walked into the main room.
"Hey, sorry we're late, got a little side tracked." Jack tried to pass of the morning's events as nothing although Ianto could clearly see there was something that he wasn't telling him. He let it pass for now, figuring that it would more than likely be revealed later on.
"it's ok, I was just putting things away, um…anyone know where Tosh keeps her equip…oh" before Ianto had finished his sentence he found that Tegana had already put away Tosh's equipment and he had no more reason's to be trying to discover where she would put those things.
"I'll make some tea and then maybe we could start on the file?" Jack hinted at Ianto moving closer to the kettle while still waiting for a sign of agreement from Ianto.
Ianto in response walked into his office and turned his computer on; no verbal communication was needed to verify that Ianto was following Jack's suggestion. When the computer was on, he loaded up a new file and entitled it 'the London riots case 53'.
Tegana propped herself on the edge of the desk as Jack joined them with two cups of tea, placing one down in front of Ianto and keeping the other in his hand. With his free hand he pulled out a can of Sprite and tossed it to Tegana who caught it without thinking.
"So where do we start…" Jack made it sound like an impossible task. Tegana and Ianto looked at each other, usually Jack was nowhere to be seen when it came to writing up the cases, it was a job that always seem to be left to Ianto and Tegana. His sudden enthusiasm for the task was unnerving to both of them.
As if their prayers had been answered, the familiar noises of a new arrival moved Jack out the room to greet Gwen. Ianto and Tegana breathed a sigh of relief; Jack helping them wouldn't have gone down very well with their system. They started with a description of the riots and hyperlinked the relevant newspaper article to the page. Then they moved on to description of what the torchwood team did in reaction to the news. The research: the interview, the newspaper articles, the news coverage and the internet sources.
The door went again as Ianto had just sent the standard A4 data sheets that everyone in the team had to fill out before Ianto and Tegana could finish writing up the case file. Tegana went to collect the newly printed sheets from the printer taking a quick look into the main room to confirm her suspicions of who had walked into the hub, it was as she rightly guessed Tosh.
With the freshly printed sheets Tegana went into the main room to start handing them out. She gave one to Gwen first as she was already settled into her work.
"Gee thanks for adding to my load Tegana!" Gwen comment as the sheet was place in front of her.
Tegana didn't say anything but went over to Tosh and gave her one.
"Thanks Tegana, I'll make sure that's done first," Tosh said purposefully being much nicer then Gwen had been to get at her.
Tegana smiled at Tosh as she moved away. The door went again and the sound of hurrying footsteps coming along the corridor proved to them all that Owen was late.
"Here's one for you Dad," Tegana said passing another sheet to Jack. Gwen and Tosh both looked up from their stations and at Jack wondering what the reaction would be. To their surprise Jack said nothing, just took the paper and wandered back to his station.
Owen rushed through the door, a piece of toast in one hand and his bag in the other.
"Sorry I'm late, slept in…" Owen apologized. No one answered him just sighed and carried on with their work, Tegana held a sheet out for him and he took it inwardly sighing for he hated doing written work.
With that Owen headed to his station and Tegana headed back to Ianto's office. Just before she disappeared into it, Jack stood up.
"Wait, while you're all here and not to stuck in with work yet…Tegana get Ianto in here, please." Tegana carried on her journey into the office but just popping her head around the door and telling Ianto to come into the room.
The others waited patiently for the reason of their hold up in work.
Ianto wasn't entirely happy with being pulled out of his office but intrigued to find out why. He emerged only slightly into the room and waited to hear what was to be said.
"Right, well this is going to sound really confusing but there you are!" Jack began. Tegana had a hunch at what he was going to say and wanted to sort of disappear while it was said.
"You remember me talking about the Doctor?" they all nodded, wondering if the next line was going to be 'he isn't real' as neither of them had seen any real evidence of this Doctor Jack regarded highly.
"Well he told me something last night, that kind of puts the last ten years in prospectus…Tegana is actually my daughter, it's a bit odd I know…let's just say a few bottles beer didn't help!"
Tegana put her head in her hands, trying to think on the positive side, at least he was only embarrassing her in front of their friends it could be worse.
"Actually, come to think about it I can see the resemblance…" Owen pointed out after a moment of silence as the team processed the confusing information in their heads.
"Yeah, I can see it too." Gwen added. Both Owen and Gwen were looking between Tegana and her father quickly to check the resemblances.
"And it took you all of ten years to work that out!" Tegana exclaimed in wonder.
Owen and Gwen looked at each other, each wondering how they could have possibly not noticed the strong resemblance between the father and daughter.
"Alright, alright, let's get some work done shall we?" Jack said feeling he had caused a little uproar within the group. He sat down causing the others to follow and go back to their work stations. Gwen returned her focus to the computer, Ianto receded back into his office Tegana following him with the last two sheets for them to fill out, Tosh began rearranging her equipment to the order she had made and Owen plonked himself at his work station and got out a pen. 'Better to do it now then forget' he thought as he pulled the A4 sheet in front of him. He attempted to write his name at the top of the page but found that the pen wouldn't write he tried scribbling on a spare piece of paper but there was no sign that it was going to work. So angrily throwing the pen down on the desk he searched for another, only to find that that too didn't work. With another pen in the bin and no others on his desk Owen was in a little predicament.
"Um, anyone got a spare pen?" Owen hated to break the concentrative silence but he was lacking a vital piece of desk equipment.
They all looked up at him at very nearly the same time which freaked Owen out a little but eventually Gwen and Jack searched their desks for a free pen which, when found, they through to Owen so now he had more then he needed.
"Gee thanks, but I only wanted one!" Owen joked as he ducked the last pen.
"Shut up and get on with it Owen!" Gwen told him not even looking up from the computer screen. Owen pulled a face and muttered something directed at Gwen under his breath but still carried on with his work.
Ianto scrolled down the files skimming and scanning each one as he did so. He was just double checking they hadn't missed anything for the case file or any other problem hadn't occurred without their knowledge.
Tegana was leaning on Ianto's desk writing up her case file sheet in Jack's fancy, expensive, pen which he saved for special occasions and which Tegana had found in his desk drawer.
"Hey, Tegana, look at this!" Ianto exclaimed after halting at something that had caught his eye. Tegana leaned over and looked at the screen.
"I don't understand how…" Ianto filled in the silence as Tegana read what he had pointed out to her.
"Oh my gosh, how could we have missed that?" Tegana exclaimed after reading the whole text.
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