AN: ok here is the next chapter. This is for my two best friends, kez and hannah. Hope u like it!!!!
Chapter 2
Lily
He couldn't move. He stumbled backwards, this couldn't be!
"Jack…Jack get here. You…you have to see this." Choked Owen.
Jack walked over and looked at the screen. He then looked back at Owen, then back to the screen. He breathed in deeply through his nose and scratched the back of his head.
"What am I looking at?" he asked casually.
Owen snapped out of his daze and tapped at the computer keys. A new screen flashed up.
It showed an image of a 3D human. Then a load of graphs popped up on the page. Jack looked at them and shrugged his shoulders.
"Look at this. Right this is an average human," explained Owen. "And this is our new lodger…notice a similarity?"
"…Yeah…but, that means that…she's human!" Jack asked, realising what Owen was showing him.
"She has the same structure and everything." Owen gasped Owen tapped at the computer again. Two, 3D DNA structures came up. Both were the same from a distance, Jack looked closer, there were slight differences.
"What are those? It's the same shape but…not." Jack pondered aloud.
Owen tapped at the keys again; the strange parts of the DNA pulled away from the main structure and sat at the side. An analysis of the strands scrolled up the page. Owen read them as fast as they came. His eyebrows raised at intervals.
Jack had called the rest of the team to the boardroom, deciding that Ianto would be too busy to listen.
"Right…I think I've got this now. Is everyone in the boardroom?"
"Yeah, what is it then?" Asked Jack, but Owen had already run up to the boardroom. Jack followed suit.
Gwen and Tosh looked at each other. Jack had been hazy on the details of this meeting, just that it was imperative that they went up to the boardroom fast.
Owen burst into the boardroom and set up the plasma screen, he was frantic. Gwen had never seen him put so much work into something work related.
Jack came in and sat down. Gwen asked where Ianto was, Jack said that he needed to calm down after the quake and he didn't want to disturb him.
Owen then cleared his throat, ready to tell the others the news.
"It looks like our friend is…human." Stumbled Owen. The collective gasps from the girls spurred him on.
"If you look at the DNA, she has the same DNA as us…only there's some parts that have been added." Owen pulled up the screen that Jack had seen.
"Added? Like what?" Asked Gwen looking closely at the extra DNA.
"Well I cross referenced it and there is something from a very familiar animal." Replied Owen, he tapped at his PDA and the animal came up on the screen just as Gwen began to speak.
"Animal…what do you…" She stopped speaking as she stared at the bird on the screen.
"An eagle?" Asked Tosh.
"Yep. Seems that whoever our friend stayed with liked to splice genes. Here are the genes that depict what limbs an average human will grow, it has been replaced with an eagle gene." Explained Owen, rather impressed by what he was seeing.
"But this is years ahead of our time." Pointed out Jack. He had sat back and remained silent, listening to what Owen was saying.
"She could have been thrown from another time through the Rift? We get all sorts of junk that is centuries ahead of us." Analysed Gwen.
Owen folded his arms and scratched his chin with his nails.
"Could be…but I found something more disturbing on her left ankle…" He tapped at the PDA again, a shot of a pale skinned and dainty ankle flashed up. There was a disturbingly familiar tattoo just above the small bone that shunned from the side.
"That…that cant be what it looks like? Can it?" Choked Tosh.
"We did this to her, that's our logo!" Cried Gwen, she rose from her seat and went up to the plasma screen. She ran her finger over the black lines.
It was the unmistakable logo of Torchwood; the stark hexagonal shapes scored into the creature's skin made Gwen's blood run cold.
"Owen…check what experiments Torchwood has done in their history, Tosh I want to know if there is anything on our records about a winged woman anywhere in the world. Gwen, we need to find Ianto."
As the team disbanded and Gwen and Jack made their way to the archives Gwen asked Jack…
"Why do we need to find Ianto?"
"Because he knows the archives back to front and could help us identify our friend." Jack replied, he remained silent for some time.
"We need a name for her, cant call her 'creature' or 'alien', cuz she's human." Said Jack thoughtfully, looking at Gwen.
"Ianto is the one who names everything, though I think we may have to do it ourselves. I like the idea but 'stun gun' and 'life knife' could have had a little more thought put into them." Chuckled Gwen. Jack followed, his guffaw echoed down the dank corridors.
Just then Ianto came up from one of the lower levels, he was limping slightly. 'The morphine must have worn off' thought Gwen.
"Ah, talk of the devil!" Called Jack to Ianto. He looked up suddenly, like his mind was elsewhere.
"Something you need Sir?" Asked Ianto.
"I need you to have a look at our new resident, identify her…oh and she needs a name but I can't think of any." Answered Jack, stuffing his hands into his pockets.
"Of…course. Can't you find anything on her on the computers Sir?" Asked Ianto. He was curious to why Jack hadn't used the Hub computers; the team never asked him about anything from the archives.
"We have got the computers, but the thing that I want may be in the older sections, all the really old stuff hasn't been updated to the system yet. And you may be quicker." Said Jack, poking a finger into Ianto's chest.
Ianto sighed in realisation and followed Gwen and Jack down to the cells. Ianto asked if Gwen was all right, she nodded and asked the same of Ianto. He simply shrugged and said that the pain was getting a little bit unbearable. He joked that he would sooner die though, than have Owen prescribe a drug that would probably make his see groovy colours.
Gwen laughed and put a hand to her mouth, thinking that Ianto was being horrid towards Owen.
They reached the cells and Jack pointed to where the new resident was being held.
In the cell, was a small woman, she was curled in a ball. Her delicate wings furled underneath her back.
Ianto stepped back and gasped.
"You…cant be here…they said they killed you." He gasped.
"Who Ianto, who killed her." Asked Jack, he stood in front of Ianto and shook his shoulders gently.
Ianto pushed Jack away and walked back to the cell door. He took in a deep breath at her stark beauty.
"…Lily?" He called to the woman.
Her eyes flared open and stared at him.
"Please, where am I? Are you here to help me?"
Hate to leave it there but im busy. LOL