Chapter twelve
Gwen started on the paperwork that was piled on her desk.
Jack looked on his computer, checking over the CCTV footage. He usually did it at night when he wasn't….. entertaining people.
Gwen carried on silently, then she felt her phone buzz in her pocket. Confused, she took it out and looked at it. It was an unknown number calling, so she put it on her desk, letting it ring, and she went back to her work.
Jack looked over at her as he heard the buzzing on her desk. "You gonna answer that?" he asked.
"Don't recognize the caller, so I don't usually answer it." she answered.
He nodded silently and looked back at the CCTV.
"See anything interesting?"
"Nope!" he said, switching cameras.
Gwen nodded and got up, walking to him.
He looked over at her and smiled, and looked back at the CCTV.
She smiled and looked over his shoulder, watching the people outside walking by the bay.
The footage suddenly showed a Weevil running past.
"We got a Weevil!" Jack smirked, jumping up.
"Let's go." she grinned, going to get her coat, stun gun and Weevil spray.
He headed out of his office, throwing on his own coat.
She grinned and all three of them ran out of the Hub and out the fake tourist information centre across the bay to the SUV.
Gwen and Ianto got into the back, doing up their belts as Jack got into the driver's side and sped off.
Ianto sorted out the gadgets in the back to track down the Weevil.
"Do we have a track on where it's going?" Gwen asked.
"Yep." Ianto nodded and started on telling Jack where to go.
After a bit, Gwen shouted out and pointed. "There's one!"
Jack looked at her in the rear view mirror, nodded and stopped the car, jumping out. "Ianto take the wheel!" he ordered over his shoulder.
Ianto nodded and handed Gwen the gadget before clambering over the seats, sitting in the driver's seat.
Jack ran in the direction Gwen had pointed, chasing the Weevil, getting close behind and he tried to grab for his stun gun.
Ianto followed Jack in the SUV.
Jack managed to get the Weevil cornered and aimed the stun gun at it.
Ianto pulled up a few yards away and Gwen got out, walking slowly closer.
With the gadget on the back seat, no one was able to tell that there was another Weevil heading toward Gwen, and it took down the unsuspecting woman, sending her gun and Weevil spray flying across the concrete.
"Jack!" Ianto shouted, and began frantically searching for another gun or spray but he found none.
Gwen was trying to fight off the Weevil unarmed.
Ianto scrambled out of the car just as Jack turned around to see Gwen and the other Weevil, he aimed his gun very carefully and shot at it.
The creature fell off Gwen in a stunned daze.
Jack and Ianto ran over. "Are you okay?" Jack asked, noticing her bleeding arm.
"Yeah I'm fine…" she nodded, looking around and she ignored her arm.
"I didn't see it… it was too late when I noticed it… there's nothing in the car…" Ianto said. "I'm sorry…"
"It's okay. You acted fast, so don't be so hard on yourself. You did great." she smiled softly as they both helped her up. "Now come on, the other one got away… maybe there's more out there."
Jack nodded and cuffed the stunned Weevil's wrists together and he and Ianto hauled it up and moved it to the SUV, throwing it into the back and Ianto got in with it.
Jack sighed softly and looked around him as he felt like he was being watched.
Gwen looked at him as she got into the passenger side. "Jack? What is it?" she asked.
He shook his head and got in the driver's side. "Nothing. Just my imagination." he said and started to drive off again.
Gwen leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.
He smiled at her then looked back at the road.
Ianto stayed quiet in the back, sorting out a piece of cloth for Gwen and he handed it to her.
She smiled at him gratefully and tied it around the gash on her upper arm/
"Ianto? Any traces of the Weevils again?" Jack asked.
Ianto checked the gadget and shook his head, "No, lost them." he frowned. "They'll appear again though… they don't wander too far."
Jack nodded, turning a corner.
Gwen looked out the window.
"There's one just up ahead a bit." Ianto spoke after a silent 15 minutes.
Jack nodded and he parked the SUV and got ready to jump out. "Ianto, wheel." he said simply.
"Why me? You can't go on your own whether you can survive it or not."
"He's right." Gwen said.
"I can look after myself thank you very much. I die, I can come back. Neither of you can."
"You're still not going on your own." she looked at him. "I've seen you die once already today."
He looked at her. "Then you won't see me die again." He said, getting out and heading off.