Thank you for the review! Here's chapter 2
"Ella? Is your name Ella?" A male voice echoes through my ears. The room slowly comes into focus. I'm lying on a hard metal bed and a man in a lab coat stands above me.
"Where am I? Where's Captain Jack? Wait, how do you know my name?" I realize that I'm in my underwear, my scars and bruises are showing. I try to cover it with my arms. They are forced off of me though when the doctor guy puts disinfectant on my wounds.
"You mean me? And you can call me Jack, we're quite informal around here." Jack walks through a doorway into the lab. "And as to where you are: this is Torchwood, we hunt aliens that fall through the rift into Cardiff." He plucks a strand of brown hair away from my face.
"And I'm Owen. Luckily I caught you in time, the guy that bit you had some pretty poisonous venom." Owen places his hand on my leg. "Those are some pretty serious cuts are bruises, how did you get them."
"So you guys hunt aliens? Like real proper aliens? Wow you guys are mad! What happened to that thing that bit me?" I purposely ignore Owen's question.
"He's in the torchwood morgue." Jack sits down on the mat beside me. "Now I think you're well enough to answer this: why didn't you listen to what I say and turn around. Didn't your parents ever tell you not to run after a stranger?"
"Yes, they also told me not to let a stranger drug me and take me to their lab but I think I failed there to." I can see that Jack wants a serious answer. "I just felt like I could trust you. When I saw you it felt like a deja vous." Jack gets up.
"Well now that you're here, want to see the rest of the hub?" I jump up to follow him through the doorway.
I walk up a ramp and follow Jack. The hub is enormous and vast. Jack leads me to two an Asian women working on a computer.
"This is Toshiko Sato, computer genius and supermodel." Toshiko turns around grinning.
"You wish Jack." She reaches out her hand. "Nice to meet you. Ella right?" I haven't shook someone's hand in a while.
I suddenly hear a loud bang followed by Owen screaming "sorry." Tosh gazes over at him then back at me. I can tell that she loves him but is too scared to tell him.
"Yeah Ella, wow that is some high tech equipment!" Jack waves at me to move on so I follow him.
Jack leads me to A woman with Black hair and a surprisingly large gap between her teeth. She's in some sort of police training room where they fire guns into paper cut outs.
"This is Gwen Cooper." Gwen's eyes seem bloodshot and she looks like she's been up all night working.
"Hey, how's the bite. Jack told me you got pretty beaten up by that guy."
"It's good, healing, is there anyone else on the team?" Jack pops in right away.
"Yes, I saved the best for last."
"Ianto Jones, coffee man and driver!" He points to a youngish man in a fancy suit standing near a coffee machine. Ianto is the most sad looking. I can tell he's been through a lot but has never told anyone.
"Thank you, Sir. Nice to meet you M'am." I've never had anyone bow down to me, it feels really good. An alarm sounds through the hub and Jack runs out of the room.
"I'll be back."
"So Ianto, why does torchwood need a coffee boy?" I can see he seems a little offended.
"Well when you're fighting aliens at any hour of the day you need something to give you a kick." He hands me some coffee. "Jack told me to let you try a special brew." I put the boiling liquid to my lips. I feel like I am in heaven. I have never tasted something so good! Jack comes back with his jacket on and my clothes, oh yeah I've been walking in my underwear around the hub. Why am I not embarrassed?
"I thought maybe you'd want to go outside. But you may want to put some clothes on, it's chilly."
Jack leads me to a piece of pavement in the middle of the hub. He picks me up and stands me on it. Before I have a chance to say anything the pavement is moving.
"We're going to hit the ceiling!"
"No we aren't!" As soon as Jack says that a hole in the ceiling opens up and we go through it. Suddenly we're in the middle of cardiff with the millenium centre staring is right in the face.
"Convenient place to put a piece of pavement that moves."
I sit in the park near my house with Jack.
"So why did you show me the hub and everything?" My breath freezes as soon as it comes out of my mouth.
"Not many humans get a chance to see alien life. We're all so caught up in our little problems that we forget about this planet that we live on." He stops and stares at me with eyes that seem to be over a hundred years. "When I see someone fall I usually don't stop to help them up. But when I saw you it was different. When you were in the sun you seem to make the most of it. You payed attention to the cracks in the pavement and every little blade of grass, you look as if you were new to this world." He stops to look at his clock. "Your parents might be worried, you should go home." I try to get up but I suddenly feel dizzy. Jack catches me.
"What's happening?"
"I'm sorry but when you wake up tomorrow you're not going to remember any of this. I wish I could let you but I can't. You're just a teenager, I don't want you to be scared of aliens killing you on the street. Go back and live a normal life for me."
"But I can't go back to the real world after all of this. That thing that bit me was from a whole different world!" Tears start forming in my eyes.
"I'm sorry but you need to forget, that kind of knowledge can make a person dangerous."
"Well you have it."
"I know, I am dangerous."