This hasn't been proof-read yet. I wanted to get something up before Christmas, so sorry for any mistakes.
I opened the door to the TARDIS and stepped outside, the Doctor following shortly after. Moving my hair out of my eyes, I looked over towards the bay and smiled. I couldn't even begin to explain how happy I was. It had been good couple of weeks since the whole Titanic shenanigans, and since then nothing had really happened… Well, except for getting chased out of Barcelona, but that's a whole other story. We did the usual, just travelling. Although, we did just stay in the TARIDS on occasional days watching movies when one of us couldn't be bothered to do anything else. It hadn't been boring, travelling is never boring. But it hadn't been all the trouble that we were used to. Until now.
Martha had phoned, like I had expected her to sooner or later. She told us about something strange going on, can't exactly remember what, I was too busy trying to help the Doctor cook eggs without burning them at the time. I'm sure she'll remind us when we see her anyway. She told us she was going to be working with Torchwood on it. Jack's Torchwood. Torchwood One hasn't been re-built, thank God. She said the two of us could come down if we wanted to, said they could use the Doctor's brains. And of course, Jack was expecting us anyway. And, well, I get to meet the Torchwood team… I wasn't going to refuse.
So here we were, Cardiff. The Doctor had parked the TARDIS in the usual place he parks it when we're in Cardiff, and we were now awaiting for Martha to come find us. This wasn't long as I heard someone running up from behind me. I managed to turn around just in time as Martha practically lunged at me, pulling me into a hug. It took me a few seconds before I actually hugged her back.
"Didn't think you were gonna come." Martha commented as she pulled out of the hug to look at me, trying to see how much I had changed. I did the exact same. She had put most of the weight back on now, so I'm guessing it had been a few months since everything had happened. A lot longer than it had happened for me and the Doctor at least.
"Well, it's been strangely quiet, and I think we miss the trouble." I said giving a half shrug. "And I get to meet the Torchwood team, how could I resist." I saw the Doctor roll his eyes in the corner of my eye at that comment.
"We've been through this, Kat. No fangirling."
"And I said I won't."
Martha just laughed at the two of us. "You two obviously haven't changed. Anyway, we best be getting down there." She said, turning around on her heel as she headed towards the bay. "Jack will be waiting."
Martha led the way down towards the bay, even though I pretty much knew the way anyway. We got to the little tourist office which they used as the cover up for the base. I felt myself start to get even more excited when the Doctor suddenly stopped in his tracks.
"This," he said pointing to the office. "This is Torchwood?" Me and Martha just nodded. "Doesn't look very flashy."
I rolled my eyes at him. "It is a secret base, Doctor."
The Doctor said nothing back as we walked further towards the door. Stuck onto it was a poster showing that Slitheen woman when she had been elected as mayor. Me and the Doctor turned to each other smirking as Martha opened the door, the bell ringing to signal that we were there. The three of us stepped inside to see Ianto Jones, sitting at the desk, flicking through some magazine. It was taking everything in me not to scream, now I know what the Doctor meant by fangirling.
"Sorry, we're closing." He said to us and he looked up. We said nothing in response. Martha just held up some form on ID card. The Doctor followed suit pulling out his psychic paper, and Ianto quickly jump up from his seat. "Excuse me, Sir, Ma'am's." He pressed a button which opened a door towards the base and gestured for us to walk through. As the three of us walked through door after door after door, I heard Ianto call to Jack over the intercom. "Jack, your VIP visitors are here." I smirked at that. VIP visitor? Does that mean we get a tour?
The final door to the base began to slowly open and I saw Jack standing there grinning. "Suddenly, in an underground mortuary on a wet night in Cardiff, I hear the song of two nightingales." It was then that Owen, Gwen and Toshiko came over to join him. "Miss Martha Jones and Miss Katherine Stewart." The Doctor pouted slightly at the fact that he hadn't been mentioned, which Jack caught sight of. "Oh, and the Doctor of course." Jack winked at him causing him to roll his eyes.
"Wait, the Doctor?" Owen asked.
"The Doctor you keep mentioning?" Gwen added. Although and answer wasn't really needed, they probably knew that he was anyway. The Doctor just smirked slightly as he waved at all of them. I left the Doctor's side as I bounded up towards Jack, who picked me up and started spinning me around. He finally put me down as he gave me a proper up.
"Oh, I've missed you." Jack just winked at me as Martha also gave him a hug. Him and the Doctor both just done those salute things that they do before Jack turned to the rest of the team.
"Katherine, Martha, Doctor, meet…"
"Toshiko Sato, Owen Harper, Gwen Copper and Ianto Jones." I finished for him, pointing to each one of them as I got to their names. The four of them all turned to look at me cocking an eyebrow and I saw the Doctor start to scratch his head awkwardly from the corner of my eye.
Jack just nodded, although he did seem a bit surprised. "Toshiko, Owen, Gwen, Ianto, meet Martha, the Doctor and Katherine… Although, I like to call her Kitty."
"How does she know our names?" Gwen asked suspiciously.
Jack just shrugged. "We could give you a very long story, but let's just say Kitty knows everything."
"Uh, just a casual visit… or?" Owen asked as Martha picked up her bags.
"I'm here to complete your post-mortem." Martha answered him as she walked past him, making Owen frown.
"Dr Jones is from UNIT." Jack sait to Owen as him and the rest of us all followed Martha over towards the med bay.
"Oh, I'm sorry, sorry. I get a bit confused. Which one's UNIT again?" Gwen asked.
"Intelligence, military, cute red caps. The acceptable face of intelligence gathering on aliens." Jack said. "We're more ad hoc, but better looking."
"And, you're from UNIT too?" Gwen asked turning to me and the Doctor.
"No." The Doctor shook his head. "We just sort of travel and um…"
"Let's just say we're freelance." I finished for him, the Doctor just nodded in agreement.
"I identified a pattern from UNIT's data on sudden deaths." Martha began as she put a pair of plastic gloves on. "Toxic shock, nothing to link the victims. Different ages, sexes, ethnic origins, occupations, but there was a slight statistically significant concentration in South Wales."
"Come on, Martha, be honest. You came all this way to see me, and I'm sure Katherine did too." Jack said smirking.
"Still struggling to conquer your shyness, Jack?" Martha smirked.
"So what about this pattern then, Dr Jones?" Owen asked, joining Martha around the dead body on the table.
"They were being written off as suicides or accidents." Martha told him as they moved over to look at the man's eyes. Obviously seeing what she was expecting she looked back up at Owen. "Look. Puncture mark. Hypodermic needle. You'll find his bloodstream was pumped full of ammonium hydroxide."
"Yeah, bloodstream." Owen said. "That was the thing I was going to do next."
"Have you checked his medical records?" Martha asked.
"Er, no. I just was about to."
"Let's give it a go." Martha said. "You never know, Owen, you might learn something." I tried my best not to laugh. It looked like Owen was going to have some competition while Martha was here.
XOXO
Jack, Owen, Martha, The Doctor and myself all stood, huddled around Tosh who was currently working, typing a load of information onto the Royal Cardiff Infirmary Records which she had managed to hack into. "One Meredith Roberts." Owen began. "Age 45."
"I know there's been a major crash on the NSH system." Tosh told us as the records started loading. "Wiped a shed load of files."
"Including all the victims I flagged up from the UNIT data." Martha added. Just then the records finished loading, only for the computer to say that all of the data of this Meredith Roberts was irretrievable. Me, Jack and the Doctor all shared a look. However, Martha obviously had seen it coming. "And now yours."
"A computer crash wouldn't delete data so cleanly. This is deliberate." Tosh told us. "Let me look into it."
XOXO
Me, The Doctor Jack and Martha had all gathered into Jack's office. Jack was now slouching down in his seat behind his desk. The Doctor was leaning up against a wall not too far from Jack and me and Martha were looking around at all the stuff that Jack had got in here.
"How's the family?" The Doctor asked Martha. It was obvious that he wasn't just trying to start a conversation, he was generally concerned. I had asked the Doctor several times about what the Master had done to them while I had been gone, but he just simply refused to tell me. But judging by what he had done to Martha, I doubted the way he treated her family would have been much better.
"Getting better." Martha replied, as she took her eyes of an object that she had been looking at. "They send their love to all of you."
The Doctor simply nodded. "Give them ours."
"So," Jack began, grinning as he gestured to the four of us. "End of the World Survivors Club."
"God, I am so glad to see you, Jack." I said as I moved over to sit on the chair opposite him. I really had missed him. And no matter how much he would deny it, I think the Doctor has missed him a little bit too.
"See! Don't keep making the 'I came to see the Torchwood team' excuses. You came all this way to see me." He then gestured to his jaw. "It's the jaw line, Kitty. Once seen, always yearned for."
I cocked an eyebrow at him before I started laughing. "You really haven't changed."
Jack just gave me and shrug as she smirked at me. He then turned to Martha, who had now taken a seat next to me, and pointed at her. "Anyway, what about you Miss Hifalutin. What are you now? Medical Officer?"
Martha leaned back in her chair, a smug look splayed across her face. "Oh, yes."
Jack stood up from his seat, moving over to perch himself on the desk. "So does that mean we have to call you Ma'am?" he asked, gesturing to me, the Doctor and himself.
"No." Martha scoffed. "Just follow my orders to the letter."
"Yes Ma'am." The Doctor said and gave her a mock salute.
"You know," Jack said, still looking at Martha. "You should have called me if you were looking for a job." I was wondering when this part was going to be brought up. I looked over to the Doctor, and the two of us exchanged looks while Martha continued talking.
"I wasn't." She said, shrugging. "This woman from UNIT phoned out of the blue, said I was just what they needed." She explained. "That I'd come high recommended by an impeccable source."
Instantly, both Martha and Jack's heads snapped around to look at the Doctor. He tried giving them the innocent look as if to say, 'I have no idea what you're talking about.' But the two of them just continued to stare at him, and he eventually backed down. "Oh, all right. But don't just look at me, I wasn't the one who came up with the idea." He gave a slight nod to me at the two of them quickly turned around to me.
"Yep." I raised my hands up in a mock surrender. "Guilty."
"Why, though?" Martha asked.
"I owed you one." Martha raised an eyebrow at that, and I sighed as I tried to explain. "The Master wanted me on his side, and even after I ran away I doubted that he was going to give up. He needed information. I know for a fact the Doctor would have never said anything. But you could of, you know just as much as the Doctor does, really. You could have spilled everything about me and then he might have left you alone. But you didn't. And I owe you for that." I shrugged slightly as I grinned at her. "And you are brilliant." It was then that a thought suddenly popped into my mind. "Speaking about my little set ups, did you see Tom Milligan?"
The Doctor frowned at that. "Who's Tom Milligan?"
"Oh, he's this doctor, helped me find Professor Docherty and all that back then. Long story." I said, waving it off. "So anyway, did you meet him?" Martha just nodded and I gestured for her to go on. Suddenly a grin appeared on her face and I couldn't help but smile along with her. "Aw! That's brilliant!"
"What?" The Doctor asked, the frown still on his face. "What's brilliant?"
Jack just rolled his eyes, "You are so slow."
"She's dating him." I told him. "You idiot."
"Anyway, onto more important subjects." He then turned to Martha and smirked slightly. "Do you think you can get me one of those red caps for personal use?" Both me and Martha rolled our eyes as we got up from our seats towards the exit of his office. The Doctor, who caught on not too long after us did the exact same. "Thinking Ianto might look good in it."
"You want uniforms, get your own." Martha said. "Now, are we going to get the guided tour?"
Jack suddenly stood completely still, giving her a salute. Obviously he wasn't going to let his whole medical officer thing drop anytime soon. "Yes, ma'am. Whatever you say, ma'am. Hut!"
"Leave it."
XOXO
Jack lead the way out of his office and through a room that contained, what I guessed what some alien plants that the team had picked up over the years. Gwen had decided to come on the tour as well, probably to ask me, Martha and the Doctor a load of questions. You couldn't really blame them, three mysterious people come into their base that Jack's so close to, but they've never heard of… Well they had heard about the Doctor but that was about it. They were bound to want to ask questions. "So that's the hothouse. Tour continues this way, ladies and gentlemen, please. No dawdling." Jack said as he lead the way out, followed by the Doctor.
Gwen suddenly stopped as she turned to me and Martha. "Um, so… You know Jack pretty well, then?" she asked.
I shrugged. "Well, we were only together for a few days really." I said to her as I looked at a piece of alien plant. "But it was rather intense."
Gwen's eye suddenly widened and I frowned slightly. "You mean… you and he…"
My eyes widened in realization of what she had meant. I almost wanted to choke. "Oh, God, no, no!" I said, shaking my head. "No. Not that sort of intense."
Gwen's eyes then turned to Martha, who had seemed to catch on a lot quicker than I had done. "No. No. No. Not at all. Nothing like that." An idea suddenly popped into her mind as she raised an eyebrow at her. "Why, are you and him…"
"No." Gwen said quickly. "No, not at all." I just nodded, trying to be as clueless as possible. At least until I got time to tell them about the whole TV show thing. Gwen was with Rhys the last episode I had seen, and going by the engagement ring on her hand, they were not planning a wedding. A lot had changed. It's funny, when I had just came into this world I had been up to date with everything, knew everything. But now everything was changing, and I had so much to find out now.
"We must be the only three people on the planet." Martha commented.
"I know." Gwen agreed. "What are we doing wrong?" I had to admit, that made me laugh a bit. But I was quickly cut off as Jack called out to us.
"Oi! You talking about me?"
"No, no. We were just discussing alien flora, weren't we?" Gwen said as the three of us made our way out of the room and toward the Doctor and Jack.
"Oh, yeah." Martha agreed.
"Yep. Just alien flora." I nodded.
The Doctor turned to me and studied my face for a moment. I frowned at him and his face suddenly broke into a smirk. "Liar. They were talking about you."
Jack just smirked back. "Raise your game, girls."
XOXO
After Jack took us around the cells, he led us back over to the main part of the hub where all the work desks and stuff were. I was wondering around when I saw a weird piece of equipment lying around. Walking over to it, I picked up it, holding it in my hands as I looked closely at it. "You really do have some weird kit." I said to Jack. "What's this?"
"Be careful, Kitty." Jack told me, waving his finger at me. "IT's an alien artefact."
Suddenly, Owen appeared from behind me. "Yeah. There's a lot of argument about this." He said. He held out his hand and I handed the equipment or whatever it was over to him. "But for my money, it's got to be a surgical instrument."
"Really?" I asked. It didn't look much like a surgical instrument to me. But then again it was alien. I turned to the Doctor slightly and he just shrugged, obviously never having seen something like it before.
"He's guessing." Jack said, looking at Owen, and then ad Martha. "Typical medic."
Owen just have Jack a look that probably mean 'fuck you' or 'fuck off' or something along those lines, knowing him. "Okay, right, well I call it a singularity scalpel." Owen said as Jack moved me around so that I could see it properly. "See, what it does is it concentrates energy on a tiny fixed point, without damaging anything on the way. It's brilliant."
I nodded in agreement. "It's amazing."
"Yeah, do you remember the last time you did that, Owen." Gwen said from her desk. "And…"
Owen just simply ignored her. "Yes, right, now, all we're going to do is, we're gonna vaporise this paper without even scorching the cup." He scrunched up a piece of paper he had found on a nearby desk into a neat ball and placed it inside an empty Starbucks cup.
"This is gonna end in tears." Jack whispered to me, Martha and the Doctor as he pulled me further back, and the other two moved back with us.
"Okay." Owen said signalling that he was ready. I saw Gwen move away from the desk in her chair, smirking as I looked down at the screen. Owen fiddled around with a few of the controls on thing, and suddenly the screen showed the paper inside the cup like some sort of x-ray machine. He focused as he continued mucking around with the controls, trying to get it to work, when suddenly, there was some sort of explosion nearby. Ianto screamed, making all six of us jump and me and Martha placed our hands over our ears. Eventually, all of us started laughing while Owen just cocked his head slightly. "Oh, haven't quite got the calibration right yet."
Not long after, a rather un-amused Ianto walked up to us. "Jack." He said rather seriously, making Jack instantly stop laughing. "There's been another attack. Assault with a hypodermic. Only this time, the victim survived. Woman, aged 27, she's in the hospital. Medical records wiped, just like the others."
XOXO
Martha pulled out a needle with a syringe full of blood from Marie's arm, placing it into a bag, which they were going to test later. "Yeah, but the doctors said they'd finished with me." The woman, Marie said to us, slightly confused as to why five people had come here to ask questions and take more blood samples.
"We're a bit different." Martha said to her.
"I know this is really tough on you Marie." I said softly. "But did you recognise the man who attacked you? You know his name or anything?"
"I already told the police." She said to me.
"We're different from them too." Jack told her.
Marie shrugged and shook her head. "No I've never seen him before."
"Did he say anything in the course of the attack?" Gwen asked.
Marie shrugged and shook her head again. "No."
"Open wide." Martha told her. Marie did so as Martha took a swab.
"Look, he just… He just came towards me with a great big blood needle didn't he?" She said. "You know, my dog bit him and then I kicked him in the nuts."
Jack chuckled. "Respect!"
XOXO
Me, The Doctor, Martha and Owen were in one of the labs at Torchwood, music of Owen's choice blaring through the room. Martha and Owen needed to examine the blood samples and stuff that Martha had got from Marie, and while the Doctor wasn't exactly a proper doctor, he knew a lot about this kind of thing, so he was more than capable to help them. Me on the other hand… well not so much. I mainly just watched as they chucked things around to each other, holding things for the Doctor when he asked and getting looks from Owen when I skipped tracks I didn't really like. I think one time he actually glared at me, because it had been a favourite of his, which lead to me just sticking my tongue out at him and having an evil off with him while they continued working.
Once they had done everything, we all gathered around one of the screens which was showing the results. "So you and Jack go back a long way?" Owen asked.
Martha nodded. "Yeah."
"Well… forward and back, really." I added.
"What brought you together?" he asked.
"Well, what do you think?" I smirked and he frowned at me, obviously not getting it. I nodded in the direction of the Doctor who was standing on the other side of him, and Owen finally nodded as he caught on.
"Should have known, really."
The Doctor simply ignored us as he gestured to the screen. "Tell you what I don't get with these killings. Why do they use ammonium hydroxide? It's a really weird way to kill someone."
Owen nodded in agreement. "Yeah, it's gross. It's like injecting them with bleach."
It was then that an idea suddenly popped into my mind. "What if the whole aim of it isn't just to kill them, though? Bleach can destroy things right?"
Owen nodded, catching onto my idea. "It's destroying something in the victim's bloodstream."
"It's getting rid evidence."
XOXO
All 8 of us stood, scattered around Jack's office. Jack stood next to a screen behind his desk which was showing the details of the victim Marie. "Locally, we've got a murder victim and a survivor. Both attacked with hypodermics, both with their medical records wiped."
"And more cases across the UK." Martha added. "We think the point of the attacks is to destroy evidence of their medical condition."
"Gwen, Ianto, pursue with the criminal investigation." Jack said to the two of them, they nodded. "Martha and Owen will follow up with the medical side. Doctor, Katherine, dabble around, we'll need your expertise in anything you've got." I scoffed at that, it was more the Doctor's expertise, but I still nodded. "Tosh, any luck in retrieving those medical records?"
"Not yet. I'm gonna have to dig down into the system memories, see if I can find any remnant of deleted or temporary files." Her face broke into a slight smirk. "Completely illegally, of course."
"Do what you have to." Jack said. "We're not dealing with some freak with some needle fetish, this is a conspiracy."
XOXO
Me, Martha and Gwen walked down one of the corridors as we talked. Gwen had just come back from a crime scene, another victim. A student named Barry. It was just the same as all the other attacks, a puncture mark from a needle in the eye. It was exactly the same. "The attack took place in the woods, so no witnesses, no CCTV." Gwen told us.
"Same as the others?" I asked.
"Yeah." She said. "Tosh just checked Barry's medical records, already wiped."
"And the puncture mark on his eyeball was identical to the other victims." Martha said, it wasn't a question, it was a statement. She already knew the answer, but Gwen still nodded. "I mean, Jack's right. These attacks aren't random, they're clinical, professional, more like assassinations."
"Except Barry Leonard was a student." Gwen pointed out. "Who'd assassinate a student?"
I shrugged. "Student loans company."
"Yeah, I think you just cracked it." Gwen laughed. "But why delete medical records? What did all these people have in common."
"The Doctor and Owen are analysing Marie's test results now." Martha told her. "We're hoping that will give us some sort of indication."
"So we're still in the dark." Gwen said. "No idea where the killer will strike next and the attacks are getting more frequent."
"We keep looking, Gwen. We'll find something." I reassured her.
Suddenly there was beep over the intercom. "Martha, Katherine, call from the hospital." Ianto said. "Marie's had some sort of seizure."
XOXO
Me and Martha rushed into the room where the Doctor and Owen were doing they're analysis. "They want you guys at the hospital." I told them. "Marie's collapsed."
"Yeah? Well, our money's on this stuff." Owen said pointing to the board. "From Marie's blood, it's a new one on me."
Martha nodded as she moved closer to the board. "Yeah, me too."
"I don't think we've seen anything like it before…" I said looking over towards the Doctor.
"No." He said shaking his head.
"Have you run an isoenzyme analysis on it?" Martha asked.
The Doctor shook his head again. "Not yet." He replied, his eyes still fixed on the board, his brainy specs on.
"What are you thinking, parasitic infection?" Owen asked.
Both Martha and The Doctor nodded. "Could be."
"It's got to be down to this stuff because, otherwise, I haven't got a clue what's wrong with her." Owen said.
"Yeah." Martha said as she looked at all the readings on the board. "No infections, no deficiencies in organ function, perfect cholesterol levels, ideal blood pressure."
Owen nodded. "Yeah, exactly. She's so normal, she's abnormal."
XOXO
Martha tried to open one of Marie's eyes as she shone a torch into it. "Marie, Marie, can you hear me?"
Marie moved her hands up to cover her eyes. "M'yeah." She replied, almost sleepily.
"Okay." The Doctor sighed as he stuck his hands in his pockets. "You've got something in your blood that we don't recognise. And we think that it's behind your current illness, so we need to know what's been happening to you, so that we can help you."
"You're the doctors, you tell me." Was all that Marie said, I just sighed and rolled my eyes. She was trying to hide something, it was obvious.
It was then that I heard a voice coming from Owen's comms. He moved over the door at the other side of the room, so nothing was overheard by Marie. I looked over at him and raised an eyebrow to ask what was going on, but he just held up his finger to shut me up as he carried on listening. I sighed as I moved over to him. I got there just in time to hear Ianto saying that Barry Leonard, the student that had been killed, had supposedly been cured of diabetes. I frowned at that, I thought that it was impossible to cure diabetes, at least right now anyway.
"Thanks, Ianto." Owen said before flicking a switch on the comms. "Right, listen, Marie, you're gonna have to level with us." he said as he moved back over towards her bed. "This could be a matter of life and death. Have you ever had a serious medical condition?"
Marie scoffed, "Too good to be true."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
Marie just sighed, frustrated. "I have HIV."
"You're perfectly clear of antibodies. That's not medically possible." Martha frowned.
Marie sighed again, her head in her hands. "That's the reset."
"Rest?" Martha asked. "What are we talking about, a drug?"
Owen just shrugged. "Right, I'm not familiar with Reset, so any idea of a chemical name?" Owen asked. Marie just started to laugh, but the laughing quickly turned into some sort of coughing fit. Martha and the Doctor tried to help her, but Owen was starting to get frustrated. "Where did you get it from, Marie?"
"I got it from the Pharm." Marie said after she finally stopped coughing.
"The farm?" The Doctor asked. "What farm?"
"No! P-H-A-R-M, the Pharm." Marie corrected him. "It's a medical research place, alright?"
"How did you get it from there?" Owen asked.
"They gave it to me." She told him. "They paid me a lot of money, they said I should keep quiet about it because it was part of the contract."
I nodded in understanding. "So, you were a clinical trial subject."
Suddenly Marie fell back onto her bed as she started to have some sort of seizure. It took both me, Martha and the Doctor to be able to keep her down, while Owen gave her some sort on injection which I guessed was something to stop this. But before Owen could even get the needle in, Marie suddenly stopped, and the heart monitor flat lined.
"She's dead."
The next second we knew, a swarm of some sort of flying bug or parasite came out of her. Everything happened in a fast blur, like we were on a DVD and the someone was pressing fast forward. Owen pressed the emergency button signalling an alarm as all four of us backed up into a corner of the room, masks on in an attempt to protect ourselves. But these parasites were gone as soon as they game, as they all suddenly floated down to the floor, dead.
XOXO
"So it's an alien larva incubating in human bodies." Martha said as we looked at a projecting of this larva on the screen in front of us as we sat in the conference room.
Owen nodded. "We've never seen anything like it."
The two doctors turned to look at both me and the Doctor, like they were expecting us to know what they were. I turned to the Doctor, having no idea either, only to see him shake his head. "I'm not familiar with them."
"So, it left Marie's body when she died." Owen began. "Presumably looking for another host for its next stage of development."
"Yeah, and that could have been us." I pointed out.
"Yeah. Fortunately when they didn't find one quickly, they died."
Martha leaned closer to have a better look at the projection. "I wonder what this cute little larva grows up to be."
XOXO
We decided to call up Jack and all the others to the conference room to give them an update. All eight of us sat or stood around the table as Martha and Owen explained what this Reset drug and this larva were, along with me and the Doctor adding our inputs along the way.
"This folks, is a molecular model on the drug we found in Marie's blood." Owen said pointing towards the screen.
"She called it Reset." Martha added.
"So what does it do?" Ianto asked.
"Right, think about when you run a virus scan through your computer, yeah. The software works its way through the files and when it finds a Trojan or a virus or whatever, it identifies it and then it deletes it." Owen explained. "That is what this stuff does to the human body. But it's not just viruses, its harmful bacteria's, toxins, even mutant cells. You name it. It's like the bodies been turned back to its factory settings."
"It's the ultimate magic bullet." Martha said. "Supersedes anything and everything in the pharmacological armoury."
"But that would be the greatest medical discovery in history." Gwen pointed out.
"Yep. Just one problem." I pressed a button that switched the screen to show a projection of the larva. "It comes along with a lethal alien parasite."
"Ah, not so good a discovery." Jack commented.
"The parasite needs a healthy body until it's incubated." The Doctor continued. "So the parasite egg incorporates this 'magic bullet', which puts everything in the system back to its factory settings."
"Reset. Neat-o." Jack sighed. "So, who runs the Pharm?"
"Well, the public image is innocent enough." Ianto began. "Private-public partnership between the government and a consortium on pharmaceutical companies. Researching and developing cutting-edge biotechnology."
"Their IT systems are way more cutting edge than they need to be." Tosh added. "Plus they've got seemingly unrestricted security clearance."
"Which means they'd have the capability to delete medical records if they wanted to." The Doctor stated.
Tosh nodded. "Exactly."
"Who runs this outfit?" Jack asked.
"The Institute Director is a Dr Aaron Copley." Gwen told him.
"Yeah, I know his work." Owen said. "He's one of the most respected research scientists in his field."
"Harvard Graduate, did research at Cambridge. Last job, Harvard Professor of Molecular Pharmacology." Ianto said. "Came to the UK to set up the Pharm."
"He's kind of handsome." Jack commented. "Do you think he'll like visitors."
XOXO
The Doctor and Owen had gone along with Jack to visit the Pharm. I decided to stay, try and help Martha and see if we could find anything more about this parasite, only to no avail. It turned out the visit to the Pharm was a bust up too. They hadn't got anywhere further than Professor Copley's office. According to the Doctor it was all Jack's fault for being so cocky, but according to Jack, Copley was a little too touchy.
We all stood around Tosh's computer as she tried to hack into the Pharm's computer, she was on around the seventh go, and it still wasn't working. She stopped, taking her glasses off and turning around to Jack. "I can't hack in there, Jack. And if I keep on trying, with a brute-force approach, they'll know they're under attack."
Jack sighed. "An alien life form is preying on the human bloodstream." He told her. "I need a way in there."
"Tosh." Ianto called over. "I got the results of that research." He pressed a button, sending all the information over to Tosh's computer in a flash. "On the screen now."
Tosh flicked through the pages, finally getting to the page for the facility in South Wales. "Ianto, that's brilliant. They're in the market for volunteers." She told us.
"That's understandable, given their wastage rate." Jack said.
"Then one of us goes in undercover." Gwen said.
Jack shook his head. "No. We don't know enough about the workings of that place, besides, we've already been there. You never know, they might get suspicious. Too many things could go wrong."
"Unless you were to put someone in there who wouldn't be suspected." Both the Doctor and Jack frowned at him, not catching on to what I was hinting at yet. I raised my eyebrow as I looked around. "Say someone around eighteen, old enough to be a student. A student wouldn't be suspected."
"Oh yeah, and you know someone like that who's willing to do that?" Owen asked.
I couldn't help but smirk at how oblivious Owen was, the Doctor and Jack too. "I do just happen to know someone, yeah." I turned to look at the Doctor and Jack, smirking, seeing that they had finally caught on what I was talking about.
The two of them shook their head. "No." Jack said.
"No way." The Doctor added.
"Come on. I've been in worse places." I said. "And you both know it."
I continued to stare at them as the two of them looked around, like they were debating about it before looking back at each other. They looked in the direction I was in and I saw Owen shake his head from beside me. The two of them turned to look at each other one more time before turning back to me. "Okay." The both said at the same time.
XOXO
Me, Martha and Ianto were in the med bay. Martha had just given me some medical things that I should check out for and now Ianto was going to show me a map of the Pharm. "Okay, these are the plans for the Pharm's buildings." He said brining out a piece of paper with a map on it. "From what Jack, Owen and the Doctor saw they reckon that the main house contains Copley's office, medical research suites and accommodation for the clinical trial subjects."
I frowned pointing to a section on the map. "What about the buildings at the rear?" I asked.
"Restricted area, fenced off, armed security." Ianto said. "Jack and the Doctor think that's where the readings of alien life forms came from."
"Cool." I grinned.
"But you don't need to go anywhere near there." Ianto told me.
I rolled my eyes. "Spoilsport."
"The first thing you need to do is get yourself accepted as a clinical trial subject." Ianto said. "Don't try too hard. Don't draw too much attention to yourself."
"Be invisible." Me and Martha exchanged a knowing look before I turned back to Ianto. "I can do that."
"Once you're in, we need you to gain access to the Pharm's IT systems, close down the system firewalls and security protocols. That way Tosh can gain access to the files and see what they're up to." Ianto said.
"Industrial espionage, it's very civilised."
"Once you've done that get out." Ianto said, not in a very serious tone. "Don't take any unnecessary risks."
I just nodded. "Understood."
"Cool."
"So," Martha began, now that all the serious stuff was out the way. "Jack asked me if I could get you a UNIT cap to wear."
"Did he?" Ianto asked, his face no turning into a slight shade of red. "Well, red is my colour."
"So am I right in thinking that you and he…" Martha made some sort of look with her face and I rolled my eyes. The answer was obvious anyway, and going by a few on the episode in season 1 of this show, she was right in thinking it.
Ianto just shrugged. "We… dabble."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah." Ianto nodded.
"So… what's his dabbling like?" she asked.
"Innovative." Ianto answered.
"Really?"
"Bordering on the Avant guard."
"Wow."
"Oh, yeah." Ianto suddenly coughed as he turned back to me. "Shall we get your cover story sorted."
"Absolutely."
XOXO
Ianto held a clear sealed up bag with a card in it, that had a picture of me on it. "Fake ID." He told me as I took it. "The Stewart could have been safe, but I changed the whole name just in case. First name Nina, surname Dobrev."
I nodded. "Okay, how do you I keep in touch with you guys?"
"Communication's very tricky." Tosh said. "The whole place could be wired. We don't want you chattering away to us and being overheard."
"But we want to monitor you at all times." Jack said.
I tried my best not to roll my eyes, knowing that 'we' meant both him and the Doctor. "Okay, so what do we do?"
Tosh held out a box to me, that had a pair on contact lenses in them. I frowned slightly, I hadn't seen these in the show before. If I had, I had forgotten. "I don't need contact lenses."
"You need these." Tosh countered.
Owen took the box out of my hand, as he helped me put them on. They felt really, really weird on my eyes. But then I had never worn contact lenses before, never needed them… or glasses. "Okay." Owen said as he put the second one in.
I frowned placing my hand up in front of me, the same image appearing on the computer screen at Tosh's desk. "Oh, I see. I'm camera."
"As Chris Isherwood once said to me when we were cruising the Kurfurstendamm." Jack said, pointing at me which earned eye rolls from both the Doctor and Owen.
Tosh turned to her computer as she typed something in. "And we can text."
As she typed the words in, they appeared right in front of me. I turned back to look at Jack, slightly gobsmacked. "Wow."
"Power comes from the body heat, so they only work when you're wearing them." Tosh told me.
"Yeah, so you have to wear them everywhere." Owen said waggling his eyebrows.
I rolled me eyes at him and slapped his arm. "Well, then I'll do something with my eyes shut." I said to him, all he did was laugh.
"In case on an emergency, we'll be able to speak directly to you." Jack said.
"The lens will communicate with your sensory-neuro receptors, bypasses the auditory system." Tosh explained.
"Can't the signals be intercepted?" Martha asked frowning.
I nodded in agreement. "Good question. Can they be intercepted?"
"Alien technology." Ianto said. "Which exploits a solution to the EPR Paradox."
"Oh, quantum entanglement of remote particles?" I asked. It seems that during my time with the Doctor, I had managed to pick up a few things, even the techno babble. "Okay, cool."
"Did we mention she was brilliant?" The Doctor asked, grinning like a maniac.
XOXO
"It's standard procedure to take two blood tests." The female doctor said as she pulled a syringe full of my blood out of my arm and handing it over to a nurse standing nearby. "One of them will be analysed overnight. Thank you nurse." She then walked over to a chair nearby and sat down. "So tell me about the places you've been to, Nina."
I shrugged as I tried to think of all the adventures that I had, had with the Doctor, well the ones that I was able to tell her by passing it off as a trip to another country, and not a whole different time. "Well, I had a great time in North America, France and Germany. Australia."
"What about the Third World?" She asked. "Africa, Latin America?"
A warning signal from Tosh flashed up in front of me. I looked up at the doctor and shook my head. "No. I'm sure I'll get around to it one day, though."
"Travel off the beaten track can be a bit a problem for us." She explained. "If you have some exotic tropical disease, there could be unexpected side effects and volunteers' welfare is absolute priority."
"Oh, I don't think there'll be any problem with that." I said to her. "And of course, I'm very conscious of health issues." The woman suddenly looked up at me suspiciously, and the warning signal flashed up in front of me again. "My mum's a nurse." I lied to her.
It was then that the door opened, and a man walked in. Grey hair, slightly balding, it was Professor Copley. "This is Professor Copley, Nina." The woman said. "Institute Director."
"Hi, Nina." The man said, offering his hand. "Nice to meet you."
"Hello." I said, taking his hand to shake it. Words suddenly started appearing in front of me as Tosh typed them out.
GET CLOSE TO COPLEY
"I see you're a postgraduate student, at the moment?" Copley asked as he flicked through my files.
I nodded. "That's right."
"Studying what?" he asked.
"Creative writing." I answered. Both Copley and the other woman exchanged looks. "So I really need the money."
"Well, I'm sure you'll understand, Nina, that we have a lot of applicants." He said. "We'll let you know in due course." He began walking out of the room when more words flashed up in front of me.
DON'T LOOSE HIM
"Actually," I said, catching his attention again and I swung my legs off the bed. "There's something I should have told you."
"Oh, yes?" Copley frowned.
I shrugged. "It'll show up in the test results anyway." Copley frowned again gesturing for me to go, and a load of question marks from Tosh appeared in front of me. "I did have a hepatitis infection." Copley and the woman exchanged looks again and I tried not to sigh, worried that I had just blown the whole thing. "I mean, I'm fine now. But it stays in the blood, doesn't it? It's incurable strictly speaking?"
"Well, that puts a different complexion on things?" I looked up at him, hoping in my mind it was a good complexion rather than a bad one. "We could use a subject with hepatitis. Are you available to start right now?" he asked.
I nodded. "We'll sure." I said grabbing my bag from the floor, full of clothes and stuff I had quickly grabbed from the TARDIS just in case. "I've brought my overnight things."
"Then all we need is your signature on this confidentiality agreement." Copley said, handing me over a clipboard with a form on it, along with a pen. I took both as I signed the bits required, with a fake signature I made up from the top of my head. "Thank you."
"So what sort of drugs will you want me to take?" I asked him.
"We have various products at the clinical trials stage." He told me. "You'll be given a full briefing once we've finalized the programme and, of course, we won't proceed unless we have your informed consent."
XOXO
I laid down on the bed of my room, staring up at the ceiling, bored. I had been here for two hours, waiting for the right time we could get down to work. I sighed, looking at my watch for the second time in five minutes, only to find that it was time. Most people who worked at the Pharm would be gone by now, apart from a few security guards and doctors which I should be able to get past. I hopped of the bed, walking towards the door and slowly opening it. I walked down the narrow corridors, looking around every corner before I walked past. I was about to go down the stair well when someone from back at the hub type a message.
BE CAREFUL
I sighed, looking over into a glass window of the fire exit door so they could see me and nodded. I then walked down the stairs so that I was on the ground floor, walking down even more corridors until I found the door that said 'Administration' on it, which I had seen when I was being shown to my room before. I went to open the door, only to find that it was locked, I sighed as I caught sight of a key pad. I needed the code to get in. I looked over at it directly, hoping that others would catch on and get me the code somehow.
LOOK CLOSER
I done as they said as moved my head closer towards the key pad. Not too long afterwards, the first number appeared up in front of me.
4
I typed it in, awaiting the second number, when I suddenly heard heavy footsteps coming down the stairs. It was probably a guard. I felt myself getting nervous as I anxiously waiting for the rest of the number to turn up.
4104
I typed the numbers in. The next one seeming to take longer than usual. I heard more heavy footsteps as another guard came down the steps. They were getting closer down as I could see their flash lights from down the corner. However, finally the last number came up.
41040
I typed in the last number and quickly opened the door, rushing into the room before the guards caught me. I shut the door and stood there silently for a moment, hoping that they hadn't seen me. A few seconds later I heard heavy footsteps going in the opposite direction and I relaxed slightly as I walked over to the computer. I tried getting into the files, but it instantly asked for a password. I just continued to stare at it, waiting until Tosh or someone gave me the password, or someway to get in.
GO TO NETWORK
I done as they said, coming out of the log in, finding the network button and clicking on it.
FIREWALL
PROXY
CONNECTIONS
I done everything they said. The computer came up with a blue screen with a load of writing on it. Tosh sent me a load of stuff to type in which I did, and then suddenly the log in screen came back up again, flicking through hundreds of thousands of passwords until it finally stopped with the right one, I clicked enter, and we were in.
I HAVE CONTROL
I took my hands away from the mouse and the keyboard and watched as the mouse on the screen continued to move with Tosh controlling it. She brought up a screen that showed a detailed diagram with the parasite that we had seen before. Up at the top it said 'Mayfly Larval Development'. "It's the life cycle of the parasite. They call it the Mayfly."
Suddenly I heard Jack's voice, almost like he inside my head. And I knew they were doing that whole auditory receptor thing that they had told me about before. "Kitty, now we've got control, we can download all of this and go through it here. Get out of there pronto."
I done as he said. Slowly opening the door, I peeked out the check if anything was there. Thankfully there wasn't, and I slowly made my way back up the my room. I was only half way up the stairs when an alarm started blaring through the whole building, making me jump ten feet into the air.
"Break out in Zone A. All patrols to Zone A immediately. Breakout in Zone A. Breakout in Zone A."
Walking into some sort of large storage room, I found a window. Looking out, I saw all the guards heading off in the direction of where I guessed Zone A was. Someone typed a message telling me to get to safety. I sighed, heading out of the storage room back to my room when I heard a whistle and footsteps heading in my direction. Not wanting to get caught and being curious about this breakout anyway, I made a break for it and escaped through the window, running off in the direction of where the guards has gone.
XOXO
I finally found Zone A. It was that area that Ianto had told me about, it was fenced off, which meant whatever had broken out, was an alien given that both the Doctor and Jack had said that was where the readings were coming from. The only problem was, just like pretty much everywhere in this place, I needed a code to get in. And this time there was no way that Tosh or anyone back the hub was going to help me.
Suddenly I heard voices and more footsteps are a group of guards rushed towards the gate. Quickly, before they would see me, I ran and hid behind a bush that was nearby. A guard entered the code and the whole group entered, they ran off without even noticing me, so as the gate started to slowly close, I managed to quickly slip through.
I ran round the corner, looking around for any sort of alien life form I could find. But so far, I had found nothing. Suddenly, I heard a low growling come from behind me. I slowly turned around, but before I could even see where the growling was coming from, my eyes started to burn. I fell to the floor, crying out in pain and I tried to take the contact lenses out as quick as I could. It was then that I saw where the growling had come from. It was the Mayfly, but this one wasn't like the ones I had seen in the hospital. This one was ginormous. And it just happened to be heading for me.
I jumped up off of the floor in matter of seconds as I quickly backed away from the creature. I quickly moved to the side, and the Mayfly just flew past me. The group of guards rushed around the corner at the top, only for the Mayfly to fly off around another corner. One of them caught sight of me, and before I could even say anything, he shot a tranquilizer at me.
And then everything got swallowed into the darkness.
XOXO
I was finally pulled back into reality. I tried to sit up, only to find that I had been strapped down to some sort of table, bed thing by my wrists. I tried to wriggle out of them, even break them, but nothing was working. The door opened and Professor Copley and the other female doctor walked in and I lifted my head up to look at them.
"Will you tell this idiot to let me go?" I said to him angrily. "What is going on?"
Copley just ignored me. "Good work." He said to the security guard as he left the room.
"I'm here as a clinical volunteer. You can't treat me like this."
"You lied to us, Nina." Copley said.
"Can I just explain?" I said. "I got bored stuck in that room, so I went for a walk and first that thing attacked me and then your heavies assaulted me."
"You don't owe any loyalty to Torchwood." Copley told me. "Jack Harkness has treated you in a criminally irresponsible way."
I scoffed. "Who?" I asked. "I really don't understand."
"Don't bother. This isn't an interrogation. Torchwood is irrelevant to us, not even a nuisance." Copley said as he put a white coat on, walking towards me and taking seat on a chair. "In fact, they've done us quite a favour putting you in here. We've analysed your test results. You really are something special."
"What?" I let out a slight laugh shaking my head. "I really don't understand."
Copley sighed as he stood up, still looking down at me. "Do you what lymphocytes are, Nina?" He asked.
"They're a kind of white blood cell. Part of the immune system." I answered.
"Well, your lymphocytes are really quite extraordinary." The female doctor spoke up.
"We've never seen anything like them before, not in a human being." Copley said. "Aliens are a different matter."
"Aliens?" I scoffed. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Your lymphocytes and God knows what other cells have mutated." The woman told me.
"Mutated? How?" I asked, frowning.
"Under the influence of radiation." Copley explained. "Radiation that's not found in the temporally stable environments of Earth."
I watched as the woman placed a bag full of liquid with the world 'reset' written on it onto a syringe and swallowed nervously. "I don't know what that means." I said to him.
"We've dealt with aliens before, but we have never come across anything as exotic as you." Copley said walking around to the other side of the table. "A human being who's travelled in time and space, and through different universes." My eyes darkened slightly and I tried not to make eye contact as he sat down on the chair again. "Tell me about it. How is that possible? What did you see out there?"
I smirked as I turned to look at him. "This is mad." I told him. "I have no idea what you're talking about."
Copley gave a frustrated sigh. "Fine. If that's the way you want to play it. However it happened, it means that you have a very uniquely effective immune system, which is exactly what we need. We're developing a drug that's going to change the world, Nina. Incurable cancers, AIDS, all the scourges of the human race, wiped out. A revolution in medicine and social welfare. But it's still imperfect." I looked up and watched as the woman placed a tube into the bag. "I'd like to know what your funky lymphatic system makes of those imperfections."
My eyes widened as the woman came across to me with a needle that was connected to the tube. "I'm not taking that!" I cried as I tried to struggle away, but failing as the woman managed the push the needle in.
"But you volunteered." Copley sneered. The woman pressed down on the bag, sending liquid down into the tube. I sighed, helplessly as I watched it flow down the tube and into my veins. One thing is for sure, the Doctor and Jack better be coming.
XOXO
I closed my eyes tightly, struggling as I tried to supress the pain. I could feel them incubating, dozens of them. And it hurt. I was barely conscious. To be honest, I didn't even want to be. I just didn't want to feel the pain. I could only just hear Copley and the other woman talking from beside me.
"I've given her twice the critical dose." She said.
"So Mayfly larvae are incubating?" Copley said.
"Are you sure about this?" She asked him. "Her immune system's clearly reacting. There's obviously quite a fight going on inside her."
"Keep your nerve." He told her. "We're making history."
XOXO
3rd Person POV
The team had managed to get in, using the dead body Billy Davis, a hitman that the Pharm seemed to have hired. Once they were in, they all split up. Gwen, Tosh, Ianto and Martha went over to check out zone A, and the Doctor, Jack and Owen went into the building to go get Katherine.
It didn't take them long to find the research lab that they had her in. Jack kicked down the door, his gun pointed straight at Professor Copley, which right now the Doctor seemed to have no objection to. Not when they had his best friend as a hostage. "Hands above your head." Jack ordered.
The Doctor rushed over to Katherine, shortly followed by Owen. She was conscious, but barely. She was wriggling around slightly in pain, but apart from that, the Doctor wasn't sure if she was aware of anything else. But he still tried to calm her down. "Hey, hey, hey." He said to her, his voice barely above a whisper. "It's okay, I'm here. We're gonna save you." He then turned to Professor Copley, his expression hardening, his eyes darkening. "What have you done to her?" He growled. He noticed the tube coming from her arm and looked up to see a bag, the remains of the liquid inside it starting to drip down. "Tell me that's not Reset."
"She's survived the larval stage. The only subject ever to do so." Copley said. "It's fascinating. Turns out these bugs practise sibling cannibalism. Only the strongest individual is left now. God knows what happens next."
Owen stopped working on the equipment and looked up at the professor, almost helplessly. "Please, put a stop to this."
Copley shook his head. "I can't." A low growl escaped from the Doctor's lips and Jack moved his gun slightly to remind Copley that it was there, but he just rolled his eyes. "I don't know how."
The Doctor and Owen stared in horror as they watched the larva move around inside Katherine's stomach. It was still growing with every second, and neither of them were sure how much longer she had left. "Jack, this thing's killing her. And we don't know what we can do." Owen said, becoming even more helpless as time passed by.
"Owen, just stay calm." Jack told him. "There has gotta be something."
Owen sighed as he looked at the screen again, when his eyes caught sight of the singularity scalpel and an idea popped into his mind. The Doctor, who had no idea what Owen was thinking, took hold of Katherine's hand and squeezed it gently, hoping she knew that he was there as he too tried to think of something.
"Jack, I can give you a report on Zone A." Ianto's voice came down the comms. "They're holding dozens of creatures captive down here. They seem to be using them as test subjects."
"Understood, Ianto. Tell Tosh to go for total shutdown." Jack replied. "This place is a torture chamber."
"I don't need to debate medical ethics with you." Copley said.
"You abused the Mayflies." Jack told him. "You turned them into parasites."
"We didn't understand how they reproduced." Copley defended. "We tried to limit the damage."
"What, by murdering people?" The Doctor snapped.
"They were going to die anyway." Copley stated. "We're on the edge of the greatest discovery in history. It's got to be worth a few sacrifices. You must understand that, Jack. You're involved in research."
Jack shook his head. "Not like this." He looked over at Katherine for a second before turning back to Copley. "I'm closing this place down."
"In your dreams." Copley scoffed. "This is a state-of-the-art, official facility."
"Oh, I'm not gonna do it by sending a memo." Jack said. "We're in control of your IT systems. As we speak, we're crashing your databanks. Wiping your records."
"That's cyber-terrorism." Copley snapped.
"Oh, and that's just for starters." Jack continued. "We're going to trip the systems of your fire, radiation and biohazard safety networks. The power will cut, sprinklers will be activated, and a large part of this facility will be sealed and flooded with inert gasses."
"The aliens will die." Copley told him.
"They're already dying." Jack snarled. "This way they'll be put out of their misery."
"For God sake, we're on the same side!"
"No." Jack said. "Combating hostile aliens is one thing. But this is slavery, exploitation, a war crime."
Suddenly, Katherine started to shake violently, and the Doctor gulped. It was what had happened to Marie before she had died, and now it was happening to Katherine. "Jack, I need your help!" Owen called out.
Jack quickly rushed over to Katherine's side, helping the Doctor hold her down. "What the hell are you doing to her?" Jack asked.
"This is the only way we're gonna save Katherine." Owen told them. "I think I understand how it works."
"You'd better be sure." Jack warned. "Because it's never worked before."
"Owen, are you sure it's safe?" the Doctor asked.
"Okay, Doctor, Jack."
"Owen, tell me you're sure!" The Doctor pressed as the two of them backed away. "You could kill her with that thing!"
"We're losing her!" Jack cried.
Suddenly Katherine bolted up into the sitting position, her eyes open wide, but she still seemed slightly unaware. It only lasted a few seconds before her eye's fluttered shut again and flopped down onto the table as the heart monitor flat lined.
The Doctor turned to stare at Owen, wide-eyed. "What have you done?"
Before Owen could even say anything, the sound of coughing started to come from the table. The three of them looked down to see Katherine, now alive and breathing. All three of them sighed in relief. "Oh, bloody hell, it worked."
"Let's get her out of here." Jack said, ripping all the wires off of her as the Doctor and Owen lifted her off the table and helped her to walk out of the building.
XOXO
Katherine's POV
The coughing had quickly subsided, but I still felt really weak. Owen flung his jacket over me and carried on helping me to walk while the Doctor and Jack walked on further ahead. "I'm prescribing rest and recuperation for you, madam." Owen said to me. "And, uh, a few days in bed, preferably under my supervision."
I couldn't help but let out a small laugh at that. "You know, the Doctor and Jack would have had you if they heard you say that." I smirked.
Owen smirked. "Well, yeah." He laughed as he let me go so that I could stand by myself. "Is that a yes or a no, though?"
"Kathy!" I turned around just in time to see Martha pounce on me again as she pulled me into another tight hug. "Thank God you're okay."
"Um… yeah. Can't really breathe." Martha sighed as she pulled away and I smiled at her. "Thank you." Martha rolled her eyes as she started dragging me away towards the rest of the group, I didn't bother to struggle. I quickly turned around to Owen and smirked at him again. "I'll get back to you on that one."
Tosh walked over to Jack, a laptop in her arms, obviously waiting for Jack to give the orders. She looked up at him and Jack simply nodded. "Do it." She simply nodded as she pressed a button. Alarms suddenly started to go off all around the site as the place started to shut down. "Okay let's go." Jack said to all of us as we started to all plié into the SUV.
There was a click of a gun from behind us and we turned around to see Professor Copley, holding out a gun towards all of us. "Did you really think I was going to let you just walk away?" He asked. "You ruined everything I've worked for."
"Now, let's not be stupid, okay?" Owen said calming, his hands up in surrender. "We're both rational men, scientists. I know you don't want to shoot."
He had spoken too soon. Copley pulled the trigger, shooting Owen directly in the chest. I looked down in horror, about to move over to him when Copley held the gun up again, now aiming it at me. "You're next."
Before he could even pull the trigger, Jack pulled out his revolver and shot in square in the head. Quickly, we all rushed down over to Owen, who was gasping out in pain. "Owen?" Martha said. "Can you hear me, Owen?"
"You've got to help him!" Tosh cried.
"Owen, stay with us." I said to him, my voice shaky. "Owen, Owen, look at me, look at me. Owen, look right at me. You've gotta stay with us, Owen. Come on."
Martha grabbed a syringe full of what I guessed was a pain killer and injected it into him. "Owen, speak to me!"
But there was no response. I looked down to his chest to see that his breathing had completely stopped. I turned to look at Jack who looked just as shocked as I did. Martha moved over to take his pulse and looked over at us sadly.
I shook my head. "Don't tell me…"
Martha nodded, before looking down at him. "He's dead."
Authors Note: Ugh, I found it so had to write this chapter. Because there's a lot of people in this episode anyway, I mean the Torchwood team is made of five people, adding Martha made six. Then bringing Kat and the Doctor into the picture made it eight. I was finding it hard to get dialogue in for everyone, so I hope I did my best. I think I've even gone against my OTP for Torchwood which is ToshxOwen, because basically Owen flirted with Kat in there… idk. I don't even control what I write sometimes.
Oh and did you like the bit with her cover name as Nina Dobrev. I just had to. For those of you who don't know, Nina Dobrev is the person I've chosen to represent Kat.
I'm not sure when the next update will be, as I have exams in January. I just wanted to get this up before Christmas as a sort of present to you all. If you would leave a review, it would mean a lot. Consider it a Christmas Present.
Merry Christmas, and I hope you all enjoy the Christmas special of Doctor Who tomorrow.