People tried to avoid the person who appeared to be talking to himself. You read about the horror stories of people being murdered by people like that. Why wasn't he somewhere away from the public? Why was there never a policeman when you needed one?
"Stop it, stop it!" the Doctor shouted as he hurried along the busy street, now full of shoppers.
He could hear the voice of the other, but the virus was his main concern and he knew his choices were running out.
He looked round, trying to choose a spot that would get him the desired effect...there he thought and moved towards it.
He heard the voice of the other hissing in his mind, telling him he wouldn't let him do this.
"You won't stop me," he hissed as he approached the door of his intended target.
Martha woke to the sound of someone banging and yelling loudly, and it took her sleep-fuzzed mind a few seconds to realise it was Jack, and that the banging was coming from the med-unit.
She hurriedly stood up and shook Sarah before haring off down the steps to the med-unit...something was wrong, very wrong.
Ianto and Gwen entered the Hub to find a scene of controlled panic.
Jack was busy holstering his hand-gun and checking the sights of a rifle. Martha was hastily packing a medical kit, and Sarah Michaels was standing watching.
"Jack, what's going on?" Gwen asked.
"No time to explain, the Doctor's gone AWOL, we need to move!" Jack said sharply.
"Ianto, get the mobile scanner, monitor the emergency services. I want to know if he surfaces. Gwen, call your friend at headquarters, don't tell them everything, just put out an APB."
Both of them nodded and within minutes they were out on the Plaza, waiting for Jack to bring the SUV.
It wasn't until they were settled in that Jack rounded on Martha and Sarah. "What the hell were you two doing! He said you were trying to kill him!"
Martha looked at Sarah, who just shrugged her shoulders and said in a matter of fact tone.
"If necessary then yes, I would have killed him, I can't let the virus spread. He's patient zero, kill him, kill the virus, its basic infection control."
Jack bristled at her off- hand comment, and wished he hadn't been driving. But he needn't have worried as Gwen did it for him.
The slap across Sarah's face filled the car and everyone looked in shocked silence.
"He's not a virus, he's a living breathing person!" Gwen snapped.
Sarah didn't react to the slap but replied. "Call him a person if you like, but just because he looks it doesn't mean he is. He's alien and has no rights, as far as I'm concerned."
Jack almost stopped the car, wanting only to shut the woman up, but he was distracted by Ianto.
"Found something, reports of someone on the roof of the Capitol Shopping Centre, he's threatening to jump" he said urgently.
The security guard cursed the fact that he hadn't pegged the guy in the pinstripes as suicidal. Now he was faced with a crazed man threatening to throw himself off the roof of the shopping mall.
He silently wished the police would hurry, he really didn't have the training to talk the guy down, and he didn't want to have to stop the guy and fall with him.
He just hoped his partner was keeping the crowds back and deterring anyone sick enough to encourage him to jump.
He could hear the sounds of sirens in the distance, but it was the squeal of tyres below that drew his attention.
A black SUV had pulled up sharply and at least five people had gotten out and were talking animatedly with the other guard before two of them ran for the service entrance.
Jack pounded up the stairs, not caring if he left Martha behind, all thoughts he'd had of ending the Doctor's life pushed out of his head. He wouldn't let the Doctor waste his life.
He virtually took the door off its hinges in his haste to reach the Doctor and caused both the Doctor and the security guard to jump.
"Are you the police?" the guard said as Jack strode towards him.
"Not really," he replied and pushed past the guard. "But I'll take it from here."
The guard looked at the ID the man flashed at him and backed away and moved towards the stairs, only to narrowly miss another person flying through the door.
Jack slowly approached the Doctor who was standing on the ledge of the building, seemingly happy to be standing there.
"What are you doing?" he asked as he moved towards the ledge.
"What does it look like Jack," the Doctor replied.
Jack frowned, it didn't sound like the Doctor had gone off the deep end, in fact he sound way too rational for his liking.
"It looks like your standing on the edge of a very tall building, and I don't think you're about to bungee jump."
"Ten out of ten for observation," the Doctor replied, his voice laced with sarcasm. "I suggest you go back to your little Torchwood and leave me to kill myself in peace."
"Can't do that," Jack said.
"It's easy, you turn round, put one foot in front of the other, I believe it's called walking."
Jack moved a little closer, hoping to be able to grab the Doctor.
He stopped when the Doctor shifted suddenly, so that the toes of his converses were over the edge.
He could hear the sirens of the emergency services getting closer, time was running out.
He heard someone behind him and chanced a look round, it was Martha, doing exactly as he was, edging slowly towards the Doctor.
He nodded to her and turned back to the Doctor.
"As much as I enjoy our rooftop conversations, it's getting dark and they say it's going to rain. So why don't we carry this on somewhere warmer."
The Doctor shifted again, and this time a trickle of cement and brick dust floated away in the breeze.
Jack could hear Martha draw in a sharp breath and stop moving.
"You mean the Hub, I don't think so. I'll end up in one of your cells, drugged to the eyeballs. So, if you don't mind, I'll stay here ta very much."
"Enough of this!" Martha's voice came from behind Jack...no not behind, from in front of him.
Jack looked away from the Doctor and to his horror Martha had climbed onto the ledge!