My name is Kayla Ann Harkness. When I was a baby, I was stolen from my mother and my sometimes there father by a mysterious organization. They started to train me at a young age with tactics and skills that would be valuable for my one job, which was the kill the Doctor. There was another girl there named Melody Pond and she was my best friend. She was also trained to kill the Doctor, so we spent much time with each other in the classes they put us through.
But little did they know, the organization had attracted the Time Agency's attention, and with all their flaunting of the two that would kill the Doctor, the Time Agency decided to pick me to kidnap, so they did. Until I was thirteen, they trained me as their best agent. I was taught how to steal, to kill, to shoot, and to sneak. At a young age I was taught how to use the sex appeal I had naturally and, when I turned fourteen I developed an addiction to a controlled version of LSD that did not kill as many brain cells.
When I was sixteen, I was injected with several drugs to expand my lifespan. It worked, which meant I would have been twenty-five when I turned eighteen. Eighteen was also the year I meant Captain John Hart. I was Commander Kayla Hark and we were a couple. Then Captain Jack Harkness came…
I don't remember much of what happened, of how I realized the truth of the Time Agency and that Jack was my father. I knew that they wiped memories, but when they wiped the memories of my time at the Luna Academy, a time I now remember, I was done with the Agency.
My father and I traveled as con agents until we met the Doctor and Rose. I fell in love with the Doctor, the man I had been trained to kill by the organization that had kidnapped me when I was a baby.
But this is not a story about my past or current life. This is a story that is about the end of Torchwood, Torchwood's employees, Rose Tyler's death.
This story is also about my death.
While Kayla was slipping in and out of a fever – like dream, the Doctor was standing in front of Yvonne. As all knew, they were in their usual argument.
"She's sick." The Doctor protested for the ninety-fourth time.
Yvonne, for her part, looked just as interested as the first time the Doctor had brought this up, "I am aware, Doctor." She stated in a cold voice.
"I just need to get a few medical supplies from the TARDIS and Kayla will be okay in a few hours." He pleaded, a hopeful expression on his face as if he thought that today was the day that Yvonne said yes.
If that was the case, however, his dreams were crushed as Yvonne clucked in a sympathetic way, "As I have told you, Doctor, you are not trusted in the TARDIS. As much as everyone, including myself, would love to see Kayla get better, you will either have to give us the TARDIS key, something we have let you keep, or hope that our medicines will help Kayla."
The Doctor frowned, "But they aren't working!" He protested, "She's getting worse, not better!"
"I am sorry that you feel that way Doctor, but our tests on your Bonded show that she is getting better." Yvonne explained in a patient voice, "Now if that's everything then please go wait outside. You will be monitoring the ghost shifts today."
Grinding his teeth, a habit he had picked up about two months ago, the Doctor left Yvonne's office and closed the door with a snap. Turning away from it, he nearly ran into Rose Tyler, "Hello." He grounded out.
Looking up, Rose flashed her familiar tongue-between-teeth-smile. Her blond hair was cut shorter in a more professional bob and her makeup had dulled out an incredible amount. She wore skirts and blouses now, but under all the change her personality and dislike for Kayla had not changed. And for that, the Doctor did not like her.
So when Rose smiled at him and said, "Hi Doctor," in a way that made them seem like they were friends or on friendly terms, the Doctor felt a flash of anger go through him.
In fact, his emotions had been off course for the levels. At certain people or noises, he felt a sudden emotion that didn't match up to the one he had been feeling, or, like just now, the emotion felt amplified and unnatural. If he had ran into Rose Tyler on a street block on a more normal day, then he would be able to stand her sight and friendly greetings.
But today, he could not. Today, his patience was too near breaking point to not snap at the sight of the blonde. So today he grabbed Rose's arm and dragged her into the construction area. She, he noticed, did not protest. If anything, Rose probably thought that he wanted something more with her, but this was not the case. Instead, once they were in a rather private area, the Doctor turned on her, "Did you do something to my Bonded?" he snapped at her.
Rose's mouth fell open and her eyes widened, "W-what?" she stammered, "I don't even know what that means! Who's your Bonded?"
"Kayla. Harkness." The Doctor said shortly.
Looking more angry than shocked, Rose recoiled at the words, "Of course," She snapped, "Why would I expect anyone else? Kayla and the Doctor." Shaking her head as if she was disgusted by those two names together, Rose turned away, "I didn't do anything to Kayla. I'm just as shocked as you are about her sudden sickness. Now if you excuse me, I have a job to do."
Running a hand through his hair, the Doctor turned back the way they had come when the he paused and whirled around, his eyes widening in horror as he saw Rose walking deeper into the construction site, "Wait! Rose!" He called after her.
Not pausing, something the Doctor wasn't surprised by, Rose continued on. This, however, only prompted the Doctor to speed up.
And then Rose shrieked and backed up, one word single word coming out of her mouth in a high pitch, "Cybermen!"
Kayla Harkness awoke with a start, a sudden flash of fear rushing through her. This was not new to the brunette. She would often wake to an emotion going through her that the Doctor had felt, and, whenever she brought it up with the Doctor, he would sometimes have the same experience. It was just a side effect of being Bonded. Ever since they had been at Torchwood, however, Kayla had had the same experience more and more, though usually the emotion was something like stress or anger or worry. Fear was a fairly rare one. The two other times he had been so scared that he woke her was when he saw the sphere and the hole the sphere had made.
Her body already going out of instinct, Kayla tried to mentally ask the Doctor if he was okay, but after five minutes and no reply, the brunette pulled out the big guns and pressed a small button on a necklace she was wearing under the gray shirt she had worn to bed last night. That button would make Mickey's button beep and prompt him to have the Doctor called the sphere room. There he would tell the Time Lord to check on Kayla ASAP.
Instead of this happening, however, Mickey Smith came running over, looking flustered and worried. Flashing his ID card to the scanner, he slipped inside the cell and looked at Kayla, who was standing and waiting for him, for a long moment, "I am so sorry Kayla, but the Doctor and Rose are missing."
Her eyes widening, Kayla shook her head quickly, one hand going to her stomach, "He wouldn't…not with her." Spitting out the word, Kayla closed her eyes and leveled a hand to her forehead, the other still on her stomach and rubbing in circles, "I'm going to kill him." Kayla vowed.
Mickey smiled tightly, but it quickly slid off, "You need to lie down." He stated, concern now etching his face, "They'll make you work." He pointed out.
Sighing, Kayla sat back on the bed and perched there, looking at Mickey, "Find him for me Mickey." She said in a soft voice as the man was walking out the door, "I don't know how I can deal with this without him."
Looking behind him, Mickey smiled, "Don't worry. Just get better." And with a snap, the door closed behind him and Kayla was locked in once more.
The Doctor was not happy. Very not happy. Extremely not happy. And this was all because of Rose Tyler. Because when the blonde had cried out, "Cybermen," the other Cybermen around them started to move. They pushed the translucent tarps in front of them away and stepped out.
Not even really thinking, the Doctor grabbed Rose by the forearm and dragged her with him to the nearest door he could find, which was a closest, "In!" he ordered her harshly.
Giving him a shocked look, mostly likely because he had never really yelled at her until now, Rose scampered into the closest, only for the Doctor to growl wordlessly in annoyance and push her in, nearly making the blonde lose her balance. Looking behind them, the Doctor shut the door and soniced it, making a lock click into place.
"What are we going to do?" Rose hissed to the Doctor. Her brown eyes – they were so unlike Kayla's and, in all honesty, they were a rather muddy colored one while Kayla's were a vibrant, perfect brown – widened in fear.
The Doctor gave her a cold look, "How am I supposed to know?" he asked in a harsh voice.
Rose rolled her eyes, "What is wrong with you?"
Taken aback, the Doctor blinked, his eyes widening, "What's wrong with me? What's wrong with you, Rose Tyler?"
This time, it was Rose who blinked in surprise, "There is nothing wrong with me! Why are you acting like I'm the one to blame? I did nothing wrong!" she protested.
The Doctor glared, "How do you think that there's nothing wrong with how you acted? Do you not remember the last time we saw the Cybermen? They are unstoppable!" he ranted. Rose opened her mouth to speak, her eyes sparkling in rage, but before she could speak, the Doctor slapped a hand over her mouth, "Shush!" he hissed at her.
Looking confused, Rose's brow furrowed for a few seconds only for it to smooth out and the blonde's eyes to widen with fear once more as she heard two Cybermen speaking to one another.
"The two intruders have disappeared." One said.
"They must be found." Another replied with a slightly deeper voice, "Continue your search, Cyber Unit 320050." It ordered before stomping off.
For a second, there was silence, and then the remaining Cyberman stomped off in the same direction as the one before.
Removing the Doctor's hand from her mouth, Rose whispered, "Are they gone?" in a frightened voice.
Shushing her once more, the Doctor moved very, very slowly to the door and pressed his ear against it, "They're gone." He hissed to Rose, "Wait…no!" His eyes widening, the Doctor pressed his entire body against the door, "Two people are out there!"
"They're…building…offices." He heard one of the people say.
"About…workmen?" another replied.
"They must be…somewhere else." The first one answered.
"…Not worth it for a snog."
The Doctor heard a laugh and a faint protest of, "It is." The sound of the plastic covering barely reached through and caused the Doctor to hiss in frustration, "Come on...!" And then, just as suddenly as the conversation had started, it stopped and the sound of footsteps came through the door as one of the people walked by.
"Shouldn't we do something?" Rose protested from near the back of the small closet.
The Time Lord sighed and went to the black of the closet to lean against the wall of it, "What can we do?" he whispered in reply, "It's not as if we can go out and grab them."
For a second, Rose seemed placated, but then she continued, "I think I might have recognized the man who was talking." She started in a slow voice, "And if I'm right then that girl is his girlfriend."
This seemed to be correct, for not a second later a woman's voice came through the closest quite loudly, "I'm gonna go back to work." She announced to nothing, "This is it...I'm going...see ya..." her voice seemed closer than before, "Now stop it, Gareth! I'm not kidding, just stop it!" she cried out after no reply.
The Doctor winced, "Why won't she just leave?" he asked Rose.
Rose shrugged, "She's a bit daft."
"No kidding." The Doctor agreed.
"Sorry, I'm just looking for my friend...did anyone come down here?" the woman asked something. When no reply came a rustling came from outside the room and then the woman screamed.
Kayla had been annoyed when a guard came in and ordered her to the Sphere Chamber. She knew that because of the guards' cameras they had seen her moving about, but still! Sending her to the one place everyone felt bad in was not a good idea.
However, Kayla Hark was still sitting near the back of the room; her eyes were firmly fixed to the ground.
"Kayla." At her name, Kayla lifted her head to look up at Mickey, "It's two minutes until ghost shift. Rajesh wants you to watch the computer for sign of activity.
It took the brunette a few seconds to reply, "Okay." She finally agreed, "Help me up?"
Instantly, Mickey held out a hand that Kayla took and used to pull herself up; Mickey eventually had to grasp the brunette by the shoulders to steady her. "Thanks," the brunette murmured in apparent embarrassment; there was a blush rising up her cheeks and her eyes were fixed to the ground.
"No problem." Mickey said with a small, rather sad, smile. He had not traveled with the Doctor and Kayla for very long before he left, but the time he had spent with the couple gave him the impression that Kayla was a strong person. In a way, it was surreal for him to see the brunette so weak. The only other time he had seen Kayla like this, her daughter had just died.
Shaking his head to get rid of the memory of the place he had called home, Mickey turned back to his very important job of cleaning the floors. While behind him, Kayla was typing busily on the computer.
"We're in ghost shift!" she alerted.
Rajesh nodded, "Tell me if something happens." He ordered.
With a slight nod, Kayla continued to type, her eyes flickering between the multiple screens as Rajesh tried to stare at the sphere and Mickey cleaned the floors in boredom. Until, with a gasp, Kayla started to type so quickly it caught Rajesh attention.
"What's going on?" he asked.
Not even glancing up from the computer Kayla replied, "The ghost shift is off. Someone's been meddling it. And I know who it is."
Hearing the note of worry in her voice, Mickey moved a bit closer, "Who is it?" he asked.
"It is Jackie Tyler and her band of rebels." Kayla answered with a sigh.
Rose was the one who jumped; this action caused the Doctor to bang the funny bone of his arm on a bucket and make more noise than the blonde did with her small scream.
"Shut up!" He hissed at the blonde.
Of course, Rose didn't listen to the Time Lord. Instead, the blonde got to her knees and started to go through every single pocket until she pulled out a much more modern phone than the one she had had when she was traveling with the Doctor and Kayla.
"It's my mum." She explained in a whisper to the Doctor, "She's been rebelling against the ghost shift. Says she doesn't want me working at Torchwood." Rose shook her head at this belief, "She hasn't been talking to me for weeks now. Something must be going on."
And then, ignoring any sort of logic, Rose answered the phone call, "Mum?" She hissed into the device, "Now isn't really the time…"
Jackie Tyler had changed since the last time she had seen her daughter. Her hair had gotten shorter, she wore less makeup, and she now wore a loose fighting black shirt and black jeans. And most importantly, she could now shoot several different types of guns.
This new her was because of the so called 'ghosts.' Ever since she realized that the ghost that had been coming into her apartment wasn't Granddad Prentice, she really had to find that brunette and thank her, Jackie Tyler had started a mission. She was going to make sure others realized that these 'ghosts' were not actually their loved ones returned.
So when they successfully trapped on only for all the ghosts to disappear without notice and ahead of time; Jackie was the first to react in her team of desperate people, "Destroy the evidence!" Jackie ordered to the shocked others.
Lizzie, her oddly blue colored hair pulled back into a loose pony-tail stared at Jackie with wide eyes, "What happened?" she asked.
It was Jack, a young black man with a buzzed haircut, that answered, "They're gonna track us down. I knew this wasn't a good idea." He stated, giving a woman with olive skin and dark brown hair hanging around her shoulders an annoyed look.
The woman in questioned crossed her arms and rolled her eyes, "But it was our best bet, Jack." She pointed out.
Jack sighed, "Now we just have to destroy everything we've worked on so those freaks don't get their hands on it."
Lizzie frowned, "Isn't it rude to call them freaks? Jackie, Katie, don't you agree?"
Katie and Jackie nodded and gave Jack a stern look, "Fine." Jack sighed, "Sorry I called them freaks." He apologized with a roll of his eyes.
Smiling, Lizzie turned back to desk, "Everything, Jackie?" she asked.
Jackie nodded, "Everything." She agreed. Turning, Jackie grabbed her phone and started to go through her contacts until she got to Rose, "I'll just call my daughter and see if she could meet us there." She told the others, "Katie you're almost done so do my stuff too, alright?"
Turning away before Katie could reply, Jackie called her daughter.
"Mum? Now isn't really the time…" Rose hissed to Jackie.
Jackie allowed herself to smile briefly, just listening to her daughter's voice, but then she shook herself out of the cloud she was in to speak to her daughter, "Rose, Rose! We did it! The plan we had; you know, the one where we trapped one of the ghosts? Well we did it!" she cheered.
"Mum, that's…great. But I really need to-"
"But now the ghosts have gone. Rose…they know. I need you to meet us at Torchwood and make sure they don't kill us." Jackie continued, not listening to her daughter.
She heard Rose sigh, "Mum I can't." she stated.
"Why not? Rose darling, this is serious."
"Because I'm in a closet trapped with the Doctor."
Jackie paused, her mouth falling open slightly, "What?" she asked, "What's the Doctor doing with you? You said he left you for Kayla."
"Yes, mum, he did. But now they're here at Torchwood." Rose sighed once again, "Listen mum, I can't help. You're going to be on your own."
"Rose! Rose please, I-we need your help." Jackie begged.
"I can't help, mum." Rose replied simply, "I'm sorry." She apologized.
Running a hand through her hair, Jackie sighed, "I understand. Goodbye Rose." With a sad smile, Jackie Tyler hung up the phone and turned back to her friends.
Rose turned to the Doctor, her eyes wide. "There has to be some way we can get out of here.
The Doctor, not listening to the blonde, was crouched in front of the door with his ear pressed against it, "Rose Tyler, I think I have a plan." He said in a whisper.
Kayla sighed as Rajesh listened to whatever Yvonne was saying about Jackie and her team, "Can't we help them?" Mickey hissed to Kayla.
The brunette shook her head, "Rose is their only hope." She explained, "She'll have to think of something."
Mickey sighed, "I hope she does."
"Me too, Mickey, me too."
Sorry this is posted late, but I was having some family issues. There are too many of those in my family.
But onto the chapter. I like the beginning, with Kayla giving a back story and all. The drug use will be briefly mentioned again but it will get more in depth in book four. I also had a lot of fun with all the twists, though that did cut the chapter short a bit. But it has reached half the episode so next one will be more with it.
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