AN: I know I said Suzie, Tosh and Owen's recruitment and the latter two's turning, but in the words of CazMalfoy flowiness. It wouldn't have fitted together properly as one chapter. Again I own nothing but the plot and OC!Aiden, so please don't sue I'm just a poor student. Constructive criticism is more than welcome.
The Cardiff Police had a problem, a big one, they weren't sure who the cause of their problems was, but that was why she was there to help them. There had been a string of murders throughout the Cardiff area, and they only had a tenuous idea of what the murderer looked like from witness statements. That's why she had been called in, Suzie Costello, a profiler that had worked with various police departments throughout the country, she was a legend of sorts. A cold woman who didn't care much for people or even the victims whose killer she was trying to find, she cared only for results, results which she always seemed to get.
When Suzie began to put together a profile she found that trying to get results this time may be much harder to go on, all the information she had was that the assailant appeared to be male, wore a grey boiler suit, next to no hair and was rather wrinkled. When she put all the information together she realised that all the information that had been gathered gave her nothing.
A few days into her work on the case, the murders had risen in number, with at least on killing a day, while this gave her no new information on the killer, and none of the victims bodies really helped either, it did give her another link. As they had arrived at a few of the crime scenes a black SUV had pulled away from the area they had driven into, now this wouldn't have been too suspicious if it had only happened once, but she had seen that SUV in the area of the last five murders.
Resolving to find out if the mysterious SUV and its driver had anything to do with the murders she set to work, first she found the CCTV from the area around the last murder, quickly gleaning the information she needed to find out who the SUV belonged to she ran the license plate through the police database. This brought up no leads however, the plate being unregistered, instead she followed the SUV using the CCTV cameras, from each of the murder scenes to its final destination.
When she noted that most of the SUV's final stop seemed to be the same place, Suzie decided that the driver must live or work somewhere close. Without alerting those of the police of what she was going to do, the police really were a pain in her ass, even if she did work with them at times, she left and made her way home.
Once at home Suzie entered her bedroom, reaching under her bed she pulled out a metal box, she opened it with the key she kept hung around her neck and pulled out two glock pistols that her father insisted she took for her personal safety. Her father, while they may not get along very well now, had taught her everything that she knew about guns and other weaponry and had trained her to use them well.
Placing one of the guns in her boot after checking that the safety was on and the gun loaded, she covered her boots with her jeans, she then placed the other at the small of her back, tucked into the waistband of her jeans and hidden by her top. Then locking her door she got into her car and drove towards the Millennium Centre, parking her car a short distance away. By the time she arrived it was rather late, having spent hours looking over CCTV footage, and the area was almost completely deserted. Almost, but not completely deserted she came to realise as something shot out of an alleyway towards her, taking stock of the figure coming towards her she realised that this figure matched the description of the murderer.
Instead of freezing up as many would at the idea that they were facing a serial killer, Suzie did the only thing she could do, pulling the gun from the small of her back she fired, shooting at the figure in an attempt to disarm them, not that she had seen a weapon, or to stop their approach. As the shot rang out she heard the screech of tyres and the black SUV she had been looking for swerved between her and the suspect.
A man jumped out of the driver's seat and to a shot at the suspect, before handcuffing them, placing a bag over their head and pushing them into the back of the SUV. This had all taken place within a matter of seconds, it seemed almost too quick to have been possible. Once the man had closed the door, he strode around the vehicle towards her, stopping in front of her looking at her like he was evaluating her.
Needing answers Suzie started to fire questions at the mysterious man, "Who are you? Why have you been seen leaving several murder scenes in the last few days? What do you intend to do with that man?"
Jack just tilted his head towards her, "Captain Jack Harkness." He replied, before continuing, "I was there because it's my job, and as for him," he nodded towards the SUV, "he's coming with me."
With that he made to get in the SUV but Suzie called out to him, "I'm afraid you can't do that, you have been at each scene, and are now trying to abscond with the main suspect. I can't let you do that."
Jack sighed, knowing that now he had no choice, he moved away from the door to the SUV and towards the woman. Picking her up he threw her over his shoulder before rounding the SUV and placing her in the passenger seat and strapping her in, shutting the door and sealing it so that the doors would only open by command of his vortex manipulator. He then jumped into the SUV and drove towards the underground garage through which he could access the Hub, the drive not taking long due to his proximity to base.
Once parked and the garage was sealed except for the entrance to the hub he got both the woman and the weevil out of the SUV. He then pulled both with him into the hub and down to the cells, sedating the weevil he pushed it into a cell before removing the handcuffs and the bag. He looked then to the woman he'd dragged with him, she was staring at the weevil, scrutinising it trying to take in everything about it.
"It's alien", Jack stated, "Which means that it is staying here, even if it is the lead suspect in your murder case, PC..."
"Suzie Costello. And I'm not a PC, I'm a profiler." Suzie spoke, her voice dripping ice.
"Well, Miss Costello, welcome to Torchwood, we're a bit thin on the ground at the moment there's only me, but I'm getting there." Jack said, throwing a grin in her direction.
Suzie paused before replying, "So it's an alien, what do I tell the police when the murderer has just disappeared, it's my job to try and think like they do after all."
"You tell the truth." Jack spoke, "You were out, the suspect tried to make you their next victim and Torchwood stepped in and are taking over the case. The police will then back off and shut their case file."
"And why would the police just let you take over on something this big, that thing alien or not is a serial killer." Suzie retorted.
"Because the Queen says so." Jack replied, "In matters of this nature Torchwood has carte blanch and as Queen Victoria said, "None shall stand in our way." The police will do as their orders dictate."
Jack led her back up to the main area of the hub while pondering whether or not to offer her a place on his team or not, he couldn't run Torchwood Cardiff single-handedly, but she was really only a profiler, and didn't have much to offer Torchwood from what he had seen. He was brought out of his thoughts by a squeal of glee, looking up he noticed that Suzie had caught sight of the armoury, to his surprise she then listed every gun she could see, including what type of bullets they took.
Surprised he led her to his office determined to find out more about her, and he was determined not to underestimate her, her knowledge of different weapons was astounding. Before long he had made up his mind, she would be useful as a weapons expert, once he trained her up a bit, giving her his old job would free him up a bit more.
Torchwood Cardiff had just doubled, to include Suzie Costello, weapons expert and second in command. Jack began to fill her in on the history of Torchwood and the day to day running of operations, leaving out his vampirism and immortality, deciding that she would only find out if he found her worthy of becoming part of his coven.