No flash backs in this chaoter.
Training Begins.
Phoenix walks back into the hub, dripping from head to toe. She makes her way down to the cog door and makes her way into the main hub. Everyone looks at her as she walks through the hub, leaving a puddle trail behind her as she walks, the water dripping through the grated floor of the hub. Jack watched her walking through the hub from his office, seeing Ianto going after her.
"Phoenix. Are you ok? Is there anything I can do for you?" Ianto asks her as she continues to her room, not slowing her pace, the water trail still being left behind her.
"Send the first person for training in an hour," she says back to him before disappearing into the her room, shutting the door behind her.
Ianto stands there in the corridor, looking at her door, wondering why she was so sad. He bites the bullet and knocks on her door.
"Do you want me to dry your clothes out or make you a coffee to warm you up so you don't get a cold," Ianto asks her through the door.
The door opens and Phoenix is stood there in a towel, her hair dripping and Ianto can't help but look her up and down, the towel stopping way above her knees.
"There is no need Ianto. I can dry my own clothes and I don't get colds but a coffee would be nice though I am heading for a shower first so just leave it in my room," she tells him with an obvious fake smile.
Ianto reaches forward and moves some of her wet hair out of her face and she looks down.
"What's wrong Phoenix? You can talk to me if you want to. I am here whenever you need me," he tells her and a tear runs down her face but Ianto wipes it away.
"Don't be sad Phoenix. There is nothing that we can't all deal with Phoenix. We are all here to help you if you need us," he tells her with a smile but Ianto feels that it isn't going to be that easy.
"Thank you Ianto. I have to get my shower so that I can start training you lot," she tells him still not looking at him.
"Ok. I will make you a coffee and leave it in your room for when you get out. Cheer up Phoenix. Maybe we can have some fun later, all of us," he tells her with a smile and he leaves the door.
Phoenix closes the door and gets her dry, clean clothes together. She goes to the shower, putting her clothes and towel down and gets in. As the hot water streams down her, flash backs of the night before come to her. Jack watching her getting aroused and her knowing it. Her asking him to do her back, Jack laying his hands on her, his breathing getting heavier. Jack's hands moving to her breasts, moving over her breasts, his breathing getting heavier, hers getting heavier and then her moaning.
A huge wave of guilt flows over her and her tears begin to flow again. Ianto was being so kind to her after what she and Jack had done last night. They may not have actually made love but they could quite easily have and it was still a betrayal. She finally finishes her shower, being in there for over half an hour. She gets dried and dressed and goes back to her room and as he said, Ianto had left a coffee in her room for her. She lays out her towels and picks up the coffee and leaves her room and makes her way to the range.
No-one was there yet so Phoenix drank some of her coffee, then putting her cup down and one by one, picking up each of the four weapons, handling them so she knew how they felt. The first through the door was Owen and he walks over to the table and looks at the weapon that had been picked for him.
"Tell me again why I have the smallest weapon here and I meant that in a clean way?" Owen asks her realising that that comment could have been taken out of context.
"Your character is that of brut force. You don't need the bigger weapons. The bigger weapons in your hands would have been over kill. That's why you have the smaller, because you don't need a bigger one," Phoenix tells him and he seems to except that.
"What do you want me to do?" Owen asks her realising that he was totally at her mercy.
"Pick up the weapon and get a feel for it," she tells him and as he does, she takes another sip of coffee.
She watch as Owen gets a feel for the weapon and then like most blokes when given a weapon, messes around with it like she knew he would. She raises an eyebrow at him and he sees it and stops. She walks him through how to hold it correctly when carrying it and then she shows him how to get into a strong, solid stance with the weapon and then attack from that stance. They spent about an hour, Phoenix getting Owen used to carrying the weapon, handling the weapon, attacking with the weapon and after a little messing at the beginning, Phoenix was quiet impressed with Owens early progress. After the hour, Phoenix instructs him to put it back on the table which he does.
"That was quite fun," Owen tells her and she smiles at him.
"This bit is fun but when we get into training you for battle, it is tiring, hard work," she tells him knowing how hard it was going to be.
"I'll send the next one up for you Phoenix," Owen tells her with a little twinkle in his eye.
He leaves the range and after about 10 minutes, Ianto is at the door of the range and Phoenix welcomes him in. She does the same with Ianto that she did with Owen and she was very impressed with Ianto's handling of the samurai style sword. His movements were fluid and very controlled. He paid attention to her suggestions and her advice and was almost the perfect pupil. Phoenix instructed him to put the weapon down and he did.
"We are going to have some dinner now and we want you to join us. We want to get to know you a little more as we are going to be spending more time together over the next 10 days or so," Ianto tells her and he sees that she is a little uncomfortable.
"It's ok. You don't have to say anything you are uncomfortable with. If you get too uncomfortable, leave by all means. We just want to know a little more about you and we know there are some things that you don't want to talk about," Ianto tells her standing right in front of her.
Phoenix felt more guilt. He was being so nice to her and no doubt, he had set this up. She owed him and he didn't know what for but she owed him so she agreed with a nod of her head. They left the range together, Phoenix talking the cup that Ianto had left her and they made their way to the main hub.
"Just to warn you, the team know of your nightmares and that you and Jack were once a couple as well as partners but if you don't want to talk about that, it's fine," Ianto tells her and she sighs.
She knew that they would want to know about how she was created, how her and Jack met, what her abilities were and what she was capable of. She knew that she could tell everything because they would never remember. They would never remember her by the end except for Jack. He would remember but only the past they had and he would go back to thinking that she was dead. This made her sigh again.
They arrived in the main hub and the rest of the team was already sat in the sofa area including Jack who didn't even look up at her as she and Ianto reached the sofa's and sat down. Ianto handed her a plate as she sat down and the team then jumped in and started serving themselves. Phoenix didn't have much of an appetite, the guilt she felt and her sadness affecting her. She only put a few things on her plate as everyone else's was almost fit to overflow.
"I have told Phoenix that we are doing this to get to know her," Ianto tells the team and looks at her and smiles, letting her know that she was going to be alright and she looks at Jack and looks a little worried but not looking at her.
"Can I ask what abilities you have as we know you have a few?" Owen asks her and Phoenix takes a breath.
"I can heal much faster than an ordinary humans. Broken bones take a matter of hours and not weeks to heal. I can control energy of various forms like electricity, fire, water and so on. I run faster than any human and I can reach a top speed of about 45MPH on foot. I can bench press more than all of the men here put together and then some. My body is not affected by any toxins including alcohol and drugs of any kind including any medical type drugs. I can levitate, I can manipulate things with my mind especially mechanical things, I can read people's minds and characters and rarely, I have the sixth sense and sometimes can predict things," she answers him, finally managing to able to eat something.
"How did you and Jack meet?" Gwen asks her.
"Jack worked for an agency and I was drafted in for a certain job and kept me around after that. They drafted me in for my abilities," she answers.
"Who sent you here?" Toshiko asks her and Phoenix sighs.
"I'm afraid that that is something I can't tell you. I was contracted so to speak so I can't say though I would love too but I can't," Phoenix replies.
"Do you know what is going to happen to us?" Gwen asks her looking right at her and the rest of the team join in looking at her.
"The future is never written in stone but I know all the possible outcomes. If I do my job right, you will all be ok," Phoenix tells them and they all seem to breathe a sigh of relief.
"Do you die Phoenix?" Jack asks from nowhere.
"Jack!" Ianto adds.
Phoenix puts her plate down and leaves the sofa area.
"Don't go Phoenix. You don't have to answer that," Ianto tells him but she keeps walking.
"Gwen. Toshiko. I'll be in the range when you are ready," she tells them and vanishes.
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An hour or so later, Gwen and Toshiko join Phoenix in the range. She walks them through what she walked Owen and Ianto through and Toshiko was a natural and didn't have as many problems as she thought she would. Gwen was a little cautious with her standard style sword. She wasn't as comfortable with it as the others. After their time was up, Gwen and Toshiko return to the main hub and Phoenix returns to her room.