Previously:
Jack whispered one word, one word that sent shivers down Gwen's spine, a word she thought she was never going to hear since the night Jack confronted her after their marriage.
"Gray"
Owen drove his car directly behind them complaining loudly through the comm how messed up his car is because of Jack. Jack drove silently his eyes dark with grief, Gwen watched him just as silent and kept a hand over his while Tosh, Ianto and Melody sat there looking confused.
Suddenly the ground ricocheted and Jack almost drove into a fence beside the road.
"What was that?" Owen shouted through the comm
Tosh quickly typed on the SUV computer and swore loudly "rift energy, everywhere. Cardiff has literally blown up in places, weevils are lose everywhere, a hospital has reported an alien sighting and the nuclear plant has problems. All power supplies are gone, Cardiff has been attacked"
"Fuckity, fuck, fuck" Owen said
Jack's mobile rang; Gwen reached over and answered it.
"Torchwood" she said "don't worry we're on our way" she hung up "police wants us, they say the only thing that can save Cardiff now is Torchwood"
"I'll drive over to the hospital" Owen said through the comm
"Drop me off at the police station Jack and I'll help there" Melody said
"And me and Ianto could go to the nuclear plant" Tosh said
"What if this is what John wants?" Jack asks "to separate use"
"I'll have Andy at the police station, Tosh and Ianto will have each others backs and Gwen will be there with you…only Owen will be alone" Melody said
"Oh thanks for making me feel better" Owen muttered sarcastically "I feel so much safer"
"Ok we'll do it but the moment you see John Hart call in for backup and that's an order" Jack snapped
Gwen and Jack entered the Hub cautiously, hand in hand. Jack walked slightly in front trying to use him as a shield for Gwen if John was really here. Before he knew it he was pushed into the moat of the Hub and felt the painful sharp twangs of electricity coursing through his veins…he could barely make out Gwen's scream and a 'Hello Sweetcheeks' before his heart gave out and everything went black.
He woke up to see John's grinning face. He was chained to the wall.
"John" he groaned "I'm not in the mood for any of your kinky games. What the fuck do you want and where's my brother? What have you done to Gwen?"
"Oh Jackie-Boy, you naughty little thing, you didn't tell me that Gwenie was pregnant" John said ignoring Jack's questions.
"Didn't exactly give me the chance did you?" Jack muttered
"Can I be Godfather?"
"What? NO! I don't want you to corrupt my child" Jack shouted out looking horrified. "Now what have you done to Gwen?"
"Nothing" John said pulling a fake innocent expression, he then side stepped to reveal Gwen tied to a chair and gagged. "See perfectly safe. Now you and me have a date with your brother"
Gwen watched as John released Jack and then disappeared with him using his vortex manipulator, feeling completely and utterly useless. From her comm she could hear that Owen had sorted out the alien in the hospital and was on his way to the nuclear plant, while Tosh and Ianto were heading back to the Hub.
Before Tosh and Ianto got there though there was a flash and John was back with Gray. John looked…sad…
"I'm sorry" John said softly to her "I am so, so sorry"
Next thing she knew Gray pulled out a long sword and stabbed her stomach. She gave out a shout of pain and gasped as he pulled the sword out.
"Now my brother not only loses his wife but his unborn child" Gray said with a twisted smile forming on her face.
She couldn't understand why Jack's brother would do this. She let out a garbled 'why?'
"Because he abandoned me" Gray whispered in her ear "left me all on my own and he'll leave you too, one day. Think of this though, you'll forever look young as he does"
She could barely make out what was happening but what she could see was something fall off of John's wrist and Gray walk off somewhere. She felt the gag and chains be removed and she felt John lay her down on the floor.
"I really am sorry" he whispered to her, stroking her hair "I love him, so very much, I didn't mean for this to happen."
"GET OFF OF HER"
Ianto charged across the Hub and tackled John Hart while Tosh ran over to Gwen. Just as Tosh predicted to herself the knife wound was healing up slowly and Gwen was taking in deep breaths. She sat up and was shocked to see sweet innocent Ianto Jones holding Captain John Hart as he repeatedly punch him.
"Ianto" she shouted "I'm fine he didn't do it, it was Gray"
Ianto released John from his grip and let his fist fall down. "Oh…I forgot about that" he muttered looking ashamed.
"I see the kid's like his Daddy" John said rubbing his swollen lip "eye candy you have one hell of a right hook"
"Yes he does"
The four of them turned to see Melody.
"Oh thank god you're safe" Ianto said throwing his arms round Melody.
"Err…guys Janet's on the lose"
Tosh stayed in the main Hub working on the computer, helping Owen out with the nuclear plant situation while the others went into the cells looking for Janet only to be locked into them by Gray.
Gray then shot Tosh in the arm.
As he began to work on opening the rift she rolled across the floor and into the autopsy room picking wads up for her arm. Owen was panicking through the comm. He was going to die…
"Oh Owen" she whimpered
"Please Tosh, don't" he said "it hurts me just as much. I never thought I would be the soppy type, the type to do deathbed confessions but…"
She let out a strangled sob.
"Toshiko Sato, I love you"
"I love you too" she cried out
"Hey think of it this way, I'm a martyr now, practically a saint, think I'll be let in to heaven now or do I have to flirt my way in"
Tosh giggled slightly, tears falling freely on her face. Then everything went black.
She woke up to find her arm in a cast, Gwen by her side.
"Where's Gray?" she asked
"Frozen" Gwen replied "Jack couldn't kill him; Gray wasn't going to stop wrecking havoc so…Jack froze him"
"You're not pleased with that" it was a statement not a question.
"The man tried to kill me and my baby, keep Jack buried forever, kill you all and destroy the world. Of course I'm not happy with the bloody choice, I wanted to shoot that man dead…but he's Jack's brother"
"Owen…he's…?"
"Yes, I'm so sorry Tosh"
"S'all right…I'll...I'll cope…somehow"
It had been three days, the city has been cleaned up, the weevils have been chased back into the sewers, Ianto cleaned the Hub spotless and now there was only one duty left.
To pack up everything that was Owen Harper and to delete him off of the files.
Ianto brought in the cardboard boxes and everyone stared at them, not wanting to pick them up and to begin to pack Owen away. Not wanting to erase all that was Owen Harper.
And then they could hear it.
The TARDIS engines, the magical blue box that Gwen and Jack had once called home appeared and the doors opened the Doctor pulling someone out.
"you really need to take care of your workers" he said "this idiot was locked in a room filled with radiation, now if that's how you take care of your workers I rather not work for you Harkness."
"Owen, you're alive" Tosh squealed throwing her arms round his neck
"Course I am, sorry it took a while had to have a de-radiation shower"
"For three days?"
"Three days…OI YOU SAID I WOULD ONLY BE MISSING FOR TWO FREAKING MINUTES NOT THREE FUCKING DAYS!"
"Err…I'll go, me and Rose are investigating something in London" the Doctor said edging slowly back towards the TARDIS as the team glared at him.
"So if something blows up we'll know it's you" Gwen said snidely
"I don't always blow things up…well I don't mean to"
Everyone's glare just intensified and he gulped.
"See you soon (hopefully not too soon) bye, Rose sends her love"
The Doctor turned round and legged it as quickly as he could before someone threw something at him, or shot him or worse slap him.