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"We need to see that girl," Jack repeated and opened the door. As he expected, Andy was still there. "Where's the girl?" the captain asked. "The one this room belongs to."
"With one of the sisters. She's scared to death. Keeps muttering in some incoherent language."
"Take me to her," Jack ordered and motioned for his team to follow.
"Why do we need to see her?" Gwen inquired. "What does she have to do with this?"
"I don't know," Jack admitted. "But we're finding out."
They turned the corner and Andy led them to one the lesson rooms in the orphanage. He opened the door and there the girl was, sitting in one of the sisters' lap. "Don't scare her," Andy pleaded and left.
The girl looked at Jack fearfully, as if she knew him from somewhere. "Ma'am," Jack addressed the sister. "Could you please leave? I need to talk to the girl alone."
"Sir, I-"
"Ma'am, please," Gwen interrupted. Reluctantly, the sister left the team alone with the five year old girl.
"It's my birthday today," the girl piped up. She still eyed Jack scarily.
"Happy birthday," Jack smiled.
"Five years old." Jack nodded his head. "One of the mummies went to the Lord last night," she continued.
"Mummies?" Tosh asked.
"She means one of the sisters," Ianto clarified.
"Did she talk to you?" Jack asked, walking up to the girl. He stood one foot away.
"She prayed with me and said she'd stay by side until I fell asleep."
Jack took one more step closer but the girl shrieked. "Don't come near me!" The captain was taken aback. "You're scary."
Captain Jack Harkness had been called many names by many people (and aliens) of different ages, but never "scary" by a five year-old human girl. "How?" he asked.
"I dream about you," she responded, which took everyone by surprise.
"Do you know what this is?" Jack asked, holding up the sketchbook.
"I like to color," the girl simply answered.
Jack knelt down to open up the book and showed her the satellite interior. "Do you know what this is?" he asked.
"Thing up in the sky. In the future."
"And this?" he pointed at the gold armor.
"Bad. They hurt people."
"What's this?" Jack asked, noting the flying saucer.
"UFO!" the girl replied.
"Did you draw these?" Jack questioned. The girl nodded her head. "Do you dream about this?" The girl nodded again.
Jack stood up with a grunt and closed the sketchbook. He turned 180 degrees to rejoin his team before the girl said, "Blaidd drwg." Jack froze solid. "Blaidd drwg," the girl repeated.
Jack turned around. "How do you know that?"
"Blaidd drwg. Did you know the blaidd drwg?" the girl asked before Jack retreated out of the room, scared out of his wits.
The Torchwood team was gathered around the trunk of the SUV. Jack tapped his foot on the ground worriedly, which caused the entire team to feel uneasy. "What does she mean 'blaidd drwg,'" Tosh finally asked.
"Bad wolf," Ianto answered. "That's what it means."
"There was a nuclear power plant project here a couple of years ago called that," Gwen noted.
"And it never happened did it?" Jack asked. "It was going to be built right on top of the rift."
"Yeah…" Gwen said.
"And then the city mayor disappeared," Jack continued. "And then there was an earthquake."
"That was you?" Owen asked bewildered.
"Partly," Jack answered. "Let me tell you. That mayor was not human."
"So we had an alien mayor bent on ripping the earth apart for three weeks?" Ianto summed up.
"Basically."
"Thrilling."
"But what does she mean when she said it? Blaidd drwg?" Tosh asked again. "She asked if you knew it."
"Not it. Her," Jack corrected.
"There was a person called Blaidd Drwg?" Owen asked.
"No. Not exactly."
"Then what?"
Jack opened up the sketchbook to the satellite interior. "Satellite 5 aka the GameStation." He flipped the page and pointed. "Dalek. Dalek spaceship." He flipped the page again. "Psychotic Dalek emperor. GameStation control center." He flipped to the last page. On the left side was a man standing with his arms out to his side. Three Daleks approached him. On the other side lay the same man, only dead. The last two pictures were different from the earlier ones. All the others were coarsely drawn but these two… In these two, the face of the man was in incredible detail, despite the fact that it was drawn with crude crayons.
The face of the man was too unmistakable.
"Me," Jack said. "Death by extermination."
I'm pretty convinced you can tell who she is. Doctor Who refs here and later, so if you don't know, go watch the last two episodes of Series 1 Doctor Who (New Version, not the Classics.)
Blaidd drwg means "bad wolf" (a reoccurring theme in DocWho)
