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Chapter 3.

Molly stood frozen to the spot for a moment while chaos erupted around her. She quickly gathered her thoughts and walked towards one of the windows to get a better look at whatever was outside. The two shapes she could see were tall, and they had long arms with razor sharp talons at the end. It suddenly made sense why the guy in the park was so torn up. Molly couldn't help but wonder where they had suddenly appeared from, then she saw they were still heading towards the bar. Molly rooted through her bag for a minute until she found her phone, she was going to need backup. She pushed 2 and waited.

'Jack.' she said when it was answered the other end, her voice full of urgency.

'Molly?' said Jack. 'What's wrong.'

'I think I have an idea of what came through the Rift earlier.'

'Ok, how?'

'Because I'm looking at it. I need you to get down to the bar on the Quay as fast as you can.'

'I'm on my way. Don't do anything.' Jack said and he hung up.

Molly hoped he was quick, because it wouldn't take those creatures much to get inside the bar, and then it would be like an all you can eat buffet. 'Why did they have to find me when I'm not working.' she mused.

'Do you think this is connected to what happened in the park earlier.' Molly jumped a little as Jamie spoke to her, she had forgotten he was there.

'Possibly, I've phoned for help.' Then to her horror she realised that there were still people outside, and they were trapped inside a car. The two creatures were next to them trying to get inside. Molly knew she was going to have to do something, she couldn't just stand there and watch. The problem was she didn't have a weapon on her, she was only just learning how to use a gun properly and never took one out of the Hub with her. She did have some weevil spray in her bag, but didn't know how well that would work, she took it out anyway. She went over to the bar and asked the barman if he kept anything behind there in case of trouble, but all he had was a cricket bat. Molly knew that this would be pretty much useless, but she felt better for at least having something to hit with. She just hoped that Jack's manic driving would get him there before they did her any damage, and she tried to forget that he had told her not to do anything. Molly made her way to one of the fire exits which was furthest away from the main door where everyone was gathered. 'Ok,' she thought to herself, 'I just need to distract them long enough for the people in that car to get out and into the bar.' As she reached for the handle on the door she felt someone grab her arm.

'You can't really be thinking of going out there?' Jamie asked her incredulously. 'Look I've heard the stories down at the station about Torchwood and how you deal with weird stuff, but you're not exactly equipped for facing those things are you. You have a bat and what looks like a can of mace or something.'

'Look I can't just stand in here while those things open up that car like some kind of tin can, and then proceed to rip those people apart. Jack should be here soon, I just need to distract them.'

Jamie looked at her and saw the determination in her eyes, he knew nothing was going to stop her. 'I'm coming with you.'

'What?' It was Molly's turn to look incredulous. 'No, you need to stay in here.'

'I am not letting you go out there alone, two of them, two of us.'

'Why would you help me?'

'I can't just stand here and watch either.'

'You do realise that we are about to do something highly dangerous and possibly quite stupid.'

'Yeah, and weirdly that doesn't put me off.'

Molly smiled at him, 'Come on then, remember we just need to distract them, if they get too close, get back in here. Ok?'

'Don't let the vicious creatures too near me, check.'

'Let's go.'

Molly and Jamie went out of the door and slowly walked towards where the two creatures were working there way through the metal of the car like it was paper, another few minutes and they would be through. Molly gave Jamie the bat so at least they both had some form of weapon. As they got nearer the creatures obviously sensed their presence and stopped trying to get into the car, instead turning their attention to Molly and Jamie. One went straight for Jamie, who took off running away from the bar, in an attempt to lead it away, and it followed him. The second one followed Molly who was really regretting the fact that she was wearing heels and not trainers. Molly managed to look around and see the people who had been trapped in the car, get out and get inside the bar. She then realised that the creature that had been following her, had disappeared, probably didn't like all the effort of chasing her. Molly turned and ran back towards the bar, but was stopped dead in her tracks when both the creatures suddenly appeared in front of her. 'Damn' she thought. She sprayed the weevil spray she still had in her hand at the one closest to her, disorientating it. The other one however made a grab for her, she felt its talons slice her arm and she fell as she jerked away from it. In the distance she could hear the screeching of tyres, but she knew Jack was not going to get there in time. Then just as she thought it was all over someone grabbed her hand and pulled her up, and out of the way just before the creature lashed out at her again. It was Jamie. As they turned to run back towards the bar the SUV came careering round the corner, it stopped abruptly and Jack and Ianto both got out of the car, weapons in hand and began firing at the creatures. The bullets hit them, but didn't seem to make much of an impact, the only thing that happened was that the creatures disappeared.

'You ok? Jamie turned to Molly, 'You're bleeding.'

Molly looked down at her arm, 'It's just a scratch, it would have been worse if it had grabbed me properly.'

'Let me look, it might need stitches.' Jamie examined her arm, then said. 'It just needs cleaning up, I have a first aid kit in my car, I'll go get it.'

As Jamie walked away, Ianto came rushing over to her. 'Molly are you ok?' he said his voice full of concern.

'Yeah it's not as bad as it looks.'

Then Jack came striding over. 'I thought I told you not to do anyth… he trailed off as he reached them and realised what Molly was wearing, he raised an eyebrow as he looked at her.

'Stop staring, focus.' Molly said.

'Sorry, I was just thinking that maybe I could implement some kind of uniform policy into Torchwood.'

'Do that and I think you would have a mass walk out on your hands' said Ianto.

'Ok fine, spoil my fun.' Jack said. 'What happened? Does trouble just follow you.'

'Funny. One minute everything was fine, I was waiting at the bar waiting to get served and the next minute all hell broke loose with people screaming and trying to get back into the bar. I looked out and I could see these two shapes on the other side of the road. It was weird they seemed to just appear from nowhere. They had these really long talons on the end of their arms.' she shuddered with the memory. 'It wasn't until I got close to one that I could see they also had really sharp teeth and their eyes were red. They look part animal, I'm going to have nightmares for a week.'

'So what made you come out here, unarmed, and tackle them. It was reckless.'

'Don't you think I know that. I'm sorry, but there were people trapped in that car and I wasn't going to stand by and watch them get torn apart.'

Jack looked at her, he couldn't be angry with her for going out there to help people, its what he would have done, but the hated the thought that she could have been killed, as it was she was hurt. He then noticed someone walking back over to them, the doctor from this morning. He went straight over to Molly, and started to dress her arm. 'Dr West,' Jack said, 'what do we owe this pleasure.'

'Jamie, just saved my life. If he hadn't pulled me out the way when he did, a scratched arm would be the least of my problems.'

'Jamie, on first name terms are we? Jack said grinning at them.

Molly rolled her eyes. Jamie answered. 'Dr West sounds so formal when your not working.' He then turned to Molly. 'There you go, it should be ok in a few days.'

'Thanks', Molly said.

'You came outside as well?' Ianto asked Jamie.

'I couldn't exactly let her come out here on her own could I? Well, I suppose I could of, but my conscience wouldn't have allowed it.' He looked at Ianto, realising he hadn't seen him before. 'I take it your Torchwood too?'

Ianto nodded, 'Ianto Jones,' he said holding out his hand.

'Jamie West, though I think you may have gathered that.' said Jamie taking his hand and shaking it.

'Great, now we're one big happy family,' said Jack, 'We need to find out what the hell these things are.' They then heard in the distance the sound of police sirens. 'Great police.'

'I'll deal with them.' said Jamie.

'Really?' said Jack. 'How.'

'I'm sure I can come up with something, although if I do this I'm going to need some answers.'

'Deal. Tomorrow morning I will tell you anything you want to know, but I'm going to need that autopsy report. '

'Fine, where should I meet you?'

'Café on the Plass, at 9am.'

Jack then watched as Jamie West walked away to meet the police that were now pulling up. He was thinking to himself that he may have just solved the problem they had of not having a medic.

'Come on, I think you need to go home.' Jack said to Molly. 'Tomorrow morning we can start researching what you saw.'

'Where do you think they went though?'

Jack shrugged. 'I don't know, they obviously didn't like getting shot at. Hopefully it was enough to scare them away for the rest of the night.'

'I hope so.'

The three of them walked back to the SUV, and as they did Molly turned to where Jamie was talking to the police. She could see that he had noticed her so she gave a small wave and mouthed 'thank you', before getting into the car.