A/N. Thank you to CalliM, SakuraKissy, NoOneNotEvenMe and ForeverBossy26, for your reviews for the last chapter. I love some of the words you have all been using to describe Alex. I really do appreciate the reviews because i still get nervous everytime i post a new chapter lol. Enjoy. :)
Chapter 12.
Molly sat at her desk working on the device, trying to open it up enough to fix the loose connection. She had seen Ianto go into Jacks office and figured he was telling him about what she had told him, although she trusted that there were somethings he wouldn't. When the others came in she was glad Jamie had come straight over to talk to her.
'Morning.' Jamie said when he reached her. 'You alright this morning?'
'I'm fine, had a really good nights sleep.' Molly answered, and this was true, after unloading everything she was feeling she had slept surprisingly well. 'I appreciate you giving me a lift home.'
'Anytime. Any luck with that?' He asked pointing at the cylinder in her hands.
'Not yet, it's tricky. It's going to take me some time, I don't want to break it completely.'
Ianto then walked over to them, Alex with him. 'Jamie, Jack wants you, Alex and I to keep researching this device while Molly tries to fix it.'
'I think it's a better idea if I stay here with Molly, help her with it.' said Alex.
'It's not really a two person job at the moment.' said Molly.
'Fine,' said Alex somewhat reluctantly, 'but I don't want to go too far.'
'That's fine, we can set up in the boardroom. If you want to make your way up there I will go and get some refreshments and meet you in a minute.' said Ianto.
As Alex headed towards the boardroom, Ianto turned to look back at Molly who silently whispered thank you to him. As he walked in the direction of the kitchen, Jamie stopped him. 'What's going on?' he asked.
'How do you mean?' said Ianto.
'It seems to me you are trying to keep Alex away from Molly. I'm not stupid I can see she hasn't been right ever since he turned up.'
'I can't tell you right now.' said Ianto, but seeing that Jamie was about to protest added, 'but I will. I just can't risk Alex getting suspicious, please go up to the boardroom and I'll be there in a minute.'
Jamie looked at him for a moment before turning and walking away to the boardroom, wondering what on earth Alex had done.
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An hour later and Gwen walked back into Jacks office. 'I've found out the details about that accident you asked about.'
'Was it an accident?'
'No.' said Gwen. 'I got a copy of the case file emailed to me. It seems the reason the car crashed is because someone cut the brake line.'
Jack sighed. 'Do they have any idea who was responsible?'
'Again, no. They have hardly anything on this. It seemed that no one had any reason to want to hurt her, they spoke to people she worked with, but they only had nice things to say. I did notice one interesting name on the list of people they spoke too.' She looked towards the boardroom. 'Alex Palmer.'
'What did he have to say for himself on it.'
'Not much, said he barely knew her. Why so much interest in this case?'
'It's connected to something much larger. Go and ask Ianto to join us and I'll fill you in.'
'What about Molly and Jamie?'
'Molly already has an idea about it, and I need Jamie to keep Alex busy for now. We can fill him in later.'
Gwen left the room and returned moments later with Ianto.
'About time, what have you got?' Ianto asked.
'Honestly, not a lot. He's very clever and covers his tracks extremely well. Ellies accident was no accident, but we have no way of proving whether or not he caused the accident or got someone to do that for him.'
'Did you get anything from Martha?'
'She pulled his file and he does have some complaints against him, but either nothing was ever proved or the complaints were dropped. She put me onto someone called General Andrews who is in charge of the research lab, apparently he has been trying to get something on Alex for months, but files and information on him keep disappearing.'
'So what are we going to do?' Gwen asked.
'We let Alex take the device we've been working on back to UNIT.' said Jack.
'What!' exclaimed Ianto, 'We're going to let him go, just like that.'
'Hear me out. We can't do much with him here, he's going to get suspicious. General Andrews is willing to arrest him when he returns if we can give him some evidence. Now Molly has uncovered files he deleted once before and she might be willing to do that again, especially if he's not here. Believe me UNIT have some pretty serious methods for dealing with people like Alex.'
Ianto frowned. 'I'm not happy about this.'
'Look at it this way, it gets him out of here, and away from Molly.' Jack said, he wasn't completely happy with this plan either, but it had to be done. 'Go and tell Molly and Alex to come here, and then Ianto when Alex has gone, I want you to fill Gwen and Jamie in on what we are doing.'
When Molly and Alex got to the office, Jack said. 'Alex, General Andrews has been on the phone and he wants you to take the device back to UNIT.'
'But I haven't fixed it yet?' said Molly who felt slightly put out by the fact she was going to have to hand it over.
'They want it and I tried to convince them it was better off with us, but they wouldn't have it. So Alex you're due back there for 6pm.'
'That's a shame I was hoping to stay around for a few days, but if duty calls.'
'It does, if you want to call General Andrews than please do.' said Jack.
'No it's fine, once that guy makes up his mind there's no changing it.' said Alex somewhat bitterly.
Molly looked at Jack, there was something about this that wasn't making sense, but she knew that this was not the time to question it. She left the office and picked up the device and took it back to Alex. On her way back up to the office she could see Ianto talking to Gwen and Jamie and she knew then there was definitely something going on. 'Here you go', she said handing it over. By the time they got to the door, the others we there.
'I'll show you out.' Ianto said, although this was more because he wanted to make sure he actually left than out of politeness.
'Well it was nice meeting you all.' Alex said, then turning to Molly. 'Nice seeing you again, hopefully it won't be as long next time.'
'Goodbye Alex,' was all Molly said in return. Ianto then led him out the door. When he had gone she turned to the others and said, 'So who's going to tell me what's going on. I mean all of a sudden UNIT want that device and Alex back? This is because of me isn't it.'
Jack walked over to her and put his hand on her shoulder. 'Yes it is, and your friend Ellie. We think we can get to the bottom of what happened, but we knew that we couldn't do that with him here. We have the time it takes him to get back to UNIT to get what we need.'
'What do I have to do?'
'Ianto said that you had recreated some deleted UNIT files before, do you think you can do it again?'
'If it gets Alex arrested, sure.' She paused. 'I'm sorry.'
Jack looked confused. 'Why are you sorry.'
'For bringing you all into this.'
'No need to be sorry, we're a team. We look out for each other.'
Ianto then came back in. 'He's gone.'
'Good. Ok down to work we don't have long. Molly go and see if you can get into the UNIT files and recreate what we need, Jamie and Gwen, go back through the police files on Ellie's accident. Ianto, you and I are going to go through his personnel files.'
They set about there various tasks. It was obvious now that Molly was a lot happier and the atmosphere in the Hub returned to normal. Jamie was working through the police reports with Gwen, but he couldn't help looking over at Molly every now and again. He had the feeling that Ianto hadn't told him and Gwen everything about what had happened between Molly and Alex. Jamie had the feeling that Alex had treated her in a bad way and this unsettled him and made him eager to find something on the guy so that he would be out of her life forever.
'I'm in.' shouted Molly after a while. 'Oh God, it's worse than last time, look at this.' The others gathered around Mollys computer, she had pulled up files that showed emails he had sent to buyers, information on equipment that had mysteriously disappeared from UNIT archives, and emails blackmailing senior members of staff.
'I can't believe he's got away with this for so long.' said Gwen, and Molly cringed slightly at this.
'Well there's enough here for General Andrews to be able to arrest him. Send it to him. Alex should have got back to UNIT headquarters by now.'
'Ok'. Molly suddenly felt as if a weight she didn't even realised she was carrying, had been lifted off her. Alex could finally be out of her life forever. 'Would it be ok if I went home after. There's no sign of any Rift activity?'
'Sure,' said Jack.
'Do you want me come with you?' asked Ianto.
'No I'll be fine tonight, thanks. Oh, but can you let me know if you hear anything?' Molly asked and Ianto nodded. 'Thank you everyone, I really appreciate what you've helped me do today.'
'At least let me give you a lift.' said Jamie, he knew Alex had gone, but he still wanted to make sure she got home ok.
'Only if you don't mind.'
Just like the night before it didn't take long to get to Molly's flat, and Jamie was pleased that she seemed more relaxed this time. He stopped the car outside and said. 'Are you sure you're going to be ok?'.
'I'll be fine. I would invite you in, but there's something I have to do tonight.'
'That's ok, I didn't expect you too.'
'I know you didn't.' said Molly and she smiled at him as she got out of the car. 'See you tomorrow.'
Jamie watched as she walked towards her flat and opened the door. Once she was inside he started the car back up and drove away.
Molly was pleased to be home, she walked into the lounge and threw her bag on the couch. She switched the kettle on and then walked over to close the curtains over the far window. It was then she sensed a presence behind her, and she froze when someone spoke. 'Did you really think it would be that easy to take me down?'
It was Alex.
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A/N. Please don't kill me for the cliffhanger!
