A/N. Thank you to everyone who reviewed the last chapter, it was much appreciated. This chapter was originally a lot longer, but i decided to split it into two or else there was an overload of stuff. This basically sets things up and the next chapter explains it. :) There is a dream in this chapter, and it is in italics.

Useless fact of the day, this was written while listening to the Glee soundtrack. It's very motivational lol. Enjoy. Kat x.

Chapter 44.

The morning passed relatively quietly, with everyone getting on with their appointed tasks. Ianto emerged from the archives around 1pm and went over to Molly, who was staring intently up at the screen in front of her.

'How's it going?' he asked.

'Good, I've finally finished the programme I was working on, so translations should be a lot easier from now on.'

'So you have time to come out for lunch then?'

'Sure. Do you think that will be ok?'

Ianto smiled, 'No problem. If I promise that we will bring food back with us, I don't see a issue.' Ianto walked away towards Jack's office to go and tell him that they were nipping out for an hour, but wouldn't be far if they were needed. As he did, Molly stood up, put her coat on and picked up her bag. When Ianto came back down, they left through the cog door, and made their way out of the building and up onto the Plass. They went over to the Café and got themselves settled into a booth, away from the door. After they got drinks and something to eat, they started discussing the final details of the wedding. While Ianto was talking Molly's mind started to drift so that she wasn't really paying attention to what he was saying.

'Molly did you hear anything I just said?' Ianto asked, breaking Molly out of her reverie.

'What. Oh sorry, my mind was elsewhere.' Molly answered, blushing slightly.

'What is it? Something is obviously up, especially with the tension between you and Jamie.'

Molly sighed, 'I'm just tired and stressed out over the wedding.' She then went on and told Ianto what had happened the previous night and that morning with Jamie.

'Do you think it was your dream that woke you up?'

'Maybe, but I don't remember it so I'm not sure.'

'You said this has been happening for the past four days. Could they be wedding related, it is getting close.'

'Believe me, I remember all the wedding related dreams, my personal favourite being the one I had about month ago, after we had all that trouble with the weevils. I dreamt the congregation was made up of weevils.' Ianto chuckled at this, but then laughed harder when Molly added, 'wearing tuxes.'

'Weevils wearing tuxes, that would be quite a sight.'

'You can laugh, it wasn't funny at the time,' but Molly was now laughing too.

'In all seriousness though, just talk to Jamie. I don't think he'll be happy to know you've been discussing this with me, when you've been snapping at him and telling him you're fine.'

'I will. Thanks.'

'Anytime. Come on, we have things we have to get done, and then we need to get back with the food.'

X

When they returned to the Hub, Molly went down into the med bay to take lunch to Jamie as a peace offering.

'This is my way of apologising for being so miserable and taking it out on you.' she held out the sandwich she had bought with her. Jamie took it and smiled.

'Thanks. You going to tell me what was wrong now?'

Molly nodded and repeated what she had told Ianto at lunch.

'I could give you something tonight, to help you sleep. Maybe one full nights sleep is all you need.'

Molly shook her head, 'I'd rather not, you know how much I hate taking tablets. Let me see what happens tonight and we'll go from there. Anyway I have work to do.' Molly leant forward and kissed Jamie on the cheek, before walking back up to her computer.

For the first time in weeks the day passed without incident and Jack let the team go at a reasonable hour for once.

'Everyone go home,' he called from the doorway of his office. 'Make the most of it being quiet.'

Gwen was the first out, going home to surprise Rhys, Molly and Jamie followed not long after. Jack and Ianto stayed behind to close everything down and make the most of having the Hub to themselves.

X

At 10pm Molly decided she couldn't keep her eyes open any longer and went to bed. As she snuggled down under the duvet, she felt less stressed than she had in a while and was hoping this would lead to an unbroken nights sleep. After a couple of hours though the dream started, more vivid than it had been before.

The doors to the church opened and Molly looked in to see all the guests gathered in the seats. She started to walk down the aisle, Ianto by her side. She smiled as she approached Jamie standing at the end. As she walked though, she felt that something was wrong, there was a chill in the air and a sense of foreboding. As she reached the end of the aisle she heard a voice in the shadows. 'You have to help us. You have to stop them.' Molly turned to see the source of the voice, but there was nothing. As she looked back round four figures stepped out from a door on the other side of the church, they were all women and they were armed. Molly tried to shout out a warning, but nothing came out and the women started firing, hitting everyone with a deadly accuracy.

It was at this point that Molly woke up with a shout and started sobbing. Jamie had woken just a few minutes earlier, aware that Molly was restless in her sleep. When she woke up he reached out towards her, slightly afraid at the way she had woken up shouting so suddenly. She was now crying, her head buried in her knees, as if she wasn't aware that she was safe. Jamie edged towards her, whispering soothing sounds and then pulled her into his arms.

'It's ok, Molly, what ever it was, it was just a dream, you're ok, you're safe.' he whispered as he rubbed his hand in circles on her back. Molly seemed to calm down slightly at this and wrapped her arms around Jamie and buried her head in his shoulder, trying to calm herself down. Unlike the previous nights, this dream she remembered. Jamie kept up whispering to her and holding her, until she calmed down enough for him to pull away a bit.

'I'm going to go and get you a drink, is that ok?' he asked. Molly nodded and let go of the hold that she had on him. Jamie hurried out of the bedroom and to the kitchen to go and get her a glass of water. When he returned to the bedroom, he found Molly with her head buried in her knees again. He climbed back into bed and pulled her against him, before handing her the drink, which she sipped carefully. When she had finished she placed it on the bedside table and huddled back into Jamie.

'You want to tell me, what happened?' he asked carefully. 'I take it you remember that dream?'

'I can't,' Molly whispered. 'It..It..was too horrible.' She took a deep breath to stifle the tears that were threatening to fall.

'I get that, but it wasn't real, nothing is going to happen to you.'

'But it felt real. It was like I was there and it was really happening and you… you were…' Molly trailed off she couldn't say it.

'I was what?'

Molly turned slightly to look at Jamie, unshed tears glistening in her eyes. 'Dead, you were dead, everyone was.' The tears started to fall again as the scene that she had seen in her dream came back to her. She told him about what she had heard and the four women.

'Hey it's ok, it's ok. We'll figure this out.' They stayed how they were until eventually Molly fell asleep again. Jamie lay back down, making sure to keep hold of her. He lay awake for a while longer, trying to process what had happened. It was usual to have nightmares when under stress, but Molly's seemed extreme and he had to wonder if there was more to it. Before long Jamie succumbed to sleep to.

X

The next morning Molly and Jamie were in early, neither having got much more sleep. Molly hadn't had another dream, but she was still haunted by the one she could remember. Once in the Hub, Molly went and sat at her terminal, the shadows under her eyes evidence of the lack of sleep from the night before. Jamie gave her a hug before heading up to Jack's office where he was sat with Ianto.

'You two are in early, everything ok?' asked Jack.

'No it's not. I think something is going on with Molly.'

'Is this to do with her dreams?' Ianto said looking a little worried.

'Yeah, she woke up crying last night and scared, really scared. I want to know if there's something that could be influencing what she's seeing?'

'There are lots of things that can manipulate dreams, but I'd need more information before I could hazard a guess at what it might be. Are you sure it's not just stress?' Jack answered.

'It's more than that, she dreamt last night that everyone was killed at the wedding. That's more than usual wedding stress.'

'What!' exclaimed Ianto, 'No wonder she woke up scared.'

'Tell me about it, it took me ages to calm her down. She also said someone spoke to her.'

'Ok, we need to hear what Molly saw and then maybe we can get an idea if there's something else behind it. Do you think she'll be willing to go through it.'

Jamie ran his hand through his hair before he replied, 'Probably, just go easy on her.'

'We'll get together around the sofa downstairs, more comfortable than the boardroom, five minutes.'

Jamie nodded and then went downstairs, Ianto not far behind. 'You ok?' Ianto asked Jamie.

'I will be, when Molly is.' he answered looking over to where she was sitting.

'We'll get to the bottom of this.' Ianto said and he patted Jamie's arm reassuringly.

Five minutes later they were gathered around the sofa, Molly and Jamie sat on it, with Molly holding onto Jamie's hand. Jack and Ianto had pulled chairs up. They had decided to get this part over with and fill Gwen in if they thought it was something they needed to be dealing with.

'Do you really think something could be messing with my head?' Molly asked.

'It's possible,' replied Jack. 'There are some aliens that do it for kicks, and some that do it to try and manipulate you into doing something for them.'

'Why me?'

'That I can't answer, at least not at the moment. Start at the beginning, take your time.'

Molly took a deep breath and recounted her dream for a second time, it was no easier than the first, but she managed to keep her composure.

'The voice definitely said "you have to help me. You have to stop them." said Jack.

'Yeah, but I couldn't see who said it.'

'Ok, what about the figures with the guns, can you describe them.'

'Erm..' Molly thought hard, 'They were women, all of them.' The others looked a surprised by this.

'What are they wearing?' asked Jack.

Molly thought again, she hadn't really thought about these women in detail before now, having been more focused on what they did. Molly was having to try and freeze the image of these women in her mind, before they started shooting. 'It seems like they are wearing some kind of jumpsuit, burgundy. Now I think about it, they look like something out of a sci fi movie.' Molly looked up at Jack and could see that he had paled slightly at this description. 'What is it?'

'You recognise that description, don't you.' said Ianto.

'Yeah, I do, and it's not good.' replied Jack.