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Chapter 14.
"Wake up, lazy demon. Time for work," John whispered. There was a groan as Rachel stretched,
"Can't we call in sick?" She asked. John laughed,
"No, they know you can't get sick,"
Rachel tutted as she stumbled to the bathroom.
"I thought you liked working for torchwood," He said over breakfast,
"I do, just the getting up bit, I've got an issue with," Rachel yawned.
"You're so lazy,"
"Only in the mornings,"
"Yeah, then you get pumped full of caffeine and sugar," John smiled.
"Of course,"
They were greeted by the ever growing Fire lion that Rachel had rescued. He had been christened Llewellyn, Lou for short.
"Alright boy," Rachel smiled stroking the St. Bernard sized lion.
Lou was friendly with everyone but mainly Rachel, who was training him and Ianto, who fed him.
That day the rift had been surprisingly quiet, so Rachel was sat with a bag full of raw chicken bits, training the overgrown kitten.
"Can you say, ahhhh!" She said, as the lion opened his mouth wide.
"Good boy," She praised giving him a piece of chicken. The alarms for the door went off, as Lou let out a low growl.
"Who's that?" Rachel called over to Tosh who was nearest.
"No idea, I thought we were all here," Tosh said confused standing with Rachel as they went to see who was at the door, Lou standing at Rachel's side let out another growl, as Jessica Harrow strolled into the hub like she owned the place.
"You drag that in?" Rachel asked the big cat. As Tosh laughed at her side, the lion shook it's head.
"He'd have better taste," Owen said, coming out of the medical bay. Apparently Jessica had been pestering Owen about him being dead last time she had been here.
"What are you doing here?" Jack asked, coming out of his office. Jessica looked up at him then turned and looked at Rachel.
"You, Miss Falcon."
"It's Captain Falcon. And what are you going on about," Rachel asked.
Jessica handed Rachel a brown package.
"I'm a lazy sod, just tell me what it is," Rachel said, handing Tosh the Package, who opened it.
"It says, due to Unit Protocol 63548764b. That you, Captain Rachel Falcon, being what you are, are not seen fit to work for Torchwood, or for that matter be on Earth." She smiled maliciously at Rachel.
"I was born here. Surely that gives me the right to be on my home planet."
"Yes you were born here, but as records go you also died here. You went missing, after a years search, you were declared dead. Technically you don't exist." Jessica sneered.
"Alright, if I don't exist you can't fire me." Rachel shrugged, heading back to her desk.
"You have to report to UNIT and go through a series of tests to prove that you are not a danger to anyone or anything on earth."
"I've already made sure she's not," Owen said. Jessica looked over at the doctor,
"UNIT want to make it official," she sneered.
"She's been here, what almost 6 months now, I think if she was going to cause any damage, she would have by now. She's not that patient." Jack said, walking down the stairs of his office and into the main hub.
"It's all part of my master plan to overtake the universe," Rachel laughed.
"Cos I'm half alien it makes me a serious threat," She said sarcastically.
Tosh was sat by her desk reading through the extensive and overly-complicated UNIT paperwork. Her brow getting more and more furrowed, the further she read into the sheets.
"What's it say Tosh?" Gwen asked coming over.
"A load of crap, too be honest," Tosh said. "It's something like a Rehab. I don't know, like Alien Rehabilitation, helps aliens adjust to life on earth." Tosh explained.
"Says here that it's mandatory." Gwen said reading over Toshiko's shoulder.
"How long have I got to be there?" Rachel called over to Jessica.
"How ever long it takes," She replied.
"To do what?" Owen asked.
"Yeah, because she's already adjusted to life on earth." Ianto said.
"Better than most who've come through the rift have, anyway." Jack agreed.
"Guys," Rachel smiled at the team worrying about this UNIT occurrence.
"I'll just head of to London, have a chat with head honcho and come back home. No problemo! I'll go first thing tomorrow, I can't be gone long."
John looked over at her. "Are you sure?" He asked uncertain.
Rachel walked over to him, giving him a kiss.
"I have handled much worse things than a stuck up soldier." She smirked. "I will be fine." She assured him. Smiling she turned back to Toshiko.
"Where am I going, Tosh?" She asked picking up the letter. Scanning through it.
"London," Rachel concluded. "Should be fun." Then she stopped. Re reading what she'd just read to make sure she had read it correctly.
"The UNIT representative will provide a replacement to the missing team member whilst said member is absent." She read out loud.
"Your going to be a mechanic." Owen said.
"Yes, I have a degree." She said turning to Rachel. "What do you have?"
"Well, unfortunately I don't have a little piece of paper that says I can take apart cars but I do have about 13 years of criminal experience." She smiled kindly.
The day went by surprisingly quickly. A space porcupine had come through the rift. Resulting in Jack, John and Rachel with various spines covering them. The three of them were sat in the medical bay. The rest of the team helping pull out the spikes, and finding the situation hilarious.
"Yeah you can laugh," John muttered, wincing as Gwen pulled out one of the spines.
"You weren't the one facing the sharp pointy end." Jack laughed as Tosh yanked one out of his shoulder.
"Well, if you hadn't tried to pounce on it," Ianto said.
"We were trying to corner it," Rachel said. "Ow," she growled. Owen sniggered as he continued pulling out the spikes.
"It would of worked too," John said.
"Yeah, if you knew it could shoot the spikes." Tosh said,
"You'd have probably stayed at a safer distance," Gwen laughed. John jolted away.
"There's only one left, will you stay still," She told him.
"No, it hurts" He said.
Jack was spike free now. Ianto smirking at him, Rachel only had one left which Owen mercilessly pulled out.
"Ow!" She yelped.
Now only John was left. Gwen was backing him into a corner.
"You seem to be getting a small amount of enjoyment out of my pain, sweet cheeks."
"Well," She considered. "a little bit yeah," She laughed.
Rachel rolled her eyes jumped down of the table, and strolled to Gwen. Whispered something in her ear and carried on towards John, who warily looked at her. She ignored his cautiousness. And crushed her lips to his. John's natural dominance taking over he twisted so Rachel was against the wall and his back towards the room. Gwen leant forward grabbed the spine and tugged. He broke his lips from Rachel to give a small yelp.
"You little trickster," He said to Rachel. She smirked up at him.
"Most Wanted, remember."
With paper work finished the team had nothing to do and had resolved to the couch that was up against the wall under the TORCHWOOD sign. Of course the seven of them wouldn't fit so Tosh was sat on Owen. Jack on the arm of the chair leaning on Ianto, Gwen on the other arm and John next to Owen with Rachel on his lap. All of them sipping Ianto's amazing Coffee.
"I hope they have Ianto Coffee in London." Rachel said.
"I doubt it," Jack said. "There's only one Ianto."
Ianto smiled at Jack, "I'll make you a flask," Ianto said to Rachel.
"Go on Kids," Jack said, after a while, "Looks like nothings happening tonight, go home,"
"No!" Rachel laughed. "John, I'll miss the train," John was clinging on to her waist, every time she tried to get up she was dragged back down onto the bed.
"But I might not see you now!" John laughed.
"Baby, you might go with out me for like a week at the most!" She smiled.
"You expect to go a week without you,"
"You managed a year," Rachel smiled.
"Nah, that was different," He disagreed, tugging her back onto the bed.
"Jo-hn." She half laughed half begged. "I'm going to miss my train!"
"You say that like it's a bad thing," John laughed dragging her back down.
She fell back against his chest. "Will you let go already," She smiled.
"I've got to go, how bad of an impression will I make if I'm late and my excuse is, "Sorry, I missed the train because my boyfriend wouldn't let my out of bed," Wouldn't be the best thing to say," Rachel grinned.
"I don't know, at the mention of boyfriend they might think it makes you more human." John smiled.
"Fine, my rouge ex-time agent boyfriend who can be a bit of a sadistic maniac who is addicted to sex drugs and drink, wouldn't let me out of bed." She smirked.
"I am not sadistic,"
"Yeah, you can be, a little."
"Yeah but you love it,"
"I do, and I love you but I've really got to go," She moaned, trying and failing to get out of bed. It took at least ten minutes but finally they were ready. Rachel had a rucksack packed.
They were in the car to the train station. Rachel had her eyes closed, listening to the hum of the car, and reminiscing last night. With the fact that Rachel might be gone for a while John had compensated for the absence. Rachel was planning to sleep on the train to make up for the lack of it last night.
At the station the Torchwood team were waiting on the platform. Ianto handed Rachel her ticket and a flask of coffee.
"Thank you," She grinned. Giving them each a hug as her train pulled into the station.
"That's me," She said nodding towards the train. Leaning up and giving john a kiss.
"I'll be home soon. Love you." She whispered.
"Love you more, always and forever." he replied.
Rachel's newly accuired family waved as the train left the station. Rachel sighed, she wouldn't be gone long enough to miss them. But she still couldn't shake off the feeling that something bad was going to happen. A feeling she was being watched.
Stop being paranoid, we'll be fine.
Yeah, we will. Because no matter what, we're wanted in Cardiff.
She smiled as she leant against the window.
"She'll be fine won't she?" Gwen asked.
"Of course she will, she won't be gone long enough for us to miss her," Owen said.
"Plus if UNIT try and give her trouble, she'll probably hit the general," Jack laughed.
The journey to London, was two hours long. It was half way through that the feeling of being watched intensified. The hairs on the back of Rachel's neck stood up. She got up, made her way to the toilet even though she didn't need it.
She heard someone's footsteps behind her. Taking a breath Rachel made her way to a busier cabin, hoping to lose whoever was following her.
She lost the sense of being watched the moment she entered. She fought through the busy passengers, and stood by the door. Scanning the cabin for anything or anyone unusual. She looked at a man, clad in black, and his eyes met hers. He quickly disappeared in the crowd.
"Oh, Crap," She muttered. "Barely out of Cardiff and your in trouble," She muttered to herself. She fought her way back to the quieter cabin. Her eyes scanning the room. She sat back down and kept her hand on her gun.
She turned her head from one side of the cabin to the other. She sensed someone behind her. She was about to turn around. A sharp pain flooded through her head.
She blacked out.