Oh dear me, I appear to have made one or two people rather sad. One person in particular seems to have cried. GOOD MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Trust me, if you're confused now wait until I get started. :P
Rachy Babes: Poor baby, can you not see the log in button through the tears? *sniggers* You'll LOVE the end of this chapter :)
Sonotalady: Ah, sarcasm, my old friend :) sappiness? I love sappiness, lots and lots of it. Plus, don't worry I'm sure there's loads of old sappy on shots in my computer that I've simply forgotten to put up and as soon as I get back into watching Torchwood they'll all be uploaded at mega speed. Yes, I do have rather a lot to do. Doesn't mean I'm doing it though. I should really be writing that essay now but I'm doing this instead ad possibly going for a walk with the family later. Meh, who needs a qualification eh?
Crimson TigerLily: Oh alright, here's something a tad longer and erm… well, it's longer :D
I never meant to be so bad to you
One thing I said that I would never do
A look from you and I would fall from grace
And that would wipe the smile right from my face
Do you remember when we used to dance?
And incidents arose from circumstance
One thing lead to another we were young
And we would scream together songs unsung
And when your looks are gone and you're alone
How many nights you sit beside the phone
What were the things you wanted for yourself?
Teenage ambitions you remember well
It was the heat of the moment
Telling me what your heart meant
The heat of the moment showed in your eyes
ASIA – Heat of Moment
'Can we go to a planet next?' The Doctor looked up from the console at his four companions and turned to the red headed girl.
'A planet?'
'Yes, you know a big spherical rock with atmosphere and plants and people and, you know…planety stuff.' He raised his eyebrows at the trail of the sentence but shrugged and nodded.
'I suppose so yes.' He turned quietly and began getting to work on the console. Winter eyed him thoughtfully. He was upset about something, that much was obvious, Amy seemed to be ignoring it but why would she?
'So?' Winter looked up in shock at Amy who was leaning over towards her, a suggestive smile on her face. 'Did you have fun?'
'With what?'
'You know. Birthday night.' Winter screwed up her nose and shrugged.
'Not much difference really.' Amy's brow knitted together.
'But come on? You must have had some fun… it's not like you just slept.' Winter scratched her neck and looked away from the taller woman. 'No way! On your Birthday!'
'I was tired!' She defended.
'But it was your Birthday!' Winter sighed, 'I'll be just as old tonight, and the next night and the night after that.'
'But it's you and Jack.' Jack could no longer sit pretending to read Amy's girly magazine and chucked it to the side.
'Yeah but we really needed the sleep. Besides I was always a bigger fan of the presents and the big cake anyway.' Winter giggled and Amy looked on in stunned silence and the TARDIS suddenly rocked to the side throwing them all on the floor.
'Is everyone ok?' The Doctor yelled.
'Um, Ow!' Rory complained, picking himself up from the bars around the glass floor. Winter looked down at Jack's grip around her leg and smirked, picking herself up before helping him to his feet and watching Amy haul herself up using the console.
'What the hell was that?' Jack asked. The Doctor pulled the screen around to face him and looked across to the door.
'Nothing, it was…nothing.'
'Well it felt like a pretty big nothing.' Amy snapped. The Doctor wasn't listening, he edged towards the doors and with a quick snap, threw them open and stepped out. The companions followed his lead and looked around the grassy patch of park they had landed on. 'You know when I said a planet I didn't mean our one.' Amy sighed, closing the door behind her. Winter smiled up at the sun and a random idea hit her. With her tongue between her teeth she poked Jack in the ribs and grinned triumphantly.
'You're it.' Realisation dawned on his face and he smirked.
'Oh yeah?'
'Yeah, what are you going to do about it?' She turned on her heel and raced around the TARDIS and across the park giggling like a child as Jack chased her down. The Doctor smiled as he watched them, he loved seeing them doing happy, humany things but he looked around at the earth and couldn't help but let that the smile turned downwards. This didn't feel right.
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Across the other side of the park Fawks lay on a picnic blanket, her baby Kam on her chest, the team surrounding her and a hell of a lot of food. Her stipulations had been clear, the 'welcome back Cardiff' party required food, sun and a lot of booze. A wild laugh caught her attention and she peered under her sunglasses to see who was making it. He mouth dropped in shock and she flung her hand around to grab her friends attention.
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Jack grasped Winter around the waist and picked her up from the ground, swinging her in small circles until gravity forced him to put her on the floor. She laughed hysterically, his arms still wrapped around her waist and looked down as she felt a tugging on her jeans. A large bulldog was slobbering in front of her and she smiled happily bending down to dote upon the dog.
'Oh I'm so sorry I just…Winter?' Winter looked up and stared into a familiar face.
'Alexandra?'
'Winter!' The girl looked up with wide eyes to see Fawks racing towards her, the team at her back. She turned to look at the Doctor, Amy and Rory only ten meters from them, her eyes full of confusion. The demon barrelled into her girlfriend and grinned insanely. 'I didn't know you were coming! Were you going to call! Why are you here? No never mind that! Oh it's so good to see you.' Winter smiled.
'It's great to see you, don't get me wrong Fawks but…I didn't come here to see you, I didn't even know we were in your universe. I'm really happy to see you though.' Fawks smiled and hugged her again.
'This feels off.' Winter frowned and looked over at The Doctor who stood staring into the air, spinning around once or twice. 'It's like, we're in your universe…but it's not your universe.'
'What are you babbling about?' John questioned. The Doctor glared at him.
'Something's just…off.' John nodded.
'Right, and while the Doc works out what's "off", who's for food, I'm bloody starving' Winter looked between Jack and Fawks and shrugged taking both of their hands. They glanced over at each other and then down at the girl before scrambling to be the first to slip and arm around her waist. Winter laughed and shook her head.
'If you two can't play nice I'll find someone who can.' With one motion she scooped up Watson the dog and cuddled him in her arms. He happily licked her face leaving a sheen of saliva. Fawks screwed up her nose, disgusted.
'Ech, gross.' Alexandra slapped her arm and smoothly followed Winter, calling back over her shoulder.
'My dog is not gross thank you very much.'
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'So how are you here then?' Fawk's Jack asked, leaning back against Ianto. The Doctor frowned.
'I don't know. I honestly haven't a clue, I was aiming for pleasure planet 45 out of Castra Dell Fossa but she just flung us here and now…'
'Now what?' John asked, munching on a chicken leg.
'Now I have to work out how we got here.'
'I'm not complaining.' Fawks grinned, letting her hand trace lazily up Winter's leg. Winter's Jack glared at her so she stuck her tongue out at him.
'Mature.' He commented.
'Life's too short.' She replied.
'Maybe it has something to do with the fluxes.' Gwen told the Doctor.
'Fluxes?' Ianto nodded, sipping some wine.
'We've been having some…odd, readings lately. One moment it's crazy. Off the scale. The next it's close to non-existent. Then it'll be fine for a week or so. We thought it was just left over radiation from…before but…' Fawks' Jack broke in pressing some buttons on his manipulator.
'We've tracked it down to this building, it's an old university storage basement with the science rooms on top. We were going to investigate tomorrow.' The Doctor hopped to his feet.
'No time like the present.' Everyone looked around at the picnic feast and frowned.
'But…the food.' John stated.
'Will still be edible tomorrow.'
'But my drink.' Fawks whined. The Doctor raised an eyebrow and she let out a resigned sigh. 'Fine then.' She downed the drink and hopped to her feet. 'Let-me-att'em.'
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Winter and Fawks crept in through the front door. They followed the students easily, breaking off as they turned into lecture halls and seminar groups. 'Remind me why I couldn't just have a surprise visit from you to have ice cream and tons of sexy time.' Fawks complained.
'Because we work for Torchwood and that would never ever happen.' Winter replied calmly. Fawks nodded acceptingly and smiled.
'Still, maybe we could skip the ice cream and go straight to the…'
'Fawks.' She threw her hands up.
'Sorry, I just want to take every chance I can get with you.' Winter shook her head, a smile on her face as they found the door to the basement.
'Why?' Fawks shrugged.
'Something Alexandra said.' Winter opened the door slowly and made to step inside but Fawks pushed her back. 'No, me first.' Winter frowned but nodded, she wasn't carrying a gun, only her sword, Fawks was better off in front. They steadily crept down and Fawks pulled her phone out. 'Ianto? Yeah, we're heading down now. No, nothing yet. Just a lot of old crap and…hey wait.' She pointed behind the large metal shelves, a light flicked in the distance, as though something was running past it. Fawks' eyes narrowed and she pulled a knife from her pocket, handing it to Winter. 'Take this.'
'I've got my sword.'
'Back up. I haven't got another gun, you need something smaller.' She turned back to the phone and they edged closer to the light. Winter followed Fawks closely, her sword in her hand and her eyes flicking left to right.
'About time.' Winter turned at the unexpected voice. A figure grabbed her sword, 'honestly, how long do I have to wait for you.' Fawks had turned to find a man holding Winter's arm tightly and her sword in his other hand, he looked like a threat, so she reacted. She ran forward and he turned to face her. Winter screamed as Fawks ran herself through with the sword by mistake. The world seemed to slow as the figure pulled out the sword and dropped it. 'Fuck.' He ran his hand through his hair and stepped back. The team's voices could easily be heard on Fawks' phone, shouting for updates but Winter ignored them, falling to her knee in a puddle of Fawks' blood and leaning over her girlfriend.
'Fawks, What..? No… I, I only just got here, you can't…come on heal yourself.' Fawks looked up at her with shock in her eyes. She glanced down at the blood on her hands in confusion. 'Come on Fawks, quit fooling around, heal yourself.' The demon shook her head. 'Fawks come on!'
'Can't…not…working.' She choked out.
'What the hell does that mean!' a trail of blood oozed out of Fawks' mouth and her head lolled to the side. 'Fawks…' Winter waited for a moment, at an utter loss for what to do, 'Fawks? Fawks!'
La lalalalalalala…what? :)
