i couldn't believe dad had taken me here of all places! he knows i hate torchwood! and he should too! i hate everything it stands for and i especially hate mr. jack harkness. (i absolutely refuse to call him captain after what he did)
after i'd stormed off, i headed to my room. but the TARDIS had a different plan. every other corner i turned, i hit a door leading outside.
"NO!" i shouted at her. "i'm NOT going out to talk to him!" i ran down the other direction but the next corner was, you guessed it, a exit door. this went on for five minutes. after the 72nd door, and yes, i had been counting, i gave in.
"all right!" i shouted, exasperated, "i'll go!" and i swear, i could almost hear the TARDIS sigh in relief. i opened the door and discovered, we hadn't parked outside of torchwood as we'd thought, we'd parked right in the middle of the fricken hub!
when i stepped out, everybody stopped what they were doing and stared at me. i hated all of their guts, so i didn't care. i started running. i had the door in my sights, but when i was about five meters away, a pair of arms reached out and stopped me. i slowly looked up at one of the faces i hated most, and knew jack wouldn't let me leave without a fight.
but lucky for him, he was gonna get a fight. 'cause i was not staying in this hell hole any longer.
"ali, listen!" he started. but he didn't get to finnish. i pulled back my fist and, before he could process what was happening, i socked him right in the nose. i heard the crunch of bone breaking under my fist. but i was out the door before i cared.
i couldn't be sure, but i think, the moment before i left, i saw a new face peaking out of a room on the floor above me. i shook/cleared my head and kept running, down the passage-ways, through the help center, and out the front door.
i had no idea where i was running to. i just wanted to get away from torchwood. i hated them almost as much as i hated the daleks and i wasn't gonna stand there and watch them blubber around trying to explain themselves.
eventually, i slowed down. i looked around me and saw i was in some shopping centre. now i'm not a girly girl, (and who would be, after spending so much time pwning aliens?) so i don't really like shopping all that much. but standing there, stranded, without the tardis, i just needed something to clear my mind.
i wandered around until i found a toy store. i like toys. toys are fun. toys can take your mind away from your problems, if only for a couple minutes.
as i was standing there, i saw a little boy walking out with a big grin on his face, swinging a plastic bag full of robots up in the air. then, all of the sudden. a silver robot dog fell out, and smashed on the pavment. i couldn't stand to see a little kid like him, so happy before crying, so i rushed over.
"heyy, it's ok." i said to him. he sniffed.
"can you fix it?" he asked me, a cute little puppy-dog look on his face. i looked down at the remains of the dog. some of them were smashed into teeny-tiny bits.
"i'll try, ok?" i responded. he sniffed again, a look of hope in his eyes. i started grabbing the pieces, putting the bigger ones on my left, and the smithereens on my right. he stood there watching me as i worked. i pulled out my sonic pen, and scanned the pile on my right. i found two relatively big pieces that fit together, so i switched the setting to alpha numeral 56.3 and squeezed them together as i aimed the pen at the crack. and before his little ignorant eyes, i re-assembled the little dog.
when i was finished, i set him up on the ground, and pressed the on button. his eyes lit up, (literally, his eyes were just little lightbulbs) and started barking and doing other robot-dog stuff.
"there." i said, standing up proudly. "good as new! oh, and i might have made some minor improvements." i whispered to him.
the little boy looked at me in shock and walked over to the dog.
"that button there." i told him, pointing to it's collar. he inched forward and pressed the button. for a second nothing happened. he looked up at me, confused. but i just stood there grinning.
then, the dog started yipping. then it crouched like it was gonna jump, and it soared into he air. it popped little wings out of its back, and flew circles around the boys head. his face lit up and he started jumping and laughing.
"i helped you, so you have to promise me something." i told the kid.
"you cant tell anyone i made your doggy fly. ok?" he nodded his head really hard, like a bobble head during an earthquake.
"good boy. i said, patting him on the back "now go find your parents." he nodded and ran off to a couple, standing by a coffee shop. "and don't swing the bag anymore!" i called after him. i sighed and looked around the shopping centre. then i saw one of the last faces i wanted to see. i looked around for a way out as gwen walked towards me.
i thought i was trapped, but then i saw a little side alleyway over to my left. i started to head calmly over to it when i saw gwen speed up put of the corner of my eye. i started running for the ally when i saw owen on the other end of it.
i was trapped. right then, i felt owen pin my hands behind my back as gwen caught up to us.
"i'm sorry ali," she said. i just rolled my eyes
"stuff a sock in it!" i shout back. "i will never forgive torchwood for what you did."
"ali,"owen said from behind me. "we didn't want to do that, but we had to. to save torchwood."
"oh please!" i shouted at him. (which was kinda hard considering he was standing behind me and i couldn't turn around.)
"i can think of at least three other ways we could have solved that problem! jack just wanted to get rid of me!" neither of them had an aurgument for that. gwen sighed.
"ali, can you just work with us for ten minutes? then you have my full permission to maul anyone who gets in your way."
"hmmmmm..." i hated being dragged back to that hell-hole, but i liked the idea bout mauling everyone.
"i'll do it." gwen looked releived. "on one condition." i smiled evily. gwen looked worried.
"what condition?" she asked wearily.
"i get to punch jack again before i leave. in my way or no." i grinned, searching her face for the answer. she glanced at owen and i couldn't see his face, but i'm guessing it said, 'just do it, it's the only way' cause it was. i don't give up easily.
"ok." she said "now can we get this over with?
"ok!" i said cheerily "ten minutes starrrtttssss... now!"
they hurried me through the crowded outlet mall, trying to beat the clock. by the time we got back to the hub, there were only six minutes left.
"come one jack!" gwen shouted "you only have five minutes to talk to her!"
"five minutes?" i turned and saw him strolling out of a door behind me, and i couldn't help but make a face.
"hey arse-face! haven't seen you in a while." i practically growled at him.
"hey language!" he laughed back. "what would your dad say?
"when have i ever listened to my dad, jack?" he was about to reply when a girl, about 15-16 walked out of the room to my right.
"well who's this?" she asked, looking me up and down.
"this doesn't involve you. now go skip away into your world of rainbows and butterflies" i told her coldly (as i said, i want no part with torchwood, wether they were actually there or not!) she looked at jack, then back at me.
"wait a second," she looked like she had figured out a difficult puzzle. "is this the ali girl you were telling me about?" jack looked away, which i took to be a bad sign.
"my name is ali, but i bet you ten pounds whatever they told you is wr-"i got cut of by a punch in the jaw.
"what the hell was that for?!" i shouted at her. but i didn't wait for an answer. i went into full attack mode. before i knew it, we were on the floor, punching, biting scratching, pulling hair, basicaly, whatever would do some damage.
jack broke us apart and helped us to our feet. (at least he helped mystery girl, i refused to let him near me.) i got up and brushed myself off.
"your pretty good." i said to her. she made a face that said. 'i know' but she didn't let me finnish
"for a human." that set her off, but she stopped herself.
"and what, your not?" she asked sarcasticly.
"look around you." is it really that hard to believe? ask any one of them" i gestured to the rest of torchwood. she looked around with a questioning look in her eye. everyone avoided here gaze. then i remembered why i was here. i turned to jack.
"so, how're you gonna explain your way outa this one?" i asked him.
"why should he have to explain what he did to you? you should be apologizing to him!" the girl exclaimed. i took a deep breath to calm myself down.
"look." i turned to her "i don't know what they told you, but you weren't there so shut up, and let jack apologize." i turned back to jack. mystery girl had a sort of stunned look on her face.
"now, moving on." i turned back to jack (oh that rhymed!) "what's your excuse this time?"
"ali, i'm sorry for what happened but i'm not apologizing!" i snorted and rolled my eyes.
"ali! i did what i had to do to save torchwood!"
"oh really! like i said to them earlier," i gestured to gwen and owen. "i can think of three other ways to solve the little alien problem, other then erasing my memory, sticking me on earth, and telling me my dad, the only person you know i cant bear to loose was DEAD!" jack looked like he'd been hit between the eyes.
"there." i turned to mystery girl. "now you know why i hate torchwood." then i ran off for the second time today. but this time no one tried to stop me.
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