Miracle Day- The New World
I awoke back in our house. The Doctor had dropped us off four months ago on the promise that he would return in time for Amelia to be born. According to Rory, Amelia Rose was going to be born in two more months.
That was good. I rubbed my stomach as Amelia started kicking. "Ugg." I said, struggling to sit up. I finally did so and put my glasses on. Today was my day off, a vacation day, from Torchwood. I refused to go on maternity leave.
I knew that the team had a pool going behind my back to guess when Amelia would be born. From what I knew, Tosh, Ianto, Owen and Gwen all had bets on me going into labor at work. The betting was fine with me. I knew that these times… these happy times didn't come around very often in our line of work and I didn't have the heart to tell them to stop.
I smiled when I thought of Gwen. She had her own child now. I stopped. They were all growing old. Martha was married to Mickey and they had a baby girl named Sally. Donna was married and we chatted yesterday. She told me that she was trying for a child. Amy and Rory were about to have a girl yet they didn't know it yet.
Amelia kicked my stomach again, this time harder. Her annoyance was clear. Usually I had eaten by this time. I put on my robe and my slippers and made my way to the kitchen mumbling, "Shh, shh. I know I haven't eaten yet."
I poured myself some cereal with milk, sat down and turned on the telly for some background noise. Jack was busy at Torchwood again today, supervising the new Torchwood building being built. The building above ground was going to work as an office building and the Torchwood section would be underneath, just like the Torchwood were Donna used to work, HC Clements.
We were still trying to keep everyone from discovering that aliens existed, but everyone on my team knew that it was becoming harder to do so with so many alien attacks recently. Fortunately for us, most of the world was still in denial.
We gained a few more team members, enough for there to be four teams of five. I, of course, made sure to run background checks on everyone and talked to their family members. I made sure that everyone's family knew that what they were doing was important, but not the gravity of the situation.
From the time the Doctor had dropped us off to now, there had been about ten alien attacks within four months of Jack and I back on Earth. Every one of those attacks was stopped by Torchwood with almost no casualties other than a few cuts and scrapes. I rubbed my forehead. I knew that our luck would soon run out.
There was one team stationed permanently at the new hub that consisted mostly of computer geniuses, Doctors, and journalists. There was a secondary team stationed at the new hub but would be called away if the other three teams were busy. There were three other teams of five each that would be in the field, dealing with Alien artifacts or spaceships that crash into earth or invasions.
The original team, now called Alpha Team, was still the old team of Toshiko Sato, Ianto Jones, Owen Harper, Gwen Cooper, Jack Harkness and I. Jack was in official commander of all the teams and I was in second command. Then came the Beta, Charlie, Delta, and Echo Teams.
The old team, Jack and I had designed the new Torchwood base together. It was completely amazing and looked like an underground secret spy or superhero headquarters. Since the governments had started to notice our work, we got more funding.
We had around 10 sub-zero floors in the new Torchwood building. The cover was that the new glass office building was a journal studio. We actually had our own news crew and newspaper which connected to major news networks, which helped a lot for cover-ups.
In the sub-zero floors we had a gun range, gun storage with loads of different types of guns and bullets (one can never be too careful) laser/nerf gun training course, prison, analysts/computer labs, Doctor's labs with state of the art equipment and a break room. There was also one floor for teams Beta through Echo. Alpha (The original team) had a floor all to ourselves, which we all called the hub.
It was like a dream building to face alien threats. My cell phone rang which drew me out of my daydream. I picked it up and answered the call, noticing it was from Gwen. "Gwen," I whined. "It's my day off. This had better be important."
"People have stopped dying."
I sat up straight. "Say that again?" I asked slowly.
"People all over the world have stopped dying. We need you to come in, everyone's panicking. The Delta team just came in from a mission and one of the members isn't dead when in all rights, they should be."
I closed my eyes and asked, "Which member?"
"Stephen."
I took a deep breath. He was one of the ones I thought had potential to be moved up to Charlie. "I'm coming in." I said.
"Susan, I know that tone of yours. It's bad, isn't it."
"It will get worse. Much worse. I'll be there in Five."
"Five? But you are at least ten minutes away- oh right. Your Vortex Manipulator."
"Get all the teams in the meeting room. Make sure Stephen gets medical treatment, as much as he can in the state he is in." I said. "Where is Jack?"
"Talking with UNIT in an emergency meeting. We have eyes everywhere looking for the Doctor as well."
"Good. Be there soon." I said and hung up. I sighed and rubbed my stomach. My day just had to get worse, didn't it. At least I knew what was going to happen which put us ahead of the people controlling Miracle Day.
I walked back to our bedroom, put on jeans, my blue shirt with my black jacket over it. I also put on sneakers, I wasn't stupid enough to put on anything else other than running material. I pulled my red hair up in a bun. I strapped on my holster which I put my gun in. It was isomorphic, which meant only I could use it. I put my sonic next to my gun, in its own tiny compartment and my psychic paper in the hidden pocket in the inside of my jacket.
I picked up my vortex manipulator and strapped it to my wrist. I also picked up my cell phone and called the Tardis. I waited and waited. Nothing. I groaned and left a message. "Heeeeey Doctor. So, we have a slight problem here. Well when I say slight I meant big. Everyone has stopped dying. At the rate humans give birth, well lets just say it will become a HUGE population problem. So, any time you want to stop by and help out would be excellent."
I hung up and huffed. Of course today of all days the Doctor is not in his Tardis. I sighed, pressed some buttons on my Vortex Manipulator and disappeared. I reappeared in meeting room and looked around. Almost everyone was there except for Jack, who I knew was at UNIT, Stephan and Doctor Johnson.
A couple people jumped whom I immediately recognized as members from Echo, the newest and less experienced group. Gwen walked up to me. "Everyone is here. Are you sure you should be traveling like that when you are pregnant?"
I rolled my eyes. "Gwen, I'm fine. Thanks for calling everyone in." Gwen nodded and went back to sit down next to Tosh, Owen and Ianto. "So, as you all know, there's been a bit of a problem."
"A bit?" Said Brandon, a team member from Delta. "People have stopped dying for bloody sake."
I put my hands on my hips and looked at Brandon. "Did I say you could talk?"
"No." Brandon said.
"Good." I said. "Remember, who has the most experiences in these types of situations?"
"You do." Brandon mumbled.
One of Brandon's team members, Jason, leaned over to whisper in his ear, "Don't argue with a pregnant woman mate. You'll lose every time."
I smirked at that comment and Brandon gulped, clearly noticing that I had heard Jason's comment but wasn't calling it out. I didn't like Brandon, but of course, he was good at what he did. You can't like everyone you work with.
"Now that we go that covered I will begin AGAIN. As all of you are aware, people have stopped dying. The media is portraying this time as 'Miracle day'. People began to notice this as people from all across the nations gathered to watch the execution of one Oswald Danes. Unfortunately, Oswald Danes survived.
"Oswald Danes was a former school teacher, arrested in 2006 for the rape and murder of twelve year old Susie Cabina. I want all the members of Echo and Charlie teams focused on him. I want all his history, phone records, emails, letters, prison records on my desk by 1000 hours. Track his movements, people he has been in contact with and track their movements. Anything out of the ordinary, I want to know immediately."
"Yes Ma'am!" Came the course of the members of the Charlie and Echo teams.
"Well, Charlie and Echo teams are dismissed!" The members stood up and walked out of the rooms to their work places.
The remaining teams, Alpha, Bravo, Delta were all that was left. "Okay, Delta, I want you permanently at the base." My decision didn't settle well with the team. They immediately started arguing my decision. "Okay, settle down." The arguing stopped. "The reason I am benching you is that you are already missing two members of your team. Stephen and your team's Doctor. We also need people to permanently defend the base."
"Defend?" Juliet Scott, leader of the Delta team, asked.
I nodded my head. "Yes defend. If we can't deal with this situation right away, the governments will turn to us because we have the most experience. You know politics. If something is not right, people switch sides. People we trusted to vote for us, will not. People who were against us will gain following. What the government doesn't understand, they are afraid of. Since we deal with aliens, they will come after us."
"Come after us? But this has alien invasion written all over it." Juliet argued. "We are the best people to sort this out."
I smiled sadly. "Yes, I know that, Juliet. But the governments do like their scapegoats. People in the governments who know about us already think we made this happen to get more funding."
"That's completely ridiculous!"
"I know. We just have to proceed with caution. Captain, your team WILL stay at the base or I will personally lock your team in the brig."
Juliet looked like she was going to argue but thought better of it. "Fine." Juliet said. "But that doesn't mean I have to like it."
"Noted. Now your teams assignment will be watching the hospitals. Beta, Captain Alex your team will be keeping an eye on the corporations. Start with the ones making the bandages, drugs, medicine those kinds of things. Companies like those will prosper in times like these." Captain Alex nodded. "Beta and Delta teams, you are dismissed."
Once both of the final teams left, I grabbed a chair and sat down, sighing, rubbing my stomach. "Why can't I have a day off? Does the universe hate me this much?"
"Come on, Susan. None of this was your fault." Tosh said.
"What do you want us to do?" Ianto asked.
"Well-" I started then Gwen's cellphone rang.
Gwen winced. "Sorry."
"Answer. It's probably important if someone is calling you during a crisis like this."
Gwen nodded and answered the phone. "Gwen Cooper." After a moment, her face drops. "Alright, I'll be there." She hangs up. "It's my dad. He's in the hospital."
"Go." I told her.
"But my job-" Gwen protested.
"Go, Gwen." I told her softly. "It's your father. We'll be fine here."
Gwen stands up, putting her jacket on. "Are you sure?"
"Gwen, are you trying to make me permanently confine you to this base? Go to your family. We've got this."
Gwen smiled. "Thank you." Gwen rushed out of the room.
I sighed as Jack walked into the room. "Jack!" I said, standing up, kissing him and went in for a hug. We pulled apart and both sat down in chairs.
Jack looked around. "Where's Gwen?"
"She's going to the hospital. Her father was just admitted. " Owen said.
Jack sighed, running his hand down his face. "Hell of a timing. I've been in contact with UNIT. Martha's taking care of things there. Katherine Stuart said that we should check on things in America. See who's looking into Torchwood and stuff like that."
"Okay." I agreed. "Jack and I are going to America. Owen, Tosh, and Ianto are staying here, making sure the government doesn't do anything stupid, which they probably will do, knowing how they are run."
"I didn't say that you could come with me, Susan." Jack said.
I spun my chair around to face Jack. "But-"
"Susan, remember what we agreed to. You're going to have a baby in two months. You need to take it easy."
I raised my eyebrows. "In this situation that will be almost impossible unless I sit the whole thing out." Jack pretended to think about it. "Jack!" I said, hitting his arm. "Come on! You know I am not good at keeping myself out of trouble."
"That's because you go looking for it." Jack said.
"I don't." I protested. Then paused, "Most of the time."
Jack sighed, "Exactly my point. If I had my way, you would be back on the Doctor's Tardis by now."
"Jack, I already called the Doctor. He didn't pick up."
"Let's see about that." Jack said. He took out his cell phone and called the Tardis. He waited about a minute before saying, "Doctor, dammit, answer your phone! Call me back as soon as you get this. I need a safe spot where Susan can wait till this all blows over. I'm assuming you got Susan's earlier message. Get your ass back to earth, NOW!" Jack, frustrated hung up.
Everyone was silent. "The Doctor wasn't answering?" I asked innocently.
Jack's eyes widened and turned to me. "You know where they are."
I rolled my eyes. "Of course I do, Jack. But they are also in a dangerous situation. Even more so than ours." I said, thinking about Amy being kidnapped by Kovarian after discovering the flesh.
Jack rolled his eyes and leaned back in his chair in defeat. "Of course they are. The Doctor can't go for a day without causing trouble, let alone a month."
"Everyone knows the Doctor attracts chaos." I told him.
"Ehmem." Tosh said, clearing her throat. "Even though you guys are," Tosh twists her face in a grimace, "Either arguing or flirting or both, we would really like it if you guys got back on topic."
Both Jack and I blush in embarrassment. "Now that we have you two focused again, we should be contacting the other Torchwoods we set up in the other countries."
"But they are only beginners!" I said. "They can barely handle weevils by themselves without getting spotted about twice a week and we need to go in and clean up their mess! Plus they are trigger happy."
Owen sighed. "I know you fully don't trust the other Torchwood institutes, but we have to be able to trust others organizations. I know you don't like it when other people are in charge-"
"Your damn right." I muttered, interrupting Owen.
"But the person in charge of these is the Queen. We are her personal army that deals with extraterrestrial threats all over the globe."
"Inexperienced army." I muttered. And it was true. Some Torchwoods, like Torchwood Seven, was only a couple days old, some didn't even have a base for goodness sake!
Owen sighed. "If we don't start trusting each other now, it will never happen."
"Fine." I huffed crossing my arms, not pleased at all about letting the other Torchwood branches help out.
"Sooo," Ianto drowned out. "Jack will go to America. Susan, you WILL stay here. We need someone to liaison with UNIT to coordinate our movements. As the civilian population gets results that people are still not dying, they will get frightened and that will make them dangerous. Ianto, Tosh and I will stay at the base and try to find out who started this whole mess."
Third Person POV
It was now dark. Jack walked around the building of the CIA archives, wondering why this kept on happening to him. He wasn't like the Doctor who attracted danger every other day. He sighed. He hoped that things would calm down for at least a month or two to give Susan and him some time alone with their child.
Jack sighed. He didn't want to place his daughter's life in danger when she was only a day or a month old! The Doctor was no help. He was a danger magnet. They couldn't be on Earth for a month before aliens would attack.
At least Jack hoped this was an Alien attack because that would mean there is a logical explanation behind everyone suddenly not being able to die. Jack wasn't stupid. Of course he realized the connection between everyone not being able to die and his current condition made possible by the Bad Wolf on the Game Station all those years before.
Jack hoped that he wasn't connected to the problem, but when was the universe ever so nice, or clear on the problems.
Jack glanced around him, making sure that no one was around before pointing his sonic (Susan had given him one for his birthday) which was a white pen, in contrast to Susan's which was a black sleek pen, at a window which automatically slid open.
Jack grinned and climbed inside the CIA archive. Time to get to business. Jack thought as he started to look around. From the security tapes from before he saw an Archivist and a young women agent, Esther talking.
Jack sneaked around until he saw Esther looking at a stack of Torchwood files, whispering "456. 456. 456. 456!" He saw Esther grin. "Bingo!" Newspaper cuttings about Children Of Earth, files and photographs of the Torchwood team. She looks up to see Jack who kept to the shadows in his long coat.
"Come with me." Jack said.
Esther turns and runs. Jack groanes inwardly to himself and runs after her. The Archivist is still at his desk, his chest covered in blood. "Down!" Jack yelled. Esther ducks. Jack shoots a man with the machine gun in the neck.
"Oh, my God. Is he gonna die?" Esther asks, horrified.
Jack grinned. "Don't worry about it. No one dies these days."
"You want to bet?" The assassin, still on the floor, clearly here for him says.
Jack rips open the man's flak jacket to reveal lots of packs of C4 explosive. They jump out of a window just as the bomb goes off, and land in the ornamental fountain outside the building. "Whoa. Anyway, Captain Jack Harkness. Nice to meet you." Jack says, holding out a hand to the young women, still in shock.
Outside the CIA Archive, off to the shadows, Jack and Esther watch the fire department arrive to deal with the fire. Jack brings Esther a bottle of water.
"Here you go." Jack says.
"That man-" Esther starts.
"He was after me, not you."
"Why? Why would he want you dead?"
"On the very day that no one's dying? Wish I knew. And what got you so involved?"
Esther sighed. "I'm not even authorized for this, but this friend of mine, I was telling him about Torchwood and he crashed his car while I was talking to him. And I can't help but thinking that it's all my fault."
"I know the feeling." Jack said, sighing.
"So what is Torchwood?"
"Torchwood no longer exists." Jack lied. That was what they told all the other governments when in reality they were gaining strength and numbers.
"Then what was it? Because there were photos in that file of a man who looked just like you, but it said 1939, then 1925. Is he your father?"
"I suppose it must be."
"Are you alright?" Esther asks Jack.
Jack looked down in surprise, which he quickly covered up, to see blood dripping down his arm, "Yeah. I hurt my arm."
"Considering what we just went through, I would say that was a miracle."
"Yeah, another one. The Torchwood Institute was set up by the British royal family in 1879 to defend the realm of Great Britain by investigating the unusual, the strange and the alien."
"I'm kind of guessing alien doesn't mean foreign."
"Alien as in extraterrestrial."
Esther covers her mouth in shock and Jack holds back on rolling his eyes… barley. How could people not have noticed aliens existed by now. "Oh, my God."
"This whole situation worldwide, that's exactly the kind of thing we used to investigate."
"Torchwood, they said that people died, but there was that other photo. Gwen Cooper. There was no date of death."
"She's still alive. The last one left. And I'm gonna keep her safe, which means making sure that the Institute stays dead and buried." Jack said, telling the lie that everyone had agreed to.
"So that first email last night, the one that just said Torchwood?" Esther takes a drink of water.
"Wasn't me. God knows who it was. But that was enough to call me back, and I got to work releasing the malware, destroying hard copies, removing all traces of the word, using Retcon. What's Retcon?"
"What's Retcon?"
"It's a smart drug. Selective amnesia."
"No." Esther says, stepping back from Jack, frightened.
"You won't remember a thing." Jack catches Esther as she passes out. "Nice to meet you, Esther."
Jack changes into a dark suit and drives to the hospital. He meets Vera and they are escorted by men with lots of gold braid on their uniforms. "FBI." Jack says.
Vera and Jack enter the Mortuary. Santini "Session begins supervised by attending surgeon Professor Victor Louis Santini and witnesses to be listed in the hospital register. The purpose of this enquiry is to determine. Well, as you'll see, following the explosion at the CIA archive one of the victims has been-" The pieces under the white sheet groan. "Yes, I think we can. I'm sorry. They brought me in as an expert, but I don't know what the hell this is."
The assistants remove the sheet. The humanoid remains are bits of bone and muscle, all burnt and flayed. " We think this man was right at the centre of the blast, and yet he's still alive. Clearly, the skin is burnt. He's not indestructible, just undying. Everliving. We're going to need a new vocabulary. But we're getting the same results from all over the world."
"Is that actual consciousness? It seems like he's still aware." Vera asks.
"Excuse me, I was wondering." Jack said, showing his fake FBI badge, "Owen Harper, FBI. But what if you detach the head? I mean, would he stay alive without his head?"
"I suggest we find out." Santini said.
"Excuse me. you can't do that. I mean you literally can't. This man is not dead. He's our patient." Vera says.
"Your comments have been noted, Doctor Juarez. Now, shall we begin?" Professor Santini begins to cut the bits that are connecting the skull to the torso. After a few moments, the eyes open.
"Oh my God." Vera whispers.
"Don't tell me this is a virus or evolution or whatever. This is deliberate intervention. I mean, all of us have been changed by design."
"But how? Who could do this?" Vera asked.
"Well, who's got the technology? Simple answer. No one on this Earth." Santini states. Jack turns around and leaves the hospital, now knowing a little bit more on what they were dealing with. Jack punches in his Vortex manipulator that he still had from his time at the academy and punched in the correct coordinates.
In a flash, Jack was gone.
Susan's POV
I sat down in my office chair, sighing and slid off my flats, rubbing her stomach. It had been an exhausting day. First, finding out that these next couple of weeks or week, would be the series Miracle Day. Secondly being in charge of the Teams in Torchwood and communicating with Torchwoods One through Six in various different countries.
Torchwood One was in Cardiff, Torchwood Two was in Paris, Torchwood Three was in Berlin, Torchwood Four was in Moscow, Torchwood Five was in Kansas City and Torchwood Six was in São Paulo in South America.
A knock on the door startles me from my daydreaming. "Come in!" I called, not really paying attention to who entered.
I felt hands cover my eyes, making my vision go dark. "Guess who." Came Jack's voice from behind me.
I smirked and decided to play along. "Ummm, Ilanto."
"Nope. Guess again."
"Owen."
"No."
"The Doctor."
"No."
"Rory."
"No." I felt Jack's breath on my neck as he gave me a light kiss on my cheek. "Gues." Another kiss. "Again." One more kiss.
I giggled and pushed away Jack's hands and spun my chair around to see Jack Harkness in his World War two uniform. "Ah, theres my lovely wife. Hello Love."
I smiled and leaned up into Jack and kissed him. "Hey yourself." I breathed.
"So, just got back from America-"
I cut in sharply. "Jack, is that blood on your coat?!"
Jack sighed. "I knew I should have washed this coat before coming back to the base."
"Let me guess. An assassin was after you wearing a bomb suit, blew up, and you cut your arm."
"Yes." Jack reluctantly admitted.
"But, the cut didn't close up right away like it normally does."
Jack sighed and sat down in the chair next to the desk. "Yes. I was afraid of that. It turns out on the day that everyone can't die, is the day that I apparently can."
"Jack, you do know that now we know you can die you have to be more careful."
"I know." Jack sighed heavily. "I've just… gotten so used to dying and coming back to life that I might do something that-"
"Jack." I cut in. "Don't you dare. Okay, new rule. From now on, we go with each other everywhere." Jack opened his mouth to retort back but I cut him off. "Jack, you need to be more careful for this. You could die and I could loose you… permanently and Amelia would grow up fatherless."
Jack leaned back in his chair. "Okay. But that also means no butting in to saving someone, if it costs you your own life. Susan," Jack said as he saw my conflicted look. "As you said, you have Amelia to think about."
I shifted in my chair and rubbed my stomach. "Yeah."
A soft beeping sounded and I rolled my eyes, opened a draw of my desk and pulled out my tablet which shot out blue projector like light and showed the BBC News.
"Um, Susan, what is this?" Jack asked.
"Jack, it was the project that I finished two weeks ago. I designed it kinda like a hologram, but instead of a person, it can do anything from showing us the news to books."
"So a computer hologram basically." Jack said.
"Basically." I turned my attention back to the report, the headline said The Death of Death. Jack and I glanced at each other and continued to read. "It's all over the world the world. Look. Look at this. Somalia has stopped fighting." Jack said.
"Warfare is even worse when the bodies refuse to die. But take a look at North Korea. Huh, spoiling for a fight. They've got a lot of soldiers who think they're immortal." I commented to Jack who rolled his eyes.
"But this miracle, it's specifically human. This website says if insects stopped dying, we'd be overrun within forty eight hours flat. And that hasn't happened. So this thing is being targeted at us."
Jack turned to me, "Don't you remember the episode?"
"Not really. I mean, I only watched this season once. I won't be as much help this time."
"Susan-" Jack started but I had already turned back to the holoprojector.
"Here we go, look. Planet Earth. On average, three hundred thousand people die every day. So if they stop dying, that's an extra what, million people in just over three days. Add to that five hundred thousand people born every day." I said.
"That's another million every two days plus the first million. Bloody hell." Jack said.
I sighed, rubbing my stomach. "That's the fastest population boom in history. We're gonna run out of room."
"We'll run out of food first. A guy on the telly was saying we've got four months like this. Just four months, and then that's it, society just collapses. Everyone fighting each other for food, like animals."
"What's like animals?" Tosh asked entering my office with a sack of papers in her hands.
"What the society will be like in four months if we don't put a stop to this." Jack says.
"Oh yeah. I've been listening to reports about this all day, looking for anything unusual." Tosh said. "I've come to bring these to you, Susan. Reports from Teams Bravo through Echo."
I groaned. "Just what I needed. More paperwork."
Jack and I both woke up in our bed at home. I groaned and rolled over lightly to face Jack. "Hey." Then I noticed Jack's cut from yesterday. "It's bleeding through the gaus."
Jack looked down at the blood stained gaus. "That's new." Jack said in shock, sitting up and leaning against the headboard.
I slowly got up and made my way into the bathroom, getting the necessary first-aid things and taking them back over to the bed and started to take care of Jack's wound. "Jack, remember, you can, from now until we fix this, get killed. Just promise that you will try your hardest not to."
Jack looked at me, "Susan, I promise that I won't intentionally go out of my way to get hurt."
I gave a faint smile. "Thank you." I whispered.
Jack and I walked into Torchwood to already see Tosh by the lift that would take us down to Torchwood. "I've called Gwen but she insisted that she be taken off this case."
"What?" I asked. "Why?"
"Because she says she is too close. Her father should be dead right now. Two heart failures, she says that she should be with her family."
I sighed. I knew that Gwen was right. I took a breath. "Down to four."
We walked into the lift and Tosh pressed Sub-level 1, where Alpha Team's (Tosh, Owen, Ianto, Jack's and mine) offices and meeting rooms were. We walked into the meeting room where Owen and Ianto were already sitting.
A steaming hot chocolate was set out for me at my normal spot and Coffee for Jack. I smiled at Ianto and said, "Thanks Ianto."
"No problem, Susan." Ianto said to me.
"So," Jack said. "Updates first."
"Well,-" Owen started then I heard my cell phone go off.
I goaned and said, "Sorry." I checked to see who it was and saw Gwen Cooper as the caller. I immediately answered it. "Hey, what's up."
"I need you and Jack here, now." Gwen said in a state of panic. Gwen's house was near a secluded beach not too far outside of Cardiff.
I sat up straighter. "What happened?" I asked her.
"Some CIA agent showed up. Rhys is tying him up now, but Anwen is here and I'm panicking that she'll get hurt."
"Okay Gwen, we're on our way." I said. Then I hung up, standing up. "Sorry, meeting just got cancled. Tosh, Ilanto, Owen, stay here. Hold down the fort."
"Fort?" Owen tried to joke. "I thought this was a base."
I rolled my eyes as I got to the door. "Just… do something productive!"
Jack and I ran, well I speed walked to the garage, picked out the same black car we use, in lot two. I moved to the passenger seat while Jack took the driving seat and speed out.
I looked out the window as we saw the last of the buildings pass us by before turning onto Gwen's very long driveway, rushing toward Gwen's house. I heard the sounds of an helicopter. "Jack." I warned.
"I know." Jack said, steering the vehicle around the bend. Gwen's house came in view and my hearts almost stopped as we saw a helicopter getting closer and closer to the house.
We see Gwen, holding Anwen and a gun, Rhys and the CIA agent Gwen was talking about run out of Gwen's house. Jack shoot a machinegun at the helicopter from the open top Land Rover 90.
"Can't leave you alone for a minute." Jack says.
I rolled down the passenger window. "Get inside, Now!" I yelled. They all climbed in as Jack took off. The helicopter chases us along the long, smooth beach. "Duck!" Jack yelled as bullets flied everywhere.
"Jack, for God's sake, there's a kid here!" Rhys yelled.
"I got a present for you in the back." Jack says.
"Give her to me, Gwen, the baby." Gwen hands Anwen to her husband and looks for her 'present'.
"You there, CIA, do something useful." Jack says
"Wales is insane. Get down!" The CIA agent says. Rex fires the machinegun at the helicopter. Then Jack comes to a halt and Gwen hefts their bazooka onto her shoulder. "Who the hell are you people?"
"Torchwood." Gwen says darkly. She fires. We have to duck as the burning helicopter passes overhead before crashing into the sand.
I checked my watch for the thousandth time that night. It said 10pm. People obviously wanted to take out Torchwood, which was why, Jack argued, we couldn't go back to the base, or get in contact with anyone at Torchwood because there lives would be in danger as well if certain people found out that they were not dead like the documents said that they were.
Having people think that you are dead could be useful, but if you suddenly showed up, alive, people would want blood.
We stood by Roald Dahl Plass, talking. "Right, so that's sorted. Rhys, take Anwen to my mother's and keep her safe and sound. Jack, if you've got access to any weapons, what else have we got? I've still got the old Eye fives, but everything else is gone." Gwen said.
"I knew it though. Didn't I say? First sign of trouble, you go running off with Captain Jack Bollocks." Rhys says.
"Rhys, you know that he is married to Susan and about to have a child! What choice have I got? I mean, we can't go back to Torchwood and put everyone else's lives in danger there! Isn't that right, Jack? You even listening to me?"
"I cut my arm." Jack said. I eyed Jack carefully. He obviously trusted Gwen enough to tell her what was happening to him so I let it go
"Okay. Can't help but thinking there's more important things to be worrying about here." Gwen said, seeing my look.
"No. I cut my arm. Look at it. It's not healing."
"Do you mean-" Gwen looked up at Jack, her face pale.
"I'm staying hurt."
"Oh, my God."
"I know."
"Seriously, though."
"It's only a cut." Rhys said, bouncing up and down, trying to keep Anwen asleep.
"But it's Jack. Don't you see? The whole world becomes immortal-"
"And I mortal. I don't mend. I'm normal again. I'm plain old human."
"You're what?" Rex asked.
"Doesn't concern you." Jack said.
"You talk some crazy shit, you know that?" Rex said.
"You should get that seen to."
"Yeah, any minute now. Ah, here comes my ride." Sirens approach. We try to run but get cut off by armed police
"Andy, you can't do this." Gwen said, seeing her old friend and colleague among the police arresting them.
"Orders from above. I'm sorry. He's in charge."
"Since when?" Jack asked.
"He can't arrest us. He's American." Rhys said.
"I hate to bust up your sweet little tea party, but this isn't an arrest. This is a rendition. And on behalf of the CIA, under the 456 amendments to US code 3184, I'm extraditing this so-called Torchwood team to the United States of America. Now, get me out of here. Take me home."
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Reviewer:
Maren the fangirl: I agree, LizzeXX's stories are awesome! Yep, Miracle Day is here! It was also my favorite Torchwood season.
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