Lovers Quarrel Part Four

Chastity placed her hands on Gwen's temples.

"Now just relax, this won't be any big deal, I'm just going to look inside your mind and you might feel a bit of discomfort, but this will tell me if you have the Sight." She explained soothingly as she relaxed and felt Gwen do the same.

Suddenly, a jolt of electricity passed between both Gwen and Chastity. The bolt ended up knocking Gwen backwards onto the floor, winding her but leaving her conscious. Not was the case with Chastity however, she let out a high pitched scream as she was blasted back into Jack's desk and rendered unconscious.

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Jack was snapped violently from his musings as he heard that high pitched scream her knew all too well.

"Shit! Owen the girls, and where the fuck are Ianto and Tosh!?" Jack yelled.

"They went to get a new coffee maker." Owen said somewhat calmly as he ran up the stairs.

"Of all times!" Jack muttered under his breath while he followed suit with Owen.

When they reached the room they saw the two women on the floor, Owen rushed to Gwen and Jack to Chastity. Owen pulled Gwen against him inspecting her to see if she had gotten injured.

"What the hell happened?" Jack asked as he looked at Gwen, who was snuggled into Owen's chest.

"When she touched my temples, it was like a bolt of electricity passed through our bodies and she was blasted backwards." Gwen explained a bit groggy.

"Shit! Chastity! Cass!!" Jack yelled trying to rouse her from her unconscious state. He pulled her into his lap and gently began waking her up.

Her eyes fluttered around haphazardly, trying to focus in on the room and all of her surroundings. Her big eyes were casted upwards to Jack's face and beheld a worried countenance.

"What, what happened?" Chastity asked uncertainly, her big ice-like blue eyes pleaded with Jack for some answers.

"You passed out, don't you remember?" Jack asked, once again his voice was laced with concern, this had certainly never happened before.

"Oh, yeah, I remember, I--oh god," She groaned as she tried to sit up. "Maybe I'll just stay sitting, or laying rather, for now." Her voice sounded very small, that much she knew and her head throbbed as if someone had taken a bat and decided to play baseball with her head.

"Careful now, you know you have to take it slow." Jack warned, he didn't want Chastity to be incapacitated and besides, she was the only one who could possibly know what was happening to Gwen.

"I know, oh! Now I remember why I passed out!" Chastity exclaimed. "I intercepted Gwen's vision, that's why there was that spark of electricity. It would also be the reason why I was rendered unconscious."

"Really, well what did you see then?" Gwen asked curiously. She hadn't meant to harm the girl, but from what Chastity had said, it wasn't her fault.

"Well," Chastity said, trying to resurface her memories of the vision she had intercepted.

"Don't try so hard, just let the memories come to you, relax." Jack said as he pulled Chastity to a sitting position, so her back was leaning against his chest, and she was sitting in his lap.

"Easy for you to say, you don't have to try and remember someone else dying." Chastity drawled sarcastically, you could easily say she wasn't in the best of moods at the current time. I don't know why I'm in a bad mood, I guess getting electrocuted and knocked out really puts me off. She thought, she was even sarcastic when she was talking to herself in her mind, which annoyed her severely. But nonetheless she closed her eyes and focused, reaching deep into the crevices of her mind. "I'm walking down a dark alley." She began, voice soft and it quavered slightly, Jack increased the pressure slightly on her arms in an attempt to calm her. "Just in front of me there's a man, he's tall, about five eleven, six foot. His brown hair is slightly mussed and has deep howling abysses for eyes. There's a wild, primal, far off look in them, as if he's not really there preforming the acts. His smooth voice, bass and deep, rings out beguilingly as a viper. 'Come now little one.' He says. 'Come now it won't hurt a bit, and you want to honor your mummy and daddy don't you?' He asks the girl, she can't be more than fourteen, if that. Her long blonde hair is wet from the wall and large grey eyes bulged in fear, she answers a timid 'yes' as he slips off her jacket. 'Your mummy told me to come for you, give you this present, you've been such a good girl'" Chastity breaks off, unable to continue, she has set to shaking in a tremulous way, head leaned back against Jack's chest and silent tears slipping down her cheeks.

"Cass love, what's wrong? What'd you see?" Jack's strong voice asked, it quivered slightly, for worried was he about Chastity, she shook like a leaf and seemed to be quite upset. There was general unease that befell the room, which only incited Jack's worry to a frightening new level.

"It's so graphic, what he did to her, Just So Graphic. Jack," she whined his name barely more than a breath, continuously rocking herself back and forth.

"It's alright sweetheart." He murmured soothingly as he picked her up, instantaneously when his arms encircled her she fell asleep, and he carried her down through the hatch into his bedroom. His hand brushed a hair away from her cheek and his loving gaze fell upon her sleeping form.

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Tosh and Ianto walked through the convenience store searching for a coffee maker. They had chosen a small store on the outskirts of Cardiff because they had wanted to escape for a while. However, everything was not going as planned, every time Ianto would point one out Tosh would quickly reject it and give a long explanation as to why it wouldn't work. Likewise whenever Tosh pointed a coffee machine out Ianto would dismiss it just as quickly and just walk off. Needless to say, they weren't have a hell of a lot of luck.

"What about this one?" Tosh asked gesturing to a black and chrome coffee pot, after receiving a look from Ianto though, she dropped the matter. After closer inspection she saw the cause of his dismissal. "1000 bucks, that's freakin' ridiculous!"

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Owen drove the Torchwood van through the streets of Cardiff, he and Gwen were headed to Widowshire for the body pick up. Gwen hadn't said a work since they'd left the hub and it was starting to worry Owen.

She must be upset. I wonder what over? Unless it could be about what the new girl saw and what happened. Damn women are bloody frustratin'!

When they arrived at Crockingham Drive Gwen wove her way through the deep alley until she came upon the body, a strangled gasp worked its way from her throat and she back up into Owen, he grabbed her waist reassuringly as his mouth came up by her ear to whisper softly.

"'S'kay, come on, help me cover her up." Owen said softly as he walked with the body bag, followed a short time later by Gwen.

After they had bagged the young girl and hauled her into the van, they began to return to Torchwood. Along the way they met, an oddly enough, bickering Tosh and Ianto.

"Hey, want a ride?" Owen joked as he rode slowly along side them, his light-hearted words attempted to cut the uneasy tension between Gwen and himself.

"Yeah, its better than walking all the way again." Tosh said, as she looked at Ianto who nodded his head, and they hopped into the van.

The ride back to Torchwood was one of uncomfortable silence, when they had finally gotten back, Ianto helped Owen bring the body to the autopsy lab, leaving the girls to talk.

"Hey Gwen, are you okay? You've been unusually quiet."

"I-I'm scared Tosh. I don't know what's happening to me, but I have a feeling that whatever's going on with Rhys has to do with it." She admitted.

"It's okay Gwen, don't you worry, we're gonna figure this out." Tosh smiled comfortingly.

"Thank you Tosh." Gwen said as she hugged Tosh and heard her give a surprised little 'oh'.

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Chastity shifted in Jack's arms, she turned so she was facing him and her breath caressed his cheek. A short time later Jack's eyes fluttered open, the hazel depths staring at the sleeping beauty beside of him. He became acutely aware of the change in her breathing and how she seemed to be very restless. Nightmare. He thought and was surprised by her sudden movement as she bolted up into a sitting position, knees compressed tightly to her chest.

"Chastity?" He asked, the single word asking a thousand questions.

"G-god..." She breathed shakily as she wiped the cold sweat off of her face.

"Did you see someone else?" He asked, as he sat up the blanket pooled around his waist, revealing his bare chest that was muscular in a pure sense that was only Jack. It was muscular without being defined to the eye, it was perfection in all that was him.

"No, just the same girl again, I keep seeing what he did to her. It plagues my very being. Jack she was fifteen and he raped her. She didn't deserve that or being killed, and worse off, I was powerless to do anything to stop it. I don't know how much more of this I can take, let alone Gwen. She's not used to this, and unless Owen gets her to admit she's scared she's headed for a meltdown, she'll go nuclear, like Chernobyl nuclear. Telling Toshiko isn't enough, she needs to tell Owen, they're in love they've got that connection, love is fundamental in dealing with what we have." Chastity said as leaned into Jack's strength as he had just wrapped his arm around her shoulders.

"Don't worry yourself Cass, we'll work this out, the teams working on it as we speak. They'll find something, they always do." Jack said as he hugged her tighter, quelling the chills that had set her body due to the crisp air.

"You really trust them don't you?" Chastity asked softly, Jack never spoke like this about anybody, it was rare he dropped his guard long enough to trust someone.

"With my life, figuratively speaking of course." Jack chuckled pulling them backwards onto the bed.

"By the way, why in the hell do you call me Cass?" She asked as she smiled in spite of herself.

"Dunno, just like it I guess, Sexy." He said chuckling as he buried his head in her neck, nibbling the sensitive skin.

"Oh, just shut up and go to sleep!" She laughed as her lids fell closed over glacier cool eyes.

"Why you little--!" Jack exclaimed as he began to tickle her, listening to her uproarious laughter.

"Jack!" She laughed and tried to scramble away from him.

"Nu-uhn!" He said pulling her back to him so she laid on her back and he hovered above her. "Now your right where I want you." He said brushing a hair out of her eyes.

"Jack..." She smiled, cutting off the rest of her sentence.

"Yes?"

"Can I please just go to sleep?"

"No."

"Damn..your gonna make me really tired first aren't cha?"

"Yup." Jack said as he smiled that smile that made Chastity, and so many others, completely melt.

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Jack walked around the floor, Toshiko was decoding another alien artifact, Gwen and Owen were working through the many autopsy reports and case files of the girls they had found dead in a similar way; the total was up to 10 girls and it was getting out of hand. But the real reason Jack walked around the floor checking up on everyone, was the fact that he had absolutely no clue where Chastity was. He always knew that she was a screamer, but she had taken it to an amazing level two hours ago, and then when he had woken up, she'd disappeared, and he had no clue where to.

"Hey Owen," Jack said as he walked over towards him and Gwen. "you know where Chastity is?"

"Last thing I heard, she said she was going down to the shooting gallery." Owen said, not even looking up from his report.

"Huh...Hey Tosh, can you pull that up on the monitor?"

"Yeah." Tosh said as she pulled the shooting gallery feed up.

They saw Chastity, with what looked like a compound bow, shooting at a target. As they proceeded to watch, she shot ten arrows, every one of them landing in the bulls-eye.

"Hey Tosh, what's her speed?"

"365 KM on the last one."

"Shit." Owen said as he heard the number. "How in the hell can she get that speed?" Owen asked and Jack simply smiled.

"Well Owen, she's been shooting that bow since she was ten years old. She's a world ranked archer, she loves it like she loves life itself, you really don't want to piss her off when she's got one of those in her hand, because no matter how far or fast you run, she'll shoot you down."

"What's the farthest she's ever shot?" Gwen asked, she was very interested about this new woman.

"Um, let's see..." Jack said as he paused and took a minute to recall. "She shot 1500 yards once."

"Wow."

"Yep." Jack said as he saw her walk over and take the arrows out, placing back in the bag. She then pulled a cloth off of the table to reveal a table full of knives, and Jack started laughing.

"She's not going to throw them?" Gwen said shocked.

"Oh yes she is, she's practicing, in case she gets caught unawares or gets attacked."

"How many weapons can she handle?" Owen asked, a little concerned for his own safety.

"Oh Owen, I don't quite know the answer to that question."

"Great."

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Jack had walked down to the shooting gallery and stopped at the door, he was watching Chastity, and his presence had gone unnoticed. She picked up one knife and flung it at the target, it hit a bit off center and he heard her curse and smiled. She threw the next one and it landed in the kill point, she threw all of them on the table and looked satisfyingly at the target, it was only then that Jack noticed the single gun on the table, her favorite, black with chrome, a .45. He saw her reach for the gun, her hand shook and when she touched it, she pulled her hand back quickly, as if it had burned her. And while he watched her he saw her pause for about eight minutes, then extraordinarily fast, she picked up the gun and fired off every single round in the clip. She dropped the gun to the table and leaned against it. It was at this point that Jack decided to go up to her, to find out what that was all about. Jack walked up and placed a hand on her shoulder, to which she spun around quickly and had a knife at his throat.

"Um..Cass?" He said waiting for her to take the knife away.

"Oh um..sorry, Jack." She said as she placed the knife on the table. "How long you been standing there?"

"Enough to see you spaz out with a gun." He replied as he silently signaled for Toshiko to cut the feed, he didn't want the rest of them to see this.

"Oh." She said as she walked down to inspect her shots.

"So what was that all about?" Jack pressed, he really wanted to know, because he couldn't exactly have her going rouge and killing everyone, it was bad for his image.

"Just a memory of when I was growing up, nothing more." She replied with an eerie calm.

"And?"

"And what?" She said putting on her best innocent act.

"And what triggered your shivers the second you touched the gun? There's gotta be something else there."

"There's nothing." She said with a slight edge to her voice.

"There's gotta be." Jack said, he still pressed.

"Nothing." She said becoming irritated.

"Come on there's---" Jack started but got cut off as she exploded.

"I HAD TO KILL MY FATHER OKAY? THE LAST TIME I USED A GUN I KILLED MY FATHER!!!!!" She screamed, and afterwards she shook heavily as Jack approached her with open arms.

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Hey All, so sorry for the big big delay but my idea fairy had left. It's back though, sorry for the cliffe but I thought it prudent to end there. As always R&R it helps me majorly.