It was so sudden. One minute I was standing, gun in my hand, nudging the door open. The next I was sprawled over the floor bleeding to death.
I was shot.
I closed my eyes and willed for Jack, Owen, Ianto and Tosh to find me. I shouldn't have wandered off, I should have stand with the group. But I didn't. I had to go off and prove I was more than a replacement for Susie.
Now I was bleeding to death in the countryside…alone. As Owen would say 'only in the bleeding countryside'. Why didn't I listen to Jack?
I kept pleading to the heavens for them to send Jack over. It would be nice to die in his arms. He was such a good friend. So was Ianto…in a way, Ianto was too secretive. Tosh and Owen are still tense round me.
I will always be the new recruit that messes' things up. The new girl who died on the first field trip out of Cardiff.
Damn. Not how I planned to be remembered.
Death was long, slow and painful. I'm laying there waiting for it to happen quickly so I can no longer suffer the pain.
I feel someone graze my cheek. It was a soft touch. I leaned into it.
"Miss, hold on, I'm the Doctor, I can help you, just don't die"
I felt someone scoop me up into their arms. The embrace was welcoming. I can smell tea. Tea, oil and bananas. It was a nice mixture. I opened my eyes and saw a blur of brown and blue strips of a suit. I heard a thump, as if something dropped. Probably my gun.
It was then I blacked out.
"Where's Gwen?" Jack said scanning his surroundings. Everyone was there but Gwen. "Owen, Tosh, Ianto have you seen Gwen?"
"No I haven't" Tosh said looking up from the technology she was working on.
"Not since this morning sir" Ianto said looking up from his cooking "I hope she gets back before dinner gets too cold"
"Don't look at me, I'm not her keeper" Owen said shrugging. "she probably got herself lost in the woods"
"Come on then" Jack said "you can help me search for her" Owen groaned as Jack dragged him over to the woods.
They wandered through the woods for a good hour calling Gwen's name over and over again. Owen found himself near some houses when he saw it. A few subtle drops of blood on the grass. They seemed to be leading him to the house. He followed them, pulling his gun out. On the grass laid two objects.
A mobile and an I.D.
Gwen's mobile and I.D.
He began to ran. The blood drops were getting bigger, until he stopped at the patio. There it was. The large pool of dark red blood. Her gun was not so far away.
"Jack!" he shouted "Jack, come here"
Jack ran out of the woods and was at his side immediately. Owen handed the I.D and mobile to him. "something's got Gwen and I think whatever has is what causing all the strange things here"
The four searched hard and discovered that there was no paranormal cause for the disappearances just cannibals. They searched for Gwen's body amongst the other frozen bodies but couldn't find her.
It was determined that Gwen Cooper was killed and eaten.
Owen, Tosh and Ianto watched as Jack beat the crap out of the chief of the Cannibals.
No one kills a member of their team and gets away with it.
I wake to hear the beeping of a heart monitor. The constant beat was soothing, the ceiling was plain and white, like one in hospital. Everything smelled hospital like. This probably meant I was in hospital or the med bay in the hub. My money was on hospital there was no way in hell they could have managed to get me into the hub in time.
I can feel a hand in mine. It held my hand firmly. It was probably Rhys'…no can't be the hand is too skinny…maybe Jack's?
I allowed the darkness to consume me once again.