This story is part of my 'Doctoring the Blue Eyes' saga.

Set around four months after 'Something Blue' and re-tells 'Torchwood:Children of Earth' from Seto's point of view.

I own no rights to either show 'cause I'm poor :P

Chapter One

It was a glorious sunny day. One that Mokuba had chosen to spend with his niece Anathema as the two of them played on the swings in the park. The little green haired girl was seated on the swing and her uncle pushed her so high that it looked as though she might do a loop over the top of the bar. Both of them were smiling and laughing so hard that you could see all the way to the backs of their throats and their eyes were squinting in the sunlight that shone down from the bright blue sky above. It was so hot and bright that the huge grinning sun worn a pair of sunshades to emphasise this…

Anathema placed down her coloured pencils and smiled at the picture she had drawn her uncle for his birthday the next day. She picked it up to show off now that it was finished. "Mommy Kara, look what I've done!"

"That's very good Baby." Kisara praised, looking up from reading her book as she researched information to help prepare her for the birth of her first child in just a few months time. "Your uncle Mokie is sure to love it when he sees it."

"I'm going to do another one." The little girl declared excitedly and picked up her pencils again only to freeze with her chosen colour hovering above the paper.

Kisara noticed the strange spaced out behaviour in her adopted daughter. "Anathema?" She placed down her book and moved to be by her side.

It was the strangest thing she had ever seen as the five year old didn't blink or move the slightest for over a minute and then returned back to drawing her picture as though nothing had happened.

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Seto sat in his office sifting through paper work, computer files and every other scrap of information that he had managed to gather regarding Geocomtex and its CEO Henry Van Statten. Thanks to Torchwood Three's previous research he knew that the guy had a huge array of alien artefacts, many of which were advanced weaponry, and it was left to him to try and infiltrate his way in there to confiscate them.

As a plan of action he aimed to gain the other man's trust by collaborating with him and sharing the advanced technology which Kaiba Corp had at its disposal. Not something he'd wanted to do willingly as he greatly detested the man in question, but if it helped him bring one of his company's competitors down too, then the sacrifice would be worth it in the long run.

The cell phone in his pocket rang and swiftly he answered it. "Jack?"

"Seto!" The excited voice of captain Jack Harkness sounded down the phone. "You're a man I can rely on; unlike some of those idiots at UNIT. Can you believe that I phoned them to speak with Martha and she's only finally gone and gotten married and is currently on her honeymoon? Of course I'm not calling her an idiot, but I was left talking to a Sergeant and that was no fun I can tell you…"

"Is there a point to this call?" Seto breathed out heavily. The handset was squished between shoulder and ear to leave his hands free for typing on his keyboard as he smoothed out some of the statistics for tomorrow's meeting with Van Statten. "If it's just a social rant about how Martha and Mickey didn't send out wedding invitations then I'm hanging up right now."

"No it's not, it's work related." Jack assured. "At 8:40 this morning, - I guess that would have been afternoon time for you guys because of the time zone difference, - all of the children stopped."

"What do you mean stopped?" The CEO asked curiously.

"Gwen says she witnessed several kids just freezing on the spot with their actions. That's about all we've got at the moment though Ianto has managed to find numerous reports indicating that this thing is on a global scale. UNIT 'allegedly' ran some basic tests on a couple of children immediately after the incident but that turned up nothing other than it doesn't seem to have affected babies or those who've matured beyond puberty. How's Anathema? Was she been affected by it?"

"How would I know?" Seto growled. "I'm at work."

"Then phone Kisara and ask her." The captain sighed. Was he meant to think of everything? "Say you saw it on a news report or something."

"She wouldn't fall for that for an instant."

"Well then tell her the truth about Torchwood!" Jack snapped a little too impatiently.

"No way." Seto disagreed with his friend. "You know how I feel about keeping her safe out of harms way and uninvolved with all this." Was his choice of secrecy always going to start an argument between them? It was okay for his friend as he didn't have a family to think about.

"You're right, he's back." Ianto's voice could be faintly heard on the other side of the line.

"Hahaha, I said so." Jack laughed. "Gotta go Seto. Speak with you later. Just do want you have to." The line went dead.

Seto stopped his typing and dropped his cell phone onto the desk. His mind was now focused on Anathema. After hearing what the captain had said, he wanted to make sure for himself that she was alright.

Without another thought he raised a hand to activate the com link in his right ear. "Becky, can you man the fort for me for a couple of hours while I'm gone."

"Sure thing." His sister-in-law replying from where she was working on a new computer programme and updating their system located within the secret basement beneath the KC building.

After quickly shutting down the computer and pocketing his cell phone, he left his office and wasted no time in driving home to check on his adopted daughter.

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The door of the mansion opened and Seto entered to be met with the sound of an excited Anathema.

"Daddy, you're home!" She ran up to him and threw her tiny arms around his legs in a tight lock.

"It's good to see you too." He prised her from him and lifted her up in his arms. Quite often she'd already be ready for going to bed by the time he got home after a hard days work of running Kaiba Corp and Torchwood Five, though she and his wife were only ever aware of the former of the two, so it was just as pleasing for him to have the extra time with them which he otherwise wouldn't have had. "How've you been feeling today Kiddo?"

"Fine thank you." She replied to his question and then speedily changed subject to tell him, "I drew pictures for uncle Mokie!"

"Can I see?" Seto asked and placed Anathema back onto the ground to fetch the drawings that she had excitedly spoken of. She didn't seem to be any different to him; still the same happy little girl he'd always known.

"Hi Darling." Kisara greeted her husband with a kiss. "You're home early for once."

"Lazy day." He explained. "Just waiting to hear back about a potential business deal so it seemed rather pointless to remain there with nothing to do when I could be spending it with my family instead."

"Nice to know that you haven't forgotten about us." His wife teased and kissed him again.

"So, how have things been for you today Honey?" Seto asked as the pair of them moved through the mansion and entered into the main lounge. "I guess things must be getting harder for you now that you're getting bigger by the day." He fondly patted the rounding bump on here front. "Anathema's not been too much trouble for you I hope?"

"She's never any trouble, but there was this one moment earlier when she …"

"When she what?" He asked as Kisara trailed off with her words.

"This." She gestured to the little girl who had been excited just a minute ago and was now motionless as she clutched the drawings she had done. "She never blinked, moved or said a word; just remained frozen like this for a while."

"Probably just some silly game of hers." Seto suggested his cover story as he moved closer to get a better look at Anathema and searched for any indications as to what could have caused her and the other children Jack had mentioned to behave like this.. "She's at that age now were she likes to play jokes."

"I don't know Seto; it was pretty freaky to see her like that."

Seto's hand gently brushed the small girl's face which was glazed as though in a trance. What could have done this to her? There was no sign of anything causing her to freeze like she had.

Suddenly Anathema opened her mouth and screamed which caused Seto to hastily step backwards. He felt Kisara grab hold of him in fright and refused to let go even once the screaming had ceased.

The silence didn't last long though as Anathema then began to chant in her trance.

"We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We."

Seto's eyes widened as he became stunned at what he was witnessing.

"We are. We are. We are. We are."

"Anathema, stop it!" Kisara spoke as firmly as she could muster in her shaken state, but still the chanting continued.

"We are coming. We are coming. We are coming …"

"That's enough, quit scaring your mom already." Seto tried to appear like he was attempting to stop the scenario when in fact he was completely clueless and just as scared as his wife.

"… We are coming. We are coming. We are coming …"

"Snap out of it Anathema!" He approached her again, crouched down placing an arm on either one of hers and shook her gently in the hope of breaking the possessed trance. "Come on Kiddo, you can do it."

"… We are coming. We are coming. We are coming."

As suddenly as it had started the chanting stopped and the little girl blinked before then excitedly showing her daddy the pictures she had drawn.

Relived that whatever had taken control of Anathema had ceased, Seto was about to pull her close to him but stopped as his cell phone rang. He quickly looked at the screen to see that Ianto was calling him.

"Darling, what is it?" Kisara asked her husband as he stood up.

"Just a work call; it'll only take a moment." He told her calmly and opened the lounge door to exit to a more private space. Once the door was closed behind him he answered the call. "Ianto?"

"The children; it's happened again. Only this time they talked."

"Yeah, I know. I was at home and the same thing happened to Anathema."

"Count yourself lucky you only witnessed a single case. Down here on the bay there're several kids with their parents and a bunch of school children out on a visit. Hearing them all sound as was one was pretty terrifying."

"You …" Seto paused to correct himself. It was still taking its time sinking in that he commanded part of the Torchwood institute now. "We've got to figure out what's causing this."

"Agreed. Jack's currently on the phone to the Home Office, see what they know, and I was wondering if you'd provide me with your help."

"What can I do?"

"Well, we may have twenty-sixth century so-called 'supercomputers' here in the hub, but from what I've heard they're nowhere near as advanced as your company's technological breakthroughs. I don't suppose you could upgrade our systems from your end? Or failing that, assist me with gathering further information?"

"I'll do both." Seto assured. The software he'd left Rebecca modifying as he departed from his company's building was exactly what was needed. All it required was some fine tuning. "Just give me a while to get back to HQ."

"Thank you."

"You work for the Home Office and you've never heard of Torchwood?" The captain's voice was muffled in the background.

"From the sounds of it, I don't think Jack's having much luck." The Welshman replied dryly in response to what they'd just overheard. "Anyway, got to go. Bye."

The cell phone was placed away into his pocket once more and Seto breathed deeply as he prepared himself for the news he'd have to break. He turned the door handle and re-entered into the lounge with an apologetic smile on his face. "I'm sorry Honey, but I'm going to have to go back to the office for a little while longer."

"Why?" Kisara exclaimed anxiously. "Whatever it is can't it wait until tomorrow?"

"I'm afraid not. You know how important me securing this contract is."

"More important than Anathema?"

Seto frowned. "Please don't do this to me." He could tell that his wife was scared about being left alone with their daughter in case something strange were to happen again and was playing at his weakness to prevent him from leaving. "I need to do this. You're just a little shaken up from Anathema's antics but if you'd feel better with company around try giving Naoko a call. Or perhaps Becky and Mokie, Yugi, Tea, Joey, the Taylors …"

"No it's okay." Kisara sighed and ran a hand back through her long silvery hair in exasperation. "Like you said, I'm just a little shaken up. I'll be fine in a moment or two." She raised a finger and pointed at her workaholic husband. "But you better be back as soon as possible. No creeping in at late hours or pulling an all-nighter, you hear me?"

"I do." Seto replied with a smile and kissed her farewell. He'd return once he'd finished his task of helping his Welsh friend. How long that would take he had no idea.

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"You're crazy!" Rebecca argued as she was being forced home and away from her job of working on the coding for the new and still incomplete software. "You can't do this on your own Seto!"

"So you keep telling me." He was busy hammering away at the keyboard in front of him as he worked on the upgrades that Ianto had asked for. The process would take a while to complete and he didn't want her working beyond the hours that had been set in place to use as a cover up and hide her involvement with Torchwood from his brother. "Go home; Mokuba and the twins need you."

"It's going to take you hours to …"

"I said, go home." Seto repeated calmly though he was coming to the end of his patience with the woman's stubbornness. He stopped what he was doing and glared at those magnified emerald eyes. "That's an order Becky."

She met the glare with one of her own, and not wanting to start another debate about how it may be better for all involved if Mokuba and Kisara were aware of the secret organisation they were part of, she reluctantly backed down. "Okay, I'll go. But if you're not finished by the time I arrive back in the morning, then I'm taking over until it's done."

"I guess that's as good as I'm going to get on this matter." Seto muttered as he returned to his typing. "See you bright and early tomorrow."

Just a few moments later he found himself alone in the huge gigantic basement area.

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"How much longer is Daddy going to be?" Anathema asked as Kisara tucked her up in bed with her soft toy bunny rabbit.

"I don't know." She frowned.

"He usually puts me to bed."

"I know Baby, but not tonight."

"Why?"

"He had to go back to work for a little while."

"That was hours ago."

"I know." Kisara tried to turn her frown into a smile and failed. "Now come on; that's enough chatter, it's time for you to get some sleep."

"Okay." Anathema sighed and snuggled into the bed covers with Mr Hoppy. "Goodnight Mommy Kara."

"Goodnight Baby." She kissed the little girl and then left the pink filled bedroom.

It had been a long tiring day and Kisara wanted nothing more than to put her feet up and huddle with her husband. Except he wasn't there and he should have been by now. If she had known she'd still be on her own four hours later then she would have put up more resistance to him returning there in the first place. What could he be possibly doing at Kaiba Corp at such an hour? She'd call and find out.

The line to Seto's cell phone ran for a while before it was answered. "Everything okay?" He asked with concern.

"Yes. I've had no more incidences like earlier with Anathema, I've just put her to bed and needed to speak with you."

"That's great that things have been okay but I'm afraid that I can't talk for long; I'm in the middle of a phone conference."

"A conference? At this time of night?" It was well passed the hours of a normal working day.

"It's a time zone difference thing. I'm sorry Honey, if I could avoid it I would, but I really need to secure this contract. I shouldn't be too much longer; another hour at the most and then I'll be home."

"I'll be waiting." Kisara wasn't going to argue further. "I love you."

"I love you too." Seto hung up his cell phone and began typing again. He was almost done with the programme and would soon be on his way home. It was wrong to lie to his wife about what he was doing but knew he had no choice. At least he would be on his way home shortly.

A couple of minutes later his cell phone rang again. This time it was Ianto. "I'm almost done. You'll have what you need in a moment." He assured the Welshman before he got chance to demand why the systems hadn't been updated fully yet.

"What?" Ianto seemed a little out of it. "Oh! Yeah. Don't worry. No rush."

"Is everything okay there?" Seto asked as he picked up on his friend not acting like his usual self.

"Yep, everything's fine. Jack's just informed me that he's going to see one of our potential recruits at the hospital, and I'm following up on a lead that Gwen managed to track down."

"A lead huh?" Seto asked thoughtfully as he typed. He'd thought about asking how the Welshwoman was since neither of them had spoken to each other since his wedding day but then decided against it.

"Police backlog files contained video footage of a guy we now know to be originally named Clement MacDonald." The Welshman began to explain. "He was filmed chanting the same phrases at the same time as the children. Seemed strange that only one adult was affected be this, when compared to the millions of children, so off she went to investigate."

There was a brief pause and then Ianto suddenly blurted out, "I lost the car!"

Startled by the unexpected confession, several wrong keys were accidentally struck. "Pardon?"

"The SUV; it's been stolen." Came the explanation. "I went to see my sister, - make sure the kids were okay and everything, - and some thieving little bastards on her housing estate got through the triplet deadlock and nicked it. And can you believe that they had the cheek to drive around, - a lap of honour my brother-in-law called it, - and moon us as they passed by? When Jack finds out about this he's not going to be too pleased. He loved that car."

"I'm sure he'll understand." Seto assured his friend as he was nearing the end of his painstakingly long task. All he had to do now was connect it to Torchwood Three. "As long as you don't mention the part about the exposed flesh that was on show I he's likely to forgive … you …" He trailed off as his hard work suddenly disappeared from the screen. "Ianto, you did open up all of the firewalls for me right?"

"Yup, all ten of them."

"Then why am I still being denied access to your systems?"

"Hang on, I'll check." The clicking of a keyboard sounded down the line. "Ah, looks like Tosh created an undetectable, maximum security, backup programme. That'll be what's giving you grief. I'll allow you authorised access to continue the job."

"A job which is going to take me a while longer." Seto grumbled to himself as the unexpected security hurdle had just deleted all of the work he'd done on the software over the pass few hours, with no chance of him being able to recover any of it. "Tonight is going to be a long night."

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# Nine months had finally passed. It had been long and hard and tiring, and now it was all over. The time spent in labour had been surprisingly pretty swift, though the pain had been more than she had ever anticipated.

Still, it was all worth while as her baby was handed to her. Swaddled in a light blue blanket, the baby dragon slept peacefully but Kisara knew instantly that something was wrong.

This dragon wasn't her baby. How could it be? Her first three babies had been white yet this one was red.

Three blue eyes white dragons circled around the bed where she sat holding her newborn, each of them wanting a closer look at their sibling. A gentle roar came from the youngest white dragon as it coaxed the red one to wake up and open its eyes. The other two dragons had clearly lost interest now they had seen what all the fuss had been about and backed away out of sight.

With a tiny purr, the baby stirred and slowly opened its eyes. Now there was no longer any sense of doubt in Kisara's mind as the eyes staring back up at her were as sparkling blue as her own. This was indeed her child.

Suddenly the remaining white dragon cried out and took a swan dive to the floor before the newborn burned up in her arms and exploded into light. #

"Mommy Kara, wake up!"

Kisara's eyes flung open and back into reality. She'd been warned that being pregnant may cause her to have weird dreams about many possible birth outcomes for her child but hadn't expected anything so messed up as what she'd just dreamed.

"Anathema?" Groggily she looked at the little girl who had woken her up from her sleep and stretched a little. "What time is it Baby?"

"Seven o'clock."

"Already?" Kisara seemed surprised. It couldn't be that time; Seto hadn't come home yet. Had he? She glance to the neatly made side of the bed beside her and frowned. He'd stayed at work all night again. A smiled was forced onto her face as she returned her attention to her daughter; she'd worry about her husband later. "Let's get you ready for school. What would like for breakfast?"

There was no reply as the little girl just looked into thin air.

"Anathema?"

"We are coming. We are coming. We are coming…"

Kisara let out a horrified gasp and scrambled as quickly as she could across to the other side of the bed and as far away from the possessed girl as she could get.

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Seto rubbed his eyes for the umpteenth time. He was tired and so glad that he'd finished the software data once more. Now all he had to do was connect it to Torchwood Three and he'd finally be able to get some rest.

"Ooo, Kisara is not going to be happy with you when you get home." Rebecca told him as she arrived to work, armed with an extremely large polystyrene cup containing the strongest coffee she could buy and handed it to him. She could tell he'd been there all night.

"Thanks." Seto took the drink offered to him and chose to ignore the taunt she'd made about his wife. He didn't need reminding and felt awful about the way things had turned out.

"Let me finish off here for you; like we agreed yesterday." She tried to pry her brother-in-law from the chair.

"No need." He grinned and hit the last few keys he'd need to complete the task he'd spent so much time on. "There, all done."

"You just had to prove me wrong and do it all by yourself didn't you?" Rebecca rolled her eyes in exasperation.

"Don't I always." Seto smirked and then drank some more of the caffeine based drink and drained the cup dry. "Right, that should keep me awake for the drive home."

"Drive home? Now? When you've got a meeting with dear Henry in a couple of hours?"

Seto swore loudly. He'd forgotten about the meeting with Geocomtex. There was still some preparation work to do too but he'd most likely improvise on that when the time came.

"You look exhausted." Rebecca told him. "Go get some sleep in your office for a couple of hours. I'll wake you up when he arrives at the building."

Seto didn't argue, - he was too tired, - and was about to leave her to it when several dozen windows flashed up on his computer monitors, all of them telling him one of two things. Torchwood Three's system was either inaccessible or offline.

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"…We are coming. We are coming. We are coming…"

"Stop it!" Unable to do anything else about the situation, Kisara held her hands over her ears to try and block out the sound of Anathema's voice.

"…We are coming. We are coming. We are coming…"

It wasn't working as the girl's voice seemed to get louder with each chant. "Stop it!" She screamed in one last frustrated attempt and then helplessly broke down into tears as it still continued.

"…We are coming. We are coming. We are coming… Back!"

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A/N: I hope that was okay for people who haven't seen 'Children of Earth' to follow.

:)

KG