Different but Sane (28/?) Torchwood
Chapter Twenty Seven
Jack
I heard excitement from Gwen’s workstation as Ianto and I emerged from the office after a few hours of hot punishing sex. Ianto had been very domineering but the satisfaction was what had come out of it which made me very happy. Though we both looked like we had just come back from a very long chat. Martha smiled when she saw us and walked over very excited.
“Have you found something?” I asked getting excited and hoping that they had. Martha nodded before continuing.
“There were some tapes that James didn’t look at.” Martha explained, “Since he figured that they might have been useless.”
“Ah so you decided to take a look at them.” I said, getting more excited, “And?”
“Well it’s footage of outside the rooms of the patients that went missing,” Martha replied, “the reason James didn’t look through it is that they had been labelled wrong.” She added when she saw my puzzled look.
“Oh ok, so what did you find?” I asked.
“Well what about you come over and look.” Martha said before walking back towards the workstation. We followed and Gwen pulled up the footage of Terrance Matthews’ room. It showed the back of a man walking in at 2am in the morning.
“Alright as you can see at 2am a man entered Terrance Matthews’ room, now he stayed there for thirty minutes until leaving at exactly 2:30.” Gwen said before skipping towards the footage of the man leaving the room. I peered in and saw the man looking up at the camera. I froze when I realised who it was.
“Yes that’s Thomas Mitchell, the same man who said he had information,” Martha replied when she saw the look on my face. “Before you start to defend him, the information was more about those ‘game boys’ we found.”
“So what are you suggesting?” I asked, “That he might have something to do with it?”
“Yes as we looked through the tapes and he entered all three rooms at exactly the same time at all three disappearances.” Martha replied, “We checked the times with the cameras inside the rooms and they all matched up.”
“So I dug deeper into Thomas Mitchell’s real history and discovered that he died last year” Gwen added, “It seems that his record has been falsified, I looked up his real record and saw that it’s the same person.”
“What do you mean?” Ianto asked, still standing next to me.
“I think we’re dealing with a shape shifter,” Gwen replied, “Because the real Thomas Mitchell looks like the man who you talked to at the cafe.”
I then started to realise that at the cafe, Thomas had shown his true self that day but using our thoughts against us. He blamed it on bipolar so James would misinterpret it and Thomas would then gain his trust. Everything had been all an act but for what? Maybe Thomas really knew about James’ telepathy and that James was his next target.
“What’s wrong Jack?” Ianto asked with a worried smile.