[April's Fool] - Chapter Six - Waking
So, I've had this one written for ages but never posted.
Silly me.
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__ April's Fool
Chapter Six - Waking
Fay was pale and his eyes were wide and glazed over, unseeing, and he spoke without stopping for breath, a different voice each time and none of them his.
“The power, the POWER!”
“Kurogane-san,” Syaoran murmured “What's he...?”
“We must have him”
“I don't know... Stay away,” Kurogane barked upon seeing Jack and the Doctor approaching.
“We must have his POWER!”
“His are the eyes of the devil! Sinned, you have all-”
Fay's words sped up until he was no longer intelligible and his words melded together and he carried on, every sound starting to dry in his throat as he didn't swallow and his skin purpling as he didn't breathe until he stopped for a second.
Just a second.
And then, he screamed a name so loud and filled with desperation with a ferocity that they all recoiled in horror and as the last sound died in Fay's mouth so did his consciousness, and he fell back onto the sheets.
None of them took their bewildered, shocked eyes off of the blonde, who was motionless for only a few seconds. Blue eyes soon shot open and darted around unseeing as he gasped for breath, a hand clutched to his chest.
He sat up quickly and clapped a hand to his mouth, barely able to keep the vomit at bay for even a second before coughing and spluttering into an offered bucket.
It had all happened so quickly that everyone there almost didn't believe it happened, but a glance at the others' faces proved that it had.
The Doctor was the first to speak.
“...Fay?”
“I told you I'm not Fay...” the blonde mumbled quietly.
The Doctor and Jack exchanged looks, confused.
“Your name's Fa-” Kurogane started
“Where am I?” Fay murmured
“...Kid, get out of here,” Kurogane ordered over his shoulder at Syaoran, “Don't tell the princess or the Pork Bun. You too.” he added as an afterthought at the woman.
“Y-yeah...” Syaoran answered. He left, a confused and shell-shocked Toshiko following behind him.
“You're in Cardiff...” the Doctor supplied, “Torchwood... You've been here a few days.”
“Cardiff....” Fay tested the word on his tongue, “Is that... like the council?”
“Stop playing this game, you idiot! It's not funny!” Kurogane growled, causing Fay's face to crumple and his voice to falter
“I'm n-not playing... I swear... We weren't playing anything...”
“Who's 'we'?” Jack interjected
“Me and...we were just sat in our room I promise we weren't doing anything and we didn't see anyone honestly we didn't!”
“Stop it, both of you,” the Doctor snapped, approaching Fay carefully, “He has some kind of amnesia. Shouting at him,” he glared at the other two “Won't solve anything.”
“D-did my uncle send you?” Fay asked the Doctor timidly, “is it today?”
“Is what today?” the Doctor questioned in return, using a soft voice, as if he were speaking to a child
“...T-the trial? Is it t-today?”
“Whose trial?”
Fay looked at him oddly, “...Mine....”
There was a short pause before Fay's face twisted in agony and he was clutching at his own head and screaming again, but this time they could understand him.
“IT'S IN MY HEAD! GET IT OUT!!”
“Doctor, what do we do?”
“IT'S KILLING ME!”
“Out of the way”, Kurogane growled, shoving the Doctor aside and punching Fay square in the face, knocking him out.
…
“Well, that solved everything.” the Doctor commented sarcastically, rubbing his shoulder where Kurogane pushed him.
Fay groaned and a hand came to his swelling cheek just as his eyes opened.
“Wha... What's going on? Ow...Kuro-poo, did you hit me?”
Kurogane gave the Doctor a pointed look and smirked triumphantly.
-
“Um.. Toshiko-san?”
“Yes, Syaoran...-kun?” Tosh replied, a strange feeling in her heart at the honorifics she hadn't used in so long. They were both shaken over what had happened to Fay and were sat down, listening to the echoing sounds of Ianto making tea in the next alcove.
“You said... you knew how to get Sakura-hime's feather... please, we need to get it back.”
Toshiko looked warily at the closed infirmary door and then at Ianto, who seemed to be obediently holding his silence.
She looked back at Syaoran.
“Come with me.”
She took him to the archives and was careful to only show him the file that corresponded to Torchwood Two.
“It's in Glasgow, Scotland... do you know where that is?” she asked upon seeing his confused expression. He shook his head and she searched for a map of the United Kingdom.
“We're here,” she pointed to a dot labelled 'Cardiff' in bold yellow and green. “And Glasgow is here.” she pointed to another similar dot that was at the other end of the odd-shaped island.
“Glasgow...” Syaoran mumbled under his breath as if he were calculating
“This tells you how far two cities are apart from each other... so... Cardiff is six hundred and forty five kilometres from Glasgow, if you follow the motorways.”
Tosh felt bad, but there was no way she could help him, not within her own place of employment. She sighed and flicked to the streetmaps section, circling something and dog-earing the page. She then closed the map and offered it to Syaoran.
“You'll most definitely need it.” she smiled apologetically.
He thought for a moment and then bowed respectfully, taking the map from her “thank you very much for your help, Toshiko-san.”
-
“Jack! The Weevil's escaped! I need help down here!” Gwen buzzed over the radio.
As soon as Jack sprinted out of the room, Syaoran, Sakura, Toshiko and Mokona came in, ushering Fay quickly out of bed.
“It won't be long before he realises the Weevil's not gone anywhere,” Tosh explained, “Hurry up, follow me!”
Tosh showed them the way out and they did as told, the Doctor following but Tosh staying behind to buy them more time.
“We have to get to a place called Glasgow,” Syaoran explained as they ran, “It's where Sakura-hime's feather is, but it's so far away I have no idea how we'll get there,”
They rounded a corner and paused for breath, far away from the Hub entrances now.
“It can't be any further than we've had to travel before, right Mokona~?” Fay said between heavy breaths and they agreed.
“It's four hundred miles away.” The Doctor supplied.
Their faces fell all at once and Kurogane cursed under his breath.
“We should start moving now, in that case...” Syaoran suggested, a tone of resignation obvious in his voice, “It'll take days...”
“Nah, I don't think so.” the Doctor replied, confident and unbothered by the distance, “If Fay can manage his sickness, we'll be in Glasgow in two ticks.”
A quick jog to the TARDIS was all they'd need to travel, it seemed. They were all a little sceptical - this machine didn't even have wheels, how would it get them across the country? - but they piled inside all the same and obeyed the Doctor's instructions.
“You, this button. Just keep pressing it, just - yeah, that's great. Big guy, this lever if you please, keep it upright, and maybe this pressure pad too? Just squeeze it hard... not that hard, yep that's it...”
He told them how the TARDIS was meant for six pilots, so the more of them there was, it would obviously run smoother. Fay was getting paler by the second, so the sooner they were in Scotland, the better.
Fay held back a groan as the machine started moving, closing his eyes so he didn't focus on the rattling noises and the unnatural lights and the moving central column. Before, the sickness hadn't really effected him in any real way, but now, after days of throwing up everything in his stomach he was weak. His legs were wobbling under his slight weight - which was much less now than a few days ago - and his arms quivered in exhaustion.
But he said nothing. Sakura was the only one not constantly giving him concerned glances and he didn't want to worry her too. The Doctor threw the TARDIS doors open and they followed him out onto the street.
“Here we are - Glasgow. Third most populated city in Britain, largest city in Scotland and also home to Torchwood Two.” the Doctor informed, even though only one of his passengers was vaguely interested.
Cha-chick.
They froze on the spot, each of them staring straight down the barrel of a gun.__
Silly me.
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__ April's Fool
Chapter Six - Waking
Fay was pale and his eyes were wide and glazed over, unseeing, and he spoke without stopping for breath, a different voice each time and none of them his.
“The power, the POWER!”
“Kurogane-san,” Syaoran murmured “What's he...?”
“We must have him”
“I don't know... Stay away,” Kurogane barked upon seeing Jack and the Doctor approaching.
“We must have his POWER!”
“His are the eyes of the devil! Sinned, you have all-”
Fay's words sped up until he was no longer intelligible and his words melded together and he carried on, every sound starting to dry in his throat as he didn't swallow and his skin purpling as he didn't breathe until he stopped for a second.
Just a second.
And then, he screamed a name so loud and filled with desperation with a ferocity that they all recoiled in horror and as the last sound died in Fay's mouth so did his consciousness, and he fell back onto the sheets.
None of them took their bewildered, shocked eyes off of the blonde, who was motionless for only a few seconds. Blue eyes soon shot open and darted around unseeing as he gasped for breath, a hand clutched to his chest.
He sat up quickly and clapped a hand to his mouth, barely able to keep the vomit at bay for even a second before coughing and spluttering into an offered bucket.
It had all happened so quickly that everyone there almost didn't believe it happened, but a glance at the others' faces proved that it had.
The Doctor was the first to speak.
“...Fay?”
“I told you I'm not Fay...” the blonde mumbled quietly.
The Doctor and Jack exchanged looks, confused.
“Your name's Fa-” Kurogane started
“Where am I?” Fay murmured
“...Kid, get out of here,” Kurogane ordered over his shoulder at Syaoran, “Don't tell the princess or the Pork Bun. You too.” he added as an afterthought at the woman.
“Y-yeah...” Syaoran answered. He left, a confused and shell-shocked Toshiko following behind him.
“You're in Cardiff...” the Doctor supplied, “Torchwood... You've been here a few days.”
“Cardiff....” Fay tested the word on his tongue, “Is that... like the council?”
“Stop playing this game, you idiot! It's not funny!” Kurogane growled, causing Fay's face to crumple and his voice to falter
“I'm n-not playing... I swear... We weren't playing anything...”
“Who's 'we'?” Jack interjected
“Me and...we were just sat in our room I promise we weren't doing anything and we didn't see anyone honestly we didn't!”
“Stop it, both of you,” the Doctor snapped, approaching Fay carefully, “He has some kind of amnesia. Shouting at him,” he glared at the other two “Won't solve anything.”
“D-did my uncle send you?” Fay asked the Doctor timidly, “is it today?”
“Is what today?” the Doctor questioned in return, using a soft voice, as if he were speaking to a child
“...T-the trial? Is it t-today?”
“Whose trial?”
Fay looked at him oddly, “...Mine....”
There was a short pause before Fay's face twisted in agony and he was clutching at his own head and screaming again, but this time they could understand him.
“IT'S IN MY HEAD! GET IT OUT!!”
“Doctor, what do we do?”
“IT'S KILLING ME!”
“Out of the way”, Kurogane growled, shoving the Doctor aside and punching Fay square in the face, knocking him out.
…
“Well, that solved everything.” the Doctor commented sarcastically, rubbing his shoulder where Kurogane pushed him.
Fay groaned and a hand came to his swelling cheek just as his eyes opened.
“Wha... What's going on? Ow...Kuro-poo, did you hit me?”
Kurogane gave the Doctor a pointed look and smirked triumphantly.
-
“Um.. Toshiko-san?”
“Yes, Syaoran...-kun?” Tosh replied, a strange feeling in her heart at the honorifics she hadn't used in so long. They were both shaken over what had happened to Fay and were sat down, listening to the echoing sounds of Ianto making tea in the next alcove.
“You said... you knew how to get Sakura-hime's feather... please, we need to get it back.”
Toshiko looked warily at the closed infirmary door and then at Ianto, who seemed to be obediently holding his silence.
She looked back at Syaoran.
“Come with me.”
She took him to the archives and was careful to only show him the file that corresponded to Torchwood Two.
“It's in Glasgow, Scotland... do you know where that is?” she asked upon seeing his confused expression. He shook his head and she searched for a map of the United Kingdom.
“We're here,” she pointed to a dot labelled 'Cardiff' in bold yellow and green. “And Glasgow is here.” she pointed to another similar dot that was at the other end of the odd-shaped island.
“Glasgow...” Syaoran mumbled under his breath as if he were calculating
“This tells you how far two cities are apart from each other... so... Cardiff is six hundred and forty five kilometres from Glasgow, if you follow the motorways.”
Tosh felt bad, but there was no way she could help him, not within her own place of employment. She sighed and flicked to the streetmaps section, circling something and dog-earing the page. She then closed the map and offered it to Syaoran.
“You'll most definitely need it.” she smiled apologetically.
He thought for a moment and then bowed respectfully, taking the map from her “thank you very much for your help, Toshiko-san.”
-
“Jack! The Weevil's escaped! I need help down here!” Gwen buzzed over the radio.
As soon as Jack sprinted out of the room, Syaoran, Sakura, Toshiko and Mokona came in, ushering Fay quickly out of bed.
“It won't be long before he realises the Weevil's not gone anywhere,” Tosh explained, “Hurry up, follow me!”
Tosh showed them the way out and they did as told, the Doctor following but Tosh staying behind to buy them more time.
“We have to get to a place called Glasgow,” Syaoran explained as they ran, “It's where Sakura-hime's feather is, but it's so far away I have no idea how we'll get there,”
They rounded a corner and paused for breath, far away from the Hub entrances now.
“It can't be any further than we've had to travel before, right Mokona~?” Fay said between heavy breaths and they agreed.
“It's four hundred miles away.” The Doctor supplied.
Their faces fell all at once and Kurogane cursed under his breath.
“We should start moving now, in that case...” Syaoran suggested, a tone of resignation obvious in his voice, “It'll take days...”
“Nah, I don't think so.” the Doctor replied, confident and unbothered by the distance, “If Fay can manage his sickness, we'll be in Glasgow in two ticks.”
A quick jog to the TARDIS was all they'd need to travel, it seemed. They were all a little sceptical - this machine didn't even have wheels, how would it get them across the country? - but they piled inside all the same and obeyed the Doctor's instructions.
“You, this button. Just keep pressing it, just - yeah, that's great. Big guy, this lever if you please, keep it upright, and maybe this pressure pad too? Just squeeze it hard... not that hard, yep that's it...”
He told them how the TARDIS was meant for six pilots, so the more of them there was, it would obviously run smoother. Fay was getting paler by the second, so the sooner they were in Scotland, the better.
Fay held back a groan as the machine started moving, closing his eyes so he didn't focus on the rattling noises and the unnatural lights and the moving central column. Before, the sickness hadn't really effected him in any real way, but now, after days of throwing up everything in his stomach he was weak. His legs were wobbling under his slight weight - which was much less now than a few days ago - and his arms quivered in exhaustion.
But he said nothing. Sakura was the only one not constantly giving him concerned glances and he didn't want to worry her too. The Doctor threw the TARDIS doors open and they followed him out onto the street.
“Here we are - Glasgow. Third most populated city in Britain, largest city in Scotland and also home to Torchwood Two.” the Doctor informed, even though only one of his passengers was vaguely interested.
Cha-chick.
They froze on the spot, each of them staring straight down the barrel of a gun.__