Fic: Valiant 6/38
Title: Valiant Chapter 6/38
Author: MeiLin
Characters/pairing in this chapter: Gwen, Ianto, Toshiko, Owen
Rating for this chapter: PG
Summary for this chapter: Jack has disappeared and the team gets orders.
A/N for this chapter: A version of this chapter originally appeared as part of "Sway" and "We'll Meet Again." It has been revised and expanded.
Valiant Central Page
Jack was gone, vanished without so much as a note, and the Hub completely tossed. His whereabouts were a secret even to Ianto, who, once he'd supervised setting it to rights, paced the Hub unconsciously picking up still-full coffee cups and dumping them out.
So many secrets in just one year, Gwen thought. We had all been carrying so many secrets. Ianto and his doomed, hidden girlfriend. Her and Owen--Owen and Diane. Tosh and her alien seducer, Mary. And Jack, mysterious Jack, who let a strange, charming woman from the future into Torchwood, lost her, and then banned her name from discussion.
All the secrets revealed, one by one, until the ultimate secret fell away, though Gwen had shared it until then: Jack's immortality. He died destroying the demon Abbadon, and came back to life three days later. And then he disappeared. The disciples got 40 days with their master when he came back to life, why did we get so few? she thought. I miss him.
On the monitor at Owen's workstation, the news was on but no one was really paying attention to it. The presenter was recapping the arrival of new Prime Minister Harold Saxon at the recently rebuilt Number Ten Downing Street. Gwen gave it a cursory glance--and froze.
"Owen. Tosh." Something in her voice called their attention quickly to her. They stared into the screen with her. "Behind the Prime Minister. The blonde."
"Oh my God," gasped Tosh. "It's Shae." She looked blankly at Gwen. "Who do we call?"
Ianto turned toward the three of them, hand on his earpiece. "It's the Prime Minister," he said, blinking. "We've been ordered to the Himalayas."
Author: MeiLin
Characters/pairing in this chapter: Gwen, Ianto, Toshiko, Owen
Rating for this chapter: PG
Summary for this chapter: Jack has disappeared and the team gets orders.
A/N for this chapter: A version of this chapter originally appeared as part of "Sway" and "We'll Meet Again." It has been revised and expanded.
Valiant Central Page
Jack was gone, vanished without so much as a note, and the Hub completely tossed. His whereabouts were a secret even to Ianto, who, once he'd supervised setting it to rights, paced the Hub unconsciously picking up still-full coffee cups and dumping them out.
So many secrets in just one year, Gwen thought. We had all been carrying so many secrets. Ianto and his doomed, hidden girlfriend. Her and Owen--Owen and Diane. Tosh and her alien seducer, Mary. And Jack, mysterious Jack, who let a strange, charming woman from the future into Torchwood, lost her, and then banned her name from discussion.
All the secrets revealed, one by one, until the ultimate secret fell away, though Gwen had shared it until then: Jack's immortality. He died destroying the demon Abbadon, and came back to life three days later. And then he disappeared. The disciples got 40 days with their master when he came back to life, why did we get so few? she thought. I miss him.
On the monitor at Owen's workstation, the news was on but no one was really paying attention to it. The presenter was recapping the arrival of new Prime Minister Harold Saxon at the recently rebuilt Number Ten Downing Street. Gwen gave it a cursory glance--and froze.
"Owen. Tosh." Something in her voice called their attention quickly to her. They stared into the screen with her. "Behind the Prime Minister. The blonde."
"Oh my God," gasped Tosh. "It's Shae." She looked blankly at Gwen. "Who do we call?"
Ianto turned toward the three of them, hand on his earpiece. "It's the Prime Minister," he said, blinking. "We've been ordered to the Himalayas."