The Universe: Owen's Story - part seven
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The Universe: Owen's Story - part seven
Owen and Toshiko sat cowering behind the giant that contained what was left of their Captain. Toshiko held him tight around his waist she was smiling a little Owen thought she was listening to his heart beating. Absent-minded he stroked her hair; it was a little uncomfortable sitting there squeezed between the huge jar and the window. The Doctor was talking to the cat nurse he was telling her that he had meet the face of boe before. Then he asked another cat nurse to look for his friend, of course the Doctor never travelled alone.
Owen had wondered on many an occasion weather the Doctor Jack spoke of; ‘the right kind of doctor’ was the Doctor. He had wondered about it again when Martha had said that she and Jack studied under the same doctor. Of course Owen had once taken a peek at Jack’s files. It was after he died and Gwen sat in the morgue for a week claiming that he said he could never die. He had taken a look to see if there was any clues as to who Jack really was, at the time he was in command of Torchwood having been Jack’s second.
He was stocked as to how far Jack’s records went back, almost a hundred years. In the first case notes on Jack it claimed that he knew the Doctor and that he could never die. Owen had sent all night reading them but he never told Jack or any one else that he had, when Jack came back to life he saw it as a betrayal of his confidence and he didn’t want to be in Jack’s bad books ever again. He was hurt when Jack disappeared just as all the others were but he hoped to god he got what he needed.
Now as he and Toshiko hide from the Doctor Owen wondered if Jack would have come back had he known that this was his future. He wondered how many millennia he had been a face in a jar for, one? Two? More? The doctor wondered off to the end of the ward. He and Toshiko quickly ran for the door opposite the face of boe’s jar. He pushed open the door and ran down the corridor behind it. “What do we do now?” Toshiko asked, clinging to his hand as they ran for their lives.
“We find away back to earth and the twenty first century and we do it all while avoiding the Doctor” he panted at her. He’d forgotten how breathless running made him it felt brilliant. Heart pounding, blood pumping this was living… Torchwood style. Owen threw himself at a door to their left it had a picture of stairs above it. The ground floor had to be were they would find the exits; they kept on running down the spiralling stairs. Somewhere above them an alarm was set off. Was it the Doctor raining his chaos down on them? or was the alarm for them? There was a door at the bottom of the stairs Owen shoved it open and they ran across the foyer. The doors were sliding closed the building was going into lock down. “COME ON” Owen bellowed at Toshiko. They ran faster but the doors were too quick for them. They slammed closed in front of them, “NO” screamed Owen pounding on the doors. Toshiko tried to squeeze her fingers in the tiny gap between the doors trying to pull them open.
“It’s no use, their not going to open it must be something in the hydraulics”
“There’s got to be another way out” Owen looked wildly around hoping to see an exit sign, but then he couldn’t understand most of the signs… all written in alien languages. They pounded on all of the doors that looked like they lead outside, Owen looked around for help. All of the cat nuns seemed to be moving in one direction Owen and Toshiko looked at each other, “let’s go this way.” Suggested Toshiko pointing in the opposite direction to the one the cat nuns were going in.
“Good idea, lets try and find out what’s going on” they went back up a short fly of stairs and turned left. Owen had the idea of going back to the ward he woke up in and asking the face of boe what was going on. They stopped at the end of a corridor and looked left and right trying to figure out where to go next.
Suddenly the wall slid open. At first in revealed an empty corridor, Owen took a step towards it wishing he had a gun. Something wasn’t right here then at the end of the corridor a woman appeared followed by a man. “Hello” said Owen he stepped forward again. In doing so he could see their faces better, both of them looked like they had the plague. “Its okay” said Owen in a loud clear voice hoping that they understood him. “I’m a doctor, your both going to be okay I can help.” He took another step toward them as he did so about twenty more plague covered people joined them. More and more of them joined the first two in the corridor and started to walk towards them.
“There’s hundreds of them,” said Toshiko. Owen backed away from them feeling over whelmed. “Oh my god, Owen what’s wrong with them?”
“I don’t know the Black Death, the plague was cured hundreds of years ago, it must be billions by now… this is new,” they continued to back away. Owen instincts as a doctor told him to help them. But his survival instincts told him to run. “What’s wrong with you?” he asked them, “do you know what decease you have?”
“All of them” one of the people said.
“All of them?” Owen was confused, but realised that no human could have survived for so long with so many illnesses. Something else was at work here. “Who did this to you?”
“And why?” Toshiko added her question to his. She sounded like she was fighting back tears.
“The sisters, created us they did this to us for them,” he pointed at the window towards the city.
“You understood what they were doing?” Owen asked how could such evil still be possible?
“Yes… we need contact…we want to be hugged…” Owen looked at their skin, he would need further tests to be sure but they looked conatus.
“We can’t…I’m sorry… we might catch it… your carriers but it would kill us…I’m sorry.” The infected people looked disappointed.
“Its all we want…all we need”
“I’m so sorry,” said Toshiko from behind Owen. She wrapped her hand around his wrist and pulled. He ran with her, they couldn’t help those people not without dying. They found a supply corset and did the cowardly thing. They hide inside it hugging each other for comfort and staying absolutely silent. It was sometime later that they heard him, shouting at the infected people.
“I’m here, I’m in here,” he screamed. Owen and Toshiko looked at each other why would someone do that? Slowly and quietly they crept from their corset and moved towards the sound. From their vantage point they could see down into the foyer. There he was the Doctor…he wasn’t killing them… or being violent…he wasn’t doing any of the things Torchwood lead them to believe he did…he was hugging them…no not just hugging them he was curing them.
It was beautiful after all the chaos and destruction that the humans and the cat people cursed the Doctor made it all better; he saved them all of them. Not because he needed it or because he had too but because it was the right thing to do. He and Toshiko still hugging each other watched as the Doctor disappeared to speak with the face of boe. Even now that he was gone the people below them still cured one another by pasting it on, hugging each other.
They heard it about five minutes later the sound of the universe opening up to swallow the TARDIS. They had heard once before on the day that Jack had gone away to Ianto it meant pain and death. But to Owen and Toshiko it meant hope and beauty. It was a sound that they longed to hear again.
Over the next few months they had no choice but to stay on new earth. Owen found it easy to get a job in the hospital; they had to re - staff it after the sister of plenitude was all arrested. He was a junior Doctor again, it was weird at first but he soon realised that a lot of the new treatments required a lot of studying. He and Toshiko got a flat across the water in the city of New New York. Tosh got a job at a mechanics shop, Owen had laughed at first until he saw how complex some of the space ships were. They didn’t know what else to do with them selves so they waited, they both started to take flying lessons so that if needed they could one day fly home to earth. Everything was going well until one day, when Owen first saw the effects of the mood patches. A young cat girl was killed by over dosing on one called ‘bliss’. Over the next few weeks these new mood patches killed more and more beings.
He and Toshiko discussed it and decided that the best thing to do would be to get off new earth and quick. Toshiko made a deal with a young lieutenant; she offered to take them as far as galaxy M43. They had no idea where that was but thought it sounded good and far away, so they packed what little they had and left their flat for the last time.
They held hands as they walked to the mechanic shop that Tosh worked at. She explained to Owen that she had fixed the brakes on the space ship for free and that was why the lieutenant had offered them a ride. They weren’t the only ones running for it, the garage was packed with people trying to get rides of the space Captains. “THERE” someone in the crowd of people screamed. “THERE THEY ARE” Owen didn’t like the sound of that and turned to see JR and Red pushing their way towards them.
“Come on, that’s her ship” Tosh pointed ahead of them and started to run towards it. The ship started to take off. “No” Tosh screamed, “WAIT.”
A ramp flipped down and a young woman attached to something inside the ship via a black rope stood on it. She held out her hand, “TAKE MY HAND” she screamed over the sound of her ship’s engines. Owen did a funny sort of jump onto the ramp dragging Tosh with him. He grabbed the hand of the young woman, as he did so JR grabbed Tosh’s leg. “No” she screamed, “get off.”
Owen held on to her as tight as he could, “let her go” he shouted at JR. He could see Red running up behind him, as the ship hovered there. ‘We’re not going to make it’ thought Owen.
“Duck” said the young woman. Owen turned to see her pointing a large gun over his head. He ducked and watched as she shot JR in the shoulder knocking him off the ramp. The ship pulled up and away from them, Owen saw Red run up to JR’s side but he didn’t bend down to him or try to help in anyway. Red just watched them escaping as JR wrapped his arms around Red’s left leg. “Come on” said the young woman pulling them into the ship. The ramp closed and she un - hooked her self from the railing.
“The drive room is this way, I’d better take the ship off auto pilot” they followed her into the drive room. She sat in the chair directly in front of the controls. There were two seats behind hers “sit down and strap in” she said. “You okay Tosh?”
“Yes fine” said Tosh as she said down and did up her straps. Owen sat as well and strapped himself in.
“Thanks for that…er sorry I don’t know you name…”
“Funny, I know yours Doctor Owen Harper”
“Tosh mention me?”
“Of course I did” Tosh piped up. He smiled at her.
“Jones,” said the young lieutenant. “Evelyn Jones, but you can call me Evie”
The Universe: Owen's Story - part seven
Owen and Toshiko sat cowering behind the giant that contained what was left of their Captain. Toshiko held him tight around his waist she was smiling a little Owen thought she was listening to his heart beating. Absent-minded he stroked her hair; it was a little uncomfortable sitting there squeezed between the huge jar and the window. The Doctor was talking to the cat nurse he was telling her that he had meet the face of boe before. Then he asked another cat nurse to look for his friend, of course the Doctor never travelled alone.
Owen had wondered on many an occasion weather the Doctor Jack spoke of; ‘the right kind of doctor’ was the Doctor. He had wondered about it again when Martha had said that she and Jack studied under the same doctor. Of course Owen had once taken a peek at Jack’s files. It was after he died and Gwen sat in the morgue for a week claiming that he said he could never die. He had taken a look to see if there was any clues as to who Jack really was, at the time he was in command of Torchwood having been Jack’s second.
He was stocked as to how far Jack’s records went back, almost a hundred years. In the first case notes on Jack it claimed that he knew the Doctor and that he could never die. Owen had sent all night reading them but he never told Jack or any one else that he had, when Jack came back to life he saw it as a betrayal of his confidence and he didn’t want to be in Jack’s bad books ever again. He was hurt when Jack disappeared just as all the others were but he hoped to god he got what he needed.
Now as he and Toshiko hide from the Doctor Owen wondered if Jack would have come back had he known that this was his future. He wondered how many millennia he had been a face in a jar for, one? Two? More? The doctor wondered off to the end of the ward. He and Toshiko quickly ran for the door opposite the face of boe’s jar. He pushed open the door and ran down the corridor behind it. “What do we do now?” Toshiko asked, clinging to his hand as they ran for their lives.
“We find away back to earth and the twenty first century and we do it all while avoiding the Doctor” he panted at her. He’d forgotten how breathless running made him it felt brilliant. Heart pounding, blood pumping this was living… Torchwood style. Owen threw himself at a door to their left it had a picture of stairs above it. The ground floor had to be were they would find the exits; they kept on running down the spiralling stairs. Somewhere above them an alarm was set off. Was it the Doctor raining his chaos down on them? or was the alarm for them? There was a door at the bottom of the stairs Owen shoved it open and they ran across the foyer. The doors were sliding closed the building was going into lock down. “COME ON” Owen bellowed at Toshiko. They ran faster but the doors were too quick for them. They slammed closed in front of them, “NO” screamed Owen pounding on the doors. Toshiko tried to squeeze her fingers in the tiny gap between the doors trying to pull them open.
“It’s no use, their not going to open it must be something in the hydraulics”
“There’s got to be another way out” Owen looked wildly around hoping to see an exit sign, but then he couldn’t understand most of the signs… all written in alien languages. They pounded on all of the doors that looked like they lead outside, Owen looked around for help. All of the cat nuns seemed to be moving in one direction Owen and Toshiko looked at each other, “let’s go this way.” Suggested Toshiko pointing in the opposite direction to the one the cat nuns were going in.
“Good idea, lets try and find out what’s going on” they went back up a short fly of stairs and turned left. Owen had the idea of going back to the ward he woke up in and asking the face of boe what was going on. They stopped at the end of a corridor and looked left and right trying to figure out where to go next.
Suddenly the wall slid open. At first in revealed an empty corridor, Owen took a step towards it wishing he had a gun. Something wasn’t right here then at the end of the corridor a woman appeared followed by a man. “Hello” said Owen he stepped forward again. In doing so he could see their faces better, both of them looked like they had the plague. “Its okay” said Owen in a loud clear voice hoping that they understood him. “I’m a doctor, your both going to be okay I can help.” He took another step toward them as he did so about twenty more plague covered people joined them. More and more of them joined the first two in the corridor and started to walk towards them.
“There’s hundreds of them,” said Toshiko. Owen backed away from them feeling over whelmed. “Oh my god, Owen what’s wrong with them?”
“I don’t know the Black Death, the plague was cured hundreds of years ago, it must be billions by now… this is new,” they continued to back away. Owen instincts as a doctor told him to help them. But his survival instincts told him to run. “What’s wrong with you?” he asked them, “do you know what decease you have?”
“All of them” one of the people said.
“All of them?” Owen was confused, but realised that no human could have survived for so long with so many illnesses. Something else was at work here. “Who did this to you?”
“And why?” Toshiko added her question to his. She sounded like she was fighting back tears.
“The sisters, created us they did this to us for them,” he pointed at the window towards the city.
“You understood what they were doing?” Owen asked how could such evil still be possible?
“Yes… we need contact…we want to be hugged…” Owen looked at their skin, he would need further tests to be sure but they looked conatus.
“We can’t…I’m sorry… we might catch it… your carriers but it would kill us…I’m sorry.” The infected people looked disappointed.
“Its all we want…all we need”
“I’m so sorry,” said Toshiko from behind Owen. She wrapped her hand around his wrist and pulled. He ran with her, they couldn’t help those people not without dying. They found a supply corset and did the cowardly thing. They hide inside it hugging each other for comfort and staying absolutely silent. It was sometime later that they heard him, shouting at the infected people.
“I’m here, I’m in here,” he screamed. Owen and Toshiko looked at each other why would someone do that? Slowly and quietly they crept from their corset and moved towards the sound. From their vantage point they could see down into the foyer. There he was the Doctor…he wasn’t killing them… or being violent…he wasn’t doing any of the things Torchwood lead them to believe he did…he was hugging them…no not just hugging them he was curing them.
It was beautiful after all the chaos and destruction that the humans and the cat people cursed the Doctor made it all better; he saved them all of them. Not because he needed it or because he had too but because it was the right thing to do. He and Toshiko still hugging each other watched as the Doctor disappeared to speak with the face of boe. Even now that he was gone the people below them still cured one another by pasting it on, hugging each other.
They heard it about five minutes later the sound of the universe opening up to swallow the TARDIS. They had heard once before on the day that Jack had gone away to Ianto it meant pain and death. But to Owen and Toshiko it meant hope and beauty. It was a sound that they longed to hear again.
Over the next few months they had no choice but to stay on new earth. Owen found it easy to get a job in the hospital; they had to re - staff it after the sister of plenitude was all arrested. He was a junior Doctor again, it was weird at first but he soon realised that a lot of the new treatments required a lot of studying. He and Toshiko got a flat across the water in the city of New New York. Tosh got a job at a mechanics shop, Owen had laughed at first until he saw how complex some of the space ships were. They didn’t know what else to do with them selves so they waited, they both started to take flying lessons so that if needed they could one day fly home to earth. Everything was going well until one day, when Owen first saw the effects of the mood patches. A young cat girl was killed by over dosing on one called ‘bliss’. Over the next few weeks these new mood patches killed more and more beings.
He and Toshiko discussed it and decided that the best thing to do would be to get off new earth and quick. Toshiko made a deal with a young lieutenant; she offered to take them as far as galaxy M43. They had no idea where that was but thought it sounded good and far away, so they packed what little they had and left their flat for the last time.
They held hands as they walked to the mechanic shop that Tosh worked at. She explained to Owen that she had fixed the brakes on the space ship for free and that was why the lieutenant had offered them a ride. They weren’t the only ones running for it, the garage was packed with people trying to get rides of the space Captains. “THERE” someone in the crowd of people screamed. “THERE THEY ARE” Owen didn’t like the sound of that and turned to see JR and Red pushing their way towards them.
“Come on, that’s her ship” Tosh pointed ahead of them and started to run towards it. The ship started to take off. “No” Tosh screamed, “WAIT.”
A ramp flipped down and a young woman attached to something inside the ship via a black rope stood on it. She held out her hand, “TAKE MY HAND” she screamed over the sound of her ship’s engines. Owen did a funny sort of jump onto the ramp dragging Tosh with him. He grabbed the hand of the young woman, as he did so JR grabbed Tosh’s leg. “No” she screamed, “get off.”
Owen held on to her as tight as he could, “let her go” he shouted at JR. He could see Red running up behind him, as the ship hovered there. ‘We’re not going to make it’ thought Owen.
“Duck” said the young woman. Owen turned to see her pointing a large gun over his head. He ducked and watched as she shot JR in the shoulder knocking him off the ramp. The ship pulled up and away from them, Owen saw Red run up to JR’s side but he didn’t bend down to him or try to help in anyway. Red just watched them escaping as JR wrapped his arms around Red’s left leg. “Come on” said the young woman pulling them into the ship. The ramp closed and she un - hooked her self from the railing.
“The drive room is this way, I’d better take the ship off auto pilot” they followed her into the drive room. She sat in the chair directly in front of the controls. There were two seats behind hers “sit down and strap in” she said. “You okay Tosh?”
“Yes fine” said Tosh as she said down and did up her straps. Owen sat as well and strapped himself in.
“Thanks for that…er sorry I don’t know you name…”
“Funny, I know yours Doctor Owen Harper”
“Tosh mention me?”
“Of course I did” Tosh piped up. He smiled at her.
“Jones,” said the young lieutenant. “Evelyn Jones, but you can call me Evie”