Torchwood: Consequences

By David Llewellyn, Joseph Lidster, James Moran, Andrew Cartmel

Saving the planet, staring at over the Rift, getting ready the human race for the twenty-first century... Torchwood has been protecting Cardiff secure because the past due 1800s. Small groups of heroes, operating 24/7, encountering and containing the alien, the weird and the inexplicable.

But Torchwood don't consistently see the results in their activities. What hyperlinks the foundations and rules for exchanging a Torchwood chief to the destruction of a grocery store? How does a witness to an alien's reprisals opposed to Torchwood develop into stuck up in an evening of terror in a school library? And why may still Gwen and Ianto's activities at an area publisher's have an effect on Torchwood greater than a century earlier?

For Torchwood, the prior will consistently meet up with them. and infrequently the longer term will meet up with the past...

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We’ve obtained a burst of strength. not anything the method recognises, so I’m guessing whatever’s inflicting it's alien. ’ ‘What a part of city is that? ’ Gwen requested. Toshiko’s arms flew around the keyboard. ‘The Fenmere property. Down prior the docks. ’ ‘Not a pleasant a part of town,’ Owen stated. ‘Maybe you'll want to remain the following. Me and Ianto will. . . ’ ‘Oh that’s right,’ Gwen lower in. ‘Leave the women at the back of? Jack would really like that. You’re now not dependable, have in mind? ’ ‘No, and neither are you, so cease attempting to—’ ‘Enough! ’ Ianto hardly raised his voice and the only notice used to be adequate to close either Gwen and Owen up. ‘I’ll remain the following. Tosh, you’d greater pick those . ’ Toshiko regarded hesitant earlier than taking a shaky breath and drawing herself up tall. it's going to have made her seem convinced. in some way, she simply appeared extra worried. ‘OK. correct. Let’s cross. Gwen, you force. ’ at the least Owen didn’t argue that. Ianto toyed with the switch in his pocket as he watched the others depart, making an attempt his most sensible to disregard the silence descending at the Hub. He wanted he was once with them, no longer simply because he desired to bang all their heads jointly and remind them how fortunate all of them have been to have one another – even supposing he did actually need to do this – yet simply because there have been simply too many own ghosts within the quiet areas round him. His eyes snagged on Jack’s place of work door. That area specially. His shoulders slumped somewhat and he felt the soreness within, correct within the pit of his belly, that left him feeling a bit of ailing. It was once there so much days, and constantly while he was once within the Hub. This was once Jack’s position, and it was once empty with no him, all of them knew that. Ianto may nonetheless pay attention the echo of his snort and the texture of these arms on his epidermis. They’d tentatively been beginning whatever that had the aptitude to be whatever nice while Jack had long gone, Ianto used to be certain of it. And it could were Gwen who’d sat by way of Jack Harkness’s aspect till he awakened, however it have been Ianto who had torn where aside trying to find him after he’d long past. even if he’d realised that the hand within the jar had vanished, it had taken it slow to persuade him that Jack Harkness had long past on a few type of experience with no them – with no him – and with out even asserting so long. He stared on the place of work door and needed he may possibly see the darkish form of the regularly occurring greatcoat putting at the different part. His middle ached. Jack Harkness. the place the bloody hell was once he, and whilst used to be he coming again? The Fenmere property was once the type of position that will be drab on an ideal summer season afternoon; less than a gray sky it seemed definitely bleak. The SUV parked up by means of the small prom of tatty retailers, so much of that have been both boarded over or had grilles pulled down and graffiti daubed throughout them. the 3 contributors of the workforce acquired out and peered round them. ‘Nice,’ Owen muttered. Over by means of a few railings keeping apart the 3 huge tower blocks from the purchasing zone, a gaggle of teen boys stared at them after which laughed. The tallest flicked a cigarette butt of their course and stared defiantly. ‘Let’s get this performed quick, lets?

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