Ghosts [plot]

[Owen Harper//Storm Skylar]

Skylar walked up the stair into the empty work stations. It was still earily in the morning and she was not expecting anyone in for a little while. She was just bored, that's why she was here. She looked around the fairly clean area, the only really clean stop, though, was were her workstation was. She moved to the coffee table and made herself something to wake her up. She stood there for a minute after making the drink and orginized everything, even putting the cups, which were label with each perosn's name, in alphibatical order. It was something that could couldn't help but do. then She moved to her desk and sat down logging into the compture and checking if anything had happened over night. When she was sure nothing was wrong she stoo and started orginizing everyone's things and making it look much like her desk.

Then she looked up and saw someone. She looked at it for a long second wondering who it was, it sure was not anyone of her team, and for a second she thought that the building had been broken into, then she reaconized the person, it was her mother... She blinked and looked back to make sure she wasn't seeing things, but when she did look back she saw nothing. She stared at the spot for a long time and then finally decided that she had seen nothing in the first place. A little shaken up she moved on cleaning, waiting, and almost hoping, for someone to come in, she was starting to feel very watched and afraid on being alone.

[.:|Freefall|:.]

Second day at work, she was in a good mood, nothing had gone wrong that morning, even the sun was shining. So wit was with light fleeting footfalls that she entered the base of Torchwood Two - Glasgow. The place still seemed sort of new to her, as she had had very little change to have a good look around yesterday. So it was that she decided to take that look around now, as she was a little early, and didn't really have anything to do. There didn't seem to be much on this floor, looking around behind the stairs all she could see was a box room. She entered, since there was no-one else about to tell her not to, and have a little snoop, she had to get to know the place sometime she reasoned. Going through the door, she suddenly shivered, for no apparent reason other than a strange feel to the place, it wasn't even cold. Looking around she could see nothing much of interest in the room, and turned to go. As she faced back to the door, she caught the fleeting movement of something in the doorway, and she shivered again. OK, something strange was going on here, she concluded. She shifted her shoulder bag so that it was out of the way, and started through the door, keeping lower to the ground than was normal, as she had been trained.

Seeing nothing else, she climbed the stairs, turning the corner into the office room which held all the desks for the various members. Standing in the room by the cupboards, with a strange expression, was Storm. She felt a little more reassured at there being someone else there as well as herself. Is it just me today, or does it feel strange in here? She asked Storm, skipping the hellos.

[Owen Harper//Storm Skylar]

Storm was trying to control her breathing. Nothing had happened, why would she be seeing her mother anyway? She was lost to the rift and as she had learned working here they could only go one way, but the girl was still going to try and find her; her whole family. She then heard something behind her and started to become scared. Was she going crazy or something? She hoped not! Then it spook, and she jumped, only after to realize that it wa sonly Alex. She let out her breath and tried trying to at cool after that.

"Hu?" She asked as though she had been in deep thought, "Oh.. yeah that can happen here when you are alone... Ha.... its nothing... if there was something out then it couldn't be in here, not with out tripping an alarm... it's just the job getting to you. Anyway the rift has had not activity lately..." She said not really sure who she was trying to convince that it was ok, herself or Alex.

[Kally]

OOC: I am setting this after Will has seen his ghost. Find out who will saw here

Will staggered slightly up the stairs,. He was exhausted, having spent a night sleepless after seeing... Will didn't want to think about it.

Will opened the door. He was pale and tired looking, and still had the etchings of fear on his face, but Skylar looked just as worried as he felt.

"Hey Skye," Will said, "Are you alright?"

OOC: sorry, short post.

[.:|Freefall|:.]

She smiled, reassured somewhat by what Sky had said, but unnerved by how she had said it. Something had obviously happened to make her act like that, because from the last and only time Alex had seen her before she had seemed quite calm and in control. Now she seemed all over the place. OK then, she replied in what she hoped was a calm voice.

Then she heard the sound of a door closing, which immediately put her on edge again, and she whipped her head around to face the stairs. Seeing Will coming up the stairs, she let out the breath she had been holding in a sigh of relief. Hey Will, she said to him, but as he came through the door he seemed to almost not even notice her, and instead said hello to Sky. She felt slightly put out by that, but from the way he was acting, he looked exhausted, so she let it slide.

[Owen Harper//Storm Skylar]

Storm watched Alex and was kind of reassured by her answer. She knew that she was still uneasy, but they had just had a bad night, that must be it, and were seeing thing because of that, or at least she was, Alex might just be spooked about the whole torchwood thing. She then turned to see Will .he looked terrible. If any of the had had a hard night or were scare dit was him! "Am I alright!" She barked. "You look like h***! What happened to you, are you ok?"

[Kally]

Will walked in a light stupor towards Skylar. THen wrapped his arms around her. He needed to know he wasn't crazy. Skylar, surely would understand.
He didn't always like to look as though he relied on other people too much, and knew Skylar had a twinge of OCD in her that probably made prolonged human contact annoying, so he stopped hugging her.
"I dodn't have a very good night." Wil said simply and sat down heavily in a chair.

[Owen Harper//Storm Skylar]

Skylar was surpired when Will started to hug her. She really did care about the guy and felt very close to him. When he stopped she felt hurt, but then realized that she really didn't like contanct that much, with her OCD and stuff, but when it was Will it seemed different. "I'm sorry." she said softly. Not really knowing what else to say.

As she stared at her secret love something seemed to change. She blinked and when she reopened her eyes the man that she saw there was not Will, but insteed her brother. Blood ran down the side of his head as if he had been hit. He slowly started to open his mouth, and as he did blood began to gush out, shipping all over the floor. Skylar screamed in tear of the sight and jumped back, hidding herslef behind a desk. Falling to the floor she began to cry into her hands, to scared to look up, to scared to move.

[.:|Freefall|:.]

She watched quietly, observing as the two hugged. OK, they hadn't done that yesterday, she mused. She jumped mightily at Skys scream, watching frozen for a split second before she jumped foward, Sky! What happened? She was down next to the terrified Sky. What's wrong? Are you alri- she stopped herself as she realized the absurdity of the question, of course she wasn't alright!? She looked up, but couldn't see anything, nothing that could have sparked this off. Will, did you see anything? What's going on? She said the last thing to no-one in particular.

[Kally]

I don't know gasped Will shocked. Then he thought back to what he had seen, the way Anna had become his sister. Skylars shocked face.. as if she'd seen a.. ghost. Suddenly it clicked.

He stoode up and moved slowly away from Skylar, in case she was still seeing someone else. He slipped around the table and behind Alex, whispering to her so that Sky wouldn't hear.
Alex, tell her to shut her eyes. Tell her it's gone. Whatever it was she saw in me wasn't good. Theres something going on here.
Will got to his feet, making sure that Skylar would not see him. The apparaition of his sister had vanished when he shut and opened his eyes but he didn't know what Skylar had seen... or if she'd seen anything for that matter. Something was definitely wrong.

[Owen Harper//Storm Skylar]

Skylar Heard the others around freaking out. what had just happened? She tried to get everything in her mind. She had not seen her brother, she couldn't have he was gone, through the rift. But then she had just seen her mother too? What was going on? She was sure that she had scared the living day light out of her friends, and felt a ping of sadness, but then as she thought about what had happened and the sight of her brothers face gushing blood and... it was all to much. Then she did not feel so bad what she had seen was so much worse then what they had gone through. Releazing for the first time that she was on the floor crying into her hands Strom decided that it was time to stop. Trying to get her composer she movced her hands, tears still streaming down her face.

Breathing hard she decided that it was time to look around. She rubbed the tears away then turned her head very scared that she would see it again. When she turned she saw Alex, Alex not someone else, that was a good start. Then she turned to see Will, once again Will not not Drake(her brother). At this she started crying again. Not because she was scared but because she was happy that it was gone.

[Kally]

Will looked at Skylar. She was upset and he wanted to comfort her, but thought this was less than wise if she had had one of the strange visions too. He walked to his computer desk, painstakingly aligned and straightened by Skylar and logged into the Torchwood system.
Finding google torchwood ( a search engine developed by torchwood to make searching both the internet, torchwood articles and corresponding files easier) he typed in "ghosts".
500,000 results. He needed to narrow it down.
"Visions of loved ones dying"

This came up with 50 results, including the file on the Abbadon and what happened beforehand.
The description of the visions fitted, but JAck had destroyed the Abbadon, so the cause must be something else from the rift.

He looked up from the computer to Skylar. What did you see? he asked as gently as possible, trying to tell her with his eyes that he understood how she felt.

[.:|Freefall|:.]

She didn't know quite what to do. When she heard Will whispering in her ear, she was still confused, but repeated his message to her. She saw Sky look up at her and Will, then started crying again. She reached out and put her hand on her shoulder comfortingly, at least that was what she hoped it would do. Hand still on Skys shoulder, she looked over her shoulder to see Will at a computer. Will, what are you doing? She asked him.

[Owen Harper//Storm Skylar]

Strom tried to bring herself together and stop crying but it was hard. It took must the time for Will to look this up on the compture, what he was looking up not knowing what had happened she did not know. When he finally asked the question she opened her mouth and thought that she was going to start crying again. But she did not, but it was still hard tto get the words out. "Drake... my... my brother... dying...." she finally said and looked up. Decided that she was ready to move, and wanting to see what Will had type into the compture she stood slowly. The Sky moved to the compture at Will's workstation. "Visions of loved ones dying. How did you know? Will...." she asked a little easier.

[.:|Freefall|:.]

Sky was standing up now, that was good, she thought, relieved. She heard Sky speak. Visions? Loved ones dying? Suddenly she felt a cold shiver run down her spine, her thoughts taken back to less than half an hour previously in the box filled room, the same shivering she had had there. Ghosts... She barely spoke the words, merely whispered them to herself. Suddenly something seemed to click into place in her mind. She rushed round to stand behind Will at the computer, saw he was searching up ghosts already. Will, have you seen them too? She paused for a second. Try searching up mind reading, or thought manipulation, or that sort of thing. That seemed to come out as a command, but right then she didn't care, this could be important.

[Kally]

Will nodded as Storm descibed what she saw. I saw my little sister. She is alive, well... I hope she is. I saw her in my room. She was bleeding and screaming.. It was.. Will shuddered. horrible. He paused, then continued: I called my parents, they say she's fine. She's at school in edinborough so I don't know whats happening most of the time.

Will turned to Alex and nodded, searching for her suggestions. a couple of folklore results came up. Do you think we should contact Torchwood Cardiff or wait and see if we can do anything first?

[.:|Freefall|:.]

She looked at Wills search results. Just stuff about scottish folklore in the area, thats a bummer, she thought. Hmm...So far as we know, you two are the only people who have seen these ghosts, so i think that we should wait untill we have a little more evidence before we contact Torchwood 3. But if what you two saw was really as bad as you say it was, Sky's was obviously bad, then it may be better to sort this out pronto. She thought for a moment. Actually, on second thought, it'd probably be better to call them now. Do you two agree? She asked that because she didn't want to seem that she was jumping in here and taking control when it was only her second day after all. And besides, she needed their thoughts on this, as she had seen nothing more than a shadow in the corner of here eye.

[Kally]

Lets make a file on the ghosts. said will, "then we can give it to torchwood three",
Will saw Alex's look when she saw the folklore. "Don't underestimate myths and ledgend Alex, they can solve mysteries a lot easier than modern records sometimes."

[Owen Harper//Storm Skylar]

Sky let the two talk. She just listened, thinking. What was Alex trying to do with mind reading, or thought manipulation? What could that really do with the ghosts, but then again the two of them had seen what they feared, and that wasn't that good. She then decided that it was time to speak up. "I think we should tell torchwood 3 about this, of course, but not as a help us figure this out, but as a normal report to Jack. We are out own orginization here and we need to show them that we can do things by ourselves." Then she looked at the screen and read what it said. Nothing clicked at the moment. She then moved back to her compture and checked rift activity and e-mails, or anything else that might be of help. there was nothing. This was really starting to freak her out, what if it wasn't should what has happened but what might happen, or is going to happen. She was about to tell the others this, but decided against it, better not to scare them with that thought, though she was sure at least Will had already had it. "Everything looks normal..." she said instead.

Strom was about to give up on the compture for a little when she thought of something. "Wait! We should check the cameras! See if we can see anything unusaul when I saw... it." She looked at Will, he was the one who knew that most about comptures.

[.:|Freefall|:.]

Will, was right, of course, there could be something in the myths and legends, but then, myths were just that: Myths, stories told to frighten the kids or friends about the campfire in the days of old. Hearing Sky's report that the rift activity was normal, she felt that she was once again back to square one, if her idea about aliens reading the minds of their victims and showing them their fears had been right, then there should have been some rift activity to show that they had come. Oh well, it was an idea.

Then she started at Sky's exclamation. The cameras! She hadn't thought of that, but then, she hadn't known there were any there. She still had a nagging feeling though, if it was true, that ghosts couldn't be photographed, but she didn't know if it would apply to todays modern digital recording.