fractured_agent | Captain Jack and Captain Jack [for slayers

Someplace where they won't be found until the right moment. That's the really difficult part. Wherever the hiding spot is, it has to be someplace that no one else will look.

I will sense around for ideal locations It will save time for her do it now, while they are stuck in the underground bunker.

Jack is very glad that April is along for the ride. He has extensive experience with time travel protocols, but it's impossible to know where the ideal spot would be without a clairvoyant along.

There are very few places where the equations can be hidden safely, and all of them have a sense of warning around them, the same touch of darkness that surrounds Bilis and his office. The safest spot seems to be an electrical box outside, where a note could be concealed for over sixty years.

So close together now, the same rude woman from earlier catches a glimpse of Tosh's papers sticking out of her bag. "What's that, then? Are you a spy?"

The safest spot is an electrical box outside, and there are a few other places, but I sense that touch of darkness around them...

April frowns lightly, and without even a word she casts an illusion spell over the papers. So if they are taken from Tosh, people will just see simple drawings.

"The Chinese are on our side, aren't they?" Tim, the navigator, asks in confusion.

"I'm Japanese," Tosh replies without thinking.

"You're hardly an ally, then," the woman scoffs.

It's George, of all people, who leaps to Tosh's defense. "Leave it, Audrey."

"We are all just worried... lets take a moment..."

"How do we know they don't know where to bomb us because of her?" Audrey shoots back at April. She looks back at Tosh. "If you've got nothing to hide, open the bag."

Jack cuts through the crowd, Captain Harkness not far behind. "She can't," Jack says. "Her work is top secret. She's a decoder for the Brits." He glances down at the papers and can tell they're not the same as they were before. Your doing?

"I could say the same about you, Audrey. You seem eager to cast suspicion on someone else..." April calmly replies.

I can remove it or change it easily... April replies to Jack.

No, keep it. It's a good distraction if she gets grabby. Jack approves of her quick thinking. Again, a reason to be very glad she's along.

Audrey looks outraged at April's accusation, but Captain Harkness shuts her down smoothly. "Without people like her, we'd have no way of defending this country." He's still holding his glass of brandy, though it's mostly empty, and raises it in a toast. "To Toshiko."

The other men who still have their drinks raise them too. Audrey frowns, but can't say anything without disrespecting the captain. She does take a closer look at what little of Tosh's papers she can see, though. Just sketches, from what she can tell. No special codes.

She was snoopy... April is glad the situation was resolved without issue.

((visiting with family for a few hours))

Jack is, too. Having Tosh here is far touchier than in the era she's used to, and he's just glad the attack on Pearl Harbor hasn't happened yet, or there might be no peaceful resolution. Good work, changing the papers.

As soon as we are able to leave, we will be able to leave the equations for the others...

Might be awhile, Jack says, listening to the sound of bombs falling on the city. Waiting is one of the hardest parts of war.

It is a little hard to relax right now, but April tries her best. She knows there is nothing they can do but wait it out...

In these close quarters, there's no avoiding Captain Harkness now. Or maybe it's an excuse for Jack to face him, but either way, the result is the same.

Tosh comes over to join April as the captains grab a corner, talking quietly with each other. "I can't wait to get out of here," Tosh says to April. To those around them, they might assume she means the bomb shelter, but April will know differently.

April doesn't like the close quarters either. She can sense an underlying fear from everyone. And her bestial nature doesn't want to stay 'caged' for too long.

"Me too."

"What happens if we can't get back?" Tosh asks in a low voice, worrying. She would be the team's best chance at putting the equations into the Rift manipulator, but she's stuck on the wrong side of the temporal shift.

"We can't think like that. Jack will ensure we get back."

"We should prepare for all contingencies," Tosh says, biting her lip. "We don't know for sure that anyone will find the equations at the right time. Do we?"

"I know for sure..." April says softly. She doesn't want anyone to overhear her. But she wants to provide Tosh comfort.

"How do you know?" Tosh has already caught on that there are things April isn't telling them, but just as with meeting the real Captain Jack Harkness, she feels that this is a situation where she really needs to have as many pieces to the puzzle as possible.

"I am psychic." April replies honestly. "I get a sense of what will happen, in order to help those in my life. And my senses told me of a place that would be ideal for your equations to be left."

Tosh doesn't think that sounds scientifically possible, but the scientfically impossible is something Torchwood deals with all the time. "Humans don't typically have in-born talents like that."

"Well I am not human either." April states simply. "I have other abilities... one of which allowed me to get into that office without being seen."

Torchwood occasionally meets aliens that look human, though it is rare. Sometimes those aliens only look human because they're camouflaged, like Mary, the one who gave Tosh the telepathy pendant. So Tosh takes this in stride.

"Jack trusts you." It's not a criticism, but an understanding. Jack sees her as an ally, despite knowing what she is. That's good enough for Tosh.

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