Captain Jack and Captain Jack [for slayers_desire]

[fractured_agent]

It's been a few months since the team got their first lessons in psychic shielding, and once again, the Hub is open to April's expertise. Though he knows they're having guests, Jack doesn't push anyone to clean up the clutter so it looks better. The Hub is still a work space, and a chaotically changing one at that. They're all used to it by now, and Jack knows April won't mind.

Ianto is manning the tourist information office upstairs, as usual, and he knows that April is coming.

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[slayers_desire]

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...

[fractured_agent]

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.

[slayers_desire]

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."

[fractured_agent]

"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.

[slayers_desire]

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

[fractured_agent]

"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?"

[slayers_desire]

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

[fractured_agent]

"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.

[slayers_desire]

"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."

[fractured_agent]

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."

[slayers_desire]

"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."

[fractured_agent]

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.

[slayers_desire]

"And I trust him." April replies with a soft chuckle.

[fractured_agent]

Tosh looks across the bomb shelter at the two captains, who are in a somewhat intense conversation. "Is there nothing we can do for him?" she asks, about the real Captain Harkness.

[slayers_desire]

"Not without endangering the timeline, unfortunately."

[fractured_agent]

Tosh had been hoping that if April can see the future, then maybe she could see a way to do something for the doomed captain. And while she's disappointed to hear there isn't, she also understands. "Of course. The butterfly effect."

[slayers_desire]

"He has to die, so our Jack can use his name." And that is why April hasn't looked too much into the future of the real Captain Harkness. She doesn't want to see the finality of a life that must be lost.

[fractured_agent]

The sound of bombs outside has become less frequent, signaling that the attack might be nearing its end. Nobody makes a move to get out of the shelter though; it isn't worth the assumption if you're wrong.

Right now Jack is wishing they could get out of the bomb shelter just so he could speak to the Captain in private. He's very good at reading human body language, especially from the more repressed eras of the time, and he can tell that there are things the Captain wants to say that he won't when there's a crowd. Shouldn't be much longer.

[slayers_desire]

I think we are all anxious to leave...

[fractured_agent]

In more ways than one? he replies, trying to make a small joke. He can tell Tosh is worried. And while Jack would be physically fine with living through the next sixty-some years again if need be, he knows neither of the ladies would want to do that.

[slayers_desire]

Definitely. I don't think I could handle these close quarters for too long...

[fractured_agent]

We just have to wait for the siren to sound the all-clear, then we can go back upstairs. It's strange how second-nature this all still is to him, given how long it's been. But some things you just never forget.

[slayers_desire]

It is weird waiting for something like a siren... when my voices tell me that I am safe to leave

[fractured_agent]

It's just blending in, like everything else. Jack's had to learn how to do it, though he doesn't always bother with some details.

[slayers_desire]

No matter how hard you try to blend in... sometimes something happens that reveals your true self. We both discovered that today