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Infiltrator: Part Eighteen
Title: Infiltrator - Part Eighteen
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magicom
Rating: Maybe PG at the worst.
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or any of its characters. No money being made.
Pairing/Characters: Jack, Ianto, (Jack/Ianto), Gwen, Doctor Rupesh Patanjali, Johnson.
Spoilers: Takes into consideration all of S1, S2 and Day One of CoE.
Summary: As a whole: He's a doctor... they need a doctor. What if the 456 fuckery didn't happen and Torchwood actually did recruit Rupesh, who was trying to get the gig to spy on them for Johnson, as discussed in Day One? This part: A plan starts to come together.
Warnings: None to speak of.
Notes: Takes place starting just before and during CoE: Day One and goes AU from there onwards.
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Harkness headed straight down to the boardroom. So did Gwen. Jones lingered behind, stepping over to the coffee machine. Rupesh hesitated.
“Do you need a hand with...” he made a vague gesture to the machine as Jones looked over.
“No,” Jones said simply, carrying on with his work.
Rupesh nodded once, fumbled as he picked up his bag, and headed down to the briefing.
Harkness was standing by the screen at the front of the room, a schematic for a building Rupesh didn’t recognize displayed there. He was talking to Gwen about the tracking device he’d apparently placed on one of their vehicles, hoping they wouldn’t detect it.
Great, Rupesh thought, so this could actually be a trap. And Johnson could actually be waiting for him to tell her about a raid she’s already anticipating.
“Shouldn’t we wait for Ianto?” Gwen asked, quite innocently, though to Rupesh’s ears it was a clear continuation of the conversation she’d had with Jones the previous night. “Or have you two been talking already...?”
Harkness raised his eyebrows at her, seeming quite aware of what she was getting at and showing her no quarter. “He’s briefed me on what they took,” he replied.
“When you say ‘briefed’...”
Jones chose that moment to show up with a tray of hot beverages, and she fell quiet, but watched him as he stepped around the table handing them out. Once he finally sat, Harkness started explaining the drawing on the screen.
“I put an alien tracking device on one of their vehicles while they were ransacking the Hub,” he explained. “It operates on a frequency that humans don’t have equipment to detect yet.” He held up his arm, displaying the leather strap on his wrist. “Not for a couple thousand years, at any rate.”
That was about when Rupesh started to look a little confused. Gwen and Jones, on the other hand, didn’t flinch even a little bit.
“I was hoping they wouldn’t notice. They haven’t destroyed it; it’s still transmitting. From this....” he gestured to the screen. “Location. Allegedly abandoned but owned by the Crown. An organization like this would be black ops. They wouldn’t operate out of a building with a big sign on it. On the other hand, it could also be a trap.”
He nodded to Jones, who typed some commands into a keyboard, showing the outside of the building.
“Located in the City Centre, was previously storage for furniture removed from government buildings. Not in use for over a decade, officially. Defensible. One main entrance, one side entrance. Roof access. Likely that they have access to CCTV and any other government systems they choose. Definitely heavily armed, including some weapons procured from our archives.”
“And some things they might still think are weapons but definitely aren’t,” Harkness added.
Jones typed in another command and a map of Cardiff came up on the screen.
“We can approach from this direction and this direction,” he explained, highlighting areas on the map with a tap at his keyboard, “in civilian vehicles. That should minimize their chance of detecting us before we arrive in the area. That being said, the original schematic of the building and what it looks like inside now could be very different, so we don’t know what to expect once we get there.”
“Serious shit, is what we should expect when we get there,” Rupesh remarked. They all looked at him. He glanced around. “Did you see those people?” he added, realizing he may be a little inordinately anxious. Should he tell her? Better to come across as the nervous newbie than the threat to organizational security. He did not want to be one of the bodies Jones so casually disposed of in the course of his duties. Though there would be a certain poetry to that, he had to concede.
“We need to have some idea of their movements and how many of them there are. We’re going to put surveillance on the building. Tap into CCTV in the area. If they don’t know we found them, they won’t be expecting us to be watching them,” Harkness said. “So go get me some dirt on these people,” he told them, by way of dismissal.
In case you missed them:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Part Nine
Part Ten
Part Eleven
Part Twelve
Part Thirteen
Part Fourteen
Part Fifteen
Part Sixteen
Part Seventeen
Would love to hear what you think!
Author:
magicomRating: Maybe PG at the worst.
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or any of its characters. No money being made.
Pairing/Characters: Jack, Ianto, (Jack/Ianto), Gwen, Doctor Rupesh Patanjali, Johnson.
Spoilers: Takes into consideration all of S1, S2 and Day One of CoE.
Summary: As a whole: He's a doctor... they need a doctor. What if the 456 fuckery didn't happen and Torchwood actually did recruit Rupesh, who was trying to get the gig to spy on them for Johnson, as discussed in Day One? This part: A plan starts to come together.
Warnings: None to speak of.
Notes: Takes place starting just before and during CoE: Day One and goes AU from there onwards.
Harkness headed straight down to the boardroom. So did Gwen. Jones lingered behind, stepping over to the coffee machine. Rupesh hesitated.
“Do you need a hand with...” he made a vague gesture to the machine as Jones looked over.
“No,” Jones said simply, carrying on with his work.
Rupesh nodded once, fumbled as he picked up his bag, and headed down to the briefing.
Harkness was standing by the screen at the front of the room, a schematic for a building Rupesh didn’t recognize displayed there. He was talking to Gwen about the tracking device he’d apparently placed on one of their vehicles, hoping they wouldn’t detect it.
Great, Rupesh thought, so this could actually be a trap. And Johnson could actually be waiting for him to tell her about a raid she’s already anticipating.
“Shouldn’t we wait for Ianto?” Gwen asked, quite innocently, though to Rupesh’s ears it was a clear continuation of the conversation she’d had with Jones the previous night. “Or have you two been talking already...?”
Harkness raised his eyebrows at her, seeming quite aware of what she was getting at and showing her no quarter. “He’s briefed me on what they took,” he replied.
“When you say ‘briefed’...”
Jones chose that moment to show up with a tray of hot beverages, and she fell quiet, but watched him as he stepped around the table handing them out. Once he finally sat, Harkness started explaining the drawing on the screen.
“I put an alien tracking device on one of their vehicles while they were ransacking the Hub,” he explained. “It operates on a frequency that humans don’t have equipment to detect yet.” He held up his arm, displaying the leather strap on his wrist. “Not for a couple thousand years, at any rate.”
That was about when Rupesh started to look a little confused. Gwen and Jones, on the other hand, didn’t flinch even a little bit.
“I was hoping they wouldn’t notice. They haven’t destroyed it; it’s still transmitting. From this....” he gestured to the screen. “Location. Allegedly abandoned but owned by the Crown. An organization like this would be black ops. They wouldn’t operate out of a building with a big sign on it. On the other hand, it could also be a trap.”
He nodded to Jones, who typed some commands into a keyboard, showing the outside of the building.
“Located in the City Centre, was previously storage for furniture removed from government buildings. Not in use for over a decade, officially. Defensible. One main entrance, one side entrance. Roof access. Likely that they have access to CCTV and any other government systems they choose. Definitely heavily armed, including some weapons procured from our archives.”
“And some things they might still think are weapons but definitely aren’t,” Harkness added.
Jones typed in another command and a map of Cardiff came up on the screen.
“We can approach from this direction and this direction,” he explained, highlighting areas on the map with a tap at his keyboard, “in civilian vehicles. That should minimize their chance of detecting us before we arrive in the area. That being said, the original schematic of the building and what it looks like inside now could be very different, so we don’t know what to expect once we get there.”
“Serious shit, is what we should expect when we get there,” Rupesh remarked. They all looked at him. He glanced around. “Did you see those people?” he added, realizing he may be a little inordinately anxious. Should he tell her? Better to come across as the nervous newbie than the threat to organizational security. He did not want to be one of the bodies Jones so casually disposed of in the course of his duties. Though there would be a certain poetry to that, he had to concede.
“We need to have some idea of their movements and how many of them there are. We’re going to put surveillance on the building. Tap into CCTV in the area. If they don’t know we found them, they won’t be expecting us to be watching them,” Harkness said. “So go get me some dirt on these people,” he told them, by way of dismissal.
In case you missed them:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Part Nine
Part Ten
Part Eleven
Part Twelve
Part Thirteen
Part Fourteen
Part Fifteen
Part Sixteen
Part Seventeen
Would love to hear what you think!