On the run

Chapter 31

Back at Torchwood, Yvonne had gone to her new office and had called Jake.

"Well, anything to report?" she asked him.

"Such as? If you want me to betray my friends, forget it Yvonne."

"Well after Thursday, it won't matter. I'll get the job permanently and you'll have two choices."

"Well I won't pick the one where I serve you Yvonne. Don't be so sure of yourself once Pete gets his say."

Yvonne wasn't finished though. "Gloat all you want Jake. Have you followed up on that witness yet?"

"As if I'd tell you?"

"She knows what she saw and heard that night, I'm having her brought in today."

"Then I want to sit in on it and ask her a few questions of my own," Jake told her.

"So, where are the witnesses for Rose?" Yvonne asked him.

"Any time you want to talk to them, just say. Why don't we wait until Thursday, when the enquiry is held?"

"Why not, I've got nothing to hide."

Jake thought she was still planning something big but if they both talked to the witnesses before the enquiry, it would be over and Yvonne would win. He'd been surprised she'd agreed to wait.

Unknown to Yvonne though, the board members had been having their own meeting.

"So, who's going to sit in on the enquiry?" Ian asked them.

"I'd say you," Simon laughed.

"No other volunteers?"

The others shook their heads though there was still one of them absent.

"I'll do it then but aren't you afraid I'm too close to Pete?"

"In what way?" Lee asked.

"We were good friends before all this."

"We know but you can stand up for yourself in front of Yvonne."

"Well I'm glad you have confidence in me then but why did you all agree with her in the first place?" Ian wanted to know.

"We have to listen to both sides and while Pete is in doubt, we can't leave him in charge."

"So you believe Yvonne, that he's covering something up about Rose? I've known him a long time, before his wife came back and he was different back then, before the Cybermen took over Torchwood to escape."

"Maybe Yvonne is wrong but people will do anything for family," Simon told him.

Ian knew he could be right but he couldn't imagine Pete changing that much.

Pete and Jackie had gone to check into their room at the pub across the river from the caravan park, leaving Rose and Alec to talk.

"She seems to have taken it all well," Alec told her. "I thought she would have guessed by now."

Rose snuggled up to him, folding her legs under her.

"Just be thankful she hasn't but if you keep giving her clues she will."

"You mean like I did to you love?" he smiled, kissing her forehead.

Just after seven, they walked across the road bridge and entered the pub, Jackie and Pete already seated and Pete waved to them. While they'd been waiting, Jackie had loads of questions.

"What's gonna happen when Rose has to go home Pete?"

"She won't just leave him Jackie, maybe she'll want to stay here?"