Not to Pease Pottage (she hated to say it, but it felt just a little too small for her now, a little too stifling and she stayed barely long enough to talk to a few people who still remembered her) but to England.
She was in London during the Battle of Canary Wharf (first the problem with Ashley Chapel and now this? Maybe they should just give up Canary Wharf as a lost cause) and she saw both the Daleks and the Cybermen.
She didn't see the Doctor. Not like she'd recognise him anyway.
But she had to know what they were doing there, so she took a quick look. Found something about Torchwood (their database was really well encrypted, so she could only get a couple of pieces of information). Apparently, with their London base (they called it Torchwood One, and there's references to Two, Three and Four) destroyed, the organisation had moved to Cardiff.
So she did too.
After a couple of months -during which she tried to get back into a normal routine, a woman started sitting at her table at the cafe/juice bar that she had started to go to.
The third time, the woman had introduced herself as Toshiko and started a conversation about megabyte modems (and she still wishes that she'd never heard the phrase, twenty years after she originally heard it) which led to them both chatting about how to increase the efficiency of most laptops on the market by at least 78%.
It took another two conversations before Mel finally brought up the existence of Torchwood and another three -at least another three, because she doesn't know how many times Toshiko slipped an amnesia pill into her drink- before Toshiko was ready to ask her about helping her out around the Hub.
She had said that she was getting a little overworked, being the only technological genius in her team, but Mel could see the real reason why she wanted her there.
Toshiko was lonely and just wanted someone to talk to. Mel wasn't entirely sure if she fitted the bill (because she had never been that good at listening) but she could try.
Besides, she was lonely too. And she did like working with alien technology.
Melanie Bush/Toshiko Sato
Not to Pease Pottage (she hated to say it, but it felt just a little too small for her now, a little too stifling and she stayed barely long enough to talk to a few people who still remembered her) but to England.
She was in London during the Battle of Canary Wharf (first the problem with Ashley Chapel and now this? Maybe they should just give up Canary Wharf as a lost cause) and she saw both the Daleks and the Cybermen.
She didn't see the Doctor. Not like she'd recognise him anyway.
But she had to know what they were doing there, so she took a quick look. Found something about Torchwood (their database was really well encrypted, so she could only get a couple of pieces of information). Apparently, with their London base (they called it Torchwood One, and there's references to Two, Three and Four) destroyed, the organisation had moved to Cardiff.
So she did too.
After a couple of months -during which she tried to get back into a normal routine, a woman started sitting at her table at the cafe/juice bar that she had started to go to.
The third time, the woman had introduced herself as Toshiko and started a conversation about megabyte modems (and she still wishes that she'd never heard the phrase, twenty years after she originally heard it) which led to them both chatting about how to increase the efficiency of most laptops on the market by at least 78%.
It took another two conversations before Mel finally brought up the existence of Torchwood and another three -at least another three, because she doesn't know how many times Toshiko slipped an amnesia pill into her drink- before Toshiko was ready to ask her about helping her out around the Hub.
She had said that she was getting a little overworked, being the only technological genius in her team, but Mel could see the real reason why she wanted her there.
Toshiko was lonely and just wanted someone to talk to. Mel wasn't entirely sure if she fitted the bill (because she had never been that good at listening) but she could try.
Besides, she was lonely too. And she did like working with alien technology.