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Taking Anwen with her, Gwen visits the weather monitoring station at the abandoned [[army]] base in the hopes of getting a tour to look around, but [[Tom (First Born)|Tom]] refuses her. Meanwhile, Rhys suffers a mental attack when he tries to question the Scions at [[school]] despite Mrs Harries trying to stop them and passes out. She tells him once he comes around that the Scions have the power to influence people, a power which unwittingly affects Gwen and gives her a [[dream]] of the Scion [[Billy (First Born)|Billy]] being abused by Sasha because he will not cry like a human child. She goes with Tom and his boss, [[Eloise (First Born)|Eloise]], to take the damaged Billy to the airbase and is shown the [[Juniper Tree]]. | Taking Anwen with her, Gwen visits the weather monitoring station at the abandoned [[army]] base in the hopes of getting a tour to look around, but [[Tom (First Born)|Tom]] refuses her. Meanwhile, Rhys suffers a mental attack when he tries to question the Scions at [[school]] despite Mrs Harries trying to stop them and passes out. She tells him once he comes around that the Scions have the power to influence people, a power which unwittingly affects Gwen and gives her a [[dream]] of the Scion [[Billy (First Born)|Billy]] being abused by Sasha because he will not cry like a human child. She goes with Tom and his boss, [[Eloise (First Born)|Eloise]], to take the damaged Billy to the airbase and is shown the [[Juniper Tree]]. | ||
The Juniper Tree is a [[spacecraft]] sent to [[Earth]] in response to the ''[[Voyager program|Voyager]]'' probes which is capable of creating Scions and which has caused [[stink thistle]]s to grow around Rawbone, although Eloise does not know why. It was recovered by Torchwood and given by [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] to the [[British government]], who hoped to turn the first Scion, [[Sebastian (First Born)|Sebastian]], into a [[soldier]]. He was instead taken to Rawbone ten years after his creation to tend to the Juniper Tree as it provided children for the infertile villagers. | The Juniper Tree is a [[spacecraft]] sent to [[Earth]] in response to the ''[[Voyager program|Voyager]]'' probes which is capable of creating Scions and which has caused [[stink thistle]]s to grow around Rawbone, although Eloise does not know why. It was recovered by Torchwood and given by [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] to the [[British government]], who hoped to turn the first Scion, [[Sebastian (First Born)|Sebastian]], into a [[soldier]]. He was instead taken to Rawbone in [[1991]], ten years after his creation, to tend to the Juniper Tree as it provided children for the infertile villagers, although Gwen cannot understand why. | ||
After Anwen is kidnapped by Jenny, Rhys searches for her with the rest of the village and tells Gwen that they will leave once she has been found and never look into Torchwood business again. Peter eventually agrees to use his connection with Jenny to find her and she [[apology|apologises]], explaining that she took Anwen in the hope that having a baby would finally make her grow up. | |||
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- You may be looking for the Doctor Who short story of the same name.
First Born was the sixteenth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series. It served as a prequel to TV: The New World.
Publisher's summary
Gwen and Rhys are on the run. Rhys was hoping this meant a windswept cottage on a cliff top, but he's had to settle for a miserable caravan in the isolated village of Rawbone. With the locals taking an unhealthy interest in their daughter, Gwen and Rhys start to realise that something is very wrong.
As they uncover the village's terrible past, Gwen discovers that Torchwood will never leave her behind, and now she and Rhys stand alone in defence of the Earth. And the children of Rawbone can only bring her closer to the secret forces that want her out of the way.
Plot
Gwen and Rhys flee from security forces in Cardiff and, after moving between Torchwood safe houses for two months, move to a caravan in North Wales with their newborn, Anwen. Three weeks later, they visit the pub in the nearby village of Rawbone and Gwen is disturbed by the interest that the locals take in Anwen and her health, particularly Sasha who tends to Anwen whilst Gwen is in a shop several days later. Davydd, Sasha's boyfriend, visits Gwen afterwards to explain that Sasha is struggling because of her infertility and kisses her, earning him a punch from Rhys when he walks in.
Gwen is sexually assaulted by Constable Brown, but Peter, a teenager, saves her and takes her to Mrs Harries's house before fetching Rhys. Mrs Harries recounts how births in Rawbone stopped in 1987 and that since then those who have wanted children have been given perfect teenagers who never age called Scions; now that Gwen and Rhys are here, some of the villagers want to have children with them, but Gwen refuses to move. Rhys sneaks out at night to beat Constable Brown and the Scion Jenny intervenes to protect Rhys from him.
Taking Anwen with her, Gwen visits the weather monitoring station at the abandoned army base in the hopes of getting a tour to look around, but Tom refuses her. Meanwhile, Rhys suffers a mental attack when he tries to question the Scions at school despite Mrs Harries trying to stop them and passes out. She tells him once he comes around that the Scions have the power to influence people, a power which unwittingly affects Gwen and gives her a dream of the Scion Billy being abused by Sasha because he will not cry like a human child. She goes with Tom and his boss, Eloise, to take the damaged Billy to the airbase and is shown the Juniper Tree.
The Juniper Tree is a spacecraft sent to Earth in response to the Voyager probes which is capable of creating Scions and which has caused stink thistles to grow around Rawbone, although Eloise does not know why. It was recovered by Torchwood and given by Jack to the British government, who hoped to turn the first Scion, Sebastian, into a soldier. He was instead taken to Rawbone in 1991, ten years after his creation, to tend to the Juniper Tree as it provided children for the infertile villagers, although Gwen cannot understand why.
After Anwen is kidnapped by Jenny, Rhys searches for her with the rest of the village and tells Gwen that they will leave once she has been found and never look into Torchwood business again. Peter eventually agrees to use his connection with Jenny to find her and she apologises, explaining that she took Anwen in the hope that having a baby would finally make her grow up.
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Characters
Torchwood
Inhabitants of Rawbone
Scions
Juniper Project
- Corporal Jasmine Bailey
- Elena Hilda Al-Qatari
- Eloise
- Tom
- PC Tony Brown
References
- Gwen sometimes watches S4C.
- Gwen and Rhys stay in Rawbone.
- The pub in Rawbone is Y Gwyr.
- Rhys reads a magazine headline titled "Lady Gaga link to Cancer?".
- Gwen mentions Mumsnet.
Notes
- This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.
Continuity
- Gwen has a nightmare about the death of Ianto Jones and Jack Harkness. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Four)
- Gwen also has a nightmare about Abaddon's shadow, (TV: End of Days) the Blaidd Drwg nuclear station (TV: Boom Town, PROSE: Another Life), the Large Hadron Collider, (AUDIO: Lost Souls) cannibal cults (TV: Countrycide) and the 456. (TV: Children of Earth)
Audio release
- The story was released as an audiobook on download only from the AudioGo website read by Clare Corbett, Kai Owen, Katherine Fenton, Joe Jameson, Carole Boyd, Michael Stevens and Susie Riddell.
External links
- Official First Born page at Penguin Books
