Ok, I got bored on the bus ride home and started to rethink about fun fanfics I'd read in the past. I remembered Eternal Destiny's 'Of cakes and Computer Games' which is a cross on Portal and Stargate SG-1 and decided, what else would be fun to cross Portal with. This came up. Hope you have fun reading ^^
Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with Torchwood or Portal, otherwise GLaDOS would be hanging in my room, Tosh and Owen would still be very much alive and dating, Ianto would also be very alive and locked with Jack in my cupboard :)
And I'm just gonna warn you, I've only ever played Portal, and all the rest is me guessing with a little tiny bit of research.. If it's wrong, get over it
Prologue
Owen reached down next to him where the bright orange container sat, trying desperately to reach it without ever looking to where it was or lean so far he'd fall off the chair. It wasn't anything particularly dangerous, or even from another world. Every so often he liked shooting things where if he died it wouldn't be a total loss, so Half Life ended up right up his alley. The box was simply the Orange Box he'd bought it all in.
"Owen!" Jack called down, making the man jump in his seat, swivelling around to face his boss, accidentally knocking over the box of games he was trying to reach without seeming suspicious. Jack saw it and sighed. "You ever going to get that report to me, or is this going to be another case of you wait so long you've forgotten what it is to start with and I end up with a print out of everything I already had anyway?" he asked critically, Owen groaning.
"I'm on it, I'm on it..." he sighed, facing away from his computer, starting to move back to the Autopsy room he may as well call his own. Ianto passed by, seeing the games scattered across the floor and sighed, starting to pick them up and place them on the desk, noting that only the Half Life games had been taken out of their plastic wrapping. A coffee was left next to the games should Owen decide to return, him moving on to the rest of his mid afternoon round.
He paused at Tosh's desk, glancing to see what she was doing. It seemed to be a screen of coding that passed straight over his head before he noticed that behind it seemed a grassy area that looked more in place in a game rather than anything that would normally need coding.
"Mind if I ask..?" he questioned, placing the coffee down next to her. She looked up quickly to see Ianto and smiled, picking up the mug gratefully.
"It's a game that came with Owens collection once he put it into the system. Steam automatically put it on and it seemed interesting. Certainly more then what he's been doing for the past couple of hours.." she mused, closing the coding box to show a fully fledged space station having been created and coded to fly in a random pattern so it was harder to shoot at, with shielding, weapons and anything else she could make there.
"Nice..." he mused, grinning as the station took half a second to kill someone who'd innocently wandered onto the servers from half way across the map. "I was just thinking.. Could we set up a trap for Owen? With these games I mean." He said, showing the still cellophane wrapped disk of Portal to her. "Find a way to make him learn to stop playing through work?" he asked, handing the box. She gave it a quick look over, smiling faintly.
"I don't see why not." She said calmly, starting to pull up a more familiar screen of the Torchwood computer controls and having a little play.
The next day as Owen walked through the large cog door into the hub, everything seemed perfectly normal. Tosh was doing some random.. Who knows what, Gwen was out with Rhys again, given days off while the rift was being quiet, Ianto and Jack were in Jacks office, the door shut in the way that anyone who knew what it meant wouldn't go near that door for another hour, at least.
"Hey Tosh." He said, moving over next to her, looking at the screen and giving up on what it said almost before he began.
"Hello Owen." She smiled, looking back to him before trying to hide the smile once more, just in case. "Thought you and I could have a go at one of the games you got the other day together rather then you getting yelled at the whole time. Ianto's idea, hence..." her voice drifted as she looked over to Jacks office, Owen nodding understandingly.
"Well, if you're sure. Want me to kick your arse at Ep 2, or you got something else planned?" he smirked slightly, cocky until the end. She sighed.
"How about one you haven't played?" she asked, showing him the Portal CD, making him blink.
"Tosh, know you're not too great at this, but that's not a 2 player game..." he groaned.
"Why would I suggest it if I hadn't changed something?" she smiled, getting up and moving over to the arcade section Owen had insisted they create, including full holographic generator helmets. She chucked one to him and held one under her arm as she placed the disk into the slot. "Thought I'd add to the experience, so I may have modified it a little." She said, acting more innocent then was strictly necessary.
"You little... Sometimes, I really love that little mind of yours." He grinned, shoving the helmet down onto his head, Tosh doing similar, the two wandering into the specialist chairs, strapping themselves in and letting the games begin.