Captain Jack Harkness sighed as he stepped out of the S.U.V and onto a typical suburban street in Cardiff. He turned to the woman standing next to him and said "This is not going to be pretty"

"Then why are we doing this?" she said stepping onto the pavement

"Because we're the last option, after us there's nothing Gwen" and she nodded. Jack walked up to a blue front door and rang the bell wondering if it was heard over all the shouting coming from inside. Eventually the door was flung open and a woman appeared from the hallway

"I take it you've told her?" Jack said wincing as he heard the screams from upstairs

"Just get her out of here, I can't stand to look at the little bitch for a second longer" the woman disappeared into the kitchen and Jack turned to Gwen motioning for her to follow.

"Where are you going then?" She shouted over the noise

"To get our friend" Jack yelled back as he started up the staircase. As he got further up, the screaming got louder and louder. At the top Jack turned left into a small bedroom and was taken back at the scene that was laid before him. A young girl in her teenage years was standing in the middle of the room which looked like a war zone, in front of her stood Owen bearing the brunt of the foul language the was spilling out of the girl's mouth. The girl turned and looked at Jack, her face was lined with the rivers over mascara that were dripping down her cheeks which were red from all the screaming. After surveying the scene Jack steeped into the room avoiding a pillow that was thrown at him.

"Hey you need to calm down" he said firmly

"Jack I think we're way past that" Owen said avoiding a book that narrowly missed his face and Jack nodded in response and stepped forward grabbing the girls wrists firmly to stop her lashing out.

"Look at me" he said holding the wriggling girl and after a brief struggle she looked at him "Now you know what's happening and you're coming with us whether you like it or not so we can either do this the hard way or the easy way and I know which one I'd prefer" he said and the girl swore fluently at him, "Ok so we do it the hard way" and Owen nodded, he stepped forward and took out a syringe, walked towards Jack who was holding the girl and injected it into her bare arm. Almost at once she fell limp and silent. Jack and Owen breathed a sigh of relief

"Owen can you grab her stuff?" he said scooping the limp girl up in his arms and making his way downstairs, "Gwen?" he called

"Ready?" she asked as the woman who let them in followed her out

"Good riddance to bad rubbish, I'm so glad to be seeing the back of that little shit, she's nothing but trouble I should have done this months ago" she spat and it was all Gwen could do to stop Jack from answering back. Owen came down the stairs holding a bag full of the girl's clothes and they left the house.

Jack laid the girl on the back seat and Owen sat down beside her checking her vitals, "She looks so innocent" he murmured and Jack nodded as he sat in the drivers seat and drove off towards the hub.

Very soon they were back at the hub and Jack carried the girl down to the medical bay and laid her on the table.

"What the hell happened?" Ianto said entering the medical bay and looking down at the limp form.

"She didn't take it very well" Jack said sighing

"So why is she like that?" he asked looking worried

"Owen injected her with some sedative to calm her down; she'll be fine once it wears off"

Gwen entered the bay holding a file which she passed down to Jack who read it out to all the others "So here we have one Ruby Summers, born on the 28th April and abandoned on the steps of the hospital. Parents unknown but we have a nice big care file on all of the foster parents she's been with. Recently an apparent distant Aunt got in contact and took her in but as you can see that didn't work out. So Ruby was given to us for one of two reasons, number one we're sort of a last resort and number two she has the ability to use Precognition" he finished

"So why was she so angry?" Owen said looking down at the girl

"Wouldn't you be? She's been thrown around for years, no one wants her"

"And we need her because?"

"She has a power which could be very useful to us and if used in the right way could help a lot of people and she needs our help"

"You're telling me, this is one screwed up kid" Owen said looking at the file "She's been treated for self harming and numerous eating disorders"

"As I said, she needs our help and I think she deserves a bit of a break don't you?"

"But what about all the paperwork from the social services?"

"They couldn't wait to get rid of her" Jack sighed

"Hold on" said Owen "There's stuff from UNIT in here"

"Yeah they've been doing checks on her and that's when they contacted Torchwood"

"Poor kid" Owen sighed as he held one of her wrists and saw the scars of the years of self harming. Suddenly the young girl twitched, the sedative was slowly wearing off, and soon she was sitting up trying to shake the grogginess of her. After that it didn't take long for her to be screaming and thrashing about again. But this time the team were ready for her, Jack once again held her firmly and took the screaming girl out of the medical bay

"Where are you taking her?" Toshiko said

"Down to the cells, she can vent her anger down there, the cells are impossible to break out of" Jack yelled back. So he took the struggling girl down to the cells and lead her into one of them and shut the door "Now it's time for you to cool of a little" he said resolutely as he pulled up a stool and sat outside the cell. A few hours went past and throughout all the screaming, insults and pounding on the door Jack sat there silently watching the girl sadly. Owen came down after a while to sit with Jack; the girl was screaming and crying so violently that she kept having coughing fits

"Jack she needs to calm down, she's going to do herself some real damage otherwise" and Jack nodded

"Ruby" he said crouching down on the cell floor "Ruby…Ruby…Ruby... you know there's a song about you" he said with a gentle laugh to the girl who was no sitting on the floor yelling and kicking the door with some force "You don't want to talk to me Ruby well that's fine because I can got for a long time talking to myself"

"Jack I don't think that's helping" Owen said

"She'll wear herself out eventually" Jack said and sure enough the screaming subsided and eventually the kicking became weaker and weaker then it stopped.

"Now that's better, see we can talk properly now Ruby" he said calmly, "Do you know where you are?" and she nodded "Where?"

"Torchwood" she said quietly

"Do you know what that is?" and she shook her head "We catch aliens and sort out some of the stuff they leave behind"

"Oh"

"Do you know why you're here?"

"Because no one wants me"

"That's not true, we want you…you're very special do you know why?" the girl shook her head "I bet you do, you just don't know how to use it but you know there's something that's different from other people can you tell me about it?"

"Sometimes I see things that haven't happened yet" she said quietly

"See you're a very special person because not many people can do that and we can help you but you have to let us ok?"

"Ok"

"So if I let you out of this cell and we go back into the hub you have to promise me you're going to keep calm and you're going to let Owen check you over?"

"Ok" and Jack stood up and unlocked the door and Ruby stood up, and slowly Jack and Owen led her back into the hub, down to the medical bay where she sat hugging her knees close to her chest.

"So now we're calm I think we need to introduce ourselves properly, I'm Captain Jack Harkness" he said putting out his hand.

Ruby stayed still for a moment before putting out her hand and saying "Ruby Summers"

"Nice to meet you Ruby Summers" Jack smiled before introducing everyone else "You've sort met Dr Owen Harper a few minutes ago" he said gesturing to Owen "And this is Gwen Cooper" he said pointing to a brown haired woman who smiled back "This is Ianto Jones" he said continuing and a tall dark hair nodded "And this is Toshiko Sato" he said pointing to the last member in the room who gave a quick smile "So now that we're all introduced lets get to it, no you promised me that you would let Owen check you over, so whilst he does that, Ianto's going to get us some food because I don't know about you but I'm hungry"

Ruby nodded but everyone saw that she physically shrank back at the word food, Ianto, Gwen and Toshiko left the medial bay but Jack stood there with Owen as he prepared to run his tests.

"Ok so first of all I want to take some blood so can you roll up your sleeve?" and though Ruby was reluctant to do so she stuck out an arm covered in scars, as the needle went in she cried out but Jack held her hand tightly and soon the tests were done.

All three of them left the bay and joined the others up in the meeting room where Ianto had laid some food out, Ruby sat down and turned a shade of green as she looked at the food, Owen watched her carefully and said to Jack quietly "I don't think we're quite over the worst of it yet"

"How do you mean?"

"Look at her behaviour round food and the medical tests revealed the symptoms clearly"

"So we have to help her beat this thing" and Owen nodded as he watched her push the food around her plate "There's no way we can even get to looking at Precognition if we don't get this stuff sorted out first"

After a while Gwen left to go home and so did Toshiko and Ianto, only Jack and Owen were left with Ruby.

"We have to bring it up" Owen said and after a long and emotional talk Owen found that his fears were right and she did suffer from an eating disorder that was out of control which linked in with the self harming.

"We're going to help you through this Ruby, one step at a time" Jack said gently to the young girl.