"Come on Jack!", Gwen's voice called out.
"Okay, okay, I'm coming", Jack sighed and walked to catch up with the rest of the team. Ianto had insisted that they spend more time together and dragged them all off for lunch, forcing Jack to take a break from working.
Jack didn't know where they were heading, and probably didn't want to as he trailed after the others. His eyes wondered to the floor where an unmistakably wet copy of the morning local paper lay in a dried up puddle. He glanced once at it and stopped abruptly when he saw the front page.
"Keep up Harkness, or are you not as young as you used to be!", Owen teased.
"I think we should cancel lunch", he replied slowly, his eyes not moving.
"Now, now Jack, don't be a spoilsport…", Gwen joined in as she stood at Owen's side. She walked up behind Jack and made to push him forwards, when she looked down to see what was so interesting about the floor; "Actually, I agree with Jack", she said quickly.
"You know what?…", Owen was getting frustrated; "You two are bloody useless! Even I said I'd come, I…"
"…Need to find a paper shop", Jack concluded.
Owen gave him an incredulous look; "Have you finally lost your mind!?", Jack ran past him to the nearest shop. "Gwen, please tell me what's going on!", he looked hopefully to his colleague, but she had a distant look in her eyes; almost fear and wasn't paying any attention to him whatsoever, Owen groaned and ran off after the Captain. Tosh and Ianto had evidently got tired of waiting and gone for lunch without them.
Owen spotted Jack in a nearby shop and went to join him; "Now, you bloody tell me what's going on!" Jack didn't reply and instead showed him the headline on the paper he had bought. Owen stared; "What!…I thought?… "
"So did I", Jack had been thinking the same thing; "Find the others…", he directed at Owen; "…we've got a new Class A case".
…TO BE CONTINUED
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