Jack smiled as he looked out over the hub. His team were all gathered around Ianto, egar to get their coffee.

"Hey" came a voice beside him, he looked over and saw Martha smiling at him. She handed the captain the mug she held in her hand, "Ianto sent this."

He took a sip of the drink and closed his eyes in pure bliss. "So how's Kitty doing?"

Kitty was Marhtas' new assistant who had only been working for Torchwood for a month now.

The woman nodded and took a long drink of coffee, "Really good. She's brilliant, percise, but-" Jack raised his eyebrows, buts were never good. "She's just so... Kitty is just so quiet sometimes now." martha said. AS if on que, the redhead looked up and waved.

"Seems fine to me." Jack said waving back. He'd noticed the limit in her conversation lately also.

"Yeah, i guess you're right." she sounded defeated. "Well" the doctor streched like a cat, "I've got work to do." Martha gave him a friendly pat on the back before heading back downstairs.

Despite kittys' new found shyness everyone looked happy. Gwen sat at her dest texting Rhys, Ianto was writing in his journal, Mickey chatted with Davyn about something exciting because both their faces were alight with smiles. A notice came onto the screen of on of the smaller monitors that occupied Davyns' desk. He was no Toshiko, but he was in close second.

"'Ay boss? Uh, a spike in rift activties out towards the airport. WAIT! oh my gawd." the yound mans jaw dropped. He typed quickly each fingerstroke was a loud *clikclak* and to the older man it sounded like a machine gun going off.

"What is it, Davyn?" Jack asked standing behinde him, the man pulled up video and displayed it on the main screen so everyone could see. A girl stood in the middle of the runway with her hands raised to the overcast sky, a purple mist swirled around her.

"Gwen, Mickey, Kitty, Lets go!" Gwen and Micky grabbed their earpecies and gunds from their desks while Kitty dashed to get her mediacal bag. She met them in the van and had just enough time to hop in the back with mickey and get the door halfway shut before Jack sped off to the airport.

Jack pulled to a screeching halt about fiftey feet behinde the girl. "I want Mickey on my left, Gwen to my right, and Kitty to my back." Each nodded and exited the vehicle. "Got anything for me Yan?" Jack asked gently touching his earpeice.

"Yessir. Her name is Lilly Scott. She and her parents were waiting on a relatives plane to land when she stared to have a seizure. From the video it looks like a huge energy wave emitted from her and broke the windows. Thats how she got out there."

"Thanks Yan. You guys got that?"

"Yep."

"Yeah, Jack" chimmed the two older operatives.

"Kitty?" Answer me, Kathleen Molly." Jack urgently said. The purple mist was getting thicker and he could hear a haunting voice from within it. He could barely see a foot infront of him.

"JACK!!" Mickey yelled.

"YEAH!" he yelled back, but before he could get a reply their was a gunshot. The mist almost instantly turned and inky black then dissapered. Lilly hung there, hovering about 10 feet above the runway. "Lilly?" Jack called up to her, he took a few steeps forwards. Mickey put his gun back in its holster and did as the captain, his eyes never leaving the girl. Gwen stayed where she was but relaxed her stance a bit, her stare danced from Jack to Lilly, Lilly to Mickey, and back again.

Lilly tilted her head back as if to utter a scream. Instead a long stream of the mist snaked its way out and quickly turned into a large raven. The girl managed a gasp as if she'd been holding her breath before dropping. Mickey dashed forward and was able to catch her just in time.

There was a second gunshot and the bird spiraled head first into the black top. They all looked over at the young medic. She had dropped to her hands and knees and almost 20 feet away Gwen could hear her ragged breathing. She sprinted over to her, "Kitty? Are you alright?" The girl nodded getting up to her feet and grabbed the black doctors bag beside her. She limped over to where the two guys had the girl layed on the ground.

"She seems stable. I'll know more once she's at the hub though." Kitty said placing various instruments back in the bag. Jack helped Mickey lift the girl and carry her back to the SUV.

"Is it... dead?" Gwen asked looking down at the raven. Kitty shrugged and placed it in a small body bag. It twitched and both girls shrieked.

"I dont think so."