This idea came to me one day while writing one of my other stories. Rachel is a companion from my Doctor Who fic (not actually finished) but I really wanted to do this while I was thinking about it. It's not necessary to read the other story, but it is based in Rachel's life, ten years after her adventures with the Doctor. I hope you enjoy!

Ok, since starting this I've since figured that in canon Torchwood wasn't created until 1879, but I only just discovered that and too much of the story would need to be changed to cover that (I've been atthis for a while), so, please forgive my mistake. I hope you enjoy it anyway.

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I Don't Remember Her

4th January 2008

Ianto frowned at his computer screen. He hit the escape key, nothing happened. He glared, he couldn't remove the message that was blinking annoyingly in front of him.

- Archive Search in Progress -

He hadn't set a search for anything. He'd had no reason to. He had to finish a report for Jack, not sit here waiting for god only knew what. He pushed his seat back and stood up. He looked around for another computer to use. Gwen was busy at her own desk. That only left... Toshiko's or Owen's. He sighed as he made his way over to Toshiko's old station.

"Ianto?" Gwen asked.

He paused and looked at her, "Yes?"

"Are you doing something with the archives?"

Ianto's frown grew as he made his way over to Gwen. Her screen displayed the same message as his. He glanced around. Owen's computer was off, but Tosh's old station had to be on, the rift monitor was vital to their operation. The main screen on the desk displayed the same archive messaged.

"What on earth is going on?" He asked.

"No clue," Gwen said s she tried to avoid the message on her own computer. Finally, the search stopped. Another message came up on the screen.

- File Location - 1877 - Torchwood Personnel - 254 -

Ianto looked at Gwen, she looked just as confused as she was, "Maybe Jack's looking something up?" She asked.

"On all our computers?" He asked, "It seems unlikely."

Gwen shrugged, "Let's go have a look!"

Ianto smirked, "I like the way you think Mrs. Williams."

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"Here are the '77 personnel files," Ianto said, bringing over a box. He settled it on a table in the archive room. Gwen lifted the lid and they peered inside. Several manilla folders with the Torchwood insignia stared up at them.

"We're looking for file 254," Gwen reminded Ianto as he flipped through the files.

"Here," He said, folding up a file. He flipped it open and gasped before looking up at Gwen, "My god.."

"What?" Gwen asked, peering over. The black and white photo attached to the file, was of a young woman, about twenty-five years of age. She had probably blond or light brown coloured hair. But the face attracted them both.

Only a few weeks earlier, The Doctor had come, followed by a young companion, about ten years younger then the girl in the photo, but Ianto was almost certain it was the same girl.

"That's Rachel..." Gwen said, she lifted the photo and glanced at the written information, "Look at this, Rachel Moran, 25, survivor of Torchwood four..."

"Impossible," Ianto muttered, "Torchwood Four went missing... Over a hundred years ago."

"Descendent of Torchwood four member, Edward Moran," Gwen kept reading.

"Why are we looking at this file today?" Ianto asked, "It makes no sense."

"She was apparently with them for only six months... Till, she was was poisoned by another member of the team."

Ianto looked up, "Well, that is scandalous."

"She was put in cryogenic stasis, to be awoken when a cure was found... No, sorry, to be awoken... Today..."

"You don't stick a girl from 1877 in stasis and awake her in a modern world!" Ianto exclaimed.

"The add on about the wake up date... It's in a different handwriting to the report..." Gwen handed him the file.

Ianto looked at the handwriting, "That's Jack's..."

"So I wasn't imagining that!"

"What's mine?"

They both looked up to find Jack standing in the doorway to the archive room, "This added note to a personnel file," Ianto explained.

Jack walked over to them, "Who's file? If it was Gareth's I probably added Murdering Bastard."

"A girl named Rachel Moran," Gwen replied.

Jack paused. Ianto handed him the photo from the girl's file. His finger traced the outlines of the girl's face, "I don't remember her..."

"Surely..."

"They said I'd been retconned..." He explained as he leaned against the table, not looking at them, "I woke up in the med bay, no idea where I was. They explained to me that Rachel had been poisoned... I had no idea who Rachel even was... Still don't really know... She lived with me, was my best friend they said, some even insinuated that she was a lover... I had supposedly been with her six months! But I couldn't remember her!"

"Jack, you added the note that she was to be awoken today," Gwen said.

He nodded, "I was going through her stuff... Found a note asking me to put that in her file when the heat died down... I didn't see the harm in it..."

"It says in her file, she was from Torchwood four," Ianto said.

Jack laughed, "No she wasn't!" He paused, looked at them strangely as if he was remembering something, "It was a con... So they wouldn't take her prisoner like me..."