One moment ago. Just one, single moment ago, she was talking to her boss.
"Something's taken him, Jack's gone," Gwen explained to a bemused team.
"What do you mean?" Owen asked, incredulously.
"Well he was here a minute ago, and he isn't here now," Gwen explained, maintaining all seriousness as she turned to look around the Hub, her arms still folded for comfort.
"People don't just vanish!" Owen replied, rather childishly.
"I'll check the CCTV, Tosh I might need your help," Ianto suggested, leading Toshiko up to one of the computer terminals.
"I'm going to look outside," Gwen said, running out of the cog shaped door.
"I'm coming with you!" Owen insisted, following suit.
Cold, fresh air bit at Gwen's face from the sea. Cardiff bay was a beautiful place, but sometimes the weather didn't permit for a warm breeze. In the distance, Gwen could hear a noise. She and Owen ran from the front of the tourist information shop, Torchwood-3's cover, and ran up to the Roald Dahl Plass.
Just as the ex-police officer got to the top of the stops, she heard a similar noise from before down in the Hub. That, and a scream, which sounded like Jack's…
"Jack? JACK?!" Gwen called out, but instead of a reply, she merely got her hair whipped about by the breeze and a few stares off of people. There was then a beep in here pocket and she pulled out the earpiece.
"Yeah?"
"Gwen, we've got something," came Ianto's voice from over the comm.
"And then this happens," Toshiko pointed out, as the recording became blurred and twisted.
"I've heard that sound before," Gwen testified.
"Where?" Toshiko asked her, urgently.
"When I was in the Hub, just before Jack vanished,"
"We better do a search for his comm. across the city, as well as a city-wide civilian type search," Ianto said.
"Hang on, I'm in charge if anything happens to Jack, so I'll decide what we do," Owen said, trying to sound big.
"Go on then," Gwen said, expectantly.
"You don't know do you? For God's sake Owen, Jack's gone and we need to find him! So stop being so childish and help!" Gwen snapped.
It was at that point that Ianto suggested that the coffee they had brought had gone cold, and so offered to make more.
"I'll scan Cardiff, while the coffee's on," Toshiko said, moving over to her workstation.
"I…I'm sorry Gwen," Owen said, putting an arm around Gwen. She winced slightly and kept her arms folded.
"What are we going to do Owen?"
Another teardrop fell into the coffee. Ianto could no longer control himself. They had only just got their boss back. Their boss, their leader, Ianto's captain.
"Why, why WHY?!" Ianto cried out, throwing the spoilt coffee against a tiled wall. He broke down and sobbed, his back to the kitchen cabinets. The team would have to wait for their coffee.
"I've issued posters to all newsagents and scanned the city," Toshiko declared.
"Anything?"
"Nada,"
Gwen sighed heavily. Suddenly, there was a call. Gwen ran over to the phone on her work station and picked it up, excitedly.
"Jack?!" Gwen called out into the phone.
"No, Mr Saxon's office," came a woman's voice.
"Who?"
"The secretary of defence and the next prime minister of Britain come Tuesday," replied the woman.
"Oh, uh, how can I help?"
"My name is Miss Dexter and Mr Saxon has asked me to pass on a message. Someone you're after is in the Himalayas. Have fun," the phone then went to dial tone.
"Everyone, we're going on a trip," Gwen declared, seriously.
"It's Jack. I think we found him,"
