New Beginnings.

A/N. This is a continuation of my first story Reunions and Conspiracies, which is post CoE. It will mention seasons 1, 2 and 3. Thank you to everyone who reviewed that story and said that they would like me to continue on. Reviews as always are much appreciated.

This first chapter is mainly just setting the scene, but I do have plenty of plans up my sleeve. :)

Disclaimer: I don't own Jack, Ianto, Gwen or anything else Torchwood related, but Molly is mine.

Chapter 1.

Jack came out of his office and surveyed the scene around him. It had been six months since he had returned and decided to rebuild Torchwood, the Hub was almost complete. He had called in many favours with people to get it done so quickly, but he had wanted to get back to some of sense of normality, well as normal as Torchwood could be. In many ways the Hub was the same as it had been before, but there were slight differences in it's layout to signify that this was a new start for everyone involved. There was work still to be done, the medical bay was one such area, but as they still had no medic it wouldn't have been of much use anyway. He was working on finding someone, but in the meantime Martha Jones had said she would step in and help if they needed someone. Jack looked at his watch, Ianto and Molly would be arriving shortly. Ianto was still staying at Molly's, which Jack hated to admit, made him a little jealous. It was the fact that they were so close that got to him sometimes. He knew that they were just friends, and that there had never been anything more between them, but he wanted to be that close to Ianto. Molly had been there for Ianto when Jack hadn't, and this meant that they had forged a close friendship. As for Jacks relationship with Ianto, it was getting stronger as they spent time together, but as Ianto was still to regain his memory properly it was difficult. Jack could have stayed lost in his thoughts for a while longer, except the alarm sounded as the cog door opened. He smiled, he loved hearing that sound, he then realised that the two people coming through the door were arguing.

'Just drop it will you.'

'Look Molly…'

'I said no, and I meant it.'

'But…' Ianto was obviously trying to talk to Molly about something, but you could tell by her tone she was in no mood to listen.

Molly turned to look at Ianto, 'Just leave it, I'm not talking about it anymore.' She then turned and walked away towards her computer, pausing only to say 'Morning Jack' as she walked past him.

'Trouble in paradise.' Jack joked as Ianto walked towards him.

Ianto rolled his eyes, 'No, it's nothing,' he said as he headed towards the kitchen, and started making the teams morning coffee. Jack followed him.

'Didn't seem like nothing.'

'I just broached a subject that I shouldn't have.'

'Really, can I ask what it was.'

'I really shouldn't say anything, it's not my place, and I've already put her in a bad mood. If she thinks I've told you about it, I don't want to think of the consequences.' Ianto shuddered inwardly, he had only once before got on Molly's bad side, and that time she had retaliated by switching all the coffee in the flat and at the office they had previously worked in with instant decaff, because she knew how much that would bug him.

Molly was sat at her computer, she disliked starting the day in a bad mood. She was trying to focus on her work to forget about the argument she had been having with Ianto. Molly still had trouble believing she was actually working for Torchwood, especially after swearing she would never get involved with this line of work, and after turning down many job offers from UNIT. She had finally been persuaded and she had to admit so far she was enjoying the job. The only problem she was having was with some of the programming. Molly had been able to resurrect many of the old programmes that they had used from files that were on Gwens computer. Molly had to admire Tosh who had written these programmes, she had been extremely clever and Molly was sad that she would never get to meet her, they would have probably got on well. The programme Molly was having most trouble with though, was the Rift predictor one. Molly had got it working well enough to tell when a spike was actually happening, but predicting them in advance was a lot harder. The alarm sounded again, and in walked Gwen.

'Morning.' she called, as she walked over to her workstation.

'Hey.' Molly said. She liked Gwen, they had started to get on fairly well once they had got used to each others company.

Ianto then appeared from out of the kitchen carrying a tray with steaming mugs of coffee on it. Jack was already holding on to his. Ianto went to Gwen first, and handed her her mug, for which he received a grateful smile. He then went over to Molly. 'Peace offering?' He said passing her the mug.

Molly smiled. 'Thanks. I'm sorry, I over reacted.' She stood up and gave him a hug. Gwen exchanged a look with Jack, but Jack just gave her a look that said 'don't ask'.

'So' Gwen said 'Is everyone still ok for this evening?'

'Sorry I can't I already have plans.' Molly said. Every now and then Gwen had them all round for drinks and a meal. It was her way of trying to get them to balance the weirdness they dealt with all day with something normal, and since she had had her baby, going out was harder, so she had them round to hers. Molly did enjoy these evenings, but sometimes she felt like a spare part.

'Oh right, your friends hen party', Gwen said. 'I hope it doesn't end with her waking up in the morning nine months pregnant with an alien.' She noticed Molly's puzzled look and said, 'Long story.'

'It should be fun, I haven't seen some of them in a while.'

'Hen party? Sounds like fun to me' said Jack with a glint in his eye.

'You are most definitely not invited.'

'Is there a theme?' Gwen asked.

Molly blushed slightly, 'Yes, but I'm not telling you what it is, and there will be no pictures.'

'Come on, I think we have a right to know.' Jack said, then something occurred to him, he turned to Ianto. 'Do you know what it is?'

Thankfully for Ianto the Rift alarm sounded. He breathed a sigh of relief and went over to Molly's workstation.

Molly was bringing up the details on the screen. 'Ok there was a Rift spike in the park., close to the playground.'

'Right, Gwen and Molly come with me, Ianto I want you to stay here and keep an eye on the monitors and police radio.'

The two women picked up their rucksacks which had all their equipment in them, and followed Jack out of the Hub. They walked to the car park and got into the black SUV. It had been the first thing that Jack had replaced, it wasn't quite as well equipped as the old one yet, but they were working on it. It was a short drive to the park, even shorter with the speeds Jack drove at. As they were driving Ianto spoke over the comms. 'Just thought you should know, the police are on route to your location, apparently there were calls about a body.'

'Great, just what we didn't need.' said Jack and he put his foot down on the accelerator a bit harder.