River Arwyn

Summery: (Set after DW's Series 4 and TW's Series 2) Tosh's absence has made the Torchwood computers go funny and no one in the hub knows how to fix it – until a plane that crashes in the middle of the field reveals a talented, yet stubborn, young girl.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the information/characters of Doctor Who or Torchwood.

A/N: Okay a little fic I wrote to get over my writes block on another fic I am doing at the same time. It started as a little burst of inspiration but I told my self I should just continue writing it… at the moment it is a two-parter but hopefully in the future I will get more chapters up :) Hope you enjoy it!

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'God, I am getting SO sick of this!' Gwen banged her fists against her desk and flopped back into her chair. The hub was quite and everyone stopped what they were doing to watch as she frustratingly rubbed her hands against her face.

'Hey, hey what's going on here?' Jack Harkness dressed in his full 1940's attire including coat stepped out of his office.

Jumping up from her chair Gwen stood to face Jack, 'My computer crashed again! I was about to save all my work when it crashed on me!' she pointed distressingly at her computer whose screen was black and the hum of her PC unit missing. 'Ever since Tosh left…' she paused realizing just saying her name brought back too many memories, 'none of the computer have been functioning properly. We need someone to stand by on the computers but no one here has the knowledge Tosh did to work them properly.'

'I know, I'm still looking for someone for the job.'

'Why don't you place an ad in the paper or something? "Computer expert wanted for work at Torchwood – must have the guts to work with aliens."' The newest member of the team Mickey Smith, who was still as cocky as he was before joining Torchwood, sat alone reading a magazine on the Torchwood settee.

'No, but I have been looking through a lot of the policing and governmental computer specialist,' pulling off his jacket he tossed it onto the seat next to Mickey and, placing his hands in his pocket, walked over towards Martha Jones' desk.

'And?' she said as he turned to face his team.

'Nothing.' The team looked at him raising an eyebrow. 'I can't find anyone suitable enough for the job. No one is qualified enough to work with this amount of technology. The best we'll get is someone from the future…' he paused, 'or an alien.'

'But we can't go on living like this Jack! No one is getting any work done because no one knows how all this stuff works. Anyway, how did you get Tosh the job she must have just been someone normal before you hired her.' Gwen sat back down in her chair swiveled from side to side patiently waiting his answer.

'She was…' Jack leaned back against the desk lost in the memory of how he came to know Tosh. 'But she had worked with Alien technology before so I guess I just knew she'd know what she was doing.'

Everyone fell silent for a moment. No one had talked this much about one of their former colleagues since it happened and no one wanted to bring back any more memories. Amidst their silence there came a clatter of mugs as Ianto climbed the steps of the hub armed with a tray of milky tea.

'Sorry, did I intrude?' he quietly walked closer handing each of the team their desirable teas and coffees before placing him self and a cup of tea into a chair next to Martha.

There then came an awkward silence that deafened the air. They all sat looking at each other twiddling their thumbs and sipping Ianto's hot drinks. Today was an exceptionally quite day with no rift activity or any chaos from the weevils. There was almost no reason to come into work but they all had something to avoid at home.

Gwen was in the middle of refurbishing her and Rhys' house. Everywhere everything was covered in white clothes to stop the dust from attacking it and as much as her and Rhys did their best to keep the house tidy while they were at home it never worked. Taking a day off work would mean cleaning the house and reorganizing everything and that wasn't something Gwen wanted to spend a whole day doing.

Mickey, having just moved to Cardiff, was looking for a place to stay and was currently flat-sharing with Martha. He didn't find anything wrong with Martha but her slight impulse to keep everything neat and tidy was something he could cope with and the idea of having to go out with an estate agent to look for a flat worth his living was something he rather no spend a Welsh rainy day doing.

Martha, who was currently flat sharing with Mickey, couldn't stand the idea of staying home to clean his mess. He was a nice guy, she thought, but having him leave his items everywhere didn't intrigue her. Coming to work also meant as an excuse she could use to her mother who kept calling every 5 minutes asking how Martha was doing and whether or not Martha was coming back home.

Ianto and Jack relationship wasn't going down hill but Ianto did feel there was a bit of a change between them ever since Jack came from the Doctor. He wanted to tell him self that he loved Jack but there was always something blocking his feelings and today he wanted to make is certain about whether or not Jack still had harboring feelings for him. However, he felt he wasn't as confidant as he hoped. The constant thinking of whether he should barge into Jack office or quite write him a little letter kept Ianto from doing any proper work and now with the team all sat around drinking tea he felt it was best left for later.

There was always the fact that Jack did 'live' in the hub which meant this was his home. There was no escaping Torchwood for he had tried many times before and failed in many of thoughs occasions.

As the silence continued no one realized a bright red ALERT signal was going off on Martha's screen until Mickey pointed it out.

'That's strange,' Jack said as he punched several codes into the keyboard. 'This alert is coming from a military flight base just out side of Cardiff. Their saying a UFO has passed into Cardiff air space and they want us to take a look at it.'

'But we're not the RAF,' Mickey said from his spot on the couch.

'No shit Sherlock,' Ianto muttered under his breath as he peered at the screen currently surrounded by everyone but Mickey.

'Do you think we should see what's going on?' Gwen said pulling away from the crowd.

Jack looked around at his team. The dreary, bored faced of his team looked back at him begging for a little adventure. 'Oh, alright. Let's have a look.' He pulled up his hand to point at every one of his team, 'but ONLY a look.'

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They were all cramped into the SUV as it drove alone an empty Welsh country rode just outside of Cardiff. The rain had stopped but the sun was hidden deep behind a set of grey clouds.

'Are we there yet?' Mickey said annoyingly from the left hand side of the backseat. Martha who was sat in the middle with her arms crossed nudged Mickey to shut him up.

Ianto was sat in the passenger's seat messing around with Tosh's old palmtop pilot trying to hack into any sort of aircraft control.

'Getting anything?' Jack turned briefly to look at Ianto and the palmtop.

'No, not at the moment.'

'LOOK!' Gwen shouted from behind Jack. She pointed up into the sky where an airplane looked as if it was descending to earth.

'Got it! Hacked into the aircrafts controls,' Ianto said as Jack quite pulled over on the hard shoulder and everyone piled out of the car. 'But this doesn't look good.'

'Why what wrong?' Martha asked rushing to Ianto's side.

'You know how it looks like that plane wants to land. Well it's rapidly running out of fuel as if crash landing.'

Their heads followed as the plane flew above their heads and came crashing down into a field on the other side of the road. Quickly rushing across the street they were confronted by burning tress and bushes that caught fire from the planes crash.

There didn't look to be anything special about the plane. From there point of view it was a standard issue military aircraft which must have had some system failure causing it to crash.

'Do you think there is someone in there?' Gwen asked as her shielded her eyes from the heat of the fire.

'If there is I don't think there is much left of them.' Jack said walking a little closer to the fire.

'I'm calling the fire brigade,' Martha said turning around to get a signal on her handphone.

'I think you want an ambulance as well – there is someone still in there alive!' Ianto pointed to a small area by the pilots cabin where a figure of a person struggled free of the burning plane.

'Someone's got to save him!' Gwen shouted.

'I'll go.' Jack said stripped him self of his jacket.

'What?'

'The flame won't hurt me and I need to save that person.' Taking one step the corner of his trouser started to burn off. Quickly rushing his way in he lift away the remaining part of the cabin and carried what looked to be a girl out of the wreckage.

'She's still alive,' he called out as he reached the rest of his team. Martha quickly ran towards the SUV and pulled out a medical kit.

'Move out of the way,' she called as Jack rested her down on the grass.

The girl had long cherry red hair and pale skin. From looking at her she seemed as unharmed towards the flames as Jack was. Her skin was smooth and shiny but pasty white. She wore a pilot's uniform but with no distinct countries air force symbol.

'Is she alright?' Gwen asked as she and the rest of the team crowded around Martha and the girl.

Martha pulled out a stethoscope and she said, 'I hope so,' but as she pressed the cold metal of it against the girl's chest without warning the girls eyes shot open and she gasp for air.

'God that thing is cold!' she screamed as she sat up quickly causing the rest of the Torchwood team to fall backwards.

'She's alive,' Mickey said as he crawled closer to the girl.

'Of course I am!' she spat back at him.

'But you can't be. You're plane just crashed from a 1000 feet in the air.' Martha started at the girl trying to calm her down.

'What?' she shouted as she jumped to her feet and turned to face the incineration of the aircraft. 'Aw, that's just unfair! I like that plane.' She ran her fingers through her hair in frustration as the sirens on the fire brigade got closer.

As the fire truck pulled up the men got out and did their job pulling out the hose pipe and spraying water over the over-powering flames.

'No, no – careful!' she shouted at the men as Jack pulled her away. 'Hey! Let go of me!'

Jack dropped her next to the SUV safely on the other side of the road from the fire.

'That's my plane their spraying over there!' she shouted as she pointed towards the slow descending burn of the fire.

'Not any more, love.' Jack muttered. 'As for you – who are you?'

'My name is Jane Arwyn. I'm a pilot-'

'Not by the looks of your uniform or plane.' Jack said cutting in.

'-from the 44th century.' She continued angrily at Jack.

'44th century?' Ianto asked carefully as he jotted down the date into the palm pilot.

'Yes, from the future.' She said feeling as if she stated the obvious.

'How did you get here?' Gwen asked.

'I swam,' she said sarcastically, ''Course I time traveled here.'

Everyone stood silent for a moment and looked at each other. Everyone knew what they had to do but by the look of it Jane Arwyn wasn't going to comply.

'You should come with us,' Jack said as he walked towards the SUV and opened the passenger door.

'I'm not running off with you lot. I don't even know who you are?'

'We're Torchwood.' Mickey said eagerly edging her into the car.

'Yeah, like I'm going to go off with a whole bunch of strange people I've never met!' she turned away and started walking in the opposite direction of Cardiff.

'You don't know where you are or what direction you're going in how do you expect to get anywhere.' Jack called out.

'I don't but right now far away from you lot sounds pretty good!'

Jack shook his head and started to take off his jacket. 'Who wants a good chase?' he asked tossing his jacket at Gwen and making casually towards Jane.

'Is she going to run?' Ianto asked.

'I think so.' Martha said as they watched. Jack strode up to Jane and started talking with her but this only caused her to walk faster. Jack jogged to catch up with her but then she started to run. Gaining on her he pulled her up over his shoulder and walked back towards the SUV.

'Isn't that considered kidnapping?' Mickey asked as Jack approached with Jane.

'Let go of me!' she shouted.

'No actually, because she alien she belongs to Torchwood.' Jack said as he dumped her in the back of the SUV.

'I'm not alien,' Jane shouted as they closed the SUV back door on her.

'Alright not alien but she did have alien technology.'

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A/N: Part two is already up since I wrote all of it at the same time… Hope you liked it so far :) Sorry for any spelling or grammatical errors this was done in record time and I kindda got fed up of it I couldn't really bother to read it over again and again to find mistakes – so bare with me please. Thanks!