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This takes place somewhere in Doctor Who season 3 and Torchwood season 1Woke up this morning
Gwen rolled out of bed with a deep sigh. It was going to be one of those days, she could feel it. She and Rhys were fighting, again, and Jack was driving the team crazy with extra work hours. Everything just felt so suffocating these days.
She looked at her self in the mirror. She hadn't even changed clothes when she got home late last night, just went straight to bed. Rhys had left an angry note on the kitchen table, saying he would be home "later" and not to call him. With a sigh she noticed that there was Weevil blood on her left shoe and that the refrigerator was pretty much empty of everything edible, save for a dodgy looking piece of cheese.
Gwen felt like screaming when she got outside and saw her car had been vandalized. "Unbelievable" she muttered and slammed the car door shut.
"You would not believe the day that I am having" Gwen greeted Tosh over the phone.
"It's eight in the morning" Tosh answered, sounding confused.
"And it's already a crappy day! Could you tell Captain Pain-In-The-Ass that I'll be late?"
"Yeah sure" Tosh said, although she really didn't feel like spending anymore time with Jack than what was strictly necessary. He had been in a foul mood the last couple of weeks, even poor Ianto had managed to get on his bad side.
"Just tell him I'll be there shortly, yeah?" Gwen said, returning her focus to the road just in time to step on the brake, as a woman stepped out on the road in front of her. "Bloody hell!"
"Gwen are you alright" Tosh asked through the phone.
"Yeah, just… Talk to Jack, I'll be there soon" Gwen said and hung up and exited the car. "What the hell are you doing?"
The woman turned and looked at Gwen with a confused look on her face. "Can you help me?" Her voice sounded almost pleading and Gwen suddenly felt bad for yelling at her.
"Are you alright?"
"I… I don't know where I am. Can you help me" the woman repeated and looked around. A crowd was starting to gather and Gwen noticed that her car was causing a queue of cars down the road.
"Yeah, I'll help you. Let me just park my car, okay?" The woman nodded and walked off the road.
Gwen parked her car in a nearby parking lot and started to walk down the street, hoping the woman had just decided to wander off instead of waiting for her. There was something off about the woman and Gwen was already late, she didn't have time to play nurse. She sighed as she spotted the woman standing in front of a street café.
"So, what do you need help with" she asked, trying not to sound too impolite.
"Where am I?"
"Cardiff. You're in Cardiff. Did you hit your head or something?"
"Cardiff? But I don't understand. Why am I here?"
"I don't know. Listen, I have to get to work…"
"Do I know you" the woman suddenly said, which only helped to convince Gwen that she was completely mental.
"I don't think so. Is there someone I can call for you?"
"I don't know." The woman was starting to sound hysterical. "I don't think I'm supposed to be here." She looked at their surroundings. "So this is Cardiff, yeah?" She wiped a tear away. Gwen nodded and was just about to offer the woman a lift to the nearest asylum when her phone started to ring.
"Hello?"
"Where the hell are you?"
Gwen sighed. "Good morning Jack."
"You were supposed to be here an hour ago" the Captain practically screamed over the phone.
"Jack I'm sorry, I had a really bad morning and then some woman stepped out in front of my car…"
"I don't care if you woke up with an extra head this morning! Where are you now, we're coming to get you, there's been some serious rift activity and we need to check it out."
Gwen gave him the address and abruptly hung up. "Sorry, that was my boss. He's a bit of twat, actually." The woman smiled. "Will you be alright?"
She nodded. "I've been here before, I think. Guess I'll just have to figure out how I got here and get back."
Gwen saw the Torchwood jeep turn the corner of the street. "I hope it works out for you" she said and waved at the jeep to let Jack know where she was. She turned to the woman again. "Listen, if things don't work out…" she found a piece of paper and a pen in a pocket, "give me a call, okay?" She wrote down her phone number and handed the paper to the woman.
Gwen heard the a car door slam and turned to face her boss. "What the hell are you doing?"
"I was just helping…" Gwen realized she didn't even know the woman's name and turned to ask her, only to found she was gone.
"What are you talking about" Jack asked.
"She was just here, I swear, Jack!"
"Listen, I hope you're not late because you spent the morning decorating your car" Owen said as he exited the car.
"Excuse me?"
"You don't expect us to call you 'Bad Wolf' now, do you?" Owen continued.
"What are talking about" Jack interrupted.
"Someone grafitied my car last night" Gwen said.
"Someone wrote 'Bad Wolf' on your car" Jack asked with a wary look.
"Yeah so? Probably just some stupid prank. Wouldn't put it pass Rhys, in fact."
"Guys, the rift activity" Tosh suddenly yelled from the car. "It's just down the street."
The team went to check up on the place where there had been a massive outburst of activity, but there was no evidence left.
"You think something came through" Ianto asked.
"Well whatever it was, it's gone now" Owen said. "Guess we'll just have to wait until something happens."
"Yeah… Gwen, I'll walk you to your car" Jack said and started to walk in the direction of the parking lot.
"Is he alright?"
The team was gathered in the conference room to have lunch, all except Jack who was, once again, moping in his office with his hand in a jar.
"I don't think it's healthy to spend so much time alone with a hand. Even if it is artificial" Ianto said.
"He does seem awfully moody" Tosh noted.
"Yeah, what's up with that, Ianto" Owen asked with his mouth full of pizza. "Not doing the job properly?"
"Owen shut up" Gwen said and slapped his arm. "He acted so weird about the fact someone wrote 'Bad Wolf' on my car. Do you think it means anything?"
"Yeah, it means he's gonna have to give you a raise so you can get your car fixed" Owen mumbled. "Look, just give it a rest, okay? We can't all be chipper like you."
Gwen was just about to respond when Jack burst into the room. "Which one of you idiots did it?"
They all looked at him like he had grown a second head. "Did what?"
"Don't play stupid. Who replaced our sign?"
"Jack we don't know what you're talking about" Gwen said. They all followed him out into the main area of the Hub.
"I'm talking about that" Jack said and pointed at the Torchwood sign above the old couch. Except it didn't say 'Torchwood', it said 'Bad Wolf'.
"What the hell is going on" Owen asked.
"Jack, the rift is active again! It's the same place" Tosh said and started to type.
"Better check it out then" Jack said.
"Nothing! What the hell is happening" Owen asked with frustration in his voice. They had been chasing rift activity all over the city and now it was well over midnight and they were all tired and grumpy.
"It's over an hour since the last trace of activity registered" Tosh said, looking at her monitor.
"Fine, go home. I'll keep looking" Jack said.
Gwen sighed when her phone started to ring. "Hello?"
"Gwen, is that you?"
"Andy? Is everything alright?"
"Yeah, listen, I'm at the hospital. Some woman was run over by a car and she didn't have any ID, just this number. Do you know her?""Andy you're gonna have to be a bit more precise than 'some woman'."
"Blonde, early twenties, pretty…"Gwen suddenly had a horrible feeling that it was the woman from this morning. "Shit! I'll be there soon" she said and hung up. "Shit!"
"What?"
"That woman I almost hit this morning is in the hospital. She didn't have any ID, just my number. I have to go see if she's alright!"
"I'll come with you" Jack suddenly offered.
"No, it's fine Jack, you don't have to." Gwen wasn't sure she wanted to spend anymore time with Jack.
"It's no problem. Come on, I'll drive."
They met Andy in the waiting room, where he was talking with a nurse.
"Gwen, thank you for coming" Andy said, as the nurse left them. He looked at Jack with obvious disdain.
"Is she going to be alright?"
"Yeah, she has a concussion and two broken ribs, but she got of easy, the nurse told me. So, what was she doing with your number?"
"I met her this morning, she seemed confused but I was running late, so I gave her my number, in case she needed help. Can I see her?"
"Yeah sure, this way." Andy led them down a corridor and stopped outside a room. "So, do you know her name" Andy asked Gwen.
"Her name is Rose Tyler" Jack answered.