Reunion

Summary: Gwen is all on her own after the events of CoE. But Torchwood worms its way back into her life after two years, and brings about a catastrophic series of events. WARNING - spoilers for CoE. sorry, i'm rubbish at summaries :)

Author's Note: My wishful thinking of…well, I won't say just yet. Because a girl can dream, right?

Disclaimer: RTD owns Torchwood and its amazing characters, which is unfortunate seeing as he does not know what to do with them *cough* Ianto *cough*.

Sam sat down heavily on the bench nearest his wife's grave. It had been a tiring day at work, and he wished Amelia was with him to make it all better. Sam turned his head sharply to the right as he heard a moan, then sighed.

Great, he thought. Now I'm hearing things.

Then he rubbed his eyes as soil flew up into the air and landed with a soft thud. Sam stood up slowly, and cautiously approached the hole where the soil had been. He gingerly looked down, and had to stifle a scream as he saw a hand clawing at the earth, scrabbling upwards. Sam's legs seemed to lock as his mind went into shock, and then he was running, his mind already trying to deny what he had seen.

At the Hub a device started to flash red.

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2 years earlier

"I have lived so many lives. It's time to find another one," Jack stepped backwards and pushed a button on his wriststrap.

"They died, and I am sorry Jack, but you cannot just run away, you cannot run away," Gwen was sobbing at the end as she thought of losing Jack all over again.

"Oh yes I can. Just watch me," and then Jack was engulfed in white light as he was transported upwards.

Later that night, Gwen had gone back to the Hub. While Jack had been travelling around the world, Gwen had slowly rebuilt the Hub, and had placed Ianto's dead body in the new morgue, as she felt that in the end, the Hub had been their home. But, as much as she would miss Torchwood, she could not go on now when everyone else had left her. So she had set a device to warn her if anything huge was detected, and left the Hub for the final time. Or so she thought.

Present

It was just another ordinary evening. Gwen was with Rhys cleaning up after a messy supper with their son and neighbour. Rhys had made an awfully bad joke, but it was so bad that it was funny. Then her computer screen started to flash in a way that could only mean one thing, and Gwen felt the life that she had built up so carefully falling to pieces. She put the tea towel down, and went to sit down at her computer.

"What is it Gwen? Gwen?" Rhys asked.

She looked up at his with a solemn expression on her face.

"It's Torchwood."

Rhys looked a little irritated and surprised.

"Torchwood?!"

"Yeah, a while ago I set an alarm to alert me if there was any activity in the Hub."

"And its gone off?" Rhys asked, thinking of what this would mean for him and Gwen.

Gwen nodded.

"I've got to get to the Hub."

She stood up and grabbed her coat, but Rhys was getting even more annoyed now.

"You're not leaving me here. No way. I'm coming with you,"

"Rhys, what about Harry?" Gwen said, hoping that their son would be enough to make him stay.

She did not want Rhys to get mixed up with Torchwood, not again. But then their neighbour emerged from the loo, and said "Sorry, I couldn't help overhearing a bit of your conversation. But if you two need to do something, then I can stay a bit longer, to make sure Harry's ok."

Rhys turned back to look at Gwen, as if daring her to say he could not come. Instead she simply said, "All right, come on."

When they got to the Hub, Rhys parked the car, and Gwen put her hand on his arm.

"Look, Rhys, I'm going in there to sort things out."

He started to protest, so she put up her hands and said, "No, wait, just listen to me. Ok?"

When he nodded, she continued.

"Whatever is in there, I am trained to deal with. Having you in there would just distract me, because I would be worried about you."

Rhys gave her a long, hard stare, and then said, "I'll phone you in two minutes. If you don't pick up, I'm coming in after you."

Gwen nodded her head, gave Rhys a quick peck on the lips, and got out of the car. She walked through the reception area and pressed the hidden button. As the door opened, she could not help but think of all the memories she had here. The people she had loved here. They had been like a family, with all the relationship problems that come with a family. She drew her gun out and walked down the hallway. When she came out into the main area of the Hub, she took a deep breath to collect herself. Then she saw the device she had set to alert her flashing red, and she deactivated it. The Hub was eerily silent. There had always been people yelling across to each other, demanding coffee, reports, or a game of basketball. Either that or beeping noises coming from Tosh's station. She searched the entire Hub and found nothing. Then she remembered the morgue, and went down there just to be sure that there was nothing there; after all, the Rift could drop people in the weirdest places. When she got down there she saw a man opening one of the lockers. He was thickset with cropped hair, but as far as Gwen could tell he was human and unarmed.

"Hands on your head!" she called out, her gun trained on him.

He turned around to face, and then looked back at the open locker. Gwen looked at it too, and blinked furiously, as she saw someone climbing out of it. Her mind reeling, Gwen watched in horror.

"Ianto?"

Ianto hardly looked at her, just began to walk towards her and the exit, with the big man following. Gwen raised her gun at the other man again.

"Stay where you are! Ianto, what is going on?"

Ianto walked up to her.

"Gwen, let us through," he said softly, persuasively.

It unnerved Gwen. That was not how Ianto had been. Perhaps it was a shape-shifting alien. It was all too much for Gwen.

"I can't do that Ianto, not until you tell me what is going on!" she said, her voice only quavering slightly.

She felt like she had when she found out she was pregnant; happy that she was going to have a baby, but worried she would not be a good mother. Now, she was worried how one of her best friends was suddenly alive after being dead for over two years.

Ianto sighed when she said this. He held out his hand behind him, and, quick as lightning, the man chucked him a stun gun, and Ianto was holding it against Gwen's side. She gasped as she blacked out, and the last thing her fuzzy brain registered was that her phone was ringing.

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When Gwen finally woke up, she was lying across the sofa in the Hub. She could hear someone clattering around in the Hub. She slid off the sofa, and searched for her gun. She could not find it, so she picked up the only thing available; a basketball. Armed and prepared (or so she told herself), Gwen crept towards the kitchenette where the noises were coming from. When she got close enough, she threw the basketball with all her might at the head of the person in the kitchenette, and ran for the invisible lift.

"Ow! What the bleeding hell was that?!" came an aggravated yell.

Gwen was already on the lift and going upwards. She searched the Hub to see if Ianto was going up through the tourist office entrance, when she saw who it was that she had hit, and gasped guiltily. Rhys stared up at her indignantly.

"Urr, sorry!" she yelled down to him. "I'll umm, be down in a second."

When she finally got back down, Rhys was still staring at her indignantly.

"What was that for?" he asked angrily.

"I thought you were that man," Gwen said sheepishly.

"What man?"

"Rhys, Ianto, he was here. Moving and breathing," Gwen said as it all came rushing back.

"Ianto? I thought he was dead," Rhys said, confused.

"He was! I thought he was. He was here with another man, and they used a stun gun on me. I haven't got a clue why, or how Ianto is apparently now alive…"

"What are you going to do?"

Gwen shook her head for a second, then stopped as she realised exactly what she needed to do.

"I need to get Jack."