Notes: Ok, so here's my attempt at a follow up of Hollow Man. Hope y'all enjoy and thanks again for the praise for Hollow Man.

"Anyone caught sight of it yet?" Jack asked as he walked along, his gun drawn, keeping a close eye on any movements in the dimly lit corridor.

"I hear something." Tamsyn said as she walked along quietly. "Can't see anything though." she added as she turned in the direction of the noise.

"More than I've got on my end." Owen said, growing more and more bored by the moment.

"Same here." Ianto said, just thankful that he wasn't stuck in the hub making coffee.

"Tosh?" Jack asked.

"Completely quiet." she answered.

"Lots of noises..." Tamsyn said again as something rammed into her, knocking her to the ground.

"Tamsyn?" Jack asked as the woman on the other end trailed off and all he could make out was a grunt and the sound of metal hitting a concrete floor.

"It's heading southeast." Tamsyn answered as she got to her feet and grabbed her torch. "Right for you Ianto." she added as she ran in his direction.

"Everyone move!" Jack odered and everyone obeyed.

All five came barging out of the old school at the same time, guns drawn and at Jack's command, all opened fire on the large green beast that they'd been tracking. It gave a loud groan before suddenly exploding, sending a green slime everywhere, covering the shooters.

"Oh that is just foul!" Owen moaned as he caught a whif of the oozing stuff.

"Like really smelly Jell-O." Tamsyn said as she wiped her face with the back of her hand.

"Oh, the memories of Jell-O wrestling." Jack said with a fond smile and a quick wink in Ianto's direction.

"You've done that too?" Tamsyn asked with a laugh.

"Once or twice." Jack answered.

"Thanks for that image, Jack." Owen said with scowl. "And literally, thank you, Tamsyn." he added with a grin.

"Can we just get back to the hub and get cleaned up?" Tosh asked as she scooped a large clump of the slime out of her hair.

"You're gonna have a clean up in the SUV, Ianto." Jack said as he unlocked the doors.

"I'll help you clean up, don't worry." Tamsyn offered.

"Nice to see someone's willing to help clean up their mess." Ianto said with a pointed look to the others. "Tamsyn, you're bleeding." he said as he looked at her torn shirt.

"It's nothing, just a small scratch." she said as she waved off Jack and Owen who were coming to look at her minor wound.

"Owen will have to take a look at it back at the hub." Jack said.

"Yes, sir." she said mockingly.

It had been more than two months since that night when Tamsyn Reid and her husband, Callum, had their world turned upside down by the death of their only child, Emily. At first she'd been rather eager to hold Torchwood accountable for what had happened, but after some thought, she knew it wasn't their fault.

Since then, she'd taken a prolonged leave from her job as a detective seargent and had opted instead to stay home while Callum worked, once in a while helping the Torchwood team where and when she could. Like now, when Gwen was off for a few days with her mother trying to plan her wedding. The only thing that was bothering her about helping out at Torchwood was Jack and his seeming obsession with her father.

"You know something I haven't asked in a while, Tamsyn?" Jack asked when they were back at the hub and cleaned up and changed. "Your father and his whereabouts?"

"Jack, don't start!" Tamsyn warned. "You've come bloody obsessed."

"I haven't seen in him a long time, I just want to say hello, catch up." Jack said in an appeasing tone.

"If I get him to see you, will you stop harassing me?" she asked, finally giving in.

"Yes, I promise." he said as he held his hand over his heart. Henry Lane had a lot of explaining to do. They'd been together, sometimes as friends, sometimes as much more, for more than a year, then suddenly he'd just vanished. Then he showed up at Emily's funeral, and Jack found out he was Tamsyn's father. Yet Henry had never mentioned a wife or child in the time they spent together. Why?

"I'm meeting him for lunch." Tamsyn said. "If you come back to my house with me, you can see him then." she offered. "I just won't tell him you're coming."

"So deceitful." Jack said with a smile. "Thank you." he looked at her shoulder. "Did you get that looked at."

"Yes, I looked at it." Owen said. "Barely broke the skin, I think she will survive."

"Good." Jack said. "Otherwise I'd have to steal the keys to your house of your body, then I'd have to explain that to Henry, along with asking him some questions." he sighed. "So much bother."

"I'm glad I'm making things easy for you." Tamsyn said with a smile. "You ready?" she asked as she pulled her keys out of her purse.

"Let's go." Jack said.

"Tosh, I'll be back around five so we can do a bit of shopping before tonight." she called over her shoulder as she led Jack out.

"Alright." Tosh said, blushing a bit, hoping no one would ask questions as to why Tamsyn was making it a point to take her shopping and what tonight was.


Tamsyn and Collum's house:

"So where is the dashing Collum?" Jack asked as he looked around at the photos that were seemingly scattered all over the living room.

"He's in Scotland with his brothers." Tamsyn called from the kitchen. "They go up every year to do some hunting." she said. "That, and once in a while it's nice to get away from eachother." she added as she came put out three soup bowls and silverware.

"Sound so loving." Jack teased.

"We've been together almost ten years." Tamsyn pointed out. "A break now and then is nice." she laughed as the doorbell rang. "There's my dad." she announced as she headed for the door and Jack could hear her saying hello.

"Someone's joining us for lunch, Dad, hope you don't mind." she said as she led him into the dining room.

"Not at all, Syn." Henry said with a fond smile as they walked through the door, arm in arm. He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw Jack standing there. "Him?" he asked as he jabbed a finger in Jack's direction. "We're having lunch with him?"

"Yes, he thinks it'd be nice for you two to catch up." Tamsyn said with a pleading look. "That and he's been harassing me for a month now. So please just talk to him. For me." she added, using the puppydog eyes that always worked like a charm on him.

"Fine." Henry grumbled as he sat down, his daughter disappearing back into the kitchen. "What the hell do you want?" he hissed.

"Answers." Jack answered. "You took off twenty five years ago, not a word to anyone." he whispered. "Then it turns out that you had a daughter during that time we were together."

"She was none of your damned business." Henry said defensively. "Your ego is just bruised, you have trouble imagining that anyone would leave the great Jack Harkness."

"No, I got over that long ago, Henry." Jack said. "But you're lying about something. Lying to Tamsyn." he went on. "She's a friend and I can't let you do that. Why did you take off like that?"

"To protect Syn." Henry replied. "I gave up everything and everyone I cared about to protect my little girl." he said, his voice trembling. "They knew about her, they were going to take her from me, I couldn't let that happen."

"Who was going to take me from you?" Tamsyn asked as she walked in carrying a large serving bowl of soup. "What are you on about, Dad?" she asked, almost fearing his answer.

"Oh, Syn, I'm so sorry." Henry cried. "I've lied to you all these years." he said. "I only hope you can forgive me and understand why I did it."

"What?" she asked as she sat down.

"You're not..." he began as he fiddled with the spoon that she's just laid out. "You're not quite my daughter. Not actually."

"What?" she repeated, her hands shaking.

"You're not quite human, either." he went on. "A friend and I found you, and three others like you, but you're the only one that developed."

"Developed?" Jack asked.

"Rich McDonald and I found a wreckage in a field near his farm." Henry said. "We hauled it to a barn of his and started taking it apart, thinking to use it for scrap." he took a deep breath. "We found four eggs." he went on. "You were the only one that...well, hatched."

"Hatched?" Tamsyn said staring at her father in disbelief. "I hatched from an egg?"

"Yes." he nodded as he stared at the table, not able to look her in the eye. "The other three didn't."

"What happened to them?" Jack asked.

"Rich...it doesn't matter." Henry stopped. "He had told some woman about you, about the wreckage we'd found, and then people suddenly began to come 'round. It wasn't safe, Jack. I had to take Syn and run. I'm sorry that I upset you all those years ago, but I had to protect my daughter."

"I'm a hatchling." Tamsyn muttered as she started to pace around the room. "Not only a hatchling, a foundling hatchling."

"But, you're my little foundling hatchling." Henry said as he took her hand. "Can you forgive me?" he asked, almost begging.

"Just when you think you've seen and heard it all." Jack muttered as he rubbed his temples as he felt a headache coming on.