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: unbeta'd, so I'm so sorry for any mistakes!!
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*.
Gwen walked away from Rhys, and picked up the nearest phone. Without really registering it, she realised she was at Tosh's station. She had tried to rebuild the Hub just how it had been. She started dialing, and waited for the call to be picked up.
"Hello?" Andy's voice came from the other end of the line.
"Andy, hi, its Gwen. I was hoping you would do me a favour?"
"Well that's nice, isn't it!" Andy said, sounding a bit disgruntled.
"Andy, please. It's important and I need your help."
Andy sighed.
"All right, fine. What do you need?"
Gwen smiled. She knew that Andy would not let her down.
"Can you see where a Captain John Hart lives?"
"Captain John Hart," there was a pause, then, "Ok, I'm sending you his address, but he seems to spend most of his evenings in the local bar."
Gwen looked at her phone. It said '1 new message'.
"Thanks Andy."
She hung up the phone, and told Rhys to get the car keys. Back at the police station, Andy stared at the phone, and said to it a tad resentfully, "Sure, no problem."
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The bar was packed and extremely noisy. Gwen looked around, and spotted John Hart doing shots. Her teeth ground at the sight, and she considered telling Rhys that he is not here and that they should just go. But then she remembered how he helped them to find Jack, and she pointed him out to Rhys. They walked over to him, and Gwen muttered to Rhys, "Be careful."
"Why?" Rhys asked, but Gwen ignored him, focusing on the man in front of her.
John sensed someone watching him, and turned around to see Gwen. He smiled cockily at her.
"Well, well! Gwen Cooper."
"John. I need your help," Gwen forced the words out.
"Ooh, this should be interesting," John crowed.
He did another shot.
"Where's Jack and eye candy?" he asked nonchalantly.
"It's about Jack," Gwen said, hoping his tie with Jack will be enough to secure his help.
"What is? What has happened to him that you would come and see me? Or did you just make this all up as an excuse to see me again?" John leaned in towards her.
Rhys coughs loudly, and John pulled up to look at him.
"And who's this?"
"This is my husband, Rhys Williams."
John looked him over, and then turned back to Gwen.
"So what exactly is Jack up to now?"
"I don't know. I don't know where he is, and that's the problem. I need to speak to him, tell him to come back."
"What, that's it? You need to speak to him?"
John laughed, turning away from her to do another shot. Gwen tried to recapture his attention.
"Look, he left two years ago, but I really need to speak to him."
"Told you, he's unreliable. Anyway, what in the universe possessed to you to make you think I would help you?"
"Because you want to see Jack," Gwen said before she really thought about it.
John stared at her, but she stood her ground, praying in her head that it would work. He did another shot.
"And, what, you think Jack will drop everything to come back here? That is, if he even talks to me. He's still not exactly happy with me."
Gwen realised that she was getting nowhere with trying to appeal to John, so she put plan b in action.
"Are you going to help us or not?" she asked, subtly pointing a gun in his side.
John raised an eyebrow at her.
"Honestly, you people. Ok, I'll help you."
Rhys looked completely nonplussed, not having seen the gun that his wife was pointing at the strange man. John tapped a few buttons on his wriststrap.
"Well, he is busy, as ever. Answer machine. Go ahead, confess your undying love for Jack."
Gwen looked from his to the wriststrap, and began to speak, feeling a bit foolish talking to a wriststrap.
"Ok, Jack, we need you here. It's Ianto, he's alive. Well, I think he is, but he's not himself. I don't know what's wrong with him. Jack, we need you here. Please," she added, then said, "Oh, it's Gwen."
John tapped another button on his wriststrap, and turned to Gwen.
"Ok, I helped you, now will you leave? Or did you want another kiss?" he grinned evilly at her.
"We'll leave, thanks," Gwen said sarcastically.
She pulled Rhys after her, who whispered urgently in her ear, "What did he mean, 'another kiss'"?
Gwen suddenly became a bit nervous.
"He, uh, paralyzed me with lip gloss once," she said, as if it was the most ordinary thing in the world.
Rhys pulled up short.
"Lip gloss? Ok, the alien stuff is weird, but –"
"Leave it Rhys. We have to find Ianto."
They walked to the car, Rhys wondering what else had happened to Gwen that he did not know about. Gwen was thinking of all the other men she had kissed since starting to work for Torchwood.
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Back at the Hub, Rhys looked around him, lost.
"So how exactly are we going to find Ianto?"
The question took Gwen by surprise. She was so used to Jack telling them all what to do, or Tosh being able to work her magic on the computer systems. But they were not here, so she had to think of something. She cursed herself for not getting Tosh to teach her how to use the system more.
"I'm going to try to track him with CCTV," she sighed, thinking how long it would take her.
"Well, is there anything I can do to help?" Rhys asked, not wanting to sit around like a lemon.
"Uh, yeah, you can help me. Here, take this station, and watch the footage I send you. If you see Ianto, yell," Gwen sat him down, and went to sit down at another one. They worked in silence for a while, both watching their computer screens intently. Then Rhys said, "Gwen, I've found him. And he's with three other people."
Gwen looked up.
"Three?"
"Yeah they're getting into a cab."
"Can you see the licence plate?" Gwen asked.
When Rhys nodded, she thought quickly.
"Ok, phone up the cab company, and see where it drops them off. I'm going to try and see who these other people are."
Rhys picked up the phone and started dialing. Gwen used the face recognition software, thankful she at least knew how to do that. Her brows furrowed in confusion as she got matches on the people. Their files all said that they were deceased.
"This doesn't make sense," she said to herself.
"Gwen, I've got a location," Rhys told her.
Gwen looked at him, and smiled. She could always rely on him to ground her. He was her ordinary husband, and in a world of aliens and rifts, that was extraordinary.
"Ok. Let's go," she said, and they yet again set out.
Hope you liked it. Ianto will be in the next one :D Please review, let me know what you think, good or bad. Reviewers get love. Really, I love people who review. x
