Mariah's eyes fluttered open, revealing where she was. She seemed to be in some sort of medical facility in what looked like an underground base. Mariah sat up, but as she did so she felt a sharp pain in her side which her hand immediately clasped, she removed her hand and looked at where she had been shot. It had not healed as quickly as it normally would have but that was most likely because of the fact that she had been unconscious and unable to heal herself fully.

She stood up and looked over at the computer opposite her. It had medical information displayed on the screen and, as she looked more closely at it, found that it was her medical records that were being displayed on it. Mariah immediately went over for a closer look. It had all of her medical reports, examinations, tests, classified x-rays, MRI scans, the record of the autopsy she went through last year and something new. It seemed as though these people had run their own tests on her. She brought up an image which showed her internal organs and, yep, there it was… her second heart. Both hearts, side by side; one on the left and one on the right. Another image came up. It was a scan of her brain that showed what percentage of her brain she actually used every day. It definitely gave her away.

She heard a noise behind her and spun around quickly. Whoever they were, they were back and had probably already guessed that she was awake. Mariah saw a large pile of stacked boxes, seized her chance and hid behind them. They talked rather loudly.

"So she said – if she'd known what he was, she would never have married him!" said Jack.

"She knew! She knew all along." Tosh exclaimed.

"The thing that really gave him away though, was the slime in the bathtub." Owen put in.

"Ha. Aliens. No sense of hygiene." Jack laughed.

They laughed, but then –

"Um… hey guys, -" Ianto's voice quivered.

"Ha, ha – yeah." Chuckled Gwen.

"She's gone." Ianto replied.

The laughing ceased. And immediately, Mariah heard them scramble to find her.

"Where could she have gone? You said she was out cold!" Tosh scolded Owen.

"She was! Don't blame me!" Owen spat.

"I blame you!" Tosh sounded worried.

"Why me?" Owen asked.

"You always get mixed up with reports!" Gwen teased.

"Do not!" Owen retorted.

"Do so!" Gwen teased again.

"Do not!"

"Do so!"

"Hello? While I'm sure this argument on is spurning war! The rest of us are looking for the girl" Came the sound of Ianto's, now, cool and rather relaxed voice. It was unnerving.

Mariah shook with fear, and yet she didn't know why this scared her so. Footsteps drew nearer to her and she heard them whispering to each other. Someone tapped the other side of the boxes and Mariah had to steady her breathing as to not so easily give away her position.

There was more whispering, and Mariah heard one of them say that she wouldn't be so stupid as to hide in so obvious a place.

'Nice.' Mariah thought. 'Well, at least he doesn't think I'm stupid.'

They moved off into another section of the place and Mariah came out of hiding and ran immediately for the exit. Once out there though, she found that the tunnel went of in two directions. To the right was a long passage way with an elevator at the end and to the left, another long passage that moved off into two more directions, the one going off to the right - a dead end, the one to the left leading down a long fleet of stairs.

She made her way back along the corridors and was half way towards the elevator when the lift doors opened, and out stepped Jack, Tosh and Owen. Mariah froze, then, slowly started to back away from the elevator, and them. Then, in a split second, turned on her heel and bolted for the stairs. They came pelting down the corridor after her, shouting –

"Ianto! She's headed for the stairs!" Jack yelled through his ear-piece as he bolted after her.

As she ran down the steep stair case, that seemed never ending, her footsteps echoed off the stone walls, breaking the silence. Her breathing was ragged and her heart was beating so fast that it threatened to break through her rib cage. She kept running, even though she knew that sooner or later they would catch her and drag her back into the main area of their underground base. She ran to the stairs and immediately started to leap down them two or three at a time, all the time the others gained on her. Mariah heard more feet pounding on stone and looked over the railing to discover another of the people chasing her bolting up the stairs to help the other three. Mariah was trapped! She looked around desperately for an escape route but could see none. She spun around to face the first three. They came hurtling down the stairs after her, but stopped after they saw she had.

"There's no way outta this one. Just come on back and we'll explain everything – " Jack insisted

"You ain't gonna stop me now!" Mariah yelled as she jumped over the railing, "Look out below!" Falling ten stories to the bottom of the flight of the stairs. Mariah looked up and suddenly remembered. "Hey, weren't there five of you?!?!" A door opened behind her. She turned on the spot to confront the missing member of the team. However, he was ready for her, shooting her with a stun gun. Mariah fell, unconscious, to the floor.