Torchwood

"Jack," A Welsh voice called across the intercom. Gwen Cooper stood at her desk, staring confusedly at her computer screen. It was 10am and her computer had just flagged up something strange.

"What is it Gwen?" The man replied. He was tall dark and handsome, and he knew it.

"I've got strange readings on the screen. It's like something there's something that shouldn't be here, but it should be," the voice came over the intercom, and Jack frowned confused, then sighed, getting up from his seat in his office, his desk was covered in paperwork from their most recent operation.

He walked out the glass doors from his office and down the steps, as always glancing up at the pterodactyl that guarded the hub. He sighed, thinking back to the things first meeting. Things hadn't been simple then either. In fact, things hadn't been simple ever since the day that he'd seen that young 19 year old lost in the Blitz, hanging from a barrage balloon.

Lord how he missed Rose. He wondered how The Doctor had coped without her, knowing that she was alive, but he couldn't get to her. Jack's heart broke for him, to have to go through that. At least whenever Jack had been in love, it'd been till their death. For years Jack had thought that she had gone, been killed, but then the Master happened, and then he knew the truth, and he longed to see Rose again. She'd been the closest thing to family that he had, almost more than his own daughter and grandson.

"What is it?" Jack asked again, coming out of his reverie, and looking at the computer. His brow forrowed as he tried to make sense of it. "Is this the only reading?"

"Well, it's sort of like a trail," Gwen said, looking at her boss. "It's heading towards a building."

"Tosh, can we get visual? And any CCTV from 3am onwards in that area." Tosh shook her head as Jack addressed her.

"CCTV in that area is limited. None for about 10 miles, and even then it flickers to different scenes." Tosh said, nodding to her computer. "Nothing really suspicious there, other than a hiker I believe. They stopped at this house for a bit, then walked off. Headed South-West, towards here."

Jack nodded, "Right, Tosh and Owen with me, Gwen, keep monitoring the readings," he said as he slid several guns into pockets. "Any changes, let us know."

-DW-

There was a loud screech as a black vehicle raced up the street towards a lonely house.

"It's more to the West from here Jack," Tosh said as the mentioned driver frowned.

"West is just fields, we can't get there." Jack replied frustrated. They stopped just outside of farm like building, where the mysterious readings had apparently gone to and then walked back in a similar direction. Jack turned to the front again, before getting out of the car. "Gwen, how're those readings doing?" He asked.

"About 15 miles out Jack, still coming towards Cardiff, roughly at walking pace, maybe a little faster, and taking the most direct route, through the fields rather than down roads," Gwen's voice projected around the SUV as she responded.

"Okay, so we'll see if we can get anything out of these guys," Jack said, nodding towards the house, "Then we go back so we can meet this person in Cardiff." The team nodded and they all got out of the car, slamming doors shut loudly.

Jack rang the doorbell, and the three of them stood in comfortable silence, waiting for a response. After a couple of minutes however, there wasn't one, and Jack frowned, knocking loudly in case the home owner hadn't heard the bell, but still there was no response.

"At work?" Owen suggested in his usual cocky tone. Jack rolled his eyes.

"Thanks for that useful bit of information Owen, I'd never have guessed otherwise," Jack replied, turning his back on the building. Nothing felt off here, not like it sometimes did.

-DW—

"Bye Rhys, I love you." Gwen was saying down the phone. Another day she'd be late home, and another argument against her for Rhys. Thankfully he was taking her strange hours a lot better now though.

It had been a quiet afternoon at the hub. Since they got back, Gwen had handed the tracing of the readings over to Tosh, Owen had gone down to see his pet Weevil, and Jack had locked himself in his office again doing god knows what. Or at least he had, till Tosh called out over the hub com that it had entered Cardiff.

"Tosh, Ianto, you're staying here this time. Owen, Gwen, to the SUV." They nodded and sped off to get themselves kitted up in case they needed to be against the unknown source. Jack headed over to where Tosh and Ianto were around Tosh's desk, "I need you on coms the whole time, you're going to have to tell us where to go, I'll have Gwen monitor CCTV from the van, but you'll have to tell us which CCTV to us." Tosh and Ianto both nodded, not responding, and she loaded several more things on her computer.

After checking that the intercom between the SUV and hub was working properly, Jack set off quickly following directions as Tosh said them as Ianto told Gwen which CCTVs.

"Any link yet?" Jack asked after 5 or so minutes, looking at Gwen in the rear view mirror. Gwen shook her head.

"Not that I can see. But it is getting dark outside again, so who knows?" Gwen frowned, constantly looking through the small amounts of footage on each camera.

-WB—

It was an hour before the team finally stopped, hidden round a bend where they were sure the strange energy signature was heading. Gwen jumped out of the SUV, sitting on the front of the van as Jack blacked out the windows as much as possible.

The all sat watching as Tosh said that they were just about to turn the corner.

It was then that Jack saw a flash of blonde hair, and a felt a sudden fear in him that he knew wasn't his own. A second later the blonde figure turned and sprinted away, and soon Tosh was on the coms again, saying instructions for where each person should go.

"Tosh, what's the most direct route?" Jack asked quickly, but Ianto responded, providing loads of sharp turnings as Tosh told Gwen, who was now also running, where to go.

One final turning and Jack brought the car to a quick stop. He saw Gwen down the other end of the street, and the thing that was giving off the strange energy reading, the person, was trapped between them.

She was looking around for a way out, any way out, but it looked like she knew she was trapped.

"Look," Jack said, holding his hands up to show that he was currently unarmed, though he knew that at least one of his guns would be visible, "I don't want to hurt you, just, just tell me who you are?"

Jack had felt the sudden feeling of fear again, before it disappeared. The woman in front of him raised her head, and her golden eyes met Jack's…

-DW—

Rose looked around quickly, she knew she was trapped, she could tell, but that didn't stop her trying to find a way, any way that she could. That was until she heard a voice, a voice that she didn't think she'd ever hear again.

"Look." The voice said, but Rose kept her head down, "I don't want to hurt you, just, just tell me who you are?" They said. As always the person seemed incredibly confident, and Rose couldn't help it.

She raised her head, her eyes meeting his, and felt tears begin to sting at the corner of her own. "J-Jack?" she asked hesitantly, almost feeling her body start shaking slightly.

AN – Thank you to anyone who reviewed the first chapter, you guys made me smile as all of them were so kind :D They encouraged me to write this now :D I'm glad to hear you're enjoying this :D To the reviewer who guessed Jack's SUV, damn you're good! ;PThis chapter provides very few answers, but hopefully you enjoyed it! :D just wondering, does this jump a bit too much? I'm thinking it does and I need to add a bridge or 2 into it, but please let me know either way