Chapter 2

The next morning Wilma heard a knock on the door; she chose to ignore it, after all it wasn't her house and her head was pounding. Then came a second knock, and a third.

"Will you piss off!" Shouted Wilma, getting annoyed, "trying to sleep here ya know!"

"Wish we all had that luxury Wilma, now open the door!" came Jack's familiar voice from outside.

Wilma shot out of bed, whilst doing so got caught up in the blanket she was sleeping in and fell straight through Una's coffee table. This woke one of the sleeping sisters.

"Wilma! What the frigging hell have you done now?!" Una bellowed as she walked into her living room to find her coffee table destroyed. At that point Jack decided he had enough of waiting. So he kicked her front door down.

"I CAN'T HAVE ANYTHING WITH YOU PEOPLE!" Una exploded. "What the hell do you want Jack?"

Kendra wandered out of her room sleepily. "What have I missed?" She yawned. Una sighed and started to tidy her newly destroyed living room.

"Right, now you're all awake here's the deal. It's time to go ladies. Get yourselves ready we leave in 5 hours" Jack ordered.

"What?" Kendra said woken by the statement, "if you think for one second that I'm getting on a plane with this hangover you are very mistaken!"

"Sorry girls, can't help it. Now either you pack for yourselves or I pack for you," Jack shrugged

"Una, sorry, I'd help pack but if I let Jack pack I'd be wearing nothing but underwear for a week," Kendra said.

"Aww you spoil all my fun Kendra," Jack winked "I'll get Ianto and Gwen to sort that door for you, they're staying here while we go. Now I expect you all to be at the airport on time." he ushered Kendra and Wilma out.

The next time the girls met was at the airport, Wilma was gnawing into her fingernails as they were boarding the plane.

"Don't worry Wilma you will be fine," Jack reassured her.

"I don't like flying," Wilma pouted.

"The only real problem is turbulence," said Una

"And terrorists or the engines failing and maybe the wings falling off," teased Kendra as she pushed past Wilma into her seat. Wilma started to freak out.

"Kendra! For god's sake, sometimes I feel like I'm the only adult here!" Jack flustered, pushing a distressed Wilma into her seat.

The air hostesses went through their safety announcements and got ready for take off. Wilma was clawing at her arm rest. All the girls were still nursing terrific hangovers; they fell asleep as soon as the plane was on a steady course. The only time they woke was to purchase food and drink from the trolley.

Not long into the 10hr flight the girls awoke and started getting very irritable with Jack 'Why today? You said tomorrow!' Huffed Una in Jack's direction.

'Because I said so that's why' he replied ignoring the rude gesture that came his way.

When they finally touched down they were greeted by a tall woman with brown hair in a ponytail.

'Good evening, I'm Agent Maria Hill. I'll be taking you to S.H.I.E.L.D headquarters for your briefing' she shook their hands and gestured them toward the car.

'Well hello Miss Hill, I'd quite like to de brie-'

'Jack can you keep it in your pants for 5 minutes please? We have serious work to do' said Kendra dragging him along by his ear 'Don't mind him, he does it all the time. He had a friend once who tried it on with a poodle,' Maria looked at Jack confused but said nothing as they entered the car.

'I'll be taking you to director Nick Fury, he will be overseeing the operation and will tell you everything you need to know' the car set off and they spend the remaining time in the vehicle in uncomfortable silence. This seemed a rather military atmosphere and Torchwood did things a little different.

After what felt like an age the finally arrived at S.H.I.E.L.D headquarters. 'Follow me' Maria ordered 'Don't worry about the bags' Wilma dropped her suitcase and climbed out, the others followed.

S.H.I.E.L.D headquarters was enormous, they were taken aback by its size after being used to such cosy headquarters at home. There was twice the people working here than at U.N.I.T.

'WOW' gasped Wilma.

'Torchwood not as big?' Smirked Maria

'Well seeing as you are looking at more than half of it's staff, no. But we don't need to over compensate for anything. We know we are brilliant' Jack laughed.

'Your government leaves it's safety to a handful of people?' Maria laughed back.

'He said we were brilliant' Kendra smiled 'and there's always U.N.I.T, I suppose, we know you know about them. We do things differently though. We aren't the guns blazing type.'

'We're not government anyway, a bit more freelance than that' Wilma said. These remarks seemed to unsettle Maria, like she realised what they were getting themselves into.

She looked at them disapprovingly 'I thought we were getting the professionals?'

'Oh don't you worry about it sweet. We are as good as it gets, and better' grinned Jack. This didn't look like it eased Maria's concern at all. She led them into a glass lift that took them to an office, Maria entered.

'Sir' She saluted

'See they're saluting already, we've only been here 5 minutes!' Giggled Kendra to Wilma who burst out laughing. Maria shot her an admonishing look.

'Torchwood are here, sir' she continued.

'Well, send them in' they walked in and found the voice belonged to a tall, black man with an eyepatch and a long black coat. 'I'm Nick Fury, director of S.H.I.E.L.D and the guy you don't want to cross' he had an air of authority about him and even Wilma wasn't brave enough to question it.

'I'm Captain Jack Harkness, I'm the leader of Torchwood an-' Jack began

'I know who you are! I brought you all here, now listen I'm a busy man and I want to get this over with. You'll be staying in Stark tower with Tony and the rest of the Avengers. You have a problem, I don't wanna know, You go see Agent Coulson or Agent Hill. Just find out what the hell is going on and fix it!'

The team were taken aback. Jack stood staring at him with his mouth open. He gained his composure, nodded and took the folder Maria held out to him. The team walked out of the room and back down the elevator.

'I'll be dropping you off at Stark tower, you'll mainly be dealing with me and Coulson who you will meet soon enough' Maria said to them as they reached the ground floor.

'We weren't expecting to be staying with him' Una grumbled 'but I guess it makes sense being right at the rift.'