Chapter 2. Jacks Back
Summary:It's time to have it out. Jack is back and Gwen has a few bones to pick with him about him leaving.
Disclaimer:I don't own the characters in this story they belong to the geniuses of Torchwood.
"Martha, check him." Gwen said, referring to a DNA scan to make sure he wasn't a shape shifter. When Martha confirmed it was Jack they lowered their guns, but stayed silent.
"Not happy to see me?" Jack asked in mock horror.
"It has been three years, Captain Jack Harkness, things change." Gwen said, going to her office.
"I know." Jack said, moving to go after her, but he was stopped by Ms. Johnson.
"How did you get in without setting off my alarms?" she asked, still holding her gun.
"Can we discuss that later?" he asked, moving to go after Gwen but again his path was blocked by Ms. Johnson. Martha laughed.
"I'd watch it, Jack, she's got a short temper and you know she isn't afraid to shoot you, remember she did put a bomb inside of you and used you to blow up the original Hub." Martha said going back to her desk.
Jack stared after Martha and then back to Ms. Johnson, "The ship is advanced and I disarmed all security just seconds before I beamed in and rearmed them the second I was inside. Also the band," he said tapping his wrist device, "shields me from most security systems." Jack explained.
Ms. Johnson put out her hand and Jack looked at her mystified. Lois took pity on the man, "She wants all your weapons and the wrist device. Security on the Hub 2 is tight to say the very least. Only weapons we use in here are DNA matched to us so no one else can use them and no weapon used on the outside is used in here." Lois said, handing Ms. Johnson a screen that detailed all that Jack had on him, including the box with his orbs in it.
Jack put the box of orbs down and handed over his 4 guns, 6 knives and 2 laser scalpels. He picked the box of orbs back up but Ms. Johnson stopped him again, "I want it all including the box and wrist band." Ms Johnson said.
"I had it surgically attached after the whole 456 incident where you blew me and the Hub 1 up, remember?" Jack said, getting a bit testy.
"Martha, bring me a laser scalpel!" Ms Johnson yelled. At the mention of the scalpel, he put the box down and as he rose back up, picked up one of his guns on the desk and aimed it right at her head. Lois and Martha both cocked and aimed their guns at Jack. Gwen noticing the guns being raised on the display screen in her office came running.
"Put them down girls!" Gwen ordered and then walked down and took Jacks wrist in her hands. She noticed he had been telling the truth. "Lois, the signal reads on a low level wave 4871 frequency, can you block it?" Gwen asked and Lois went to work. Within moment the alarms alerted to another person which Lois disabled and Gwen smiled. Gwen went to return to her office but Jack stopped her.
"We need to talk." he said, holding her in place.
"I know." she replied as they went to her office. Jack picked up his box of orbs but Ms. Johnson stopped him.
"It's a gift from a friend to Gwen. A very well known friend." Jack said and Martha called off Ms. Johnson, assuming the friend was The Doctor.
After Gwen and Jack disappeared into her office, Martha slumped down into a nearby chair. "To be a fly on the wall in there.." Ms. Johnson said.
"I thought he was gay?" Lois said having noticed the sexual tension between the two.
"He's a fixed point in time that never dies and originally from the future, where there isn't a taboo on sexuality." Martha said. Seeing that Lois was mystified "You have read his file?" Martha asked.
"No, it's security locked." Lois said, to the shock of both Martha and Ms. Johnson.
"You're an ace hacker and you've never hacked a simple personnel file?" Ms. Johnson asked stunned.
"I figured if I needed to know something about him, Gwen would tell me." Lois said.
Martha rolled her eyes and laughed, "I have a copy of his file at my place. Why don't the three of us grab dinner and have a girl's night?" Martha suggested.
"I want to know what's going on in there!" Ms. Johnson said, pointing to Gwen's office as she leaned up against Lois's desk.
"I can just reroute a secure signal to Martha's apartment and we can watch and listen everything on the security cams in the office and surrounding area. Martha's building houses high level personnel and the firewalls are already in place to protect sensitive data. I can isolate the signal to only be for certain camera's and then booby trap the line so as to alert if anyone trips it and tries to follow the signal back to the source, we will be safe." Lois explained in techno speak.
"Say that again in Queen's English?" Ms Johnson said confused by Lois's language
"Basically we can watch them from my place and not put Hub 2 at risk." Martha summarized. Having lived with the Doctor for a while had given her an intimate understanding of geek speak.
"That's what I just said!" Lois said. Lois typed a quick message to Gwen to show up on her screen and the three grabbed their coats and left.