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Jacks head snapped up, he looked around as Gwen walked towards him, from the main entrance.

"Good morning Jack." she handed Jack a coffee. "Busy night?" she looked down and Jacks paperwork.

"You could say that." she smiled, turned around and then frowned.

"Forgive me for being nosy but why is there a girl, under a blanket on our sofa? I mean where did you get her from?"

"Oh she just arrived last night."

"Arrived? Who is she?"

"I don't know she's a friend of the Doctors. She's going to stay a while, I think."

"So we don't know who she is, why she's here or if she's human?"

"She's not human, If she knows the Doctor I think she'll be ok and all I know is the Doctor wants me to look after her, so that is what I will do. When she wakes up, she's exhausted."

"Right, I'll go check the rift manipulator." Gwen walked out of sight. Jack looked back at her asleep wondering if he should wake her.

Instead he turned back to his paperwork. He worked for a few hours, listening to Gwen chatter at him over the comms system from the other rooms. He looked back at the sleeping shape of the Lieutenant, spinning back on his chair, to the reports.

Then he heard the click of a safety catch coming off of a gun and felt the barrel touch the back of his head. He twitched towards his Webley Mk IV.

"Don't even bother." She said exasperatedly. "Where's the other?"

"Like you don't already know where she is."

"Oh okay, you got me. Stand up." He did he turned towards the conference room.

"You know you where much more friendly last night." Before he knew it, she'd snapped forward pulling his gun out of his reach. "Oh that was clever. Well played!"

"Walk, thank you." She smiled as he started to walk towards the stairs.

"Manners, I love women with manners, so forceful and sexy. Don't you think?"

"I wouldn't know, men are more my scene!"

"I can see that! Mind you, Women that handle guns are really my thing as well!" they reached the top of the stairs.

"Is there only two people here?"

"Yes, it's a hazardous job, unless you count the weevils." They walked through the doors. She gave Jack a small push; he stepped towards Gwen who was bent over a laptop.

"Right, First things first, where the hell am I?" Gwen looked up suddenly.

"Oh my God," Gwen's eyes widened as she took in the Generation 3 Glock 17 the Lieutenant was holding, it was clearly altered by alien technology but the basic shape was still recognizable. She looked over at Jack, who was smiling.

"He swapped your adrenaline pills with a sleeping pill, with small amount of retcon in it." Jacks smile widened. "He said you'd be angry!"

"Torchwood." She said suddenly.

"That's us, think you could put that down now?"

"Yeh sure, wasn't even loaded anyway!"

"I know the other has one bullet!" A huge smile appeared on her face.

"You know your guns! Now you're my kind of man. You must be Captain Jack Harkness." She slid the gun back into the holster on her right hip, then walking over to him and offering her hand. He took it. "He said you where good looking and a flirt!"

"He knows me to well. This is Gwen Cooper."

"Sorry about the pointing a gun at you its second nature now, never trust anyone or anything." She shook her hand.

"Its quite alright, I'm used to it." she smiled slightly.

"So who are you?"

"Lieutenant Carter-Jones, 3rd Generation Timelord."

"Whoa, hang on you can't be Gallifrey and the Time Lords where killed."

"All but two, the Doctor and the Master, the Master went back and changed it somehow, so Gallifrey survived and the Time Lords, the war continued and every time someone died, they went back and bought them back, starting at around one week previously and working back and back so they never crossed their own timelines! I'm 3rd Generation because this is my 3rd life."

"That's Incredible and I wish I totally understood." Gwen muttered.

"So you've fought wars?" Jack queried.

"Yes 3 time wars, they kind of all merge into one though anyway enough about me."

"Yes I agree, more about us," Jack strolled out of the room, she followed him, Gwen followed quickly.

"We are Torchwood Three! We fight aliens, the nasty ones. There's a Rift running through the centre of Cardiff…"

"And it drops aliens on you and it can change time etcetera etcetera. I know I just don't know how you do it especially with your primitive tools and technology!"

"And you have better?" Gwen asked. The Lieutenant turned around.

"Yes. Of course we do, we are the Lords of time it kind of goes with the name!" she didn't elaborate on it.

"We've coined the phrase; if it's alien it's ours!" Jack carried on as if he hadn't heard her answer. "I'm the boss! You don't do anything with our equipment unless I say you can!"

"Yes Sir," she saluted him sarcastically.

"Right and no more all guns blazing, your not to leave the Hub either. Well not with out me or Gwen." He was being deadly serious, what did he think she was going to do? Actually she didn't want to know the answer to that.

"Ok and let me guess, no drinking, no smoking and most likely no sex as well?" she was being very sarcastic with him. She was fed up of being ordered around. Gwen seemed impressed with her come back. Jack seemed to consider her question, she was sure she'd seen a small smile when she mentioned sex.

"Just no smoking!" he agreed and walked off towards his office. "Gwen will give you the tour." He seemed really annoyed. Probably because she knew about him already and he couldn't impress her as easily as he'd hoped. She looked at Gwen with a smile.

"You don't have to show me round, I'm sure you want to get on with your work."

"No it's alright; there isn't much to do yet." They walked back into the main atrium of the Hub. "it's pretty simple, Jacks office is there," she pointed, "the conference room is over there, it's not finished yet and then down it's the basement, cells, volt and morgue." As she looked round the Lieutenant saw most of the hub looked unfinished.

"Has it always been like this?" Gwen looked sad almost tearful.

"No, it got blown up a year or so ago, by the government they tried to kill the whole team, they didn't succeed though, but the Hub was destroyed. We lost a team member, Ianto. He was Jack's…" she trailed off. But the Lieutenant knew what she meant. She put a comforting hand on Gwen's shoulder.

"I'm sorry."

"It's alright, I will always miss the people we've lost but I'm alright Jack isn't though, he's only been back a month I think, He called me a few days ago saying we where up and running he's been gone for a year. I wasn't expecting him to come back."

"You know, its all technologically sound here, but there are no home comforts, heat, light, a sofa or chair." Gwen looked around.

"Yeh your right didn't really notice! I've been waiting for the SUV to be delivered!"

"I'll go talk to Jack and apologize!" Gwen gave her a smile and nodded. She carefully walked up the metal walk way towards Jack's office. She paused at the door knocking on the glass; Jack looked up and waved her inside.

"I'm sorry Captain Harkness I didn't mean to be rude. I'm just tired of being bossed around especially as I left Gallifrey to be free and now I'm here."

"I know, I'm sorry but we can't risk you drawing attention to us."

"I understand also I don't expect you to trust me. I'll stick to your rules but you really need to help Gwen. She nearly burst into tears on me when I asked if the Hub had always been this unfinished." Jack looked at her.

"I know it's been very hard. Since…" she never expected that Jack would be speechless.

"It's alright, but I think this place needs cheering up. Now I know I've come in to coin your phrase all guns blazing! But as I'm alien and so by rule I'm Torchwoods surely there's some money in the budget for Gwen to go shopping." Jack looked at her with a smile.

"I think I can find some, we'll all go, in a few days!"

"Can I help with anything?" Jack looked at her.

"Are you any good with computers?"

"Yes, what's wrong with the system?"

"I can't seem to link all the security systems together."

"I'll take a look!" they headed down the stairs into the central atrium. He logged on to a computer and then went over to Gwen. Jack placed his hand on her back. She looked up at him with a small smile, before tears started to pour down her face. He hugged her tightly.

"I'm so sorry for leaving you Gwen." She shook her head.

"No it's alright I just never expected to see you again and what with everyone I started with gone…" she trailed off again. Jack kept hold of her. The Lieutenant kept her eyes on the screen, easily navigating through the computer, most of the network was up and running, she saw an icon she'd never seen before, she clicked it and an audio file opened.

"I really hope you never find this," a video opened up as well. Jack and Gwen looked over at her; they quickly came over when they saw the familiar jolly smiling face of Ianto Jones.

"Gwen, Jack if you have found this I am dead. I'm sorry for leaving you I loved Torchwood and both of you very much; I hope I died saving the world not just sat in the Archives or on the desk at reception. So you know I will be very pissed off if you mess up the Archives because I spent most of my time sorting out the mess you caused Jack. Also in the unlikely event of them being destroyed I hid them on an encrypted internet file, once you get the system up and running you should be able to access it. Please remember to feed the Cat if she's still around but don't worry about the fish they will be alright. To re-install the systems there's a box in the archives, location 34, shelf 7, box 11, just load them up one at a time and everything will work, Tosh burned them for me a while ago. So hope you're all well, and Jack I love you and don't blame yourself you saved me and I probably died doing what I loved. Oh and by the way the coffee machine might need replacing as I didn't write you instructions on how to use it and I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who knew how! Keep fighting and remember – Very. Pissed. Off!" the man on the screen smiled in a cheeky way and the video cut off.

Jacks eyes where brimmed with tears.


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