Chapter 3

"Rise and shine ladies," Jack called through the door the next morning.

"Shove off Jack," Gwen moaned from under her pillow and Tosh murmured an agreement.

"I'd love to, but breakfast is being served and then we need to go to the Mansion," Jack replied.

Gwen groaned but a minute later Jack heard a clunk and worried that she had fallen out of bed, she went to the door and opened it, "Alright…we'll meet you downstairs," she said.

Jack was a bit taken a back by Gwen's sudden appearance but he smiled anyways, "Alright…I look forward to it," he said.

Gwen then closed the door behind her and went into the bathroom where she proceeded to scrub her face clean.

XX

"Can I just have a cup of coffee?" Jack asked the woman who was serving breakfast. It was the same woman from last night and he had since learned that her last name was Cobb and everyone was calling her Mrs Cobb.

"Are you sure, love? Just a cup of coffee?" she asked.

Jack nodded.

"What about you dear?" she asked Owen.

"Nothing for me thanks," he answered.

Mrs Cobb frowned and made tsk-ing noises as she walked off.

A moment later Gwen came downstairs, followed by Tosh who had her nose in her PDA.

"Nothing exciting since yesterday morning has happened back home. Janet escaped but Ianto caught her rather quickly," she said as she sat down at the table next to Owen.

"Well at least Ianto is keeping busy," Jack commented.

Just then Mrs Cobb came back with Jack's coffee, "Oh good morning dears, what can I get for you?" she asked.

"Can I have a cup of coffee and some beans on toast or something?" Gwen asked.

"Of course love, and how about you?" Mrs Cobb looked at Tosh.

"Same thing please," she said.

"Alright I'll be right back," the older woman smiled and hurried off.

Gwen noticed Jack grimace as he took a sip of the coffee, "Is it that bad?" she inquired.

"I think Ianto has spoiled us, that's all," he answered.

Gwen smiled.

"So Owen we decided last night that if we can solve the problem with the rift quickly enough, were gonna stay till the first," Jack informed Owen as he took another sip of his coffee.

"What do you mean were staying till the first?" Owen spat.

"Well…the girls want to see Scottish tradition. I called Ianto last night and he's fine with it, so were staying. If you don't like it then you can always go back to Cardiff after the rift deal is taken care of," he explained.

Owen muttered a swear, but said nothing more about it the rest of the meal.

After Gwen and Tosh finished eating, the team left a tip and then went outside to where the truck was parked. They climbed in and drove up the hill to the Torchwood estate.

"That is amazing, and this is the Torchwood base? Why can't we have a cool place like this?" she asked.

"History lesson for you three," Jack began, "Torchwood was created in Eighteen-Seventy Nine by Queen Victoria in the hopes of protecting her kingdom from the alien invasion," Jack finished making sure the team were listening.

"How did she discover the existence of aliens?" Gwen asked.

"My good old friend the Doctor is to be thanked for that…and for all of you sitting here right now," he answered.

"If we ever meet the Doctor…remind me to give him a piece of my mind," Owen said, but a smile was on his face.

"So what was the alien she encountered?" Tosh asked.

"Well it wasn't exactly an alien, but a werewolf. But she learned that night of the other supernatural beings, which includes of course aliens. She decided that fateful night that the Torchwood institute would be created. The name of Torchwood came from the name of the mansion. That there is a rough telling of how Torchwood came about," Jack finished explaining and by this time he was parking the car.

The doors of the house opened and a middle aged man walked out with a woman who looked like she was a teenager.

Jack, Owen, Gwen, and Tosh climbed out of the SUV.

"Dad, their team is so much larger than ours," the girl whispered.

"You must be Torchwood Three," Mr Stabilo said, smiling as he walked over to shake Jack's hand.

"Yes, my name is Captain Jack Harkness. This is Doctor Owen Harper, Gwen Cooper, our liaison with the Police and Toshiko Sato…our resident genius. We would have brought Ianto Jones…who is pretty much our coffee boy, but we needed to leave someone back home to monitor things there," Jack introduced the team and smiled back at the people who worked for Torchwood Two.

"It's very nice to meet you all, my name is Matthew Stabilo, and this is my daughter Marilyn. She is our computer genius as well," he said, smiling proudly.

"How old are you Marilyn?" Gwen inquired with a smile.

"Twenty three," she answered.

"You look much younger," Tosh commented.

"So how about we get inside and you can tell us more about this rift," Owen suggested.

"Yes of course, follow me," Matthew said.

The team followed the father and daughter into the large mansion and a moment later they were seated in a conference room of sorts, Gwen couldn't help but think it was the old dining room.

"So we noticed…well rather I noticed the other day on my laptop a series of higher intake of alien activity, just down by the monastery. I'm sure you know the story about that to begin with," Marilyn smiled at Jack and he smiled back, "That's were the monks found the werewolf, yes," he said.

"Well I put up some monitors on the area and it seems to be some sort of rift. We know a little bit about your own rift and we figured that you could come up here and investigate it. It is probably nothing but we just want to make sure," Marilyn finished explaining.

"Yeah we don't mind. We've all agreed that if it is nothing more than another rift in Time and Space…or something that has somehow made it up here from ours, then we can give you the tech for our own Rift Monitoring programme and you can put it on your computer. We have a Rift Manipulator but we don't suggest you build one. It's given us enough trouble in the past," Jack explained.

"That would be fantastic," Mr Stabilo said, smiling.

"In the mean time, if the Rift is becoming active…it is probably best if you get yourself a bigger team. We can't come up here every time you have a problem…even if Torchwood Four is missing," Jack said, smiling slightly.

"Oh it's still missing?" Gwen asked, laughing slightly.

"Yeah it is," he answered, laughing as well.

"Alright yes well until the Rift incident that is what we have been working on," Marilyn said.

"Okay we'll go and check this out and see what's going on with it," Owen said next.

"We'll see you lot in a bit," Gwen said.

Torchwood Three then turned and left the mansion, they climbed into their truck and drove to where this rift was.

"We've all been right, it's nothing harmful for now," Tosh said about fifteen minutes later, her Rift Monitor in her hands.

"You sure about that?" Owen asked.

"Yeah positive, I can go back to the Mansion between now and when we leave and help Marilyn out with the programme. It's nothing they can't handle themselves," she answered.

"Just the two of them?" Gwen asked an eyebrow rose.

"Yeah they'll be fine," Tosh replied, confident.

"Well then lets get back to the hotel and maybe we can go exploring," Jack offered.

Everyone murmured an agreement and they climbed back into the SUV.

"Captain Harkness, just the person I needed to see!"

Jack raised an eyebrow as the team walked into the hotel lobby and Mrs Cobb came at them.

"How can I be of assistance?"

"We had a patron leave just this morning, if one of your friends wants to leave the room their in, I've held it just for you," she explained with a smile.

"I'll take it!" Owen said.

Mrs Cobb grinned, "I've changed the sheets and cleaned up, so it's ready to be moved into and as a little treat since we had the mix up, the room is on us," she said.

"Oh we can't do that," Gwen offered quickly.

"No love honest, business has been very good this season because of all the tourists here for the celebrations, so it's the least we can do," Mrs Cobb replied.

"Well thank you very much ma'am," Jack said.

He turned to Owen, "Go and get your stuff out of MY room and go with Mrs Cobb to your new room," Jack said, grinning like a banshee.

Gwen smiled, "You're quite happy aren't you?" she said to Jack.

He nodded then leaned down to whisper in her ear, "He snores."

"Yes…I know," she replied.

Jack shrugged then followed Owen up to the room.

Gwen and Tosh followed their leader and then went into their own room.

The girls changed into some more comfortable gear, ready to explore and have some fun for once in their long careers as Torchwood employees…

XX

A/N- I really wanted to do loads more with this chapter, but I can't bring myself to focus. I'm going to try to wrap this whole thing up with chapter four….if I can't get it finished before I leave around 2-ish tomorrow, I'll save what I have, put it on a flashdrive, and see about working on it at Rosas…but I can't promise anything.

I also would love to do more tonight, but I have got to get packed for tomorrow so I have time when I get home from church to work on chapter four. I love you loads and thank you for the reviews I've gotten so far!

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