Owen's P.O.V

I grunted and rolled over, nearly falling off the small sofa that I was currently lying on. Jack had drawn up a rota for who was sleeping on the sofas when, coincidently leaving himself and Ianto off the list. I was certain that the two of them were curled up in bed together, and neither would be worried about not having enough room. I was hanging off the edge of one sofa and Gwen was splayed out on the other. This left poor old Tosh lying on the floor. Jack had supplied her with a pillow and two duvets but she looked immensely uncomfortable. She rolled over suddenly and her eyes flew open. She gasped at me before grinning.

"You scared me then. What are you doing?"

"About to fall off this sofa," I smiled at her. She was still half asleep and her eyes were heavy. Her hair was falling out from its ponytail and it looked like she had forgotten to take off her mascara last night.

"What time is it?" she yawned, sitting up slightly and pulling her hair free from its hold. I glanced down at the digital watch that I had fallen asleep wearing.

"Half 9," I muttered, yawning myself.

"We should probably get up," she said, shrugging off the duvet. I couldn't help but notice that she was wearing one of my t-shirts (that was much too big for her) and it had ridden up to give me a wonderful view of her legs. I stared at them for a few seconds, without being too obvious, before suddenly remembering that this was in fact Tosh that I was staring at. I turned away quickly and only looked back when she was standing up. The top was now resting just above her knees and it felt safe to look at her. She smiled shyly at me and offered me a hand to help me up.

"Thank," I muttered, grabbing hold of it. I stumbled up and felt a pain in my head. "Ow!" I placed a hand on the area that was throbbing. Suddenly the memories of the snowball fight came back to me and I remembered the heavy snowballs that had been flung at me.

"Well that's what you get for starting a snowball fight in the hub," she laughed at me.

"Um, excuse me! It was Ianto that started it."

"You let the snow in!" I simply shook my head at her and threw her the pair of jeans that were draped over the back of the sofa. "I believe these are yours." She caught them and held them up to her tiny waist.

"Yeah, they look a bit too small for you." As she grabbed the rest of her clothes and went to get changed, I realised that she had become much more confident around me. I didn't know what had caused the change but something had. Once she was all shy around me and seemed nervous to talk to me. Now she was laughing and joking with me. Maybe she was over her crush on me?

Suddenly a thought flew into my head that I didn't want there – 'How much would it suck if she was over her crush on me when I was getting one on her?' I shook my head and tried to stop thinking like that. I didn't fancy Tosh…I couldn't.

Ianto's P.O.V

I drummed my fingers on the meeting room table. Four of us were sat there feeling completely bored. It turned out, like we'd originally thought, that being stuck in the hub really wasn't that great. We'd had breakfast and even gone to the extent of actually doing some work. It said a lot when the Torchwood team reverted to work. I caught Jack's eye and he grinned at me. We'd spent the night together, hoping desperately that we didn't disturb the rest of the team. Thank god Jack's room was down that manhole.

I fingered the stopwatch that was resting in my right pocket. We'd been trying to find a time to slip away but we were going to have to wait until everyone else was distracted. Tosh was leaning on the table, her head resting on Owen's hoodie, and she was trying to fall asleep. Owen had taken to aiming small bits of paper at the wastepaper bin, and Gwen had gone to find something for us to do. I sighed, feeling immensely bored. At the moment however, the door opened and Gwen appeared, a grin on her face. Tosh jerked awake and Owen swore as she accidentally nudged him, causing his shot to miss the bin.

"I've found something for us to do," Gwen said, a triumphant tone in her voice. She looked like she had just come back from a long, dangerous trek to get us rations – not to find us something that would keep us entertained.

"What?" Jack asked. She pulled something out from behind her back, her grin getting wider. We all sat and stared at the dusty box with the faded lettering that was in her hand.

"I found it on top of the kitchen cupboards under a pile of papers."

"Why were you on top of the cupboards?" Jack asked continuing to stare at the game in her hand.

"Don't ask," she said, shaking her head. "So you guys want to play?"

"I don't think that's a good idea," Tosh ventured. We were all having vivid flashbacks to the last time we had played that game. It had not ended well at all. We'd last played over a year ago, long before Gwen arrived, and we'd put it up on the cupboards with a vow never to play again.

"Why ever not? Its just monopoly." Ah the time that we'd thought like that, before the vicious game.

"This scar," Owen said, pointing to small scar that was just above his left eyebrow, "was caused by Tosh and her little dog." Gwen merely stared at us confused.

"I had a bruise on my nose from where Owen hit me with his little car. It was there for a week," I chipped in.

"I lost a chunk of hair when Jack attacked me," Tosh said. "And Jack had a black eye from where Ianto hit him."

"I thought that we were never going to mention that again!" Jack muttered, sending her a dark look. I stifled a laugh when I remembered the hit I'd given him. He'd gone around for weeks, whining about how I'd ruined his looks. However I stopped the moment that he glared at me.

"You did all that from Monopoly?" We all nodded.

"We said we'd never play that again. We just get…"

"Vicious."

"Competitive."

"Mad."

"…Whenever we play. It's really not a good idea to play that with us…ever!" Tosh finished. We all winced as we remembered the last time we'd played. We'd started out fine, but we'd slowly become more competitive as the game went on. By the end of it we were all nursing injuries and made a vow not to touch it.

"Oh come on! I bet you're all just over exaggerating what happened. We've got nothing else to do so we're playing." She slammed the box down on the table sending particles of dust everywhere. She sat in the vacant seat next to me and yanked the lid off. We all sighed and accepted defeat. She was going to learn soon enough that you just don't play Monopoly with us.

She began to take all the pieces out and laid them out on the board.

"Who wants to be banker?"

"Not Ianto!" Jack suddenly yelled.

"Well maybe you shouldn't have tried to snatch the money from me. Then I wouldn't have had to hit you," I said raising my eyebrows at him. I let myself look at him for a moment longer than was necessary before turning back to the others.

"Fine. Tosh you can do it." She simply nodded and took the money off Gwen.

"Don't let Owen have the car," I muttered to her, loudly enough for him to hear.

"Yeah well don't let Toshiko have the dog either." She spun to look at him.

"I wouldn't have attacked you with it if you weren't taking my hotels away." I watched the two of them as they stared at each other for slightly too long. They could both deny it, but they both fancied each other. I shook my head slightly and caught Jack's eye.

'If I win, I get full control of the stopwatch,' he mouthed to me and I winked back at him. This game was going to get very interesting.

Gwen's P.O.V

It had been an hour since we'd started playing and I definitely knew why they had vowed never to play this again. I'd thought I was competitive when I played, but I didn't even come close to them. Jack had demanded Tosh stopped being banker and had taken on the role for himself. She'd refused at first and he'd hit her on the head with his little playing piece. Owen had laughed at her and she'd hit him so hard that he'd fallen off his chair. He now had a bruise on his arm and his hip apparently. He'd nearly made a comment about getting her to kiss it better, but the look she'd given him had shut him up. Ianto had slowly been messing with Jack's hotels and had also ended up making sure that he had gone to jail 3 times. Also at some point it had become strip monopoly. Every time you landed on a square that someone else owned, you had to remove a garment of clothing. I had lost my shoes, jeans and hoodie and Ianto had lost his shoes and suit. Tosh was still wearing her jeans and top but both Jack and Owen were wearing nothing but boxers. Somehow I had a feeling that we were never going to play this game again.

"Tosh just roll the bloody dice!" Jack shouted at her as their argument about whether he should be in jail or not, came to an end.

"Fine," she glared at him. She rolled a 5 and moved forward. She landed on Leicester Square and Owen grinned triumphantly.

"Firstly Sato, that's 30 please. Secondly you have to remove an item of clothing," he smirked. She sighed and handed him the three 10 notes and yanked off her top, revealing a very nice black lace bra. I tried not to laugh as I saw Owen's face, something that she hadn't noticed. He suddenly caught my eye and his face changed to its normal cocky expression.

"That was my square!" Ianto shouted suddenly, gesturing to where Jack had just landed. It seemed that Jack had landed on one of the squares Ianto owned. However, instead of taking off his boxers, he had moved Ianto's houses round and nicked the card.

"Well I have the card for it!" he winked.

"You cheated Jack," Tosh chipped in. Suddenly the whole thing seemed to escalate into a row with way too much shouting. Jack shoved his chair back and stood up, trying to look boss-like while only wearing his boxers.

"WE ARE NOT PLAYING ANYMORE!"

"I agree! Jack's just a big cheat!"

"Me! You just don't remember what you own and what you don't."

"I owned Piccadilly Circus!"

"I did!"

"He did!"

"Thank you!"

"Oh don't gang up on me!" I sighed and pulled my jeans back on, while Owen just sat there looking amused. However at that moment, Jack pushed Tosh backwards and she flung an arm out to steady herself. Sadly, instead of grabbing a chair, she hit Owen hard in the face.

"Ow! Shit!" He shouted. She stood up straight and turned to face him, apologising profusely. His nose was bleeding and he pinched the bridge to try and stop it from doing so.

"Lean your head back," Tosh muttered, trying to resolve the problem.

"Okay. Well we're definitely not playing anymore," Ianto announced, pulling on his suit jacket. As him and Jack put their clothes back on, and a half-dressed Tosh tried to deal with the near-naked Owen's nosebleed, I began to pack up the game. Now I was clear as to why Torchwood didn't play this game. They were violent and competitive. Oh and ruthless cheats. I sighed and grabbed the game to make my way back to the kitchen to put it back on top of the cupboards.

Tosh's P.O.V

Nearly two hours had passed since we'd finished playing the game. Owen was walking around grumbling about the fact that his nose now had a bruise on it. I'd already told him that I was sorry, but he now seemed to just be seeking attention. All of us were sat at our PCs, so bored that we had resorted to sorting out our old case files. Suddenly, as I gazed at the calendar that was on my desk, something hit me.

"You know, it's only three days until Christmas." The rest of the team turned to look at me.

"It can't be," Gwen muttered.

"We got snowed in here on the 20th and it's now the 22nd."

"We're going to be here for Christmas, I just know it," she said despondently. She was depressed because she'd tried to call Rhys earlier and it turned out that sometime yesterday, our phone lines had died. Thus she had no way of getting through to him.

"I've got an idea," I said. We needed something to cheer everyone up after that terrible game and also since we were all so depressed about being stuck here.

"What?"

"How about Secret Santa?" My idea was met with silence to begin with until Gwen and Ianto both grinned.

"Yeah! And since we'd only be able to use stuff in here, it would be more challenging," Ianto smiled. Gwen nodded and even Jack seemed to show a like for the idea.

"Secret Santa? Isn't that what you do in primary school?" Owen said, rolling his eyes at the idea. I spun around in my chair to face him and tried to not laugh at his moody face.

"No. It's something nice to do. We've not got anything to do anyway. It'll keep us busy and you'll get a present. Plus you get to give someone else one which is a nice thing." He appeared to consider the idea of giving a present, or more likely, receiving one.

"Fine."

The five of us collected on sofa and I grabbed a piece of paper and pen.

"Right. We've got to write everyone's name down and then pick one at random. You're not allowed to tell anyone who you've got because that's part of the surprise. Then tomorrow we'll exchange presents." Everyone nodded and I began to write the names down.

"So can we get them anything?" Owen asked and I nodded.

"But don't get them anything crappy," Gwen interjected.

"As if I would do that," he smirked and we all just rolled our eyes. I finished screwing up the scraps of paper and placed them on the table.

"Okay pick one. But if anyone gets themselves then we'll do it again." We grabbed a piece of paper of the table and opened them. There was silence as everyone read the name that I had written down.

"What do we do now?" Jack asked as he screwed the piece of paper back up and stuffed it in his pocket.

"Try and get them a present I guess." We nodded.

"Hold on wait. So we can get them anything we can find as long as it's decent?"

"Yep," Ianto replied.

"From anywhere in here?" he added.

"Yep." Then at the moment I had an idea. I stood up and noticed the others doing the same. The five of us began to make our way over to the tunnel that led to the small tourist shop. It sold a range of touristy items and gifts.

"Stop!" Jack suddenly shouted and we froze. "Nothing from the gift shop. It's got to come from the hub." I sighed, as did the others and we moved away. My brain frantically began to run through ideas of what I could buy. Gwen was the only other girl here but I didn't exactly know her that well. She was quite girly, I knew that much. Her and I were opposites and so everything that I liked, she wouldn't. She was really nice and I thought of her as a friend, it was just that we didn't have anything in common aside from this place. I sat down in my chair and sighed. Every idea that came into my head just wasn't suitable. What could I get her that she'd actually like? I wanted to get her something that she'd really like, not just pretend to.

Jack's P.O.V

Oh great, of all the people in the group, I had to get Owen. Owen Harper who was sarcastic, arrogant and immensely cocky. I couldn't imagine the team without him, and I wouldn't want to, but he was…he was a tricky person to buy for. He wouldn't appreciate anything that was bought for him and probably would complain about it. I had a sinking feeling that even if it was the best gift ever, he'd still complain so he could be annoying. I slowly made my way up to my office to try and find something that would at least partially please him.

Ianto's P.O.V

I wandered into the kitchen as I tried to find something that I could use for this Secret Santa. When Tosh had suggested it, I had thought that it was a great idea. However now I wasn't so sure. I began to rack my brains for exactly what I could buy for Jack. Just great, I had to get him. He was picky and would probably take the piss out of whatever I bought him. It couldn't be too intimate because that would just be plain weird. I could hardly give him something romantic in front of the team. What could I give him that was intimate and that showed I cared for him, but that wasn't too intimate? Oh and as a bonus, it had to be in the hub.

Gwen's P.O.V

Oh what the hell was I meant to get Ianto? Ianto was the quiet one who was always there helping us. He'd come out of his shell more but not enough so I'd know what he'd actually want. Jack could probably tell me but we weren't allowed to ask others for advice. I slumped down in my desk and tried to rack my brain for a suitable idea. Sadly everything that came into my head just sucked. I leant my head on the desk and tried to come up with some form of decent idea that I could actually use. What would Ianto want?

Owen's P.O.V

As I wandered down into the autopsy bay, I stared at the small piece of paper in my hand. There in her own slanted handwriting was Tosh's name. Fuck. It would have to be me that would get Tosh. It wasn't that I had a problem with her, quite the opposite. Just what was I supposed to get her. It had to be something that she'd really like, but more than that, it had to show I cared for her. But not in a way that was too obvious. I wanted to show her that I was starting to feel feelings that were more than friendly, but at the same time I didn't want to have to show her completely. Oh fuck.

A/N: Next chapter! Woot! The Secret Santa was an idea two of my friends and I came up with on the bus when I needed an idea of what to do in this chapter. We spent forever coming up with who would have who and exactly what they'd get each other. Next chapter will feature the exchange of the presents so you'll find out what everyone bought each other.

I wanted to do a little drabble for each of them at the end on who they're buying for. Since this fic features the TW team and how they work together, rather than them fighting aliens, I wanted to give a little insight into how they feel about each other. I get the impression that some are slightly closer than others e.g. I don't see Gwen and Ianto being that close.

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