A/N: Hiya, thank you all for the nice reviews. Here is another chapter for your entertainment. I don't own Torchwood, no matter how much I wish I did :/
Jack took Gwen down to their room in the hub and on the bed was something for her.
"I got it for you as a gift to say sorry. I will wait out here until you are ready. Don't take too long kitten, we are double dating tonight!" he said as she picked up the dress and went into the secret room that they had. Gwen opened the bag to the dress and saw the most amazing red dress she had ever seen in her life. It went all the way down to the ground and had spaghetti straps. Gwen took off her clothes and slid it on, the dress hugged her in all of the right places and it felt like a second skin to her. She put up her hair and quickly applied some make-up. She was putting in her earrings when a knock came on the door.
"I'm coming in if you are decent or not!" Jack said as the door opened. He stopped as he looked at Gwen as she stood up, he had never seen her so elegant and sexy in his life. She looked up to him and saw him shocked and walked over to him.
"Well, Captain Jack Harkness stuck for words!" she said to him. He stood there, shook his head as if to break a connection and smiled. He held out his arm and she hooked hers into it and they walked out of the hub.
The Doctor and Rose were standing outside of the TARDIS waiting for them. Rose was dressed also as elegantly as Gwen and both men wore a tux. Gwen went up to Rose as they compared dresses and the Doctor was able to talk to Gwen.
"How is she?" he asked Jack.
"She seems fine, but something has changed in her since the trip she went on." Jack said sarcastically. The Doctor nodded to him.
"We need to talk about her, she is the key Jack, but if she isn't going to do…" the Doctor stopped in mid sentence as the girls came up to them.
"So boys, you got us so dressed up, where are we going?" Rose asked them. The Doctor reached into his pocket and pulled out four tickets. Rose and Gwen took one and looked at them.
"And you plan to take us to a formal banquet!" Gwen said as she handed back the ticket. The Doctor opened the door to the TARDIS and signaled for them to enter. All of them went in and the Doctor began to start the machine. After a bumpy ride, the TARDIS came to a stop. The Doctor smiled at them all as Gwen rushed to the door and opened it. She stepped out into a hall and saw a lot of people stare at her. Jack followed her as he looked around the hall. He pulled out a ticket from his pocket and read it. He sighed; so many people would be here to represent their planets at this banquet. The Doctor and Rose came out and a person came up and talked to the Doctor.
"You can't park this here!" it said to him.
"Then move it, but take care the paint is starting to wear off!" he said as he walked off, leaving the person to take care of the TARDIS. The Doctor showed the host the tickets and they were announced in the hall. Gwen looked around the hall, it was half sheltered and half open onto the planet, overlooking the bright blue moon in the sky. She looked up at Jack who was taking everything in his stride as it was something normal to him.
"Welcome back Captain Jack Harkness." Someone said to him.
"Commander, it is an honor to see you!" Jack said as he let go of Gwen's arm and saluted.
"I take it the problem is taken care of now with the Enshi?" he asked Jack.
"Of course commander, everything is back to normal on Earth!" he said as he watched the commander's gaze go across to Gwen. "Excuse my rudeness, please allow me to introduce Gwen Cooper, she is a member of my team." Jack said as the commander extended his arm to Gwen. Gwen took it and curtsied.
"A pleasure to meet you commander!" she said as she lifted her head again. The commander was looking at her necklace.
"Paid a visit to the planet Gia I see." He said and she nodded. "So I assume that the Doctor is here too?" he asked Jack.
"'course I am!" The Doctor said from behind Jack. "Nice to see ya!" he said as he shook the commander's hand. The commander looked at the Doctor and sighed.
"Always a pleasure I guess." He said as Gwen looked around at the other guests and saw a familiar face. She smiled and excused herself from Jack and the commander and walked over.
"Zara, bless the stars!" Gwen said to the person from behind. Zara turned and took Gwen into her arms and embraced her. Gwen looked down and saw Crystal who curtsied at Gwen. Both were dressed in dresses made of gold, highlighting their red hair.
"I need to talk to you both, in secret if we can?" Gwen asked. They both nodded and Zara led them outside. Once away from the laughter of the party, they sat down on the chairs that Crystal created for them. "I found out that I am a quarter Giaian. I need to know how and why has no one told me." She said to them.
"Did you not open your present?" Zara asked her, Gwen shook her head, she forgot about it at the hub. "In there is something that will enhance your powers and you need to take it with you. It belonged to your great grandmother when she was starting to use her powers." She explained to Gwen.
"Who is she, can I meet her? Is she still alive? What about my grandmother what happened to her?" she was interrupted to Zara's hushing.
"Too many questions and not enough time to answer them all. Let me tell you this, your grandmother died on Earth as she established to the form of being human. We live longer than normal when we stay on our home planet, and we appear younger than you think. I have always waited for this day; I could not believe that the line died out on Earth, my great grand daughter!" Zara said as she embraced Gwen in her arms. Gwen sat there shocked until it finally registered, this was her great grandmother! Zara let go and Gwen sat, still in shock. "I know it is a lot to understand, and I could not tell you at the beginning, until you passed the trail. Who else knows?" she asked.
"Just me!" she heard a voice and turned to see the Doctor. Zara stood up and bowed at the Doctor. He went over and took Gwen by the hand and helped her up. Gwen looked at the Doctor and then back at Zara.
"She should return to us." Zara said.
"You know her role on Earth as much as I do, she will come home once a month to visit for a day, if Jack allows, but that will be in her time to explain it to him. In the meantime, let's go in and enjoy the banquet!" The Doctor said as he offered his arm to Zara. Gwen bent down and offered her hand to Crystal.
"So I guess this means that we are related?" Crystal asked. Gwen nodded.
"But not a word at the moment, not until I can explain to Jack who I really am!" she said to Crystal and the child nodded.
The Doctor led her back to Jack who was still talking to the commander. Once Gwen was back with them, she let go of the little child's hand, spoke to her in Giaian and the child went after the Doctor and Zara. Jack turned to her and looked at her.
"I saw some old friends." She said to Jack as he took her arm in his.
"Shall we join the banquet?" he asked, she nodded.
"Please, commander, after you." Gwen said as Jack led her aside. Gwen let her arm out of Jack's arm and went to talk to the commander. "So, may I ask where you are based?" she said. Jack came up beside her and put his hand in hers.
"Now Gwen, don't speak out of turn!" he warned her.
"No, Jack it is fine. I am not based on Earth as you more than likely knew, but I am afraid that I can not tell you the location, only Torchwood leaders can know, like your friend Jack here!" he said, and she blushed.
"I am sorry commander; I didn't mean to speak out of turn as Jack said." She explained.
"It's okay Gwen, I have heard that you are somewhat special too though, I mean the link with the Enshi must have been some toll on you. What have you been doing since?" he asked her as they sat down.
"I spent some time in Gia as you guessed by the necklace and made some amazing friends and learnt so much." She said, Jack was not sure if he wanted Gwen to tell the commander about all of her powers. "I have learnt how to control certain… abilities." She said as she looked at Jack. She didn't want to reveal everything to this stranger.
"Well, as long as you are back to normal after everything that happened." He said.
"Yes, the people at Gia helped relieve me of that experience!" she said as food began to arrive. She looked around for Rose and the Doctor and saw them over a few tables to the left of them, in conversation with some other beings that Gwen had never seen before. She smiled at them and turned her attention back to Jack who was talking to the commander about some boring things.
Gwen started to daydream when she heard a voice say in her ear "boring isn't it?" she turned and smiled at the person sitting next to her. "It is all politics and politeness; we meet once a year for a grand banquet and talk about things and negotiations with other races while we are here." He continued to say. "I am sorry, where are my manners, my name is Squid, like the creature from your planet." He said as he extended his hand. Gwen took it and shook it.
"My name is Gwen, pleased to meet you." She said to him.
"So, what are you doing here then?" he asked her.
"I am here as Captain Jack Harkness' escort so to speak." She said as she turned and pointed at Jack who was still talking to the commander.
"Ah, the Time Agent. Haven't seen him in a long time, where is he now?" he asked.
"We are from Earth, we work together." She said, not wanting to give away too much information. The man just nodded. "And yourself, where are you from?" she asked.
"I am from one of the moons of Saturn and have traveled here to see friends and like most politicians make treaties and alliances with other planets." He said to her as she turned back to her food.
Gwen didn't know what to make of all of the different people around her. Once she had finished eating, she went to search for the Doctor and Rose, only to see them giggling with someone else. Not wanting to disturb them, she went up to the bar and ordered a drink. She looked over the vast hall and saw loads of people and aliens alike talking to each other; she couldn't help but think that somehow, she belonged here. She felt someone pull on her dress and she looked down and saw Crystal.
"Did you tell him yet?" she asked as Gwen picked her up and put her on the chair next to her as she was too little to climb.
"No, he is always busy talking about work." Gwen said to the little girl as she watched her play with a purple flame of fire. "Put that out! What would your mum say?" Gwen said as she waved her hand over the flame and extinguished it. Crystal pouted at Gwen as she relit the fire and Gwen once again waved it out. "Do it again, and I will freeze your hand next time!" Gwen said with a smile on her face to the child. Crystal automatically pulled her hand away and smiled at Gwen. Gwen turned and saw Jack coming up to her. "Remember, not a word little one!" Gwen said as Jack put his arm around her.
"There you are kitten!" he said. Jack looked down at Crystal "always a pleasure little one, where is you mother?" he asked.
"Somewhere around! I better go and find her!" she said as she kissed Gwen on the cheek and jumped down. "See you soon!" she said as she walked away. Jack pulled Gwen in and kissed her on the cheek.
"Sorry about all of the work stuff, how are you doing?" he asked her as he took her arm and led her to the dance floor.
"Fine, was able to meet some interesting people, learnt some nice things!" she said as the music played and they danced.
Gwen allowed her head to rest on Jack's shoulder. She looked around and saw the Doctor dancing with Rose who also had her head on his shoulder. She smiled and closed her eyes, allowing Jack to lead her around the dance floor.
"Jack, what is the Torchwood procedure for aliens, I mean friendly ones, are they locked away or allowed to be free on our planet?" she asked him as she lifted her head from his shoulder.
"We allow them to live among humans if they can, track them on case anything happens to them for medical reasons, especially if they are using a cloaking device. Otherwise we help them get home safely."
"What about ones who look like humans already? Looking around, many of the people here already have human form, maybe something different but not visible to human eye."
"We still track them in case they need us, they know where we are, well the ones we can find. There are always some who we can not identify."
"Hmmm." She said as she put her head back on his shoulder. Jack knew that something was wrong and he took Gwen off the dance floor and outside.
"Okay, what is going on? Why all of a sudden interest in Torchwood alien procedures? You know most of them already, but the ones you were asking today isn't something that normal Torchwood members know." He asked her as she looked up to the moon.
"Jack, I love you no matter what, and I hope that you love me too!" she said to him. Jack went up to her and hugged her.
"Of course kitten, no matter what happens I am always here for you and will do anything to keep you here forever with me if I could…" he said to her, Gwen let out a loud sigh before lifting her head up and kissing him passionately. Jack let out a small moan as he pulled her closer and pushed his tongue in to probe her mouth. Gwen allowed Jack to explore her mouth with his tongue and melted in his arms. After a few minutes, she pulled away, both of them breathless from the kiss.
"Jack" she whispered "I know why I can do the things I can do, I know who I really am now." She said to him. Jack pulled her to look at her face.
"Tell me, I want to know, I need to know!" he said to her.
"I am a quarter Giaian, I am not sure what happened, but my grandmother came to Earth and stayed. I wanted to know what you would do with me before I told you, so that was why I was so interested in all of the procedures." She said to him. Jack looked at her in the eyes I am not kidding, I just found out today. She said to him in his head. Jack smiled at her.
"I knew you were special, you always were! It's perfect, this is supposed to happen, and we are supposed to be together, its destiny!" he said as he pulled her closer to him.
Gwen breathed a sigh of relieve, glad that Jack was okay with everything and didn't want to do anything to her. "We can't tell the team, I am not sure how they would react to me after they find out…" she left it trailing off.
"They wouldn't treat you any different kitten. I mean, they work for me and you know that I am not exactly from this time." He said to her. "I am so happy that we know why and how you can do these things! I love you so much and I promise that I won't let you go!" he said as he hugged her tighter.
"I am so happy to see your affection for her Jack, but there is one thing that we must ask of you." A voice said from behind them. Jack turned and saw Zara as Gwen bowed low. Crystal ran up to Jack and held out her hands.
"Up please!" she said as Jack bent down and picked her up. "Better view from here!" the child said and Jack smiled. Zara went up to Gwen and put her hand under her chin lifting up her face.
"You have done well. You know who your family are and have found someone who will protect you and love you until the last breathe leaves him." Jack snorted at this remark.
"Not possible your highness!" Jack said to her. Crystal slapped his face playfully.
"Why?" the child ask.
"I can never die!" he said to the child "a result of being bought back to life by the TARDIS." He explained. Zara stood up and held out her hand to Gwen. She took it and stood up from where she was. Zara smiled at Jack.
"Then you will love this news, neither can Gwen!" she said to him, Gwen pulled away in surprise and nearly tripped over her dress.
"Excuse me, did you just say that I can never die?" she asked Zara. Crystal was clapping her hands at Gwen's reaction and turned to look at Jack's face, whose mouth was wide open.
"Close your mouth, otherwise the files will come, and trust me, not from this planet!" Crystal said as she lifted Jack's jaw up to close his mouth. Jack looked at the child and then at Zara.
"What's the catch?" he asked her.
"All I ask is that Gwen comes back to our planet one day a month to absorb the sunlight that gives us this gift. As she is quarter Giaian and passed the test, this is possible and will prolong her life. She already has healing capabilities with her powers; however they are not strong enough for fatal wounds unless she does this one thing." Zara explained to them both. Crystal clapped her hands, happy that she would always be able to see Gwen. "There is another thing that I ask of you." Zara said to Jack.
"Name it, I have no idea how I can repay you for all of this news that you have given me!" he said to her.
"I want you to take Crystal back with you. She has been dying to see the planet and I am sure that she would love to spend time on Earth until Gwen comes at the end of this month." Zara said. Crystal looked shocked and screamed. Jack closed his eyes, wishing that he could close his ear drums too.
"Sure, sure fine! Anything to stop this thing from screaming!" he shouted and Crystal automatically stopped. Crystal wiggled out of Jack's grasp and went over to Zara and hugged her.
"Thank you mother!" the child said as Gwen went over to Jack. He put his arm around her and she smiled.
"Well, I have to be going home now, Crystal, be a good girl for Gwen and Jack, I am sure that they will show you everything!" she said. Crystal and Gwen both bowed at Zara and Jack saluted to her as she disappeared into the night.
Gwen kissed Jack lightly on the lips and went up to Crystal and took her hand.
"Come on we have to go find our other friends and go back too." Gwen said as they went in search of the Doctor and Rose. Once they found them, the Doctor looked at Crystal.
"We making a stop off at Gia for you then little one!" he said to her. Crystal pouted.
"No, I am allowed to go back to Earth until Gwen has to go back to Gia for the day!" she said to him, the Doctor looked at Gwen and she nodded. He smiled as he opened the door to the TARDIS and they all went in.
"So, who in here is actually human?" he asked, and Rose raised her hand. She saw that Gwen did not and looked at her.
"Not completely, I found out today." She said to Rose, and she smiled.
"So that is why everything happens to you!" Rose said and Gwen laughed.
"Wow, seen a TARDIS, but never been in one!" Crystal said as she looked around. Rose smiled.
"Well, please allow me to give you the grand tour, you too Gwen!" she said as she reached down and picked up the child and Gwen followed leaving the Doctor and Jack alone.
"So, she is part alien. How did you take it?" the Doctor asked Jack as they powered up the TARDIS.
"So much better than you expected. It was as if I was supposed to find her, supposed to love her, and now with everything that has happened to her and everything that is happening to her, I can not be anymore happier. I no longer feel empty, she finally fills the void and will do for the rest of our lives!" he said as he helped the Doctor power up the TARDIS. "How does it feel with Rose?" he asked.
"Like we were made for each other, but unlike her, I can regenerate, I know that one day, I will lose her and then what I am supposed to do? Move on, find another companion, but there will never be another Rose, no one to fill my void." He said as they heard their footsteps coming back.
"Ready to go?" Rose asked them, the Doctor smiled at her and flipped the lever as the TARDIS started to move.
Cardiff was something that Crystal never dreamed of. When they let her out of the TARDIS, she looked over the bay and saw the water and sky, just as the sun was coming up.
"Only one sun?" she said to Jack, who had to laugh.
"Get used to it kid, now, let's get some sleep. I always hated banquets like that, but we had to go!" he said as he picked up the sleepy child and took Gwen's hand. They said goodnight to the Doctor and Rose and headed to the hub. Jack looked at the child in his arms; she was beginning to fall asleep.
"Where are we supposed to let her sleep?" he asked.
"Can she not sleep with us?" Gwen asked Jack, he smiled and nodded.
"But don't get used to it, it's only until we get a guest bed, I fear that she will be visiting us more often!" he said as the doors to the hub opened. They walked to their room and put the child on the bed and covered her with the blanket. Once that was done, Jack looked at Gwen. She was so beautiful in the dress and his minds started to think of things he wanted to do to her. She was looking in her bag that they had bought back from Gia as he came up behind her and put his arms around her waist.
"Have I told you how sexy you look in that dress." He growled in her ear, Gwen smiled.
"Not in front of the child!" she said as she faced him and kissed him on the lips.
"Then don't tease me that way!" he said to her as she turned back to the bag and found what she was looking for, the present. She took it out and put it on the table. She knew what was in there, but she had no idea what it looked like. She opened it, and saw a bracelet with a small teardrop shaped crystal on it. She picked it up and the crystal instantly changed colour in her hands. She put it on her wrist and watched as the crystal continued to change colour. She turned to Jack and went up to him. "Would you mind?" she asked as she pointed to the zipper on her dress. Jack smiled as he undid the dress and watched it fall to the ground. Jack took in the image of her nearly naked body and touched her soft skin. She shivered at his touch and reached for her t-shirt and slid it on. "I'm sorry, but I am tired, and now we have a child in the room. I better get some sleep!" she said as she kissed Jack on the lips. He took her in his arms and laid her on the bed next to Crystal. He covered her with the blanket and she fell into a dreamless sleep, happy to finally be home.
"Do you ever sleep?" Jack turned and saw Crystal looking at him as he was on his computer. The child came up to him and he picked her up and sat her on his knee.
"Nope, gotta be ready, gotta be alert at all times." He said to her. "Where's Gwen?" he asked.
"Sleeping still. So what is this place?" she asked. Jack smiled.
"This is where we work." Jack said to the child
"And where you live too!" the child stated.
"Like I said, someone has to be ready at all times." Jack said as he locked his computer. "Would you like me to show you around?" he asked her, the child nodded and jumped down from Jack's knee. Jack held out her hand and she took it and he started to give her the tour of the hub. Gwen awoke and saw that Crystal was not there. She put on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt and went to find her. She saw Jack and Crystal in the medical bay. She smiled as Jack showed the child around the hub. She went down to them and Jack came up and kissed her. "Morning, did you sleep well?" he said to her, she nodded. Crystal came skipping up to them and pulled on Gwen's jeans.
"I haven't got any clothes apart from my dress!" she said to her. Gwen bent down and smiled at the child.
"Well then, I think its time we spent some of Uncle Jack's money!" she said as she looked up at Jack and smiled. He sighed and rolled his eyes as he went to his coat to get them some money. "And on the way, let's got and get Rose, I am sure that she would love to join us!" she said as Jack came down and gave Gwen some money.
"That is coming out of your pay!" he said to her, she waved her hand dismissively, as her and Crystal left the hub to wake up Rose.
The three girls wandered around town, taking Crystal into all of the different shops to find clothes for her. Crystal was so amazed by all of the new things that Gwen had to remind her constantly not to wander away from her and also not to use her abilities in public. "Why?" the child asked her.
"People on this planet would not understand what is happening, so it is better not to." Gwen had explained to the child as they continued walking down the high street. Once all of the money that Jack had given her was gone, she went to a cash machine and got some of her own money out and they went to lunch. Crystal wanted to try all of the foods possible, but Gwen wouldn't allow her to, finally she chose a small restaurant near the river. Gwen remembered this place; it was one where the team went to when she started working at Torchwood. She smiled as they went in and ate.
Jack looked up as the hub doors opened and saw the three girls walk in. Crystal stopped as she saw that there were more people there and hid behind Gwen. Gwen, who was laughing with Rose looked up and saw all of her friends and work mates and saw the reaction from Crystal.
"Its okay, they are my friends." Gwen said to the child who was still hiding behind her.
"What if they don't like me?" she asked.
"They will, now come on and show them how pretty you are!" Gwen said as she took Crystal's hand and walked with her into the hub. The first person to come up to them was Ianto.
"May I take those for you Gwen?" he asked, she smiled and nodded as she gave him the bags.
"There is something in there for the team." She said as she pointed to one of them, Ianto smiled as he looked at the name on the bag. "And this is Crystal. She has come to stay with us for a while. Crystal, this is Ianto, he looks after us, makes sure we don't make a mess and gets us to places on time." Gwen said, Ianto laughed.
"I try my best to. Nice to meet you Crystal, would you like some juice?" he asked her, she nodded and Ianto left them to attend to the things Gwen gave him. Gwen saw Owen in the medical bay; he had just come up the stairs to see what was going on. "This is Dr. Owen Harper. He fixes us when we get hurt." Gwen said to her as Owen bent down and shook the girl's hand. Crystal blushed as Owen pulled out a lollypop from his pocket for her. She took it and ran and hid behind Gwen again. Owen stood up and gave Gwen another lollypop too. "You are such a charmer!" Gwen said as she took the lollypop from Owen. He went back down into the medical bay and continued examining something that Gwen did not recognize. She went up to Tosh who was at her computer. "And this is Tosh; she is a computer genius and can get us access to anything and everything!" Gwen said as Tosh blushed slightly.
"Wouldn't say everything, but I do try!" she said as she bent down to the child. She smiled at her and Crystal put her now sticky hand on her face.
"You're pretty!" she said and ran off up the stairs to where the Doctor, Jack and Rose were.
Gwen looked up at the child who was now levitating balls to the Doctor and laughing at him. She smiled and then turned back to Tosh.
"So, what's the deal with baby sitting?" she asked.
"It's a favor for someone." Gwen said.
"Well. She isn't exactly human, I mean she can do what you can and she looks like a child, but I can tell that she is older than she appears." Tosh commented to Gwen, who nodded in agreement. Gwen smiled at Tosh and walked over to where Ianto was preparing drinks for everyone.
"I wasn't sure what Crystal would like, so I just poured her some lemonade." He said to Gwen, she nodded.
"I am sure she will like it as it is something that she has never tried before." She said as she took a tray from Ianto that had the drinks on and he took the tray with the cakes and sweets that Gwen had got. They put them on the table as Ianto went up to the conference room to tell them that everything was ready. Gwen went to get Tosh and then to Owen. She went down into the medical bay to see what he was working on.
"It happened while you were away in Gia, another Weevil attack. If we could find them all…" he said to her.
"And then what? Lock them all in the cells? There is no way of finding out how many of them are out there!" She said to him, he sighed and nodded in agreement. "Come on and have some cake with us." She said as she went up the stairs, quickly followed by Owen. They sat down on the sofa and Crystal went and sat on Jack's knee. "Looks like someone likes you!" Gwen said as the little girl turned a deep purple. She reached over for a coffee, but Jack put it down.
"Not that one, this one is for you." He said as he handed her the glass of lemonade that Ianto had poured for her. She looked at the bubbles as they went up the glass and sniffed it. "Try it, you will like it!" Jack said as he took his own coffee. Crystal drank a mouthful and laughed as the bubbles popped in her mouth. After this, she drank the whole glass and put it on the table and reached over for a cake. She looked into Jack's cup.
"What's that?" she asked him.
"Not sure if you would like this, it's called coffee and it's more for adults, and a person of your size… it could make you go hyper, so I am not going to risk it!" he said as he pushed the coffee away from her. Crystal pouted as she looked over at the people she had met.
"So what do you do here?" she said to them all.
"At the moment, nothing!" Owen said and Jack threw him an evil look. "Well, it's true, the rift has been somewhat quiet and only the one more weevil attack…" he said, Gwen suddenly woke up from her daydream.
"Rhys! I completely forgot about him!" she said as she put down her coffee and grabbed her keys and ran out of the hub. She started her car and made her way to the hospital.
She looked into the room and saw Rhys sitting up and someone else was with him. She knocked on the door and entered.
"Gwen, there you are! I have been trying to get hold of you but your phone said it was turned off." He said to her, she smiled.
"Sorry, I have been out of town." She said as she put the flowers she had bought in a vase. "These are for you." She stated. Rhys looked at her.
"Oh, sorry, Gwen, this is Tasha, Tasha, this is Gwen." He said as Tasha stood up and shook Gwen's hand.
"Nice to finally meet you." She said and Gwen smiled at her. Gwen pulled up a chair and sat at the other side of Rhys.
"So, you feeling better I see." Gwen said.
"Yes, I should be discharged in the morning. Met some of your workmates as they questioned me about the attack. I didn't see you, I wasn't sure if you were avoiding me after all of the things that have happened. None of them would tell me where you were, just said that the information was classified." He said to her and she smiled. "That Captain Jack Harkness really knows how to make a person feel welcome!" he said to her.
"That's just Jack, he has been going through a rough time with me being away and stuff." She said as she heard the door open. She turned around and saw Crystal popping her head through the door.
"What are you doing here?" Gwen asked. "And how… no actually, I know how you got here young lady so don't tell us!" Gwen said as she scolded the little girl.
"I'm sorry, but Uncle Jack was worried and I just…" she said as she snapped her fingers. Gwen felt her phone vibrating and she reached into her pocket and answered it.
"Hello. Yes she is here. I know, I'm sorry didn't expect her to do that. No, I'm fine, just paying Rhys a visit. Yes, of course, I will be back with her in a few minutes." She said as she hung up the phone. Crystal had gone up to Rhys and sat on the bed.
"Why doesn't Owen make you better?" she asked him.
"I have other doctors who made me better." Rhys said to her. Gwen went over and took Crystal by the waist and picked her up.
"Just like that, you worried Uncle Jack little one!" she said to her. "Come on, lets go home, say bye to Rhys and hope that he gets better soon!" she said. Crystal waved goodbye as Gwen left the room.