Four and a half months. Four and a half months since the day Lily Morgan wandered into Torchwood. Six months since the Battle of Canary Wharf. Six months since Lily watched Ianto Jones lose everything. He told her, when she came back, when she found him again, that Lisa Hallet had died. He told her the Cybermen were gone and she was safe. Four and a half months ago, Ianto Jones lied to her.

Lily had an addictive personality. While she was strange, even scary at times, the team never seemed to get enough of her. Jack and Ianto never spoke of the night with the Weevils. Tosh, Owen, and Gwen had no idea what Lily had done and Jack wanted to keep it that way. He was afraid of how Lily would cope if someone mentioned it, if they started acting strange around her. Lily had been embraced by the team, particularly Toshiko and Owen, in a way Jack had never seen. Gwen was new to the team as well but there was a different dynamic. Owen and Toshiko looked at Lily different, Owen especially.

There was a striking difference between Lily and Ianto. Ianto preferred to remain in the background, making the coffee, cleaning things up. He preferred not to be seen. Lily on the other hand loved being right there in the middle. She would sit for hours and watch Owen during an autopsy or talk to Tosh for hours on end. It was almost the opposite of Ianto and Lily when they were at Torchwood London. Lily hardly said a word to anyone, and Ianto was rather social. Lily spoke of this to Jack quite often. Saying that Ianto was different. She attributed it to the death of Lisa Hallet. "He really loved her," Lily would tell Jack from time to time.

"He's never lied to us." Those words echoed through Lily Morgan's mind. She stood in the center of the hub, with the rest of the team around her. Jack held a gun to Ianto's head. The Welshman was on his knees with his hands behind his head. Jack had gone after Owen and Gwen. Lily remembered hearing Owen's words and her blood ran cold. A cyber conversion unit, powered-up and working. Cybermen. "Did you know it was down there?" There was so much anger in Jack's voice. Lily watched him and he could see it in his eyes.

"I put her there."

She lunged without thinking only to be stopped by Owen who had just regained consciousness. Owen's arms wrapped around her waist and he held her back. Ianto's eyes slowly moved from Jack to Lily and tears formed in the young man's blue eyes. Jack grabbed Ianto's head by his hair and pulled his head back. "You hid a Cyberman within Torchwood, and you didn't tell us? What else have you been hiding?"

The look in Ianto's eyes terrified Lily and she finally stopped struggling. Owen held her back, more holding her up than back now. "What do you care? I clean up your shit. No questions asked, and that's the way you like it. When did you last ask me about my life?"

"YOU LIAR!" Lily's voice, normally so quiet and reserved echoed through the hub and caught everyone's attention. She squirmed her way out of Owen's arms and approached Ianto. She did not bother pretending to be strong, attempting to hold back tears. Her tears streamed down her face. She raised her hand up and slapped it across Ianto's face only to raise it again, this time her wrist was grabbed by Jack.

Jack stood behind Lily. "That's enough."

Lily wrenched her wrist from Jack's hand and glared at Ianto. "You promised. You said… you said they-"

Lily stopped the moment she saw her. Standing on the other side of the room. It was not just a Cyberman, it was Lisa. Lily looked down at Ianto, then up at the still half human woman in front of her. Ianto stood slowly and placed his hand on Lily's shoulder. "I didn't mean to lie to you Lily."

Lily pushed Ianto away and shook her head. "You said they were gone. You said you'd take care of me. You told me she died!" Lily took a step back. It felt like someone took a searing hot knife and thrust it into her back then twisted it. Ianto was the only family Lily could ever remember having. He was the only solidarity in her life. Everything she knew was a lie.

"Lily I…"

She shook her head and took a step back to stand behind Jack. She felt a hand on her shoulder and turned slowly to find Owen standing next to her. Lily turned and buried her head in Owen's chest. Owen wrapped one arm around her. Everyone's eyes were focused on Ianto. He kept insisting that they could help Lisa. They could save her. Lily tried to understand. To see things from Ianto's point of view. She did not understand his feeling for Lisa. Lily would never be able to understand Ianto's feelings for Lisa. Love was a concept Lily Morgan was never able to understand.

The chaos that ensued reminded Lily so much of Canary Wharf. They met in the conference room. Lily's eyes remained focused on Ianto's unconscious body. As angry as she was she still worried about Ianto's safety. "Lily," Jack said loudly, placing a hand on her shoulder. She turned quickly to face him and looked up. "I need you to hide. Find some place to hide, and don't come out until we tell you." Lily nodded and when they all split up Lily quickly found a place to hide, while Lisa was distracted by Jack. Lily was the best at hiding. She could curl herself up into the tiniest spot and no one would be able to find her. That was exactly what she did, and she waited there for what seemed like hours. As Lily crawled out of her small hiding place near Jack's office she noticed them standing on the lift. "Wait," Lily cried. It was no use though. Myfanwy's cry drowned out the sound of Lily's voice. She ran towards the lift but it had already started to raise by then. "JACK!" She watched as the four of them ascended towards the surface, leaving her behind. "Jack!" Her screaming was useless. By the time she realized this, they had reached the surface. Lily screamed one last time in frustration and dropped to her knees. She cried, while Lisa screamed. Lily could hear Myfanwy in the background, but she was too heartbroken to notice, even when Myfanwy backed away, and the hub fell quiet. Lily stopped crying and sat up quickly when she heard heavy footsteps behind her. Lily stood slowly and turned around.

They reached the surface and Tosh met up with them, running towards the group. Jack looked around and just as he realized someone was missing a fist, Ianto's fist, collided with his face. There was enough power behind the punch to knock Jack to the ground. "It was the only-" He stopped suddenly when he realized who was missing. "Where's Lily?"

Tosh mentioned that the power would return momentarily and Ianto took off. The rest of the group ran after him. Part of Jack hoped that Ianto had been running in hopes to find Lily, but Jack knew better than that. The team caught up with Ianto inside the tourist center. He pulled a gun on them, but Jack was quickly able to get it out of his hands. "There's no other choice now Ianto," Jack snapped as Ianto struggled against the captain's grasp. "Lily's down there and if Lisa's still alive she'll kill Lily, or worse."

"I won't kill her Jack. You can't ask me to do this."

"Think of Lily," Jack all but shouted. Ianto struggled and Jack pressed the barrel of the gun in his hand against Ianto's head. "You execute her, or I'll execute you both."

Ianto turned to face Jack, anger bordering on hatred in his eyes. "You like to think you're a hero… but you're the biggest monster of them all."

"Tell that to Lily," Jack snapped. "Then we'll see who the monster is." Jack motioned for Ianto to pick up the gun he had lost in his altercation with Jack. "You've got ten minutes."

It was not until after Lisa had been killed that anyone realized Lily was not there. They thought she would be in the storage room in the basement, that if Lisa was still alive, she would have taken Lily down there. As Ianto knelt in a pool of Lisa's blood, crying, he realized that Lily was not in the room. The rest of the team seemed to come to the same realization at the time. Then Ianto remembered, just barely noticing a body near the empty pizza boxes. He stood quickly and began to run out of the room. Jack stopped him and shoved him back. "After what you did to her, you think you get to go anywhere near her?" Jack shook his head and held Ianto back, sending Owen and Gwen to go check on her. "You lost your right to care about her. Not after what you did." Ianto looked to Jack, a pleading look in his eyes as Owen and Gwen left to go find the girl.

Owen and Gwen found Lily's body on steps entering the autopsy room. Toshiko managed to get the power and the lights back on. The girl was covered in blood, most of it her own. Owen looked to Gwen, who was on the verge of tears and picked her up. He carried her down the steps and set her down on the table. Owen was only there for a few minutes before Jack, Ianto, and Tosh joined him in the room. "Myfanwy." Just one word told them everything they needed to know. "Lisa must have gotten the idea from Jack. She's cut up pretty bad. Put up a fight, against Lisa, I'm assuming." Owen sighed and walked up the steps. "Lucky for her they are all mostly superficial wounds. She'll be okay," Owen slowly turned his gaze towards Ianto, "Physically anyway."

Owen stayed in the autopsy room with Lily until she woke up. He had bandaged up her wounds and was wiping away as much blood as he could. Her bloodstained t-shirt was tattered, along with the blue ruffled skirt that she wore. Lily woke up slowly. She sat up and looked over at Owen, who smiled. "Mornin' Spacemonkey." He helped her off the table, up the steps and into Jack's office.

Jack wrapped his arms around the girl when she entered. He held her tight as she sobbed quietly. "I'm so sorry Lily," he whispered. Jack placed a small kiss on the top of Lily's head before he let her go. "You're gonna stay with Owen for a little while, is that okay?"

Owen took her hand and led her out of the hub, towards his car, as he approached the car Owen realized that he left some papers he needed, down in the hub. "Lily, stay here." She nodded and Owen walked back down into the hub. He grabbed a stack of papers off the table by his desk before leaving once more. By the time he got back to his car, Lily was no where in sight. Owen pulled out his cell phone and called Jack. "Uhh, Jack. I think we have a problem…. Lily's missing."

As soon as Owen was out of visual range Lily took off. It was not just anger towards Ianto that fueled her, but her anger towards the whole team. They left her down there, forgot about her. It was just like Canary Wharf. Ianto told her to run, to hide. That he would find her and he never did. Jack said to run to hide, he'd find her. He never did. They left without her. They abandoned her. Everything Lily knew about her world was shattered. Lily lost track of how long she had been running. It had started to rain and she stopped at a park. Lily curled up on a park bench and cried softly, until she began to fall asleep. She was almost asleep when she heard a loud sigh and felt a nudge on her shoulder. "Eh, you can't sleep here. You're going to have to-" The voice stopped when Lily sat up and looked at him. "You work with Gwen right? Lily?"

Lily nodded slowly, looking up at the blonde man. P.C. Andy Davidson. Lily remembered him well. "What're ya doin' out here?" Then he noticed the blood on her clothes, and the bandages. "My god, what happened to you?" He pulled his jacket off his shoulders and pulled the girl onto her feet, wrapping the jacket around her shoulders. She did not answer right away. "Come on, lets get you somewhere warm, dry. Maybe some different clothes. Where d'ya live?"

Lily shook her head. "No," she whispered. "They abandoned me. I'm not going back there."

Andy nodded and brushed her drenched brown hair out of her face. He looked down at her and lifted her head to look at him. "All right," he answered with a nod. Andy lead her over to his car and drove her back to his flat. He led her in and grabbed a towel from the closet. Lily took the coat off and Andy wrapped the towel around her shoulders, rubbing them gently to keep her warm. "I'm Andy," he told her with a smile, though he assumed she already knew who he was. He brushed her hair out of her face again and smiled at her, hoping that it would ease the girl's nerves a little. He remembered seeing her at several scenes, and occasionally had seen her socializing with Gwen and Rhys. She was quiet, a bit odd, but in an adorable kind of way. "What happened Lily? Are you hurt?" Lily shook her head slowly. Andy knew that was not true, but he did not want to push it. He could see the blood on her clothes, the bandages that covered her tiny body. Andy took a moment and walked into his room. He returned with a bare of black flannel pajama pants and a white t-shirt. "Here you can umm… you can put these on."

Lily took the clothes and smiled. She looked down for a moment, as if waiting. Then she dropped the towel and began to pull her shirt over her head. "Oh god, sorry," Andy said quickly before turning around. He turned bright red and glanced up for a moment, only to realize the reflection from the oven door allowed him to see Lily behind him. He glanced down and did his best to be a gentleman, to resist the urge to look up as the girl changed her clothes. Andy finally turned around when he heard a quiet thank you. He smiled at her and played with her hair absently once more. "Well then umm… you can… You can go right in there," he said quietly, pointing to his room. "I'll take the couch for the night." Lily wanted to protest. She did not want to be a burden to the young man but she was exhausted, so she complied. She entered his room and curled up on the bed. Once Andy was sure she was sleeping he pulled the blanket over her and sighed.

Just as he walked back out into the living room to lay down on the couch his cell phone rang. "Hey, Andy, its Gwen." Andy opened his mouth to speak but Gwen continued. "Listen, I don't know if you remember her, but there's this girl I work with. Her name's Lily. Well, she's gone missin', and we were wonderin' if you could help us-"

"Gwen!"

"Yeah?"

"Its okay," he said with a bit of a laugh. "I found her sleepin' on a park bench. She's at my flat right now, fast asleep. Don't worry she's fine, though she seems less than pleased with you lot. What happened to her? She was covered in blood."

"Its complicated Andy. Just… Just keep an eye on her and I'll be over in the morning to get her."

Andy sighed and agreed. "You need to give her space. I get that she's a little different but you shouldn't treat her like she's a child." Andy glanced towards his room, where Lily lay sleeping. "She's not a kid Gwen." He hung up the phone and watched the pale girl sleep for a few minutes before going to sleep on the couch.