A/N: A big thank you to TakeThatTakeThis, Velvetstream and Pilcrow for reviewing the last chapter :D

Disclaimer: i don't own Doctor Who


The torchwood team, or rather what was left, were all sat in the hub in silence feeling quite anxious about what had happened earlier.

Gwen spoke up first "so Owen are you going to ring Jack?"

"Oh crap! I forgot all about that" said Owen getting up and grabbing his phone from his desk, he opened it and dialled Jack's number then waited for him to pick up.

"Hello?" they heard Jack answer

"Jack"

"Owen is everything alright?"

Owen hesitated briefly before answering "no, not really"

"What happened?"

"Well there's this...there's this creature"

"A creature?" Jack said puzzled

"Yer well it's, it's kinda like a wolf"

"Ok, where is it?"

"It's in here"

"What do you mean in here Owen?"

"It's in one of our holding cells, Ianto shot it with a tranquilizer dart and then we locked it up"

Jack gasped "How did it get in?"

"No idea, everything was secure I honestly don't have a clue"

"How long ago was this?"

Owen gulped and looked at Gwen and Ianto for help but they just shrugged "um about a couple of hours ago, I don't know, three"

"Three! Why didn't you call me sooner?"

"Well we were too busy trying not to get eaten alive to stop and give you a quick call Jack" Owen replied sarcastically.

"Fine, Tosh and I will be there as soon as we can which is probably going to be about sometime late tomorrow"

"So what should we do until then?"

"Is the cell secure"

"Yes"

"Well, you can't stay at the hub all night can you, you guys should just go home I guess"

"Ok then, bye"

"See ya"

Owen cut off the phone and turned to Ianto and Gwen

"See Owen it wasn't that bad" said Gwen "not like when you told him that you accidently let Myfanwy escape" she started giggling

"That wasn't funny Gwen"

Ianto stood up "so are we going now"

Gwen yawned "Yep guess so"


"Hey Doctor"

"Aah!" the doctor jumped and turned around to see Amy in the TARDIS behind him.

"Ha were you scared Doctor"

"No! Of course not pond, Timelords don't get scared, I was surprised that's it merely surprised"

Amy patted him on the head "whatever makes you feel better Doctor".

"So what brings you here Amy? Why aren't you doing humany things?"

Rory entered the TARDIS carrying heaps of shopping bags "well Amy's been shopping for just over three hours"

The Doctor winced "oh I am sorry Rory." He paused thinking "actually I'm not, I like shops, just little ones though like in hospitals."

"Doctor"

"I went to a hospital once and there wasn't a little shop so I said that they should have little shop because it does some people the world of good but they didn't listen."

"Doctor, rambling again"

The Doctor tapped Amy's nose "no Amy I was not rambling I was sharing a very important story with you"

Rory put the bags on the floor and stretched his aching arms "so doctor when are we meant to be leaving"

"Well we can leave in a few hours but-"

"Wait, but I though you said it would take a day and a bit?" interrupted Amy

"Yeah I did but the rift is giving off a lot of radiation. A lot more than normal so we should be ready to go in approximately, 5 hours and 57 minutes"

"But..." said Amy knowingly

"What do you mean but?" asked The Doctor

"Earlier you were going to say but something, and Doctor we all know that there is always a but with you"

"That was it, but we might need to stay a bit longer"

"How come? I thought you said that the rift was giving off a lot of radiation" asked Rory

"That the thing. It's giving off a lot more than usual, there's a lot of rift activity"

"So what does that mean?" asked Rory

"That maybe something came through, but it doesn't make sense things just drop through all the time. I don't understand unless... it was be something big, powerful even"

"And you want to check it out"

"Isn't that what I do best? But it might not be anything it could just be a random fluctuation or something"

"Ok so when do you want to check it out?" asked Amy

"It can wait until tomorrow, I have to check some things with the TARDIS first"

"Night then Doctor, come on Rory" said Amy skipping out of the console room, Rory picked up the bags and groaned


The next day Owen, Gwen and Ianto all entered the torchwood hub and sat down

"So when did Jack say that he would be here, Owen?" asked Gwen

"He said he would arrive sometime late today"

Ianto heard a faint beeping coming from one of the laptops and went to investigate,

"Ianto can you make us some coffee" asked Owen

"Um sure" said Ianto distracted, he sat down at the desk and stared at the laptop "guys..."

"What is it?"Asked Gwen

"The rift"

Owen stood up and walked towards Ianto "what about it?"

"Look at the readings"

Gwen ran over to Owen and Ianto and took a look at the readings "why is it so high?" she asked

Owen ran a hand through his hair "um something must have happened, Ianto can you check when that reading was taken"

Ianto pressed a few buttons "It was taken yesterday"

"No wonder we didn't notice it" said Gwen "we were too busy with that wolf to check"

"That is a lot of activity" said Ianto "too much"

"Maybe it's got something to do with that creature we found" suggested Gwen

"Could do, but it says that the activity in the rift started to increase 6 hours after we found that creature, so it might be something different, I guess we can just check it out when Jack comes back".

Ianto stood up "I'll go get us some coffee" he said walking out. He went over to the coffee machine but decided to check on the creature instead. Ianto walked up to the cell that they put it in and looked through the small window

"oh my god!" he whispered frozen staring in disbelief at what was in the cell.

"I wonder what's taking Ianto so long" said Gwen "I'm just going to go check on him ok" she said getting up. She entered the room Ianto was supposed to be in but didn't see him.

"Ianto" she called, she walked out and went up a corridor and caught sight of him looking through the window of the cell they put the wolf in yesterday,

"Ianto" she called again walking up to him but he didn't respond

"Gwen" he said still looking through the window "look"

Gwen cautiously walked closer to Ianto and looked through the window to see what he was staring at

"What!" she gasped as she saw it "Owen!" she shouted "Owen look at this!" a few secounds later she heard running footsteps.

"What is it Gwen? What's happened?"

She moved away from the window "look" was all she said

"Ok" said Owen warily as he walked up to the window and peered through "is that-how did...what!" he stuttered studying the young blonde woman lying on the cell floor.


A/N: I hope you all like it! I probably won't be updating regularly because I have to go back to school (damn school) So i will make the next chapter the longest so far