Oh, wow! A fourth instalment! Mmhmm! That's right. I'm actually turning out to be better at this multi-chapter thing than I thought! *grins*

And there is some swearing in this chapter...but it is Owen after all. Anyway, little children, cover your eyes :D

Disclaimer: I still don't own anything. Unless I kidnapped Russel. T. Davies and forced him to hand over the rights to TW...hey...that's not a bad idea...lols, jokes.

Chapter 3: Owen's Shirt

The team gradually filed into the meeting room, Ianto holding yet another tray of coffees. He put it down gently on the table, and sank into a chair opposite Jack. Jack smiled at him, and opened his mouth to say something when Owen slumped in.
"Jesus, I hate meetings. Waste of valuable time, if you ask me. I bet that the monster's gonna end up being some stupid little kitten or something." He noticed the coffees on the table. "Excellent. More caffeine. Hey, Ianto, which one's the strongest?"

Ianto pointed to one cup. The coffee in question was the darkest on the tray, with barely any milk and a spoon in. As Owen took a large sip, the boiling hot spoon hit slid round the side of the cup and bumped him in the mouth. Owen quickly pulled the cup away from his mouth.

"Jesus! What the shit was that? Why the hell didn't you take the fucking spoon out, you moron? Ouch!"

Ianto looked at him and smiled. Owen immediately became suspicious. "What? What are you smiling about?"

He looked down at his shirt. There was a dark brown stain on the clean blue fabric.

"What the hell! Oh, my God! That's a new shirt! Fuck!" Uttering various expletives, he left the room to go change his shirt.

As Owen left, Gwen and Tosh came in. Gwen turned and watched Owen stomp down the corridor.

"What's up with him? He realise that shirt's girly and screams 'gay guys, come and hit on me!'" Gwen shook her head. "Idiot."

While Gwen and Jack discussed the monster, Ianto's coffee and Owen's choice in shirts, Tosh hooked her laptop up to the projector. A complicated series of graphs and tables filled the screen. As the they all took their seats, Owen coming back in with a scowl on his face and wearing one of the shirts from the medical scrubs.

"Right, people...Owen? Why are you wearing scrubs? Is there a dead body that I didn't know about?" Jack looked genuinely confused.

"I couldn't find my spare shirt...'cos I can't find the key to my locker. It's at home. On my dining room table. So I found this." He crossed his arms defensively and glared at the rest of the team, who were laughing silently.

"Owen...here." Tosh pushed a small silver key across the table.

"What's this?"

"It's the spare key for the lockers. You should be able to use it to get in." As Owen smiled gratefully at her, she blushed and looked back at her laptop.

"Well, I ran lots of tests on the mysterious energy spike, and I pinpointed the time that whatever it is fell out of the Rift to 3.32 and 5 seconds this morning. The computer ran the likely species to cause a spike this large and it narrowed it down to a few hundred thousand. Of those, it is still running further diagnostics to further narrow it down, you know, excluding extinct species, stuff like that."

"So we don't know what it is?" Jack was now thinking again. Ianto spoke up for the first time in the meeting.

"No, I think Tosh is saying that it could be one of a few hundred thousand things." He smiled. "And that, until there are any sightings or we can pinpoint where it fell out, we are really just guessing. Who wants more coffee?" He collected up the cups onto his tray.

"Yeah. Well, if we're just waiting around for other people to do our work, I'm going to go put a shirt on." Owen started to go towards the door with Ianto when two things happened.

First, Tosh's laptop, which she had just disconnected from the projector, started beeping and flashing. She sat down and started typing into it and her face lit up. She was about to say something when secondly, Jack's phone rang.

"Harkness. What? Where?" His face went deadpan and he sighed, stroking an invisible goatee on his chin. "Ok...how old? What? Did they get a description? What's the address?" He motioned for Ianto to hand him some paper. Ianto reached into his coat pocket and drew out a small notepad and a pen. He handed them over and Jack leaned over and scribbled on the page. "Mmm. Mmhmm. We'll be there as soon as we can, of course. Okay. Thanks, bye."

Turning to face the now interested team, Jack held the paper up to his eyes. "There's been a murder. A small child.."-Here the team collectively had a sharp intake of breath. Dealing with the death of children was one of the worst parts of their job.-"The address is... (he strained to read the page)..."

"125 Smith Street, Cardiff." The address was spoken in unison.

Tosh and Jack looked at each other.

"Wait. How did you know that, Tosh? You're on the other side of...the...room..." You could practically see the cogs turning in Jack's mind. Then, suddenly, his eyes lit up. "Were you running a locator scan?"

"Yes...and that address pinpointed that as the location where the monster fell out of the Rift..."

"Right!" Jack clapped his hands. "No, there's no time to change, Owen. Well, actually, considering that you're in a foul mood already, go! Quickly! Everyone else...to the SUV! Tosh, can you grab the kits? Ianto, we can get coffee on the way." Ianto smiled, rubbing his eyes.

And as the team headed towards the SUV, Jack wondered what on Earth (or not on Earth, as the case probably was) could cause an energy spike and then kill an innocent child. Something vicious and cruel...and it was up to them to save the city from it.

Author's Ramblings:

Lols. Burn got burned! ;D Well, as a writer I just wanted Owen to feel some PAIN! (kidding. Someone had to be burned and, well...his name is Burn, after all. He's the obvious choice) Hehe...did you like this chapter? Really? Well, I'll know if you review! I promise that the awesomely cool monster will come in soon! If you review! Kidding. Lols. Hehe. (It almost has a name now). And I'm sorry about the cliché street name, I'm Australian! So...never been to Cardiff...:D And ! to all those lovely people who reviewed! You are the best! ;LuvU! And to all of you reading, ! I love you all! Reviews make me fuzzy on the inside :D Oh, and BTW my updating might get a bit wonky because we have yearlies...damn whoever invented exams. Curse you! *shakes fist*. So, yeah. I'll try ;S