"Another group of Hunters just showed up we killed five but there is one left and Gwen, it is an Alpha A." The worried look on John's face said it all, this was bad.
"An Alpha A? What the hell is an Alpha A doing here? This is supposed to be routine!!" Gwen just about spat the words.
"What is an Alpha A?" Jack asked.
"It is one of the Hunters who isn't a coward and is far more aggressive. They are usually not with gathering groups, they like to freelance hunt, they don't like penned prey. If there is an Alpha then this is far more serious, someone is out for revenge against humanity!" Gwen's voice showed her concern. "We can still stop them but this will be a bit more tricky and dangerous. Just let me take care of it."
"We may not be a team in your mind but in all mine we are, you are not doing this alone!" Jack's words were a command.
"Oh? Does that include me Jack? It would be so much fun to be on a team!" John snickered.
""He meant me and him, John, not you." Gwen commented and grabbed Jack's hand. "Let's go. You two stay out of trouble."
With that Gwen and Jack left the flat.
"Yes well, I better leave as well, they will need help from the hub." Ianto said.
"Oh please! You just don't want to be stuck here with me. You think if you are in contact with them they won't do anything naughty but let me tell you, Jack missed his chance with that little vixen. Gwen has changed, because of Jack, and she misses her old self."
"She is changed because of what you did her." Ianto replied flatly.
"Oh no, I just sped up the process and you damn well know it. She would have realized what Jack was eventually and she would have broken much more if she had to deal with him so soon after that. I saved her sanity. The things she has had to do since then have given her insight but she stills sees Jack as a coward, hiding from his past. Now do you want to go watch them in action of stand around worrying that she will seduce him?"
With that John opened his wrist strap pushed a few buttons and then grabbed a hold of Ianto. Both men de-materialized.
When they materialized they were on the top of a one story building. Ianto doubled over.
"It will pass in a few minutes. Sorry for the discomfort, well no actually I'm not, but you have to see this." John told him.
Ianto looked and saw the SUV pulling up to where the Alpha A was hunting. Already some unlucky man lay sprawled on the ground gutted. Gwen and Jack simultaneously leapt from the SUV with their guns in their hands. Gwen went to the left and Jack to the right, both in low crouches. The Alpha chuckled, if it could be called a chuckle.
"The infamous Angel, and she has a new Daemon with her!! I am Alpha A Mortoonistpin. We were told this happy little planet might be protected by you, that is why I am here!!" Mortoonistpin growled. He then shot surprisingly fast right at Gwen.
Gwen flipped over the Alpha landing behind him. John threw his sword to Gwen who caught it without looking. She drew the blade and sliced the Alpha's back. Gwen backed up as it turned.
"I thought I told you to stay out of this!"
"You forgot the sword, besides you know what a voyeur I am!" John laughed.
The Alpha jumped at Jack "I will take your Daemon and make you watch!"
Jack ran towards Mortoonistpin, dropped to the ground and slid into his knees. The Alpha screamed in a high pitched tone. "Well so that is where you keep your balls!" Jack laughed.
Gwen ran over and sliced the Alpha's knees open. "How many more are coming?"
"Grrrr, I won't tell you anything, bitch!"
"Jack, would you like to see if you can get some info out of him?"
"My pleasure, m'lady." Jack responded.
"There are two more scouting parties, but I am the only Alpha with them." The Alpha seemed to shiver.
"And how did they get an independent Alpha to join their scouting parties?" Gwen asked.
"I was promised you if I succeeded." Mortoonstpin groaned.
Suddenly John appeared, his face contorted into pure rage. He pushed past Jack to reach the creature. On his way he pulled a small vial out of his pocket. When he reached the Alpha he opened the vial releasing its contents in to the air around the Alpha. Suddenly the pain was gone from it's face, its wounds healed. John grabbed it by the throat.
"You listen to me you slimy abomination, you go back and you tell your people that Angel is MINE, any of your people who come for her will suffer far worse then you did, and they won't survive. And if I hear of one of your kind going after her again I will destroy you all!! Do you understand?" John's voice was so fully of rage even Jack backed up. "Now leave this fucking planet!"
With that the beastly thing disappeared in a sickly green light.
John ran to Gwen grabbing her closely he gave her a deep passionate kiss. "No one is going to target you, lover."
"John, we both knew this might happen, especially after we freed so many of their prey. Just because he didn't say that you were targeted as well I am sure you are."
"No Gwen, they hate women, a man they see as equal and worthy of taking their prey, you are not a man, my Angel." John responded.
Ianto walked up. The look of shock on his face was noticed by all.
"You dragged Ianto here?" Gwen asked.
"Well I couldn't just leave him there!" John chuckled.
"Why did that thing call you Angel, Gwen?" Ianto asked.
"Let's talk about it back at the hub." Jack more than suggested.
The four of them walked into the hub arguing.
"I can't stay and help, they will send more Alpha's for me!" Gwen said exasperated.
"They will not cross me Angel!" Came John's determined reply.
"We don't know this species Gwen, we need you." Jack chimed in.
"Why does he keep calling you Angel?" Ianto pleaded.
"Fine I will stay for a bit, but not long." Gwen relented, "And except for you guys everyone calls me Angel, it is a nick name John gave me and it stuck. And don't ask, it is a long story."
Back at the hub everyone was uneasy. No one but Gwen liked John and everyone was completely confused over her change in behavior.
Jack took John to the side to talk, "Angel and Daemon is a bad combination John and you know it! Look what that arrangement did to us!!"
"Yes well I am not half the Daemon you were, especially not now." John's eyes rested on Gwen as she spoke. "She has a powerful influence over people, making them better then they though they could be."
"You stole her, you revamped the Time Agency and made her an agent, how are you any better?"
"I showed her what you wouldn't, and as for the Agency I didn't revamp it, someone else did. She decided to become an agent; I had no option but to let her. She lied about who gave her that nick name though, it wasn't me, it was you Jack."
"I think I would remember that." Jack replied simply.
"No, the Agency wiped two years of your memories, remember? Well big boy, she is the reason why. Ask her." John walked away and began hitting on Ianto, which made Ianto extremely uncomfortable, he did not trust this man at all.
Jack's mind reeled. Because of Gwen? But he hadn't known her yet! But if she was brought back to the time when the agency was originally created then what?
"Gwen, my office, now." Jack barked the order.
" Oh, I do love it when you are all dom Jack!!" Gwen giggled as she walked to his office.