Owen walked into the Jack office and shut the door firmly behind him
"Ooh the dramatic entrance I love it" Jack said with a grin
"Jack seriously" Owen said rolling his eyes
"Sorry, what can I do for you?"
"I want to talk to you about Ruby"
"Is this about what happened earlier with those girls?"
"Sort of…" Owens voice trailed off
"Go on I'm listening"
"Jack you know what her past was like and you brought her here to give her a new start, but you know as well as I do that it's not the right environment for a young girl to be brought up in"
"So what do you suggest?"
"Well I was thinking that she should live somewhere else"
"Where did you have in mind?"
"Well not here for obvious reasons, she can't stay at Gwen's because she's got enough on with Rhys, Ianto's here with you most of the time; Ruby doesn't know Tosh that well so…"
"You think she should stay with you?"
"Yeah, Jack she trusts me and I know what she needs"
"But what about the whole precognition thing?"
"We can test for that whenever but I think out main priority should be getting her settled into the right kind of environment"
"Ok go for it, but Owen…"
"What?"
"Make sure she's safe" and Owen strongly nodded
As he walked out of Jacks office he looked around for Ruby, she was sitting on the floor doing what like science homework. Owen smiled as he saw the concentration on her face
"You know tables and chairs were invented for doing homework" he said crouching down
"I like it down here" she said looking up at him with her big green eyes
"I wanted to talk to you about something, how would you feel about coming to live with me?
"For how long?"
"For as long as you wanted, now don't worry you can come back here as much as you want and see Jack and the others but I thought you'd like it a lot better at my place so what do you say do you want to give it a go?"
Ruby paused for a few seconds but then she shook her head and gave a little smile
"Good girl" he said smiling back
That evening Owen spent his time trying to get his flat ready for a young girl to live in. He set up the spare room and tried to make it mice for Ruby; he found some old cans of paint and painted over the white walls in lilac as he knew this was her favourite colour.
The next day was Saturday and Jack came over early to see how Owen was doing
"I'm impressed" he said looking at the job Owen had done
"Do you think she'll like it?" Owen said
"Yeah she'll love it" Jack said grinning
"How is she this morning?"
"Quite excited I think you know I find it hard to read her, anyway when I left Iatno and Gwen were helping her pack"
Later that afternoon Owen went back to the hub to collect Ruby
"Ready?" he said picking up the small bag of all that she owned
"Yeah" she said nodding
"Now Ruby" Jack said walking over to her "Don't you forget about us" he said giving he a hug
"I won't" she said smiling
Owen gave her a quick grin and together they left the hub, Ruby was silent on the way to Owens flat. When they got there Owen showed her to her new room
"Do you like it?"
"It's lilac" she said smiling
"Your favourite colour, now this is your room and I want you to feel at home here ok?" and she nodded
"No one ever did anything like this for me before" she said softly
"I know…but it's your new start and I promise you don't ever have to be afraid again because I will always be here for you and now matter how you're feeling I'll always be ready to talk with you and you can always talk to everyone back at the hub ok?"
"Ok" she said and for the first time she smiled a true smile because for the first time in her life she had someone to depend on