Chapter Four
Jack strolled into the parlor fifteen minutes early and just as he suspected there sat Rebecca. She looked up unsurprised as if she had expected him, "Not Ianto."
"I didn't think it was, but now that you mention it where is he?"
"In bed smiling."
"Hmm…"
"You are not surprised?"
"I am more astute then most people give me credit for. It helps that Ianto talks to me though."
"Really and what does our young Mr. Jones say?"
"Nothing you need to concern yourself with. I have found out most of your secrets on my own, so even if Ianto was one to divulge them I wouldn't need him to. You are quite interesting if I do say so myself, but then you already knew that."
"What do you find so interesting?"
"Well the fact that you can't die, that the 456 have been here before and that you had something to do with it."
Looking behind him Jack checked to see if Gwen and Ianto were in the hall.
"Oh don't worry Captain Jack Harkness this is not a secret that I would share. I will say this though you ought to learn to share more with you team or at least more evenly."
"I have no idea what you are talking about."
"Sure you do Jack. You are very good at keeping secrets, hiding feelings but you are too easy to read. Well at least for me."
"You sound pretty confident."
"I am and you can stop looking back. As you and Miss Cooper have found out I have a very compitant staff. Molly will keep the two them occupied till we are done."
"I'm not worried."
"If you say so, you should really just tell me everything Jack I am going to figure it all out eventually."
"I know nothing."
"The three of you are all hiding something from me and Jeremy, but you are hiding even more from your team."
"You have no idea what you're talking about."
"You would be surprised. She probably knows way more than you think," interrupted Jeremy from a corner of the room.
Surprised that he hadn't heard him entering the room Jack became more suspicious of the family Roberts, "Really."
"She is really very astute," replied Jeremy.
"So what have I missed?" asked Gwen walking in with Ianto right behind her.
It was not lost on Jack that Ianto walked straight over to Rebecca. The two shared a look that validated Jacks prior belief that Ianto was keeping his own secrets. Jack had thought that after the whole Lisa fiasco he had dropped the whole secret thing. He knew that publically there were things Ianto didn't talk about but privately Jack had believed Ianto had shared everything.
"Jeremy and Ianto have come up with a plan. Perhaps now would be a good time to share it," Rebecca spoke from behind a tea cup.
"Certainly," said Jeremy, "It is quite simple really. We use my badge to get there."
"Your badge, you have a badge and we waited until nightfall!" exclaimed Gwen.
"I don't truly have that high of clearance so I didn't want to draw attention to us," replied Jeremy.
"And you have a badge because…?" asked Jack.
"I work at Thames House. I was returning to the office when I spotted Ianto."
"Ah…"
"You already knew that."
"Yes."
"Then why did you ask?"
"He wanted to see how much you are willing to share?" said Ianto looking at Jack.
"Ah…"
"So you don't think that we will get stopped now?" asked Gwen.
"The night shift is basically a skeleton crew that has never seen Jeremy," piped in Rebecca, "We will be fine."
"WE!" irrupted Ianto.
"I'm going," said Rebecca.
"No!" he replied looking towards Jeremy for support.
"I have thought about it and she made a very excellent point earlier. You have to admit in the end she would be a great help," responded Jeremy.
Ianto looked at Rebecca, "I still don't think that it's a good idea but I can see that I have been over ruled."
Standing Rebecca placed her tea cup down, "I will be careful I promise so let's get going."
"Now she does really like to take charge," commented Ianto following behind her.
Jack watched as everybody left the room. Rebecca was certainly different in this time. She was more confident, and outgoing. He couldn't imagine the Molly that he knew speaking back to him or dressing like Rebecca was. Mighty curious, mighty, mighty curious.