Chapter 6
They walked down the stairs together. Her small hand clasped tightly in his larger ones. He'd told her all about his life as well. About the Doctor and Rose and everything. At least it was a two sided thing. She trusted him and he trusted. She wondered if Gwen knew all about this. When Gwen had first arrived Tosh had thought that Jack might tell Gwen everything. She was just the type of girl.
They walked into the Hub and saw that the other three had already arrived. Tosh pulled her hand out of Jack's gently before walking over and sitting next to Gwen. "Alright Tosh?" asked Owen looking at her. "Never been better." She said and smiled before turning towards Jack who grinned back.
That day was a slow day as there were no alien sightings. Gwen was on the phone talking to Rhys about a party they were going to attend. Ianto was cleaning and Jack was in his office. Owen and Tosh were in the lab. He was showing her one of his experiments. She watched with interest. That was until Jack walked out his office and said, "Come take a look at this."
They all raced up the stairs and into his office. "Tosh, I don't think you should see this." said Jack. "But I need to know what this is about Jack." she replied. He nodded; "Don't say I didn't warn you" said Jack and she nodded wondering how bad it could be. Tosh found herself between Owen and Jack. They looked at the screen to see a lady lying on the road. Her face had dreadful cuts and there was blood everywhere.
Gwen buried her face into Ianto's shoulder who rubbed her back soothingly. Owen closed his eyes and mumbled a prayer while Tosh leaned heavily into Jack. "You alright?" he asked concern filling his voice. "Yeah" she said, "This isn't too bad as the other one." He nodded and put his arm around her before speaking to the group.
"It's a picture from a murder scene. They have no idea who the murderer was." "And by they you mean the police?" asked Owen. Jack nodded. "Typical" Owen muttered. Gwen shot him a glare. "What? It's not my fault if I don't like the police." "Then you shouldn't like me too seeing as how I was part of the police." she said. He hurriedly backtracked, "Oh come on Gwen! You know I didn't mean it like that."
Tosh looked at Ianto who rolled his eyes at her. She smiled back. Jack watched the fight with amusement at first before getting annoyed. "Ok. That's enough. Stop it both of you." They both stopped bickering and fell silent although Gwen still sent Owen dirty looks. Tosh wondered if this meant that there might be a potential break up.
For some reason she didn't feel happy. She just felt unaffected. She'd thought that she'd have felt great but no. What she'd told Jack was right. She really wasn't bothered with Owen anymore. She looked at Jack and saw that he was looking at her. She smiled at him and he beamed.
"So does this mean we are going to try and catch the person/thing/alien who committed the murder, sir?" asked Ianto. "Yup" said Jack, "that's exactly what it means."