Author's note:

Since the last chapter was really short I've updated the next chapter which is rewrite of Day One, Gwen and Andy's first day at Torchwood.

deemama66: I don't really know what Gwen actually does at Torchwood either, which made it slightly difficult when trying to do job requirements for her, lol.

Chapter Seven:

Day One- Take Two.

Gwen and Andy started training with Torchwood a week later, Jack 'borrowed' them from the Police and gave them back their recommendations for Police Liaison Officer. Suzie was the main person that trained them, he hoped that the new project would distract her from the loss of the glove project, Ianto and Jack also helped out.

Jack had trained Ianto one on one covering everything any agent needed to know and it confused Ianto slightly that Jack was handing training over to Suzie. He wasn't complaining oh no, the training sessions with Jack were great, he got to know Jack more and more and Jack seemed to trust Ianto on a level Ianto would never have expected. There was also the part where the gun training session and the hand to hand combat lessons just gave Jack an excuse to get close to Ianto physically. Ianto partially hated that his body reacted to Jack's closeness whilst another part hated that he wanted it to happen feeling that he was betraying Lisa.

Ianto was observing Gwen and Andy's gun training session over the CCTV he saw that Suzie was a very good teacher especially given that she had two pupils at the same time, she also started with gun safety before moving onto the more 'cool' moves that Jack usually started with. Tosh was set to teach them both the hub systems within the next few days before Ianto would take them through the archives and the system he had in place. Owen merely had to give them a full physical and store their blood.

Jack in the meanwhile was very pleased with the progress they were both making, Gwen was over the small level of pride she had over being picked, which Jack belatedly realised was the problem in the first place. She was an only child, she was used to getting her own way, she matured beautifully in the latter years of Torchwood but that first year or so, and a few times afterwards she was flaky and could be self absorbed, especially when it came to her and Jack, often forgetting about Rhys. Jack was determined to do it right this time. Especially since he wanted Ianto again, he wasn't going to waste the time chasing normality when he could have happiness.

An asteroid crash landing in Cardiff led Jack to calling Gwen and Andy on their first mission. Andy was on shift with the Police and Jack told him to go straight to the crash site and stop anyone else approaching it. Jack paged Gwen who had the day off and picked her up on the way.

Once at the crash site, Jack met with the army attempting to take over the site, and Jack was very pleased to see Andy arguing with the Colonel in charge. Jack waltzed up to the two men.

"Well done Agent Davidson," He clapped Andy on the shoulder. "Let's get to work." He turned to the army officer. "We'll take it from here."

The rest of the team filed in after him with Gwen lagging and losing her nerve slightly under scrutiny of the army men.

"So it's an asteroid eh then?" Andy asked as they looked at it. "What's so X-Files about that?"

"Obviously an asteroid, but it could be an escape pod, prison transport, or just a piece of rock." Jack said as Owen and Tosh took samples.

Jack interjected before Owen could irritate Gwen into throwing stuff at him, but he didn't forsee Gwen tripping over some loose soil and falling into the asteroid, her equipment box being knocked over with her and a sharp object jamming into the side, enough to form a crack.

Jack yelled out and gas masks were handed out quickly, he leaped over to Gwen and pressed one to her face for her as Owen did the same to Andy, as their reactions still weren't up to pace.

"Clumsy are we?" Owen yelled angrily letting go of the gas mask he had pressed to Andy's face as Andy took hold of it.

"Shut it Owen," Jack said, he roughly dragged Gwen backwards to safety as the sex crazed alien gas escaped.

As soon as the gas cleared Jack took his mask off.

"Andy get back to the police station, I need suspicious reports from nightclubs or bars patched to us asap." Jack said dragging Gwen away.

"Everyone else in the SUV." He pushed Gwen towards Suzie and went over to Andy.

"I need you to get a police car to a nightclub I think might be a target, don't ask questions. Just do it," Jack told Andy the address and watched him get into his police car and drive off. Jack got into the SUV and drove to the hub.

Gwen kept apologising and apologising and it was getting on Jacks nerves just like the last time.

"There's been a nightclub death called into 999, Andy called it in shortly afterwards, suspicious circumstances, Andy will be waiting there." Ianto said as soon as they walked in and dropped their samples from the asteroid, Ianto had his phone in one hand and confirmed with Andy that Jack was on the way.

Jack took Gwen, Owen and Tosh with him, asking Suzie and Ianto to start running tests on the samples they had and arranging transport of the asteroid.

Jack double checked the address he was given by Ianto, it wasn't the one he remembered, things had changed slightly. He drove there as fast as possible and saw Andy waiting for them outside.

"One of the doormen called it in, he's got CCTV he wants to show us, the staff and the other doormen are still inside most the punters have left." Andy reported as they walked up to him.

"Excellent work Andy." Jack grinned. "Let's go see who we are dealing with."

They entered the club and Jack went to the security office to look at the CCTV and the person that called the crime in.

Interestingly enough it wasn't Carys Fletcher that was inhabited by the alien it was another young girl the CCTV footage was similar enough, the man disappeared into a pile of dust after orgasm.

"What the hell was that?" Gwen cried in shock.

"Oh my god, he just…." Tosh gasped.

"Came and went." Jack deadpanned, good joke the first time round, no need to waste it he smiled.

Gwen tried to interrogate the nightclub owner much like she would in the police, which got no results.

"Thanks, let's go." Jack said, he had already taken the recording and sent it to Ianto and Suzie to run through the facial recognition software back at the hub.

"This is all my fault," Gwen said as they walked through the main area of the club.

"If you are going to guilt trip yourself it's going to kill you." Jack spun on her, the others watching him. "Yes it was a mistake but if you feel guilt over this it will bury you." He knew that, how many people's blood did he have on his hands, the guilt haunted him sometimes.

Jack turned back and led them all to the hub, once inside he called a board meeting Andy included and started the meeting.

"So far we know that the alien gas feeds off energy from sex." Jack began.

"That's an assumption." Gwen interrupted.

"No, they were having sex, he turned into a pile of dust and she absorbed it, self explanatory." Jack retorted.

"But what if they don't know it's a bad thing here." Gwen tried.

"A person still died, at the very least we need to contain them," Ianto said.

Tosh nodded. "It happens every now and again, some species of alien can see us as a lesser species since we are different, some say we are primitive, they see it in the same way as we use animals."

"No, but" Gwen stammered.

"Well think about it, we use cows, chicken and sheep for energy by eating them." Ianto said.

"What you and you welsh do to sheep is none of our business." Owen drawled.

"Oh, so because we're Welsh, we're all sheep shaggers eh." Gwen retorted angrily.

"He's trying to wind you up." Suzie placated her.

"There's a lot you need to learn about aliens Gwen, don't think of them as humans, once you apply human laws and rules to them it gets messy." Jack advised.

"Start with basic morals and work on the rest in the job?" Andy asked.

"It's a good way to start. Torchwood when it first started had the same instincts that some of these species we see have. If its not human no human laws apply, they would kill all aliens after capture, once they learned anything valuable from them."

"That's barbaric." Gwen said angrily.

"But it happens, end of story. We're different here." He told mainly Gwen and Andy. "But I need you to follow my orders. It'll keep you alive."

"What's the plan?" Owen asked.

"We need to assume that the alien will go on the usual bender, so more victims will crop up." Jack said sitting in his seat. "How is the facial recognition gone?"

"We got a hit just before you came back." Suzie said, she nodded at Ianto who activated the viewscreen in the board room and a mugshot of a young girl was shown.

"Erin Matthews, 20, university student at Cardiff and from Swansea, was arrested 6 months ago for minor affray." Suzie said pulling up the rest of her file. "Spent the night in jail and let her off on a warning, booked her to scare her I reckon."

Andy nodded in agreement. "It's usually a good idea to get one or two of the new uni students collared reckon it keeps most of them out of trouble. Her file shows it was just some drunken fight, no big deal."

"Can you set it up to alert us if she shows up on CCTV?" Jack asked.

"Already done." Ianto replied.

"What do we know about her? Part time job, hobbies, boyfriend, we need to know where she might target next."

The team nodded.

"Call the university if she's staying in halls find out where, Tosh try and track her movements from leaving the club, see if she went back towards the uni halls."

"Right." Tosh nodded.

"We need a body to match the man, disfigure the face enough and dump in the bay, make it look like an accident." Jack said, Gwen was right the last time that telling his family that he committed suicide wasn't very fair.

The team split up and moved off to do their respective jobs.

Jack in the meanwhile tried to triangulate the origin of the crashed transport the alien came in on as he had done before, he ignored Gwen's probing into their personal lives quipping that he was married to the job.

Once they had the Erin's address they mobilised. Jack took Owen, Suzie and Gwen with him this time, simply because he knew that Suzie was good in a capture and Gwen was standing around doing nothing otherwise.

He warned Gwen before going in to treat this as she would in apprehending a suspect in the police force and to not let them out of her sight, but yet again the girl pulled a fast one on Gwen and dodged her attack, if it wasn't for Owen using the portable inflatable cell again she'd have got away.

"Power runs out after a while." Owen said as he looked at Erin in the cell.

"Next time ask permission to take stuff from the hub, how many times do I have to tell you." Jack told him sternly.

"Fine, don't thank me." Owen grumbled.

Jack ignored him and took Erin into custody.

Once back at the hub, he threw Gwen into the deep end once more and told her to interrogate Erin, whilst thinking he needed Suzie to go over gun safety with her by how she was acting back at Erin's halls.

Over dinner they discussed the case, and Owen teased Gwen in her interrogation tactics.

"She might have been releasing some pheromones." Jack defended since Gwen and Erin were caught in a pretty intense snog down in the cells.

"Sure, and why didn't she try that trick on us at her house."

"Might not have such a good effect on a group, we'd have an orgy on our hands, although if that were the case I might have rearranged the group that I took with me." Jack grinned.

"Yes, count me out. Sex with you?" Owen mock choked.

"Trust me Owen, that image would be in my nightmares." Jack deadpanned.

"What do we do with her?" Gwen asked. "She asked for help."

"Or the alien did to play on your compassion." Jack countered.

"Either way we need some sort of plan, can't we just send her on her way?" Andy asked. "Assuming we can remove the alien from the girl."

"Her ship was destroyed." Gwen said. "But we can't let her kill anyone else."

"Indefinite containment?" Owen asked solomly.

"It's not something I like to consider. First thing we need to find a way to get her out of the girls body." Jack replied.

"If that's possible." Owen said morbidly.

"She got in, she can get out." Jack said firmly.

After discussing the case, Jack started to regale them with a Torchwood case from a few years ago, telling it to Gwen and Andy.

"And she said…she said, 'If I'd known that's what he was, I never would have married him!'

"She knew! She knew all along!" Tosh laughed.

"She didn't care." Owen added.

"Until he started leaving black piles of mucus in the bathtub." Ianto deadpanned.

Jack grinned and took a sip from his drink. "Always the big giveaway. Aliens have no sense of household hygiene. Which reminds me, gotta pee." Jack stood up and left them.

As soon as Jack left the team turned to their new agents.

"So what he told you?"

"What?" Gwen asked.

"About himself?" Tosh asked.

"You've been here longer." Gwen said defensively.

"We were banking on you." Tosh said disappointedly.

"You're a copper, trained to ask question." Owen said looking between Andy and Gwen.

"You don't know anything?" Gwen asked shocked.

"Not who he is, not where he's from. Nothing, except him being gay." Owen said.

"No!" Gwen said in shock. "No, he's not, really, do you think?"

"Owen does, I don't" Tosh elaborated.

"I don't care." Ianto interjected.

"Period military is not the dress code of a straight man." Owen said self assured.

"I think it suits him. Sort of classic." Gwen said, he admired the handsome man.

"He did kiss the Doctor." Ianto said with a smirk.

"Yes you won that bet." Owen grumbled. "But it was only a kiss, the Doc seemed very clear that he wasn't some lover of Jack's."

"I've seen Jack in action. He'll shag anything if it's gorgeous enough." Tosh said.

"Well we know he's from America, right?" Gwen said starting on the obvious.

"We don't know that for sure." Suzie admitted.

"No US citizen by the name of Jack Harkness born in the last fifty years." Tosh said with a tone that indicated that she done the search herself.

"Maybe his identity is classified." Andy suggested.

"Ex CIA I reckon, someone big and got reassigned." Ianto offered. "Unless Jack Harkness is the name he changed to."

"He must have reasons for keeping things secret."

"Sure,"Owen shrugged. "Still want to know."

"We don't even know when he joined Torchwood." Tosh said in a conspiritoral tone.

"We can estimate however, the former leader of Torchwood Three committed suicide after killing his team on new years eve 1999, all bar Jack who was named the successor." Ianto said.

"You don't think that Jack had something to do with that?" Gwen asked in shock.

"No, I saw the report at Torchwood London, there was interference from an alien device." Ianto said, stopping when he heard Jack coming back.

"What you talking about?" Jack asked as he sat back down seeing everyone had stopped talking. "Ah, its that weird moment where everyone's been talking about you. Come on then, anything good?"

"Ianto was telling us about when he thought you started here, when was it Jack?" Gwen said.

Ianto closed his eyes and mentally rebuking Gwen for her idiocy.

"Ianto doesn't know when I started Torchwood." Jack said confused.

"No, well, he said that it was before 1999, because that's when you became leader here right?" Gwen continued.

Jack leaned back in his chair and looked at the rest of the team, Ianto looked like he would quite welcome a black hole under his seat, whereas Owen, Tosh and Suzie were hopeful they would get answers but at the same time feeling bad.

"I joined Torchwood in '99" Jack admitted.

"But how would you have been given leadership of the base after the homicide-suicide?" Gwen asked stupidly.

"They were my friends Gwen," Jack said angrily. "I saw them dead, and Alex spoke to me, he apologised that he couldn't spare me, and killed himself. Told me that Torchwood wasn't ready for the 21st century, told me to make something good of it."

"But less than a years experience?" Gwen continued in a slightly less sure tone of voice.

"Technically I was the only person left." Jack sighed and looked down at his hands. "You don't deserve to know my secrets Gwen, and there's a good reason why nobody knows them either."

"But, they don't know anything about you." She argued.

"What's to know? Who I am right now, right here is important, the rest is curiosity."

"Well we know the Doctor is in your past." Owen said slowly.

"The Doctor is in my past yes, he's also in my future." Jack said. "I'll be seeing him again soon enough, the rest of you will too."

"But where were you born? Just tell us something." Gwen asked.

Jack stood up in his chair, pondering it. "I can't tell you where I was born, everything is in context you see, telling you that leads to other questions."

"Owens more concerned about your sexuality." Ianto said offering Jack a way out.

"All you had to do was ask Owen." Jack leered.

"Gross." Owen muttered.

"As for my sexuality if you must know, I consider myself to be omnisexual if I had to place one of your labels on it."

"Omni?"

"Ever had sex with an alien?" Jack grinned.

"Gwen certainly was trying earlier." Owen deflected the attention to Gwen.

Jack slipped out of the room sending Ianto a wink in thanks.

The computer mainframe had been running full analysis on Erin and her cell in the time they took to eat which he gladly told Gwen when she accused them of not doing enough, Tosh had found that Jacks earlier joke about sex pheromones were right and she had a potent amount in the air surrounding her.

Jack cursed when he forgot how Carys escaped, it appeared that Erin had done a runner whilst Owen was running tests in her cell, he rushed to the main hub sending the others to the cells to get Owen out. He had to save the Doctor's hand.

Jack tried blocking Erin's escape from the hub, but unluckily she used the hand in defence.

"No, not that. That's worthless to everyone but me." Jack shouted at her.

Erin looked confused since it was a hand in a jar but used it to her advantage. Slowly she backed out of the hub, Jack following her, they made it the whole way up to the tourist office where Ianto was behind the counter.

"Need me to do any attacking sir?" He asked.

"Thanks for the offer Ianto, stay there, just open the door."

Ianto pressed the button and the tourist office door opened.

"Now give that." Jack asked now he knew how important it was to the Doctor and to Donna and he guessed to Rose, he couldn't let it get damaged.

Erin considered her options and like Cary's did she threw the jar as far from her into the tourist office as she could throw and ran in the opposite direction.

Ianto since he had been told to stay behind the counter was in a prime position to catch the jar as it flew over the counter.

Jack turned and leapt over the counter.

"You caught it." Jack said dumbfounded.

"Er, yes, it appears so." Ianto said placing it carefully on the counter.

Jack grinned and kissed Ianto chastely on the lips in exuberant thanks before grabbing the jar as Tosh, and Suzie ran after Erin.

"What's important about the hand sir?" Ianto asked getting over the shock of Jack kissing him, and the fact he liked it.

"It's the Doctor's hand, he's going to need it soon, I need to give it back to him,"

"You've had that for some time sir, and the Doctor was here mere weeks ago."

"Wrong Doctor, timelines Ianto, it was the wrong timeline, I need to give it to his younger self."

"Right." Ianto nodded.

"Let's see if they caught Erin."

Suzie and Tosh came back with no Erin in tow. Owen was downstairs trying to use the CCTV tracking to find her.

Gwen in the meanwhile had started to lecture Jack on the importance of human life over a severed hand whilst Andy tried to stop her.

"Gwen, you have no idea what this hand will be used for so don't pretend to." Jack said looking at the hand that moved a few fingers as if waving.

"It's a severed hand." Gwen almost yelled.

"This hand will contribute to saving the lives of all of us, as well as all of the Doctors most recent companions. But you are still a naïve human that can only see five minutes in front of her face." Jack replied angrily. "You need to see the bigger picture, if you really want to prove yourself you find her."

"Fine," Gwen stalked off.

"She's just stubborn." Andy said. "Usually for the right reasons."

"She needs to trust the team and she need's to look beyond the moment."

"So how far in advance are you looking?" Andy asked quietly.

Jack looked up at him. "Hundred years, I'm making sure first contact goes on as scheduled."

"Tell me it's with a good kind of alien, not the enslaving type." Andy joked.

"Yes, it's good, it'll be the start of the great and bountiful human race, spreading across three galaxies."

"How do you know that?"

"I travelled with the Doctor, he has a time machine." Jack explained.

"Gwen doesn't know that?" Andy asked with a grin.

"Nope." Jack mirrored his grin.

An hour later and after Owens troubling conclusion that the combination of gases that were inhabiting Erin would soon cause Erin's body to implode, the race seemed to be on to find her.

"We have to think like her." Gwen said taking charge, like she wasn't the rookie.

"Find her motivations?" Andy asked.

"So we can find her." Gwen agreed.

"But who is controlling the impulse? Erin or the alien?"

"The over-riding impulse for the alien is to have sex." Tosh stated.

"So what, brothels?"

"Erin's impulse is to have sex as that's what the alien wants, but she knows it will kill her, where would she go?"

"I'd come round and shag you." Owen told Gwen.

"So eager men easy to pick up?" Jack stated.

"Well, she knows it's going to kill them right. I'd know where to start." Tosh said.

Unfortunately they had no record of Erin having a boyfriend, so they went back to her dorm room and looked for any significant male appearing in her photos or text messages on her phone, Ianto back at the hub said there was a private message between Erin and a female friend bemoaning a guy she had been sleeping with a little while, Erin had just found out that he had been sleeping with another girl too, it took Ianto a little time to find the name of the mysterious man but as soon as he had he relayed the information to Jack. They were too late to save the boyfriend however, they burst into his dorm room and found a pile of dust on his bed.

"Too late." Jack said angrily.

"What now?" Gwen asked.

"Look here." Jack picked up a flyer from the boys desk, it was for a fresher ice breaker party that night.

"Isn't a party too public?"

"Fresher party, full of freshmen, cocky blokes who don't care who they shag." Owen said.

"Let's try it." Jack replied.

They made their way to the house where the party was, Ianto providing directions. Once there they slipped inside and tried to blend in and make their way upstairs, Tosh stayed downstairs to keep an eye out for Erin if she was down there whilst the others went to clear out the upstairs rooms.

Jack burst into one room and found a small pile of dust. "Shit."

He ducked out and waved to the others to hurry their pace. Three rooms and three piles of dust later they found Erin and a young man in the room.

"Get out." Jack told the young man who ran away. Jack pointed his gun at Erin as did the others behind him, he was irritated to observe Gwen holding her gun loosely pointed at the ground, he heard Owen tell Tosh to head upstairs.

"Nowhere to run." Jack said quietly but dangerously.

Erin turned to them she glanced out the window, but it was two storeys high and they'd reach her before she got the window open. "All this sex. All we see, all we think. So much beauty…and so much fear." She said wearily. "We want it, but we're so afraid."

Erin doubled over in a fit of pain, Jack grabbed Gwens arm as she rushed forward, he pushed her roughly behind him.

"The strains too much, any second now, and its rat jam." Owen said morbidly.

"One more and I'll be strong. Each time, it works less. Each time, the feelings weaker. One more. Make me feel alive. Feel human." She begged.

"I can't" Gwen said from where she wriggled past Jack.

"I can." Jack holstered his gun and stepped forward.

"Jack!"

"I've got a surplus of alive. I'll give it to you." Jack told Erin like he told Carys.

Jack kneeled by Erin's side and kissed her willing to feel that energy transfer, feeling the glow passing from him to her.

"What is he doing?" Owen asked confused.

"That's just a kiss, imagine the rest." Jack flirted and watched amused as Erin collapsed but still remained concious.

"Again, not the reaction I anticipated."

"Her body won't last long." Owen reminded him.

Gwen stepped closer to Jack and Erin. "Use me, Leave Erin and use my body as host."

"No." Jack grabbed Gwens arm.

"I'm stronger than she is. I'll last longer. You might be able to save me, I don't know."

"Fine," Jack stood up, he debated her definition of stronger.

"You can't let her!" Tosh said in shock.

"Like she said, she's partially responsible." Jack took a step back so that he was a few steps behind Gwen with Owen and Tosh behind him.

Gwen encouraged the alien to leave Erin and take her as a host and as soon as the purplish gas cleared Erin's body and approached Gwen Jack neatly chucked the inflatable cell that Owen used the previous day on Erin and captured the alien. Within seconds it had died in the atmosphere.

Jack kneeled by the dust left by the alien muttering about dying alone, thinking about Owen dying alone in Turnmill, about the others he knew dying alone.

"Thank you." Gwen said softly, Jack remembered just in time to turn his head slightly as she had grasped his chin and kissed him, he turned his head so she only kissed the corner of his mouth.

Jack gladly made sure that Erin was ok, Gwen had made sure that Erin took some time to go home for the weekend at least to recover.

Jack also knew he needed a serious chat with Gwen.

He found her clearing up her attempt at profiling on Erin.

"You need to keep your life." Jack told her.

"Sorry?"

"Your life outside of this is important, don't let it slip okay." Jack said.

"Sure."

"I mean it Gwen, tell Rhys you're in special ops, tell him bits you can in code or whatever, I mean you can't tell him about what you investigate in the police completely it's the same."

"I go home and tell him there was a sex crazed alien on the loose." Gwen said sarcastically.

"No, serial killer." Jack smiled.

"He won't understand." Gwen said, she looked at Jack through her eyelashes giving him her doe eyed look. "What about you? You went all out to keep me safe." Gwen took a few steps towards Jack.

"I'll protect everyone on my team Gwen, but you need to get your act together. Everyone's got tomorrow off but day after that you are going to be retraining with Suzie and are off field missions."

"What?" Gwen asked in surprise, she halted in her progression towards jack.

"You didn't see Erin as a threat because she was possessed, wrong move that could have cost you both your lives. You also flaunted basic gun safety twice by my account and I like it when people stand up to me, but you need to trust my judgement I've been doing this for some time."

"Too long, you've forgotten what it's like to be human." Gwen muttered.

"So remind us, but don't push it in the other's faces, it won't get you friends. Go home Gwen." Jack told her.

Gwen nodded and turned away.

"Oh and Gwen." Jack waited until Gwen turned back. "Don't try and kiss me again, I'm not interested, you have your boyfriend keep hold of him."

Gwen coloured slightly that she was brought up on her behaviour and quickly left.

Jack sighed, and wished it had been easier dealing with this alien, so much for avoiding certain bad days.

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