Previously:

"Then you can see him."

Jack looked up at her, "Thank you."

Gwen nodded and stood up walking over to her work station as Andy entered. He saw the tears on Jack's face and looked away, going over to his own work station with a mumbled hello. An awkward silence settled over them. Neither Gwen nor Andy made a move to talk again so Jack stood and went into his office. The silence remained until the cog door rolled back to reveal an amused John talking to a rather scared looking Donna and Rose whilst the Doctor was messing about with one of his many strange devices that no one is allowed to touch.

"John, could you please take another look at that artefact that came through the Rift the other day? I can't find any record of anything like it," called Gwen upon seeing that he was scaring their guests. Both Donna and Rose breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the couch behind Gwen. The Doctor simply continued walking into Jack's office, still engrossed in the device that had now started beeping at him.

The rest of the morning was spent in relative peace with Donna, Rose and Gwen talking about clothes and celebrities and reading magazines, Andy providing coffee and biscuits when needed and getting on with the organisation of any paperwork backlog, John wandering around making lewd comments and then being banished to the firing range. Jack and the Doctor spent most of the morning in Jack's office. Even the arrival of Martha didn't stir the relaxed inhabitants of the hub. Yesterday's drama seemed temporarily forgotten by all.

Jack desperately wanted to ask Gwen when he was going to see Ianto but he didn't want to push the Welshwoman. It was killing him being sat here knowing that his boy was hurt and not being able to see him, to comfort him. At this moment in time he wanted nothing more than to hold his beautiful Ianto in his arms and tell him he loved him. Noticing that Jack was no longer paying him any attention whatsoever, the Doctor went off in search of a cup of tea. Jack sat staring into space reminiscing about his happy times with Ianto for well over an hour. It wasn't until the rift alarm started blaring round the hub that he snapped back and left his office.

Gwen was immediately at her computer looking at the new rift data. "There's just been a huge surge in rift energy. It seems to be coming from an abandoned warehouse on the other side of the bay. Whatever it is, it's cancelled out all the CCTV footage, I can't get any visuals of the exterior let alone inside it."

"Joy, oh joy. Yet more surprises for us!" snarked John walking into the main area. As one, everyone but Gwen and Martha turned to look at him. "What?! Just saying."

"Anyway, Andy you stay here and coordinate, Martha grab the medical kit, John stop being an arse and get the SUV," ordered Gwen. She looked over at Jack, "Are you coming?"

Jack nodded, "Sure." He knew that Gwen was testing him and he needed to pass. He needed to be reaccepted by her so he could stay here and, more importantly, see Ianto again.

Gwen then offered for the Doctor, Rose and Donna to come but they all declined. Donna wanted to call home and check on her family while she had the chance, Rose wanted to simply relax and catch up on all the latest celebrity gossip and the Doctor was far too interested in looking at all of the gadgets that were once used by Tosh, though he only found one that he had a way to improve out of over 20 different devices designed and built by their departed genius.

As they left to go find John and the SUV, Andy moved over to Gwen's workstation and started work on trying to re-establish the CCTV in the area and opened the comm-lines.

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An hour and a half later the weary team returned. It had been nothing more than a boulder that Jack said came from 48th century earth judging by the readings they had taken. They scoped all the buildings in a 50ft radius to see if there had been anything else but they came up with nothing. What had taken the most time was deciding what to do with the rock. They wouldn't dare try to break it, not after what happened on Gwen's very first day at Torchwood, and none of them were very keen on leaving it there. Although harmless, it would seem very strange if anyone happened upon a rock like no other on earth at this time and being about 3ft tall and about 2ft wide of solid rock it was not going to be easy to move.

Eventually it was agreed that they would have to bring it back to the hub and store it in the archives as there was nothing else for it. They had to bring the SUV right into the warehouse as it was too heavy to carry all the way out. On their original search of the building Jack had found a very old set of wheels used for carrying heavy boxes. This had made it slightly easier to lift the boulder but it was still backbreaking work and they were all exhausted by the time they had lifted it into the boot of the SUV.

Once they reached the hub the four faced another problem in how to get it out of the SUV, getting it down to the archives wouldn't be a problem as they had bought the wheels from the warehouse with them. Jack and John had to lift it out the boot while the girls held the wheels so it could go straight on there. What no one had counted on was a cat finding its way down into their underground parking lot and making them all jump, causing the rock to slip from the hands of the Captains and land rather heavily on Jack's foot. After much swearing (on Jack's part) and effort they were able to get the rock on the wheels. John and Gwen went ahead pushing the trolley with Martha supporting a limping Jack following behind. They took the rock straight down to the archives where it would later be categorised while Martha and Jack hobbled over to the Autopsy Room where she could find out how much damage had been done to Jack's foot while they explained what had happened to a rather worried Donna and Rose. Andy, who had heard the whole thing over the comms went to help Gwen and John while the Doctor had not looked up from his examination of the Mainframe on Tosh's old computer.

After an x-ray and some rather painful poking of Jack's part, Martha announced that it was indeed broken but that it should heal within the next couple of days with Jack's healing rate, but he had to keep his weight off of it and rest for the next day at least. Great, thought Jack. Just what I needed!

A/N: Poor Jack! I feel really mean right now, but never fear dear readers! There will be Janto goodness for you in chapter 8 or 9, it just depends on whether I put the next two chapters together.

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