The phone was ringing, Jack could hear it, but he was down in the vaults, whereas the phone was in the top of the hub. "Gwen," he said turning on his earpiece. "Can you get that?"

"yeh," she replied, her voice devoid of emotion. The ringing cut off sharpish. "Hello?" he heard Gwen say before she turned off her earpiece. He looked Janet, the resident weevil over one last time and jogged out of the vault.

He had just got back to the hub when Gwen hung up. Her brown eyes looked wide, and worried. "What's wrong?" he asked as he approached. "I hope it's not the PM again, 'cause I told him earlier, we were dealing with it."

"No," Gwen faltered. "Jack, it was UNIT, they want control." Jack stared at her, waiting for her to smile, or look away from him, but she didn't. She was serious. UNIT wanted control; things had to be serious outside the bubble of Wales.

"Wait, like take control of the operation or of Torchwood?" he asked, wondering which of the two he was more worried about.

"The man on the other end didn't exactly make that clear… I presume just the operation. Oh, Owen and Ianto are on the way back, they fixed the phones."

"Well I guessed that," Jack said, nodding at the phone.

"Obviously." Gwen said hitting her head with the palm of her hand. "You'll be pleased to know the Medias calming down."

Well that's one blessing," he said, walking away. "Now, I'd better go and talk to UNIT."

"UNIT, London." The brisk efficient tone reached jack's ear as he sat, feet on desk, in his office.

"Torchwood," Jack replied. "3." Immediately, the tone of voice changed, it sounded less genuine, but a lot more scared, and worried.

"Captain Harkness, were you wishing to talk to an authoritive figure, or" the voice paused, "Madam Jones?" Jack sighed, he had met this reaction before, the people of UNIT had quite a love/ hate relationship with Torchwood, they also seemed to have the same reaction to Martha Jones.

"Both please" jack answered keeping his poise and pretending not to hear the change of tone. "Authority first I think."

"One moment please, Captain." The voice dripped with sarcasm at the word captain, as if scum would be a better title. Jack had no time to reply before he was re-directed to Colonel Mace.