Owen tossed the keys to Gwen as they neared the Saab in the parking lot. "You better drive" he said. He held up his bandaged hand. "I'm a bit unsteady at the wheel"

"Well it's a good thing I agreed to come along then isn't?" Gwen catched the keys in mid air and made for the driver side of the car, as Owen placed Ianto's bottle of vinegar into the boot and headed for the passenger side.

"Wait up guys!" Ianto called, jogging over to them and slipped into the back seat of the car, as all three of them closed the doors in sync.

Gwen turned the ignition on and revved up the engine, wheel spinning out the parking lot and up the ramp with a bang. She forgot the Saab didn't have half the suspension the SUV did and accelerated towards the farm.

"Women drivers!" Owen moaned.

Gwen pulled a face, ignoring him once again, knowing it wasn't worth getting worked up over, especially while she was driving. Up ahead she could see she was running into traffic so she took the right hand lane on the dual carriageway and criss crossed back and forth to the left hand lane to avoid the traffic jam. She got various horns blown in her direction but at least she shown Owen that she wasn't just a pretty face.

She knew no one on the team could beat Jack's driving and she often moaned that Jack drove like he did everything else in life: aggressively, theatrically and at enough speed that he hoped people wouldn't notice the rough edges. He had never had an accident, but Gwen wasn't sure why not; he seemed to be working very hard at it after all. Ianto had told her about the number of speeding tickets the police sent to the dummy license address – it was a morning's work every few weeks hacking into the police computer system and cancelling them all.

She was at the farm in no time and just around the corner she spotted the SUV up ahead. She parked just behind it, using the gears to slow it down instead of sending the car into a roll on the mud. Owen was out the car before she or Ianto had so much as unclasped their seat-belts. "Somebody's on a promise!" Ianto muttered as Gwen climbed out the car and shut her side door, taking in her scenery.

Ianto stepped out into a pool of mud, which may well have been the worst possible thing he could have ever done, never mind the spaceship crashing! His shiny shoes were now filthy and to top it all of, the rim around his trousers at the shin was know damp with the brown stuff. He shut his side door along with Owen's as Gwen took the vinegar from the boot and locked the car. He proceeded the right way up the driveway to the cottage and farm instead of climbing over the fences and scrambling over fields, which would have spoilt his suit even more. On the plus side the sun was now shinning.

"JACK!" He heard Gwen's voice up ahead and rushed around the side of the house to see several things at once. There was a couple with a dog in shock, Jack was lying awkwardly on the ground and Ianto swallowed, no matter how many times he saw Jack die and come back to life, he just couldn't get used to it and often thought maybe Jack's time could come to an end when he was out longer then usual. There was a woman near the space craft he recognized as the Cardiff's Mayor from a few years back, but automatically knew it was the Slitheen. Her weight gave it away, Slitheens, normally squeezed into those kind of skins, but couldn't hold back the gas exchange. He came up to the conclusion that they had arrived just in time, because Jack had, indeed, needed backup.

Gwen and Owen approached the couple, unsure whether or not the dog would attack. Jess backed away behind Mark. "Hi, I'm Gwen Cooper and this is Owen Harper," she introduced them. "Maybe we should get you inside for the moment until we are done here."

Jess nodded and took Gwen's comforting hand and headed towards the cottage, passing Ianto as they did so, who stopped and gave them a slight nod. Jess had obviously fallen for Gwen's sympathetic side. Mark eyed Owen up, and not the way Jack would have considered in a nice way. Owen gave him a smile and said "You too" and gestured towards the cottage.

Ianto went over to where Gwen had dropped the vinegar and picked it up, away from the golden retriever that was sniffing around it. "Nice dog by the way"