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Help?

Ianto swore under his breath as they reached the small house in the side street behind the old Infirmary. He knew Rachel was their only hope and he prayed the retired nurse would be willing to help. He pulled the car into a parking space outside the little terraced house where Rachel lived. He smiled slightly as he saw the net curtains twitch. He smiled slightly as he realised the little street in Canton hadn't changed at all. The neighbours were still as nosy as ever.

"Jack?"

"Yeah?"

"I think she's home." Ianto nodded towards the small terraced house in the middle of the street. Rachel had already opened the door and was watching as Jack manhandled Gwen into a sitting position as the colour drained from her face. He brushed her dark hair from her face as she opened one eye.

"You ok?"

"Bugger off Jack."

"She's ok." Ianto smiled as Rachel appeared at the side of the car. She tapped on the window as Ianto opened it.

"Jack Harkness, what on Earth are you doing?"

"Hello." He tried his best charm smile. "She needs help."

"I can see that." Rachel tugged her grey cardigan around her as the wind whipped through her equally grey hair. "She should be in the hospital."

"I can't" Jack held her gaze. "You know who I am. What I am. She's my daughter."

"Then I feel sorry for the child. Get her inside." Rachel turned on her heel muttering that they never should have closed the Infirmary. Ianto raised an eyebrow as Gwen swore under her breath. She didn't really know what Jack was doing but she didn't appreciate being bundled into a stranger's home.

"Jack?"

"SSh."

"Anwen?"

"Don't worry. I'll leave you with Rachel and Ianto. I'll go and get her and her Dad. Trust me, Rhys is a good man. Nothing will happen to her with him around." He kissed her forehead as he lowered her onto the sofa as Ianto walked across to her.

"Find Donna and the others." Ianto instructed. Rachel ushered him into the hallway as the rain began to pound the street.

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"Bloody Hell." Donna muttered under her breath as she took the baby from Rhys. Anwen held her gaze. It was obvious the baby was not the type to scare easily. "It's ok."

"Yeah." Rhys took the baby back from Donna. "And mind your language around her. I dun want her first word to be bloody, alright."

"Keep your hair on." Donna hissed as she looked out into the street. The rainsoaked streets were covered in puddles. The rain continued to pelt the ground, leaving puddles where drains and potholes used to be.

"Tell me you have a plan."

"You know what? I do." Donna stepped out into the street. "Come on."

"Well, what is it then?"

"Keep the Hell away from them and find your wife and the others. Otherwise we get to sit her and be killed by them." She nodded back to the doorway as the noise of their persuers became louder and louder. Anwen' s eyes widened as Rhys cuddled her to him and followed Donna out into the rain.

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"Here." Rachel held out a cold cloth to Ianto. "Rest this on her cut and tell me what happened."

"Who are you?" Gwen asked as she began to shake slightly.

"I'm a friend of your Dad's"

"Another bloody conquest." Gwen closed her eyes as Ianto looked at the cloth.

"No." Rachel snapped. "I am certainly not that. He's nice enough but I assure you I am not the type of woman to fall for his charms. You see that photo on top of my telly?" Gwen nodded and realised it was not the best idea. "That's my Kate. My partner of nearly twenty five years. So you see when I say Jack is a friend. I mean he is a friend."

"I'm ssorry."

"It's ok." Rachel sighed. "You, Gwen Cooper have concussion and a laceration to your scalp. By rights you should be in the City Hospital. But seeing as you can't you have to be woken on the hour, every hour. I'll sort out the cut and Ianto and I can keep an eye on you. I'll teach you to take a blood pressure." She shone a light in Gwen's eyes. Gwen screwed her eyes shut.

"Where's Kate?" Ianto asked.

"Dead." Rachel sighed. "Breast Cancer. Two years and six months ago. Gave the bastard a good fight mind you. Proper valley's girl. Doesn't give up."

"Sorry." Ianto sighed, he knew how he would have felt if it had been Jack.

"Don't be." Rachel sighed. "She was a good woman. My best friend as well as everything else. We had a great 28 years together. That's the main thing."

Ianto nodded. He knew she was right but he could also sense the pain behind the words, the nurse was already turning her attention to cleaning the cut on Gwen's scalp, neither wanted to admit her words were still laced with pain or that Ianto was all to able to understand the pain of loosing the love of your life. Gwen hissed as the the antiseptic hit the broken skin.

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"THIS IS DONNA NOBLE. NOT ANSWERING THE PHONE AT THE MOMENT, SORRY BYE." Jack threw his mobile onto the car seat as he started the engine. He had to warn his friend. He knew she was the magnet for trouble the Doctor had warned him about. For a moment he wondered if his old friend would react badly if he knew she hadn't died when she had remembered. He smiled as he pictured the look on his face. But the Doctor had regenerated. People change. People move on. Only the way he saw it his former colleagues at Torchwood London hadn't been able to move on. He thanked his lucky stars for Rose, the dimension jumper had managed to warn him about the escapies from the Rift before they had been able to kill Donna. He threw the car into drive as he prayed that Donna, Rhys and the baby were safe.

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