A/N: Here you go guys! An update at last. It took a while but no that's only because I decided to update with a chapter that had at least 1000 words because my others have been so short. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it and keep reviewing! There is a lot of jumping about in this chapter.

Chapter Ten

"Shh." Rose's head peered round the corner of the corridor, "Coast is clear," she crept round the corner followed by a line of people that comprised of the Doctor, Martha, Jack, Zebadiah and Jackie,

"Why do you get to be at the front?" Jack complained from the middle of the line.

"Do you want to lead?" Rose yelled in a whisper as loud as she dared, so it came out rather more comically than she had meant, Jack shook his head and the Doctor sniggered. It was best not to get in the way of Rose, which is why she was at the front,

"I think I can hear something!" whimpered Jackie who hadn't realised just how dangerous one of these search parties would be. The group pinned themselves to the wall listening desperately. After a moment they all heard the tapping of shoes on concrete as someone walked up the corridor they had just left.

"Quick in here!" called the Doctor and that is how the group found themselves all back in the cupboard.

"Déjà vu." Rose slumped against the wall, feeling that the only thing she'd accomplished this morning was to get her mother, her friend, his friend and the father of her children captured along with her. "Great."

"So, how do you know Jack then?" Gwen asked Mickey.

"My ex met him during World War Two." Gwen stopped walking but Mickey continued. "Then when I went to go visit her and the Doctor in Cardiff, he answered the door."

"Cardiff in World War Two?" Mickey turned round at this comment.

"No." he replied as if he thought it was obvious, "Cardiff 2005." He started walking again.

"Then what do you mean World War Two?" She ran to catch up.

"Well, he tried to scam her into buying a spaceship or does he not trust you enough to tell you his life story?" This is when Sarah Jane came in.

"The captain tried to scam Rose?" she asked shocked. "Hmm, I thought he was nicer than that."

"That's debatable but I'll tell you what, he is heavy!" Donna interrupted, causing the small group to look at her, making them forget that they were pretending to have not been listening in to the conversation. "He stood on my foot while we were dancing."

"I thought, Rose said he was a good dancer." Mickey answered. "She danced with him."

"Yeah, well you see, he wasn't actually dancing with me, I was dancing with, Leo, was it? Martha's brother."

"You do realise he's with someone don't you?" Mickey asked.

"Doesn't bother me that much." Donna replied and Sarah Jane looked almost as shocked as before. She really didn't feel as though she fit in at all.

The Doctor and the others waited for the footsteps to pass before sneaking back out of the cupboard.

"Right. Follow me." The Doctor whispered, sneaking along the corridor till he reached a line of three doors. "Hmm. I wonder what is behind door number one?" He opened the door with the sonic screwdriver to find a Weevil staring back out at him. "Maybe not." He shut the door as quickly as possible. "Let's try door number two…" He opened it to find a massive hole in the floor. "uh… this is a very strange place… Last chance…" He opened the final door. "This is more like it!" he exclaimed and waltzed into the room.

The others followed him through the door then closed it quietly behind them. They turned to find that they were in what appeared to be a control room, as the Doctor helpfully pointed out. 'It's a room full of controls!'

"So it is." Rose replied as if no one would have guessed. They looked at the screens, trying to make sure that no one was coming and found the one that showed what was going on outside the compound.

"Hey that looks like Gwen!" Jack said over the Doctor's shoulder. "And Owen, Tosh and Ianto!"

"And that's Sarah Jane and Mickey!" added Rose.

"And Donna." Finished the Doctor.

"How did they get here?" asked Jackie desperate to join the conversation.

"That is how." Answered Jack, pointing to the black 4x4 in the background. You could just make out the engraving, 'TORCHWOOD' on the side.

Mickey, who had taken charge, slipped out of the driver's seat of the 4x4. He shut the door quietly behind him and beckoned to the others to follow him. The group got out the car and gathered round him.

"Look up there." Mickey whispered pointing at the CCTV camera above them. "I've tried to disable the cameras but I can't so we'll just have to be careful."

"Can't we try?" Tosh asked, obviously annoyed at not being offered the chance to do anything.

"Try if you want but it won't do anything." Tosh got out her laptop and tried some frantic typing but, as Mickey had said, it didn't do anything. "Now do you believe me?"

"Should we go out and help them?" Jackie asked but stopped when she saw the look that the Doctor had just given her.

"And how on Earth—" he paused then corrected himself. "How in Pete's world do you think we're going to do that?"

"What do you mean how?"

"Well, for one thing, we're in here and they're out there. Two, we are hiding from the bad guys and four—"

"Three." Interrupted Rose.

"And three, they don't know we can see them."

"How are we going to get in?" Sarah Jane asked Owen and the question was passed, Chinese whispers-style, down the row until it got to Mickey. Mickey heard what sounded like, 'pass me the tin.'

"What?!" he hissed but was interrupted when the door in front of them opened and the line of the people hiding behind the Torchwood car ducked.

"Hey, Phil? You got any of that alcohol left?" The man yelled over his shoulder as he stepped out the door.

"Nah mate! You know why we're gaurdin' the door yet?" Phil answered.

"Yeah, Them people locked in the cells ain't allowed out."

"What you mean? That's two floors down, Brad. No one could escape that."

Brad looked around him, not giving the 4x4 a second glance. "You fancy skiving off?" he whispered.

"Nah man, we'll be fired mate."

"Who cares, this job is lousy anyway and the pay is rubbish."

With that, the guards left, leaving the door open. Mickey and the group were standing, staring at the open door for what seemed like ages before Ianto looked at the group and said, "I guess that's how we get in."