Jack was slightly unnerved by how quickly the whole team seemed to get back to normal. Gwen, Owen and Holly were acting like a family unit, Owen, Gwen and Tosh seemed to be on close friend terms as though nothing had happened and Holly was unusually chatty, apparently willing to leave her own world and enter theirs.

Something was wrong. It had to be. It never happened like this. Jack had seen this situation so many times before and each time it had ended ion disaster. He had witnessed far too many strange things not to be able to sense when something was up.

"Are you sure that it can't just be a happy ending for once?" Ianto asked gently, taking Jack's hand as he stood next to his partner in the boardroom, watching the rest of the team below.

"No, something's wrong about all this," Jack ran his free hand through his hair. "I… I didn't say anything before, but Owen knew you were going to agree."

"Agree to what?" Ianto asked.

"To having kids," Jack paused, frowning down at Owen. "He just knew. It was like…"

Jack paled slightly.

"What?" Ianto knew instinctively when Jack was onto something and something bad at that.

"No, its fine, I can't be right," Jack waved the idea away.

"Don't say that!" Ianto moaned. "You're always right when you say that!"

"Am I?" Jack bit his lip. "Well I suppose I'd better explain my hunch then…"

Gwen and Tosh were stood chatting, watching Owen play with Holly. The pair had talked over what had happened between them and though they had both admitted they felt very close, both decided that it was a one night stand that had happened only because they were upset.

"I told Owen about the baby as well," Gwen grinned.

"How far gone are you now?" Tosh asked.

"I haven't checked the dates officially yet, I've got an appointment this afternoon, but I think I'm roughly five months," Gwen replied. "I've certainly got a bit of a bump anyway."

She rested one hand on her stomach, glancing over at her family and smiling contentedly.

Owen and Holly were chasing each other round the Hub, chattering so fast that it was hard to understand what they were saying sometimes. But they seemed to be having fun and that was all that mattered.

Until Holly suddenly stopped and Owen caught up to her, gathering her up in his arms.

"Daddy, I don't want Mummy to have the baby," she said, turning to look at her father. Owen frowned slightly.

"Why not?" He asked.

"Because he'll bring bad things," Holly replied.

"A baby won't do any harm, Holly," Owen promised, brushing her sandy brown hair off her face.

"But he will!" Holly insisted.

"What's going to happen?" Owen asked, setting Holly on one hip, whilst he wandered over to his workstation to clean up some of the papers that had fallen off when they'd been running round.

"He's going to kill Mummy!" Holly said sadly. "He doesn't mean to, but he will…"

Owen stared at Holly for a moment and then sat her down on his desk, looking at her carefully.

"How do you know this Holly?" He asked.

"I can see it," Holly shrugged then tapped her head. "In here."

Owen pondered this for a moment.

"How is the baby going to kill Mummy?" He said very carefully.

"Mummy's…" Holly paused, looking at Owen through her big electric blue eyes. "Mummy's going to be left behind."

Owen frowned slightly, but Holly refused to say anything else after that. So in the end Owen scooped her up and took her to find something to drink to calm her down a bit.

Ianto was willing to accept Jack's explanation. It certainly fitted their current situation, but it was how to deal with it that Jack seemed to be having trouble with.

"You see, Gwen's distant ancestor was the responsible for her own parents deaths and I don't want Holly to be the same," Jack bit his lip considering.

"Can't you just monitor her psychic connections?" Ianto asked.

"I could, but it would be tricky," Jack admitted. "And even if I was able to, I wouldn't know how to break the connection."

"What about if you just asked Holly to break it?" Ianto suggested. "She must have some control over her powers?"

"Anything's worth a try," Jack agreed. "I'll set up a scanner tomorrow to see if she's actually using her powers at all."

Ianto nodded.

"Want a cup of tea?" He asked.

"Yeah, thanks, love," Jack gave Ianto a quick kiss wondering silently to himself what he would do without the Welshman.