After sorting out the advert and confirming that Owen's undercover had been accepted they all got back to working on their own side projects as there was nothing else they could do at that moment. Jack took Ianto with him to talk to one of the patients in hospital, hoping that they would be able to learn more about what was going on. Gwen had been sent home by Jack to try and not lose her life outside of Torchwood - Jack hadn't been very impressed when he discovered how much she was letting her normal life slip away from her.

When Jack walked back in with Ianto he was visibly fuming as he walked through the hub towards the cells, Lucy and Tosh looked at each other and quickly followed.

"What did he say?" Lucy asked, as the two girls and Ianto had to almost run to keep up with their boss.

"He wouldn't tell us." Ianto replied.

"Said 'everyone' would kill him." Jack added as he pulled the cell door open.

"What did he mean, everyone?" Tosh asked

"That's all he'd say. Couldn't get any more out of him" Ianto replied again as Jack opened the window on the door to Janet's cell

"That only leaves us one option. Ok, Janet, time for a trip out." He unlocked the cell door and they stared at him in shock and horror.

"No." Lucy was the first to regain her voice, "Jack that cannot be the only plan!"

"We've got Owen in undercover, I just want back up that he's going to the right place."

They all argued with him as he put a sack over Janet's head and placed her in the boot of the SUV. It got even worse when he drove straight into the middle of town.

"You want to release a Weevil into the middle of Cardiff!" Tosh exploded

"Not exactly in the middle," Jack replied, "a little to the side. We'll place the tracker in its boiler suit so when they capture it, we'll know exactly where they are."
"It could kill any number of people before then." Tosh still wasn't impressed and Lucy added to her argument.

"Jack, can I remind you that we spend half our working lives in weevil hunts making sure that this doesn't happen. For the exact reasons that Tosh is bringing up. Plus if you manage to lose Janet, Owen really won't be very impressed."
"Well when Owen remembers he has a full time job then I'll start caring about how impressed he is with me."

"I'm with Tosh and Lucy." Ianto said. "There's no telling what might happen."
"We set it lose in the same place where they took the other one. It's deserted this time of night. We'll be with it every step of the way." He stopped the car once they had gone up enough floors in the multi-storey and opened the boot with a press of the button. The tracker in Janet's boiler suit bleeped as it jumped out the back of the SUV and started to run away.

"Tracker working?"
Tosh looked down at her handhold which was continually receiving live information from said tracker.

"Yeah."
"Go Janet!"
"For the record Jack, I'm still not happy with this and this could possibly be one of the worst plans you've ever had" Lucy said wryly as she leant back and rested her head. "But for all its madness I'm with you every step of the way."

"Thanks" Jack said sarcastically as he started the SUV again and drove back through the car park in the same direction the at the weevil just took. "Out of interest do you know anything about this?"

Lucy thought and shrugged.

"I know I probably should. I can tell you that it was written by Mickey."
"Mickey the Idiot?" Jack laughed and Lucy nodded

"Yup, his counterpart writes a lot of stuff, I've not watched most of it though. In this one we've got... weevils disappearing, Owen going mental after Diane disappears, Owen going into the cage..." Lucy was ticking things off on her hands as she tried to remember what happened in this episode. It was only when she said something that hadn't happened yet she remembered what was going to happen and froze. They all looked at her.
"Owen goes into a cage?" Tosh asked. "Does his undercover fail? Should we get him out?"

"Errrrr..." Lucy tried to figure out how to answer her friend's questions. "All I'm going to say is he does a really fucking stupid thing but he is grieving for Diane and seeing as the only other person he's loved was Katie..."

Jack nodded in understanding.

"So you're saying we should lighten up on Owen then?"
"God no, he's still a dick." Lucy laughed " I'm just saying that this time he has a reason for being such a dick. And don't be too harsh on him after the whole cage thing..."

"Well when I know what the whole cage thing is and I know what an appropriate response is, I shall try to not be too harsh. Tosh where's Janet gone?"
"Second right, 200 metres ahead." Tosh instructed Jack and the conversation deftly moved on from what Lucy had inadvertently spilled. "Shit! Stop the car." Jack hit his foot against the brake pedal hard pulling the car to a halt. "She's taken a left, pedestrian access only." Tosh explained not taking her eyes off her PDA which was tracking the weevil.

"Ianto take the wheel." Jack ordered as he, Lucy and Tosh jumped out and ran down the street that Janet had turned down.

The weevil was straight in front of them as they chased after her, they watched in horror as the side street reached a main road where men jumped out of a white van and started kicking Janet until she stopped struggling, they threw her into the back of the van and then drove away. Jack had been forcibly holding Tosh and Lucy back to stop them going to Janet's rescue.

"The weevil has landed." He said as the van drove out of sight and he released his hold on the two women. "Got a signal?"

"Yeah. " Tosh replied, her voice letting Jack know how unhappy she was with this as a plan. "Just so I know where we stand, we would never deliberately put a human being through that. But weevils are fair game, is that right?"
"We need to follow them." Jack didn't answer her question and Lucy placed a hand on Tosh's arm to calm her down. There were major problems with this plan, things that she wasn't happy with either but they were trying to do everything to stop the weevils being hurt. When this was over they would hopefully all be safe, or at least a hell of a lot safer. Ianto turned the corner in the SUV and Jack ran over.

"I don't like this either." Lucy said before Tosh had made a move to follow Jack. "I've only just remembered what the hell these guys are doing to the weevils and we need to get them out of there as quickly as possible. All we can do is hope that Janet will one day forgive us and maybe ask Owen to inject tracking devices into every one we capture or meet so that something like this doesn't happen again."
"They were kicking the shit out of her."

"I know, and I didn't say it was good, just that maybe right now it's a mixture of the best and only plan we've got."
Tosh still didn't look happy but she nodded and the two women walked over to the SUV and climbed in

"What were you two girls gossiping about?" Jack asked, Tosh just stared at him still annoyed and Lucy agreed that it was better not to answer. "Oh come on, let me join in. I can be one of the girls too."

Lucy looked over at Tosh who was obviously trying not to smile at their bosses antics as he jokingly needled at them.

"We could talk about make-up and boys and what's fashionable currently and boys."

"Anyone would think you need an excuse to talk about boys." Tosh murmured and Jack grinned.

"You're talking to me again."

"Shut up and follow that van." She said looking at the PDA again, "it turned right at the bottom of the road."

They followed the tracker until it stopped moving, Tosh constantly giving instructions as Lucy cleaned her gun (her current favourite - a Glock 17) and made sure it was fully stocked, as well as checking that she had enough weevil spray to subdue Janet and take her back home to safety. The team all jumped out of the SUV.
"So where is it Tosh?" Jack asked, after glancing around and not seeing any sight of the white van, Janet, or the men who had taken her. As Tosh moved the PDA around it started beeping louder and they ran down a side road between some houses, only to find the tracker and a bit of the fabric it was attached to hanging off the wire fence.

"So what have we got now?" Ianto asked

"Nothing." Jack responded annoyed, "We have no clue where they are or what they're doing?" He walked away and the others all looked at each other.
"Anyone fancy joining me in the shooting range when we get back to the hub? Taking my anger out on paper targets seems like a really good idea."
"I might join you." Tosh mused, Ianto and Lucy stared at her. "What?"

"Well it's just..." Ianto seemed to be struggling to find the right words so Lucy stepped up fully aware that she was experiencing the same form of confusion.
"Tosh the only reason you go on the range is to keep your average up and because you know you won't be allowed out with a gun if you don't. The idea of you joining me in an anger management kind of way, quite frankly is a little bit weird."
"So I'm not allowed to be angry either?"
"No just I always figured you got rid of your anger by hacking a poor unsuspecting computer."

"Oi!" Tosh jokingly hit Lucy's arm who jumped backwards and grinned.

"Or on your unsuspecting friends and colleagues. Abuse, I tell you, ABUSE."
"You are so childish." Tosh said with a laugh. Lucy responded to that claim in the most mature way possible, she stuck out her tongue and ran back to the SUV laughing. Even though they had lost Janet (who had become their 'pet' weevil and was slightly tamer than any others) and had no idea what these guys were using weevils for, Tosh couldn't help but laugh as well as she and Ianto followed Lucy at a more sedate pace. For Torchwood this was, unfortunately, just another day and they had got used to living their lives around such situations.

Jack had obviously calmed down a bit while they were talking and rolled his eyes at the sight of Lucy laughing as she jumped into the car It was good to see that she wasn't hiding from the team like she had been a few months ago when he had planned the team building trip into the Beacons. He couldn't help but be glad that the rift had dropped the strange girl onto their doorstep and into their lives, it appeared like it was good for her as well as being good for the team. She had really come out of her shell and although she still never talked about her past beyond the fact that she was a geek, she seemed happier with her life; even if part of her day to day life involved monsters - both human and alien. He noticed she was a lot healthier as well.

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"Jack," Gwen's voice suddenly appeared over the headset, surprising all of them out of their annoyed silence from having lost Janet. "Can you hear me?"
"What the hell are you doing there?" Jack asked. "I told you to go home."

"There's a text message that's just come through on Dan Hodges' phone." She replied, dodging the answer to Jack's question and making them all aware that something had happened in her home life that she didn't want them to know. And as Gwen told them pretty much everything about her life outside of Torchwood which was something that annoyed everyone apart from Jack, mostly because it reminded them that they were alone and had no life outside of Torchwood themselves, it must be something bad. "Charlie Foxtrot One Zero, Six Bravo Yankee."
They looked at Tosh who immediately started typing what they all recognised as a Cardiff postcode into her PDA, trying to find anything of interest that might explain why it was sent to a victim.

"Seems to be a postcode for a building. It's gonna have a Lynch Frost sign outside." Gwen continued.
"Let's go." Lucy said turning towards Jack.

"Well what is it?"

"I've got the location."
"Gwen, we'll pick you up on the way." He hung up on the headset and turned to Lucy, "Well?"
"First rule about fight club..."

"No one talks about fight club" Ianto finished. "So people get an alert by text message and they head to a property."

"A property Mark Lynch knows is empty." Tosh continued

"So the question is what happens at this fight club when they get there?" Jack asked as drove, Tosh directing him to where they needed to go. "And how are the weevils involved?"

Five minutes later they ended up in an old abandoned derelict block of Victorian houses. A sign outside said that Lynch Frost where making them into 'ideal home apartments', but there were no signs of builders or any work being done on it.

They jumped out of the SUV, Jack leading the group as he kicked the door down, guns poised ready to use at any moments but there was no one there. They split into two groups, Lucy, Jack and Gwen stayed on the bottom floor whilst Ianto and Tosh ran up the stairs. Both groups followed the sound of cheering to a large hall, where they found Owen standing inside a cage with a weevil and the sound coming from cheering spectators on the upper floor watching with interest.

Lucy and Jack both fired into the air to get everyone's attention, this muted the spectators but caused the weevil to jump towards Owen.

"STOP!" Jack called as Gwen raced towards the cage desperate to pull her friend and colleague out

"Owen!" She shouted as the weevil threw Owen to the floor. Jack positioned himself to shoot the weevil and Lucy grabbed Lynch's shirt.

"If anything happens to Owen I am holding you personally responsible." She pulled the gun out of his jeans, with a mocking smile. "Awww, how cute. However if you were actually ever going to use that you would have pulled it out the second we ran in. You're not a man, you're just a child playing dress up." He struggled against her but she just held her gun against his shoulder. "See I actually will use this, it won't kill you but it will damn well hurt a lot."

Owen was screaming in the cell and Jack shot the weevil, which caused it to jump off Owen and cower at the side. Gwen ran in and pulled Owen out, trying to be as careful of his wounds as possible. Lucy looked up to see that Tosh and Ianto were shoving the crowd down the corridor as Mark Lynch stared at the destruction of his fight club.

"Who the hell are you people?"
"We're Torchwood. And you just got one of our best people badly hurt and were using weevils for sport. There's pretty much nothing you can say to make me like you or to make anything better - so I'd suggest you shut the hell up." Lucy snapped at him "Gwen, how's Owen? Do I get to shoot this bastard?"
"He's going to be ok." Owen pulled away from Gwen as she replied.
"Damn. Someone get a stretcher," She ordered one of the few men who were near the cage. Lucy guessed that they were in charge of letting people in and out and trying to keep the weevil down. "You've got to have a first aid kit and more nearby, so run and get it." The bald man ran into a side room and came out with a stretcher that Jack and Gwen moved Owen onto. "You did this too him." She said to Lynch.

"He did it to himself." Lynch replied in shock as Lucy let go of him and went over to Owen "He had no fear."

Jack walked into the centre of the room and called up to the spectators, that Tosh and Ianto still hasn't completely pushed away.

"It's over now. These creatures are to be left alone. Go back to your lives."

"Jack." Tosh said as they all heard the sound of the cage opening and turned to see Lynch locking himself inside with a hurt and enraged weevil. A weevil who was smart enough to recognise the person who had caused him so much pain.
"What are you doing?" Jack asked, raising his gun and keeping it poised but not sure who to point it at - the weevil or Lynch.

"It's over" The estate agent breathed. There was a moment of silence as Jack kept his gun raised before slowly lowering it, the weevil growled and launched itself at the man who had inflicted this on it and Lynch screamed.

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They all looked up as Jack walked back into the hub, while he had been visiting Owen in hospital the team had pretended to get work done.

"How is he?" Gwen asked, they were all going to ask but she just happened to speak first.

"He's coming back to work tomorrow." Their boss replied sternly, no one dared to ask any more questions. That tone of voice meant that Jack was not going to answer any more questions and that he expected his orders to be listened too. "Lucy, how's Janet and our new guest?"
"Janet's fine, we're lucky they didn't use her and the new one is stalking his cell." She replied. "Jack, I know that I can't tell you in advance... but..."
"Forget it."

Lucy paused but felt she had to continue, it was something she had to say and the rest of the team had to hear. She would apologise to Owen personally at a later date as well.

"I just wanted to say I was sorry. I honestly had forgotten this episode... if I'd remembered..."
"You wouldn't have been able to do anything. Forget it." Jack replied walking over to his office and slammed the door shut.

Lucy looked around at the others hoping one of them would say something to make her feel better even though she knew that there was nothing that they could say that would help. She wouldn't have been able to do anything, but forgetting that Owen would be in so much danger if he went undercover was not acceptable. None of them were able to look her in the eye - Tosh turned towards her computer screen and started typing, Gwen grabbed the closest piece of paper and pulled it towards her and pretended to read it and Ianto just grabbed the empty coffee mugs and walked away. Lucy lowered her head in shame and went down to her office and the shooting range, mumbling apologies at each of them as she passed them.

Today had started out as a good day, with her as part of the team as she joked with them and now she was on the outside looking in again. But she had changed, last time something like this had happened she had made a conscious decision to stay on the outside and try and separate herself even more from the rest of them. This time she was to determined to earn their forgiveness.

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A/N: Thanks for the lovely reviews this week, I don't know what happened to make the new readers appear and reviews creep out of the woodwork but it worked. So thank you, if it could continue this week that would be very nice I've had a really busy week at work (6 nights in a row and it's not finished yet) and your reviews made me smile when I was exhausted and ready to give up.

Also thanks to my Beta - Jeremy who kept motivating me and pointing out that people were reading even though my chapter:review ratio isn't amazing and that Lucy was good and I shouldn't just give up, even if it was just so he could read the end and find out what happens. I really owe him this week so even though I don't think he's reading this I just thought I'd publicly thank him.

Next week is Greeks Baring Gifts where we find out about Lucy's past and my heart broke while writing it. So I would say look forward to it, but... well I'll see you next week.

Please review and I love you all

Rea