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They found Miss James on her break in the on call room.
"Hello," she greeted them, "the relative's room is down the hall."
"We're not here to see a patient." Gwen said.
"Your not?" she looked confused.
"We're here to see you." Jack smiled his best matinee smile.
"Oh." She looked even more confused; Gwen wondered if that was even possible.
"How long is it until the end of your shift?" She looked at her watch
"Two hours."
"We would like you to meet us outside the Cardiff millennium centre, by the base of the water tower, in three hours time." Jack smiled, that is if you want to know more."
"More about what?" Gwen pulled a small card out of her pocket and handed it to her, embossed on the thick cream card in black text was Torchwood.
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"So let me get this right. You work for and organisation that monitors a crack. Sorry a 'rift' in time and space that runs through the centre of Cardiff."
"Yes." Louise smiled it had gone much better than she had expected. Ianto surveyed him carefully,
"So what do you want with me?"
"Well we've been looking at your file and you're quite the hidden genius."
"And rather dashing." Ianto added
"This is probably what brought you to your boss's attention."
"He's very selective about who he hires!"
"Hang on are you offering me a job?" Miles said incredulously.
"It's less of a job more of a lifestyle." Ianto commented "you don't have to make the decision now, we'd like you to come and look round our err... place of work and we'll see if you think you're up for the job." Miles smiled.
"Great, I really hate this job."
"Well Mr. Dalton I'd grab your coat because we are heading out." Louise stood up and so did Ianto, who opened the door, she exited followed by Miles then Ianto.
"Where are you going Miles?" A pretty blonde asked as he passed.
"HR review." He lied slickly.
"Oh right. Will I see you later?"
"I don't know." He smiled and continued walking. She went back to her typing.
"Smooth." Ianto whispered.
"Thanks."
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"Oh my god it's cold." Gwen rubbed her hands together and then wrapped them round herself clutching her arms. Jack stood there wrapped in his coat the bottom of it flapping round his ankles. They were waiting for Samantha to appear, if she even did.
"It's not so bad; it's just a brisk wind!"
"I'm going in!" she stepped onto the invisible lift.
"Ok. Keep an eye out for her on the CCTV."
"Will do." She smiled as Jack activated the lift for her and it started to descend into the depths of the Hub. Rubbing her hands together she stepped off of it and headed up to her computer loading up the surveillance around the Hub and setting up a face recognition alert. She headed over to the coffee machine the n stopped. Last time she'd tried to work it; it had exploded the glass jug. She looked at it then noticed a small yellow sticky note. She picked it up and read it, scrawled in Ianto's neat handwriting was.
Gwen don't even bother, the instructions are in the top draw of my desk!
She walked over to Ianto's work station, pulling open the top draw of the desk. A small brown note book labeled 'instructions' was in there, she picked it out and opened it. Oh trust Ianto she thought, he'd written out all the instructions for everything he did around the Hub just in case, there was a small note at the front but she didn't want to read it. She looked through the contents which were in neat alphabetical order, Gwen scanned down it. Among many others there where notes on the archives, the boathouse and the conference room. Coffee machine she flicked to the correct page, there was a diagram with labeling and a 1-5 flow chart system for it to work.
"Brilliant," Gwen murmured she set the machine going. Then the alarm went off making her jump. "Oh great." She ran over to her computer stopped it and looked at the monitor, running over to the lift, she jumped on it and it started to ascend, just joining Jack in time to see Miss James walking around the corner, her head bowed against the cold wind.
"So what exactly are we going to do?" Gwen asked.
"Exactly what I did to you, welcome to Torchwood. Put her in front of a Weevil see what happens!" "Right ok sounds like a plan." Jack walked up to Samantha as she got closer and held out his hand.
"Captain Jack Harkness and this is my right hand woman Gwen Cooper. It's a pleasure to finally meet you Miss James." She shook his hand.
"Nice to meet you sorry how do you know me?"
"Oh I don't...Well not yet." Jack winked at her cheekily. "If you could just step on to here please?" Jack indicated the stone slab; she looked at him as if he was mad but obliged, "Hold on tight." She looked up at him as Gwen stepped on from the other side and held onto Jacks arm, Samantha didn't Jack activated the lift as it jolted down she grabbed his arm and hung in tight Jack smiled to himself.
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Sam looked at her surrounds, she felt as if she was going mad. She was travailing down on a stone paving slab into and underground room, but it was so much more than a room, one huge atrium with metal walkways and landings, tunnels and doorways going off of it.
"This isn't real." She gasped in disbelief.
"Why does everyone always say that?" Jack asked Gwen.
"I have no idea, but I suppose it's all a little crazy." She smiled. The lift got the bottom and Jack stepped off.
"Samantha James welcome to The Hub, It's sorta like our little secret base."
"What do you mean sort of? It is! And little?" Gwen said passing him then calling back. "Would you like a coffee? It won't be as good as Ianto's but he left instructions on how to operate the machine!"
"Yes thanks, I take it black, no sugar."
"Oh Ianto's gunna love you he hates it when people take it with milk and sugar!"
"Jack?" he nodded.
"So Miss James, what do you think?"
"I thought you were mad but now I've moved on to totally stir crazy and am starting to think more along the lines of worthy of admission to mental hospital." Jack laughed.
"Yes it will put your world a little of kilter but you'll get used to it, we'll if you take the job that is."
"Job?"
"Yes, we're a little short staffed at the moment and we could really do with a doctor and you seem to fit the bill, so we thought we'd drag you out of your real world and into our real world."
"Right, so you're offering me a job, doing what medical exactly?"
"We'll we get a few bumps and bruises and need generally patching up some of the time, along with or alien friends we find. Also not all our alien friends are really friends some need analysis and obviously some are a little more than dead and need autopsying and reports writing so future Torchwood operatives know what to do when they come through the rift, we get a few regulars who like to drop in and say hi ya see!" Sam looked at him. Alien autopsies, the rift, this man made no sense.
"Sorry a rift?" the girl, Gwen was it? Walked over to them with a tray of drinks.
"Yes, there is a rift, a sort of crack. In space and time that runs thought the centre of Cardiff and we monitor it and catch what comes through."
"A rift in space and time?"
"Yes, aliens from other worlds slip to earth by accident or sometimes on purpose."
"Right." Sam took the coffee and just sort of looked at it. "Still pretty crazy."
"It will always be pretty crazy." Gwen said.
"Thanks." She took a sip of the hot liquid.
"So Gwen, if you give Samantha the tour and full lowdown we'll see what she thinks to a accepting the job!" Gwen nodded and sat on the sofa lent against the Hub wall, Sam sat with her. Jack strode off into his office. Sitting down he looked at his watch. He called Ianto on the mobile.
"So how's it going?"
"It's going fine, I've just dropped Louise and Miles off outside the millennium centre and I'm just parking the SUV. I'll be in, in a minute."
"Right wonderful see you then." He snapped his phone closed and walked out of his office, Gwen and Samantha where nowhere to be seen, he knew Gwen would be showing her their resident weevil and other such creatures they had stored down there. He heard the all too familiar clunking of the lift being activated. He looked up at the lift.
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"So where are we going?"
"We're going to the Millennium centre." Ianto said as he drove through the streets of Cardiff.
"You work at the millennium centre."
"Not exactly." Louise said from the back of the SUV.
"So why are we going there?"
"I'll drop you and Louise there then go park the car; it's easier for you to get in that way." They pulled up at the end of the plass and Louise hoped out, opening up the front passenger side door. Miles climbed out and followed Louise to the edge of the water tower, he stepped up onto the step next to her but she stopped. He turned to look at her. She took his arm with her left and then pressed a small button on what Miles thought was her watch but realised after a moment it was much more than a watch, in fact he wondered if it was a watch at all.
"Going down!" she said with a small smile and suddenly the lift started to move. Miles tried not to freak out. He looked round himself as they went down looking at the people who were walking round the plass. "Don't worry they can't see us! The lift is invisible, ok if its open and someone steps over that they will fall down it, I must try to fix that actually but anyway as soon as you step on the stone no one can see you well your perception is shifted, so they can only see you out the corner of their eye or just think they saw you."
"That's just weird."
"Not weird pretty amazing." Miles started to look around the room that was appearing below him. It was large and walk ways of metal zigzagged between levels, there was a man in a long military coat stood leaning on a set of railings looking up at them.
"How long does it take to collect one guy?" Jack questioned Louise mockingly, "Welcome to Torchwood Mr. Dalton," he added as an almost after thought.
"Thanks." Miles said as the lift connected with the ground.
"Where's Ianto? I hope you haven't lost him."
"She could never lose me!" Ianto said coming out of one of the many tunnels that acted as corridors and entrances to the Hub.
"I would never ever try to lose you Ianto!"
"Thank you, you don't know how much comfort I take from that! I'd never lose you either, Jack on the other hand..."
"Alright back to the current task, Mr. Dalton."
"Hang on Jack you slate us for taking a while to get him but I don't see your girl anywhere!"
"She's down in the cells with Gwen." Ianto raised an eyebrow. "She's showing her around." Jack said in a monotone.
"Back to me." Miles said a little loudly pointing both his index fingers at himself. They all looked at him and Jack smiled.
"Oh, He's spunky!" Louise raised her eyebrows.
"Never ever say that again!" Ianto said unsmilingly.
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