Jack sat with his feet up on the desk; he was at the Hub alone. Gwen had gone home and Ianto had taken Louise out and now she wasn't answering her phone. It was long past midnight and he'd long worked out she wasn't coming back to the Hub tonight. He supposed he'd deserved it; he'd been ever so hard on her. They were so similar in character traits that all they did was argue. He made a mental note to try and be a little nicer to her even when he was angry; she was going to be around a long time. He knew he had to apologies, she had a point they had to be careful monitoring both of them and training them at the same time it was going to be hard and dangerous but he knew they could do it. What with the training facility down in the basement and the new software, they would be fine. Nothing to worry about, Louise was just too stressed; she had enough to worry about, what with being the head of an ancient civilisation!

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She woke the next morning and rolled onto her side, carefully looking at the clock, 5am, she rolled back carefully over looking at the peacefully sleeping form of Ianto who was lying next to her. She smiled. The first night's sleep she'd had in over 300 years and no nightmares. She carefully lifted at covers and started to get out of the bed, when an arm grabbed her round the waist and pulled her roughly back down.

"And where do you think you're going?" Ianto said the smile was in his voice.

"I was just…" she tried to think what to say, I was just sneaking off to the hub before Jack got up and everyone else arrives, so we don't get any weird looks, how could she word that kindly?

"Escaping?" he smiled as he propped himself up on his left elbow and drawing her closer to him with his right arm. "Sneaking off so we don't get weird looks when I arrive with you at work?" she looked at him; clearly on the same wavelength this morning.

"Yeh," she nodded apologetically. "You know what Gwen's like."

"And I was so looking forward to cooking you breakfast." He smiled. She smiled back at him and shook her head.

"I'm going to go back, Jack won't be up yet so it'll be easy for me to get in and change and then be ready for work," she carefully moved his right arm, which was acting a barrier on her left side, rolling him so he was on his back. She climbed out of the bed. He put both his arms behind his head. "I'll see you at work." She said with a smile, pulling on her trousers and coat, she gathered up her shirt and braces.

"Not if I see you first!" She laughed. She walked to the hall and pulled on her boots, carefully opening the door and then closing it quietly. The walk back to the hub was cool, the light morning breeze whipped her hair out of her face and the cool air cleared her head. She got to the hub entrance and activated the lift, slowly travelling down into the depths of the hub, she stepped off it and walked over to the TARDIS, opening the door and going inside, she threw her coat off and then went thought the bath room. Deciding a shower was a good idea before she washed Ianto's shirt to return to him later.

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The alarm went off in the flat; Miles rolled over and hit the snooze button before suddenly remembering – new job! He jumped out of bed and practically ran to the kitchen where he threw two slices of bread into the toaster and turned it on at the wall, (energy saving, everything got turned off at the switch before he went to bed every night!) he clicked it up to the 8 minute setting before diving into the bathroom to grab a shower, four minutes later he was out of the shower and running round his small flat in a towel looking for a clean shirt, of any description, making a mental note to do some laundry.

He grabbed one out the back of the wardrobe and a jumper as well, pulling on some pants and jeans. He just got into the kitchen as the toast popped out the toasted; he grabbed it throwing it onto a plate, grabbing the butter, yesterdays knife still stuck in it or was it the days before that? He pushed it out of his mind taking a bite out of the toast, grabbing his bag and throwing it open putting his phone and wallet in it, amongst the other debris that was floating in the bottom of it. He finished his toast, checking the time, now 6.30am he had to be at the water tower for 7am. He ran and brushed his teeth, pulling his coat on as he wondered round his flat trying to find his scarf; it was frightfully cold this time of year.

He rinsed his mouth and wrapped the scarf around his neck. Grabbing his bag, he headed out the door, slamming it behind him. He ran down the stairs and started at a brisk walk in the direction of Roald Dahl plass. He got to the water tower at five too. Just in time he thought.

He stood on the stone slab and it started to descend, Jack had said he still had to use the visitor's entrance for now! The lift got to the bottom and he hopped off of it, no sign of anyone else he went and dumped his bag on the sofa, going over to the work station Ianto had shown him to yesterday and picked up a book, it was a hard backed book, not very thick, it had been confiscated from the writer and for good reason, it contained some of torchwoods best kept secrets and if it had been published would have cause chaos in Cardiff. He slumped back into the sofa and flicked it open, he had been told to read this 'to start with' by Ianto, he feared there was more to come only thing was he wasn't allowed to take to off base as Jack had said in case it fell into the wrong hands, they weren't saying it would be his fault but It could get stolen or fall out of his bag, which he understood. He kept reading because with every page there was new and amazing thing to lean about.

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Samantha got up, washed and ate her breakfast, bushed her teeth whilst texting her friend to say she'd quit the hospital and gone somewhere else, she had been fed up of all the sexist surgeons and being treated harshly by other students just because she was better than them, just because she did as she was asked and studied. She walked out the house, and got on the bus, it wasn't a long journey just 10 minutes but she didn't want to be late. She got off and arrived at the stone lift at 6.35am. She stepped up onto it and it started to descend when she got there, Ianto was waiting at the bottom, looking up at her surprised.

"You're early!"

"I like to make a good impression on my first day." He smiled.

"Coffee?" he offered.

"Yes please."

"Black no sugar, right?" she smiled, he'd known but she'd never told him, Jack had said he knew everything. She nodded before taking off her coat and hanging it on the coat stand by the workstations. She put her bag under the workstations Gwen had pointed out to her yesterday and fired up the computer. Gwen arrived moments later.

"Morning." She said cheerfully.

"Morning, you have a good evening?" Sam asked.

"Yes, the babies just started sleeping through and Rhys is ever so good, she gets up in the night if I've had a full day here so nice and relaxed."

"You have a baby?" she asked.

"Yes, and a husband Jack made me promise I wouldn't let my really life slip away from me when I joined, I admit it nearly did but we made it through, me, Rhys and now Tristan. So now we have a few new members I'm getting more time off."

"So you can have a life out of here?"

"Yes, but it is difficult because you can't tell them."

"But Rhys knows."

"Yes, but it was after we were engaged and there was an incident with a space whale!" Louise appeared from round the corner, carrying a neatly folded shirt, she put it on the desk in the corner, pulled a sticky note off the top of a stack on the desk and scribbled a note on it, stuck it to the shirt then walked down the stairs and out of site. Gwen looked at the shirt and on the way to hang her coat up she took a sneaky look at the note.

Thanks for the loan of the shirt. I owe you a drink L x

Gwen raised her eyebrow that was interesting. Jack walked down from his office, cast a quick look around, saw the shirt and went and had a look. Gwen watched his head drop slightly when he saw it, before she could go over an alarm went off in the Hub.

"Weevil sighting in splott." Ianto said in a board tone as he walked up from the basement, "I can go deal with it." He said looking at Jack, who just looked at him as if looking right through him.

"No, I'll take Gwen and Samantha with me," he looked over at Sam, who looked scared, "big treat, you're in first, your first catch." He said laughing; Gwen grabbed the SUV keys off of Ianto and Sam followed Jack to the door and Gwen caught up. The cog door closed behind them, Ianto went over to his desk, saw the note, picked it off the shirt, folded it in half and put it in his waistcoat pocket. Louise wondered through the Hub bored. Ianto looked over at her and smiled, she smiled back.

"Wow, we're really busy!" he said sarcastically.

"Oh yes rushed off our feet!" she laughed. "I'm going to go up to the hot house, I want to run some tests on that fast mutation plant I think I've worked out why it's mutating."

"Right ok, have you done anything about that giant squid?" she looked confused then her expression changed as she remembered.

"No, I haven't. I'd completely forgotten about it!" Ianto looked at her, he thought she had. What where they going to do with it? How could they contain a giant squid? She started to walk away towards the hot house.

"if we catch it we could put it in one of the fish tanks, I think one is empty and they are really big, they span about 4 floors of the basement so there will be plenty of room for it." She looked at him.

"Sorry?" she said turning around.

"You said you wondered how we could contain it."

"No I didn't I was just thinking about it."

"Sorry must have been on the same wave length."

"Yeh your right, but a giant tank is good, I'll help you set it up later with the right pH and nutrient levels. Shout if you need me, is Miles in yet? I was going to take him down for fire arms training."

"I'll send him up when he arrives then, and then this afternoon, you could set him on the visual effects range whilst we set up the tank." She nodded in agreement and ran up the stairs to the hot house.


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