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Fear 1

"So, what do you do?" Danny asked.

Astra looked at him and hesitated. No job descriptions. That was her rule. Jack's Rulle. People asked too many questions then. She even had a pretty good cover story for her job, but she only gave it to people who asked too many questions, "I'm a student. Engineering."

"Wow, Cardiff University?" He smiled at her, seemingly impressed by the accomplishment

She nodded, "Yeah. What about you?"

"Oh me? This and that."

Astra nodded, not happy with the answer. Even she had a better answer then that and her job was top secret, "You know, if you want to go, you can. I mean, we can just tell Keely we had a great time..."

Danny laughed, "I guess we could. This is rather uncomfortable huh?"

"Just slightly."

Suddenly his phone rang, he glanced at the number, "Uhh..." Pure embarresment covered his face.

"Emergency call?"

"Something like that," he said cringing, as he answered the call.

She laughed, "It's ok, I-" suddenly her phone rang too, "Had one too..." She checked the caller ID, it didn't say Zoe. It said work, "And this isn't it, I really have to take this," She pressed accept and put the phone to her ear, "Yeah?"

"Astra, I need you at the Hub, now," Her smile suddenly changed to a frown, getting her a confused look from her date.

"Jack! I told you, I'm not working tonight. I have a date," She hissed back at him.

"Astra, Gwen and Taye are out somewhere and neither of them are picking up. I need you to track them."

"Hang on, let me try from here. But seriously..." She pulled her PDA from her bag, and caught Danny looking at her, she mouthed to him, "Sorry," She opened up a Torchwood program she had on her PDA and typed Gwen's number in. The program came up with nothing. She put Taye's in, again nothing, "Jack. I'm not getting anything. I'll be there in ten."

"I'm outside."

"WHAT!" She cried. She looked behind her to the street. Sure enough, parked outside was the Torchwood SUV. She could pick out two forms inside. One was Jack, the other had to be Ianto. "Jack, you know, I seriously thought Gwen was joking when she said you crashed her dates with Rhys." She snapped her phone shut and looked apologetically at Danny, "I'm so sorry, but this can't wait."

"Something wrong?" He asked.

"You could say that..." She grabbed a napkin and scribbled her cell phone number on it, "Call me."

With that she turned and headed out of the restaurant to the waiting SUV, leaving her date sitting there all alone. He watched the car as it took off.

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Astra slipped into the back seat of the SUV. Ianto was seated beside Jack. She didn't say anything to either of them as she activated the terminal in front of her. The light lit up the backseet of the SUV as she got to work.

"Nice dress," Jack commented.

She looked up, her eyes meeting his in the review mirror, "It could have been a nice date."

"I thought it was a blind date?" Ianto asked.

"It was, but it's possible for them to be nice you know!" She snapped, "Where was their last known location?"

"Near the warehouse district," Ianto replied as Jack pulled away from the restaurant.

Astra worked consistantly in the back seat. No one spoke as Jack drove. Two of their own were missing. Now wasn't the time for personal grievances. As they neared the industrial side of the bay, Astra spoke up, "Their signals died out when they entered warehouse lot number 62B. Before that they were still traceable."

"What about CCTV footage?" Ianto asked.

"The time stamp indicates that when they entered was the exact time you lost all communications with them. Nothing appears to have been following them and there's no security cameras in the warehouse from what I can tell."

Jack entered the warehouse district, "Directions to that warehouse?"

"Turn right here," She instructed. She stared intently at the map of the Warehouse district infront of her, "Left." She added a while later. "Stop here."

Jack stopped the SUV outside Warehouse 62B. It was dark and he could see Gwen's car parked nearby. He frowned. There was no sight of Gwen and Taye anywhere, "You getting anything now that we're on top of the place?"

She shook her head, "No... It's like... It's like that warehouse is some black hole. I can't get anything form inside it."

"Ok..." He looked over at Ianto who was checking his weapon. Ianto looked up and nodded to him, "Ianto and I are going in. You stay here." He said turning in his seat to look at her.

She looked at him and rolled her eyes, "Yes Jack."

"I'm serious."

She nodded, "I know. Now, we'll probably lose communications when you go in, but I'll try to keep in contact with you as best as I can."

Jack and Ianto nodded and got out of the car. She watched them enter the warehouse and disapear from her screen and sight. She sighed. If she couldn't see them, she was no use to them. She tapped her earpiece, "Jack?" There was no reply, "Ianto?" Nothing, "Gwen?" She hadn't really expected a reply there, "Taye?" Sighing she stared at her screen and started working on finding a way through whatever was protecting the place.

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Jack and Ianto made their way into the warehouse. Ianto tapped hisearpiece, "Astra?" He asked. He got no reply though, "We've lost communications," He told Jack.

"Brilliant..." Jack muttered, "We're on our own with no way of finding Gwen and Taye..." Both had their weapons drawn as they moved through the dark warehouse, "Do you hear that?" Jack asked.

"Hear what?" Ianto asked.

"Exactly," Jack said, "An old warehouse like this should creak and we should atleast hear our own footsteps."

Ianto nodded to himself, "Right..." He looked around, "Hey, didn't Astra say she couldn't find any security footage for this place?"

Jack stopped walking and looked at Ianto, "Yeah." He looked where Ianto pointed. There was a Security Camera hanging in a corner. The red recording light was on, "Odd. She can usually hack into anything..."

"She can't get any readings from this place," Ianto reminded him.

"Come on, let's move," Jack said. He lead the way through the warehouse, they didn't hear a sound as the moved. Near the back, where were a few adjoining rooms. One had light coming from under the door. Jack motioned to Ianto and they approached the room. Jack leaned against the door and listened. He could actually hear voices on the outher side.

"I told you this was a bad idea," It was Gwen's voice.

There was a groan and then, "Yes, thnk you for pointing that out... Again. it's not my fault that the comms aren't working," Definatly Taye.

"It is your fault that we're tied up in this room with no way o contacting the hub about whatever the hell that thing is."

Jack grinned at Ianto, who opened the door. They stepped in and their two friends stopped bickering instantly. The room was a small office. Taye and Gwen were tied to the legs of one desk. On the otherside of the room, was another desk. On it as a strange device, that definatly looked alien.

"About time you two showed up!" Gwen muttered.

Jack looked at her, "Good to see you too Gwen! Ianto, please untie them."

"Right away sir," Ianto holstered his weapon and took out a pocket knife to cut the rope that tied Gwen and Taye to the desk.

Jack went over to the device, "Ooohh... Nice... No wounder Astra can't detect anything in here..."

"What is it?" Taye asked coming up to him as he rubbed his wrists.

"It's a jammer," Jack said, "And a mighty fine one... And I believe ths is the off button!" He pressed a button and the device stopped glowing. He pressed his ear piece, "Report Ms. Lifrey!"

"JACK!" She cried, "Good to hear from you, you found Gwen and Taye yet? And What hapened, I can see clearly in the warehouse now."

Jack laughed, "Yeah, we got them and some new technoogy for you to play with. We'll be out in a little."

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Jack pulled the SUV up infront of Astra's apartment block. There were a few lights on through the building, but the light's in Astra's apartment were off, not really surprising at one o'clock in the morning though. Jack turned in his seat to face her, "I'm really sorry about tonight."

She smiled sadly, "It's Ok. I didn't mean to snap at Ianto earlier, please tell him that."

"I will. Get some sleep and I'll see you tomorrow, Ok?"

Astra nodded, "Yeah, of course. Though, you do mean today right?" She grabbed her purse, laptop and the bag she'd packed with the clothes she'd been wearing at her date, "G'night Jack." She opened the door and stepped into the cold night's air.

He laughed, "Yeah, today... Good night Astra, and I really am sorry."

She nodded, "I know." She closed the door of the SUV and waved as he pulled away from the curb. Smiling, she made her way to the door of her building. The night watchman, Chuck opened the door for her.

"Late evening Miss Lifrey?"

She nodded, "Yeah..."

"I do believe that was a different car from your date's?"

"Yes Chuck, My date got interrupted," She laughed. If you needed gossip in this building, you spoke to Chuck or the day watchman, Phil.

"Well, despite that, Mr. Achor seems very keen on you," At her confused look, he ducked into the small officer by the door and re-emerged with a large bouquet of flowers, "I was told, these are for you."

She smiled brightly as she took the flowers from him. There was a card among them and she took it from the leaves and opened it.

For a pretty lady who has stolen my heart,
Danny. X.

Astra looked at Chuck, "Thank you!"

"Have a good night Miss Lifrey," He said as she turned towards the stairs.

"You too Chuck!"

She unlocked the door to her apartment, juggling the flowers and her two bags. She tossed the bags on the chair by the door and made her way through to the small kitchen. She found a tall glass, filled it with water and carried it through to her room. She found a spot for it on the sideboard under the window.