Title: Tears of the Weevil

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: Don't own Torchwood, the characters or anything related to the show.

"So this is it." Owen sighed, taking a seat beside her as she sat watching water pour in to the basin. "Everything we've worked towards for the past three years. If we can expose the British Alien defense unit for who they are, show the world what they've done and then we can be the good guys again. We can win this."

"Then what?" Gwen asked as she shifted closer to rest her head on his shoulder. "We keep fighting them?" She felt him move as he shook his head in response.

"No. I've had it with running Gwen." He sighed heavily. "We clear our names and then we settled down somewhere. You, Lacey and me. Start somewhere new and get Lacey back in to a university she hasn't been accused of blowing up."

"Sounds nice." She mumbled, the words muffling against her shoulder. "It's not going to happen though is it? There's no guarantee tomorrow will work. Anyone of us could die, or all of us." Owen didn't reply. He sat silently staring as the water trickled tranquilly in to the basin.

"She's giving up again." Lacey sighed as she watched her parents comforting each other. "She's going the same way she did before she killed herself."

"She won't do it again." Jack protested sternly. "She's got fight left in her yet. Just focus on getting us in tomorrow."

"Already done." Lacey handed him a CD-Rom with a smug grin. After only a few hours she'd devised a program to get them in to the system undetected with a little bit of help from Gwen.
"Tosh would be proud."

"Don't." She scowled. "I can barely get through each day as it is. I don't need to be reminded of her everyday. I don't need to be told how proud she would be of me or how much she loved me. Just because she's dead doesn't mean I've forgotten those things." Jack nodded and patted her shoulder.

"I'm proud of you sweetheart. You've put up with things that would break most people and you're still strong. Don't fall apart on me yet, okay?" She nodded as she watched Owen wrap his arms around Gwen and sighed. She didn't know how much longer she could cope without Toshiko to keep her going.

Eventually Gwen made her way up to where Jack and Lacey stood and took the CD she needed. After going over the plan a few times she pulled her daughter in for a tight hug. "I love you, sweetheart."

"I love you too, mom. I'll see you tomorrow." She pulled away and went in search of Owen to go over the details for the plan.

"If this doesn't work… I'm not a weevil, I'm not super strong or immortal, so if anything happens …look after her Jack." Gwen pleaded, her gaze troubled as her own mortality weighed heavily on her.

"As if she were my own." He promised. "She's a handful though. I'll need your help…we're not losing another member of this team Gwen. Your job's to get us in to the system, after that you get straight out. No heroics Gwen, understand?"

"Understood."