A/N: Hey everyone, sorry I haven't updated the story in a while but i've been busy at college and other things. Also the buttons on the laptop were faulty, meaning that I couldn't do a good chapter. Please continue to read and review and I will continue this story.

Chapter 3:

The car ride to torchwood quiet and uneventful. Hermione was paying no attention to what Jack was saying and was instead looking out of the window with a sad expression on her face. Jack pulled up outside the millennium centre and turned to speak to Hermione when he noticed the how sad and lost she looked. "Everything okay?" he asked in a caring tone.

The woman snapped her head round to face Jack with a small smile on her face thinking carefully about what she should say. Make up a lie or something Granger! she told herself in a panicked tone. "Yea...I was just daydreaming. Are we here then?" she asked in a neutral tone, peering around Jacks shoulder to see that they were outside the millennium centre.

Jack frowned at her for a moment before smirking at her. "Yep!" he said in an excited tone, before getting out of the car.

Hermione also got out of the car and walked around to where Jack was waiting when she suddenly remembered their conversation from a few days ago. "Jack-what exactly did you mean when you said that you worked with aliens?" she asked peering up at the man who looked at her and smiled before stepping onto a paving slab and turning to face her, holding out his right hand.

"You'll find out." he said in a casual tone before adding, "You coming or what?" with a cheeky grin.

Hermione laughed and took hold of his hand, stepping onto the paving slab herself. "Jack, why the hell are we standing on a paving sla--whoa!" she finished in a surprised tone as she felt the paving slab move underneath her and gripped Jack's hand a little tighter. She held her breath for a moment before letting out a sigh of relief when the paving slab stopped moving. Jack started laughing but stopped as Hermione turned and glared at him. Hermione was going to speak when a huge bird flew over her. She looked up amazed before looking back at her companion in shock. "Is that-is that a pterodactyl?" she asked once she had found her voice.

Jack smiled at her warmly and nodded before remembering the task at hand. "This way please Ms Granger." he said in a bossy tone as he walked towards a brown door and opened it. Hermione walked in and thanked Jack before taking a look around.

It was a pale coloured room with a table and four chairs in the middle. She also noted that there was a window on the far right hand wall an interview room!she mused quietly before taking a seat. Jack meanwhile waited at the door as a chinese woman came towards him and handed him a file before walking away. Time to get some answers!he thought as he sat down on a chair opposite the young woman and opened up the file, taking a quick glance at it before looking back up at the woman who had a neutral expression on her face. "Hermione Jane 17th September are Robert Granger and Melanie Ann Granger..." he began watching her face for any sign of a weakness.

Hermione smiled at Jack, admiring him for his research into her past but she was also confused as to why he was reading it all out to her. "Jack as interesting as this information must be to you, i'm gunna have to break it to you that I already know about my life and I don't need you reminding me." she said in an amused tone. Jack looked surprised at the woman's reaction after all its not everyday that an immortal man gets put in his place by- well anyone, but yet Hermione Granger didn't seem nervous at all about the fact that he had all of her details in a file. Time for a different tactic! he thought smugly, turning to another part of the file.

"Lets talk about your parents shall we." he said smiling. Hermione froze at this-she wasn't ready to open up that wound any time soon to anybody.

"I really don't see why we have to talk about them Jack-I thought you had questions about me?" she asked briskly hoping to evade the question.

Jack smiled at her uneasyness to breech the subject, maybe now he could find out about her past. "Well, you say that your parents died in a car crash a few years ago, right?" he said signalling for her to answer so she nodded in response and he continued with a smirk. "But according to my computer whizz, your parents died a mysterious death in their home a few years you wanna tell me wha'ts going on here or what?" he asked.

Hermione was angry, very angry but she managed to keep her emotions in check. "I think your computer whizz needs to stick to the truth and stop making up lies." she said in an annoyed tone, glaring at Jack. The man was amazed at how believable that last statement sounded and would of probably believed her, if it wasn't for the fact that Tosh never made things up.

"Actually you wanna try that one yourself sweetheart." he said with a low chuckle."But then again they say that murderers always try to cover up the truth don't they." he finished in an accusing tone.

Hermione was furious and it showed as the air around her began to crackle. She began opening and closing her hands, trying to relieve some some of the tension she was feeling as she looked Jack in the eye before speaking in a low dangerous tone. "How dare you accuse me of doing something so-so horrid to the people I loved more than anybody else in the world. Is this what you do to everyone you question or is it just the ones that seem vulnerable to such accusations, because I am telling you now that I have never hurt my parents and I would rather it was me that died than them that night." she finished in a whisper as she blinked back the tears that were threatening to fall. I will not cry in front of him! she thought angrily as she looked away from Jack and stood up, making her way over to the other end of the room.

Jack was stunned. He had never heard anybody speak with such a passion for the people that they know apart from the woman who had stalked over to the other side of the room. He had no doubt that she was telling the truth, but could not fathom a reason as to how her parents had died that night. Jack walked up to her slowly and stopped when he was a foot away from her it'll do her good to get it out of her system! he thought sadly as he looked at the upset woman. "What happened then?" he asked cautiously.

Hermione lifted her head up and gave a small bitter laugh before looking away and saying, "Magic happened!" in a broken tone.

"What do you mean by magic?" he asked in a slightly fearful tone.

A/N: Chapter re-edited on: 30/08/09