A/N. Hi, apologises again for such a long time inbetween updates but RL has been unkind to me recently, and it affected my writing. Anyway this story is back on track now and hopefully you are all still with me. :) I have to say a big thank you to sedeka, dwatlaskrh, harshinib and workingsomecoffeemagic for your reviews for the last chapter, i really appreciate them. This chapter picks up where the last one left off, but then does jump back a little so that you can see what Jack has been up too. A little more of the mystery is unveiled here and it might be a little confusing, but stick with me, you will get answers eventually. As always please review :) Kat xx.

Chapter 6.

'Run that by me again', said Lexie disbelievingly.

'That's the intruder alarm', repeated Ianto as he hurried over to the nearest workstation.

'Yeah, that's what I thought you said,' answered Lexie shaking her head, 'but how can you get intruders in this place, surely that's not possible?'

'You'd be surprised,' muttered Ianto remembering the times that the Hub had had unexpected visitors. 'Can you call Jack, while I see if I can get a fix on where the breach is.'

Lexie pulled her phone out of her pocket and hit the speed dial for Jack. She frowned when the automated voice told her it couldn't connect her call. She looked down at the phone screen, no signal. Lexie moved about holding her phone at different angles but still no signal. 'I can't get a signal,' she told Ianto.

Ianto looked at his own phone and found the same problem. 'Looks like they've cut the communications. Whoever has done this is damn good; I didn't think anyone could get through Tosh's security protocols. The only thing that hasn't happened yet is a loc…' Before he could finish the word 'lockdown' the sirens sounded again and the heavy noise of locks clicking into place was heard throughout the Hub. Lexie moved closer to Ianto and grabbed his arm.

'What's going on?' she whispered, her voice trembling.

'The Hub's automatically gone into lockdown, looks to be the one thing they couldn't override.'

'Meaning we're trapped in here with whoever broke in and have no way of communicating with the others.'

Ianto could tell Lexie was scared and part of him wanted to lie to her and tell her that everything was alright, but he knew she'd see straight through him. 'Pretty much, yeah.' Ianto felt Lexie's grip on his arm tighten. He turned to face her, 'Listen to me; I know you're scared right now, but we will get out. When the lockdown activates it triggers an alarm on the others PDA's. It's a precaution we took after a similar lockdown, that way we would know if something was happening back here.' Ianto thought it best not to mention that they were all locked in together once and had to call the police for help. 'It means that by now the others will have been alerted to the situation. Tosh also put in an override system in the tourist office so that those on the outside could get in.'

'We don't know how long that's gonna take though.'

'Knowing Jack as soon as the alert goes off he'll be in the SUV heading straight here, and you know how he drives on a good day, so think about how he'll drive knowing you're in danger.'

Lexie smiled slightly, 'True and you're in danger too, so that's twice as bad.'

In the distance Ianto could hear what sounded like footsteps getting closer, 'Lexie', he whispered, 'Can you sense anyone?'

Lexie concentrated for a minute then shook her head.' No, but I can hear something. It's like earlier I never felt anything then and can't feel anything now. Do you think it's the same people?'

'That's probably a good assumption. Come on we can't stay here.' Ianto checked his gun was fully loaded and then turned to Lexie. 'We just have to avoid them until the others get back. If we can get down to the archives we stand a better chance, I know them better than anyone, even in this dim lighting. Are you with me?' He held out his hand and after a few long seconds Lexie took it. Ianto was pleased that Lexie had decided that she could trust him. They moved as quietly as they could until they reached the corridor leading down to the archives. As they disappeared around the corner two figures emerged from the shadows into the main Hub.

X

Jack pulled up outside the Sanders house, not pleased that Gwen had called him to come out. He knew Lexie would be fine with Ianto, but after everything that had gone on that day he didn't want to leave her. Jack very rarely let people in, but from the first day he had met Lexie a bond had formed and she was family to him, when she was young she had called him Uncle Jack. He knew he was fiercely protective of her; it was something that would never change no matter how old she got. He got out of the SUV and strode up the path to the house; he ducked under the crime scene tape and into the house.

'Gwen. Tosh' he called.

'In the back room Jack,' came the Welsh accented reply.

Jack walked through the house and into the back room which turned out to be a study. He could see Gwen and Tosh examining various items that were laid out on a desk. 'What was so urgent it couldn't wait until we were back at the Hub?' He all but demanded.

Gwen and Tosh looked at him, put off slightly by his tone. 'We found some worrying information when we were looking through this room,' Gwen replied. 'Tosh stumbled across a hidden panel in the wall and all this was inside,' she said, gesturing to the things laid out on the table.

'The reason we called you instead of bringing them straight back to the Hub, is because we knew the moment we got in Lexie would know we'd found something and we thought it best you had a heads up on it be she found out.'

'Found out what?'

Tosh and Gwen exchanged wary glances before Tosh continued, 'It seems that Michael Sanders was expecting someone to come after Lexie. Just look at the journal entries.'

Jack went over to the table and looked at a few of the items, some of them had a familiar looking crest on them, but he couldn't place it at that moment. He picked up the journal and looked at one of the earliest entries, praying that Tosh had misread what was in it.

'We can't get too attached to her, she won't be here forever. They will be back for her.'

Jack frowned flipping further through the journal, reading snippets of entries as he did.

'As time keeps passing I keep looking over my shoulder, never knowing if todays the day.'

'One of them is here, keeping watch. An advance guard I suppose until those charged with finding her can make it through. Problem with the Rift is there's no telling when they could get here, could be a week, could be ten years. I'm never going to understand how they are communicating and I'm too afraid to ask.'

'I wish I'd said something to someone. The only person it could have been was Jack and he would have done everything possible to make sure they didn't get to Lexie. He loves her like a daughter, I always wondered whether she would have been better off staying with him, she deserves better than me. I just hope that one day both Lexie and Jack can forgive me, but these people cannot be bargained with and by cooperating I hope me and Sandy can live through it.

That was the last entry in the journal and Jack stared at it, shell shocked at what he had just read. His world view was tilting. He'd always believed that Michael Sanders was one of the good guys, but here in black and white was proof that he had been involved in some kind of conspiracy involving Lexie from the start. How? Jack had no idea, he was going to have to go through everything to try and work out what was going on. Then he thought about Lexie, he had no clue how he was going to tell her about this. From the snippets he had read it seemed as if someone from Lexie's own time was trying to get her back and by the looks of it someone had been keeping an eye on her. He looked back at that entry and saw it was dated 6 years earlier, Jack shivered at the thought of someone keeping tabs on Lexie that long. Jack knew little of Lexie's life before she came to this time, she was reluctant to talk about it and he never pushed it, sensing it wasn't a happy time for her. He had so many questions, in particular how were they able to track her and then travel back in time? Jack knew that the concept of time travel was a lot easier in the future, but it was still only a limited few who had access to it. He ran his hands over his face and through his hair taking a calming breath before turning to the others. 'You did the right thing. I'm going to have to talk to Lexie when we get back. You are going to need to bring all this back too; some of it needs to be translated. Hopefully we can get some clues from it.'

'Do you think Lexie had any idea about these things?' enquired Tosh.

'No, because she would have said something. Did you find anything else?'

'Yes, there was some residual Rift energy at the front of the house. Not enough to set off a Rift alert though.'

Gwen was about to say something when she was interrupted by a loud beeping sound. She looked at her PDA, so did Tosh and Jack checked his wrist strap.

'Oh no' exclaimed Tosh, 'that's the Hub's lockdown alert!'

Jacks eyes went wide with shock and he grabbed his phone, dialling Iantos number, but the call wouldn't connect. 'Damn it,' he cursed. 'Grab that stuff and get back to the Hub as soon as you can,' Jack called as he had already started running down the hallway. He ran out of the house, feet pounding the pavement as he headed to the SUV. As he opened the door his phone rang. 'Ianto?' he said hopefully.

'No, it's Owen. What's going on the Hub's lockdown alert just went off on my PDA?'

'I don't know I had to come out to the scene with Gwen and Tosh. Where are you?'

'On my way back, I'll meet you there in 10 minutes.'

'Make it 5,' replied Jack. He snapped his phone shut and got in the driver's seat flooring the accelerator, praying Ianto and Lexie were alright.