The sky was a deep blue. White chalky clouds separated the sky into segments. The moon was hidden behind a cluster of clouds. Cardiff bay was always quite at this time of night apart from the occasional drunk passing by asking for spare change to drown out the rest of his sorrows. Stupid coat, it fulfilled its purpose of keeping him warm but it didn't half like to fly around with the breeze.

Well i better check on the team he thought. Jack Harkness walked through the fake tourist office and pushed the button under the desk to open the door to torchwood.

The massive cog door made its clanging noise as it opened the whole new world of torchwood. The place where there had been such loss but such victory. Jack walked to his office and carefully placed his coat on the hanger near the door. He walked back down the stairs to see Ianto and Gwen playing a game of charades

"Butler" jack laugh

"Finally!, Gwen has been sitting her for about ten minutes trying to guess that!"

Gwen shot Ianto an evil look then burst out into giggles.

"Why haven't any of you gone home yet?" Jack suddenly changing the subject

"We found something from one of the storage rooms it was flashing, making the computers go bananas" Gwen said

"Oh yeh? what is it?"

Gwen pointed out the box which was indeed still flashing on the shelf to Jack. He walked over to it and pressed in the code which made the box stop flashing. He opened the box and a purple liquid dripped down an edge of the box and onto Jack's hand. He flinched back and dropped the box on the floor. The liquid took seconds to absorb into his skin.

"Shit! what the hell was that!" he flinched and ran as quickly as he could to the scanner. Ianto and Gwen heard the commotion and spotted the box and liquid on the floor they quickly followed Jack to see what had happened.

They walked into the autopsy room to see jack with his hand wired to the scanner, a visible purple patch where some liquid must have absorbed into his skin.

"What the hell happened!?" Gwen and Ianto asked in unison

"Someone obviously didn't put the lid on properly, god i hate it when people don't put lids on or leave taps on!"

Ianto and Gwen went silent looking at each other to see which one was the culprit, they both looked away as they guessed it was probably Owen, god bless him.

"What is it!?"

"I have no idea, hopefully the scanner should tell me"

*Bleep Bleep Bleep*

The three stared at the results wide eyed

"Shit!"