Ok Chapter five, longer than the others as it is actually going to be two separate chapters but decided to mush them together. Sorry it's taken awhile to update.

Disclaimer: I do not own Torchwood as it is owned by the BBC


Chapter Five

When a Doctor calls....

Peter

After another sleepless night, I entered the Torchwood hub with a report on what I had found out the night before from Dr Martha Jones. We had arranged over the phone for her to drop by the hub as she was already in the area due to UNIT commitments. I had been interested to learn how she knew Jack and had a gut feeling that he would be very happy to see her again. I already had the feeling that she was a very nice person by the way she sounded over the phone but also very trustworthy.

Toshiko was at her workstation when I arrived, working through some security footage from an office building. I walked past her workstation before settling down at my desk, putting the report down on top of some old papers. I turned on the computer and spied the photo that I had put there six months before. It was the one of my mother and me at a family gathering. I had left Australia with a bad gut feeling that I had disappointed her because of the falling out between Dominic and me. Still it wasn't my fault I didn't know Adam was his son or even known he had a son

"Jack, you might want to look at...." Tosh started to yell until her eyes locked on me. For a few seconds there was an awkward silence between us before Jack walked out.

"What seems to be the problem?" Jack asked looking at Toshiko's computer screen.

"Oh sorry, I was just finishing up looking at the footage but I think I might have found something." She explained reverting her eyes away from me and back onto the computer screen.

"Great, but save it for the boardroom alright." He replied before walking off in the other direction. "Now where's Ianto? I'm desperate for a coffee."

I smiled to myself as I knew that I had slipped back to being the other quiet one of the group. The one who was ignored until they wanted something or just wanted a decent chat. The ignoring wasn't on purpose either as I didn't really make any noise to begin with. Just like Ianto I thought.

"So how are you?" Tosh asked, her eyes now back on me.

"I'm good, tired but ok." I replied with a smile. "Insomnia can be a real bitch." I added looking back at my computer.

"Morning, sorry I'm late." Gwen said walking up the stairs towards her workstation.

"You haven't missed much, only just got here myself." I replied with a grin as Gwen sat down. Her workstation was near mine but she never bothered me which was strange since she always bothered everyone else.

"Morning Peter, did you have a sleepless night?" She asked when she saw the dark circles under my eyes.

"Yeah you can say that, stayed up all night doing a report for Jack." I explained holding up the stapled report. "Plus I had some help."

"Great, at least we are getting some progress; both of our corpses were in the database." Gwen enthused with a smile.

"Do you know where Jack is?" Owen asked coming up the stairs. "Because I've finally finished with our first victim's autopsy."

"Went looking for Ianto." Tosh replied looking up from her work.

"Oh I thought he might have gone to look for me, how disappointing." A voice said from beside my workstation. I looked up to see Captain John Hart standing there with a big grin on his face. "Hello handsome, I see that you don't sleep well."

"Well reports can be hard to write." I told him coldly before I felt the vibrations of my phone going off in my pocket. "Hello, where are you? Ok I'll just go and meet you." I said before hanging up and running off towards the entrance.

"Where are you going, handsome?" John asked in a whiney tone.

I stopped and turned around. "Well for your information I need to go and meet our guest so..."

"We have a guest?" Gwen asked looking up.

"Yes, sort of a long story, something came up on my search for rift keys." I explained before running down the stairs towards the reception area.

As the secret door to the reception area opened I saw a tallish woman standing at Ianto's desk. She wore a black suit and skirt and had her black hair tied up into a high bun. She also was dark skinned like most people I had seen in London.

"Um Dr Martha Jones?" I asked which made her turn her head towards me.

"Yes and you must be Peter Clarkson?" She asked right back with a smile, revealing really white teeth. I also noticed that she spoke with a London accent which I already knew from over the phone.

"Yes that's right." I replied holding out my hand. She shook it before looking back at Ianto's desk.

"Last time I was here, you had someone at the desk pretending to be the tourist operator..."

"Oh he's still here; Jack's gone off to find him. Well to be honest he doesn't know you're here." I replied with a smile. I couldn't help but notice that she was indeed a very attractive woman.

"Oh didn't have time to tell him last night?" She asked with a laugh. "Don't worry about it as he will be happy to see me anyway."

"I sort of guessed that from the way you sounded on the phone last night when describing how you knew Jack." I told her, trying not to perve too much.

She smiled and for the moment I thought she was staring deeply into my eyes. Either that or she had noticed the dark circles under them. Being a doctor I wasn't surprised if she asked me if I suffered from insomnia. I now felt a bit awkward, standing there while she looked at me with those beautiful brown eyes.

"Dr Martha Jones! I thought I heard the sound of a nightingale." Jack's voice seemed to sing and I looked up to see him standing at Ianto's secret entrance to the hub. He gave a huge grin before walking around the desk.

"Hello Jack, it's great to see you as always." Martha said before giving him a big hug. I could see that he was very happy especially with the stupid grin on his face.

"So what brings you to Cardiff?" Jack asked after they drew back from their embrace.

"Peter here invited me to come by the hub. I'm here in Wales for UNIT anyway." She explained before turning to me. I saw Jack raise an eyebrow.

"I found something last night that will change the course of our investigation." I told him as to say 'I have never met her before now.' "Martha's here because she emailed Torchwood about a lead without realising, if I might add."

Jack nodded. "Good job, now I'll just round everybody up and we'll met you in the boardroom alright."

I nodded back. "Yeah I need to get something from my desk anyway.

Jack nodded once more before walking off back towards the hub. Martha turned back towards me.

"Do you suffer insomnia by any chance?" She asked. "I'm sorry if it's a bit intrusive."

I gave a small smile "If only you don't tell Jack." I replied before pressing the button for the secret door.

There was fresh coffee on the table by the time I entered the boardroom with Martha. Everyone was sitting down including John, who had a smug look on his face. I sat down with Martha and poured out coffee for both of us. For some reason I wanted to be polite. She smiled when I gave her the cup.

"Thanks." She said putting the cup to her lips. I smiled and started to drink mine before Jack interrupted.

"As you all know, we have a special guest. Before we find out why she is here I want an update of where we at, starting with Gwen." Jack began in his professional tone. "So Gwen if you would..."

Gwen stood up and the screen on the wall changed to show two faces, a young man and the man who I had encountered at the police station. Beneath the faces were details of who they were plus other personal information. The database was very up to date when it came to private information.

"Well as you can see I put our victim through the database to see if he really was Harry Sanders and got a positive result. I also found out that he works as a personal assistant for a celebrity, Thomas Hopkins." Gwen began which made my ears prick up. Martha looked at me before speaking up.

"If I can interrupt, Thomas Hopkins is the reason why I'm here." Martha explained making the whole table look at her. "If I may ask the other man isn't Alex Fry is it?"

"Yes, the man who John here got arrested along with him last night." Gwen replied with a smile.

"Yes that's right; we were arrested because he nearly glassed me during a fight." John explained with a grin. "Died from being too aroused."

Jack gave a light chuckle before interrupting. "May I ask who Thomas Hopkins' is? Even though I do live here I'm not as aware as I like to be."

"Thomas Hopkins is the son of an English politician but has made a name for himself on various TV shows. Last year he won Strictly Come Dancing and is the fastest celebrity on Top Gear." I replied with a faint smile.

"He's also the main suspect in UNIT's investigation into the theft of various artefacts from UNIT storage area in North London." Martha added before putting the coffee cup to her lips. "I sent an email last night asking for help with the investigation. I didn't expect to get a phone call so quickly."

"Well Peter here was supposed to be looking to see if any rift keys were sold on EBay in the last five years. Though the theft of alien artefacts from UNIT is very interesting, especially since we could have also been considered as suspects." Jack replied, not realising the connection at once. I felt a bit disappointed until Jack added. "It's even more interesting if rift keys were part of the collection."

"They were, that's why Peter rang me." Martha explained putting a hand on my shoulder. "Gwen do we have a picture of Thomas Hopkins?"

Gwen nodded and pressed a button, changing the screen to show a picture of a very handsome man with boyish features, black hair and blue eyes. He looked a lot like Jack except that his hair was more combed back. I saw a grin spread over Jack's face.

"Wow, he is very handsome." Jack observed with a grin. "So what else was stolen?"

"Well according to the official report, two rift keys, three translators and four orbs." Martha replied, very professionally. "I also like to point out that UNIT did their own investigation into Thomas Hopkins and discovered that he has a PR agent."

"Well of course, he's a celebrity and an 'untouchable' one at that." I answered with a bit of frown.

"Untouchable?" Jack asked, confusion showing on his face.

"Meaning that he will never have bad publicity because to the public eye, he is such a nice guy." I explained with a sigh. "In other words, he has a really good PR agent."

"If I can interrupt, how would you know that?" Owen asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I always wanted to be a PR agent, part of my writing course focused on public relations and spin." I answered, going a bit red in the face.

"I think I may have an idea, if we find out who his agent is then maybe we could convince him to let one of us to work undercover with him as to get closer to Hopkins." Jack said looking at me. "That way we might find out what he is up to and why his personal assistant was killed."

"That's a good idea." Tosh replied, "Especially since he was in the building the night Harry died. I found a piece of footage showing them in deep conversation."

"That's fantastic Tosh." Jack said with a grin. "Now with that settled, I will try to find out who his agent is."

"Why are you doing it?" I asked, now raising an eyebrow.

"Need something to do, besides you already done enough for now." Jack explained with a small smile. "Maybe you should catch up with the others."

I looked at the others around the table and smiled.

Jack

I smiled as Martha Jones entered. It had been awhile since I had last seen her and again she had turned down my offer of a job. I didn't blame her if she was still happy with her job at UNIT. Seeing her again made my world seem grounded.

"I was just coming to see if you had finished." She said sitting down on the chair.

"Not yet, there are five agencies in Cardiff and so far three have come back negative." I answered with a smile. "Still I can't get over the fact Unit were robbed."

"Well it's the second time it's happened, but this time it's taken much longer to investigate." Martha explained, looking a bit annoyed. "Thank god Peter rang me when he did."

"Well we're always glad to help." I told her. "Well if it's you of course."

Martha nodded. "I thought you would say that. Still it's great to see you so I can't complain."

I laughed. "Yeah, you can't get enough of me."

"May I ask how you came to recruit Peter?" She asked changing the subject. "He seems like a very polite person."

"He helped us in an investigation six months ago." I replied, looking between the computer and her. "Though he has been away for four months due to problems in his life, but he has proved to be a valuable member to the team."

"Sorry to interrupt, but I was wondering if you had found out who Hopkins' agent is?" Peter's voice asked at the door.

"No, I was just telling Martha here that three agencies have come back with a negative result." I replied, waving him in.

"Sorry Jack but I must confess that I did some digging of my own." He confessed, walking in and standing next to the chair. "It seems the agency is Andrews McCain."

"And the PR agent?" I asked, a bit relieved.

Peter put his head down. "Jeremy Goodman."

"Um Martha, could you leave us alone for a bit." I said with my eyes still on Peter.

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