DISCLAIMER! I always forget this. I don't own the stories or the characters, I just take them out of the glass cabinets from time to time.

Just to close the confusion here: Lisa hurt Ianto while they were together to such an extent that he was transferred to Cardiff before Doomsday. Just so ya know.

This chapter is a bit of a cheery one, as the next few won't be so... nice. Anyway, please read, and I hope you enjoy, I've had this one ready for a while now, so... Anyways, plase review

And thank you Blades of Silver.

Toshiko stepped out of the TARDIS, and closed the door behind her, while Rose was saying something about chest hair. Jack laughed heartily.

"Rose... what did you say about Elvis?" Tosh asked timidly. The Doctor chuckled at Tosh's pale face then gestured to the TARDIS.

"Time machine!" he sing-songed. Tosh turned around to look at the blue box, run her hands over the wood, then nodded.

"That's... cool, for want of a better word!" She half shrieked.

"You seem very accepting of this." The Doctor said, frowning.

"Has Jack explained our job to you?" She asked absently. The Doctor nodded. "Well there you go then!" She said, beaming. She felt an odd sense of pleasure that she could converse with this stranger, and she wondered if he'd understand her techno-babble. The Doctor chuckled, and tossed Rose a pair of sunglasses.

"Are you goin' my way, doll?" he asked her, in a dreadful Elvis impression, Rose slid the glasses up her nose, then fastened the helmet around her neck.

"Is there any other way to go, daddy-o?" She replied in an American accent, making her way toward the Doctor's moped, and sliding her leg over it, settling herself behind the Doctor."Straight from the fridge man!"

"Hey, you speak the lingo!" He cried happily as the couple launched into a conversation about Cliff Richard and Rose's mother. Jack gestured for Tosh to jump on the back of his moped, which she did.

"Like the hair-doo, Daddy cool!" She giggled, poking the comb-over with her index finger. "You look like Fonzie from Happy Days!"

"Well, gotta blend in!" He said, laughing.

"To where, London?" She asked.

"Actually, we're in New York! Going to Ed Sullivan's TV studio!" The Doctor yelled over the mix of two engines, as the mopeds made their way down the road.

"It looks like London to me!" Tosh called back.

"The Doctor knows what he's doing!" Rose cried icily to Tosh.

"Listen you two!" He yelled playfully. "Don't you doubt my piloting skills, I-" As they stopped at an intersection, with Union flags hanging from the windows of the neighbouring houses, and a London style double-decker bus drove in front of them. "Ah." The Doctor said, as Toshiko and Jack broke into fits of giggles. "Don'.." He groaned. They drove on for a bit, discussing what the flags could be for, when they ground to a stop outside a van, where a salesman was talking to his clients.

"...And there you go, all wired up for the great occasion!" He cried happily.

"And what great occasion would this be?" The Doctor asked.

"Where you been livin' then? The colonies! The coronation of course!"

"And what coronation would that be?" Asked the Doctor, turning to Rose for help.

"The Queen!" Jack stated, as though it was obvious, (which it was a bit) "Queen Elizabeth!"

"So we're in 1953?" Tosh muttered in Jack's ear, who nodded.

"Oh, I love 1953! The Doctor, cried, as the salesman gave them a strange look, and drove away, to leave the Doctor to hop off his bike. "Oh but this is a BRILLIANT year! Classic! Technicolour, Everest climbed, everything off the ration-" Here he switched to a classic BBC accent, the likes of which Toshiko recognized from old television programs that her Grandmother used to watch, "The Nation throwing off the shadows of war and looking forward to a happier, brighter future!" Rose laughed, and Jack chuckled. Toshiko said nothing. This man was quite good looking, she had to admit.

"So, we're really in the nineteen fifties?" Toshiko asked nervously, and Rose rolled her eyes. The Doctor nodded. "Ianto," Tosh began after a moment. "Can I tell him?" Jack laughed, and patted her on the helmet.

"Sure thing." She giggled, and was about to reply, when they heard a woman screaming. They tore around the corner, to see a man with a blanket over his head being bundled into the back of a police car, while his wife screamed from the door way of their house. A teenage boy ran out of his house, and yelled viciously at the Police.

"Oi! What are you doing!" he shouted. Rose sidled up to the boy.

"Who did they take? Did you know him?" She asked, as the car drove away. A woman who must be the boy's mother appeared behind him.

"Must be Mr Gallagher..." He murmured, then addressed Rose properly. "It's happening all over the place. They're turning into monsters!"

At this point a man, the boy's father probably, stormed out of the house behind Tommy.

"Not one word!" He roared at the boy. "Get inside NOW!" He bellowed. Tommy turned to face Rose. "Sorry, I'd better so as he says..." He excused himself, as he ran back inside after his mother, and his father slammed the door behind him.

"All aboard!" The Doctor shouted, as the four of them jumped on their respective bikes, and drove after the car.

They tore through the streets, and followed the car around a corner, only to find a dead end, with a busy looking market.

"What?" Tosh gasped.

"How'd they get away?" Jack asked, frustrated. Tosh flinched at her friend's mood. When he was like this she'd usually retreat to the other side of the hub. Rose was accusing the Doctor of not passing his driving test, and they decided to go back and talk to the family with the grumpy father.

-OoO-

Tosh stood behind Jack on the door step as the Doctor rung the bell.

"Liking it so far?" Jack whispered to her. She felt herself grin.

"I can't believe I'm actually here!" she whispered back. Jack was about to say something, when the door opened.

"Hi!"They all chorused, as the father raised an eyebrow at them.

"Who are you?" he asked rudely.

"Let's see then, judging by the look of you - family man, nice house, decent wage, fought in the war - therefore, I represent Queen and country!" The Doctor cried, holding some sort of I.D.

"Psychic paper." Jack mumbled to her, and she nodded, having worked with the stuff before, she was familiar with its properties.

"Just doing a little check of Her Majesty's forthcoming subjects for the great day." The Doctor continued, still doing the insane grin. "Don't mind if I come in? Nah, didn't think you did, thank you!"

They all pushed past the man, and found themselves in a living room.

"Not bad, very nice! Very well kept! I'd like to congratulate you, Mrs... ?" Jack complimented, looking towards the mother of the young boy, who was lurking in the doorway with her son.

"Connolly." She answered, nervously. As soon as she finished speaking, her husband spoke up nervously.

"Now then Rita, I can handle this. This gentleman's a proper representative!" he said, rubbing his hands together. Then he turned to the Doctor and Jack. "Don't mind the wife, she rattles on a bit." He said, smiling apologetically. As the conversation continues, Rose and Toshiko perched themselves on the arm of a chair.

"All the social problems of the 1950's in a nutshell." She murmured to Rose, who gave her a fake snigger. As the conversation continued, Jack and the Doctor pressured the father- Eddie to put up the English flag decorations, while the wife and son –Rita and Tommy ( Tosh felt a stab of familiarity at the name)the conversation progressed, when Rita started crying, immediately, Tosh knelt in front of her, and placed a comforting hand on her arm.

"Come on dear," She soothed, "Tell us what's wrong and we can help." Suddenly Eddie threw down the flags in his hands and started shouting, only to be met with shouting from the Doctor as well.

-OoO-

Rose and Tosh were bundled outside, and Eddie slammed to door behind them. They looked around, and saw no bikes, and Rose angrily exclaimed,

"Damn those men! They've gone an' left havn' they! Augh!"

"If I'd had more time and my scanner, I'dve been able to identify that red energy!" Toshiko moaned, and Rose nodded.

"That' bloke who was selling tellies, wha' was 'is name? It was on the side o' 'is van. Did you see wha' it was?" Rose asked.

"Er..." Tosh said, thinking for a moment. "Magpie, Magpie Electrics."

"Cos it seems where all the weird stuff's goin' on." Rose said, and then pointed down the street. "This way I think." Tosh followed, and they chatted as they walked.

"So," Rose said, her tone told Toshiko that she was up to something. "Who's this Owen that Jack mentioned then?" She asked. Toshiko cursed under her breath.

"He's the medic where I work. He's a dickhead, he really is, I don't know why I like him... animal magnetism I guess." She said after a moment.

"Anything gonna... happen between you then?" Rose pressed. Tosh sighed and shook her head.

"Apparently I'm frump girl." She sighed at the painful memory. "It's like he knows how I feel, and he's just using that to slap me in the face when he's in a bad mood!" Rose walked in silence for a bit.

"Bastard." She muttered under her breath. Tosh laughed, and nodded. Rose suddenly seemed friendlier now.

"But you're lucky though," Tosh remarked after some more silence. "You've got a gorgeous boyfriend, and you can see on his face that he absolutely adores you-" She stopped when she realised that Rose had stopped walking, and she turned around to see the blonde a few paces behind. "Rose?" Asked Tosh worriedly.

"'E's not my boyfriend." Rose muttered. Tosh's mouth gaped.

"Really?" She asked incredulous. "Because the way you two talk to each other..." But Rose was smiling like a child on Christmas morning. They walked the rest of the journey in silence.

-OoO-

She and Rose stood, talking to some of the Connolly's neighbours. When they heard the Connoly grandmother shouting excitedly for her grandson, they turned to watch the reunion. Tosh stood there a moment, before she realized that Rose had seen something, and taken off down the street. Tosh looked around for what Rose was running to, and she saw...

"Jack!" She cried happily, as she ran down the street towards him, as fast as her dainty little shoes would allow, and slamming into him, burying her face in his chest. He laughed, and hugged her back.

-OoO-

"Cardiff!" The Doctor announced. "The... er" he squinted at something on the scanner. "Torchwood three 'hub'. You've got a hub! How cute!" Tosh grinned, and ran to the doors, flinging them open, and was near tackled by her best friend.

"I shot Owen." He mumbled into her shoulder.

"You what?" she shrieked.

"Ianto shot Owen!" She yelled, before struggling out his embrace, and running to find him.

"Owen!" She cried in relief, when she saw him sitting in a desk chair, operating on his shoulder.

"Tosh!" He cried. "How'd you get back here! We were so worried, and..." For the first time, he noticed her attire.

"Why are you dressed like Sandy from Grease?" He asked her.

"Toshiko!" Jack yelled from the other side of the hub.

"I'll be back," she muttered to Owen, and hurried off the find Jack.

"Owen alright?" The Doctor asked, Tosh nodded.

"Good, good." He said stuffing his hands in his pockets.

"Well, we'll be off now!" Rose said, leaning forward and giving Tosh a hug.

"I'm not going to steal him away." Toshiko whispered in the blonde's ear. "I know that's what you were thinking. Don't worry, he's all yours." Rose pulled away, eyes wide, with a little bit of guilt in them, thankfully, nobody else noticed.

"You look after each other okay." The Doctor told Jack and Tosh, who nodded.

"Likewise." Tosh said threateningly. Rose laughed, when the cog door whirred open.

"Jack!" came a Welsh voice from the door, and suddenly a brunette was tackling Jack with all the force in the world.

"Oh, hello Gwen." Jack said, embarrassed. Gwen pulled away, and grinned adoringly at him, before turning to Tosh.

"Oh, hello." She said coldly. Tosh nodded to her.

"Rose, Doctor, this is Gwen." Rose slipped an arm around the Doctor, who looked at her in surprise, but said nothing. Rose winked at Jack, who must have explained Gwen's shenanigans to her.

"Hullo Gwen." Rose said. The Doctor leaned in to the Welsh woman.

"What happened to your face?" He asked, somewhat rudely. Gwen's hand immediately flew to her eye.

"Nothing." She simpered, obviously taken by the Doctor's handsome features. Toshiko looked at Gwen's black eye, and had to hide to hide her giggles. Rose nodded, and pursed her lips.

"Jack, I don't think you should piss off Toshiko, do you?" She asked, still inspecting Gwen's shiner.