Chapter 17

Tegana rushed into the main room, disturbing the quiet atmosphere and searched out Jack.

"You've got to come and see what Ianto's just found!" Tegana told him, trying to hurry him up as he took his time getting out the chair. Jack seemed to Tegana to be going excruciatingly slow, just when she wanted him to hurry.

"Come on!" she encouraged.

"Alright!" Jack answered back wondering what had got Tegana in such a state. He followed dutifully as Tegana led him to Ianto's office and held the door open for him as he went in.

"So what's going on then?" he asked Ianto, hoping to get better answers from him. Ianto moved the screen so Jack had a clear view and then Jack began to read. It was the torchwood updates, all the torchwood teams from over the world posted small updates on the events that had happened in their area to compare to the other areas, it had proved affective once or twice when the same alien had cropped up in several different areas. Jack read the Glasgow teams update and the Delhi team but for the London team there was nothing but blanks.

"What's happened to the London team?" Jack asked assuming Ianto may have to answer but Ianto just shrugged.

"We've been doing the London team's job without even realising we're doing so!" Tegana stated, making Jack whip his head round to face her. He took a moment to dote on the while subject and then turned back to Ianto.

"Message the other teams see if they know anything about it." Jack ordered him. Ianto nodded and got straight to work.

Jack wondered out the room, his mind obviously concerned with the problem that they now faced. He emerged into the main room muttering to himself and then loudly saying 'London' out loud, making Gwen, Tosh and Owen look up at him and then at each other.

"What?" Gwen voiced the thoughts of all three of them.

"Hum?" Jack was pulled out of his thoughts and made to concentrate. "Oh, we seemed to have lost the London torchwood team." He replied.

"Lost the London torchwood team?" Tosh echoed Jack's words.

"So you mean to say we've been doing their job!" Owen piped up.

Jack had to take a double take on those words as a rush of de ja vu swept over him, reminding him that Tegana had said words to that affect only moments before.

"What are we going to do about it?" Gwen asked, showing the concern that Owen had no evidence of.

"Well until Ianto gets an answer back from the rest of the teams I'm not sure…" Jack told her. As if hearing Jack's comment Ianto walked through the door with a grim look on his face telling Jack what had happened even before he spoke.

"Well none of the other teams have heard anything from them in quite a while, so we're left in the same place we were a minute ago," Ianto updated Jack.

The team could see the clocks ticking inside Jack's head as he contemplated their next move.

Tegana had been intending to follow Ianto out the room as he went to tell Jack the news that was no news but something on the computer had caught her eye.

"DAD!" she shouted as she began to realise what was going on on the screen.

Jack heard the shout and instantly broke out of his thoughts to follow it.

Meanwhile Tegana was jotting down what she was receiving from the computer to a piece of paper, automatically deciphering the code as she went.

The message she managed to jot down read HELP!

"What's up?" Jack asked soon as his face was in the door. Tegana beckoned her father over to her with her hand and he instantly came towards the computer screen which Tegana was so intrigued by.

She showed him the screen and then showed him the message she had decoded.

"Get a trace on that!" Jack exclaimed turning vaguely to Tosh who had poked her head round the corner to see what was up.

"Yes…coming right up!" she acknowledge leaving the doorway to accomplish the task.

A thought occurred in Jack's head as he turned back to his daughter.

"How did you manage to decode that anyway?" he asked.

"I don't know, just did." Tegana replied with a shrug of her shoulders.

Jack had been about to say something else when Tosh called out that her task was done.

Forgetting his previous comment Jack became more interested in the results and led the way out of Ianto's office and to Tosh's computer. Ianto and Tegana where right behind Jack equally as eager to find the results.

Everyone crowded round the computer screen as Tosh explained what she had done.

"It's in London still," she concluded.

"Looks like we're going back to London!" Jack announced. Gwen and Tosh sighed, they had only just managed to actually fully unpack their suitcases from the last time and now it looked like they were going to have to do it all over again.

"Rile up a new case file, Ianto, let's begin the search!" Jack proceeded in directing the new case file forward.

"Case 54 in search of the London team," Ianto experimented out-loud before putting his hand to the keyboard.

The hub became alive with action once more as a new case began to take hold.

The last chapter of this story! But don't worry there is an epilogue to follow!