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And now for Torchwood... No reviews though! :(

"We've got another one." Tosh called the monitor in front of her flashing with the recent police report.
"Okay..." Jack began as he came bounding down the stairs from his office. He then quickly began to handout demands. "Suzie grab the glove, Owen get your coat, Tosh scanner and Gaia..." He didn't get to finish his command as Gaia threw the SUV keys as him. "Impeccable timing as always." Jack commented.
"I know, I'm amazing like that." Gaia said shrugging her shoulders, a grin on her face.
"And modest." Jack joked with an eye-roll. Gaia whacked Jack on the arm and followed the other out of the hub to the SUV.

The SUV pulled up next to the small alley in the shadow of a rather large multi-storey car park. With a somewhat put on suave, the team climbed out the SUV and strutted past the stunned police officers. Well mostly stunned, one female officer, Gwen Cooper is Gaia recalled correctly, was quite adamant to get her point across. She was ignored though.

The group ducked under the police tape and approached the body. Everyone took their respected positions; Jack looked over his shoulder making sure no one was close enough to witness what they were up too. "Okay, who is he?" Jack asked Gaia as Suzie placed the glove on the dead man's forehead.
"John Tucker, 19 years old, lives with his mother, tried and failed college and is unemployed after a rather nasty end to his previous job." Gaia stated feeling sorry for the young `boy`.
"Okay, Tosh did you get that? John was his name." Jack said to Tosh, who nodded in conformation as she read the scanner that was in her hand. Jack then looked up at Suzie. "How's it going?" Suzie's concentration didn't come off the glove but she managed to reply to Jack.
"Nothing yet. It's got to connect, I've just got to feel it." She said some what airily. Before Jack could reply Owen butted in.
"Then hurry up and feel it! I'm freezing my arse off here." Gaia rolled her eyes.
"Man up Owen." She retorted, causing a low chortle from Jack. It was then Gaia noticed the extra eyes watching the group.

Gaia slowly made his way over to Jack and placed her hand on his, this allowed Gaia to open a telepathic link between the pair. "We have a spectator. " Gaia said, raising her eyebrows in indication that the spectator was above them. Jack nodded.
"By a chance the dark haired Officer from earlier?" He asked.
"Yep."
"This could be fun." Gaia rolled her eyes and broke the link, just as the glove started to click and glow an ominous blue.

"Positions." Jack ordered. Gaia had to step a little away from the group, the first time the group had attempted this, her body had reacted badly and she ended up vomiting. She had learnt her lesson, the others... not so much.
"If I get punched again, I'm punching it right back." Owen stated causing Gaia to chuckle at the memory. It had been some left hook for a supposedly dead man; Owen had had a black eye for weeks afterwards.

Suzie supported John's head and he gasped into the land of the living. With Gaia's heightened hearing she could hear the gasp of the PC high above as well.

"There was ... What was? I was ... Oh, my God, I was going home." John said panicked his head still resting in Suzie's hand.
"Listen to me; we've only got two minutes so it's important that you listen, okay?" Toshiko said she had been nominated speaker this time. Gaia had vomited the first time, Owen had gotten a black eye, Suzie had to work the glove and Jack ended up flirting and wasting time.

"Who are you?" John asked now completely terrified.

Gaia had to bite down the bile that was rising in her stomach. She was connected to this planet and in turn each and every one of the creatures that inhabited the planet, including the humans. Meaning when one came back from the dead... it was wrong.

"Trust me. You're dead." Toshiko replied, trying her best to keep the tone of her voice calm.
"How am I dead?"
"You were stabbed." Owen added.
"I'm not dead, I can see you."
"We've brought you back but we haven't got long, I'm sorry but you've got to concentrate, who did this to you? What did you see?" Tosh asked. John wasn't listening.
"Why am I dead?" Tosh persisted anyway.
"Who attacked you?"
"I don't want to be dead."
"Sixty seconds." Suzie warned.

"You've got to think, just focus on me. What was the last thing you saw?" Tosh asks again, her tone now much more calm. John took a deep breath.
"I didn't see any... I don't know." John stuttered.
"Who killed you, did you see them?" Tosh asked.
"I don't know. There was... something behind me."
"Police said one stab wound in the back." Owen added. Gaia rolled her eyes.
"We could have used that information earlier Owen." Gaia called. The sound of her voice seemed to prick John's ears.
"Who's that?" He asked.
"It's no one, don't worry. But you didn't see anything?" Tosh asked.
"No, but that voice. It was so pretty. Like I dunno..." John said starting to slur his words. "... Mother nature." He finished, then flat lined.

"I said it was stupid, telling him he was dead. And what in the bloody hell was that about with Gaia?" Owen asked, soaked through and miserable in the Welsh rain.
"Well, you try it." Tosh responded getting to her feet and putting the scanner back in her bag, ignoring Owen's last comment but she could deny she was curious too.
"`Trust me`, like that's gonna work." Owen continued optimistic as ever.
"Told the last corpse he was injured, he wasted the whole 2 minutes screaming for an ambulance." Jack began. He looked over at Toshiko who stared down at the body at her feet. "Maybe there's no right way of doing it." He finished. With a quick wink to Gaia he looks up directly to their spectator from above. "What do you think?" He asked and the Officer jumped back out of sight. Gaia rolled her eyes.

Now back in the hub, the tone was sombre. Tosh, Ianto, Owen and Suzie ended up going home for the night, leaving Gaia and Jack in the hub alone. "That Officer, who was she?" Jack asked Gaia as they both sat on the couch, Gaia lying down with her head in Jack's lap.
"Gwen Cooper, 28 years old, dating Rhys Williams, 31, they live together in a flat in Cardiff. She works for the police with her partner Andy Davidson. She comes from an old Cardiff family who had a bit of a run in with you-know-who back in the day." Gaia said, completely relaxed after quite a hectic and eventful evening.
"No way, Voldemort exists?" Jack joked. Gaia laughed sarcastically.
"Ha, ha, ha. You're so funny. Thankfully you're a human I can't take credit for." Gaia said, sitting up next to Jack. Jack shrugged his shoulders and Gaia let out a yawn.

"You look beat, when's the last time you slept?" Jack asked.
"A few days ago." Jack raised his eyebrows. "Okay maybe a week ago." Jack's expression didn't change. "Alright it's been a fortnight." Gaia finally admitted. Jack's gaze softened.
"Go get some rest." Jack ordered, pushing her up of the couch and up to her office/ room. Gaia whined. "No, I'm not having any of it. Bed now." Jack urged as he opened the door to her office. Gaia pouted. Jack rolled his eyes and placed a kiss on Gaia's forehead. "Goodnight Gaia." He said, then closed the door.

Cracking her eyes open Gaia tried to focus on the alarm clock on her bedside table. Rather begrudgingly, she had gone to bed after Jack had unceremoniously put her in her room last night and she couldn't deny she felt better for it. Now though, with her eyes still blurry from sleep she couldn't even begin to decipher the numbers her alarm clock was showing. When her eyes finally refocused and her brain registered the time on her alarm clock, she promptly fell out of bed in shock.

"Bloody 1 in the afternoon! I've slept half the day away! I'm gonna kill that man!" Gaia grumbled angrily to herself as she picked herself off the floor. Jack had obviously come in her room either last night or in the early hours of the morning and turned off her alarm clock and she wasn't happy about it.

Whilst grumbling to herself she proceeded to the bathroom to get ready. She didn't take long changing and was back in the main hub within a few minutes, where she was surprised to see it was empty. Ianto no doubt was probably down in the archives, he spent a lot of time down there of late. But Gaia brushed it off as grief over the end to his previous job at Torchwood 1.

Walking over to one of Tosh's monitors she pulled up the most recent window on view, it was CCTV footage of a weevil on the loose in the near-by hospital. "Well that explains where you lot are." Gaia said to herself. She paused the footage and minimized the window, putting the computer back to how she found it. Tosh was lovely and all, but if you touched her computer... Gaia shivered. Content she had put everything back in place she made her way to the kitchen for a tea, unlike the rest of the team she refused to drink the hellish drink they called coffee, no matter how well Ianto apparently made it.

Leaning on the counter in the kitchen Gaia allowed her eyes to close and her mind to open. Meditation was a well practised discipline on Starnet and it was to be done everyday. It allowed planet-keepers, such as herself, to become one with their planet. It allowed them to hear the wind, feel the planets rotation and see the new life and smell nature at its best. But this discipline was something Gaia was very out of practise with; to fully meditate you had to sit perfectly still, sometime for hours, with no disturbances and with Torchwood that simply wasn't possible. So every now and again she'd get wisps of the planet around her.

Now she was watching the hospital where the team where, she was riding the air flowing through the windows into the building. Meandering through the corridors she stopped when she caught sight of Jack. She smiled as she saw the PC from the other day, Gwen Cooper, follow him closely behind. Jack had obviously caught the escaped weevil and was on his way back to the SUV judging by the somewhat urgent pace he had. Gaia's eyes subconsciously rolled when she realised Jack was messing with the poor woman. Not really wanting to see what happened next, Gaia broke her meditative state and finished her tea. Placing her empty cup in the sink she walked quite cheerfully down the corridor back to the workstations, waiting for the others to return.

Exactly 10 minutes later Jack and Tosh re-entered the hub. Suzie and Owen had gone through the back to place the weevil in one of the cells. "We have a follower." Jack said strangely gleefully as the cog door rolled back.
"I saw." Gaia replied indicating at the CCTV which showed the young officer, Gwen Cooper get turned away by one of the security guards.
"She's good I'll give her that." Jack said leaning over Gaia's shoulder. Tosh had returned to her workstation. Gaia made a noise in agreement to Jack, but then realised she was meant to be angry with him. Putting on her best angered face she turned to face Jack.

"You turned off my alarm." She stated. Jack paled.
"Yeah, you needed your sleep." Jack said, to Tosh it looked as if he said it quite smooth and calm, to Gaia, who had known Jack for much longer, knew that he was in fact shitting himself.
"Yes well in case you've forgotten I do not need nearly as much sleep as you and thanks to your meddling I slept half the day away."

Tosh wasn't usually a nosy person, but when it came to her bosses she could help but be curious. She didn't think she ever seen Jack get told by anyone, not properly anyway and she was intrigued at his response. She keeping her eyes on the monitor and he hands busy using the keyboard and mouse she quite easily kept up the charade that she was actually working.

Jack looked down guilty at Gaia's response. It was true he quite often forgot the fact that Gaia wasn't a child anymore; she was quite easily 10 times his own age and had been a mother herself. He needed to stop treating like one. "I'm sorry." He muttered, still looking down.

Tosh's eyebrows rose in shock, Jack had said sorry. She didn't think she'd ever see the day.

Gaia grinned like the Cheshire cat. "I'm sorry I didn't hear that." She said continuing her `angry` voice.
"I, Captain Jack Harkness, am sorry." He said over dramatically.
"Could I have that in writing?" Gaia jested and then proceeded to give Jack a hug.

The pair continued hugging when Suzie and Owen walked into the room. "Get a room!" Owen called as he made his way down to the autopsy room. Gaia and Jack rolled their eyes.

"She's back again." Ianto called a little while later from one of the monitors. The CCTV footage from outside was on the screen showing Gwen walking across the Plass with a pizza box in her hand. Jack was instantly behind Ianto looking at the monitor.
"This could be fun." Jack said. "Alright everyone how about we do a little messing about?" Jack hollered at the team. There was a general consensus. "Excellent. Ianto get up to the tourist board and let her in. Owen in the autopsy room, Suzie got and find something big and scary to work with, Tosh look busy and Gaia well... just sit there and look busy." Jack joked. Gaia rolled her eyes and gave him a mock salute before turning back to face the monitor behind her.

A small buzz from the computer tells the group that Ianto's let Gwen in, they all take there positions and Jack walks up to his office grabbing a pile of paperwork from inside. The cog door rolls open and a bewildered Gwen walks in, Gaia smiles a little as the smell of fresh pizza hits her nostrils; it's currently 9 pm and she hasn't eaten anything decent since the day before.

Jack comes out of his office again and heads down the stairs completely ignoring Gwen and heads over to Gaia's desk, putting the paper work down. He then grabs another bit and perches on the edge of the desk reading it, waiting for Gwen to say something. She doesn't get the chance.

As Gwen passes Toshiko she cracks and starts to giggle, Owen snorts and admits defeat. "I can't do this, I'm sorry." He begins and swings his chair around to face Gwen. "I'm rubbish. I give up!" Toshiko also starts to laugh again and blames Owen for starting her off.

"Well that lasted nought point two seconds." Suzie jokes, putting down her welding tool and making her way over to the main hub area.

Gaia rolls her eyes and turns to face the others. "And the Oscar for best acting goes to..." Gaia jokes, looking directly at Owen and Tosh. Owen shrugs and Tosh blushes.
"She's actually carrying pizza!" Owen continues revelling taking the mick out of Gwen.

Jack throws the paper work over his shoulder and it lands messily on Gaia desk, "Come on! She was gonna say, "Here's your pizza," and I was going to
say, "How much?"" Jack began as he stood up off the desk. "And she says, "Oh, whatever, twenty quid," and I say, "Oh, I don't have any money.""He continues, everyone's sniggering now all except Gwen who looks highly uncomfortable. "I was working on a punchline. I'd have got there. But it would've been good!" Jack finished, Gaia rolled her eyes.

Gwen, rather unsure what to do next, placed the pizza down on the coffee table. "Err... there's you pizza. I'd better go." She said and almost attempted to leave, but Jack stopped her before she could go anywhere.
"We've gone past that stage." He said his tone light but still serious.
"You must've been freezing out there. How long were you walking around? Three hours?" Gaia asked.
"You could see me." Gaia nodded in response.

"And before we go any further, who the hell orders pizza under the name Torchwood?" Jack asked. Owen raised his hand guiltily.
"Uh, yeah. That would be me. I'm sorry. I'm a twat." He admitted. Gaia laughed and Jack looked sour. Facing Jack, Gaia put her hand up.
"I win, now pay up." She demanded. Jack groaned and pulled out a 20 pound note out of his pocket and handed it to her. "And..." Gaia continues.
"Girls are better than boys, they are the stronger sex and more intelligent." Jack choruses unenthusiastically. Tosh and Suzie snigger, both quite use to their bosses childish behaviour. This was when Gwen ruined their moment.

"That man, at the hospital, that porter, what happened to him? That was
real, wasn't it? He was attacked." She asks. Gaia pocketed the 20 and watches the conversation unfold.
"He's dead." Jack stated.
"But there's no-one gone missing."
"We took the body, retrospectively changed the work rota, planted a false witness who saw him leaving the hospital, giving him an alibi for the next 48 hours, so when his body's pulled out of the docks next Tuesday night, he's only been missing for three days." Tosh explained.
"He was murdered?" Gwen asks, her tone suggesting it was more of a statement than a question.
"Yes." Tosh replies.
"And you covered it up?"
"That's my job." Tosh says with a shrug. Gwen then turns back to Jack.

"And that other man, John Tucker? Last night in the alleyway, I saw you." Gwen persists.
"And what did you see?" Jack asks cryptically.
"You revived him."
"No. What did you see?"
"You resuscitated him."
"No. What did you see?"
"You brought him back to life." Gwen finally admits.
"Yeah." Jack says in agreement.

"Who are you?" Gwen asked.
"Torchwood."
"What's Torchwood?"
"This is Torchwood. All around you." Jack explains and indicates everyone. Gwen stood there for a moment trying to take it all in.
"Any what happens to me?" She asks. Jack can't help but play on that.
"Well..."
"I'm police. Constable Gwen Cooper. You can't do anything." Gwen stated, defending herself. Owen snorted no doubt thinking the same as Gaia... if only she knew.

"Right then, PC Cooper..." Jack begins ignoring Owen's snort. "D'you want to come and see? You saw the murder. Come and see the murderer." Jack finished and walked down the stairs and into the corridor.

Gwen stood there for a few moments slightly shell shocked, the look on her face telling Gaia that she's sceptical about trusting Jack. So Gaia stepped in as always. "Come on." She said and grabbed Gwen's hand pulling her down the corridor.

Gwen didn't flinch when the woman grabbed her arm, which was weird because she was a total stranger and Gwen had always had a thing about personal space. But it was almost as if the woman perspired an aura of calmness; going down a spooky dark unknown corridor following a non-existent man to see a murderer... it was nice to have that element of calm.

Walking past the cells Gaia stopped with Gwen at there newest arrival, dubbed Jim by Ianto. Jack flicked the switch on the wall and Gwen jumped back in surprise as the cell light came on and the weevil revealed. "It's all right – it's safe, it's sedated." Gaia said soothingly, calming the terrified woman down. Jack took this as his queue to explain.
"It's called a Weevil. Or at least, we call them Weevils." The weevil growls at Jack, but he continues to talk nonetheless. "We don't know their real name, cos they're not too good at communicating. But we've got a couple of hundred of them in the city living in the sewers, feeding off the ... Well, it's the sewers, you can guess. But every once in a while, one of them goes rogue, comes to the surface, attacks. Actually, it's been happening more and more and we have no idea why. But it's alien." Jack explains. Gwen takes a deep breath, taking it all in.

Roughly half an hour later, Gwen, Jack and Gaia returned to the main area of the hub. "Owen Harper, Gwen Cooper." Jack says beginning the many introductions.
"Toshiko Sato, computer genius. Suzie Costello, 2nd in command. Ianto Jones, cleans up after us and gets us everywhere on time. And Gaia, my boss, if her gob's anything to go by." Jack joked, earning a whack on the arm from Gaia and a quiet chuckle from Gwen.
"Ignore him; I just stop him from doing anything stupid." Gaia explained to Gwen.

Gwen smiles, but is slowly drops as she realises something. "Why are you telling me all this? I'm not supposed to know, am I? This is classified, isn't it?" She asks slightly scared at what the answer may be. Jack can't help but feel slightly amused.
"Way beyond classified." He confirms.
"Then you shouldn't be telling me. What are you gonna do to me?"
"What's do you imagine?" Jack asks earning himself a whack on the head by Gaia. "Oh stop it, your scaring the poor girl to death." Gaia said. Jack shrugs in response and grabs his jacket off the desk, not before shoving something in his pocket out of the desk draw, but only Gaia noticed this.

"Oh-kay! Tosh, finish that calibration tomorrow morning. Owen, first thing, get a hold of Chandler and Bell, cos I think they're lying. Ianto, if he needs back-up, then you'd better be on stand-by. Suzie, I know it's a pain in the ass, but I need the costing on the glove research." Jack orders then turns to face the girls. He then puts his arms around their shoulders. "And as for you 2, we're going for a drink." He said cheerful and then led them out of the hub.

An hour later all three are leaving the pub, Gwen swaying on her feet as the amnesia pill starts to take its effect. "Don't think you can fight it by staying awake. I mixed in a little bit of sedative too." Jack hollered down the road at the swaying Gwen.
"Then I'll tell someone!" Gwen argues.
"Do you want to do that? Do you really want us to come and find them too?" Jack asks.
"You bastard!"
"Language! Nice knowing you, Gwen Cooper." Jack said finally and Gaia gave a little wave in goodbye before Jack had his arm around her waist and drags her back to the hub before she does something she regrets.

Gaia can admit she understands why retconning Gwen was necessary; her life would be so much safer and easier if she forgot about them. But Gaia could feel the foreign contaminant in Gwen, she knew that it wasn't off this Earth and her every instinct was telling her to repel it. But she couldn't for Gwen's own good and that's why Jack had to practically drag her home.

The next day was rather uneventful. Gaia kept tabs on Gwen and it turns out the amnesia pill had worked, she didn't remember a thing. Everything went back to normal in the hub as if Gwen Cooper had never happened. Suzie was a bit quieter than usual, but everyone had a quiet day from time to time. Owen was full of himself, as per usual and Tosh was quiet and ingenious as always. Ianto was down in the archives, doing what ever he did down there and Jack spent the majority of the day in his office. All in all another day at Torchwood.

Gaia was very surprised though that in the early hours of the next morning Gwen made a reappearance in the Plass. So with out a second thought she hopped on the `invisible lift` and made her way up to street level. She was more then shocked to see both Gwen and Suzie up there, both next to the lift, the latter a gun in her hand pointing at the former.

"...You've got to get inside this stuff. Surrender yourself to it. I did, with the knife, and the glove, and that's why the perception filter isn't gonna work on me." Suzie said and turned, in an instant, and shot Gaia. The bullet never made it to Gaia's skin, it seemed to disintergrate in mid air as if it had hit some invisible force field. Gwen stood there, shell shocked.
"But... how... shot..." Gwen mumbles incoherently. Suzie looks equally as shocked but she's still determined.
"I can still use this." Suzie says and pulls the oddly shaped knife out of her bag. Gaia inches back a little. She recognises the knife it came through the rift a few weeks ago, meaning it could do her some serious damage.

Before Suzie can do anything though a voice calls out behind her, "I wouldn't do that if I were you." The voice calls. Then without thinking Suzie turns around and plunges the knife into the voice's origin, a certain Captain Jack Harkness, her boss. He crumples to the floor. Dead.

"What have you done?" Gwen asks her voice breathless. Suzie looks down at her dead boss feeling slightly numb and before Gaia can do anything pulls the gun up to her own chin and shoots. Gaia manages to catch her before she hits the floor.

"Oh Suzie." Gaia sighs. She kisses the woman on the forehead and closes her eyes. She then slowly rests the, now dead, woman on the pavement and moves over to Jack. "I'm really sorry about this." She mutters and quickly pulls the knife out. Jack gasps into life and hollers in pain.

Gaia drops the knife and allows it to clatter to the pavement. She then turns to Gwen who curled up on her knees sobbing uncontrollably. "I remember." She utters continuously, rocking herself back and forth. Gaia stands there in shock.

A lot happened when Jack was back to himself, but most of it is a blur to both Gaia and Gwen. The next time coherent thought returned to Gaia she was standing on the millennium centre roof, Jack's arm around her shoulders and Gwen holding her hand.

"Owen and Toshiko, you didn't tell them that you were shot in the head and survived. Or that you were stabbed and lived." Gwen said unsure.
"You didn't tell them either. Followed my lead. Keep doing that, and you might just get through this." Jack said rubbing circles with his thumb on Gaia's arm.
"But she killed you and she should've killed you."
"I can't die and no Earth built device can harm Gaia. Not when used by a human anyway."
"Okay."
"But I can't. Something happened to me a while back. Long story and far away. But I was killed, and then I was brought back to life, and ever since then ... I can't die. And well Gaia, I'll let her explain that to you when she's ready."

"Okay... but you, how does it work?" Gwen asks hesitantly.
"I don't know. One day, I'll find a doctor, the right sort of doctor, and maybe he can explain it. But until then ..."
"Nothing kills you?"
"Well, it kind of freaks people out, so... best if you don't say anything."
"It doesn't matter anyway. You'll only wipe my memory again." Gwen said, this caught Gaia by surprise.
"Why would we do that?" Gaia asked.

"Torchwood's got a vacancy. 'Cos maybe you were right, we could do more help. What do you think? You want to join up?" Jack asked. Gaia squeezed Gwen's hand a little in encouragement.
"Yeah." Gwen replied. "I do yes."

All that was on Gwen's mind that evening, as she sat on the sofa with her boyfriend watching old re-runs of the comedy `Smith and Jones` was Torchwood and the excitement of her first proper day.

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