AN: I am sorry that this has taken so long to post. I was supposed to post Tuesday and Wednesday but work was mental and I was exhausted. I intended to post both chapters on Thursday before spending the weekend with friends, but I was in a car crash on Thursday night and am in quite a bit of pain, so this is the first chance I have really had to get to my pc to post.
Archienius Addams was annoyed majorly, he couldn't believe the audacity of the woman, he wasn't stupid he could tell exactly what she was thinking. He may not know everything like Tharmus did, but he could tell exactly what the woman thought of him and the way that he ran his organisation, and he did not like her thoughts one bit. The woman was too self-absorbed to be a decent torchwood officer, or a torchwood officer of the future at least. She reminded him a bit of Yvonne Hartmann, and the Torchwood Lesbians Emily and Alice. He was sure that they were not comparisons that Jack had made otherwise the woman would have been gone from torchwood a long time ago, but sometimes it took a fresh pair of eyes.
From what he knew of Harkness and the situation with Cooper it seemed that he was completely blind to her faults. That was something that was dangerous in any situation, but in this one where it was the head of the institute that was blinded there was nothing but peril to come in the future. Unlike Andronenkos he couldn't actually see the future, but he didn't need to be able to see specific instances to know that Gwen Cooper would no doubt get either herself or a member of her team killed if she wasn't stopped soon.
The fact that she thought he was incapable of leading torchwood two was laughable though, she had no idea of anything that went on in Scotland, sometimes it was worse there than Cardiff or London. She thought that she could do a better job, but she didn't even know what the job is. He couldn't believe how self-centred she really was. He had read the files of course and had listened to his family's evaluation of her, but he had no idea how bad she was until he met her in person.
He lightened up a bit when he thought of ever5ything that he would be putting her through in the next few days. The schedule he left for her was two full days spanning from 4am to midnight. After all to be a true member of torchwood you had to function on less than four hours sleep at times, really he was just training her into better habits. She would start with two hours of physical exercise, then she would have an hour to shower and eat, he didn't want to have to smell her all day. She would then spend five hours slogging through manuals on protocol, break for lunch, then work on alien technology recognition and handling until dinner. After dinner she would spend her time learning recognition of alien species and cultures. She had two days to learn as much as she could before he tested her on Thursday, he didn't think she could do it, and was personally hoping that she would fail.
Waking Gwen with a bull horn was one of the most enjoyable experiences that Archienius had had in a while; the look on the woman's face as she was roused out of sleep would stay in his memory for years. If only he had a picture of it that he could send the family, he was sure that they would get as much enjoyment out of it as he had. He couldn't believe the screech that she let out when he had informed her of her itinerary for the day, she seemed outraged, when really she should already know what was in store for her. After all he had left her with a detailed plan of her activities for the next three days that she would spend in his company. He supposed that expecting her to read what he provided for her was probably too much of an expectation.
Archienius spent the next two days balancing his time between dealing with his own personal experiments, torchwood business and training Gwen; the latter taking up the most of his time. The woman and her reactions were entertaining though so he had begun to see the time that he spent with the woman as comic relief. Then again the times were she insulted his family, even inadvertently, were all beginning to make his blood boil. He had decided not to let it show though, and was preparing to deal with her before she left for Cardiff. She would soon regret ever saying a bad word about his family.
She had obviously decided some point in the first day of her intensive training regime that she wanted to get him onside and had begun to tell him all about the inner workings of torchwood three and how they were all so useless without her and Jack. He knew for a fact that Tharmus was not useless, he had been partly responsible for his Torchwood training, and Grizelda had been in charge of his Addams instruction, the man was anything but useless. The corpse, while a bit abrasive at times, was very good at his job and Toshiko was a genius, at least according to the family and his files. He wouldn't mind getting her up to Glasgow for a while to work with him on some of his projects, he wondered if he could somehow manage to get that one past Jack, or if he should propose it straight to either Tharmus or Toshiko.
Archienius also made note to himself to mention to Jack how the woman couldn't be trusted with any sensitive information if she was going to use it to try and gain favour elsewhere, he wouldn't be surprised if there were hundreds of torchwood secrets floating around UNIT if Gwen had had any contact with the other agency. Archienius was sure that she would be unable to keep her mouth shut even when her life depended on it. She was not the type of woman you wanted working for a secret agency.
Knowing though that her training reflected on him he pushed her as hard as he dared, knowing that if she failed it would look bad for him. While he wouldn't mind her failing as it would be a way to push her out of the institute he had a perfect record of passes for this training. He knew that his record would be tarnished anyway as there was no way that Cooper would pass in the top 2% like all his other trainees had done, but she had to pass. Once she had passed he could deal with all her slurs on his family before sending her back to Cardiff and Tharmus with a training regime that would make her want to quit the institute herself.