"Well?" Andy looked around for some sort of acknowledgement if not praise.
"Rolls" Sang Gwen as see placed a place in front of him.
"Ah, cheers Gwen, absolute magic."
The sight of Andy devouring the rolls, reminded Gwen of the many early morning shifts they'd shared; many of which involved stopping at the cafe, or the road side van for a round of bacon rolls. She smiled, and rejoined the boys at the table.
"So, then Andy." She began, sounding very organised, "The stuff, can we see it?"
Andy looked up, mouth full of roll, bit of bread hanging out one corner of his mouth. Using a hand to help insert the hanging bits into his mouth and chewing enthusiastically he finally had enough space to speak.
"Huum," he thought better of trying to speaking with a half full mouth, chewed a bit more and swallowed. "Yeah yeah of course, it's all in the back of the car outside. Shall we go?" He was out of his seat on his feet looking expectantly at the others.
"Well I'm sure it will still be there in a few minutes, if you want to finish your breakfast first?" Gwen's was almost laughing, but not in a cruel way, more just entertained, it was nice to see Andy so excited.
"Ah, yeah guess so." He sat back down.
It was cold outside. Ianto felt all the hairs on the back of his neck stand up as they stood out in the street. Rubbing his arms didn't seem to help, so he reverted to put them in his pockets and shifting from foot to foot.
"Right then let's see what you got." Jack didn't exactly sound enthusiastic as he stood at the rear of Andy's car.
"Everyone ready?" Andy looked like he was about to unveil the crown jewels. He pushed the button, raised the boot lid and then straightened up proudly admiring its contents. Inside the boot were two reasonable sized cardboard boxes. One contained what looked suspiciously like building rubble you'd expect to see in a skip. The other was a collection of metallic objects, of varying size. Jack and Gwen peered round either side of Andy at his find.
"Any thoughts anyone?" Jack was seriously unimpressed, and he wasn't making any effort to hide it.
"Waaa, waaa." The small white box attached to Gwen's belt let out an ear piercing scream.
"Oh sorry guys, she's awake, I'll leave you to it." And she dashed back up the path at great speed.
Jack glanced back in boot, Ianto moved closer to get a better look, it was easy to see why Jack wasn't excited.
"Hmm, nothing that unusual, sir."
"No, my thoughts exactly." Jack turned to Andy who was now leaning on the edge of the car, legs crossed, watching the birds go by. "Nope, nothing out of the ordinary there. You can just, well do whatever it is you normally do with rubbish."
Andy's face fell. He opened his mouth as if to protest but either thought better of it or lost his nerve. "Right. Well worth a go, I'll just say bye to Gwen." He too dashed up to the house.
"You coming Ianto?" Jack placed his hand on the boot to close it.
"Hold on Sir," Ianto was busy rummaging in the metallic objects box, objects clattered against each other, Ianto straightened up clutching one in his left hand. "I think we've seen this before."
Jack looked quizzically at Ianto before directing his focus down his left arm to his hand, "so we have, now that's certainly not meant to be here!"
Ianto placed the singularity scalpel back into the box of metallic objects. "What's even more interesting, is that I think Gwen still has the original one from the hub back in her study."
"Does she now?" Jack raised an eyebrow. "Let's get these inside then might be more here than meets the eye." Jack grabbed the electronics box, and set off for the house.
Ianto looked at the box of rubble, how heavy could it be? Not that heavy surely. Apparently quite heavy, but once he got it balanced he struggled up the path after Jack.
"Oi!" Andy exclaimed as Jack nearly walked into him with the box. "where do you think you're going with that, that's police property that is."
Jack was already past him and nearly at the front door. "Good work Andy, real interesting stuff. We'll handle this." And with that he disappeared in the front door.
Andy was just quick enough avoid being knocked over by Ianto coming up the path behind the box of rubble.
Jack had dumped his box in the middle of Gwen's study and emptied it contents across the floor, Ianto placed his box down in just inside the door and brushed down his suit.
"Anymore?" He crouched down next to Jack.
"This look familiar?" Jack held up a slightly bulky looking PDA
"Is that, that's Tosh's."
"Uh huh, so why is our gear turning up in the forest?"
"I have no idea, do you think it's related to me turning up there too?"
"Seems more than coincidence if you ask me."
"Ask you what?" Gwen appeared in the door way, baby balanced on one hip. "Oh Jack, those boxes were in some sort of order you know!"
Jack looked confused. "You've been through this lot before?"
"Well it didn't just turn up here of its own accord did it! Rhys and I spent a good few weeks going through the rubble as they dealt with the debris from your explosion."
"Erm, Gwen." Ianto interrupted, "This isn't your boxes, this is the stuff we've just taken out Andy's car."
"But? Thats not possible, because that is definitely Tosh's PDA that you're holding and I know we rescued that, I was over the moon when we found it." Gwen handed Carys to Ianto and navigated her way across to the far corner of the room where she grabbed something out the top of the nearest box. "Snap" She said.