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Confused?

"Hold on a minute." Rhys looked from Gwen to Jack and back again as the rain began to burst through the clouds. "I thought you lot were Torchwood?"

"We are." Gwen sighed. She didn't really understand it all herself but she knew that lying to Rhys at this point was not going to help anyone. He already knew enough. "There were other Torchwoods."

"Eh?" Rhys raised an eyebrow as he held his daughter protectively to him. "More of you lot? Why would they want to kill you? Kill us?"

"Look, Rhys. Do you remember the Battle in Canary Wharf? It must have been on the TV?"

"Yeah."

"Well that was Torchwood 1. London Torchwood if you want. Look there are basically four branches of Torchwood. London was pulled through the rift. It's gone, what little of it that wasn't pulled through the Rift was destroyed in the battle. Torchwood 2 was in Northen Ireland. It was pretty much destroyed in a bomb blast in the early 1970s. I was there, not pretty. Torchwood 3, well we think that was in Scotland but it's been missing for a few years. And then there is us. Torchwood Wales. The only remaining remnant of what Queen Victoria had created to investigate 'other worldly happenings'. Otherwise known as Ianto, Gwen, Donna and me." He smiled as Rhys nodded in understanding.

"Queen Victoria?" Donna almost laughed.

"She ran into Rose and the Doctor." Jack smiled as he thought about his friend and the blonde woman that had made him immortal. He had never expected to run into either of them again. It had come as no surprise that the Doctor had upset the Queen. As Rose had said, Her Royal Highness was not amused.

"Explains alot." Donna smiled.

"Hold on." Rhys stared at Jack. "You mean to tell me that you lost a whole section of your organisation?"

"Look, we don't have time for this." Ianto tried to end the discussion. He knew they were wasting time. The longer they were sat in Gwen's living room on the outskirts of Cardiff the longer they were literally sitting targets. He didn't like it.

"Well, make time for it." Rhys snapped "Because you are telling me that because someone in your organisation went a bit nuts my wife and my daughter are at risk. THAT is something you make time for, ok!"

"Rhys!" Gwen hissed as Rhys' gaze softened. She knew he was overprotective of her but he had always been that way. She smiled slightly. He hadn't changed since the day she had met him when she was a police officer on the beat in Roath. It seemed everything else in her life had changed but Rhys was still her Rhys. The way things were she wondered how long that would last.

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Ianto closed his eyes as he listened to Jack explain what they thought had happened to the missing Torchwood team. He knew that somewhere out there was a group of people that had been determined to kill everything related to Torchwood. That didn't just include the core members of the team. He was desperate to contact his sister, his nieces and nephews and the idiot she was married to but he knew that they all thought he was dead. He opened his eyes as he realised Gwen was now pacing the room.

"When did they get back through?"

"I thought the Rift had closed?"

"A hole in the Rift?" Ianto opened his eyes as the others began asking incessant questions. His head ached as he tried not to think about how the only reason he was still alive was because the rest of the world believed he was already dead.

"I don't know." Jack answered honestly. "I really do not know. Look. Guys. All I know is that last June there as an electrical storm centered on Cardiff. Since then there have been strange occurances as far as Treherbert in the Rhondda and up to Haverfordwest. Weavel sightings were called in from the valleys but more sinister calls in mid Wales."

"More sinister?" Rhys was suddenly more interested. "Anything in Cowbridge? My dad lives there."

"No." Jack smiled "No Cowbridge has been left alone so far. Look, we need to find these people. If they are people after everything that has happened to them."

"What do you mean? If they are still people? They were pulled through the Rift. Same thing happened to you and Tosh. Remember?"

"No." Jack shook his head. "Tosh and I slipped through an anomaly in time caused by the Rift. Not the actual Rift. Same as what happened when I fell through and ended up in London 1943. When I should have been with you and your mom."

Gwen nodded. "Okaay."

"What I mean is. All that energy, all that power surging through the cells, the bone and the muscle. Not only will it have changed them if not physically psychologically." Jack watched Gwen as she narrowed her eyes.

"Doesn't stop them being people Jack."

"Maybe not." He smiled slightly. Gwen still had the ability to see the real cost of what they did. The human angle as he had heard it referred to. He knew he had sometimes forgotten that. "But if you had seen what they had done. What they are capable of then you would doubt what humanity they have left."

"I've been a police officer. I've seen what evil people who haven't been through the Rift can do to each other." Gwen narrowed her eyes as Jack nodded.

"Trust me. Whatever you saw in your time as a police officer, it is nothing compared to what these guys can do. To what they have done."

"Then tell me."

"No Jack." Donna's eyes grew wider in silent warning. Jack nodded. He had promised he would never tell anyone how he had found her and he wasn't about to break that promise.

"Jack." Ianto watched as Donna visibly paled in front of him.

"These people, this Torchwood it's not like us. They have lost the ability to see clearly. To see the distinction between right and wrong. To know when to stop. Just because they fired a few shots up here doesn't mean that they meant to kill anyone. They were warning us."

"What? Warning us about what?" Rhys tried to control his anger as Gwen stood and began pacing the room.

"To be ready." Ianto sighed.

"That they are coming back. They blame us for not saving them. The fact that in those days you and Donna knew nothing about Torchwood is irrelevant. Torchwood is Torchwood as far as they are concerned and I let them down." Jack stared at the floor for a moment. "But the fact it is only me they would have known in those days is irrelevant. They want revenge. And they will be back."

A/N Just a filler chapter. Please review.