Jack climbed over a sleeping Ianto as he snatched a pair of his pants from the floor. Searching wildly for his keys and finding them in the pocket of his great coat he bolted out the door.
"Thank you so much Jack," Tosh said as she opened the door. "She's on the top shelf of my linen closet."
"Toshiko, what happened to your jaw," Jack asked, gawking at the bruise that marred her features.
She covered the bruise with her hand selfconciously, "Abbie was having a panic attack and I scared her, she didn't do it on purpose."
Jack nodded solemnly and headed down the hall where Abbie had scampered up to the top shelf of Tosh's linen closet, knocking towels and sheets askew as she climbed. "Abbie, come down here sweetheart, Tosh left, she can't hurt you."
Abbie shook her head violently. Jack sighed, he should've known this wouldn't be easy. "Well, how about if I stay down here," he said, sitting on the floor in front of the open closet. "And we just talk until you're ready to come down, how's that sound?"
Abbie didn't answer. "When were you born? When's your birthday?"
"1940, the ninth of September."
"Just after the London Blitz started. Who do you trust more, women or men?"
"Men."
"Why is that Abbie?"
"My mother left me in a dumpster when I was three years old. My first foster mother beat me and starved me. The second one pushed me down a flight of stairs. The last one I had before I was sent to an orphanage, she, she," Abbie sobbed suddenly, tears falling down her cheeks again. "B-Buried me alive. Three different times. I would've died had it not been for her husband. I don't trust women."
"Yet you were willing to be left alone with Toshiko."
"I know proper self-defense. I could've taken her, she caught me when I was unaware."
"Mmmm, are you willing to come down?"
"No, Toshiko is still here, I can hear her pacing in the next room."
"Abigail, you can trust me, I'm not going to let anything happen to you. If you come down you can sleep on the couch in the Hub, no one else would be there expect for myself and Ianto."
Abbie crawled forward on her shelf. "Come on down kiddo." She began to shimmy down, but her foot was on one of Tosh's silk sheets and slipped. "I gotcha Abs," Jack said as he caught her, Abbie blushed crimson and yawned hugely.