Once the others had left Gwen pulled the device out of her pocket.
Instantly the lightheaded sensation returned, as well as the tingling in her arm.
The tingling slowly spread from her arm to the rest of her body.
Gwen smiled, it felt quite nice, her entire body felt warm and tingly.
Looking down she saw a blue light shining out of the device, the light seemed to cover her, wrapping around her body, almost like a mist.
Gwen felt the tingling inside spread out to the skin, she felt it push through, and saw it come out as a grey static like light, completely covering her..
The grey light rose off her skin, and traveled into the device,
Gwen was sad to see it leave, she had liked the feeling of it.
Then the blue light also traveled back into the device, and Gwen's head went back to feeling normal.
Frowning Gwen pocked and prodded the device, trying to activate it again.
But no matter what she did the device did not respond, she could not get the lights to return.
Irritated she rammed it back into her jacket pocket.
Gwen knew she should tell Jack about it, but something held her back, a voice in the back of her head, reminding her how nice it had felt.
Gwen hurried out of the Hub before the others returned, not wanting to risk revealing the device.
By the time she got home she had already decided it had been a bad idea taking the device.
Gwen vowed to show it to jack as soon as she got to work the next day, before dumping her jacket on a chair and going to bed.
On the other side of Cardiff a shapeless creature stirred, it was an old being that had fallen through the rift many years ago.
He hid in the shadows of the city, blending into the darkness, watching the city, waiting, hoping one day the rift would bring what it needs.
He had felt a spark earlier that day, a tiny pull, more of a suggestion than a call, at first he thought he imagined the spark, it was just its old brain playing tricks.
But then it came again, stronger, a definite signal this time, calling out, looking for the one who could activate it.
Someone had found what he wanted.
The next morning Gwen awoke to Rhys frantically shaking her shoulders.
"What?" She groaned, still tired from the days before.
"Gwen we've been robbed!"
Gwen shot up."What?" She looked at Rhys "Robbed?"
He nodded, "I called the police."
"What did they take?" Gwen asked.
"Your jewellery, the telly, your clothes-"
"My clothes?!"
"Well only a couple of tops and a few pairs of shoes, oh and one of your jackets."
Gwen's eyes flickered to the chair she had dumped her clothes on last night, the jacket was gone, that meant the device was gone.
Gwen groaned, Jack was going to kill her when he found out.
Unless, of course she didn't tell him,
after all nobody knew she had it, and it wasn't like it did anything interesting. Gwen rationalised with herself.
The solution was simple, she decided, she wouldn't tell Jack about the device.
After leaving Rhys to deal with a cranky policeman and several nosey neighbours Gwen hurried to the Hub, aware she was already late.
A fact which Jack was happy to remind her of apon her arrival.
"Your late." He said frowning.
"Sorry, I forgot how long it takes the welsh police to actually arrive at the scene of a robbery." She replied.
Jack frowned, "Did they take anything relating to Torchwood?"
Gwen shook her head "Luckily I forgot my gun last night."
"Right, well then get back to work." Jack said, turning away from her.
In an abandoned warehouse not far from the Hub the device Gwen had found began to glow, the grey static pored from it, quickly forming the image of a body, slowly blue light surrounded it, wrapping around the shape, as it did so its colour changed, became fleshy, like skin.
Finely the device shut off, but the body remained, the empty human body.
The shapeless alien flowed into it, stretching out, becoming one with the body.
He opened his new eyes, and felt the corner of his mouth twitch,
Ah yes, he thought to himself, a smile,
He had never had a form that could smile before.
The alien looked down at the new body,
Yes, he thought, it will do, a pity it couldn't have been a male, he always felt slightly strange inhabiting a female form, but it would suffice for carrying out his plan.