A/N. Thank you to everyone who reviewed the last chapter, very much appreciated. :)
Chapter 4.
The next morning when Molly got into work, she set about trying to sketch what she saw the night before. When Gwen came in and was filled in on what had happened, she went over to Molly and gave her a hug. 'You ok?' she asked.
'I'm fine, just a sore arm.' Molly replied, holding her bandaged arm out.
'You were lucky. I heard Dr West was there.' Gwen smiled as she said this.
'He may have helped,' said Molly laughing. Both women then got into a conversation about the various merits of the doctor, when Jack came out of his office.
'Right, I'm going to meet Jamie West at the café. I want you to keep researching what Molly saw last night. Hopefully Jamie won't take too much convincing to come back here and help. Although I'm sure the thought that Molly's here will convince him.'
Molly rolled her eyes, 'I doubt it.'
'I don't know I think he's taken quite a shine to you, I mean why else would he would go out into a dangerous situation like he did last night.'
'Maybe he just wanted to help.'
'Yeah, well I think he has a crush. Thought playing the hero would impress you.'
'Whatever. Anyway I have work to do.' Molly turned and walked away towards her computer, passing Ianto on the way who was just coming from the kitchen.
'Was it something I said?' Jack asked, Gwen just shrugged.
'Don't you have a meeting to go to?' Ianto said as he walked up to them.
He was right Jack did have to leave, he was already running a little late. He left the Hub and walked over to the café just across the Plass. Jamie West was already waiting for him inside. Jack ordered himself a coffee and went and sat down opposite him.
'Morning.' said Jamie.
'Morning. Did you bring that autopsy report?'
'Straight down to business, fine. It doesn't really say much you don't already know. The guy, who we still don't have an I.D for, was basically ripped to shreds. Officially I have put it down to a wild animal, although as last night proved that's obviously not true. How's Molly?'
Jack smiled to himself. 'She's fine, lucky you were there.'
'So what's going on? What were those things last night?'
'Honestly I don't know yet, we are working on it. It should hopefully be easier now we have a proper witness description.'
'Ok , so you don't know what it is, how about where it came from?'
'There is a Rift through space and time that runs through Cardiff, it came through that.' Jack just came straight out with the truth, and the reaction of the man in front of him would tell him what to do. If Jamie thought he was nuts and freaked out he could retcon him, if however, he chose to listen there could be hope for him.
'So it's an alien?'
'Yeah. You seem to be taking it rather well.'
'Well even I could tell it wasn't exactly human, although I was leaning along the lines of a scientific experiment gone wrong.'
'Interesting idea. So would you be willing to help us out?'
'Why would you need me, I know nothing about aliens.'
'I need someone with medical knowledge, and you've proved yourself more than capable in a dangerous situation.'
Jamie thought about this, he wasn't totally sure he wanted to get involved with Torchwood, but there was something that just compelled him to find out more.
'Ok, I'm in for now.'
Jack grinned. 'Come on then, work to do.'
They got up from their seats, and Jamie followed Jack out and across the Plass to the water tower, which had also been rebuilt on Jack's insistence. This was mainly so he could have the invisible lift back. They stood on the step and Jack activated the lift. Jamie just stood there for a moment wondering what on earth was going on when the step started to move. Jack just smiled at Jamie's look of amazement, he loved showing visitors in this way.
'Impressive.' said Jamie as he looked around at the Hub as the lift descended.
'It will be when its finished properly, some areas still need work.'
When the lift reached the bottom, they stepped off and were joined by Gwen.
'Hi.' She said.
'Where are the others?' asked Jack.
'Molly is at her computer, and I think Ianto is in the archives.'
'Have you found anything?'
'No it's going painfully slow.'
'Ok, take Jamie here and show him around, then get Molly and meet me in the boardroom in fifteen minutes. I'm going to find Ianto.'
Gwen and Jamie headed off towards the main part of the Hub, while Jack took the stairs down to the archives, or to what passed for the archives as there wasn't a lot in there right now, but Ianto was doing his best to sort out what there was. When Jack got there he could see that Ianto had his back towards the door. Jack walked over to him and put an arm around his shoulder, making Ianto jump slightly.
'Sorry, didn't mean to make you jump.' Jack said and he kissed him softly on the forehead.
'It's ok, I just never heard you come in.'
'Ianto, are you sure you're ok?' Jack asked. Ianto was looking tired, and had been withdrawing to the archives a lot. He could tell something was bothering the younger man, but he didn't seem to want to talk to Jack about it.
'I'm fine, just still not sleeping properly.' Ianto hesitated, he wanted to be able to talk to Jack, but for some reason he just couldn't. It had been a while now since they had been reunited and he knew he could trust Jack, yet there was something still holding him back.
'Well, there's a doctor upstairs, maybe you should talk to him' Jack said grinning.
'You bought him here. He must have made a good impression.'
'I think he can be helpful, and we'll see how it goes from there. Anyway I said we would meet in the boardroom.'
'Ok, I'll be there in a minute.'
Jack turned and started to walk towards the door, when he reached it he turned back and said. 'Ianto, you do know you can talk to me right? About anything'
Ianto looked at him and nodded. 'I know.'
Jack walked back up into the main Hub, and into the boardroom, Gwen, Molly and Jamie were already there. Ianto followed a moment later.
'Great place you've got here,' Jamie said, 'Although your medical bay needs some work.'
'Anything you need, just let me know. Molly, any luck tracking down what you saw last night.'
'No, but the databases are still incomplete. I'm currently working on updating them, while searching for what I saw, it's taking time.'
'Gwen, how about those samples we were running.'
'There was nothing obviously strange about them, but I'm running them again.'
'Ok, maybe Jamie can help you with that.'
'I've been looking at what we have in the archives too, and there's nothing in there.' said Ianto.
'Great, so we are exactly where we were when this thing came through the Rift.' Jack sat down in his chair looking annoyed.
'Forgive me if this is a newbie question, but I take it you can't tell when it's going to appear?'
'No. We can tell when something comes through the Rift, but at the moment we can't predict when they will come through, technical difficulties.' Molly said. 'Thing is though, these creatures are already here, so that makes it more difficult. Look at last night, one minute there was nothing there, next alien.'
'There has to be something that attracts it to places.'
'Possibly, but then we need to wait and see what it does next to establish a pattern.' Gwen said, 'But that could mean more casualties.'
'Gwen, I want you and Jamie to work on those samples, also Jamie take Gwen through the autopsy report. Ianto and Molly I want you to keep working on the databases. I have some calls to make.'
They spent the rest of the day going through all the information they had. Molly and Ianto thought they had found some promising leads in the database, but none of them led to finding out what kind of creature they were dealing with. Nothing seemed to have all the characteristics that Molly had seen. Gwen and Jamie had been looking back at all the data from the blood samples and hadn't identified anything out of place. Jack had called Martha to see if she could look in UNIT's database, but again came up with nothing. Jack was getting frustrated at not being able to find anything, and it was getting late.
'Right,' Jack said when they had all gathered in the Hub. 'Tomorrow morning we are going back to the places where this thing has been. There has to be some evidence that's been overlooked.'
'Do you want me to come along too.' asked Jamie.
'Yes, you and Molly can go back to the bar, retracing what happened. Gwen and I will go to the park.'
'Great, so I get stuck here again.' Ianto said.
'Sorry someone has too.' Jack said. He knew he was being unfair, but he was avoiding putting Ianto in the field as much as possible.
They started to leave after that. Gwen left to go home to see Rhys and Mary. Ianto started to walk towards the door, calling back to Molly, who was talking to Jamie. 'Are you coming?'
Jamie looked between them for a minute, then said. 'Sorry if I'm keeping you. Do you two have plans?'
'No, we live together, so it is easier to go home together.'
'Oh I didn't realise you two were…' he trailed off.
'What. No we're not together like that, just flatmates. It's a really long story.' Molly said smiling.
'You will have to tell me sometime.'
'Maybe. I have to go.' Then Molly left with Ianto.
Jamie followed not long behind, reflecting on the day, what had happened and everything he had learnt. He was looking forward to tomorrow.
