NEXT CHAPTER. and i am sorry it took so long! i've been busy, then another dosage of writers block hit me and then i had so many essays to do it was unbelievable! but here it is, the next installment- and the betrayer you've all been waiting for will finally be revealed! one small note- 48 hour retcon, is the retcon that makes you forget anything that's happened in the last 48 hours.

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"Jack?! Can I ask you a question?" Ianto yelled, once they were in the night sky, wind whipping through his hair.

"Shoot."

"What exactly are we planning on doing with Myfanwy once we land? And don't you think people will find it a bit odd that two men are riding above Cardiff on a pterodactyl?"

Jack chuckled. "Well, to answer your first question- I have absolutely no idea. To answer your second…oh fuck."

Ianto rolled his eyes, as Myfanwy flew higher and clung on to Jack's jacket. "You didn't think this through did you?"

"Not really, no."

"Jack….come in Jack,"

Jack reached up to his ear and pressed the com closer before answering.

"Owen? What's up?"

"It's Gwen….we've lost her"

Jack chuckled slightly. "How can you have lost a fully grown woman in the middle of Cardiff? I'm sure she won't talk to any strangers- we've trained her well…"

"No…I'm serious Jack. She was right behind us- we were at her mother-in-laws (charming lady by the way) and she was rambling on about Torchwood and aliens and stuff, we were all a bit stressed out I think…I turned around to ask her a question and she had vanished!"

"Yan and I are on our way…and Owen?"

"Yes Jack?"

"Try not to lose anyone else, alright?"

"Oh…go fuck yourself Harkness."

Jack chortled again and turned back to Ianto.

"What was that about?"

"Owen has 'mislaid' Gwen," Jack informed him steering Myfanwy away from a particularly large office block.

Ianto chuckled. "'Man of the moment', that Owen…"


Gwen hid in the shadows, watching as the two men talked in hushed voices. Ianto wanted to change out of his suit apparently; it was too precious to get ruined. After a minute he walked away to get changed and Jack walked over to the large pterodactyl. He whispered something into her ear that Gwen couldn't make out before swinging himself up and onto her back. After a minute of silence, during which Gwen could feel her heartbeat getting louder with impatience, Ianto returned and joined Jack on Myfanwy's back.

"Cummon, cummon…" Gwen muttered quietly in impatience. "Hurry up already…"

The pterodactyl took off out of the hub, with the two men still clinging to its back.

Once Gwen was sure that they had left, she slipped out of the shadows and ran quickly down into the archives. Clutching her leather jacket round herself tightly, she opened the last files and took out a see through packet labelled '48 hour retcon'.

Inside, hundreds of little white tablets lay in individual packets with strict warnings of dosages on each one. She took out another packet from the same file, and another and another, until about 20 of these lay at her feet.

She took out a paper carrier from her pocket and slipped the bags back into it. Her hands fumbled and she was aware of how shaky her hands had become.

She didn't want to do this…she didn't want to see it happen, but she had no choice. They'd be alright- it was just a one-off and it would never happen again. She would make sure of that.

Standing up again, she slipped the paper bag into her jacket pocket and hurried out of the hub. Crossing the courtyard, she broke into a run and sprinted across the track towards the water pipes. Come tomorrow, everyone will have forgotten. It will have been like no-one had ever known.


i'll get the next one up as soon as possible- and i hope you're all as angry at gwen as i am! silly, silly Gwen! xxxxxxx