Jack sat in his office. He'd just got off the phone with the head of UNIT, the woman who had been running the operation today had been fired, her instructions had not been kill Louise, she was supposed to have bought her in for questioning. What bothered Jack was how they'd know so much about not just who she was but her movements and the fact she was an alien. He put his feet up on the desk. Ianto walked into the office, he hadn't knocked Jack looked at him.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Tell you what?" he knew but didn't know what to say.

"She was like you?"

"She's not like me Ianto, she's nothing like me."

"I've seen inside her mind some of it, most of it but she didn't show me that or I never reached it."

"Ianto I'm sorry you didn't know."

"Here's the report write up for today's events, I'm going home for the night."

"Where's Louise?"

"She's in the TARDIS." Ianto turned and left the room.

Jack lent back in his chair rubbing his eyes, how had UNIT know so much? It worried him, Torchwood was outside of the government for a reason, some of the stuff they found could be used as weapons, powerful weapons that could wipe out whole countries, whole continents at a time. That couldn't be given to the government. He took his feet off the desk and opened up the surveillance files on Sam and Miles; there was nothing to suggest that either of them had anything to do with it.

Miles was just a bachelor, who went out drinking now and then, sometimes with Ianto Jack had noticed. Sam was good fun; she wasn't long out of Medical school and was still a party animal, a different bar and a different man every time she went out. Nothing wrong with that he thought. She was just like the 51st century girls just in the 21st. He got up and looked down on the Hub it was empty and silent. Which was unusual he had to admit, it had been a quiet mournful day, it had rubbed off on the building itself. He looked around pleased with all they had achieved in the small amount of time they'd been up and running again. He sighed and settled back down into his chair, pulling a set of reports towards him he started on his mountain of paperwork.

TWTWTW

Gwen and Ianto were walking through Cardiff trying to track some strange activity that had been present in the past few days.

"Are you alright Ianto?" Gwen asked as she waved the scanner in the air.

"Yes, I'm fine yourself how's Tristan?"

"I'm good, and he is as well, I just mean how you are over all you've been a bit quiet of late."

"I've just been thinking."

"Careful you might hurt yourself." She joked.

"I'll bare that in mind!"

"Thinking about what?"

"I'm just...I don't know I suppose it's just everything with Jack and Louise, you know I don't know how I do it."

"Do what?"

"Fall for them? I always fall for the immortal ones!"

"I don't know maybe you have a thing for older people."

"Ha-ha hilarious!"

"I'm serious or the strong, danger loving types!"

"Oh yes that must be it!"

"Or the controlling type, Jack likes to get his own way and Louise is very full on."

"Thank you know you're really helping!"

"Well you're always around them; you don't go out and meet people out of Torchwood." He looked at her and she realised what she'd said. You couldn't meet people out of Torchwood it was practically impossible.

"I'll bare that in mind as well!" Gwen frowned at the scanner. "What is it?"

"There's some rift activity residue here and then a weevil trail but it just disappears, on trace as if the weevil vanished."

"Right, that's odd, do you think the rift took it back?"

"No there's no residual rift energy."

"So someone's taken it? Caught it you think?"

"I've had few scenes like this of late, there's been something come through at its just vanished."

"But why?"

"Let's go back to the Hub and check the CCTV around this sight, there must be something."

TWTWTW

"So these disappearances have been happening for about a month now but it's not due to the rift taking the creatures or whatever they are back, someone seems to be getting there before us." Everyone was sat in the conference room, all eyes were on Gwen who was flicking though some CCTV images and rift activity graphs. "There's only one constant in all these disappearances."

"And that is?" Jack asked impatiently.

"This woman we haven't got a clear image of her face but it is definitely the same one. All the time and she has a device, I think she'd storing or using it to capture the creatures." Sam tried not to look at the pictures she knew who it was, it was that UNIT woman, she'd been fired and started her own business with aliens and she was paying Sam more than Torchwood.

"Right, more research, we need to try finding this woman and fast, and if aliens are going missing we could have trouble." He stood up, "Miles check all rift activity I want live CCTV from every scene, Ianto I want you to look at the points we already have plotted around the city see if there is a centre point, Gwen you look at the rift predictor see if there is any pattern we may have missed. Louise, can you follow up on any other rift activity, especially that school that's been having problems with its burglar alarm. Sorry Sam it's your turn to feed the weevils." They all got up and hurried off down into the Hub, Jack watched them work knowing he had the best team there was on the job, working to the best of their abilities to help Cardiff, To protect the earth.


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