Jack pulled up outside the millennium centre Ianto jumped out and so did Jack and Louise Gwen took over the driving and took the SUV away. Jack ran up to the lift barking orders to Louise.

"Ianto you come with me down by the lift Louise you go through the tourist centre."

"Jack don't go crazy at her till we know if Miles is alright." He nodded.

"Come on let's get going." He said. Louise started to run towards the tourist centre entrance dodging a few pedestrians on the way, listening to the mutters of 'bloody torchwood' that darted past her as she flew quickly by. She shot a look backwards and saw Jack and Ianto disappear up onto the step.

She sped up again knowing Jack was about to go crazy at Sam.

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Miles sat in the cell watching over the hours the blood slowly seep through the bandages that Sam had expertly applied to his shoulder. He sat in the cell listening to the slow drip that was far off. It was damp the cell and cold. He wondered what had happened to Jack and Gwen and hoped that Lou and Ianto had got out. He'd never forgive himself if anything happened to them. Then he heard the tiny metallic hum he'd noticed signified the lift being activated which meant one of two things either Sam was going out or Jack was coming in. He hoped it was the latter of the two. He sat there intently listening.

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Louise made it into the lift and hammered the button to make it got down. Jack and Ianto would be ahead of her she knew but she had to make sure Jack didn't do anything stupid. She knew he was angry they had gone in to a place she knew existed, she knew who they had wanted and she still let them go in there unprepared. She'd lied and she'd managed to go undetected for months. The lift reached its destination and Louise slipped out between the doors before they were fully open. The cog door started to roll out of place and Louise ran into the Hub.

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Jack and Ianto stepped down off of the step looking around guns at the ready. Jack walked up to the work stations no one was there.

"Sam, Miles?" he called out. There was no response. Ianto followed him, "go back to back. Watch for Sam." Ianto turned around and paced back with Jack, he'd got used to it over the years.

"Jack something moved up in the hot house." He was gone up the stairs to the glass fronted room. So much for back to back thought Ianto as he followed Jack up the stairs, he heard the cog door of the entrance open, he looked back and noticed the flashing lights still weren't working since the incident with the Darlk and the explosion. What had Jack been doing? Why weren't the lights working? Louise made it up to them outside the hot house.

"What did I miss?"

"Nothing."

"Oh good I hate to miss a good gun fight." Jack looked at her with a questioning eyebrow. Ianto looked slightly alarmed.

"You said it Ianto it all ends in retcon and bullets." She added as she kicked open the locked door.

Jack rounded the back path of the hot house. Ianto was at the door and Louise was heading up the path in the opposite direction. He heard footsteps up ahead and he readied himself. Louise came around the corner and jumped with the shock of seeing him. That's when they heard the gun shot. Jack span round as did Louise they ran back down their paths Ianto was stood gun raised pointing it at Sam who was cowering on the floor of the hot house, clutching her shoulder. Ianto was stony faced.

"Get up." Jack said.

"He shot me." She said stunned.

"He grazed your shoulder, your hardly bleeding. Get up." Jack said again.

"Where's Miles?" Louise asked.

"He's in the cells." Now Jack had her covered with his gun, Ianto turned on his heel and walked out the room. Louise studied Jacks face carefully. Sam started to get to her feet. "I was doing you a favour. She's dangerous," She shot a look at Louise, "She's an alien how do you know you can trust her?"

"She was sent here by a good friend of mine who I trust with my life, if he trusts her I do." He looked at Louise as if emphasising the point he trusted her to her. She smiled.

"Another Alien, how can you say you're protecting the earth when you trust the aliens yourself?"

"They aren't aliens they are part of another species, a much wiser and older species that the human one and its stupid apes like you that bring this rock into peril." Sam dodged his glare. He grabbed her arm and dragged her down to the workspace, shoving her roughly into a chair. "You were working for them?"

"They paid well, they told me the truth."

"We told you the truth." Jack spat at her.

"No you didn't your both aliens; you have a biased opinion when it comes to what to do with them."

"And what would you do with them? Kill them all whether dangerous or not?"

"They don't belong here." The tone in her voice told Louise she would kill them.

"Neither do you." Louise said shaking with rage.

"I'm a human earth is our home."

"It hasn't always been and it won't always be." Louise looked at her as Ianto returned with Miles from the cells. Jack turned and looked at him.

"Are you badly hurt?"

"She shot me in the arm, I'm alive but I could do with these dressings being changed."

"Right, Ianto get me the retcon."

"What?" Ianto looked at Jack surprised.

"I don't want her frozen I want her sent back to where she came from."

"But Jack what if the retcon doesn't work?" Gwen asked as she walked up to meet them.

"It will work; I want the extra strength stuff Ianto and don't protest she's the danger." He pointed at Sam, "not Louise." At that point the rift surveillance monitors went off; Louise looked at the closest monitor to her.

"It's a weevil I'll deal with it with Miles, you three can wrap up things here." Gwen held out the car keys and she took them, Miles grabbed his bag and followed her, trying his hardest not to look at Sam. As he reached the cog shaped entrance he took a last look back at her. Jack watched them go; knowing Louise had triggered the alarm with her wrist strap to get Miles out of the way. Ianto returned to his side and handed him a small packet with two large white tablets in it. Gwen gave him a glass of water and he dropped the first one in it hit the water and started to dissolve.

"Why did you do it Sam?" Gwen asked. Ianto decided he didn't want to know and left Gwen and Jack to sort out the mess. Jack didn't look at him but listened to his soft foot falls as he walked away.

"I trusted them."

"You trusted us and we trusted you."

"You didn't tell us everything; I trusted you and you didn't tell me." She looked at Jack.

"Like you'd have turned me down anyway." Gwen looked at Jack her worst suspicions confirmed. "And it's not the point, you lied you got people hurt and you shot one of your own team members. It's not acceptable."

"What you do isn't acceptable. You and your team you just trust the aliens you let them get away with it, you should just kill them they don't belong here." Jack took a deep breath calming himself.

"Drink it." He gave her the glass of water, "take this." he gave her the other pill.

"Double dose?"

"No." He watched as she put the pill in her mouth and drank deeply from the glass.

"Hell of a lot more than double." She drained the glass.

"Good I don't want to remember."

"It's so high you won't be able to remember who you are."

"Jack." Gwen said outraged and scared.

"It's the least she deserves." Gwen looked down at Sam her head started to droop.

"Sam," Gwen knelt down and slapped her face gently making her wake up. "Remember who you are." Jack grabbed Gwen's hand and pulled her back.

"No. I'll take her to the hospital, she's a coma patient and she's soon going to wake up. Change her records." He let Gwen go as Sam's eyes closed and she slumped in the chair. Gwen looked at him disgusted.

"You didn't have to reset her."

"Yes I did because now she doesn't know what kind of a person she is." He picked her up and carried her out of the Hub Gwen watched him go, he'd probably take Ianto's car. Thinking about it reminded her Ianto was around somewhere. She looked around.

"Ianto?"

"Yes?" he called back from Jack's office.

"I just wondered where you were, sorry."

"Its over then I take it, no worries I was just watering the plant in Jacks office, I've fed and watered everything. Except you so what's it to be Chinese?" she smiled he knew her to well she'd taken quite a liking to it. She nodded.

"Chinese for 5 coming up, There's a beer in the fridge that has your name on it." He walked away again. She soon heard him humming away to himself as he riffled through the takeaway menus. She sat down and started to look over that days rift activity it had been pretty low all things considering. Just then her phone started to ring.

"Gwen we lost the weevil. We're coming back in." She heard a door slam as Louise and Miles got back into the SUV.

"That's fine Jacks just hoped out for an hour and Ianto has just ordered Chinese so that and a beer are awaiting your return." She hung up. Leaning back into the chair she set to work removing Sam's life history and editing it accordingly, moving on to her medical records then finally deleting her Torchwood personnel file. At least she wasn't dead Gwen thought to herself as she deleted it.


Right - second atempt accidentally uploaded the same chapter again - whoops. Hopefully spelling is better I'm sorry for Jack not being capitalised my spell check is for some reason reversing it and making it small! strange. Hope you like xxx