"Alright, come along." Owen swung the door open and slapped handcuffs on me. I purposely dragged my feet, watching as Owen focused on keeping his temper down. He gripped my arm tighter and pushed me up the stairs.

"No need to be violent." I grumbled as he pushed me through the main room and onto the exam table. Owen took a few deep breaths, his jaw clenched.

"I'm going to take off your handcuffs. Jack gave me full permission to shoot if you try to run." Owen snapped as he unlocked me. I laughed quietly.

"Jack would never kill me. I have the highest IQ of all of you." I rubbed my wrist, but sat perfectly still on the exam table.

"Good girl." Owen dug through some drawers, pulling out odds and ends for the exam.

"I'm not a dog." I mumbled. Owen rolled his eyes and pulled my arm straight. He stood silently, two fingers on my wrist to check my pulse. He pulled away, letting my arm fall hard against the table. I sat still, staring straight ahead. He shined a light in both my eyes, looked down my throat, checked my blood pressure and my temperature, height, weight and finally he finished.

"So, what's the verdict, Doctor?" I asked, bored. Owen finished up with his notes and gave forced smile.

"You're not dying." He turned away. "Much to my displeasure." I scoffed, causing him to turn around again.

"You know you wouldn't like it it I died?" I gave a charming smile. Owen raised an eyebrow and tucked his pen into his clipboard.

"I'd kill you myself if Jack would let me." He snapped my cuffs back into place and handed me off to Willow, a brunette. She was a bit more of a mystery to me. Her file wasn't nearly as full as the rest of them. Her birthday wasn't even listed. Just a name and a former occupation.

"You are quite the interesting creature." She laughed as we trudged back downstairs into my cell.

"You don't think I'm human?" I raised an eyebrow. "I would have thought my physical would have erased that idea." Willow shook her head, but looked me over.

"I think you're human, I just don't think you're normal." She locked the cell and reappeared on the other side of the glass. "You have an unearthly brain capacity. You got your PhD when you were 16." I looked at her impressed.

"You seem to have done your research." I laughed, raising an eyebrow.

"It's my job."

Ianto came in with an early dinner, gave me my tray and resumed his spot on the other side of the glass.

"So, this is what Torchwood does? Puts me through stupid tests to find out things they already know?" I ate my turkey sandwich, watching Ianto. He shrugged.

"Not really. We more make sure no aliens cause any harm or danger to the planet or it's people and that the planet or it's people don't cause any harm to aliens. We insure that world does not know of their existence." He seemed indifferent about the whole thing. I nodded slowly, despite the fact I already knew that.

"And Jack's in charge?" I sat on the edge of my bench, pulling apart the rest of my sandwich. "He seems to walk around as it he owns the place."

"Yeah, pretty much." Ianto paused. "No one really knows anything about him, either. Not even me." He looked at the floor and sighed, disappointed.

"Why would you specifically know?" I asked slowly. We were getting into a territory they didn't cover in their files. I put the two pieces together. The way I noticed Jack looking at him earlier that day, the way Ianto talked about him, it all seemed to fit together.

"I'm just, uh, a close friend." Ianto looked away. I mentally took notes. "Jack is a mystery to all of us. The only person that really quite knows what goes on in his head is Willow." He said her name with a hint of disdain. I could see the beginnings of a web forming in my mind, connected each person to another. A web that I could use against them.

"Willow? Why Willow?" I wanted to dig up as much dirt about her as I could. Ianto took a deep breath and was silent for a moment.

"She showed up one day, said she was an old friend of Jack's. He gave her the second in command job. Whenever we asked about her, he just said he knew her from as while back. She has the same look in her eyes as Jack. Their eyes look older then they are. She can look at Jack and seem to know exactly what he's thinking. Apparently it made them close friends. Really close friends. I've heard them, when I stay late, in Jack's office." He looked disgusted. "It was something I never wanted to hear." Ianto shrugged. "Owen was furious when she got the second in command job. Said he was playing favorites and that he deserved the job." I nodded, my web growing.

"What is Owen's story? He seemed really cranky today." I finished my sandwich and leaned against the wall, casually.

"Ever since he joined, he's had an attitude. He came to work, did his job, and then the moment he was done, he would bolt out of here. He came to work hungover more then a few times. There was a weird thing with a girl a while back, Diane, sent him over the edge. He became suicidal. Then Mel showed up and he's even better then before. He's almost tolerable." Ianto smiled slightly, pulling off his suit coat and leaning back.

"What's Mel got to do with it?" I furrowed my brow, adding notes to the information I had of Owen, as well as Jack and Willow. It was astonishing how much information Ianto poured out.

"Few days back, she got a job here as Owen's assistant. Owen talked Jack into it, it seemed. She was one of his one night stands, but she sparked his interest. She figured out that weevils were attacking." Ianto seemed impressed with all that Melanie had done so far. "Though, she may have changed Owen for the better, but Gwen for the worst." He rolled his eyes.

"Gwen?" I raised an eyebrow, imagining the black-haired women with the gap in her teeth. Her file wasn't all that impressive, I just sort of skimmed over it.

"Even thought she's married with a kid, she still has a thing for Owen. They slept together on and off for at least a year, a while back. Owen doesn't even give her a second glance, so Gwen is left to watch him from a distance. When Mel showed up, Gwen stopped watching from a distance and began fighting with Mel. It's really scary up there sometimes." Ianto shuddered slightly.

"Bloody hell, it's like a soap opera up there." I laughed slightly, my web growing further. Ianto cracked a smile.

"With Jack around, things are always interesting. Between running off for no apparent reason, going on and on about this "doctor" and trying to seduce anything that breathes, Jack certainly has a way of being in the center of drama." Ianto laughed. "This place is a mess enough as it is, with all the aliens around, but we seem to make it worse." He gave another smile and stood up.

"Bedtime already?" I sighed. He nodded and flicked off the light in my cell.

"'Night."

"'Night." I said with an invisible smirk. Tomorrow was going to be fun.