"Charlie?" I jumped at the sound of my own name. I had forgotten where I was until I opened my eyes to see Ianto standing at the foot of the bed. "Uh, we have to get back to the hub." I yawned and nodded. Ianto looked at me for a moment, before handing me a cup of coffee and going back into the hallway.
When we got to the hub, I was wired on coffee. Ianto gave me a strange look when I started mumbled math equations in my head as we drove through Cardiff in his shiny blue sports car. Numbers calmed me down, if I didn't calculate, I'd be bouncing off the walls. Jack stood at the front door, leaning against the desk in the tourist office that masked Torchwood below.
"You took her home with you?" Jack asked, indifferent. Ianto nodded slowly. "Well, look at you, being the good Samaritan." He hissed as we walked down into the hub.
"Jack, I told you I was going." I said innocently. Jack turned around to look at me, his eyes narrowing.
"You do not have the right to talk. Ianto, my office, now." Jack walked into his office, Ianto following behind him. I didn't want to eavesdrop again, so I settled into Mel's desk chair, watching Jack's office from across the room.
It was fairly quiet for a while, but I could hear bits of people yelling. It was too muffled for me to understand, but it was clearly getting pretty heated in there. Ianto burst through the door, a smile on his lips.
"Charlotte, I'd like to speak to you." Jack stood in the door, watching me carefully. I walked across the hub and into his office. Jack closed the door and sat down at his desk. "I just wanted to have a one-on-one talk with you." I nodded.
"Charlotte, it has come to my attention that you could be a very valuable asset to Torchwood." Jack dug through a pile of papers and pulled out a file. "You have an IQ of 152. You are clearly a great researcher." He looked over the file. "You are not in touch with your family anymore?" He looked up at me. I nodded. "Can you handle a gun?" A smile spread across my face.
"Of course. A girl on the run has to protect herself." Jack nodded and looked back down at my file. I bit the inside of my cheek.
"Charlotte, I'm considering offering you a job here. It would not be anything huge, just helping out around the hub. I don't trust you with much responsibility, but I'm willing to let you try to prove me wrong. I will watch over you and at the end of the month, I will decide whether or not I will give you an actual job here." Jack closed the file and looked up at me. "That's all."
He showed me the door and closed it behind me. I stood outside the door for a moment, letting what just happen sink in. I got a job at the Torchwood institute. I actually got a job here.
"How's it go?" Ianto looked up from the coffeemaker. I could feel my face light up and I started jumping up and down.
"I FUCKING WORK FOR TORCHWOOD!"