"Jack, we have a flare in rift activity." Tosh called from across the room. Jack's head poked out of his door. "Just south of here."
"Alright, let's go." Jack pulled on his coat and everyone else packed up. I slowly got up, looking at Jack for a sign of what to do.
"Oh, Charlotte, you stay here." Jack smiled. "Stay out of trouble and keep an eye on the rift activity." I nodded slowly, sitting back down in my chair.
"It's okay. Next time." Mel smiled, reassuringly. I nodded and pulled up the rift activity monitor. I watched the green line, following the jumped and then seeing the huge spike that happened about a minutes ago.
"Charlotte, send the coordinates to the SUV." Jack ruffled my hair as he walked past me. I made a face and nodded. "Thank you." I nodded again and sighed quietly.
"Next time, Newbie." Owen said as he pulled on his leather jacket. I nodded again, holding in the annoyance I felt for each and every one of them.
They wasn't really anything to do. Jack was connected to my earpiece and was asking me basic questions to make me feel like I was actually doing something important when I was really just playing Solitaire.
"Jack, I've told you this twice before." I grumbled when he asked for the coordinates for the third time. "They haven't changed."
"Just resend them." Jack replied out of breath. I rolled my eyes.
"Sent. Again." I poured myself another cup of coffee and settled onto the couch. "If you ask me again though, I will-"
"You will what?" Jack snapped back. "I gave you that job, I can very easily take it away from you." Jack disconnected the earpieces. I took a sip of coffee and closed my eyes. I was perfectly capable of working the field.
"Willow, bring it down to the autopsy table, Owen, Mel, scrub up. Tosh, see if you can gather any more information from the police about the recent attacks." Jack went into his office after they got back, but Ianto was close behind him. He closed the door behind him.
I looked at the door for a while, only snapping out of it when Tosh handed me two think files. I whipped my head around.
"Can you archive these?" She asked with a smile. I nodded and went into the archives to put them away.
When I got back upstairs, I was handed a post-it with a phone number by Willow. I looked at the post-it blankly.
"Find out what Ianto and Jack want and then order us lunch." She said flatly before going back over to her desk to ignore me once again.
I knocked on the door twice, but there was no reply. I could hear them shouting on the other side of the door. I hesitated for a moment.
"-Could do great! If you'd let her. You're treating her like a child. She knows what she's doing!"
"Ianto, quit fighting her battles. If she has a problem with the way I run this institution, then she should take it up with me herself."
"She's smart enough to know that's a useless fight with you. You don't even trust her to do basic research, you have Tosh redo all the research. We both know Tosh has enough on her plate as well."
"This isn't your problem, Ianto! Now go do something useful and make more coffee. It's the only thing you are good for." Ianto slammed the door behind him, rushing to the front desk. I poked my head in.
"Jack, um, do you know what you want for lunch?"