You and me
"Not now, Gwen."
"When, then, Jack?"
"Just… Not now, okay?"
Gwen had blocked his exit from the bathroom and was doing her best at staring him down. "Rhys and I are over."
"Should I congratulate you?"
"Tell me where we stand?"
"We're standing in Owen's bathroom, Gwen."
"This isn't funny, Jack" Gwen whispered in an angry voice. "This is my life! We slept together and Rhys dumped me because of it…"
"So it wasn't because you slept with Owen the first three months of your employment at Torchwood" Jack interrupted.
"So it didn't mean anything?"
"No."
Gwen nodded and moved out of his way.
"It landed near the Cardiff, probably attracted to the rift activity" Tosh said, as Jack sat down next to her in the couch.
"Good job, Tosh. You, Gwen and Ianto can go check it out now. Keep radio contact and be alert, okay? If you see the Master, run. We don't want any confrontations this early on in the game." The three of them nodded, although Gwen refused to even look at Jack and started to get ready.
"What about us" Owen asked.
"Back to the hub" Jack said and pulled Owen into the kitchen, away from the others. "You used to cage fight a little bit for fun, right?"
"Yeah, like ten years ago. Why?"
"I need you to keep an eye on Rose. I doubt the Master will just sit around drinking tea until we find him. You stay with her at all times and you protect her. Keep your gun on you!"
Owen swallowed. "Rose is not going to like this."
"No, I know that, but I don't really care. I'd rather have a pissed off Rose than a dead Rose. You're responsible for her safety when I'm not around, understood?"
"And when you are around" Owen asked.
"Then you still protect her! The more we are the better. Rose doesn't have any training and she doesn't know how to handle a gun, so she'll be pretty defenceless if anything should happen. Keep that in mind."
"Shouldn't we teach her, then?"
Jack sighed. "Yes, we probably should. I'll talk to her about it, if she'll let me. Otherwise I need you or Gwen to convince her of the necessity in at least caring a gun and knowing a little self-defence."
"Jack, we're leaving" Ianto called and Jack turned his attention to the leaving party.
"Remember what we talked about, stay alert, don't start any confrontations and keep clear of everything resembling a crack" he reminded them before they left.
Jenny felt dazed as she exited the wrecked ship she had "commandeered" at Habours Palace on Kissener, a pirat-planet. Someone had finally given her a valid tip on where her wayward father might be. She hadn't been spending all her time after her flight from Messadine looking for him, but she wanted to know more about herself, about the history of her people and well, she was lonely. And he was lonely too, he had told her so himself, and maybe if she found him, they could be a little less lonely together.
Her descend into the earths atmosphere had been less than graceful and she had been forced to crawl out from under the cockpit. She looked over the ship; she had "borrowed" it from a Slitheen she had met a few days before. It had been her intention to return it, honestly, but now there was no point to that and she left the wreckage behind.
She had no idea where she was, other than this was apparently earth, inhabited by a race of apes who called themselves humans, and apparently her father's favourite place in the galaxy, after his - their - planet had burned in the Time War. She had learned a little about the Time Lords in her travels. Most thought them extinct, others whispered of a feared medical man who had survived the war and was now causing trouble left and right in the galaxy. That sounded like her father alright.
So here she was, planet earth in something called the 21. century. She looked around. It looked like other planets she had visited but she had a feeling she should put some distance behind her and the wreckage and so she started to walk, letting her intuition guide her.
"Well, obviously whoever crashed here is also stuck now" Ianto said, as he, Gwen and Tosh looked at the wreckage of the ship that had crashed.
"Any life forms" Gwen asked Tosh.
"No, if anything is in there it's dead" Tosh answered and cautiously neared the wreck. "What should we do about it?"
"Remove it, I suppose" Ianto said. "And find out who or what crashed with it."
Gwen sighed and picked up what had probably once been a door of sorts. "Alright, I'll have a quick look around, yeah? If nothing is in there, we set the thing on fire, and then what?"
"Well, the quickest route towards Cardiff, if you're an alien without transportation, is that way" Ianto said and pointed.
Tosh helped Gwen look around for any life forms. It didn't take them long to conclude there was nothing in there. "Right, back to the jeep and try to catch the aliens" Gwen said, as they made sure the wreckage was almost completely burned out and unrecognizable.
"How do we even recognize it" Ianto asked, as Gwen turned on the jeep. He didn't like their "plan", it was against Jack's orders.
"What?"
"The alien, or whatever crashed. It could be in human form."
"Oh" Tosh said. "I didn't think of that. Maybe I'll be able to pick up some kind of signal."
"This if going to be fun" Gwen mumbled as she turned the jeep onto the small road leading towards Cardiff. "So do we like stop and ask everyone on our way?"
"Yes, I'm sure that would go over well. Excuse me sir, are you by any chance an unreported alien? Or have you seen such an alien nearby?" Ianto said in a mocking tone.
"Well I don't hear you making any suggestions" Gwen snapped.
"That's because I don't have to. We already know that the transport was a ship from a planet called Raxacoricofallapatorius and that it held no living life forms. Jack told us quite specifically not to approach any rogue aliens or go looking for trouble, so in my point of view we're done here" Ianto said in a knowing tone.
"Oh shut up, coffee boy" Gwen responded.
Tosh sat in the backseat and typed away at the computer, trying to see if she could pick up any alien signals, but so far all she got were confusing messages. "Stupid Cardiff, how many alien life forms actually live here?" Ianto was just about to respond, but she held up her hand. "It was a rhetorical question."
"What about her, she looks pretty out of place" Gwen said and pointed at a young woman walking about a quarter of a mile in front of them. She was wearing leather pants and an army green t-shirt.
"Well, she definitely doesn't resemblance any of the farmers who usually use this road" Ianto said. "But Jack said…"
"Oh to hell with what Jack said" Gwen said and speeded up. "Well talk to her, she looks harmless."
"You know, that's what they said about syphilis at first" Tosh said. Both Ianto and Gwen turned to look at her with concerned looks. "I don't know why I said that."
"Does she register on her scans" Ianto asked.
"Uhm, no not really… I don't know what that means, though. She could easily be alien" Tosh said.
"I say we call Jack" Ianto said.
"Why don't you two chickens just stay in the car and then I'll go talk to her" Gwen suggested and exited the car, making sure her gun was out of sight but easily accessible.
A/N: Is anyone even reading this anymore? Anyways, please review or something, feedback is always greatly appreciated