Authors note (Abby) Whoa; this chapter's ended up being a fair bit longer than the first. Pretty much because Lollzie and I wrote this all at once (sending each fragment we wrote in an email message that I had to the copy and paste 16,800 words from, and hunt down all the emails. Not a fun way to spend an hour and a half I can assure you) but anyway, it wasn't written with chapters in mind, so making this into chapters has been a tad of a struggle for me (me being chief editor- Lauren then comes in and changed what she doesn't like, which is fair enough, her word is law or I get smushed .) which is why chapters in this will never have much bearing on each other when it comes to sizes. Sorry about that, hopefully that won't put you off reading it. Anyways, I'm sure no one wants to read this much author's note, so ciao~

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Eva's eyes widened ever so slightly as she wondered if her friend and boss had just gone power mad; similar to Suzie Costello from Torchwood 3. Eva had known the risks when she had accepted this project, though, so she had half expected this to have occurred. She took a step back in caution. She was well aware that if the experiment worked Cairo could have ended up shooting herself in the head then draining a fellow work colleague's life force. Just like Suzie Costello. Torchwood always made even the sanest people mad. But Torchwood was no more.

Torchwood 1 had been destroyed in the Canary Wharf battle.

Torchwood 2 was just one mad pensioner somewhere in Scotland.

Torchwood 3 was defiantly the most interesting. Their boss was on the other side of the universe, (Survivors guilt? who knew?) and the final surviving member who wasn't immortal? Well she was heavily pregnant and unable to do anything.

Torchwood 4 was yet another interesting case because Torchwood 4 had vanished. No-one knew where or how but 5 years ago Torchwood 4 disappeared. Except not everyone had; Eva Lair was the only person from Torchwood 4 to still be there on Earth. She was the only remainder of Torchwood 4, but she hadn't told anyone, not even Cairo; because if anyone found out who she truly was she was worse than dead.

As Eva went to put the hand away she spotted the dead man's body and her blood froze. Because there was one person she never thought she would see ever again. Ianto Jones.

Cairo's thoughts were far too busy to notice any strange actions of Eva's.

'A handsome fellow, isn't he?" She began, gazing at Ianto's frozen closed eyes. "I was in looking at those dead from Thames house for hours before I found him. He's the perfect specimen. Yes there were soldiers, but a soldier is too strong. Yet the females' bodies wouldn't take the resurrection; though this is a normal, in-shape man, youngish man. Perfect.'

The word perfect rolled off her Tongue in a purr.

"Do you know who that is Cairo?" Eva all but stuttered. The way that Cairo was talking made her sound like she had no clue about his identity. After all, she really had no reason to know who he was, but Eva knew that Cairo Benevolent was a good actress. She had done her research before meeting her like she always had done. The first thing she had learned from T4 was to always do your homework. You could never know what you were dealing with. And Eva could find anything. She knew a phony ID report when she saw one and she was a master with technology. Eva also knew how to keep her cool but, as she was waiting for Cairo's reply, she was scared stiff

Cairo turned to her friend, a slight twinkle in her eye. Of course the aspects she had listed helped, but there was one reason she had chosen this man; and one reason only. This body had been watched over by two people she admired. Jack Harkness had been one. The other, the wonky toothed Welsh lass had been there as well. She admired her less, but she had been a part of something Cairo had studied from afar for years. They had been torchwood 3. She had stumbled across Jack's profile a couple of years previously, and from that moment onwards she had become engrossed in his history and life. The body, she had found after much research, had once been Ianto Jones, coffee boy and rumoured toy boy of Torchwood. But she wasn't divulging the fact she knew to Eva.

'No. I couldn't find anything on him, and I searched for a while.' This was plausible. Eva was the computer whizz, not Cairo.

"Ok," Eva paused. She wasn't entirely convinced but it wasn't like Cairo was the only one keeping secrets. "This is Ianto Jones. He used to work with Torchwood 3."
"Torchwood?" Cairo of course knew this but wasn't going to let Eva know.
"Yes. If we reanimate him... well he's dangerous. The whole lot of them are." Cairo laughed slightly and smiled at her underling.
"We'll be fine Eva. He's not exactly that dangerous looking now, it he?"
"No..." Eva paused for a moment, quite sure that Cairo hadn't gone mad; yet, anyway. "Well, you did you know that he brought in a half converted Cyberman to the base and helped it?" This Cairo didn't know, and her eyes rounded in surprise.
"He did what?" Cairo's eyes narrowed slightly. Eva knew much... perhaps too much. "When did you find this out?" Her voice had stiffened wearily.
"About 3 years ago, 2 months before we met, I managed to hack into the Torchwood database. I found a file there that had all the team's information; everything about them. It also had a link to their CCTV. Every so often I have a look see if anything big has happened recently,"

Cairo paused before answering. "I see. And what other things has this potentially dangerous man done, that would lead you to think that bringing him to life would put us under threat?" In truth, she was just stalling, throwing idle questions out whilst working over theories and thoughts in her head. She couldn't care less if Ianto turned out to be a rapist, paedophile, murderer, or anything like that. She possessed weaponry, a prison; hell, she could just re-suspend the man if she needed to.

All she was thinking about was how Eva had managed to break into the Torchwood computers. Of course, Eva was good, and Cairo knew that, probably better than anyone. But she wasn't that good, was she? There was something else Eva wasn't telling her and she knew it, but what? Besides, if she could break into Torchwood, why hadn't she found Cairo's diary? After all, the lock on her bag was top grade, but not as top grade as Torchwood's systems. Cairo stiffened. Maybe she had.

"I know what you're thinking Cairo," Eva said after a while. Cairo's blood froze. "You're thinking I'm an idiot for worrying so much. And I know you can freeze him if something bad happens but still what if something happens in his brain. I don't know. And one more thing; we've run out of funding! How the hell are we going to get money for this experiment? Because we're going to need a bigger power source to re-animate a whole body."

Cairo sighed in relief inwardly. "I know we've run out of funding. Of course I know that.'" she gave a slight smile and took a wallet from a small belt next to Ianto's suspension chamber. It was brown, battered and weather worn. "But, even if we've run out of money, he won't." Eva looked confused until Cairo removed a credit card; this wasn't an ordinary credit card. It was a torchwood credit card.

"Ok Einstein, you have the credit card but can you use it?"
"No," sighed Cairo. "As soon as I got the body and saw that those UNIT goons hadn't emptied his pockets I swiped it. I can't use it but you'll be able to." Cairo beamed. Until Eva revealed her astounding hacking skills, Cairo had just taken it to inconvenience the UNIT "goons" as Cairo called them. She may be under the government's employment, but that didn't mean she had to like their baboons of workforce.
"What makes you say that?"
"Oh come on Eva you managed to hack into Torchwood 3 itself. No-one except you could do that, especially when Harkness hired Miss Sato as their IT wiz. Surely one measly credit card isn't going to be that hard."
Eva sighed. Maybe Ianto wouldn't recognise her. She hadn't had a new ID picture for over 5 years. She was only 17 then. She had changed so much in the last few years. "Ok I found the code for it ages ago but couldn't of course use it. It should be easy enough especially as Gwen Cooper is the only one left from T3. And she's 8 months pregnant so has hired a load of people from UNIT. And they all need to be paid, so no one should notice if a couple of thousand go missing. It should be easy enough." With that Eva sat down at her computer and started typing furiously, eyes darting about on the screen, quickly scanning in the information displayed before clicking onto the next page of numbers and letters.

Cairo gave a smile as she walked up behind her; taken aback by how good her protégé was. It was times like this when she was reminded of why she had employed Miss Lair in the first place.

Eva opened up the files, put down several long complicated pass codes and after about 3 minutes of silent and determined typing Eva found it. She wrote the code down on a piece of paper and gave it to Cairo. "Here you are; you can access this from any cash point or bank." She glanced up at the time. She should have been leaving for home by then, but this was special, also she had nothing better to do, and an awful lot was on her mind. "If you go now I'll stay here with the body."

Cairo took the paper, glanced at the code and memorised it. She wasn't all too sure about leaving Eva here by herself.
"Fine," she said, closing the belt and the door to Ianto's chamber. She slid the key into the lock, and as she twisted it, an almighty click and the rush of numerous bolts was heard. She slid the key into her pocket, and shrugged off her lab coat to reveal a black shirt with a two pink skeletal hands on the chest. "Stay here and lock yourself in," She noticed Eva's expression. "We're too close to success to take any chances." She said in justification. Eva rolled her eyes.

"You worry too much."
"I'm serious, Eva." Eva took off her lab coat as well revealing a light blue blouse with a thin black leather belt around her waist. Cairo was about to step out of the door but as her hand took a grasp on the handle; she turned her head back to Eva.
"Miss Lair?" Eva glanced up.
"Hmm?" her eyebrows raised a touch. Cairo wasn't one to be cheery.
"I'm incredibly proud of you." She smiled (a rare occurrence for Cairo if it didn't involve someone else's pain) and with that, she disappeared into the snowy England that surrounded their little lab. A little lab that, in the next few months, thought Cairo, would change the world forever.

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