It's three in the morning. I should go to sleep soon. I think I'll get this fluff thing over with.

"So, Jack." The Doctor took a nonchalant bite of icecream. "What's going on with that team of yours?"

Jack smiled slightly. "Not much since you last saw me. Tosh's still brilliant. Gwen's still obnoxious. Ianto's still sexy. Owen's still a prat."

The Doctor laughed. "Any chance I might be able to meet this team of yours any time soon?"

Jack burst from the TARDIS into the Hub, an excited grin plastered across his face. "Hey, kids! I'm back! And I brought a friend!"

Ianto rolled his eyes as he walked by. "Not again."

"Love you too, Ianto!" Jack turned to Tosh, who was typing away as if nothing had happened. "Hey Tosh, this is the Doctor. Doctor, this is Tosh- she's brilliant. You two should get along."

Tosh blushed, waved, and turned back to the screen.

"This equipment's rather nice, for this century." The Doctor pulled out his glasses and pushed them up his nose.

"WHO THE HELL IS THIS?" Owen burst into the Hub through the cog wheel door, followed quickly by Gwen.

Jack rolled his eyes. "And THIS is Owen Harper-"

"That's DOCTOR Owen Harper." Owen intergected.

"Owen, this is the Doctor. Now, Doctor, THIS is Gwen Cooper."

"The obnoxious one?"

"OI! I-"

Gwen was cut off by Tosh, who was leaning further over her computer. "Jack, we've got a rift spike near the bay."

"Weevil, or something interesting?"

Tosh pushed up her glasses. "Well, it's definitely not a weevil."

Jack pulled out his Webley. "Let's go!"

The six ran through the streets of Cardiff, until they reached a rather large empty warehouse. "Right." Tosh checked her portable monitor. "This is the place."

Jack cast a quick glance around the area. "Alright. Tosh, Doctor- you take the Southern entrance. Owen, you and Gwen can take this door. That leaves Ianto and me to cover the side door. Let's go."

The group divided, each group heading towards there designated entrance. Tosh kept her eye on the monitor as she followed the Doctor through the aisles of stacked crates, torches in hand. The locked eyes as they faced a dead end, and retreated through the maze.

"So, Owen, what do you think about that Doctor fellow?" Gwen turned to her comrade, letting her guard down.

"Shut it! You're going to get us killed." Owen pushed ahead, raising his gun as they negotiated the rows of stacked who-knows-whats. "Now, let's just get this over with."

"So, that's the famous Doctor?" Ianto questioned as he followed Jack into the warehouse.

Jack nodded.

"He's the reason you left? You still haven't told me what went on while you were gone, by the way."

"Ianto," Jack burst around a corner, gun raised. "Now really isn't the time."

"Jack, we've got to talk about this sometime!"

Jack shot the younger man a frantic glance, nodding head in the direction of an advancing shadow. The pair advanced quickly, guns raised, around a corner where they came face-to-face with a rather shocked blonde man. Jack drew his hand back and thrust the butt of his gun into the man's head, knocking him out cold.

The Master regained consciousness in a rather uncomfortable position, slumped against a wooden crate. He groggily raised his head to see the form of a rather angry looking Captain Jack Harkness, and two guns directed at his face. Great he thought, The Doctor's nowhere in sight, and I have to deal with the freak.

"Ianto." Jack muttered. "Where the hell is the Doctor?"

Tosh burst around a corner, gun raised and ready to shoot at the man in front of her. "Jack!"

A third gun joined the two pointed at the Master, before the Doctor sprinted around the corner, sonic screwdriver raised. "Master?"

The Master stood up slowly. "Thank Rassilon." He rolled his eyes. "Finally, someone around here with a brain."

"Hey…" Jack furrowed his eyebrows, awaiting a signal from the Doctor that it was alright to shoot the blonde bastard.

"Master?" The Doctor stared ahead bewilderedly. "What's going on?"

The Master smiled slightly, then acknowledged the three armed humans. "What, do I look armed? What do you expect me to do?" he addressed the Doctor again. "Hello, Theta."

The Doctor's eyebrows raised. "It's been a long time since anybody called me that."

The Master's eyebrows mirrored the Doctor's. "Yeah. Don't get used to it."

"Don't try anything. It's like you said, you're not armed."

"I don't need to be armed to take out a few measly humans."

"Yes, but is that really what you want? Isn't it enough to see the universe, not own it?"

The Master took a step back. "You never shut up, do you?"

"But, seriously, why-"

"I said, you never shut up, do you?." The Doctor was interrupted by the Master's lips on his, fierce and desperate. He was shocked at first, but he slowly eased into the kiss, letting the Master smooth down his spiked brunette hair. The Master broke away first, pressing the Doctor's head under his chin.

"I came back for you." He whispered, "And I'm never going to die again."

The Doctor smiled to himself, despite the Torchwood Team's awkwardness. Maybe something might end out happily for him, just this once.

Gwen chose the worst possible moment to burst into the already crowded corridor. "What did I miss?"

*sigh.* Gwen bashing. Did you notice the lack of updatation on Friday? That was Nomad's day. How do you suppose we punish her?