[Hey guys. Sorry this is late but unfortunately soon after I posted the last chapter my Nana passed away. Put that together with exams and it's been a tough week to be honest so I really didn't have time. Anyway, just thought I'd let you all know that I'm on Twitter now, if you want to follow me the name is "Alexandra_Milne".]

My best friend gave me the best advice
He said each day's a gift and not a given right
Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind
And try to take the path less travelled by
That first step you take is the longest stride

Nickelback - If today was your last day

Reset: part 1

'That is a serious misjudgement of my character,' Owen complained as he looked up at Winter. She swung upside-down on the bar over the med bay door and grinned at him.

'What, so are you telling me you didn't sleep with her?'

'I never said that.' He replied.

She laughed and shook her head. 'You're such a dick Owen.'

Jack slapped her shoulder as he passed. 'Language!'

Owen smirked and she swung down glaring at the Captain. 'Fine, you're such a git Owen.'

Owen smiled up at her. 'And you're a bitch but we all have our little problems.'

She turned in outrage to Jack who just shrugged. 'So what? He can swear but I'm forbidden too.' She crossed her arms, frustrated.

Jack approached her and produced a lolly. 'A young lady as beautiful as yourself has no need for the foul language of a common man.'

She pouted at him taking the lolly. 'So now you're Robin Hood are you?'

He grinned and scooted around her to the med bay. Pip hopped off Owen's desk where he had been preening himself and down to her feet where he gripped her leg like an overgrown limpet.

'Document's on the body identify the victim as Meredyth Roberts.' Jack told Owen as Tosh handed over the possessions.

'No obvious signs of violence.' Owen stated as Gwen came to stand opposite him.

'Are you saying it wasn't the weevil?' she asked.

'Give me a chance Ms Cooper I've only just started,' he replied.

Ianto's voice reverberated across the room on the comms and both Jack and Winter started. 'Jack! Your V.I.P visitor is here.'

Winter looked over and grinned at Jack, pulling Pip off her leg and onto her shoulder before rushing past everyone and around to the cog door.

'I didn't realise we were having a visitor,' Gwen mentioned as they all followed the Captain out of the med bay.

'Suddenly in an underground mortuary on a wet night in Cardiff, I hear the song of a nightingale.' Jack told them, as the door rolled back.

Winter leapt the fencing and hurled herself at the woman who walked through the door.

'Miss Martha Jones.'

Martha gasped and then laughed as Winter's weight hit her, but her arms soon reciprocated the hug and they both stood giggling in the front door. Winter pulled her up the stairs and Jack gave her a long hug.

'Oh it's good to see you two again,' Martha sighed as she pulled back.

Jack motioned to the team and made his introductions quickly, there was a flash of intuition in her eyes when Ianto was introduced but Owen soon brought her attention back to the job in hand.

'I'm here to complete your post mortem,' Martha told them.

'Dr Jones is from U.N.I.T.' Jack explained as they trooped back into the med bay.

'Oh, sorry, sorry, I get a bit, confused,' Gwen told them. 'Which one's U.N.I.T?'

'Intelligence, military, cute, red caps, some acceptable face of intelligence gathering on aliens. We're more ad hoc but better looking,' he assured everyone.

Winter grinned and sat on the railings. 'Better believe it,' she commented and stuck a lolly in her mouth.

'I've identified a pattern from U.N.I.T's data on sudden deaths,' Martha explained. 'Toxic shock, nothing's linked the victims, different ages, sexes, ethnic origins, occupations, but there was a statistically significant concentration in south Wales,' she said, donning a white lab coat.

'Come on Martha, be honest, you just came all this way to see me.' Jack smirked and Winter giggled elbowing him.

'Still struggling to conquer your shyness Jack,' She countered.

He laughed and Owen interrupted rounding on the victim himself. 'So, what about this pattern then Dr Jones.'

'They were being written off as suicides or accidents,' she informed them still examining the body, 'look.'

Owen leaned in and Jack tried to see over their heads.

'Puncture mark, hypodermic needle. You'll find his blood stream was pumped full of ammonium hydroxide.'

'Yeah, blood stream that's what I was about to do next.'

'Have you checked his medical records?'

Owen shifted. 'Er no I was just about to.'

Winter forced her lips together to stop sniggering at how uncomfortable Martha was making Owen.

'Well let's give it a go. You never know Owen, you might learn something.'

Winter smirked and Jack pulled her off the railings to the balcony. She and Pip followed Ianto into the kitchen and pulled seven mugs from the cupboards.

TTT

Coffee was drunk quickly as Jack and Martha chatted in his office. She considered going in there but felt they had some catching up to do. She hadn't spent as much time with Martha as Jack in the year that never was, so as glad as she was to see Martha, she knew Jack was even happier.

The tour however, she jumped at a chance to go on. She skipped a few meters in front with Pip, chatting happily about the history and mystery of the cavernous room. Jack laughed when she pushed past him into the hot house.

'This used to be the board room but this lot changed it around while we were away, because they…' she paused her constant narration and turned to Gwen, 'Why did you change it?'

The welsh woman looked between her companions and shrugged, 'I didn't like the glass, felt like we were being watched.'

Everyone looked incredulously at her.

'What? It did.'

Jack took a breath and turned away from them leading the way out. 'So, that's the hot house, tour continues this way ladies. No dawdling.'

Winter grabbed his arm and Pip scampered onto his shoulder.

'We should go on holiday,' Winter exclaimed suddenly.

Jack raised his eyebrows. 'What?'

'You know, a holiday, take a plane, go to New York, Miami, New Zealand, Norway…'

'Norway?'

'Hey, don't knock it I think it looks great.'

He smiled at her defensive tone and squeezed her arm. 'Why? Do you think we're all too stressed?'

She smiled and surveyed the hub. Tosh working at her computer glancing over as Owen stabbed furiously at his keyboard. 'Not all of us, but I think some of us could defiantly use some non-work involved time.'

Jack sighed. 'You've noticed that too huh?'

She laid her head on his shoulder and waved at Ianto as he walked out of the weapons room.

'Oi!' Jack suddenly yelled. The two women in the hot house suddenly looked up, 'you talking about me?'

Winter chuckled and poked his ribs.

'No!' Gwen replied, 'we were just discussing alien flora, weren't we.'

Jack started walking away leading Winter along with him. 'No fun,' he murmured. 'Raise your game girls.'

TTT

To say Heath Park was wet was an understatement. The leaves dripped with moisture and anyone would have thought it was still raining. Winter slid out of the driver's seat and let Gwen do the talking to get them inside. She rested her hand on the hilt of her sword as she walked, coming to stop at the side of a white man in his early forties with seemingly nothing wrong with him. Well, apart from him being dead and all.

Ianto set down some equipment and Gwen headed straight for the man's head checking his eyes for the hypodermic mark. She shot up and headed for the senior officer pulling rank immediately and asking for the body to be sent to Torchwood. Ianto watched her and raised his eyes.

'Do you think she knows how scary she can be when she uses that voice?' he whispered to Winter.

She laughed and playfully punched him, leaving him to take the blood samples while she returned to the SUV. So someone was going around killing random people with a hypodermic to the eye. Well, it wasn't the easiest way to kill someone, he'd be much better off using a knife. Why the eye?

Gwen pulled the passenger door open startling her and as soon as Ianto joined them she pulled out of the woods but the thought was still playing on her mind. Owen had said that Ammonium Hydroxide was like bleach. Destroying evidence, that's what they had said. Why? Evidence of what? Her mind was racing almost as fast as the car, she just wished the final destination was as easy to get to.

Reviews are always welcome and wonderful.

'Zaziness': Yey! I missed you :D COE was a wonderful send off for Ianto. I never agreed with it but I understand why it happened. I was discussing it last night with a friend. We see it a bit like DT's send off. Perfect but we still wish they were still here. The I-pod was a hard sacrifice to make but I really didn't want her to actually be shot. I thought that was a bit too dramatic, otherwise it would be like she was always getting hurt and needing saving *yawn* I've seen too many of those sorts of fics. I must admit, originally I didn't like Rhys. But once you actually start writing him you study him a lot further and he kind of grows on you a bit. Writing him was pretty fun after a while. "Crushed by space whale" was in there purely for my own amusement. I have a great uncle or something who was crushed by an elephant (much to our families amusement) so I thought I'd do a little line for him lol. Hmmm I see your 'HAAA' and raise you HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :P

'Zaziness': Yey for Winter being out of the way. I love fitting her into the story but sometimes you get bored of just writing loads of lines that someone else wrote word for word, so I need chapters like this to get me on track again. There's one in particular that I'm very proud of but that would be a spoiler so :P :D I really wanted for Janet to be more friendly to her, I'm not certain why, maybe something to do with the TARDIS. I always saw Janet's wails as more animal noises than human speech so I figured Winter wouldn't be able to understand them but maybe just feel the emotion behind them. Maybe Janet sensed that. I'm not sure. 'Update soon? *puppy eyes* (Note: these puppy eyes are sooo cute that you just have to update otherwise Peregrine's evil twin will come after you with a pitchfork! Dun-dun DUNNNNN...)' Pip has an evil twin! I was not informed of this. Mind you it would make sense that he ended up in New Zealand on the opposite side of the world to Cardiff :) well, you make sure you keep an eye on that monkey, this ones bad enough.

'TV-a-holic': I'm glad you liked it. I was worried about this one because I knew that with a connection to the TARDIS there was no way ADAM would have got into her head, so it was difficult knowing what to do with her. It was quite fun playing with mean Jack though. I quite enjoyed him. As for the weevil I'm all for Jack swooping in and saving people but when I get annoyed is when the writer take a character who would normally fight back and turns them into a nervous wreck who can't do anything. There was no way Winter was going down without a fight

'Rachy Babes': Glad you like it :) I thought the wasps were dead too but apparently one decided my PJ trousers were the perfect place for a nap. :( ah well I'll survive. Not as bad as a weevil bite.

'Sonotalady': definitely, especially for her. A weevil is nothing when the other option is being forgotten. Don't worry, if I was you I'd be gloating too :) My grandparents are much better but they gave us all a nasty shock. As for Owen I have no doubt he would have enjoyed watching until it actually started getting serious. Then I think all he'd see is his friend and turn away in the kind of way you don't really want to see your family in that position lol. You'll have to wait and see how it pans out I'm afraid.