Chapter 3

Jack was awoken at 7:30am by the rift alert, he got dressed before pulling himself out of his bunker and shouting.

"IANTO WILL YOU CHECK THAT RIFT ALERT!"

It took him a couple of minutes to remember that Ianto wasn't here, he had the day off. He was pulling up the alert when Tosh walked in.

"Morning Jack, what's up?"

"Rift alert, looks pretty big. Morning Tosh."

Tosh sat down at her desk and pulled out her comm to call Gwen and Owen.

Five minutes after the alert going off Jack came back into the main area of the hub after getting his coat to find Tosh sat at her desk with her coat still on.

"Any sign of Gwen and Owen?"

"Gwen's just coming in but no answer from Owen."

As Tosh said this the cog door opened and Gwen walked in.

"What's up?"

"A group of weevils, a big group, enough for all three of us to take on."

"And we need Tosh here so if we can't get through to Owen we'll have to call Ianto."

"Jack you can't it's his day off. Anyway it'll take too long to get there."

"We don't have another option Gwen." Jack checked the computer screen "And we do have time, see no one lives in that building. Tosh keep trying Owen but if there's still no reply by the time we get to Ianto's then we wake him up. Come on." He said running for the exit, Gwen huffed unhappily but followed close behind him.

They pulled up outside the block of flats where Ianto lived. Jack had had to check the address with Tosh because Ianto had moved during his suspension and Jack hadn't visited Ianto's flat since, thinking he wouldn't be welcome.

A quick call from Tosh confirmed there was still no sign of Owen so he and Gwen got out of the SUV and made their way up the stairs to Ianto's flat. All the way to the third floor Gwen pestered him about taking Ianto.

"We can handle it, just the two of us."

"He's not properly trained as a field agent."

"He might still be with that girl."

Jack ignored her, he was annoyed didn't she realise that it was practically suicide for just the two of them to walk into a weevils, no matter how good she thought she was.

They arrived outside Ianto's door, hesitating for just a second before knocking loudly. There was no sound from inside so he knocked again, loudly and continuously, not stopping until he heard some movement.

"Alright sir I'm coming."

Jack frowned but assumed Tosh had called him, however this thought was contradicted when Ianto opened the door wearing grey pj bottoms and a dark blue t-shirt. He leaned on the wall, blocking the doorway and raised his eyebrows. Jack didn't speak for a couple of seconds as his eyes roamed over Ianto's body.

"Um… I assumed Tosh had called you."

"No."

"Then had did you know it was us?" Quizzed Gwen.

"It's my day off of course it's you."

Jack looked up and felt his heart stop (but only for a millisecond), he could see the young girl from the night before peeping out of Ianto's room, so Gwen had been right. DAMN.

The girl walked forward, she was also wearing pj's except they were black and had a cartoon panda printed on the top. She stood behind Ianto and slipped her hand onto his arm, hiding behind Ianto so only her eyes were visible peeping round. She looked worried.

"What is it what's happened?" She had a definite Welsh accent but it was also mixed with something else, it sounded slightly familiar but he just couldn't put his finger on.

"Nothing for you to worry about miss we just need to borrow Ianto." He said as professionally as possible.

"Oh please don't call me miss, my name's Megan, Megan Tabyrn." She extended her hand to Jack and Gwen, coming out slightly from behind Ianto.

"Mini go make yourself some coffee, I won't be long." With that Ianto stood back to let Jack and Gwen in and shut the door behind them, then he went back into his room to get changed.

Jack looked around him Ianto had moved during his suspension and Jack hadn't been to his new flat he looked round noticing that it looked homely with more pictures and personal items but he couldn't see them properly as they followed Megan into the kitchen and leaned back on the counter watching her use Ianto's coffee machine as though she'd been doing it all her life.

She turned round to face them, coffee in hand, looking at them, taking them in.

"You didn't answer my question. What's happened?"

"I did answer it; I said it's nothing for you to worry about."

Megan rolled her eyes "That's not an answer. I'd take a guess and say its weevils. Am I right?" Jacks head shot up and Gwen looked at her, open-mouthed. "I'll take that as a yes then, the fact you want Ianto's help suggests that there are a lot, perhaps more than your used to, however you don't seem to be rushing which is what suggests weevils in the first place but also that they're in a secluded part of Cardiff where it's unlikely for someone to find them by accident. How's that?"

"Um…"

"Well that's not something you see every day." Said Ianto coming out of his room dressed in black jeans and a white shirt rolling his sleeves up to his elbows. Jack and Gwen turned to look at him and were again lost for words. Again.

"Um…"

"You're not wearing a suit." Gwen said before she could stop herself.

Megan stood, drinking her coffee chuckling at the shock of the two Torchwood agents.

"Well believe it or not Gwen I don't live in suits, also we're only hunting weevils and…" he took the cup of Megan "It's still technically my day off." He took a swig of coffee, and then gave it back to Megan. He frowned, looked closer at her face and moved some of her hair away from her face. "What happened to your face? You've got a browse under your eye." He said slowly, trying to remember when she'd fallen.

"Oh… I tripped over a book in my room, must have knocked my head."

Ianto nodded his head seemingly believing it. He looked back at Jack who was still just standing, looking useless. "Shall we go then sir?"

"Yes let's go." Jack quickly snapped out of his reserve and became all business-like again. He walked quickly to the door, Ianto grabbing his coat on the way out then they started going down the stairs. They were stopped by Megan who came running out of the flat and leaned over the banister.

"Promise you'll be there!"

Ianto looked up at her "Course I will be, look I'll text you when we're done and meet you there, I promise."

She nodded and went back inside, Ianto turned round to find Jack looking at him a few stairs below, they continued down the stairs and piled into the SUV.

It took the three of them over half an hour to round up the weevils and drop them back into the sewer. Thankfully there were no fatal or serious injuries which is always a plus. Ianto got quite a deep scratch on his upper arm but nothing that wouldn't take more than a few days to heal.