Chapter 6 - The Firing Range

Megan sat next to Tosh watching her work on a programme that could hopefully predict rift alerts, Tosh was trying to explain it to her but it was very complicated and science wasn't Megan's strong point. She was however impressed by Tosh's intelligence and she said as much.

"Are you sure you haven't been sent from the future where they all have intergalactic knowledge and implants to make them smarter?" she looked at Tosh suspiciously, but couldn't keep a straight face for long and they both burst out laughing, drawing looks from Owen and Gwen.

They sat in silence for a bit, Tosh was still working and Megan was on her phone. Tosh didn't see Ianto walk pass them but

Megan turned around. "Where are you going?"

"To do some work." He replied turning round, "Its fine you can stay up here." He turned to look at Tosh "Just tell her to get lost if you've have enough of her Tosh."

"It's alright, once I've finished this I'll take her on the grand tour." She said smiling.

Ianto nodded his head and walked off.

Jack came out of his office and saw the transaction between the three people, it looked so easy, a transformation from what it had been the other day. His idea was working and he loved it when that happened.

He walked over to were Tosh and Megan were sat and stood behind them to see what they were doing. However as soon as he got close Megan she snapped her phone shut and looked at Jack. Tosh just kept working.

"Megan since you're going to be popping in till you go back to uni I thought it would be a good idea for you to have some basic firearms training." She looked as though she was going to argue but then thought better of it. Jack told her where to go and that he'd be there soon.

Once she was gone he turned to Tosh. "Tosh can you send the CCTV feed from the firing range to my vortex manipulator please."

"Sure," she said "what for?" she asked.

"Just do it please." He said, before heading towards the firing range.

As soon as he was out of sight Gwen and Owen gathered round Tosh's desk while she sent the footage, then they pulled up the live feed and watched.

Megan peered round the door of what she hoped was the firing range. Success. She was startled by movement inside the room she froze where she was until they came into view.

"Ianto" she said relieved, he was just putting some weapons on the metal table that stood in the middle of the room.

"Hey Min." she bounded over to him and he put his arm round her shoulders and kissed her forehead. She smiled and moved round to the other side of the table looking at the range of guns that were out.

"Nervous?" Ianto asked picking up a gun, he began loading it. Megan watched him intently so she could remember what he was doing.

"A little." Ianto looked up at her "I mean there were rumours going round in London about how he teaches people, and after the last time…" she hung her head suddenly becoming very interested in the table.

"Hey" Ianto lifted her chin so she was looking at him, "Remember" he pointed the handle of the gun towards her, "You have the gun so you're in control." She smiled slightly and took the gun from him. "And you know if he does try anything, shoot the basted!" at that she started laughing and Ianto joined in after a second. However when Megan was concentrating on unloading the gun Ianto turned and looked directly at the camera on the wall behind him the smile was gone from his face and he actually looked quite frightening.

Tosh, Owen and Gwen stared at the screen as Ianto went back to talking to Megan. Was he being serious? They could never tell with him and he had promised to watch Jack suffer. But he wouldn't, would he?

Jack watched the transaction between the siblings and the stare Ianto gave the camera, how did he know he was watching him and Jack had promised to be good when he had told Ianto to set up some weapons, did he really think he was that kind of person?

Jack walked into the armoury and clapped his hands "Right shall we get started?"

Ianto moved to leave but his sister's hand on his arm stopped him. "Aren't you staying?"

"Don't be silly Megan I have work to do, you'll be fine just remember what I told you."

"This time or last time?"

"Both." With that he left the armoury.

Jack walked over to the table and picked up a gun and some ammunition but first he had a thought. "Have you fired a gun before?"

She nodded her head, looking a little nervous.

"Do you remember what to do?"

She nodded again so he handed her the gun and ammo, she loaded the gun nervously her hands slipping a few times but she finally managed to do it, Jack handed her a pair of googles and earmuffs, before putting on his own. She stood on the firing line and looked back at Jack he nodded to her, she snapped off the safety and she emptied the gun into one of the paper weevils. Jack walked behind her and looked over her shoulder, he was impressed.

"That's not bad." Megan jumped forward, turned around and pointed the gun at him.

Jack held up his hands in defence. "It's ok, just me." She lowered the gun and put it back on the table. "Sorry I shouldn't have made you jump."
"It's ok I'm just being silly. So what's next?"

Jack handed her a bigger gun but he noticed that as she took it, her hands shook slightly, Jack frowned maybe Ianto should have stayed.

"Do you know what you're doing with this one?"

She nodded, "I have a basic knowledge in most weapons, how to load and fire them."

"Ianto said that you used to go into Torchwood One."

She looked at him and relaxed a little, "Yes I did that's how come I know how to shoot. Everyone in the building had to know how to shoot in case of… well you know…"

"Yeh, don't worry." Jack knew what she was going to say, in case of emergency. He decided to try and lighten the mood,

"So you go to university in France."

"Oh no don't you start, I go to Belgium."

"What's the difference?"

"A great deal of course the main one is that they are different countries." She said slowly as though talking to a small child but she couldn't help laughing at the expression on his face, as though he was concentrating intently on remembering what she was saying.

Jack looked at her as she smiled and realised just how pretty she looked, no wonder Ianto was so fond of her.

At that moment he was sorely tempted to go back to his old way of training, but he had promised Ianto and Tosh that he wouldn't and he was determined to prove them wrong.

Megan picked up another gun and went back to the firing line while Jack took the recently fired gun and took out the magazine only to notice that there was still a bullet left. So Megan really could have shot him. Oh god.