Chapter 8 – The Tour

As promised when Jack and Megan emerged from the firing range Tosh took her for the grand tour, showing her the cells and introducing her to Janet and the other residents Tosh was surprised to find that Megan wasn't too affected by the Weevils although she did keep close to the wall.

"I saw some in London." Was what she said when Tosh asked her.

Tosh also introduced her to mainframe a sentient crystal who overlooked the whole hub and controlled the computers and surveillance cameras.

They were leaving mainframe when Megan put her hand on Tosh's arm "Where are the archives?"

"There even further down, why are you an archivist to?"

"I'm a history student; I love all that kind of stuff."

Tosh nodded and took her down to the floor below. They walked down a corridor that led to the archives but Megan stopped as they seemed to walk straight past a side corridor. She also thought Tosh seemed to have quickened her pace.

"Tosh what's down there?"

"It just leads down to another room, but we aren't allowed in there."

"Why what's there?"

"Nothing." Tosh answered quickly, "Please can we just keep going."

Megan could tell Tosh didn't want to stay there; something about that room frightened her. She didn't want to cause the young woman any discomfort so moved away. Megan had decided she liked Tosh; she was the only one who hadn't come to ask her any stupid questions and she was incredibly smart, Ianto was right definitely a genius.

They were walking down one of the many corridors on the hubs lower levels when Tosh finally asked her a question.

"Your file says that you started university when you were 17, that's very impressive."

"Not really, I mean I'm not clearer I just have a good head for... um… well facts."

"What do you take?"

"A major in history and minor in phycology. But then you already know that if you've been reading my file."

Tosh looked at her with a guilty expression on her face. "I'm sorry it's…"

"It's ok I know, you can't just let someone into a secret base without doing a background check on them. Believe me it was the same in London."

"How did you get involved with London?"

"How does anyone get involved with Torchwood, we found an alien."

Tosh stopped abruptly and stared at Megan in disbelief.

"What and Ianto let you go back? To Torchwood 1?"

"Well he didn't really have much of a choice; he worked there all the time including most of the weekend when I went down to see him. It's not his fault."

She carried on walking down the corridor Tosh following a little behind. Tosh felt a bit bad after all it was obvious Ianto loved her so he wouldn't put her in danger. Tosh also decided that she liked Megan; she was clearly clever but also modest which was quite an unusual combination, but she liked the young girl as a whole she so full of life, life that could only come from someone who hadn't been around Torchwood for long, who still had a social life. She also liked how Megan didn't mind passing out for opinions but at the same time she didn't want to hurt anyone.

They chatted about as they made their way to the archives; about university, music, Megan told Tosh a little about her brother Patrick and Tosh told her about her mother. They were laughing together by the time they finally reached the archives.

"He'll be in there somewhere, not too sure where but somewhere around. He the only one that really goes in there so he knows it better than anyone. Just give him a shout, I'm sure he'll find you."
"Thanks a lot Tosh, I had fun and… you know… you're really good company."

"Oh well thanks. I'll see you later Megan."

"Yep see you in a bit."

Megan walked through the open door of the archives and had to stop for a minute to adapt to the lights which were even dimmer than the ones in the corridors.

"IANTO!"

Tosh turned to walk back but was distracted by a flickering light, she really should talk to Jack about it, and after all it couldn't be healthy for Ianto as he spent so much time down here. She squared her shoulders and started the long and now quite walk back to the main part of the hub. She heard Megan shouting for Ianto and smiled. Oh yes it would definitely be fun having Megan here.