Notes: Remember, this chapter is occurring at the same time as the previous and the following. Also, thank you (user) Alice Carter for your comment about me keeping within the character's personalities. Things will change as we progress and I go AU, but the date needed to be genuine, and the boys needed to be, and were, themselves. Now... onward.

Chapter Spoilers: None, though this chapter takes place during the result of Jack's date proposal in episode 2.01 (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)

Gwen curiously watched via CCTV as Jack and Tosh left the Hub for the evening. The audio was muffled so all she could do was watch as her two colleagues walked to their cars, clearly in a serious but lighthearted discussion, and then departed ways.

She noticed that Jack drove off in an unfamiliar car. He owns a car? I've only ever seen him drive the SUV. And Tosh knows where Jack is off to. I'm sure Owen does, too. She realized that if she wanted any answers, she would have to do the research herself.

The rift was rather quiet and nothing was predicted until two days later. She made sure Owen was down in the autopsy bay before beginning her research. She went through all records that she could find on Jack. Thanks to Tosh and Ianto promising to keep the secrets they've discovered about Jack over the years, there wasn't much for Gwen to find. Either her access wasn't high enough or the only records were hard copies which Ianto secured in his own secure area of the archives, with only he and Jack having access to.

However, she did find Jack's secondary Torchwood account; the one he used when needing to reimburse one of the staff, or buy a replacement of some sort. The hotel they stayed at after John Hart's appearance was charged here, too. She continued scanning the charges when she found one for a car rental. The rental order was placed the previous evening and then delivered sometime during the day.

Gwen knew her hacking skills were well below average, and she didn't want to get caught while trying to pull up Jack's car rental information. So she pulled out her phone and started dialing the rental company's number. I could say I'm a cop needing his information for a case, or something of that sort. Before she started the call, she scurried off to the boardroom to avoid grabbing Owen's attention. When she felt safely out of Owen's hearing range, she hit send and waited.

What Gwen didn't know was that Owen was monitoring her the whole time. Tosh had set up an application on his computer to display what Gwen was doing on hers, and would also transmit the signal to Tosh's PDA where she had the same app. Owen watched as Gwen followed the two colleagues via CCTV to their car and then proceeded going through Jack's records. Owen also had a window with the CCTV for the main area up and watched her scurry off to the boardroom.

Owen called Tosh immediately. "You were right, Tosh, I owe you ten quid," he said once she answered her phone. "She's off in the boardroom right now, probably using her cop routine to get information on Jack's car rental."

"Damn that woman!" Tosh exclaimed in frustration.

Owen was shocked at the usually calm and quiet woman's reaction. "Now, now, no need to get feisty," he quipped.

Tosh was also shocked at her reaction. "Yea, I know, sorry. She's just so infuriating!"

"That she is," Owen agreed. "Now how do we stop her?"

"I'm already on it," Tosh replied already pounding away at the keys of her laptop. She explained every step along the way so Owen would know what was going on.

"I'm hacking into the rental's database right now," she began. "I can change the license plate number to one of Torchwood's extra plates since Gwen doesn't know about them yet." She paused while she worked. Owen refused to speak and break her concentration. "Done, but now we need to get it on a car away from the Hub that's similar to the one Jack rented. Thankfully he went with a simple black Audi and not a sports car."

Tosh typed vigorously in search of an Audi nearby so Owen would be able to quickly head out and change plates, but also in a location that Gwen wouldn't find so suspicious to find Jack. "Ah ha! I found one. And it's by a bar, which fits Jack's reputation."

"Perfect," Owen broke his silence while heading to Jack's office to retrieve the proper license plate. "I'll say I'm going out to pick up dinner or something. What's nearby this bar that I can get?"

"Chinese, two buildings away."

"Great, thanks Tosh. Let's go on comms now, private line, and I'll go tell Gwen I'm off." Owen hung up the phone and put in his earpiece, instantly clicking to connect with Tosh's private line.

He headed to the boardroom pretending to search for Gwen. When he "found" her, momentarily halting her "investigation," he informed Gwen of going out to get some dinner for the two of them and to notify him if anything comes up while he's gone.

Gwen just nodded and focused back on her phone call. "Sorry about that," she apologized to the manager of the car rental company for having been interrupted. "Now, as I was saying, I'm with the police and we're looking for a Jack Harkness. I've been informed he rented a vehicle from your company for this evening, is that correct."

"Yes, ma'am," the manager replied.

"Alright, may I get his rental information please?"

The manager typed away at the computer and pulled up his information before realizing this wasn't proper protocol. "Ma'am, I cannot release client information without the proper documents."

Damn, Gwen thought. I was hoping he wouldn't realize. She didn't answer right away, but shuffled through papers that were still sitting in the boardroom as if to be looking for said documents. Wait a minute; we have the police data base and their files. "I cannot leave the station at the present time, but I can fax them over to you." I hope this works.

The manager thought for a second before conceding and accepted the faxed documents. He gave Gwen the required information for sending the fax and they ended their call.

"Owen," Tosh said into the private line. "Gwen must've gotten held up with the rental company," she informed him, still watching the app on her PDA of Gwen's computer screen. "She's filling out police documents to send to the rental company in order for their client information to be released."

"Well that's a relief," Owen muttered back while frustratingly trying to change car plates without anyone noticing. "What should I do with the real license plate once I made the switch? They need to be switched back later."

"Tape it under the bumper of the car. I'll track the vehicle using the real license number and if it moves, I'll make the switch back myself," she concluded. It was the best and really only option they had with everything happening so quickly.

Owen finished with the switch and headed to the Chinese place. He requested placing the food in plain paper bags rather than their typical bags that had the restaurant name plastered all over it. If he returned to the hub with those, there was the possibility Gwen could figure out he was near where Jack supposedly was, and that would just be suspicious.

He arrived back at the hub just in time to see Gwen looking over the CCTV footage of the car and surrounding area where Owen just returned from. He mentioned to Tosh to disable the feed so Gwen couldn't rewind to see the real vehicle owner or him arrive in that area. And then to alter the footage when the real owner decided to leave from wherever he was.

Gwen became flustered at the dead end. He must be in the bar. It was the only answer she could think of. But he wouldn't go to a bar with Ianto again, not after what happened at Retro, would he? There's nothing else in that area that he would dress up for. Maybe he's meeting with someone else? Gwen was determined to sit and watch until Jack left. But then Owen arrived with dinner and he insisted that they ate together in the boardroom. Well, if he is on a date with someone other than Ianto, I can use this to break up their shag-fest and keep Jack for myself.