Okay, I realize that I've been absent for a reallly long time and I'm sorry. To make that up, I have decided to upload the next four chapters. Enjoy :)

Chapter 2: Meeting You, Meeting Me

Rory bolted up from his seat faster than he intended which resulted in him smashing his knee against the bottom of the table. He let out a cry of pain and Luna just looked at him with amusement. "You alright?" Luna laughed lightly placing her knuckles over her mouth.

"Yeah, just great." Rory winced and grimaced rubbing his knee. "How-how did you know where I was?"

"I asked Estelle."

"Right…. So um…"

"I um…" Luna sighed running her fingers through her ponytail. "This is awkward, yeah?"

"Yeah." There was a really long moment of awkwardness between the two.

"So… what are you doing here?"

"Honestly?" Luna said with a soft sigh, "I figured I might as well make a friend since I'm going to be living here from now on. Appease my dad, make a friend. And I'm living with you now, so… I've got to start somewhere."

"Well, I suppose that you've got to." If Luna didn't know better, she'd say that Rory sounded disappointed.

"I-I mean, not that I'm forcing myself to be friends with you! I-I just, I-I mean-"

"Right! Of course!"

Another long and awkward silence followed. "We're really good at this awkward silence thing, aren't we?" Luna finally said.

"Then why don't we start over, from the beginning."

"Sounds like a plan."

"I'll start." Rory put out his hand in a gesture, "I'm Rory Slippery. I'm twenty-four and I live in the bedroom next to yours."

Luna shook his hand and smiled, "Nice to meet you Rory, I'm Luna Jones. I'm twenty-one and I live in the bedroom with the jammed window."

"Since I'm going to be your first friend in America, how about you and I go and get tea and get to know each other more?"

"Rory Slippery, if I didn't know any better, I'd think you were asking me out on a date." Luna quirked another smile at Rory.

"I can promise you that my intentions are pure. I-I-I mean-"

"I get it."

Tea ended up taking place at the Slippery household since it was the only place that served tea that they both preferred. Both had snuck into the house hoping to steal the tea and make it somewhere else, but since the house had proved to be empty (shockingly) they decided to stay.

Luna took the soggy tea bag out of the cup and placed it on the saucer.

"Okay, your turn. Tell me about Cardiff." Rory said, abandoning his tea and picking up the bag of Jelly Babies stashed in the cupboard behind him. Luna snagged one from the bag.

"I liked it. More than liked it. Loved it. Every morning I would wake up and see the bay from outside my window. It helped that we lived by the docks." She chewed thoughtfully then added, "You probably already know, but we had this travel agency and we lived in the flat above." Rory nodded. "Yeah, well… my brother, Nick, and I would run the shop, before Nick went to Uganda, when Dad and Ada were busy… which was… a lot. They really liked hunting together and when they weren't hunting, they were off doing tours or something in that bloody awful black truck." She laughed bitterly, "You know, I never really understood what they did. It was always so….secretive and…just bloody weird…" Luna took a sip of tea, supping it with both hands, and looked at Rory, "You're turn."

Rory cleared his throat putting down his cup, "Right. So after Paul decided he wanted to expand the surgery to America, Pilfrey took over the surgery back home. Basically, the family got uprooted and I ended up here. I got a job at the homeless shelter, I did that back home too. And now I'm talking to you."

"How dull."

"Thanks," Rory laughed.

"You're welcome." Luna scoffed back.

"Question for you, take it any way you like, but…are you usually this, sarcastic?"

"Depends on the day. What about you? Are you always this…dull or…?" Luna smiled comically, but gentle.

"Mostly, yes. I'm afraid I don't make much of an interesting conversation."

"I disagree. You're quite interesting. I mean, there are aspects of your life that are so much more interesting than mine. More common. I like that."

It got quite for a few moments before Rory found himself leaning in just a bit closer to Luna. "You like common?" His voice had gotten slightly softer.

Luna nodded, her voice also becoming softer, "Yeah…common…." Their faces were so close Rory could feel Luna's soft, peach fuzz skin, her warm breath against his own lips, their hearts nearly leaping out of their chests, blood rushing fast to their faces, palms sweaty, eyes dilated.

"THERE YOU ARE!" Rory and Luna turned, the moment shattered. Both awkwardly cleared their throats pulling away, brushing their hair back, and a guilty sparing glace towards the other.

"Hi Daniel" Luna greeted as if nothing happened. Daniel dragged a chair, making a harsh, grating sound on the floor, and forcibly placed himself between Luna and Rory.

"SO! Whatcha talking about?"

"Nothing," Rory forced out, steaming with a contained irritation, "Just stuff."

Daniel grabbed a handful of Jelly Babies, "what kind of stuff?"

Edwin shoved his face into the kitchen, "Hi!" He too grabbed a chair, ramming it between Daniel and Luna. He very nearly shoved his face into hers. Luna backed away fast, shooting a wide eyed and irritated glance at Rory.
Luna pulled out her phone, "My dad just texted, I've got to go," she lied. She pushed her chair back fast, placing her teacup on the table, "See you later." Then she was gone, disappearing out of the house.

Within the city, Ianto followed the rift spike attempting to create a more exact location. "Excuse me," He asked a passerby.

"Are you lost?" The woman asked.

"No!" Ianto pulled out a fake ID, "Scotland Yard. I'm Inspector Jones. I was wondering if there were any strange happenings here within the past month."

The woman laughed, "Scotland Yard? Wow. This is New York, there's always something weird happening."

"Nothing ridiculously out of place then?"

"Not that I can recall. But, come to think of it, my son mentioned that he saw floating lights in the sky. It happened about a month ago, if that's what you mean. I doubt Scotland Yard is interested in floating lights." She laughed again, "Sorry I couldn't be more help."

"No, right. Thank you." Ianto forced a smile and watched the woman walk away. "Did you get that Tosh?" He asked pressing his hand to the Torchwood earpiece.

"Yup, every word of it."

"She isn't wrong Ianto," Gwen's voice floated into the earpiece, "There were numerous sightings all over the city about these lights. It's also happened again about seventy-eight years ago. People have been posting it all over the internet. Mostly on social networks and UFO boards."

"Well, they aren't wrong about the alien thing." Owen interjected, "All of them say the same thing. If anyone was awake around midnight then they saw the lights in the sky."

Ianto crinkled his forehead, confused, "But when I was with Jack, there weren't any lights at all. Just a spike in Rift activity. Nothing abnormal."

"Actually, there was," Tosh responded, "Everyone in Cardiff saw it, well, the ones who were awake."

"Then why didn't I see it?" Ianto demanded.

"You could have been distracted by hunting the Weevil, so you didn't notice the lights." Gwen suggested.

"Maybe…" Ianto said thoughtfully, "Are there any pictures?"

"I just sent them to you," Tosh said.

"Thanks." The connection to Torchwood went dead and Ianto rustled through his pockets to find his phone. The pictures Tosh sent him weren't exactly great quality, but they managed to capture a light similar to an exploding star within the aurora borealis. Shifting through all the pictures, he was able to make out a sort of crack shape, as if the sky itself was being split apart. "I have to get to a computer…"

Ianto made it to the Slippery house, and after checking that no one was around, he uploaded all the videos to his laptop. Squinting at one of the better quality videos he thought he saw something. Slowing down the video feed, and zooming in on a particular section of the screen, he was barely able to make out the image of something shooting through the light crack. "What is that thing?" He muttered, leaning forward as if it would help him see better. Having an idea that it might be visible in the Cardiff videos, he played them side by side. He was right. This thing seemed to go into the crack in Cardiff and then reappear in New York. This thing had Jack, and it could travel through the Rift without getting hurt.