So So So So sorry guys. I know it's been forever, but honestly I've not been feeling the Torchwood for a long time. But then suddenly I've gotten back into it, which hopefully means I will start writing these again. Enjoy everyone.

The streets of Cardiff were damp the skies trying to rain and the streets abandoned. An old lady with a cane slowly walked up to the crosswalk. She pressed the signal button, and waited. The light turned red. She steps up to the curb when the sound of a car engine approached. She looked up and saw a red convertible, with top down, speeding toward the crosswalk. With rap music blaring and tires screeching, it stopped at the line. The driver turned. It' a biped with a red fish head. He looked at her. She looked back at him. The light changed from red to walk.

The blowfish looked at her, growled and motioned her across the road. The old woman crossed the road. The blowfish waited for her. She reached the other side and the traffic light turned green. The red convertible sped away as the old woman watched. Its tail lights disappeared in the distance. All was silent again.

Just then another car came down the road, the old woman turned as the black Torchwood SUV approached and came to a stop in front of her.

Gwen rolled down the window, "Excuse me, have you seen a blowfish driving a sports car?" She asked politely. The old woman pointed toward the road. "Thank you." She then rolled up the window and the SUV carried on it's way, making the streets quiet once more.

The old women paused, looked in the direction that the sports car and the SUV took off in, "Bloody Torchwood."

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Toshiko sat in the back seat and had skeletal scans and DNA typing on the computer. Ianto sat next to her and put bullets in his gun magazine.

"Species not on record. DNA-type says some sort of land fish." Tosh said reading her results. Gwen is in the passenger seat while Owen is driving having their own conversation.

"All I'm saying is, you are speeding - and there are children." Gwen stated.

"Well, if kids are out at midnight, they've got it coming." Owen said dryly.

"Detecting high levels of algae." Tosh interrupted.

"Who's afraid of the big scary fish, then?" Gwen said with an amused smile on her face.

"Big fish ... with a gun!" Owen pointed out.

"Special weapons?" Ianto asked.

"Not that I can see." Tosh said looking down at her PDA again.

The gun clicked as Ianto pulled the slider back and put a bullet in the chamber. "Do we need special weapons?" He rephrased.

"What are we gonna do when we catch it?" Owen asked.

"Jack would know." Tosh pointed out.

"Well, Jack's not here, is he?" Owen shouted, "Jack's disappeared. Fat lot of good Jack is. Same with Bella." With that said everyone is suddenly quiet and the atmosphere is very sombre. Until...

"Blowfish!" Gwen shouted, and pointed to the tail lights in front of them.

"Hold on!" Owen shouted and put his foot down, and managed to catch up with the convertible. Owen reached for his seat belt with one hand while the other was on the wheel. "Hold the wheel." he said to Gwen.

"Don't you dare, Owen!" Gwen warned him.

"Hold the wheel!" He shouted, he then released his seat belt and relinquished the steering wheel to Gwen.

"Right, got it." She said and the SUV tires screeched as she drove from the passenger seat. Owen sat up out the window. He aimed and fired at the convertible. The first shot missed, the second shot ricocheted off
the metal. The third shot took the tire out. The car exhaust flared and veered around the corner.

Owen sat back down in the driver's seat. Gwen gave him a look. Owen smugly blew on the tip of his smoking gun.

It was raining when the SUV turned the corner and stopped the convertible. They all got out and approached with their guns raised, but it was empty.

"Where is it? Where's it gone?" Gwen asked, they all looked around, when two gunshots sounded from a nearby house.

"Go! Go! Go!" Owen ordered and they all ran for the house.

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Meanwhile Jack and Bella were running down the same street, Bella was falling behind slightly the treatment that The Doctor had given her was beginning to slow her down.

"C'mon Bells. We'll get Owen to sort you out once we get back." Jack said stopping so she could catch up.

"Well he better because this is fucking killing me." Bella said out of breath and clutching her arm to her chest, as another shooting pain shot up her arm, causing her to bit back a cry of pain.

"He will now c'mon." Jack said and placed Bella's uninjured arm around his shoulders and ran towards the same house that the guys had just run into.

"Gwen, go left! Tosh go right! Ianto take centre! Positions!" Owen said as he entered the house first. The blowfish stood at the back of the room holding a gun on the daughter of the house. Gwen got the mother aside to safety. The father was on the ground, choking, from the gunshot wounds. Owen took his jacket off to stop the bleeding. Ianto and Toshiko kept their guns on the blowfish. Toshiko also read her hand-held scanner.

"Massive levels of adrenalin mixed with approximately three grams of cocaine. This fish is wired." She said.

"So this is Team Torchwood. The teacher's pets, but teacher's gone, hasn't he? Leaving the kiddy-kids all alone. And look at you, trying so hard to be all grown up." The blowfish taunted. He looked at Owen, "The Doctor, with his hands full of blood." Then to Gwen, "The Carer with her oh-so-beating heart." Tosh was next, "The Technician, with her cold devices." The finally to Ianto, "Which leaves me, with the Office Boy, promoted beyond his measure. All of you ... lost without your master. All of you ... pretending to be so brave. All of you, so scared." The blowfish laughed at them. He turned and kissed the teenage girl on her cheek, breathing her in.

"So, what about it, minion?" He said to Ianto, "Can you do it? How good are you? How sharp is your aim? What if you kill her? What if I kill her first? Can you shoot, before I do? Can you? Dare you? Would you? Won't you?" Then a bang rang through the house. A bullet fired. It hit the blowfish dead center of his forehead and took out a chunk of the back of his head, splattering blood and fish brains on the curtains behind him. The blowfish fell to the floor. Dead. The mother pushed Gwen aside to go to her daughter. Ianto looked at his gun confused. He didn't fire. He turned around and found himself staring down the barrel of Jack's gun. Everyone was staring.

In front of them was Jack holding up a very pale and very sweaty Bella who was trying her hardest not to fall asleep.

"Hey kids. Did you miss me?" He chuckled.

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"Dad..." Bella whispered getting his attention, he looked down at her.

"Don't worry we're gonna get you to the hub now. Owen I really need your help." Jack said, but it was to late Bella fell limp in Jack's arms. Seeing that snapped Owen out of it and he rushed forward and helped Jack with her, Jack helped Bella into Owen's arms as he picked her up bridal style, her head rolled back.

"What the hell happened to her?" Owen said as he looked down at the young women. Gwen went over to help while Jack, Ianto and Tosh dealt with the Blowfish. Gwen brushed some of Bella's hair away from her forehead feeling the intense heat that was coming off her.

"No time to explain just that her hand got infected and left unattended." Jack said panic in his voice.

"So it's infected?" Ianto guessed.

"Yeah, we managed to get her fever down a little." Jack said. "But not for long."

"I need to get her back to the hub now." Owen said finally taking his eyes off Bella's face.

"Take the convertible outside we'll stay here and sort this out." Gwen said and Owen nodded, secured his hold on Bella and left.

Once all the team were back at the hub they all immediately got to work. It was clear to Jack that Gwen had been in charge while him and Bella had been away.

"Are you sure no more like him came through?" Gwen asked Tosh as she came over to her workstation.

"Cross-referencing with the rift activity monitor, doesn't look like it." Tosh said typing away on her computer. Jack stood on the side and watched the interchange. Ianto reported to Gwen. Everyone pretty much ignored Jack for the moment.

"The car's parked. I'll get it back to the owner in the morning." Ianto told Gwen, just then Owen came up from the autopsy bay. Bella was asleep on the table with a drip set up.

"How you doing, all right?" Gwen asked him, he handed her a file, then handed Tosh a drive.

"Bio-profile's on-screen now. Nothing in his genetic make-up likely to contaminate the city. And Bella's fine. She'll just be tired for a few days." He said, everyone let a sigh in relief.

"Okay, good, Tosh. Can you add that to the species database? Ianto?" Gwen said.

"Hello." He walked over to her.

"Sorry. Um, can you deal with the body when it's cold?" She said flustered.

"My pleasure ... unless you mean making sushi." Ianto joked.

"No, the morgue'll do fine. Thank you." Gwen said and he went to work.

"Got pretty organized without us." Jack said decided to remind them that he was there.

Although Gwen was working on a computer and not looking at him, she was seething. "Yeah, well we had to."

"Hey, did you decorate in here?" He said looking around, that seemed to make Gwen snap. She pushed him backward and he hit the door-frame.

"You left us, Jack! Both of you!" She screamed. Everyone else was watching.

"I know. I'm sorry." Jack sighed.

"We knew nothing, Jack!" Gwen said letting go of him.

"Where were you?" Tosh asked.

"I found my doctor." Was all he said.

"Did he fix you?" Owen asked.

"What's to fix? You don't mess with this level of perfection." Jack joked.

"Are you going back to him?" Ianto asked.

Jack turned to face him, the look in his eyes reassured Ianto that he really came back. "I came back for you." He said, then realised what he had said, he cleared this throat, "All of you."

The computer beeped. Toshiko turned and recognized it. "Rift activity!"

Everyone got back to work, not noticing that on the table next to Bella in the autopsy area something in the Blowfish's pocket was beeping with a blinking red light.

Across the city all was quiet. Then a golden gaseous light appeared – faint at first, then larger and larger. It opened in the middle and a man walked out. He was wearing a red military uniform jacket of sorts. It was unbuttoned and the shirt under it was so dirty it's grey. He had black pants tucked in his boots. He paused and looked around. Dealt with a man and his mugger, then continued on his merry way.

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When Bella woke up her vision was all fuzzy. She blinked a couple of times and slowly sat up. She looked around her and found herself in the autopsy bay with a blowfish lying on the table next to her. She gave a funny look to the Blowfish then just shrugged her shoulders. It wasn't the strangest thing she had seen. She seemed not to notice Owen as he walked down the stairs and found her to be awake.

"Hey, you feeling better?" He asked.

Bella jumped at the voice and turned to look at Owen, as soon as he was near enough she jumped off the table and hugged him tightly to scared that he would disappear to let go.

"Hey." He said with a soft laugh, "Whoa. I'm not going anywhere at the moment." But hugged her back just a tightly, and slowed stroked her hair. He really did miss her. She buried her head against his neck.

"I'm sorry" She whispered into his neck.

Owen pulled back only slightly so he was still holding her, and looked into her eyes. "What for?"

"Leaving and for being mad at you." She answered.

"It's ok," He said and meant it. He was just glad that she was back and that she was ok. Mostly. "c'mon everyone wants to see you." He let go of her and moved to disconnect the IV from her and then put his arm around her and walked with her to the workstations. Where everyone stopped what they were doing when they walked in.

"Bella you're ok." She put down the box she was holding and walked over to her giving her a hug, which she returned.

"How you feeling?" Ianto asked her. She de tangled herself from Tosh and looked over to Ianto. She didn't say anything, just threw herself into her best friends arms holding on as tight as she did with Owen. Ianto held he just as tight.

"Right guys we have to go," Gwen said interrupting the moment. "glad you're feeling better." She said after a beat.

"Can I come with you or do I have to stay here?" Bella asked when she and Ianto parted.

"Only if you feel up to it." Jack said to her. She nodded and the team left for the crime scene including Bella.

Torchwood was at the scene with the police and SOCO. The team were more interested in the body. Toshiko's hand-held scanner beeped as she took a reading. "Fragments of rift energy around the neck, arm and shoulders."

"He was grabbed ... and pushed." Jack said.

"Explains the residual energy cluster." Tosh said and looked at him.

"How did you ever manage without me?" Jack smiled.

"So, there's a potential killer on the loose - bi-pedal, maybe humanoid." Owen suggested.

"Any other alien tech involved, Tosh?" Gwen asked.

"No readings to suggest that."

"Okay, let's get back and see what we can piece together." Jack said falling straight back into boss mode.

"Taking charge again are you?" Gwen said to him.

"I was hoping for a little power struggle, resolved by some naked wrestling." Jack said, Bella groaned and shook her head, Jack looked at her smiling.

Gwen ignored both Harkness's and headed to the crime scene tape where Andy held in up for her. "Thank you, Andy. You can let SOCO in now, they can eliminate us from whatever they want."

"This another one of your spooky-do's, is it?" Andy asked her.

"Not yet, but ... uh ... I'll let you know." Gwen said and followed the rest of the team back to the SUV. Jack reached for the door. His wristband beeped. Jack pressed a button and turns it off, hoping that no one else heard it. But they did.

"Whoa, that never beeps." Ianto said looking at it.

"That's what I was thinking." Jack said and everyone gathered around him. He pressed the button and a nearly-life-sized 3-D light image of the man that came out of the rift appeared in front of him. The image looked like something out of Star Wars IV.

"I can't believe I got the answer machine!" The recording started, "What can you be doing that's more important than me? Anyway, you've probably traced the energy shift, found the body. All me, sorry about the mess. Bill me for the clean-up. Now. Drinks! Retro-lock the transmission coordinates, that's where I am. And hurry up, work to do!" He changed his voice to a high pitched voice, "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!" The image turned to look on the side just like in the movie ... then it vanished.

"Stay here. Don't come after me." Jack said very seriously.

"Who was that?" Gwen asked.

"Stay here." He said and got into the SUV.

"But..." Gwen started, but Jack drove away leaving them there.

"Hey, Jack!" Gwen shouted out. "Wait!"

"Dad!" Bella shouted after him.

Gwen, Owen, Bella and Toshiko watched as Jack and the SUV sped away. Ianto turned and headed back
toward the main road. Owen stomped his foot on the ground in frustration. Bella sighed and held her arm pulling it slightly to her chest. Before dropping it before anyone noticed.

"You see that? He swans back in and then he shuts us right out." Owen said voice filled with anger.

"I'm not having this." Gwen said.

"I can track him!" Tosh said holding up her scanner.

Just then Ianto whistled loudly and everyone turned. "Taxi!"

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Jack parked the SUV outside the bar were John Hart was at. He took a deep breath mentally preparing himself before walking in. John Hart sat at the bar with a line of shot glasses in front of him as he worked his way through them. He picked up the glass and downed the drink. He put the shot glass back in its place, but before he actually put the glass down on the bar, he stopped and turned to look at the doors. The double doors opened. Jack walked in, the hem of his long coat flapped against his legs. The doors closed behind him. John stepped out and away from the bar. Like two gunfighters in an old western bar, the two time agents faced each other. Jack's face is inscrutable. John Hart unsnapped both his holsters. After a beat, he
started toward Jack. Way across the other side of the room, Jack started toward him. They move without hesitation, their ground-eating steps brought them both swiftly to the other. They stopped mere inches from the other, and stared at each other. The tension in the room you could cut with a knife. Then they kissed. Passionately. Hands groping and grabbing at each other – heads, shoulders, backs. Their breaths in short, rasping, devastating pants. And the kiss goes on...till they pushed each other away. John pulled back and hit Jack hard in the face. Jack smiled and hit John back. The two men then proceeded to fight each other.

Meanwhile, the taxi with Owen, Gwen, Toshiko, Bella and Ianto inside zoomed across the streets.

"Reports coming in of a bar disturbance." Tosh said looking at her scanner. "Same coordinates as the SUV."

"Tell the police we're dealing with it." Gwen ordered.

"Okay, so who the hell was the bloke in the hologram?" Owen addressed the actual issue.

"Looked like Jack recognized him." Ianto pointed out.

"Why didn't he let us go with him?" Bella wondered. She knew that his past of big, but it still frustrated her when he did this.

"'Cause it's typical Jack, isn't it? Disappears, he comes back, then he runs away again. Shuts us out. We don't even know his real name." Gwen said.

"Or which time he comes from." Tosh added.

"Exactly. He's supposed to be our boss, we know nothing about him. It drives me crazy!" Gwen shouted out. With that everyone fell into silence.

"It is more fun when he's around, though." Ianto said breaking that silence.

"Yeah." Owen said.

"Oh, definitely!" Tosh agreed.

"Yeah, it is." Gwen smiled. Bella just shrugged.

Jack and John both crashed through a glass partition. The place was a mess. They landed on the floor, rolled apart, reached for their guns and drew on each other. They smiled and chuckled as they circled the other and waited for the next round of attacks. The guns didn't waiver.

"You're putting on weight?" John commented.

"You're losing your hair?" Jack retorted.

"What are you wearing?" John asked.

"Captain Jack Harkness, note the stripes." Jack said proudly.

"Captain John Hart, note the sarcasm." John said.

"Hey, I worked my way up through the ranks." Jack said still pointing his gun.

"I bet the ranks were very grateful. I need a drink." John said.

"I thought you'd never ask." Jack said and with that their fight was over and they both lowered their gun and headed for the bar. They started talking about all the different rehabs that John had been to over the years. Then turned the conversation to the time agency and how that it was shut down and that there were only 7 left.

"It's good to see you. It was never the same without you." John said and leaned forward as if to kiss Jack again, but Jack stopped him.

"You need to go. I don't want you on my territory." Jack said to him.

"What?" John stood up and put his nearly empty bottle on the counter, "Time was, you couldn't get enough of me on your "territory"." he then moved very, very fast. He grabbed the gun off the counter. Jack ducked to avoid whatever was coming. John shot out the glass in the front door. He turned and shot out the glass at the back. "All right, everybody out!"

The front door opened. Gwen and Ianto stepped inside. Gwen was facing front while Ianto covered her from the side. "Everything all right, Jack?" Gwen asked.

"It's okay, okay, okay!" Jack reassured. Owen came out from the back with Toshiko and Bella.

John stared at the team amused, "You've got a team! How sweet! Oh, pretty little friends! No blonde, though. You need a blonde."

"God! He's worse than Jack." Owen commented.

"Oh, do you have a team name? I love team names, go on!" John said getting excited.

"Torchwood." Jack said with authority.

"Oh. Not Excalibur? Blizzard? Bikini Cops? No? Torchwood. Oh, dear." John said with disappointment.

"Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones, Toshiko Sato, Owen Harper and Bella meet.." Jack started to introduce the but John finished for him.

"Captain John Hart."

"We go back." was all that Jack said.

"Excuse me. We more than go back. We were partners." John revealed.

"In what way?" Ianto asked trying not to sound jealous.

"In every way. And then some." John snorted.

"It was two weeks." He said giving Ianto a look to try a reassure him.

"Except that two weeks was trapped in a time loop, so we were together for five years. It was like having a wife..." John said.

"You were the wife." Jack said.

"YOU were the wife." John replied.

"No, you were the wife." Jack insisted.

"Oh, but I was a good wife." John said

"I bet you were." Tosh said, everyone looked at her, "What? Don't pretend you haven't noticed, he's cute."

"They're just shy." John winked at her.

"What are you doing here?" Jack asked John.

"I was wondering when we'd get to that." John said and opened his wristband and pressed some buttons.

"That's the same as yours." Bella noticed.

"A little smaller." Jack had to say.

John rolled his eyes, "But lasts much longer. Get two Time Agents in the same room together, it's always about the size of the wrist strap."

"Ah, yes, sorry? What's a Time Agent?" Owen asked for everyone else in the room.

"What? He's never told you about his past?" John asked.

"No, he hasn't." Gwen said. Both time agents looked at each other.

"Anyway..." John said as his wristband beeped and a holographic image of a canister appeared, "I'm working with this woman beautiful, clever, sexy, yadda yadda yadda and we both get shot. And as she's dying, she begs me. She tells me about these radiation cluster bombs she'd been working on."

"I don't like the sound of that." Owen said, Bella slowly nodded her head in agreement.

"Three canisters, contents beyond toxic, swallowed up in a rift-storm." John continued.

"And ended up here." Bella guessed.

"Bingo. That's the downside of your city being built on a rift in space and time. Now, left to their own devices, the radiation'll break down the canisters and then infect your people and planet. They need to be neutralized." John said and pressed more buttons the the holograph disappeared.

"What do you get out of this?" Jack asked.

"Dying woman's wish." John said. Jack clearly didn't believe him, "Now, there's only one problem: I don't know where they are. Hoping local knowledge might help."

"When we get back to the Hub, I can run a citywide scan on radiation surges and cross-reference that with the rift activity during that time span." Tosh offered.

"What are you, the brains and the beauty? You see, together it's an easy job." John said.

"We do this, you get out of here when it's finished. Right away." Jack said.

"Does this mean I get to see your house?"

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Toshiko watched as the block descended into the hub.

"It's roomy, I'll give you that." John commented looking around. Toshiko, Gwen and Ianto were waiting at the base. Toshiko handed Gwen the scanner. "Your taste in interior design hasn't got any better, though. What is this, sewer chic?"

Ianto waited for them. Owen sat on the table in front of Bella looking at her hand and arm again. The block stops. Jack stepped off and faced John. He stopped him from stepping off the block. "Weapons."

John removed his guns and handed them to Jack, who put them on the silver tray Ianto was holding. John removed his samurai sword and gave it to Jack, who handed it to Ianto. John shrugged innocently. Jack held out his hand. "And the rest."

"Oh, you know me. I'm a two-weapon man." John said.

"One pistol strapped to each leg, laser knife beneath left elbow, 17 small explosive charges in the lining of his coat." Gwen said reading off the scanner.

"Slipped my mind." John said handing over the rest. Jack dropped the tiny pistol on the tray on top of the other weapons. Then they went back to what they were going to do.

Jack and Gwen were walking down on of the many corridors, "He's a compulsive liar! Why is he in the building?" Gwen asked.

"There's the tiniest one percent chance he's breaking a habit of a lifetime, and telling the truth. Which means this city is in danger." Jack said back.

"What did he mean by a Time Agent? You've never mentioned it." Gwen asked.

"That was in the past." Jack said quickly brushing over the subject.

But Gwen wasn't having any of that, "Oh, okay. Here we go again. You know everything about me, Jack, why d'you keep shutting me out?"

"Here and now - that's what's important. The work we do, the person I am now. That's what I'm proud of." Jack said turning and stopped in front of her.

"Then why did you desert us?" Gwen asked.

"Wasn't just me Bella left to."

"Where did you go? No, no, come on, where did you go? Tell me. Talk to me." Gwen said ignoring the bit about Bella.

"I have died so many times. Been dragged back into life, like being hauled over broken glass. I saw the end of the world. And Bella nearly died." Jack said.

"How?" Gwen pushed.

"Doesn't matter now. But after it was all over ... I knew I belong here. Me and Bella belong here with you lot." He said and smiled at her. She smiled back and brushed her hair away from her face with her left hand. "What's this?" He said smiling and taking her hand to look at the ring placed there.

"That's an engagement ring, that is." She said looking at her ring in surprise, trying to get a reaction out of Jack but failed to get the one she wanted.

"You're getting married?" Jack asked letting go of her hand.

"Yes. Rhys asked. When you were away."

"Wow! Gwen Cooper getting married. Down on one knee?" Jack asked.

"He tried to, and then he had a twinge in his back and had to lie on the settee, and that's when he popped the question." Gwen said.

"Congratulations." He said smiled and chuckled, "We should get back to work."

"Mm-hm." Gwen said and Jack turned and headed down the rest of the corridor, Gwen was standing there thinking that maybe he really didn't feel the same as her.

Everyone was in the conference room, Toshiko presented her findings to everyone. John Hart sat back on the conference seat, his leg up on the table.

"Seven hours ago we logged a minor surge in rift energy, across three locations." Tosh said.

"Seven of us, three locations. That's simple. Two people per canister and one left over." John said.

"Excuse me, I give the orders." Jack pouted. Bella looked at his face and laughed.

"Well, give some, big boy!" John winked. Just the Gwen's phone beeped.

"Sorry guys I have to go." Gwen said not explaining why and just left the room leaving everyone standing there in shock.

Bella cleared her throat and brought everyone back to the task at hand, "Anyway John's right. Sorry ... um ... d'you prefer John, or Captain?"

"With eyes like yours, call me Vera, I won't complain." John said looking Bella up and down. Ianto rolled his eyes and Owen clenched his fists.

"Tosh and Owen, take the north. Ianto and Jack go west. Me and Vera'll take the docks." Bella suggested.

"Excuse me, not to repeat myself..." Jack started, but once again John cut him off.

"Got a problem with this, Jack?"

Everyone waited. Jack smiled and backed off. "Not at all." Secretly proud that his daughter is taking charge.

"Now, given the canisters are radioactive, don't open them, eh?" John said.

"Let's go, guys." Bella said.

"Bella, I need a word. Owen you to." Jack said and everyone else left the room.

"Oh, can I watch this bit? He's gonna give you all the dos and don'ts. I love it." John said from the doorway.

"She'll be with you in a second." Jack said and pointed to the door. John left the room. "What the hell are you doing?"

"If I can get him talking, he may drop his guard. I can find out what he's really up to." Bella said.

"Okay, clever." Jack said.

"Thank you." Bella said looking pleased with herself.

"But dangerous, leave it to me. Plus you're injured." Jack pointed out.

"I'm fine trust me." Bella said truthfully, she was feeling better.

"Owen is she ok to do this." Jack turned to the young doctor.

"I see no problem but I don't feel comfortable with this." Owen said.

"I'll be fine." Bella reassured both men.

"Ok three rules: One - don't believe anything he says. Two - always keep him in front of you. And three - under no circumstances let him kiss you." Jack said.

"As if I would! He's kissed you, I don't want him anywhere near me." Bella said kind of repulsed.

"Has he gone to the no-kissing rule yet?" Came John's voice from the hallway. "He only invented that because he wants me all to himself."

Bella started out. Jack and Owen watched them go.

"Keep in front." Bella said to John moving him in front of her.

"I have a bad feeling about this." Owen said.

"She'll be fine." Jack said hoping he was right.