Torchwood: Kidnapping

"That's odd," Toshiko said to herself, her eyes glued to the CCTV feed that watched the feed from outside Torchwood 3. She always watched it when Jack left using the elevator exit, which he liked to use when he was showing off or trying to leave unnoticed by bypassing the regular security checks. On the screen, Jack stepped off of the platform and quickly moved out of view.

"Did you say something, Tosh?" Owen asked from his station across the room.

"It's probably nothing, but it looked like that boy saw Jack as he went up."

"That's never happened before," Ianto said from the upper level, moving quietly unnoticed, keeping track of everything.

Owen had already moved to crouch over Toshiko's shoulder, studying the CCTV footage on the screen. "Which one was it?"

"That one," Tosh said, pointing to a tall slim boy on the screen who was busy talking to the girl next to him.

Grabbing his jacket and Tosh's portable scanner, Owen headed for the door. "Ill go check it out. Depending on how this goes, we may need containment. God, I hate bloody school field trips."

Ianto met Owen at the door as it opened. "Ill get the Retcon ready, just in case. Take this, it may help," he held out a bar of dark chocolate."

"Its not like I'm going to use candy to bribe him into the back of the SUV!" Owen complained.

"Why not? I understand it happens all the time," Ianto replied in his usual deadpan, leaving Owen to continue on, unsure if Ianto was joking or not.

"Did you see that?" he asked Maria

"See what?" she asked.

"That man over there. Its like he just came up out of the ground. You were looking right at him when he did it."

"I didn't see anything," Maria exclaimed. "What man, where?"

He raised his arm to point, but the subject of his curiosity had disappeared. "Well, he was there, over by the waterfall."

Lost in his curiosity the boy drifted away from his friends and school mates, moving closer to the waterfall. Maria barely noticed his moving away, suitably distracted by something her occasional friend Kelsey was saying. A moment later a beeping sound finally distracted him from studying the ordinary patch of sidewalk and drew his attention to the man standing behind him.

"Did you see it too?" the boy asked.

"I did," the man replied, putting a black box thing with glowing blue lights on the end in his pocket. "Very strange indeed. You know that's what I do, investigate strange happenings like this, Doctor Owen Harper, Torchwood." Owen reached out to shake the boy's hand.

The boy shook Owen's hand, only when he did the man did not let go, but grabbed him tightly, pulling him up onto the section of sidewalk that had so intently held his interest.

"Oh, Have some candy," Owen said. The hand that still held the candy bar thrust against the boy's chest further constraining the child's struggles.

"Oi, Maria!" the young black boy named Clyde ran up to her, driving the normally overbearing Kelsey off. "Have you seen Luke?"

"Yeah, he is right over…" she looked around, and again more intently, but her friend Luke Smith was nowhere to be seen.

Author's note: I was going to write more but Im too tired right now. Still should be enough for a first chapter.