"What do you want to know?"

"Everything ordinary that took place before you met the Aledor."

Ianto sighed and tried to think past the pain in his arm. This would be so much easier if he had his old diary. Wait.

"I'll tell you when we get to the house."

"Ianto – "

"Look I don't trust my 21 year old memory of a 12 year old experience which involved a memory confusing alien!" Ianto snapped. "When we get there I can check my old diary."

"Fine."

There was a tense silence for the minute or two it took Jack to drive up to the house. Doors opened instantly and they ran to the house. When they arrived the team jumped out of the SUV and rushed over to the door. It was still open from when they'd left. Ianto turned to the others.

"Make sure mam's okay, I'll get my diary."

"I'll come with you." said Tosh as Jack opened his mouth to protest.

Ianto nodded and they stepped inside.

Jack reluctantly led the others to the kitchen, hoping to find Mrs Jones, whilst the pair trooped upstairs. Ianto headed determinedly towards his bedroom and Tosh followed.

On entering the room he let out a small sigh accompanied by a wistful smile. He made his way across it and stopped once he was beside his bed. Ianto knelt beside it and ran his hand across the floorboards.

"So," Tosh began. "You grew up here?"

"Yup." he deadpanned.

She wandered towards the toy weapon covered shelf and examined the various models.

"I didn't realise you cared so much about the military."

"I didn't, but my tad did." Ianto replied. "Got it!"

Tosh glanced at him on hearing his exclamation. Sure enough, the Welshman had found a catch on a floorboard beside his bed. With a little tug the wood came free to reveal a small compartment. Ianto pulled his battered old diary out from it. Tosh came over.

"Is that it?"

"Yes. Let's go find the others."

They started to head back downstairs.

"You know you hid it very well." Tosh noted, some things never changed.

Ianto laughed.

"Too well, I used to forget which floorboard I'd hid it under. When I was a teenager sometimes I'd spend hours scouring my bedroom floor. Fortunately my parents never cottoned on."

Tosh smiled.

CRASH!

She stopped smiling. They exchanged worried glances and ran towards the source of the noise. It had come from the living room.

As the pair entered, they were faced with an alarming yet bizarrely funny sight of Ianto's mother charging towards Jack with a large chair. Tosh backed away, Jack ducked and Ianto sidestepped as the old woman swung it at the Captain's head.

"GET OUT OF MY HOUSE OR I'M CALLING THE POLICE!" she screamed.

Gwen and Owen approached her from behind cautiously.

"Mrs Jones it's me; Gwen Cooper?" Me and Owen came to check out your boiler earlier today, don't you remember?"

The woman paused.

"What?"

Gwen continued, encouraged by her lowered voice.

"Owen said we would come back later; these people are our reinforcements."

The woman's eyes softened. Jack took this as an opportunity to straighten up.

"We didn't mean to intrude, but the door was already open." he told her.

"Ah yes. Sophie is forever forgetting to close the damn thing."

She lowered the chair and started to clean up the shattered mess of an ornament she'd accidentally knocked over earlier in her attempt to drive Jack out.

"We'll head down to the boiler room then." said Owen.

"Okay. I thought you were burglars!" she commented with a chuckle. "Silly me."

The group moved out of the room, closed the door and Jack turned.

"What have you got for me Ianto?"

The Welshman already had the correct page of the diary open.

"It's quite a long entry." he warned. "Do you want me to paraphrase?"

"No. Every detail is important. We don't want to miss anything."

The others nodded in agreement. Owen grinned.

"You're not gonna hold out on us this time Teaboy."

Ianto rolled his eyes and started to read.

"Dear Myfanwy,"

"What!?" the team chorused.

Ianto rolled his eyes again.

"When I was younger I found it easier to confide in a diary if I pretended it was a person."

"Or a pterodactyl." Owen sniggered.

Ianto shot him a look.

"Sorry," said Jack, also fighting back laughter. "continue."

"I woke up at 3am today." Gwen winced in sympathy for his twelve year old self. "Not fun, guess who woke me? Rhiannon. She was squealing at -"

"Wait. Who's Rhiannon?" asked Jack.

Ianto looked up, wearing a slightly affronted expression.

"She's my sister."

Silence returned as the team contemplated how little they knew about their teaboy. Gwen realised that it must've been Rhiannon that she saw in some of the pictures with Ianto earlier. Despite the interruption the Welshman's gaze returned to the page.

"She was squealing at me in excitement. I was thankful that it was a weekend, if it was a school day the early start would've seen me to sleep right in the middle of geography. Miss Adams hates me enough as it is and I really don't want to give my peers another reason to laugh at me.

"Anyways, I asked Rhiannon what the hell she was on, other than helium." Tosh chuckled softly. "She reminded me that it was tad's birthday. I just groaned and told her to go back to sleep but she wouldn't have that. God she's older than me and since she's a girl she's supposed to mature fast, but no. She proceeded to remind me, in the same frustratingly high-pitched voice, that tad wanted to do something special this morning with all of us. She tipped me out of bed and told me to meet her downstairs, ready, in ten minutes.

"I fell asleep three times whilst brushing my teeth so ten minutes quickly became fifteen. By the time I got downstairs Rhiannon had mastered her glare. Tad was furious but I didn't understand why because mam hadn't joined us yet. When I pointed this out tad told me that she'd gone on ahead of us so at least one family member would be punctual.

"We set off and I missed breakfast. I couldn't be bothered to complain; I wasn't hungry yet and I knew if I did say something tad would go mental. He terrifies me when he's that angry. In those moments he will do anything.

"After a lot of walking we arrived at the river Severn. It sat there looking picturesque so I countered the balance by taking a seat and glowering at it. I couldn't see mam, but it was a big river. She probably stood on a different bank to us.

"I looked up at tad. Rhiannon was grinning like a loon so she had to be in on it. Whatever 'it' was. I decided I had to start asking some questions.

"Why are we here tad?"