*Fanfiction* Torchwood ~Broken~ CHAPTER TWO

Chapter Two

 

Finding Hope

 

 "Rhys! Have you seen my phone?" Gwen was frantically running round the living room, searching for her phone. She was late for work. Cushions were flying all over the place as Rhys entered the room.

"Whoa! Calm down love!" He had two cups of tea in his hands and was quietly laughing to himself. "You checked your jacket?"

Gwen stood up straight. "Jacket? Yes, jacket." She ran off upstairs.

Rhys followed her to the landing, then stopped "You won't have the time for this then?" he shouted, lifting up the mug. Gwen's head popped out from behind the doorway,

"No, sorry love." She looked round her room once again but still couldn't find it. "Ugh,where could it be?".

"You checked in the bathroom, love?" Rhys' voice echoed from the hallway. 

"Oh. Not yet!" She went into the bathroom and found her jacket lying on the floor. Gwen picked it up, put it on a retrieved her phone. There were 53 missed calls from Owen. "Great" She muttered, then looked at the time; 9:52 "Oh no...". The panicked woman bolted down the stairs, kissed her boyfriend goodbye, then drove as quickly as possible to the Torchwood base.

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The bell on the door tinkled as Gwen pushed it open. Without Ianto the souvenier shop felt barren and lonley and instead of the 'trusty tea boy', Toshiko was sitting glumly in his place at the desk doodling on a pad of paper. Her head perked up when the door opened.

"Gwen!" Tosh said with a weary smile as Gwen leant on the old shop desk.

"How are you?"

"Not so good. We've been up all night looking for Ianto." Gwen frowned.

"But I saw him last night, he said he would be back today - that he just needed some time alone."

"Well he's not here." Tosh sighed.

"I'm going to see how Owens getting on, I can take over after that, you need some rest." Gwen said with a slight smile as she pressed the keypad to enter the base.

"No, I'm alright. You need to find Ianto. If I stay here then I can ask any shoppers if they have seen him recently." Tosh waved her on.

"Okay, but you shout if anything happens." Gwen dissppeard through the door and Miss Sato went back to doodling on her own.

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Owen pushed his glasses back on to his nose. His other pair had broken and his spares were too big for him, however he couldn't afford a new pair until the next month. He was attempting to read 'Lord of the flies' upside down.

"Oh hello Owen!" Gwen appeared behind him, which made the doctor jump. His glasses landed on the floor. "Why all the missed calls?"

"Ummmmm, I was bored...." Owen looked guilty as he bent down to retreive his glasses. Gwen clasped his arm.

"Bored! Bloody hell Owen! Ianto's missing and your bored!" Gwen felt the sudden urge to hit him very hard with a very dense object. "You idiot! You could have been looking for Ianto or even Jack, and what are you doing instead? Reading a book UPSIDE DOWN! They could be dead! Well not Jack but you know what I mean!" She slumped in to a chair and stared at the wall.

"Gwen, I-"

"Shut up! Just shut up Owen!" As she spoke a tear rolled down her cheek. "I am trying as hard as I can to find hi-,them, I really am and all your doing is lazing around doing NOTHING!" She lent back and closed her eyes, sending more tears down her face.

"Gwen, I'm sorry." Owen said hesitently, unsure if he would be able to finish his sentance. "Tosh and I stayed up all night looking, trying to find them and we got nothing, nothing." Now Owen was beginning to well up."I'm trying to, but I'm failing and I can't cope. It's, It's hard without Jack and Tosh can't be around all the time, so its just me." He began to cry. "I think we're pretty even, don't you?". Gwen turned to face him and nodded, but only slightly.

"Owen I'm sorry too. I-." but before she could finish, Owen had pulled her close. She hesitated before kissing him. She knew she had Rhys but sometimes she needed someone who understood, understood all of the nightmares that she'd encountered, and Owen had. Although they were crying they kissed. Gwens soft lips brushed against Owens rough ones, tears filling their mouths. They could taste the salt on their tounges, feel the water on their cheeks, hands in hair. It was then that Gwen missed being with Owen. She loved him, she really did however she couldn't leave Rhys, she just couldn't. Suddenly Gwen slipped, falling off of her chair, bringing Owen with her. They both landed awkwardly on top of each other, paused then began to giggle like children. Shes pretty when she smiles Thought Owen. He leant in and kissed her gently before standing up, holding out his hand he said,

"Well let's not wait. I have no idea what we'll do to find them but we will find a way." He smiled. Gwen took his hand and hauled herself up.

"Lets get started."

To be continued...

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