Captain Jack and Captain Jack [for slayers_desire]

[fractured_agent]

It's been a few months since the team got their first lessons in psychic shielding, and once again, the Hub is open to April's expertise. Though he knows they're having guests, Jack doesn't push anyone to clean up the clutter so it looks better. The Hub is still a work space, and a chaotically changing one at that. They're all used to it by now, and Jack knows April won't mind.

Ianto is manning the tourist information office upstairs, as usual, and he knows that April is coming.

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[slayers_desire]

April arrives via PINpoint, just like last time, and heads over to the tourist information office, where she was told to sign in. She is doing a lot better, now that her own psychic shields were remedied and her voices are no longer tainted.

She just hopes she can help the others strengthen their own shields.

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Ianto looks up from his laptop when the door opens, and smiles automatically in greeting. It becomes more genuine once he notices who is is. "Welcome back, ma'am. Gwen's not in yet and Tosh is on her way, but Jack and Owen are here if you'd like to head down." He reaches under the desk and pushes the hidden button that opens the secret door to the Hub.

[slayers_desire]

"Thank you Ianto." April smiles softly, heading towards the secret door when he pushes the button.

[fractured_agent]

Jack is at his desk when she arrives in the underground base, but he gets up to greet her with a warm hug. "Good to see you," he says with a grin. "How're things?"

Owen briefly glances up from an old arcade game pushed up against the tower in the center, and grunts a hello.

[slayers_desire]

"Good." April returns the hug. She will tell him about her situation with the voices, until they aren't in public area. She chuckles softly at the grunted hello by Owen.

[fractured_agent]

"Kids doing okay?" He doesn't expect there would be any trouble, or she wouldn't look this relaxed. But it's polite to ask, and besides, he's interested.

[slayers_desire]

"Growing stronger and healthier each day." Jonathan is especially a hand-full, as he learns to handle his powers.

[fractured_agent]

"Glad to hear it," Jack says with a smile. "You're doing great with them."

[slayers_desire]

"I love them to pieces. But I am always glad to see my friends too..."

[fractured_agent]

"We're glad to see you too. Isn't that right, Owen?"

Owen glances up from his game and dramatically rolls his eyes. Jack just shakes his head a little and looks back at April.

[slayers_desire]

"Well I was so anxious to see Owen again." April chuckles lightly, giving as good as he gives. "How have things gone?"

[fractured_agent]

"Well, the Rift's been pretty active lately," Jack begins, but before he can explain too much, two things happen. The first is that the main door rolls aside to admit Toshiko, dressed up a bit more than usual for a day at work, in a purple dress. And the second is the Rift alarm going off.

"That's the fourth time in an hour," Owen gripes.

Jack goes over to the monitor to see what's up, looking over Tosh's shoulder.

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April heads over to the monitor too, staying back so that the team can work the way they are familiar with.

"What has been causing the troubles?"

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"We still don't know," Tosh says absently as she studies the readouts. "Just comes and goes, I suppose."

"Looks like a small spike," Jack decides. "At the Ritz dance hall, the same place we've been getting those anonymous tips about."

[slayers_desire]

"Anonymous tips?"

[fractured_agent]

"Someone's been hearing music coming from the dance hall," Tosh explains. "Music from the 1940s."

"It's also been abandoned since 1989," Jack adds.

[slayers_desire]

"Perhaps it has a psychic ghost attached to it." April does believe in hauntings. After all, she has been haunted before. And has helped lost souls.

[fractured_agent]

Jack believes in hauntings too, although of the alien and/or technological type rather than something supernatural. "Or some other kind of ghost. An imprint of a moment in time, maybe. Either way, it's worth checking out."

[slayers_desire]

"Do you need any help? I am sensitive to most psychic impressions."

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"You might as well come along," Jack agrees readily. "This probably won't take long, and you can't start evaluations until Gwen's here."

"I need to make a phone call," Tosh says as they gather their things and head towards the garage. "Just in case it takes a bit longer than expected."

[slayers_desire]

April wonders to herself about why Tosh feels the phone call is necessary. But it seems they have a mystery on their hands.

"Do we need anything from here?"

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"Just a few scanners and Tosh's laptop," Jack says, gathering those things while Tosh is on the phone. He's curious too, but it's answered for him somewhat when he overhears her speaking over the phone in Japanese. Must be family things.

"We'll probably just take some readings, see what the source is, and leave," he adds as he starts up the SUV. "The spike wasn't big enough to bring someone or something through, so if it's just music, it's harmless."

[slayers_desire]

April picks up on his mental thoughts, deciding not to get too involved with that situation. A family thing is private, after all.

She follows Jack to the SUV. "Sounds good."

[fractured_agent]

Tosh's conversation lasts most of the drive, though she sounds relaxed instead of anxious. Jack understands a fair bit of Japanese, but he politely pretends not to for Tosh's comfort.

The drive is a relatively short one, and soon they're pulling up in front of a dilapidated old building, painted with graffiti and plastered with raggedy paper ads. Jack looks at it with a fondness in his eye, as if recognizing an old friend, although there's also a nostalgic sadness about the state of the building.

Tosh hangs up the phone, and she can almost sense their curiosity. "It's my grandfather's eighty-eighth birthday today," she explains.

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April notes the fondness and recognition from Jack for the old building. And then gives Tosh a smile, "Big milestone."

Of course, both her own father and 'grandfather' are much older. But they are vampires. And one can't compare... since both Spike and Angel appear no older than April herself.