A/N: Chapter three. Written for a friend on another site.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, or Torchwood

Chapter Three
Suspicious Rift Activity…What?!

Yes, Pizza! Leila thought as she wrenched the door open. The man standing before her, however, did not fit the profile of a Pizza delivery man. On the contrary, he was dressed in a suit, with a pink shirt and all. Leila blinked and stared at him, trying to figure out why he looked familiar.

“Um, can I help you?” Leila asked, surveying the man. He had short, brown hair, bright brown eyes, and a rather adorable smile. Just from looking at him, Leila felt a smile growing on her own face, but it fell the minute another man appeared behind him. A man in a long, blue, military duster, with a button up shirt and suspenders. Leila’s jaw dropped.

“Ja…Jack?” she asked, her thoughts racing back to that British television show an online friend of hers never stopped talking about. She glanced back at the face of the other man and raised a quizzical eyebrow. “Ianto?”

“How does she know your names?” came a female voice from behind the two men. Leila stood up on her tiptoes to peer over their shoulders at the brunette behind them.

“Who’s she?” Leila asked, pointing. The woman glared at her.

“All right! How does she know your names and not mine?” she queried.

“Well…Ianto and Jack are the only one’s Flash talks about,” Leila said, the woman stared at her.

“Who,” she asked, “is ‘Flash’?”

“Ianto’s wife…,” Leila posed. The three exchanged glances, Ianto shrugged and blushed as he fell under Jack’s scrutiny, and Gwen opened her mouth to protest, but before she could speak, Leila cleared her throat and asked, “Um…what are you guys doing here?”

“There’s been some suspicious rift activity around this street,” Jack said, stepping past Ianto and into the house. “Has anything odd occurred here recently? Anything out of the ordinary?”

“Odd?” Leila asked, casting a surreptitious glance at the stairs behind her. “Uh, no…,” she finished, just as a shout of “AVADA KEDAVRA” bounced down from the rooms above. Leila pressed her fingers to her temples, feeling a headache coming on. When she looked back up at Jack, Ianto, and the woman, she saw a quizzical yet knowing look on Jack’s face.

“Nothing odd, huh?” he asked. “Gwen, go see how Tosh is doing with that trace, Ianto, with me; if the good lady will let us check things out?” Leila sighed.

“All right,” she said. “But I doubt it has anything to do with your rift.”

“Oh, now she knows about the rift, too?” Gwen queried, rolling her eyes. Jack gave her a warning look and, with a shake of her head, she reluctantly wandered back across the yard to Leila’s driveway, where a black SUV with “TORCHWOOD” written on the side stood, a young Asian woman leaning against it.

“Um,” Leila asked as she let Jack and Ianto in and began to lead them up the stairs. “Aren’t there more of you?” Jack nodded.

“Owen had some function to attend,” he said. “Or, maybe he was sick, I can’t really remember.”

“He was sick, Sir,” Ianto provided. Jack nodded and continued up the stairs. As they neared the top, Leila stopped short and looked down at them.

“How did you get that SUV over from…Wales, is it?” Leila queried. Jack shrugged.

“We’re Torchwood,” he said. Leila nodded and continued up the stairs. Standing in the door of the den, Lucius had his wand out and leveled on James, who had retreated to stand by the couch, sword drawn. Leila sighed.

“Honestly, I leave you alone for five minutes and you’re trying to kill each other?” she asked. “James, why are you over there, you know his wand doesn’t work, right?”

“Well…,” James trailed off, then pointed behind Leila, quick to change the subject. “Who’re they?”

“This is Jack, and Ianto,” Leila said, pointing as she spoke. Jack slipped past Leila and held his hand out to James, grinning broadly.

“Captain Jack Harkness,” he said. “And you would be?” James stared at him, then he slowly began to back away.

“No…not Flash’s ‘Harkness’,” he sputtered, brandishing his sword. “Keep him away!” Leila rolled her eyes, trying to keep her attention split between Lucius, James, Ianto, and Jack. Lucius had lowered his wand, but he was still glaring at James, Ianto was suppressing a laugh, and James and Jack looked like they were about to get into a physical fight.

“Hey,” Leila said, nudging Ianto. “Call him off. Flash told him Jack flirts with everyone.”

“He does,” Ianto whispered back. He cleared his throat. “We should probably check for rift activity, Sir,” he said. Jack stopped his advance on James and turned to face Ianto, nodding slowly.

“I think we found the effect,” he said, nodding at Lucius, then at James. “These two don’t exactly look period.”

“I doubt that-” Leila started, stepping forward, but Jack cut her off.

“We’ll have to get them back to the hub, run some tests,” he said. “After Tosh does a preliminary scan here, of course.”

“I will have you know,” Lucius said, advancing towards Jack and causing Leila to slap her palm against her forehead. “That I will go nowhere with you. I will remain here until Leila can find a way to return me to my proper place.”

“Leila?!” James raged. “That’s Mrs. Norrington to you!”

“I will refer to her as I wish,” Lucius replied in an even tone.

“Boys, boys, calm down,” Jack said playfully, James shifted his glare from Lucius to Jack, lifting his sword to point it at the man’s chest.

“I will have you know that I am not a boy,” he growled. “I am an Admiral.”

“And I’m a Captain,” Jack said, stepping forward. “What army?”

“Don’t come any closer, you!” James said, but Jack continued forward. The tip of James’s blade was pressed against his chest, and still he walked, forcing James back into a corner, a silly grin on his face.

“Couldn’t this get dangerous?” Leila whispered to Ianto, ignoring the smirk growing on Lucius’ face.

“I suppose this ‘Flash’ person left out a few things when telling you about us,” Ianto replied. “Just watch.”

Leila returned her attention to the two just in time to see James’s sword slide into Jack. Her husband’s eyes were wide with shock as he pulled the weapon from the man’s body and the whole crowd watched him fall limply to the ground. Out of the corner of her eye, as she ran to the man’s side, Leila swore she saw Ianto pull a stopwatch from his pocket.