My Darling Irish Girl - Ianto Jones

Name: Saoirse O'Neill

Age: 25

Appearance: Short black hair with electric blue tips (pixie cut), blue eyes, tall (5'9), 112lbs give or take, looks anorexic for her height but it's only because she has a high metabolism and all the running around her job requires

Other: Born in Ballymena to Mary and Ronald O'Neill, three older brothers and two younger brothers.

Grandfather was a prominent member of the IRA in the seventies but he quit soon after Saoirse was born (first girl grandchild) doted on Saoirse more so than any of his grandsons
Died when Saoirse was six.

He had taken Saoirse to the shop on the corner to buy her a lucky bag when a UVF bomber came in and blew the place up. Saoirse's grandfather protected her from most of the blast. She only sustained one serious injury which wasdue to a pipe impaling her through the stomach just missing any vital organs and her spinal column.

When she was 16 Saoirse joined the IRA as a mercenary, but she left when she was 18 when she got a job offer from UNIT in Cardiff.

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Jack Harkness sat in his office with his feet on the desk. His hands behind his head he left his eyes closed, it had been a slow week in Cardiff and he was glad of the peace and quiet for once,

"Jack" someone called urgently,

So much for peace and quiet.

Jack bounded out of his office and made his way over to Toshiko's desk,

"What's wrong?"

"There's a girl" she started,

"A girl" Jack questioned,

"She's been standing there for ten minutes waving at the camera" Toshiko pointed at the girl on the screen who promptly dropped her hand and walked away before Jack could get a good look at her,

"She can't have been waving at us, no one knows that camera's there" Jack said, "all the same be careful" Toshiko nodded and Jack went back into his office to try and get some well needed sleep

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Ianto Jones was flipping through a magazine with some obscure music playing through an old CD player when the door to the tourist office opened,. A girl in skinny jeans and a sex pistols t-shirt with no jacket sauntered in. The no jacket was unusual since it was freezing March, day.

"Sorry we're closing" he said looking back to his magazine, the girl smiled and pulled a card out of her back pocket and flashed it at Ianto, "Sorry Ma'am" he said jumping to attention,

"I'm here to see Jack Harkness" she said and with a sharp laugh, "And don't call me ma'am"

"Of course, does Jack know you're coming?"

"Nope" she smiled, "just tell him there's a girl here to see him. A girl with an accent, he'll know who I am" Ianto touched his com,

"Jack, there's someone here to see you"

"Who is it?" Jack's voice asked in Ianto's ear,

"A girl with an accent" Ianto repeated,

"I'll be right there!" Jack's excited voice said,

"He'll be up now" Ianto said, "can I ask though, where is your accent from? I can't place it?"

"I'm from Ballymena" the girl said, "It's in Northern Ireland which is why you can't place it. I'm Saoirse, Saoirse O'Neill"

"And she's gorgeous" Jack said coming through the door in the wall,

"Jack!" the girl, Saoirse ran at Jack and he scooped her up in his arms and hugged her so tightly Ianto was sure she was going to snap in half,

"So what brings you here? Been sent to spy on me?" Jack joked,

The girl laughed, “Nah I'm here about that job if it's still goin?"

"Of course it is! Come on then, you have to meet everyone else"

"Hang on pretty boy, you're being an arse" she turned back to Ianto, "I never got your name?"

"Ianto, Ianto Jones"

"Cool" she turned back to Jack, "come on then before you burst from excitement, I swear your worse than a wee-an" she shook her head and followed Jack down into the hub,

"Everyone stop what you're not doing and come over here" he yelled, the rest of the team looked up from whatever they were doing and noticing the new person in their midst walked over to where Jack and Ianto where standing, .

"This is Saoirse O'Neill formally of UNIT, she's gonna work with us now. Starting in two weeks"

"Bout ye" she nodded in greeting to the rest of the team,

"Saoirse this is Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato and Gwen Cooper" Jack said, pointing to each member of the team respectively. "Tosh can you set up Saoirse's personal file?"

"Sure, pull up a chair"

"Right," She pulled a chair up next to Toshiko's station and sat down, leg over leg, "so what do you need to know?"

"Well everything really"

"Well, I'm Saoirse, Saoirse O'Neill, that's S-A-O-I-R-S-E, means freedom in Irish actually"

"It's beautiful" Toshiko said

"You have a really pretty name too is it Japanese?"

"Yes it is how did you guess?"

"I worked with a Japanese guy in UNIT" she continued on, "anyway I'm 25, don't know my blood type you'll have to ask UNIT for the medical stuff"

"Actually Owen's a doctor, he can take care of that" Toshiko offered, she quickly jotted down a memo, "Date of birth?"

"9th of June 1985"

"Previous jobs"

"This is gonna be a weird list, I didn't work until I was sixteen when I joined the IRA" Toshiko's eyes widened against teh weight of the statement causing Saoirse to project in quickly, "yeah I know wee thing like me in the 'RA but it was cause of my Granda"

"He encouraged you to join?" Toshiko asked shocked,

"Nah he was in it himself back in the day, he died when I was six"

"Oh, sorry"

"Its fine you didn't know" Saoirse shrugged,

"What happened, if you don't mind me asking?"

"Nah course not, I was home from school that day and Granda was looking after me. He was taking me to the shop on the corner of our street 'cause he needed cigarettes and he said he'd buy me a lucky bag.

We got to the shop ok and Granda was paying for my lucky bag and his cigarettes when a UVF bomber came into the shop and blew the place apart.

Granda protected me from most of the blast but I got hurt, real bad. Pipe went right through my stomach, luckily it missed anything crucial. Other than that, general cuts and bruises from having a shop fall on me.

But Granda got it worse.”

Saoirse took a minute to clear her throat, focusing on the nub of her boot.

“Died in hospital, so when I was sixteen I decided I'd make him proud of me and join up, do my bit so to speak.

It was a bad time of my life and if I could do it again I'd go nowhere near them, I'd just stick to getting a job in Topshop like normal girls my age" Saoirse laughed darkly,

"But anyway, getting side tracked. When I was eighteen I left home, Ballymena that is cause a man from UINT came to see me and offer me a merc job here in Cardiff.

When there was a 'hostile' situation that couldn't be defused with their normal toy soldiers they called me and my team in. The best of the best"

"Sorry I couldn't help over hearing, you were a solider?" Gwen asked,

"Yeah, I know I don't look like solider material. Too skinny, but I was a rcrack shot" Saoirse laughed, "is that all you need from me?"

"Yeah, Owen will need to take a blood sample and I'll contact UNIT for your medical history" Toshiko said,

"Kay" Saoirse bounced out of her seat and over to the medical bay she'd seen when she walked in, "Bout ye" she said leaning over the railing, "I'm supposed to get a blood sample taken?"

"Ah right, come on down then" Owen said, "just sit up there" he pointed at the operating table in the middle of the room,

"So you're a doctor then" Saoirse said,

"Yeah, I used to work for the NHS"

"Rage for you, the NHS sucks"

"You'll feel a small prick" Owen said turning to face the girl,

"I've heard that before" she laughed, turning her head away when Owen put the needle in her arm,

"Ok so you're done then. You've probably told Tosh your medical history so I don't think there's anything else"

"I don't know my medical history; you'll have to get it from UNIT they kept tabs on how many times I had to be treated for something or other" she said jumping down of the table, "I was never a fan of hospitals"

"Not a lot of people are"

"Well if that's me I'd better go tell Captain Anything that Moves" she walked back up the steps to the hub.

The team watched as this mysterious new girl made her way effortlessly through the hub to Jack's office where she kicked the door shut and not a minute later Jack's shouting could be heard throughout the hub along with Saoirse's laughter.

The torchwood team exchanged looks as one single thought passed through their heads.

Who is this girl?