Not to mention ... what, hiding your half-Cyberperson girlfriend in the basement as your Top Secret Project, not telling boss or coworkers about said Project, taking home random pieces of alien tech, using said alien tech indiscriminately, walking into faerie rings ... Yeah, totally seemed like a good idea at the time.

(I expect you've seen this? Somehow I just can't get enough of fics where Team Torchwood gets pwned one way or the other. Which is probably why I'm writing one now.)