‘So how’s week two going so far?’

Ianto shrugged. 'OK, I guess,’ he said. 'Taking a little bit of getting used to.’

Lisa laughed. 'Yeah. Tell me about it. My first month I was just freaked out most of the time. I mean, you sign all the official secrets stuff, and then… wham!’

Ianto knew what she meant. The interview had given him no clue as to what the job would actually entail. Of course, they’d told him it would be largely administrative work: filing, photocopying, answering emails, arranging meetings, that kind of thing. He’d even known that it involved classified government work, and that it was strictly hush-hush. He’d had to sign the Official Secrets Act at the interview itself, which gave him some clue as to just how secretive it might be, but the one thing nobody had cared to mention at that first interview, or indeed at any of the subsequent interviews, was aliens.