missthingsplace | Entity 6/14 (Reply)

Title: Entity
Author: missthingsplace
Parings/characters: Jack/Ianto, Gwen, Tosh, Owen
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or any of the characters ... unfortunately.
Summary: Set some time during series one, a pilot on a plane seems to have gone suddenly mad ...
Spoilers: None
Warnings: M/M kissing
Rating: PG13 for series

Previous chapters: http://missthingsplace.livejournal.com/150806.html

Reaching the computer Ianto swore under his breath and threw himself into the chair as he read the results on the screen.

'NO MATCH FOUND'

Thumping the keys he re-entered the words, spelling them a little differently and set the programme running again. He knew it was a useless exercise and the programme was designed to check for anything that partly matched, but he wasn't going to give in yet. He sat watching the screen for a while with a blank look on his face trying to remember anything Toshiko had told him about using the voice recognition version, he would just have to do it through trial and error if need be.

Toshiko hadn't spoken again for a while, Gwen had fetched a blanket and covered her with it and replaced Ianto's jacket under her head with a proper pillow. She had no idea what to try, she had been sitting there talking to Tosh since they got her back to the hub but there was no change in her condition. All her vitals were normal, there was no reason for her not being concious.

Owen appeared next to Gwen and proceeded to take blood to test from Tosh, not knowing what was wrong with her was bugging the hell out of him and he wanted to help his team mate, friend. She didn't even flinch as he inserted the needle into her vein, but he noticed that Gwen did which made him smile to himself. Gwen watched him wordlessly as he went about the task, neither of them said a word even as he headed back to the medical bay with the samples.

Jack headed down from his office, he hadn't missed the way Ianto had reacted when he got back to the computer. He had spent the next fifteen minutes just observing his team as they tried to help Toshiko, they would all do everything they could for her. Walking over to Ianto he placed his hands on the young man's shoulders and looked at the screen, which was just running the programme and the various strings of words and numbers flickering across the screen meant nothing to no one.

“There were no matches, I'm running it again just to double check.” Ianto told him.

“It's only one option Ianto, if it doesn't help we'll just keep trying till we come up with the solution.”

“Yes Sir.”

Jack massaged Ianto's shoulders with his fingers, feeling the tension beneath and tried to loosen the knots as neither of them took their eyes off the screen. Every now and then Ianto would let out small noises that alerted Jack to the fact that his fingers were working their magic, leaning down he whispered something in Ianto's ear making his mouth twitch with a hint of a smile before pressing his lips lightly to the side of Ianto's neck and then moving away and heading over to where Gwen and Toshiko were.

“Any change?”

“No, nothing at all. She's even stopped talking now, it was a little reassuring despite it being in an alien language.”

“Yeah, I know what you mean. Just keep talking to her, maybe it'll help bring her out of whatever this is.” Jack told her as he gave her shoulder a reassuring squeeze and then strode off the the medical bay.

“Any results with those blood tests yet?” Jack asked Owen as he began his descent down the steps.

“Too soon, going to be a while before I can get all the tests done.”

“Gwen says nothings changed since we brought her in.”

“Yep, all her vitals are normal and stable.”

“Okay, just let me know if you find anything, no matter how insignificant it may seem.” Jack told him as he left the medical bay again.

“Jack!” Gwen's voice rang out across the hub. “Andy just phoned, seems they've found something that he describes as looking like one of our 'spooky dos' crashed on the ground, in a field along the planes flight path just before it got into trouble.”

“Okay, Owen you keep doing the tests, Gwen, stay with Tosh. Ianto, we're going to investigate whatever this is, might give us a clue.”

TBC