missthingsplace | Entity 13/14

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

“Hey Jack.” Gwen said distractedly with one eye on the TV as she answered her mobile.

“How Tosh doing?”

“She's just fine.” As she replied Tosh looked at her, smiled and then turned her attention back to the TV again.

“Looks like Ianto found out how to get this entity out of her head without her being harmed, but we need you to get her back here without raising any suspicion as to why.”

“So, you really need my help? Okay I'll come in.”

“Eh?”

“No, don't worry, I'll bring Toshiko with me, I wouldn't want to leave her here alone either.”

“Ah.” Jack replied, catching on.

“You say Ianto's staying in the hub so he can keep an eye on her?”

“Good idea.”

“Right Jack, be there ASAP.”

“Just don't let her get any idea this is about her, okay?”

“Sure.”

They ended the call and Gwen turned to Tosh. “I imagine you got the gist of that?” Gwen asked, getting to her feet.

“Our girly evening is at an end 'cos something came up that requires attention?”

“Got it in one, we'll do this again.”

“I'd like that.” Tosh smiled.

Gwen resisted the urge to put her foot down but she still drove as fast as possible towards the hub, when they emerged through the cog door some fifteen minutes later they were met by Ianto who told Gwen she should head for the conference room and steered Tosh towards the sofa.

“Sorry to drag you back.” Ianto told her, smiling softly.

“No problem, I do feel okay though.”

“Well, you just relax here, I got you some magazines to read. Coffee?”

“Please.” Tosh grinned, She was quite enjoying feeling pampered.

Jack, Owen and Gwen were in the conference room waiting for their time to come, the coffee Ianto was preparing for Tosh was going to be laced with a strong sedative causing her to become sleepy and then doze off and hopefully making it look natural. They watched the CCTV as Ianto delivered the coffee and sat beside her with a mug of his own and chatted to Tosh, it wasn't long before she started to yawn.

“Sorry Ianto.” Tosh said, yawning again.

“That's okay, lie down and have a nap, I have some things to take care of in the archives anyway. Want a blanket?”

“Thank you.” Tosh yawned as she stretched out on the sofa, by the time Ianto came back with the blanket she was fast asleep and the others were walking towards them across the hub.

“Okay, Ianto said the UNIT files say that the entity sleeps when the host does so we need to do this fast, once her body starts cooling it should wake and plan it's escape from her head.” Jack said as he scooped Tosh into his arms, followed by the others as he headed towards the cells. “We won't be able to see it when it leaves her most likely, but the UNIT files say she should make a noise like a loud sigh as it leaves, then we have about thirty seconds to get her out the cell before the entity realises it can't survive in the Weevil.”

Having sedated Janet earlier she was fast asleep in her cell, on the other side of the small space was what appeared to be an old tin bath, which had a blanket in it, covering a deep layer of ice. Jack carefully lay Toshiko in the bath and put another thin blanket over her before Owen and Gwen added more ice on top, then Owen turned on the portable scanner and they watched as her temperate dropped painfully slowly from outside the cell.

Ianto adjusted the temperate in the cell, lowering it to a few degrees less than the Weevils body and then the four of them waited as Tosh's heart rate began to fall with baited breath. All of them hoping it would work, work in the way it should and that Tosh would come out of it unscathed.

TBC