Idée fixe 18/19+ Epilogue

[missthingsplace]

Title: Idée fixe
Author: missthingsplace 
Parings/characters: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Owen, Toshiko, John Hart
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or any of the characters ... unfortunately, just borrowing them for a while.
Summary: Jack's office gets a new temp; Gwen and he has no idea of the impact she will have on his and his families lives.
Warnings: Character Death. This fic is completely AU ... no Torchwood.
Spoilers: Anything is fair game
Rating: NC17 for series

A/N: Sorry that there was no chapter yesterday, whatever this bug is that i have decided to attack my stomach - i will spare you the details - and i just couldn't concentate on writing anything, feeling much better today though. And um ... sorry about the evil cliffie at the end of this chapter!


"Miss Tyler, I'd like you to go to the police station with my colleague, get what you told me down legally in a formal statement,” the Detective told her. “you're mother is welcome to travel with you.”

"You can bloody bet I'll be going with her!” Jackie Tyler announced, having arrive a few minutes earlier after watching the commotion at her neighbours house for a while through her window before curiosity got the better of her.

"Mum, I'm not being arrested, I'm not the one in the wrong here,” Rose sighed, taking her mother by the arm and leading her from the house to the awaiting police car.

"Why are you still here?” Jack asked Swanson. “Why aren't you out looking for our daughter?”

"Most of the Cardiff Police Force are out trying to track down Ms Cooper and your baby, we will find her, I assure you,” she replied calmly and evenly. “I don't think she intends any harm to the child, it's you she's out to hurt, not Alice.”

"You better be fucking right!” Ianto exclaimed, his fingers clutching tightly on the glass of water someone had handed him and wishing it was something stronger.

"There's no need for that language, Mr Jones,” the Detective admonished him. “however I can understand it in the circumstances.”

"I'm sorry, I just feel so useless,” Ianto told her, reaching for Jack's hand and squeezing it tight.

"There must be something we can do? Somewhere we can look?” Jack asked.

"The best thing you can do it to stay here in case she calls,” she replied.

"You mean you're expecting her to ask for a ransom?” Jack frowned.

"Not in the usual sense, considering her frame of mind I suspect she might offer Alice up in exchange for you,” she answered.

"You're kidding me, right?” Ianto scoffed.

"No, anything is possible when someone is acting this irrationally,” the Detective told him. “once we have her in custody I'm going to recommend that she needs psychiatric treatment.”

"And a very long jail sentence,” Jack spat, his words almost drowned out by the detectives mobile ringing.

"Excuse me a moment,” she said, taking the call as she left the room.

"I can't believe this is happening,” Ianto said, moving closer to his partner and resting his head on his shoulder.

"None of us could have guessed just how far she would go,” Jack replied. “this is stupid, I need to be out there looking for her.”

"But where would you start?” Ianto asked with a frown.

"No idea, but if it meant I would find her I would scour the streets all night,” Jack stated.

"Then do it,” Ianto told him, pulling back and looking him straight in the eye. “I'll stay here in case she phones, go now while the Detective is out the way.”

"You could come with me?” Jack suggested.

"No, she's right on that count, I'd never forgive myself if she tried to get in touch and we weren't here,” Ianto answered. “keep me updated, just go.”

"I'm gone,” Jack told him, kissing him fiercely before adding. “our daughter will be home before the night is out, I promise you.”

"I believe you,” Ianto replied with a flicker of a smile. “now go, before she comes back.”

"I'll call you soon,” Jack told him and ran from the room, leaving through the back way to go around the side of the house to outwit the Police Officer stationed by the front door and then he was gone into the dark.

"That was one of my colleagues, we believe she might be heading to her parents holiday house,” Detective Swanson said as she re-entered the room. “we have three patrols heading out there now and I shall head there too, to oversee the arrest. Where is Captain Harkness?”

"He left, he's gone looking for our daughter,” Ianto told her bluntly. “I want to come with you.”

"I don't believe it, i told him ... fine, look, I still think it would be best for you to stay here, if she calls with any demands you can contact me and we can use the information,” the Detective insisted. “We know how to do our job Sir, we will bring her home safely and I suggest you call your partner and tell him to return home.”

"Fine, fine,” Ianto grumbled unhappily, throwing his hands in the air dramatically. “go and get my daughter back, if she's not found safe and sound there will be hell to pay.”

"You have my word on it Mr Jones,” she replied. “I will keep you and Captain Harkness informed on every step of the way.”

"Thank you,” Ianto replied resignedly, walking her to the door and closed it firmly behind her, wondering just how long it would be before he fell apart completely when he thought he heard a noise come from upstairs.

Carefully slipping off his shoes Ianto began to very slowly and quietly climb the stairs, bypassing the one with the squeak halfway up and pausing a couple if steps from the top to listen again.

Hearing another sound he crept up the last few stairs and looked in horror at the sight before him, through the open door of their bedroom, he rushed across the landing and into the room which had been completely ransacked.

Ianto looked around in confusion, when they had discovered that baby Alice was missing their room had been untouched and then he heard it, the sound of a baby cry out.

"Oh my God!” Ianto exclaimed, forgetting the mess and rushing to the nursery, sure he was imagining the sound and looked aghast at the sight of his daughter in her cot looking as confused as he felt.

"Alice?” Ianto said, his amazement clear in his voice, moving nearer to the cot, intending to pick her up, not sensing that he wasn't alone in the room he never saw the woman coming.

Ianto barely registered the woman as she shoved him hard from behind, his daughter crying out again was the last sound he heard just before his head made contact with the hard wood of her cot and he passed out on the floor.


TBC
 

Comments

[dibbun_k]

*whimpers* oh dear. This is looking very bad for Ianto and Alice. I hope Jack comes back and saves the day soon.
Love the inclusion of Jackie at the start. She would definitely have been peering round the curtains.
*bites lip nervously waiting for the next part*

[missthingsplace]

Thank you :D