New WIP Fic: Gilt Cage. Fandom Torchwood/Doctor Who crossover Partt 21
Rating: Adult Only
Fandom: Torchwood/Doctor Who
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Ianto/other.
Summary: Ianto has an historic stalker.
Warning: swearing, m/m kissing. Sex
Just a reminder I do not own Torchwood, or Doctor some &%^@( jerk .... Well, just to let you know I make no money and only intend this for entertainment.
Spoliers from The House of the Dead and Children of Earth belong to BBC and others.
This story takes place shortly after Meat. I liked the episode but it left a few question for me at the end.
The feedback and comments have been great and feed the muse. Hope you enjoy it.
Chapter 21
The Doctor saw Amy entering the engine room out of the corner of his eye; he was still trying to figure out why his lovely sexy ship was refusing to fly. He kicked aside a piece of the vortex engine.
“No luck,” she asked, coming to stand by his side.
“No,” he said tossing down his electric wrench. “There is nothing, absolutely nothing wrong with her. She hasn’t been this clean or well lubed since she rolled off the assembly line.”
“What are we going to do? Hang out here?”
“Not much else we can do for now except keep trying to figure out what’s going on with her.”
Amy jumped up and down. “There has to be more to do than that. Come on, think. Why would she just stop here? You said that nothing is interfering with her. Do you think it has anything to do with your flyboy?”
“Flyboy? Oh, Jack you mean. I can’t see how. If the TARDIS had any problems with Jack we never would have even made it to Cardiff to begin with.”
“But you did say the only time she acted strangely before was because of Harkness.”
“That was a long time ago, Amy. She has no reason not to love Jack now, not after how he helped her all those years ago.”
“I wish you would stop talking in riddles. What happened to her? Why does she have an issue with him in the first place?”
The Doctor sighed. It really wasn’t his story to tell, he wasn’t the one who had been there. It was his other regeneration but he didn’t think that version of himself would tell him not to speak about that horrible day on the Space Station.
“It wasn’t one of my selves better moments.”
“You sound like you’ve got a split personality.”
The Doctor laughed. “It is like that sometimes. How much has River told you about when we met the first time?”
“I think she’s talked more about it to Rory than me but she said it was hard because you weren’t the you we know now. Whatever that means.”
“I’ll just have to come out and say it when I die I have an ability to regenerate. The thing about that is, I get a new face and a new personality but I remember what has happened in the past and not all of it great.”
“And what happened with the Captain, it wasn’t a good thing I take it?”
The Doctor tossed aside the wrench, cringing at the clang that echoed around the room. “I could come up with a thousand excuses but essentially I ran away from Jack when he needed me the most.”
“Why would you do that? Would you do that to any of us...to me?”
He shrugged. “Don’t know what the future holds, do we?” He could see that the redhead wasn’t happy with that answer. “There was a lot of stuff happening. I had just witnessed the most incredible thing; one of my companions had just managed to take out the entire Dalek fleet.”
“And what happened to Jack?” Amy demanded.
Before he could answer a flat screen slid out of the console. It came to rest in front of Amy. There was a flicker and then it turned on. There was Jack. He was a little younger but it was him. He was running, and firing a machine gun.
“Daleks,” Amy whispered, pointing at the round pepper-pots following him down the hall. “When was this?”
“200 100. On satellite 5. We were kidnapped right off the TARDIS. We were brought there to help by a brave young woman but she had to hide us until it was safe. She hid us in these television programs. The station was a giant studio. There was only one thing I could think of to stop the Daleks but it was going to kill every living thing on the planet but Jack didn’t blink. He told the Dalek Emperor that he believed in me and then-”
Amy gasped in horror as the Dalek beam hit Jack square in the chest. “Oh my God,” she shouted as the Daleks became dust and Jack woke up. She touched the screen, her fingers ghosting over his body. “What the hell happened?”
“Rose,” he said simply. “She defeated the Daleks and brought Jack back to life.”
“So why did you leave him behind?”
The Doctor watched as Jack ran back to the 500th floor and watched the TARDIS disappear. The image faded. “He was wrong. I know it’s a horrible thing to say but he made my skin burn and my mind spin. He made me sick to my stomach.”
“Because he came back to life?”
“Because he is a fixed point in time. He will always be. Rose didn`t know when to stop.”
“Doctor, you aren’t making any sense.”
“He can’t die, Pond. He will always be and that just had never been. It goes against everything that Time Lords believed or understood about the universe.”
“He can’t die? Really?”
The screen started up again. The Doctor felt his heart being ripped out of his chest as he watched the Master find new and sadistic ways to torture his friend to death.
“I think I’m going to be sick,” Amy said, running out of the main room, her hand over her mouth.
“Why are you showing this to me? I know I messed up all those years ago that I owe Jack but why show me this? Why remind me about that year? It never was, we’ve moved beyond it. I’m here trying to help him. I’m going to get his Ianto back if you would just cooperate.”
The images stopped and singing began. He recognized the voice, it was Jack’s. He wasn’t sure about the song, it sounded like a child’s nursery rhyme. “If that mockingbird doesn’t sing, then daddy’s going to get you a diamond ring. That’s it sweetheart,” Jack said, his arms were hanging in chains and his eyes were closed. Hr looked like he was concentrating hard.“Your daddy, well Doctor, he’ll figure a way out of this for you. He wouldn’t forget about his baby but until then I’m here for you baby. It’s been a long time since I’ve had anyone who needed my psychic shields but you take what you need. I won’t let that monster hurt you anymore.”
“He’s talking to the TARDIS?” Amy asked two glasses of water in her hand. “Here, thought you might need one.”
“So it would seem. The Master hurt her too. He made her into a paradox machine. She couldn’t fight him. I guess Jack was able to tap into her psyche and keep her going.”
“Then you should want us to help, Jack,” Amy told the ship. “Why won’t you take us to find this Ianto?” Amy turned toward the Doctor. “You don’t think whoever took this Ianto guy was able to get to the TARDIS?”
“No, that wouldn’t be possible. There has to be a reason for her taking me down memory lane. I didn’t even know she had these recordings and I sure as hell didn’t know about Jack singing to her. He just keeps surprising me.”
The screen flickered blue.
“Looks like she’s got more to show us. Wish I had some popcorn.”
“I don’t recognize this place.” The Doctor went to stand in front of the picture. He had a feeling he might finally figure out what it was the TARDIS was trying to tell him.
Jack and another man in a suit were standing in front of a cloudy glass box.
“Isn’t that Ianto?” Amy asked, coming to stand next to him.
“I think you are right.”
“What’s going on?” Amy demanded, as they watched Ianto collapse and Jack follow him down.
“Some kind of gas was released.”
“Knocking them out?” Amy asked hopefully.
“No. Oh hell, I now know what she’s showing us. The 456. Turn it off,” he ordered but the TARDIS ignored him.
“The what?”
“They are a species reviled by most of the known galaxy. In 2009, they came to Earth to steal ten percent of the children.”
“I don’t remember that happening, or did that have to do with the crack in my wall.”
“It might have. It happened over a very short period of time in the summer. It was not the best of times for Jack he lost two of his team mates the year before but this was the year he lost Ianto Jones and his grandson to the 456.”
“He has a grandson? Wow looking good. His grandson was taken?”
The Doctor gave a sad smile. “Not exactly, Jack had to sacrifice him to save all the rest of the children.”
“Shit!”
“Yeah, when I saw Jack again after this he was in a bar, drowning his sorrows. I thought I had gotten him started living again. I introduced him to a nice guy but later when I saw Jack a few years later apparently all hadn’t been forgiven; he broke my nose with a right cross that would have made any boxer proud.”
“You weren’t there when these 456 appeared? You did mention not be around when Jack needed you the most.”
“No, I wasn’t or my previous self wasn’t.”
“But none of that has happened yet, not back on Earth right now. We could fix it now.” Amy ran around the console. “Is that it? We need to go back and fix it, stop these 456. Keep Ianto alive and the kid?”
The Doctor put his arms on Amy’s shoulders. “We can’t, and if that’s what the TARDIS thinks then we are here for a long time because it is an event that cannot be changed.”
“Excuse me! We change things all the time. Venice was not taken over by vampire fish. I brought you back from oblivion. The Earth wasn’t over run w-”
“Yes, but those things would have changed all of humanity and the whole of history, not just on Earth but throughout the universe. I know it’s horrible but we can’t go back and save them.”
Amy kicked at one of the rails surrounding the console. “That’s not fair.” she looked up at the screen, it had frozen on Jack placing a kiss on Ianto’s blue lips. “You can see how much Jack loves him.” The Doctor saw Amy rub tears out of her eyes.
“I know I’m not blind, Pond!” He took a deep breath. “Sorry, but I don’t see how to fix what has to happen. It’s like World War 2, I wish I could stop it, save all those people but it would change things for the worse.”
“I don’t have to like it, and I don’t have to like being stuck here in the middle of nowhere. So, you better think of something or we’ll all die here of old age unless I figure out a way to kill you and keep you dead.”
“What’s going on?” Rory asked, walking in still wearing his pyjamas. Amy raced into his arms.
“We’re stuck here because the Doctor won’t go back and save a child or Ianto from a horrible death.”
“Is this true?” Rory ran his hands over his wife’s back.
“No, it’s not true. I would like to change things but I can’t. The thing is you have to understand Jack will live forever; he will always lose people and family. It’s a fact of his life.”
“What the hell is he talking about?” Rory asked his wife. “No one lives forever.”
“I’ll explain later.”
“What happens if Ianto doesn’t die, and Jack doesn’t have the anger and can’t order his grandson’s death? All those children are taken.”
“Have you heard a word you’ve said? You’re a cold blooded bastard,” Rory said. “No one should be so callous.”
“Sometimes you have to be to make sure the right thing happens. No one knows that better than Jack.”
The screen came back on. This time the picture was of a small blond boy writhing in pain, blood was pouring out of his nose, and ears.
“Come on, Amy; let’s leave the Doctor with his principles.” Rory reached for his wife’s hand and they left the room without a look back.
“I hope you’re happy with yourself. I don’t understand what it is you want me to do. Going back and saving one man and a child isn’t going to stop Jack’s pain. They will still die. Not to mention what it might do to the future of the human race.”
“My place is here, in the house of the dead with your device, saving the world.”
“Don’t do this.” That was Jack’s voice.
“Sorry, Jack, someone got to destroy the rift. Quite a way to go.” He figured the other voice was Ianto’s.
“No, not like this. Don’t leave me like this.”
“Gotta go.”
“Ianto, no. I’ve never said it properly before.”
“It doesn’t need saying.”
“Destroy the rift? No, no, he can’t do that. The rift has to be there. Without it... The back flow would lead to major explosion on the other side. Things have to be able to flow through it.” Not to mention it would be hard to refill the TARDIS.
He stared down at the TARDIS’ console. “You did that deliberately. There are times when I could almost hate you.”
The screen came back to life again, this time it was a picture of an older Jack with Ianto. They were sitting outside at a café.
“How?” The Doctor asked. “What do you want me to do?”
The central console started to move, the lights began to flash.
“Where are we going?” Amy asked, skidding back into the main room, Rory following in.
“I have no idea but the TARDIS seems to think she’s gotten through to me.”
“That must have taken a big knock to the head,” Rory muttered.
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TBC
Fandom: Torchwood/Doctor Who
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Ianto/other.
Summary: Ianto has an historic stalker.
Warning: swearing, m/m kissing. Sex
Just a reminder I do not own Torchwood, or Doctor some &%^@( jerk .... Well, just to let you know I make no money and only intend this for entertainment.
Spoliers from The House of the Dead and Children of Earth belong to BBC and others.
This story takes place shortly after Meat. I liked the episode but it left a few question for me at the end.
The feedback and comments have been great and feed the muse. Hope you enjoy it.
Chapter 21
The Doctor saw Amy entering the engine room out of the corner of his eye; he was still trying to figure out why his lovely sexy ship was refusing to fly. He kicked aside a piece of the vortex engine.
“No luck,” she asked, coming to stand by his side.
“No,” he said tossing down his electric wrench. “There is nothing, absolutely nothing wrong with her. She hasn’t been this clean or well lubed since she rolled off the assembly line.”
“What are we going to do? Hang out here?”
“Not much else we can do for now except keep trying to figure out what’s going on with her.”
Amy jumped up and down. “There has to be more to do than that. Come on, think. Why would she just stop here? You said that nothing is interfering with her. Do you think it has anything to do with your flyboy?”
“Flyboy? Oh, Jack you mean. I can’t see how. If the TARDIS had any problems with Jack we never would have even made it to Cardiff to begin with.”
“But you did say the only time she acted strangely before was because of Harkness.”
“That was a long time ago, Amy. She has no reason not to love Jack now, not after how he helped her all those years ago.”
“I wish you would stop talking in riddles. What happened to her? Why does she have an issue with him in the first place?”
The Doctor sighed. It really wasn’t his story to tell, he wasn’t the one who had been there. It was his other regeneration but he didn’t think that version of himself would tell him not to speak about that horrible day on the Space Station.
“It wasn’t one of my selves better moments.”
“You sound like you’ve got a split personality.”
The Doctor laughed. “It is like that sometimes. How much has River told you about when we met the first time?”
“I think she’s talked more about it to Rory than me but she said it was hard because you weren’t the you we know now. Whatever that means.”
“I’ll just have to come out and say it when I die I have an ability to regenerate. The thing about that is, I get a new face and a new personality but I remember what has happened in the past and not all of it great.”
“And what happened with the Captain, it wasn’t a good thing I take it?”
The Doctor tossed aside the wrench, cringing at the clang that echoed around the room. “I could come up with a thousand excuses but essentially I ran away from Jack when he needed me the most.”
“Why would you do that? Would you do that to any of us...to me?”
He shrugged. “Don’t know what the future holds, do we?” He could see that the redhead wasn’t happy with that answer. “There was a lot of stuff happening. I had just witnessed the most incredible thing; one of my companions had just managed to take out the entire Dalek fleet.”
“And what happened to Jack?” Amy demanded.
Before he could answer a flat screen slid out of the console. It came to rest in front of Amy. There was a flicker and then it turned on. There was Jack. He was a little younger but it was him. He was running, and firing a machine gun.
“Daleks,” Amy whispered, pointing at the round pepper-pots following him down the hall. “When was this?”
“200 100. On satellite 5. We were kidnapped right off the TARDIS. We were brought there to help by a brave young woman but she had to hide us until it was safe. She hid us in these television programs. The station was a giant studio. There was only one thing I could think of to stop the Daleks but it was going to kill every living thing on the planet but Jack didn’t blink. He told the Dalek Emperor that he believed in me and then-”
Amy gasped in horror as the Dalek beam hit Jack square in the chest. “Oh my God,” she shouted as the Daleks became dust and Jack woke up. She touched the screen, her fingers ghosting over his body. “What the hell happened?”
“Rose,” he said simply. “She defeated the Daleks and brought Jack back to life.”
“So why did you leave him behind?”
The Doctor watched as Jack ran back to the 500th floor and watched the TARDIS disappear. The image faded. “He was wrong. I know it’s a horrible thing to say but he made my skin burn and my mind spin. He made me sick to my stomach.”
“Because he came back to life?”
“Because he is a fixed point in time. He will always be. Rose didn`t know when to stop.”
“Doctor, you aren’t making any sense.”
“He can’t die, Pond. He will always be and that just had never been. It goes against everything that Time Lords believed or understood about the universe.”
“He can’t die? Really?”
The screen started up again. The Doctor felt his heart being ripped out of his chest as he watched the Master find new and sadistic ways to torture his friend to death.
“I think I’m going to be sick,” Amy said, running out of the main room, her hand over her mouth.
“Why are you showing this to me? I know I messed up all those years ago that I owe Jack but why show me this? Why remind me about that year? It never was, we’ve moved beyond it. I’m here trying to help him. I’m going to get his Ianto back if you would just cooperate.”
The images stopped and singing began. He recognized the voice, it was Jack’s. He wasn’t sure about the song, it sounded like a child’s nursery rhyme. “If that mockingbird doesn’t sing, then daddy’s going to get you a diamond ring. That’s it sweetheart,” Jack said, his arms were hanging in chains and his eyes were closed. Hr looked like he was concentrating hard.“Your daddy, well Doctor, he’ll figure a way out of this for you. He wouldn’t forget about his baby but until then I’m here for you baby. It’s been a long time since I’ve had anyone who needed my psychic shields but you take what you need. I won’t let that monster hurt you anymore.”
“He’s talking to the TARDIS?” Amy asked two glasses of water in her hand. “Here, thought you might need one.”
“So it would seem. The Master hurt her too. He made her into a paradox machine. She couldn’t fight him. I guess Jack was able to tap into her psyche and keep her going.”
“Then you should want us to help, Jack,” Amy told the ship. “Why won’t you take us to find this Ianto?” Amy turned toward the Doctor. “You don’t think whoever took this Ianto guy was able to get to the TARDIS?”
“No, that wouldn’t be possible. There has to be a reason for her taking me down memory lane. I didn’t even know she had these recordings and I sure as hell didn’t know about Jack singing to her. He just keeps surprising me.”
The screen flickered blue.
“Looks like she’s got more to show us. Wish I had some popcorn.”
“I don’t recognize this place.” The Doctor went to stand in front of the picture. He had a feeling he might finally figure out what it was the TARDIS was trying to tell him.
Jack and another man in a suit were standing in front of a cloudy glass box.
“Isn’t that Ianto?” Amy asked, coming to stand next to him.
“I think you are right.”
“What’s going on?” Amy demanded, as they watched Ianto collapse and Jack follow him down.
“Some kind of gas was released.”
“Knocking them out?” Amy asked hopefully.
“No. Oh hell, I now know what she’s showing us. The 456. Turn it off,” he ordered but the TARDIS ignored him.
“The what?”
“They are a species reviled by most of the known galaxy. In 2009, they came to Earth to steal ten percent of the children.”
“I don’t remember that happening, or did that have to do with the crack in my wall.”
“It might have. It happened over a very short period of time in the summer. It was not the best of times for Jack he lost two of his team mates the year before but this was the year he lost Ianto Jones and his grandson to the 456.”
“He has a grandson? Wow looking good. His grandson was taken?”
The Doctor gave a sad smile. “Not exactly, Jack had to sacrifice him to save all the rest of the children.”
“Shit!”
“Yeah, when I saw Jack again after this he was in a bar, drowning his sorrows. I thought I had gotten him started living again. I introduced him to a nice guy but later when I saw Jack a few years later apparently all hadn’t been forgiven; he broke my nose with a right cross that would have made any boxer proud.”
“You weren’t there when these 456 appeared? You did mention not be around when Jack needed you the most.”
“No, I wasn’t or my previous self wasn’t.”
“But none of that has happened yet, not back on Earth right now. We could fix it now.” Amy ran around the console. “Is that it? We need to go back and fix it, stop these 456. Keep Ianto alive and the kid?”
The Doctor put his arms on Amy’s shoulders. “We can’t, and if that’s what the TARDIS thinks then we are here for a long time because it is an event that cannot be changed.”
“Excuse me! We change things all the time. Venice was not taken over by vampire fish. I brought you back from oblivion. The Earth wasn’t over run w-”
“Yes, but those things would have changed all of humanity and the whole of history, not just on Earth but throughout the universe. I know it’s horrible but we can’t go back and save them.”
Amy kicked at one of the rails surrounding the console. “That’s not fair.” she looked up at the screen, it had frozen on Jack placing a kiss on Ianto’s blue lips. “You can see how much Jack loves him.” The Doctor saw Amy rub tears out of her eyes.
“I know I’m not blind, Pond!” He took a deep breath. “Sorry, but I don’t see how to fix what has to happen. It’s like World War 2, I wish I could stop it, save all those people but it would change things for the worse.”
“I don’t have to like it, and I don’t have to like being stuck here in the middle of nowhere. So, you better think of something or we’ll all die here of old age unless I figure out a way to kill you and keep you dead.”
“What’s going on?” Rory asked, walking in still wearing his pyjamas. Amy raced into his arms.
“We’re stuck here because the Doctor won’t go back and save a child or Ianto from a horrible death.”
“Is this true?” Rory ran his hands over his wife’s back.
“No, it’s not true. I would like to change things but I can’t. The thing is you have to understand Jack will live forever; he will always lose people and family. It’s a fact of his life.”
“What the hell is he talking about?” Rory asked his wife. “No one lives forever.”
“I’ll explain later.”
“What happens if Ianto doesn’t die, and Jack doesn’t have the anger and can’t order his grandson’s death? All those children are taken.”
“Have you heard a word you’ve said? You’re a cold blooded bastard,” Rory said. “No one should be so callous.”
“Sometimes you have to be to make sure the right thing happens. No one knows that better than Jack.”
The screen came back on. This time the picture was of a small blond boy writhing in pain, blood was pouring out of his nose, and ears.
“Come on, Amy; let’s leave the Doctor with his principles.” Rory reached for his wife’s hand and they left the room without a look back.
“I hope you’re happy with yourself. I don’t understand what it is you want me to do. Going back and saving one man and a child isn’t going to stop Jack’s pain. They will still die. Not to mention what it might do to the future of the human race.”
“My place is here, in the house of the dead with your device, saving the world.”
“Don’t do this.” That was Jack’s voice.
“Sorry, Jack, someone got to destroy the rift. Quite a way to go.” He figured the other voice was Ianto’s.
“No, not like this. Don’t leave me like this.”
“Gotta go.”
“Ianto, no. I’ve never said it properly before.”
“It doesn’t need saying.”
“Destroy the rift? No, no, he can’t do that. The rift has to be there. Without it... The back flow would lead to major explosion on the other side. Things have to be able to flow through it.” Not to mention it would be hard to refill the TARDIS.
He stared down at the TARDIS’ console. “You did that deliberately. There are times when I could almost hate you.”
The screen came back to life again, this time it was a picture of an older Jack with Ianto. They were sitting outside at a café.
“How?” The Doctor asked. “What do you want me to do?”
The central console started to move, the lights began to flash.
“Where are we going?” Amy asked, skidding back into the main room, Rory following in.
“I have no idea but the TARDIS seems to think she’s gotten through to me.”
“That must have taken a big knock to the head,” Rory muttered.
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TBC