SILENCE IS GOLDEN - Part 2
Title: Silence Is Golden - Part 2
Spoilers: Set after Something Borrowed
Summary: Ianto is not feeling well
Characters: Ianto/Jack, Gwen, Owen, Tosh, Captain John Hart
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters I just like to experiment form time to time
A/N This is the result of a picture I saw of Ianto, Jack and John Hart and the story just bounded around in my head begging to be written.
A/N2 Not posted for a while been hectic at work, have missed writing but this has definitely made up for it. For zazajb who has been the best friend I could have hoped for this last few weeks you could ever wish for. Thanks D
Ianto smiled and went to face Hart. Raising the gun he pointed at his head. He began to squeeze the trigger. At the last second he raised the gun and fired it into the ceiling. He was laughing at the look on Harts face when Jack came to.
“Mmmmmmnn Yaaaaannn”
“Oh don’t worry Jack, I’ve not killed him, just made him think what I am capable of. All that talk last night was just a front, go on admit it. You don’t love me, it’s him isn’t it?”
Jack shook his head trying his hardest to convince this gorgeous young man in front of him that it was him that he loved and no one else. Oh how he wished Owen was here, he would be able to help Ianto. For the first time in his life Jack felt useless and was scared, really scared.
The alarm started to sound heralding the arrival of the others, or at least one of them. Ianto became wary, he needed to be in control, he couldn’t let whoever it was come into the Conference Room and see what was going on. He had to get down to them first.
Making his way down into the main part of the hub he saw Owen and Gwen coming through the door. Were they still an item? Lucky Gwen, he’d always wondered what the acerbic medic would be like in bed. Maybe he would find out? that would be a challenge, once he’d gotten rid of the two Captains in the Conference Room.
“Morning Ianto, where’s Jack this fine morning?”
“He’s had to go out Owen, he’s asked me to tell you to make sure you’ve finished that autopsy on that weevil we killed yesterday. Gwen, Jack wants you to go with Tosh when she arrives and inform the families of the two people who were killed yesterday. Just do your usual lying, that will appease them.”
Gwen looked at Ianto. She wasn’t sure but there was something not quite right with him this morning. Why had Jack left him and why didn’t he tell them where Jack had gone? Plus the lying comment, this was not Ianto’s usual comment, he was normally more sympathetic towards the families of those who were killed.
She looked at him then at Owen, “ok Ianto, as soon as Tosh comes in we’ll go. Firstly I’ll just go and help Owen to prep the weevil.”
She shoved Owen down to the autopsy room indicating that she wanted to speak to him in private.
“Gwen, what the hell’s wrong with you this morning. What’s the rush to get me down here, and what’s with Ianto this morning? Who’s put him in charge?”
“Not sure what’s going on, but something’s not right. Why would Jack leave him and go out on his own? The two of them are inseparable when they go hunting aliens. I’m worried. We need to be careful but we need to find out what’s going on.”
“Ok, but what do you suggest we do?”
“Look he’s said that you’re to finish this autopsy and Tosh and I should go out. I’m going to ring Tosh and tell her not to come in just yet but wait until she gets a call from me or you telling her everything’s ok.”
“What excuse are you going to give the tea boy for not going out?”
“Don’t know yet but I’ll think of something, probably tell him that Tosh has been delayed and I’m going to meet her outside. That should give us time to find out what the problem is. Look I’ve had an idea. I’ll go make a coffee, you go to Jack’s office to see if you can find out anything as to where he’s disappeared to.”
“Ok, but Gwen….be careful.”
They both went on their respective missions making sure Ianto was not around. They met up back at their workstations and looked up to the Conference Room when they heard a loud crash.
“What was that?”
“Not sure Gwen, we need to find out. The blinds are drawn in there which never happens unless we catch our lovers at it. But I don’t think that’s what is going on this morning. Look there’s movement and it looks as though there is someone sat in there. Get your gun and follow me, but be careful.”
Gwen followed Owen cautiously up the stairs and stopped outside the door when they heard Ianto talking. Looking at each other with shock and surprise on their faces, as they heard Ianto’s comments.
“Right boys! Now you’re going to promise me not to shout or scream when I remove the tape from your mouths. I want answers from both of you and if I don’t think you’re telling me the truth then I’ll do harm to you that you would never imagine. Got that?”
They both nodded. Jack hoped that it had been Owen who’d arrived earlier and that he’d guess that something wasn’t quite right. But it depended on what Ianto had told whoever had arrived as to whether they were still in the hub.
Gwen and Owen looked at each other. They couldn’t believe it was their Ianto that was speaking. He sounded different, more confident but yet not really in control of what he was saying.
Owen whispered “you stay here, I’m going down to the medical room, I need to get Ianto out of there before he does some real damage and, God forbid, kills someone.”
Gwen looked shocked at Owens comments.
“I know he can’t kill Jack, but we don’t know who else he’s got in there do we? I’d hate for him to be taken away from us. Not only would it kill Jack, but the team would never be the same without the tea boy.”
Gwen nodded her understanding and told Owen to hurry back, she was beginning to get scared. She tried to see who else was in the room but with the blinds fully closed it was not so easy. Suddenly she heard a voice. She stopped and listened, she knew that voice, what the hell was he doing back. Now she understood, she thought, why Ianto was in such a strange mood. The last time Hart had been here he’d tried to kill them all and she knew that Ianto didn’t like being reminded of Jacks past lovers. Ok he wasn’t jealous, not really, it’s just they had so much love for one another that he didn’t need to be reminded that he was mortal and would not be around forever.
“Hey eye candy, what do you want from us?”
“STOP, calling me that. My name is Ianto Jones, Mr Jones to you. Got that?”
“Ok, ok, I’ll stop, just tell me what you want from us then maybe we can sit and talk like civilised human beings.”
“You civilised. That’s the last thing you are Hart. Ok if you really want to know I would like the truth from the pair of you. The truth of how long you’ve been having an affair behind my back. How long have you been sneaking back to see Captain Jack here and laughing at me.”
Jack looked at his lover “Yan, my love, it’s not like that. I don’t know what he’s doing here, he just arrived this morning after I got up. That’s the truth, you have to believe me. There is nothing going on behind your back. I keep telling you I love you and no one else. You have got to stop worrying, I would never do anything to hurt you I promise.”
“Don’t give me that Jack. You two go back a long way, you meant something to one another during your escapades with the time agency. What’s to say that there still isn’t a spark between you.?”
“Oh there’s a spark, isn’t there Jack, I mean we could be so good together again couldn’t we. You could ditch this eye candy here and come away with me.”
Ianto saw red. He went around to face Hart and with the butt of his gun he hit him across the head. Hart screamed, Gwen jumped and Jack cried out.
“Ianto please don’t do this anymore, please let me help you. You’re not well, this is not you. I know you don’t like Hart but you don’t need to kill him or hurt him any further. I’ll get rid of him, but please don’t do this you’ll only regret things in the end. Let’s get Owen to look at you. You said your head was aching this morning it may be something connected with that. Please stop this Ianto before you regret doing something that can’t be rectified.”
“STOP talking Jack, I don’t want to hear another word from you. You’re just as bad as your little fling here. I can hurt him, but unfortunately I can’t really hurt you. The only way I can do that is if I kill Hart then that would really be a kick in the teeth for you wouldn’t it. What would you do without him?”
“I’ve told you Yan, it’s not him I want, it’s not anyone other than you. I….Love….You, Ianto Jones. Didn’t I prove to you last night how much I love you, you have to believe me. I don’t want John Hart I WANT YOU!”
Gwen had heard everything and just as she was about to go down to see where Owen was he came back up the stairs. She put a finger to her lips to make sure he knew to be quiet. As soon as he was at the side of her she quietly told him what she’d just heard.
“I knew there was something different about the tea boy this morning, he’s not usually so sure of himself and if Jack had gone out well he’d have gone with him. You know what the pair of them are like when they’re on their own? Any chance for a quick shag and they’re off.”
“Owen stop being so crude there is something seriously wrong with Ianto and we need to stop this before anyone gets seriously hurt. But yeah, I know what you mean.” She smiled at the thought of her Captain and her friend together.
She looked at what Owen had brought up with him. “Erm just explain to me how you’re going to get close enough to Ianto to use the stun gun?”
“Well I thought we might do it as a team, you know me, you together? If one of us goes in then we’re more likely to spook him than if both of us go together. I know it’s not going to be easy, but we’ve got to try. I have an idea.”
“Ok I’m listening Dr Harper what’s this fantastic idea of yours that’s going to work?”
“Well I’m supposed to be down in Autopsy with that weevil, I’m going to pretend that I’ve got a problem and I need his help I’ll go in looking at this clipboard here and talking at the same time, that should confuse him a bit. Whilst I’m doing that you can crawl in and see if you can untie Jack.”
“But there’s not just Jack to think of there’s Hart too. Yeah I know, I didn’t know he was coming back again. But even so we can’t have him hurt either, no matter how much we hate him.”
“Ok, we’ll do the same but instead of trying to untie them we’ll go for Ianto first and bring him down. He’s got to be restrained then we can see to the others, then we can sort Ianto out.”
They agreed that they would wait until Ianto was talking again this way his concentration would be on whoever he was speaking to, then they would barge their way into the Conference Room and jump him. Failing that they didn’t have a clue what they were going to do. They both looked at each other then at the door and listened.
“Who is going to admit first that you are still lovers…..”
With that the door burst open and Owen and Gwen flew at Ianto. Jack looked at the door then at his lover who was by now underneath both Gwen and Owen. Ianto began to fight them off, but Owen was too quick for him, he hit him with the stun gun and that sedated him slightly, just enough time for him to retrieve the syringe from his lab coat pocket and stick it into Ianto’s neck. In seconds Ianto was completely still, and breathing steadily. Owen moved himself off the prone body and stood to look at Jack and Hart.
“Well, what do we have here? You didn’t tell me there was a party going on? We’d liked to have been invited.”
“I could say what the hell are you doing Owen, but under the circumstances I’ll just say thank you.”
“No problem Jack, but one question. What the hell is he doing back here?”
“Not sure yet Ianto kinda distracted my questioning when he came out of our quarters this morning. And before either of you ask, no we are not having an affair.”
Owen looked at Gwen then at Hart. “Well, what do you have to say to all of this. You better have a good explanation for your appearance and an even better one for what you’ve done to the tea boy.”
“Firstly I haven’t done anything to eye candy, I swear. Secondly I came to bring you some alien artefacts I think you could use, but as you can see I didn’t really get the chance to explain to Jack before his lover here burst in on us.”
“Ok, so where are the artefacts? And why bring them to us, what’s so special about Torchwood? Or is it as Ianto’s been saying you came back for Jack?”
Jack looked at Owen and shot him a glance as if to say shut up, don’t go there. But Owen wouldn’t leave it. For the next few minutes he questioned Hart until he finally got the truth.
“Ok, ok, I’m sorry. I started out coming to take Jack away but then I found some interesting alien technology and thought you could use them. They’re down in the cells, but believe me when I say that I’ve done nothing to Ianto.”
Ianto began to move and moan, so Owen gave him another injection and quietened him down.
“Look is someone going to get us out of this tape, we can’t stay here all day and I want to know what exactly is wrong with Ianto. I will admit, it’s beginning to scare me, I just want the old Ianto back.”
Gwen found some scissors and cut the tape that was binding their ankles and wrists.
Rubbing his wrist Hart said “Look if you don’t mind I’ll leave you to sort this out for yourselves. I’ll take the artefacts with me and get rid of them on some other planet. I wouldn’t want our friend here waking up to find me still here. By the way Jack…..”
“What?”
“He would’ve liked a threesome wouldn’t he?”
With that Hart had disappeared leaving the rest of them open mouthed, looking at each other.
“I’m not going to ask what that was all about, I really don’t want to know. What I will say is that I need to get Ianto down into autopsy so I can take a proper look at him.”
Jack nodded in agreement and picked his young lover up and put him over his shoulder in a fireman’s lift. Jack could feel Ianto’s breathing against his back, and putting his head closer to the body he closed his eyes and did something he hadn’t done for a long time…..prayed.
Once down in autopsy Owen found the Bekeran Deep Tissue Scanner and ran it over Ianto’s body, starting at the feet. Reaching his head he stopped.
“Jack, take a look at this.”
“What is it Owen?”
“Just come and look.”
Jack moved across to the side of Owen, took Ianto’s hand in his own and looked at the readings from the scanner. What he saw really scared him. Looking at Ianto then at Owen he asked
“What….what is it Owen? Please tell me that you can help him. Tell me that it’s not going to kill him? I couldn’t live without him, not now.”
Owen looked at Jack and saw not for the first time the love in the older man’s eyes that told him this thing between Jack and Ianto was not just a quick shag, it was something more, something wonderful.
“I will be honest with you, I’ve never seen this kind of thing before, but that singularity scalpel we have will get rid of them and hopefully Ianto will not be harmed in any other way. He may have a sore head for a couple of days but nothing more. He will need rest and looking after, and I know you’re the one to do that Jack. I’m sorry for not believing how much you two mean to one another.”
Jack looked at Owen, “hey, no harm done, you wouldn’t be you if you didn’t have some snide remarks every now and again. Forget it, just make him well…..please.”
“Jack just go and get a coffee whilst I work on him. He’s not going anywhere but those things inside his head are. I’ll let you know when you can take him down to your quarters.”
Reluctantly Jack left Owen to get on with his job. He wanted so much to stay and be with his gorgeous Welshman, but he knew he was in safe hands.
Owen found the singularity scalpel and aimed it at Ianto’s head. He hoped he’d got the setting right and that he wouldn’t damage anything vital when he pressed the button. Those worm like creatures in his brain were beginning to burrow further in and he needed to be sure the setting was right to kill all of them. However much he taunted this man on the table he loved him like a brother, but wasn’t readily going to admit that to anyone. He aimed the scalpel, prayed and pressed the button. For what seemed like minutes, but was in reality seconds, nothing happened, then with a flash the scalpel seemed to light up and the screen went blank. When it came back on again there was nothing to be seen, no worms just Ianto’s brain. He grabbed the Bekeran Deep Tissue Scanner and checked him over. He didn’t realise but he’d been holding his breath. Once he saw that Ianto’s brain was completely clear of the worms, did he breathe normally again. He smiled to himself, he could go and find Jack and tell him his young lover was going to be ok.
“Jack….hey Jack.” Owen found him in his office deep in thought. “I’ve sorted the tea boy, he’s going to be ok.”
Jack got up slowly and went around his desk. He hugged Owen, “thank you Dr Harper, I don’t know what I would have done if we’d lost him. I love him with all my heart.”
“I know Jack. I can tell. Look go get him, take him down to your quarters and make him comfortable. It’ll be a couple of hours before he comes round fully and then he’ll have a headache like he’s been on a bender for a week. He’ll need some tender loving care and you’re the one to give it to him.”
Owen smiled, Jack nodded, smiled and left him to go and find Ianto.
~~~~~*~~~~~
Jack was lying on the bed next to Ianto when he felt the young man stir. Looking down at him Jack smiled and as Ianto woke he said “welcome back my love.”
“Mmmmm, what’s going on? Aaargh my head feels like it’s got a stampede of elephants inside it. What have I been doing?
“All in good time my love. You need to rest, Owen says you’re gonna be all right, just go back to sleep.”
“All I can remember is Hart being in the Hub, and then I was holding a gun to his head, I wanted to kill him. Where is he, has he gone? Oh my god Jack, I shot you! I’m so sorry cariad, please forgive me.”
“Ssshhh Yan, everything’s gonna be ok, you weren’t yourself, something had gotten into your brain and was controlling you. Owen’s got rid of it with the scalpel and he said you’re gonna have a bad head for a couple of days but everything is going to be all right. You need to rest.”
“Mmmm, I’m so sorry Jack. I didn’t mean to hurt you. It felt as though someone was in my head telling me hateful things about you and Hart. I remember killing that weevil then I felt something bite me. Could that have caused whatever it was to infect me? We were down in the bay near the sewers.”
“Probably, Owen’s told me that they were some sort of worm, that eventually burrows into a person’s brain. He did his research and told me that if we hadn’t have got them out when we did you would have been killed. And I couldn’t have lived without you. Now go to sleep and don’t worry everything’s all right.
Jack watched as Ianto went back to sleep. He carefully extracted himself from the bed and went to find Owen and the girls. By this time Tosh had arrived and Gwen had filled her in to the events of the morning.
“Hey kids, look we’ve had an….eventful morning, go home, do what you want for the rest of the day and enjoy yourselves. I’m going to sit with Ianto and make sure he’s gonna be all right.”
Each of his friends hugged him as they left. Even Owen, who normally just thanked him and left. Jack watched them go smiling to himself at what a good team he had in them and what good friends they were to each other. He made his way back down to his gorgeous Ianto.
Looking down at him he smiled and eased himself down beside him. Wrapping his arms around him, Jack thought how lucky he was to have found such a wonderful friend, colleague and lover in Ianto Jones. He promised himself that he would look after Ianto and not take him for granted any more.
Eventually Jack drifted off to sleep safe in the knowledge that Ianto was going to be all right and that the worms had not had a lasting effect. As he fell asleep he whispered “I love you Jones, Ianto Jones.”