And Everything: Ianto's story part seven
So here it iss part Seven, there's only five parts left after this and then its back to the drawing board for me... so, yeah enjoy it while you still can. This is where it starts to get a little complex there will be alot of timeline switching, flash backs and even some time travel, so if you want to refresh your memory and re - read part 1 through 6 of Ianto's story or the Jack or Owen series follow this link and it will lead you to the story links, - http://miss-shine.livejournal.com/7965.html
So without rambling on further here it is part seven
An alarm sounded as Ianto and Owen were calmly putting Toshiko in the back of the ambulance. “That’s not good,” said Owen as they slammed the doors shut. Quickly while still trying to appear calm they got into the drivers and passenger’s seats. Ianto started the engine and they drove down to the front gate, when they got there the guards stopped them. One of them was talking to some else on the radio; Ianto glanced at Owen who suddenly looked very pale. Ianto looked in his rear view mirror and saw that UNIT jeeps were coming down the drive towards them. The guard looked at them while still talking on the radio Ianto got the impression that they weren’t going to let them pass. Ianto made a rash decision; he put his foot to the floor and drove through the barrier.
“What the fuck are you doing?” screamed Owen as Ianto drove so fast around the corner that Toshiko’s trolley almost tripped over.
“Escaping,” Ianto shouted back at him. He had his foot to the floor and was driving as fast as he could towards the motorway. The UNIT jeeps had been joined by some trucks and where graining on them. Ianto tried to make the ambulance go faster, but his foot was already on the floor. Owen ducked down in his seat as the UNIT soldiers started to fire shoots at the. With a bang the back window was smashed and the bullet travelled through the ambulance through the hole in Owen’s headrest and out of the windscreen.
Owen looked up at Ianto his eyes were wide, they both knew that is Owen hadn’t ducked…he would be dead. Ianto felt the blood running from his face the last time he had been this scared it was during the battle. He was Torchwood. Ianto was used to thinking on his feet, keeping calm in a crisis they where coming up to a junction there was traffic queuing a head of them.
“Traffic, traffic” shouted Owen, “slow down, we’ll crash” as Owen threw his arms up in front of his face Ianto flicked a switch on the dash board and the lights and siren burst into life. Just like the parting of the red sea the traffic moved out of their way and closed in behind them, blocking UNIT’s path and leaving them not choice but to brake.
Owen shared out of the back window than back at Ianto, “nice one” he said as he undid his seat belt. Owen got up and moved into the back of the ambulance. He unzipped Toshiko’s body bag, “you all right?” he asked. She seemed to be coming around.
“Yes, fine” Ianto heard her mumble. “I can’t believe we made it.”
“We’re not out of the woods yet,” said Ianto. “Which way is your house Dr Harper?”
“It the other side of London, we’ll never make it without them catching up” he protested.
Suddenly the sound of helicopters filled the air, Ianto looked up and out of the sunroof. The helicopters were black with UNIT painted on their under bellies in red.
“Shit, shit, shit its UNIT,” shouted Ianto.
“Oh really?” said Owen sarcastically.
Ianto saw an underground station; he slammed on his brakes as they approached it. The ambulance stopped just short of the pavement.
“What the fuck…” Owen started a sentence. But stopped as Ianto ran past him.
“We’re got a train to catch,” he told them looking over his shoulder. Owen and Tosh looked at each other then ran after him. Ianto jumped over the barrier, “Hey” shouted the ticket man “stop that” he screamed as Owen and Toshiko copied his actions and jumped over the barrier as well. As fast as they could they ran down the stairs. They ran towards a platform not really following any signs not looking for one in particular, just an escape route.
Somehow UNIT officers where once again following closely behind them. Ianto looked to his left and saw a train standing at the platform; he dashed towards it closely followed by Owen and Tosh. The UNIT officers ran towards the train as well but the doors has already begun to beep and closed in their faces. Toshiko beeped and gave them the finger as the train pulled away. Owen and Ianto both laughed, Ianto wondered how he knew it was out of character for Toshiko to do that.
Ianto checked his watch it was quarter to nine. He should have been home and at Lisa’s side four hours ago; instead he was hiding behind a big blue rubbish bin with Owen and Toshiko. They had been trying to lose UNIT since five o’clock and to spite their considerable knowledge of London and combined intellect they still hadn’t managed it.
They train hopped eight times in the underground until finally UNIT managed to freeze the tube network, stopping all of the trains. He and Owen managed to open a door just as UNIT forces where making their way down the train. They jumped out and ran along the pitch-black tunnel feeling their way until found a doorway which lead them through a series of corridors used by service men. They had even gone down into the sewers in an attempt to lose them when they where very nearly captured in Hyde Park. If it hadn’t been for a group of school children covering their decent they would be in jail. They had just emerged from the sewers into an alley only to hear the helicopters overhead, and see the foot soldiers walking past the mouth of the alley.
The helicopters where still flying over head and the UNIT forces roamed the streets in their biggest ever man hunt. Ianto wondered if they knew who he and Owen where. They had used false identity to get in, what if they had tracked them down and searched their homes.
He was pretty sure that Owen had nothing to hide, but he had Lisa. It would be awful if they found, firstly they would kill her. Secondly they would kill them for treason, here he was with one of the countries most celebrated Doctor’s of his generation and a technical genesis they had just gone to great lengths to free. A genesis that UNIT was so afraid of they locked her up, it would look like they where attempting to create a new army of cybermen. Maybe they had already found her perhaps that was why they were putting such effort into locating them.
A bus stopped just outside the alley they were hiding in. It was a big red double Decker with an open stair well at the back. Ianto touched Owen’s arm and pointed, he nodded and silently as if moving without being noticed was second nature they moved towards the bus. They managed to board it without a sound and sat in the seats at the back of the bus. As the bus moved off Ianto recognised where they were. This was the bus he used to get home from Torchwood with Lisa.
He whispered this to Owen and Toshiko; he said that perhaps they could hide at his flat for a while. He knew it was a risk taking them back there when Lisa was strapped to a cyber conversion unit in his living room. But he had no other choice, he couldn’t ditch them and he had to get home to Lisa. Maybe after losing his lover Owen would empathize, maybe they could save her after all they had the skills needed. Owen a medic and Toshiko a technology expert. After about ten minutes the bus reached Ianto’s stop, as quietly as they had got on the three of them got of the off the bus.
Quickly they walked the short walk from the bus stop to Ianto’s small second floor flat. Ianto held the front door of the block of flat where he lived open for Owen and Toshiko, he glanced up the street before closing it again just to make sure they hadn’t been seen. They ran up the stairs towards his flat when Ianto opened the door Owen and Tosh stepped inside.
He followed them his heart was in the back of his throat as Lisa called out his name, “Oh hello” said Owen in response. “I hope you don’t mind the intrusion” he continued to talk as he walked towards the living room. Ianto found himself froze with fear he simply stood like a statue watching as Owen pushed open the living room door. “Oh my god” he whispered. Tosh grasped and put her hand to her mouth. “I thought she died” Owen said, “in the battle…then I was looking for you, I checked the list of the dead…she’s on it” slowly he turned to look at Ianto. He found himself completely unable to move he just stared back at Owen. Toshiko pushed past Owen and entered the living room, “I don’t understand who is she?”
“Lisa Hallett” Owen answered.
“Is she your girlfriend?” she asked Ianto.
“Yes,” Owen answered again.
“Ianto?” it was Lisa’s voice, “are you there?” suddenly Ianto found himself able to move again. He walked past Owen and into the living room.
“I’m here,” he breathed as he moved to her side.
“Where have you been?” she asked the voice edged with pain.
“No where” he replied his throat felt tight. Suddenly without warning the power to their building was cut. They looked around the room; they had been plunged into complete darkness. All of Lisa’s life support system had been turned off. Her eyes where wide as she grasped for air, “No, no don’t leave me” he begged her. Ianto swung around to face Owen, “do something,” he shouted at him.
Owen looked around surly looking for something he could use to save her… no he was looking to Tosh for help. “There’s nothing I can do…” he had gone pale, “the powers out and the life support was all that was keeping her here.” Owen stepped closer to her, “her chest is encased there’s no way I can do mouth to mouth. Maybe if she can breathe on her own” he took her hand. “Deep breaths come on just try and stay with us” her eyes closed.
Owen hung his head and turned to Ianto, “I’m sorry.”
They could hear the UNIT forces closing in on the flat they must have cut the power. “Ianto” suddenly Lisa was sitting up right. She hadn’t been able to move since he had rescued her from Torchwood one but now she was sitting up. She was smiling and happy.
“Ianto, I’m breathing on my own,” she said.
“Lisa…your alive” he hugged her, “do you think you can help her?” he asked Owen and Tosh.
“I don’t know” Owen stepped forwards and Ianto backed away. He took her head in his hands. “If her brain can be saved…there might be a change it really depends on how they wire the cybernetics up to the human brain” Toshiko stepped closer to them.
“We should get out of here before UNIT find us” she said.
Lisa face dropped and she grabbed Owen by the neck. She lifted him off the floor.
“What are you doing?”
“He tried to help me, I’m returning the favour” she forced him down on to the conversion unit. Unfortunately at the moment the power came back on, she hit a button and Owen screamed as the blades cut open his face. Ianto threw himself on the floor as he tried desperately to unplug the machine. Toshiko picked up a chair and hit Lisa across the back of the head with it.
It broke into a hundred pieces, Lisa turned and placed her hand on Toshiko’s shoulder and her screams were added to Owen’s as Lisa electrocuted her. Finally as Ianto pulled out the last plug the screaming stopped. He sat up and looked at the thing lying on the conversion unit that was once Owen Harper was now a mangled mess of metal and flesh. He stood up and saw that Toshiko was lying dead on the floor, “they were trying to help you” he said tears flowing down his face as UNIT smashed down his door.
He stood in between Lisa and UNIT. They opened fire and Ianto felt the bullets rip through him. He dropped like a stone to the floor he heard the screams of UNIT as Lisa attacked. Funny how to spite the pain that the bullets after the one that was really hurting was the one in his fingers. He lifted his hand the very tips of his fingers were turning to dust and atoms. He watched his hand disappear as Ianto Jones drew his last breath.
So without rambling on further here it is part seven
An alarm sounded as Ianto and Owen were calmly putting Toshiko in the back of the ambulance. “That’s not good,” said Owen as they slammed the doors shut. Quickly while still trying to appear calm they got into the drivers and passenger’s seats. Ianto started the engine and they drove down to the front gate, when they got there the guards stopped them. One of them was talking to some else on the radio; Ianto glanced at Owen who suddenly looked very pale. Ianto looked in his rear view mirror and saw that UNIT jeeps were coming down the drive towards them. The guard looked at them while still talking on the radio Ianto got the impression that they weren’t going to let them pass. Ianto made a rash decision; he put his foot to the floor and drove through the barrier.
“What the fuck are you doing?” screamed Owen as Ianto drove so fast around the corner that Toshiko’s trolley almost tripped over.
“Escaping,” Ianto shouted back at him. He had his foot to the floor and was driving as fast as he could towards the motorway. The UNIT jeeps had been joined by some trucks and where graining on them. Ianto tried to make the ambulance go faster, but his foot was already on the floor. Owen ducked down in his seat as the UNIT soldiers started to fire shoots at the. With a bang the back window was smashed and the bullet travelled through the ambulance through the hole in Owen’s headrest and out of the windscreen.
Owen looked up at Ianto his eyes were wide, they both knew that is Owen hadn’t ducked…he would be dead. Ianto felt the blood running from his face the last time he had been this scared it was during the battle. He was Torchwood. Ianto was used to thinking on his feet, keeping calm in a crisis they where coming up to a junction there was traffic queuing a head of them.
“Traffic, traffic” shouted Owen, “slow down, we’ll crash” as Owen threw his arms up in front of his face Ianto flicked a switch on the dash board and the lights and siren burst into life. Just like the parting of the red sea the traffic moved out of their way and closed in behind them, blocking UNIT’s path and leaving them not choice but to brake.
Owen shared out of the back window than back at Ianto, “nice one” he said as he undid his seat belt. Owen got up and moved into the back of the ambulance. He unzipped Toshiko’s body bag, “you all right?” he asked. She seemed to be coming around.
“Yes, fine” Ianto heard her mumble. “I can’t believe we made it.”
“We’re not out of the woods yet,” said Ianto. “Which way is your house Dr Harper?”
“It the other side of London, we’ll never make it without them catching up” he protested.
Suddenly the sound of helicopters filled the air, Ianto looked up and out of the sunroof. The helicopters were black with UNIT painted on their under bellies in red.
“Shit, shit, shit its UNIT,” shouted Ianto.
“Oh really?” said Owen sarcastically.
Ianto saw an underground station; he slammed on his brakes as they approached it. The ambulance stopped just short of the pavement.
“What the fuck…” Owen started a sentence. But stopped as Ianto ran past him.
“We’re got a train to catch,” he told them looking over his shoulder. Owen and Tosh looked at each other then ran after him. Ianto jumped over the barrier, “Hey” shouted the ticket man “stop that” he screamed as Owen and Toshiko copied his actions and jumped over the barrier as well. As fast as they could they ran down the stairs. They ran towards a platform not really following any signs not looking for one in particular, just an escape route.
Somehow UNIT officers where once again following closely behind them. Ianto looked to his left and saw a train standing at the platform; he dashed towards it closely followed by Owen and Tosh. The UNIT officers ran towards the train as well but the doors has already begun to beep and closed in their faces. Toshiko beeped and gave them the finger as the train pulled away. Owen and Ianto both laughed, Ianto wondered how he knew it was out of character for Toshiko to do that.
Ianto checked his watch it was quarter to nine. He should have been home and at Lisa’s side four hours ago; instead he was hiding behind a big blue rubbish bin with Owen and Toshiko. They had been trying to lose UNIT since five o’clock and to spite their considerable knowledge of London and combined intellect they still hadn’t managed it.
They train hopped eight times in the underground until finally UNIT managed to freeze the tube network, stopping all of the trains. He and Owen managed to open a door just as UNIT forces where making their way down the train. They jumped out and ran along the pitch-black tunnel feeling their way until found a doorway which lead them through a series of corridors used by service men. They had even gone down into the sewers in an attempt to lose them when they where very nearly captured in Hyde Park. If it hadn’t been for a group of school children covering their decent they would be in jail. They had just emerged from the sewers into an alley only to hear the helicopters overhead, and see the foot soldiers walking past the mouth of the alley.
The helicopters where still flying over head and the UNIT forces roamed the streets in their biggest ever man hunt. Ianto wondered if they knew who he and Owen where. They had used false identity to get in, what if they had tracked them down and searched their homes.
He was pretty sure that Owen had nothing to hide, but he had Lisa. It would be awful if they found, firstly they would kill her. Secondly they would kill them for treason, here he was with one of the countries most celebrated Doctor’s of his generation and a technical genesis they had just gone to great lengths to free. A genesis that UNIT was so afraid of they locked her up, it would look like they where attempting to create a new army of cybermen. Maybe they had already found her perhaps that was why they were putting such effort into locating them.
A bus stopped just outside the alley they were hiding in. It was a big red double Decker with an open stair well at the back. Ianto touched Owen’s arm and pointed, he nodded and silently as if moving without being noticed was second nature they moved towards the bus. They managed to board it without a sound and sat in the seats at the back of the bus. As the bus moved off Ianto recognised where they were. This was the bus he used to get home from Torchwood with Lisa.
He whispered this to Owen and Toshiko; he said that perhaps they could hide at his flat for a while. He knew it was a risk taking them back there when Lisa was strapped to a cyber conversion unit in his living room. But he had no other choice, he couldn’t ditch them and he had to get home to Lisa. Maybe after losing his lover Owen would empathize, maybe they could save her after all they had the skills needed. Owen a medic and Toshiko a technology expert. After about ten minutes the bus reached Ianto’s stop, as quietly as they had got on the three of them got of the off the bus.
Quickly they walked the short walk from the bus stop to Ianto’s small second floor flat. Ianto held the front door of the block of flat where he lived open for Owen and Toshiko, he glanced up the street before closing it again just to make sure they hadn’t been seen. They ran up the stairs towards his flat when Ianto opened the door Owen and Tosh stepped inside.
He followed them his heart was in the back of his throat as Lisa called out his name, “Oh hello” said Owen in response. “I hope you don’t mind the intrusion” he continued to talk as he walked towards the living room. Ianto found himself froze with fear he simply stood like a statue watching as Owen pushed open the living room door. “Oh my god” he whispered. Tosh grasped and put her hand to her mouth. “I thought she died” Owen said, “in the battle…then I was looking for you, I checked the list of the dead…she’s on it” slowly he turned to look at Ianto. He found himself completely unable to move he just stared back at Owen. Toshiko pushed past Owen and entered the living room, “I don’t understand who is she?”
“Lisa Hallett” Owen answered.
“Is she your girlfriend?” she asked Ianto.
“Yes,” Owen answered again.
“Ianto?” it was Lisa’s voice, “are you there?” suddenly Ianto found himself able to move again. He walked past Owen and into the living room.
“I’m here,” he breathed as he moved to her side.
“Where have you been?” she asked the voice edged with pain.
“No where” he replied his throat felt tight. Suddenly without warning the power to their building was cut. They looked around the room; they had been plunged into complete darkness. All of Lisa’s life support system had been turned off. Her eyes where wide as she grasped for air, “No, no don’t leave me” he begged her. Ianto swung around to face Owen, “do something,” he shouted at him.
Owen looked around surly looking for something he could use to save her… no he was looking to Tosh for help. “There’s nothing I can do…” he had gone pale, “the powers out and the life support was all that was keeping her here.” Owen stepped closer to her, “her chest is encased there’s no way I can do mouth to mouth. Maybe if she can breathe on her own” he took her hand. “Deep breaths come on just try and stay with us” her eyes closed.
Owen hung his head and turned to Ianto, “I’m sorry.”
They could hear the UNIT forces closing in on the flat they must have cut the power. “Ianto” suddenly Lisa was sitting up right. She hadn’t been able to move since he had rescued her from Torchwood one but now she was sitting up. She was smiling and happy.
“Ianto, I’m breathing on my own,” she said.
“Lisa…your alive” he hugged her, “do you think you can help her?” he asked Owen and Tosh.
“I don’t know” Owen stepped forwards and Ianto backed away. He took her head in his hands. “If her brain can be saved…there might be a change it really depends on how they wire the cybernetics up to the human brain” Toshiko stepped closer to them.
“We should get out of here before UNIT find us” she said.
Lisa face dropped and she grabbed Owen by the neck. She lifted him off the floor.
“What are you doing?”
“He tried to help me, I’m returning the favour” she forced him down on to the conversion unit. Unfortunately at the moment the power came back on, she hit a button and Owen screamed as the blades cut open his face. Ianto threw himself on the floor as he tried desperately to unplug the machine. Toshiko picked up a chair and hit Lisa across the back of the head with it.
It broke into a hundred pieces, Lisa turned and placed her hand on Toshiko’s shoulder and her screams were added to Owen’s as Lisa electrocuted her. Finally as Ianto pulled out the last plug the screaming stopped. He sat up and looked at the thing lying on the conversion unit that was once Owen Harper was now a mangled mess of metal and flesh. He stood up and saw that Toshiko was lying dead on the floor, “they were trying to help you” he said tears flowing down his face as UNIT smashed down his door.
He stood in between Lisa and UNIT. They opened fire and Ianto felt the bullets rip through him. He dropped like a stone to the floor he heard the screams of UNIT as Lisa attacked. Funny how to spite the pain that the bullets after the one that was really hurting was the one in his fingers. He lifted his hand the very tips of his fingers were turning to dust and atoms. He watched his hand disappear as Ianto Jones drew his last breath.