Torchwood -- Five Ways the SUV Got Water Damage
Title: Five Ways the SUV Got Water Damage
Count the Ways prompt: Laked!SUV
Date Written: 6/17/08
Rating: PG/K+
Word Count: 1,518
Fandom: Doctor Who/Torchwood
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Team, Martha (mentined), the Doctor (mentioned)
Spoilers: Torchwood Season 1, Doctor Who 04 The Sontaran Strategem
Warnings: Boys kissing, implied sex, character death
Author's Notes: Everyone's done 'em. Here's mine. Also, blant disregard for Exit Wounds.
ONE:
"Oh, this I have got to hear," Jack called out as he hurried down the stairs, grinning at a sopping wet Suzie, Owen and Toshiko.
Owen swore and pulled his shirt off over his head, wringing water out of it. Ianto wrinkled his nose a little, carefully stepping around the puddle as he handed over towels.
Suzie sighed. "You know that alien we've been tracking?"
"Sort of hard to ignore it," Jack replied, hitting the landing and walking towards them, hands in his pockets. "We've been working the case for about a week now."
"Well, it can project psychic images," his second continued, scrubbing her hair dry. Her normally curly hair frizzed at the action, poofing out in a way that made Jack want to grab a camera. "And Mr. I Have To Drive The Car here drove into a river."
"I thought there was a bridge!" Owen argued, glaring at her from under his own towel.
"All the tech went into the water," Toshiko added, fishing into the pocket of her wet pants. "I might be able to save some of it, but..." She held up her PDA for emphasis, and Ianto and Jack stepped back when water poured out from the device.
"I'll call a mate of mine who owns a tow truck," Ianto said, looking over at Jack. "He won't ask too many questions."
"Do it," Jack added, watching in amusement as the others shifted in their wet clothing, shivering a little. "You three, hit the showers. Can't have over half the team getting sick."
"I'll get a mop as well," Ianto said, glaring at the puddles that Suzie, Tosh and Owen left in their wake.
TWO:
There is an overwhelming number of aliens that can possess or imitate humans, Tosh reflected, tugging again at the ropes that tied her hands behind her back. Are we so easy to influence?
The alien in the driver's seat, a particularly nasty gaseous being that had overtaken one Robert Jones, turned to grin at her. The grin really should have been the giveaway, it was far from human. "You're all just weak little apes," he hissed at her. "Playing at being gods."
She struggled harder at her bindings. "When the others find you -- "
"When the others find me, I'll be in you," he said, reaching one hand over to touch her cheek. Toshiko flinched and pulled away from the touch, making the alien laugh. "And then? I'll have every single piece of knowledge in that brain of yours. I'll finally be able to get off this rock."
"They'll figure it out," she spat out.
"Oh, they will? They're so stupid they couldn't figure out who I really was." He grinned. "Weak, stupid apes. And once I've got all your smarts, I'll jump into that Jack Harkness. Brilliant and immortal, that is the way to do it."
"You want to learn something new now?" Tosh asked, turning a little in her seat to get a proper look at him.
"Why not? I'll learn it anyway."
"It's something my mother used to tell me all the time when I was a child." She gave a grin when the alien took his eyes off the road. "Always buckle up."
Toshiko lunged forward over the armrest, knocking his hands off the steering wheel. With her hands back behind her, she used the momentum of her body to turn the wheel sharply to the right.
The others watched, horrified, as the SUV jerked across the oncoming lane, crashed through the guardrail and went hood-first into the little river they'd been crossing. Gwen slammed the brakes on and threw her car into park, the boys out of the car and running down to the water's edge before the car had even completely stopped. When no one came up after thirty seconds, all four of them jumped into the water to go get Toshiko.
Owen tried CPR for an hour before Jack, Ianto and Gwen pulled him away. The doctors at A & E said she died on impact.
THREE:
"You did what?" Ianto's quite query echoed across the Hub.
Toshiko, Owen and Jack stopped what they were doing and looked over him. The Welshman was standing next to Gwen's desk, giving her an incredulous look.
Gwen worried her lower lip with her top teeth. Only her second week and she'd blown it twice. "I thought I'd put the SUV in park, but then I turned around and -- "
"-- And it was in the Bay," Ianto finished, arching one dark, elegant eyebrow. "The Bay."
"I'm so sorry, I am!" she said, looking like she was about to burst into tears. "I'll pay for a new one, or whatever I have to do!" Ianto was pretty scary when he got like that. All he had to do was give Jack a look and the Captain was falling all over himself to do what Ianto wanted.
And everyone thought Ianto was just the dogsbody.
"Well, it was bound to happen eventually," Ianto finally said, giving a sigh. "At least you didn't drive directly into it."
"OI!" Owen protested from across the Hub. Jack threw his head back and laughed.
"You also have the pleasure of cleaning it out when we get it out," Ianto continued, handing her a mug of coffee.
"Cheers, mate," Gwen muttered.
FOUR:
When Martha Jones calls and says "UNIT's working a case, and I'm calling the Doctor in tomorrow", Jack Harkness hops to.
The amazing thing is that he still, still, after nearly 100 years of living in and working for the British throne, he still doesn't know London's streets.
"We have a GPS," Ianto said, pointing at the ATMOS screen. The position of the SUV was currently blinking a bright red arrow on the screen.
Turn right.
"I don't like it," Jack admitted, crossing his arms as Ianto turned obediently.
"You just don't like a machine telling you what to do," Ianto teased, taking his eyes off the road to smile at Jack.
Turn left.
"No. And besides, can't I just think of an excuse to spirit you away for a bit?" Jack teased back, leaning over to smile at him. "Just you and me, a few days in London?"
"We did that last week, sir. Now we're here on official business."
"Ooh, breaking out the sirs, you know what that does to me," Jack murmured, leaning over to kiss Ianto's ear.
"Jack, stop that." Ianto batted Jack's face away. "When we're at the hotel."
This is your final destination.
"Oh, I have good timing," Jack said with a grin, pulling back and looking out the front window. His grin slowly faded as he recognized the scene in front of him. "Ianto, is that--?"
"The Thames river? Yep." The Welshman frowned at the ATMOS system, reaching over to tap the screen. "You got it wrong," he scolded the screen.
"Now you're arguing with a machine," the Captain said with a laugh.
This is your final destination.
Both men looked at the screen. The computerized voice sounded creepy, almost sinister.
The doors locked with an audible click.
"Oh, fuck," both men swore as the car slammed itself into gear. Jack reached over and grabbed Ianto's hand, holding it tight as they barreled towards the water.
The airbags exploded when the car impacted, throwing both men back against the seats, powder flying into the air. For one crazy second, Jack thought the car had caught on fire.
There was a loud pop to his right, and Jack looked over to see Ianto fighting back the airbag with the SUV's emergency tool. He reached over and popped Jack's as well, giving him a bit of a smile. "I don't know if we should be glad or not about the bulletproof glass," he told Jack.
Jack, in turn, leaned over and gave him a hard kiss. Or he tried, but his seatbelt was locked. Ianto reached over to start cutting him free with the blade side, but Jack waved him off. "You get yourself out first," he ordered as water started seeping into the car's interior.
Ianto opened his mouth to argue, but Jack's face told him not to do it. "All right." He undid his own seat belt, leaning over to give Jack a quick kiss. "Don't drown," he said before reaching back and slamming the pointed side against the driver's side window. The glass fractured under the force of the sharp point, and shattered on the third. He knocked out the entire pane before handing the tool over to Jack and climbing out, having to fight against the water flowing into the broken window.
Jack was still fighting with the seat belt when the water reached his chin. He took a deep breath before the water closed over his nose.
Drowning always sucked.
FIVE:
"We. Cannot. Tell the others." Ianto insisted, water dripping off of his hair. "They can never know this."
Jack fell down in a wet heap on the Plass. "I can't believe you hit the gear with your foot climbing into the back seat!"
Count the Ways prompt: Laked!SUV
Date Written: 6/17/08
Rating: PG/K+
Word Count: 1,518
Fandom: Doctor Who/Torchwood
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Team, Martha (mentined), the Doctor (mentioned)
Spoilers: Torchwood Season 1, Doctor Who 04 The Sontaran Strategem
Warnings: Boys kissing, implied sex, character death
Author's Notes: Everyone's done 'em. Here's mine. Also, blant disregard for Exit Wounds.
ONE:
"Oh, this I have got to hear," Jack called out as he hurried down the stairs, grinning at a sopping wet Suzie, Owen and Toshiko.
Owen swore and pulled his shirt off over his head, wringing water out of it. Ianto wrinkled his nose a little, carefully stepping around the puddle as he handed over towels.
Suzie sighed. "You know that alien we've been tracking?"
"Sort of hard to ignore it," Jack replied, hitting the landing and walking towards them, hands in his pockets. "We've been working the case for about a week now."
"Well, it can project psychic images," his second continued, scrubbing her hair dry. Her normally curly hair frizzed at the action, poofing out in a way that made Jack want to grab a camera. "And Mr. I Have To Drive The Car here drove into a river."
"I thought there was a bridge!" Owen argued, glaring at her from under his own towel.
"All the tech went into the water," Toshiko added, fishing into the pocket of her wet pants. "I might be able to save some of it, but..." She held up her PDA for emphasis, and Ianto and Jack stepped back when water poured out from the device.
"I'll call a mate of mine who owns a tow truck," Ianto said, looking over at Jack. "He won't ask too many questions."
"Do it," Jack added, watching in amusement as the others shifted in their wet clothing, shivering a little. "You three, hit the showers. Can't have over half the team getting sick."
"I'll get a mop as well," Ianto said, glaring at the puddles that Suzie, Tosh and Owen left in their wake.
TWO:
There is an overwhelming number of aliens that can possess or imitate humans, Tosh reflected, tugging again at the ropes that tied her hands behind her back. Are we so easy to influence?
The alien in the driver's seat, a particularly nasty gaseous being that had overtaken one Robert Jones, turned to grin at her. The grin really should have been the giveaway, it was far from human. "You're all just weak little apes," he hissed at her. "Playing at being gods."
She struggled harder at her bindings. "When the others find you -- "
"When the others find me, I'll be in you," he said, reaching one hand over to touch her cheek. Toshiko flinched and pulled away from the touch, making the alien laugh. "And then? I'll have every single piece of knowledge in that brain of yours. I'll finally be able to get off this rock."
"They'll figure it out," she spat out.
"Oh, they will? They're so stupid they couldn't figure out who I really was." He grinned. "Weak, stupid apes. And once I've got all your smarts, I'll jump into that Jack Harkness. Brilliant and immortal, that is the way to do it."
"You want to learn something new now?" Tosh asked, turning a little in her seat to get a proper look at him.
"Why not? I'll learn it anyway."
"It's something my mother used to tell me all the time when I was a child." She gave a grin when the alien took his eyes off the road. "Always buckle up."
Toshiko lunged forward over the armrest, knocking his hands off the steering wheel. With her hands back behind her, she used the momentum of her body to turn the wheel sharply to the right.
The others watched, horrified, as the SUV jerked across the oncoming lane, crashed through the guardrail and went hood-first into the little river they'd been crossing. Gwen slammed the brakes on and threw her car into park, the boys out of the car and running down to the water's edge before the car had even completely stopped. When no one came up after thirty seconds, all four of them jumped into the water to go get Toshiko.
Owen tried CPR for an hour before Jack, Ianto and Gwen pulled him away. The doctors at A & E said she died on impact.
THREE:
"You did what?" Ianto's quite query echoed across the Hub.
Toshiko, Owen and Jack stopped what they were doing and looked over him. The Welshman was standing next to Gwen's desk, giving her an incredulous look.
Gwen worried her lower lip with her top teeth. Only her second week and she'd blown it twice. "I thought I'd put the SUV in park, but then I turned around and -- "
"-- And it was in the Bay," Ianto finished, arching one dark, elegant eyebrow. "The Bay."
"I'm so sorry, I am!" she said, looking like she was about to burst into tears. "I'll pay for a new one, or whatever I have to do!" Ianto was pretty scary when he got like that. All he had to do was give Jack a look and the Captain was falling all over himself to do what Ianto wanted.
And everyone thought Ianto was just the dogsbody.
"Well, it was bound to happen eventually," Ianto finally said, giving a sigh. "At least you didn't drive directly into it."
"OI!" Owen protested from across the Hub. Jack threw his head back and laughed.
"You also have the pleasure of cleaning it out when we get it out," Ianto continued, handing her a mug of coffee.
"Cheers, mate," Gwen muttered.
FOUR:
When Martha Jones calls and says "UNIT's working a case, and I'm calling the Doctor in tomorrow", Jack Harkness hops to.
The amazing thing is that he still, still, after nearly 100 years of living in and working for the British throne, he still doesn't know London's streets.
"We have a GPS," Ianto said, pointing at the ATMOS screen. The position of the SUV was currently blinking a bright red arrow on the screen.
Turn right.
"I don't like it," Jack admitted, crossing his arms as Ianto turned obediently.
"You just don't like a machine telling you what to do," Ianto teased, taking his eyes off the road to smile at Jack.
Turn left.
"No. And besides, can't I just think of an excuse to spirit you away for a bit?" Jack teased back, leaning over to smile at him. "Just you and me, a few days in London?"
"We did that last week, sir. Now we're here on official business."
"Ooh, breaking out the sirs, you know what that does to me," Jack murmured, leaning over to kiss Ianto's ear.
"Jack, stop that." Ianto batted Jack's face away. "When we're at the hotel."
This is your final destination.
"Oh, I have good timing," Jack said with a grin, pulling back and looking out the front window. His grin slowly faded as he recognized the scene in front of him. "Ianto, is that--?"
"The Thames river? Yep." The Welshman frowned at the ATMOS system, reaching over to tap the screen. "You got it wrong," he scolded the screen.
"Now you're arguing with a machine," the Captain said with a laugh.
This is your final destination.
Both men looked at the screen. The computerized voice sounded creepy, almost sinister.
The doors locked with an audible click.
"Oh, fuck," both men swore as the car slammed itself into gear. Jack reached over and grabbed Ianto's hand, holding it tight as they barreled towards the water.
The airbags exploded when the car impacted, throwing both men back against the seats, powder flying into the air. For one crazy second, Jack thought the car had caught on fire.
There was a loud pop to his right, and Jack looked over to see Ianto fighting back the airbag with the SUV's emergency tool. He reached over and popped Jack's as well, giving him a bit of a smile. "I don't know if we should be glad or not about the bulletproof glass," he told Jack.
Jack, in turn, leaned over and gave him a hard kiss. Or he tried, but his seatbelt was locked. Ianto reached over to start cutting him free with the blade side, but Jack waved him off. "You get yourself out first," he ordered as water started seeping into the car's interior.
Ianto opened his mouth to argue, but Jack's face told him not to do it. "All right." He undid his own seat belt, leaning over to give Jack a quick kiss. "Don't drown," he said before reaching back and slamming the pointed side against the driver's side window. The glass fractured under the force of the sharp point, and shattered on the third. He knocked out the entire pane before handing the tool over to Jack and climbing out, having to fight against the water flowing into the broken window.
Jack was still fighting with the seat belt when the water reached his chin. He took a deep breath before the water closed over his nose.
Drowning always sucked.
FIVE:
"We. Cannot. Tell the others." Ianto insisted, water dripping off of his hair. "They can never know this."
Jack fell down in a wet heap on the Plass. "I can't believe you hit the gear with your foot climbing into the back seat!"