Okay I have finally gotten round to writing a Torchwood fan fiction. This is set after series one episode nine and before episode ten.
Summary: While following an alien signal the Ianto literally falls into trouble and the rest of the team have to fight to keep Jack and Ianto alive from above them after they take a massive fall down a hole in the ground. But can they get them out in time?
The black SUV pulled up at the edge of the woods, stopping just by the entrance. Bute Park was a popular place in Cardiff and in the school holidays it was almost always occupied. Coopers field was a wide open stretch of land just outside the woods which was most of the children played, but some would be brave enough to venture into the woods that were behind the field.
But not today. Captain Jack Harkness may be a terrible parker, but when it came to getting access to crime scenes he was always able to get his way and that was exactly what he had done today. As soon as Tosh had told him that she found an alien signal in the wood he was on the phone to someone getting them to close the place off for a day.
Some people looked at their badly parked SUV with curiosity, while some completely ignored their arrival and others watched as the five of them made their way into the closed of wood without anyone stopping them.
Jack walked in front of everyone else and Gwen walked beside Ianto and Owen while Tosh walked behind them with a small handheld device that was still following the alien signal, which was now apparently appearing at different ends of the woods.
Captain Jack came to a halt a little way into the woods and turned to Tosh, who showed him the screen with the alien signals before he turned to the rest of his team and they could instantly tell that he was going to hand out orders.
"Right Owen go with Tosh and search the West side of the wood. Ianto and Gwen you come with me and we'll search the East side and see where this alien signal is actually coming from." When Jack finished the team spilt up and headed off in the two directions.
Jack, Gwen and Ianto looked around walking in a line, their feet crunching the leaves that were beneath them as they walked constantly creating some form of sound which was always a giveaway, especially when the woods were closed off to everyone else, but them.
"Do we have any idea what we're looking for?" Gwen asked Jack as they continued to make their way further into the dense mix of trees, leaves and green plants.
"I don't have a clue," Jack replied his American accent a prominent feature in his voice, "It might not even be anything at all."
"Great. I'd rather be back at the hub than traipsing through a wood." Gwen mumbled back.
"And what do you think I rather be doing?" Jack questioned, "Ianto can't make me any tea or coffee in the middle of the woods and-"
"Shh." Ianto interrupted the pair's conversation stepping in between the two as he had fallen behind when they had started talking as he was paying more attention to his surroundings. After all you never know when you might get lost or what you might miss seeing out of the corner of your eye when you're talking and not paying your full attention to something.
"But Ianto I was just-" Jack tried to continue speaking only to get Ianto placing a hand on his arm and pointing in the direction of some thick trees. The Captain moved slightly to get a better look between the small gaps that he could find.
Behind the thick trees it seemed that there were more leaves covering the ground and some thinner trees. As quietly as he could he shifted his weight and made some hand signals for Ianto to go round the left, Gwen to go straight ahead and he would go right. That way they would each be covering a side and if that noise was coming from an alien they should be able to corner it.
The three headed off in their separate directions and the only noise that Jack could hear as he walked was his own breathing and the crunching of the leaves under his shoes. The walk around the edge of the thick trees was taking him longer than he had first thought it would. Everything seemed to go silent for a moment, even though the floor was still covered with leaves, Jack didn't seem to be able to hear the crunching sound.
The walk was turning into a slightly peaceful walk for Jack, but he still walked slowly, ready for a fight in case anything should try and jump out at him. But then a loud scream echoed through the woods and Jack turned his head to the direction that he had sent Gwen and Ianto in, however that scream sounded too masculine for it to be Gwen, so it had to be Ianto.
He stayed put for a moment to quickly check that he had his gun, which to his relief he did, before sprinting off in that direction, his coat blowing back in the wind as he ran.
Gwen made her way up at bank which brought her to the end of the thick trees and when she looked up she could see the sun blaring down at her. With her standing still the only noise was her breathing and Gwen took in a deep breath as she stopped to rest for a moment after walking up that bank the muscles in her legs were aching.
Suddenly a loud shout or even a scream ripped through the silent atmosphere and Gwen could instantly recognise it as Ianto.
She started running in the direction that the noise had come from and the closer she got the more her muscles ached, but she didn't dare stop running. She was closer now that almost every tree she passed was thin, with branches that bared no leaves. And then she heard it that same shout again.
Not being able to see her friend he did the only thing that she could think to do, shout. "Ianto. Ianto."
"Gwen" The Welshwoman recognised his voice easily as well as his Welsh accent and she ran towards where the voice had come from and then she heard his voice again, with a slightly more desperate edge to it. "Help!"
"Ianto, Ianto." Gwen suddenly spotted the suit wearing Welshman holding onto the side of a chuck of solid rock and vines trying not to fall down into the hole that was below him. She knelt down and looked at the situation and realised sadly that she was no help to Ianto, she couldn't pull him back up she needed Jack to help her.
"Gwen please help me!"
"Ianto, Gwen!" Jack's voice broke through the trees as he rushed towards the Gwen and the Welshman, who he hadn't yet noticed, however when he got close enough to see he quickly kneeled down beside Gwen and extended a hand to Ianto.
"Grab my hand Ianto, grab my hand." Ianto tried to grab a hold of Jack's hand, but every time he almost reached him he slipped further down into the hole.
"I can't."
"Yes Ianto you can, come on." The more he kept trying to reach him, the more he slipped and the more he slipped, the more he panicked. "Gwen help me would you!" Jack felt bad for shouting at his friend, but he was desperate to get Ianto out of danger.
Gwen reached out one of her hands and tried to grab a hold of Ianto, but she too failed to reach him and Ianto was now slipping further down, out of their reach.
"Hang on Ianto." Gwen told her as she sat back up, pulling her hand away and taking a quick look around before shouting, "Help! Owen, Tosh, somebody help us!" She knew that it was unlikely the others would hear them over on the other side of the wood, but she had to try, because she didn't know about Ianto, but she was defiantly panicking for how they were going to get out of this.
Jack suddenly managed to get a grip on Ianto's right arm as he slipped and with his strength, he was able to pull him back up slightly and he was able to get a better grip on the side that was if there weren't so many leaves in his way. If there hadn't been then he might have been able to hold on.
But his grip slipped, he fell and once again, he shouted out in fear
The Torchwood leader kept his grip on his friends arm and fell down with him. Gwen reached out and tried to grab a hold of Jack in order to stop him falling, but she missed and even if she had managed to grab a hold of him, her strength wasn't strong enough to hold them both up.
As Ianto and Jack fell a ton of leaves and debris followed them down. The fall didn't seem too far and some light still shone down on them in places. Jack grabbed his left leg as soon as he hit the ground, pain suddenly flaring up it and he could only presume that he had hit it on the side of one of the stones that was sticking out as he fell.
Ianto had a hold of his right arm, the same one that Jack had been holding when they had fallen and there was now an open gash on the right side of his forehead and a cut on the left side of his lip, both of which had fresh, red blood flowing from them.
"Ianto." Jack wasn't sure that he had even said his name for a minute when he didn't answer, but even when he said it again Ianto still made no movement, which worried Jack and he could only hope that Ianto was just unconscious.
Jack moved his arm to his side, where his gun should be to find it missing. It made sense that he had left it up on the leaves as he had thrown it down when he realised how much trouble Ianto was in. After all, he had only drawn it in the first place, because he thought that he had found the alien that Tosh picked up a signal of.
"Jack, Ianto, are you alright, answer me, please!" Gwen's voice shouted down reaching Jack's ears. She sounded worried and desperate to hear them reply to her.
"Gwen!" The Captain shouted back, surprised by how loud his voice was considering the fall that he had just taken. He shuffled over into the light the best that he could, minding his injured leg, to allow Gwen to see him better. Jack noticed her relax slightly when she noticed the face that was attempting to smile up at her.
"Are you alright, are you hurt?" The Welshwoman asked her boss as she looked down into the hole, trying to see what state Ianto was in as she could only half see him from where she was and from how the light was shining down on him.
"I'm alright, knocked my leg, but I think Ianto's gonna need a doctor."
"I could try and find Owen and see-"
"No, ring an ambulance Gwen." Jack cut her off before she could finish her sentence, "Even if you can get Owen here, there's no way that he can get down here safely. I'll check on Ianto while you do that and my gun's up there somewhere if you should need it. Don't let your guard down just, because of this little problem."
Gwen nodded before pulling her bag over her head, opening it up and grabbing out her mobile phone and dialling nine, nine, nine as quickly as she could. She was surprised to have any signal in the middle of the woods, but she wasn't complaining about that fact as she heard a voice say 'Emergency services, which service do you require?' on the other end of the line.
"Ambulance, something medical I don't really know." She replied quickly, trying to stay as calm as she could to make sure that they defiantly heard her clearly as she explained the situation and understood that they needed to get here pretty much straight away.
Small stones and leaves continued to fall down as Jack made his way over to be beside Ianto. A particularly big stone made a long cut on his cheek as he shuffled across the ground, which some blood started to flow out of.
"Ianto can you hear me?" Jack still received no answer and decided – although it as probably a stupid idea considering his injured leg – to go even closer to Ianto than he already was. So he began shuffling again until he was close enough that he could manage to touch Ianto.
"Jack!" For a moment Jack thought that Ianto had just woken up and called out to him, before he remembered Gwen was still up above them, "Their on their way to us now. How's Ianto?"
Jack stayed silent for a moment before looking up at the hole that they had fallen through, "He's unconscious. I can see a cut on his forehead and his lip and he's holding his right arm, so I'm not sure, but it's likely to be injured."
"Okay. Do you know how far down you are?"
"I think about 20 feet." He called back up to her in reply. Down where Ianto had landed it was considerably darker than where Jack had landed and he found that he was struggling to see the extent to Ianto's injuries as well as his own. Then an idea came to him and he looked up to where Gwen was sat, still looking down at them.
"Gwen in Ianto's rucksack, I think it's still up there to your left I believe." He paused for a minute as Gwen disappeared before reappearing with a quick 'Got it' as she held the rucksack for Jack to see, "There should be some police tape. Put that around the trees, but before you do that take Ianto's phone out of it and place it in your pocket and then can you chuck the rucksack down to me please?"
"Sure." Gwen replied as she pulled out the police type and placed it beside her and then removed Ianto's mobile and placed it in her jacket pocket. She zipped up the rucksack and looked down at Jack who nodded to her and so she dropped the rucksack down, watching as it landed on the floor and hearing Jack shout up a simple 'Thank you' before she got up and started to place the police tape around the outlying trees.
Jack pulled Ianto's rucksack closer to him and unzipped it pulling out the small torch that Ianto kept in there.
Jack flicked the torch on and carefully looked around first, deciding that Ianto seemed to be in a relatively safe area for now until he knew whether or not it was safe to move him once again looked to Ianto's bag finding a spare jacket packed in there and then he found himself smiling slightly when he saw Ianto's gun down at the bottom of the bag, however his smile faded when he couldn't find any first aid kit, meaning that Owen had it this time.
Owen and Tosh walked in silence with a slight difference in space between them by a few feet. Both had their guns drawn and Toshiko also held her scanner in her left hand as they walked. In the past few minutes it had become quite windy and slightly colder than it had when they had arrived although it was only around eleven o clock.
A loud shouting sound fell through the trees and startled both Owen and Tosh who started looking around them to try and source out the sound. Neither of them could find anything that could have caused it and so continued walking on, completely unaware of what was happening down the other end of the woods and the trouble that Jack and Ianto were in.
Jack shone the torch over onto Ianto's body. In the light of the torch he could see that Ianto was breathing, his chest rising up and down. He looked at Ianto's forehead to see that it was still bleeding, although probably slower than it would be if he was sat up and the same probably went for his lip. However, Jack made a mental note to sit him up before letting him talk as the blood would probably run down into his mouth.
Then he moved the torch down to be over Ianto's arm, which he carefully removed his left hand from before gently picking up his right arm to see what he had done to it. Ianto also chose that point to groan before blinking his eyes open and looking up at Jack from where he lay on the hard ground.
"J..Jack?"
"Yeah Ianto it's me, now can I help you to sit up?" Jack asked, but it wasn't really that much of a question as he moved to help Ianto sit up. Things seemed to be going to well, but Jack didn't see what else could happen until the Welshman tried to bring his legs closer to him, but instead shouted out in pain when he tried to move his right one.
"Ianto what's wrong?" Jack asked as Ianto leaned his back against him, "Is it your leg?" Ianto shook his head against the Captain's chest.
"No I think it's my ankle." Ianto told him, but obviously he was in a lot of pain as he was almost gritting his teeth as he spoke, "Are we going to get out of this?" There was obvious fear lacing Ianto's voice as Jack carefully wrapped his arms around Ianto's fragile bodies frame.
"Of course we are, don't worry." Jack looked up to where Gwen was sat previously and was about to call her when she appeared in his line of vision.
"Jack is everything alright I heard someone shout."
"Yeah it was Ianto, he's awake now, but I think he's quite badly injured, how's that ambulance and rescue team coming along?"
"I'm not sure they should be here soon."
"How long is soon?"
"I..I..I'm going to try and call Owen and Tosh."
Gwen disappeared from Jack and Ianto's view and the American turned his attention back to Ianto, attempting to stop the bleeding on his forehead and lip.
Owen and Tosh were startled by Owen's mobile ringing which he quickly went to answer once he realised that it was his phone and not someone else's or something alien.
"Hello."
"Owen it's Gwen. We need you and Tosh to come and meet us."
"Why? Where are you what's happened?" Tosh looked up at Owen worry making its way onto her face as she only heard half of the conversation that was beginning to sound quite bad.
"It's hard to explain, but Jack and Ianto are injured and I don't know how long the ambulance and rescue team are going to be and you have to help us, because I have no clue what to do."
"Alright Gwen stay calm me and Tosh are on our way over where exactly are you?"
"Well we went east from our start point and then if you go along to the West slightly when you get to a bank of trees and then you should see some police like tape of Ianto's you can't miss it."
"Okay hang on." With that Owen ended the call, placed his mobile back into his pocket and his put his gun away. Tosh did the same with hers and at the same time asked the question that she had been dying to ask during that whole phone call.
"What's happened?"
"From what Gwen said Jack and Ianto are injured, they've called an ambulance and a rescue team, so I have no clue what's happened, but it must be pretty bad." And with that the two ran off in a hurry to get to Gwen, Jack and Ianto.
Gwen was pacing across the leave covered ground while she waited for Owen, Tosh, the ambulance and the rescue team to hurry up and get here. She knew that it was the school holidays, but surely the traffic wasn't too busy.
Down below her leaves and debris continued to fall down onto the ground by Jack and Ianto, who was still leaning against the Captain chest.
"I should have stayed back at the tourist office." Ianto's Welsh voice broke the silence his accent bouncing off of the stone walls and back into Jack's ears.
"No we need you to help us."
"I don't think everyone else thinks that." Ianto replied before hissing out in pain and carefully lent his head back, so that it too was resting on Jack's chest, shutting his eyes tightly trying to ignore the blinding pain. Jack kept his arms around Ianto and carefully brought a hand up to his face to wipe at the cut on his cheek before looking back down at Ianto.
Although Jack thought he needed Ianto to come with them, he couldn't help but wish that he hadn't told Ianto to come with them this time. If he hadn't this might not have happened to him.
"This is all my fault."
"I don't b..blame you Jack." Ianto replied almost in a whisper as pain continued to run through him.
Jack shook his head. It didn't matter whether Ianto blamed him or not, because he couldn't stop blaming himself.
Okay I hope you like it, I'll try and have the next chapter up in a few days, so Saturday or Sunday I hope. Thanks for reading and please review.
