Ianto/Jacque fic.
Part 1.
Jacque presses the button on the Vortex Manipulator left by dad and the ground slowly begins to sink. Jack Harkness was off trying to find The Doctor again, so of course he leaves his next of kin the responsibility of keeping his team in order. It's not too bad, though: it means missing a week or so of classes in favor of...
The Hub's pet pterodactyl flies past Jacque's head, interrupting the train of thought. Suddenly the Cardiff street is replaces with stone walls and the scent of steel and coffee, the latter a signal that Ianto is waiting at the bottom of the lift. Sure enough, one look down and there he is, like always when Jack leaves you in charge: in the suit he knows you particularly like with a smile the others note is just a bit brighter than normal.
"Welcome back," he says simply, "How long do we have the pleasure of your company this time?"
"You know my dad," Jacque says with a grin, "There's no telling with him."
He chuckles and holds out your tea, made perfectly, before nodding to one of the computers. "Here," he says, "Let me catch you up."
Gwen and Tosh both say hello as you pass by, Owen shouting from the medical area as he works on another body. "Hey uncle!" you call back. You're not that far apart, age wise, but you always joke that you must be his and your father's secret love child. So uncle it is.
"Here we are," Ianto says, pulling out the chair. You just roll your eyes. His heart is in the right place and you guess it's okay since he did it for your dad, once.
Though you haven't seen that happen since you started seeing each other.
"We've got a new case underway, as you can see from Owen's new friend sprawled out on the table," Ianto jokes, smiling a bit again, "Here's what we have so far. It seems that something like a weevil but not a weevil has somehow mind controlled the rest into doing much more advanced amounts of damage than they're normally capable of. As soon as Owen figures out how this is happening, Tosh is going to make a disruptor so that it can't just send an army after us when we try to take care of it. So far, it seems to be broadcasting from the sewers here-" he points to a place on the map that the computer brought up, one of the main corridors of the sewer system leads to something like a cavern. "It one of the main drainage rooms. Which certainly explains all the back-ups people have been calling in."
"Believe me, it's not a pretty sight," you hear from behind you. Apparently Owen is done since he's come over to say hi, "Might want to avoid some of the main interchanges right now if you feel like being able to breathe." He just smiles and you smile back, replying to his 'Hello, kid, how are you,' with a 'Better for being here.' As much as you don't really say it, these guys feel more like your family than anyone at school, no matter how much your dad goes out of his way to make sure you go.
"So what's the plan of attack?" Gwen asks, the whole gang now gathered by the computer you're at.
"Well," says owen, "Apparently the slight psychic field they have is receptive to more frequencies than we thought. I'm thinking an all-spectrum signal jam should do the trick. Hit them with everything."
Tosh nods, saying, "I've already got one of those I've been working on. Just needs a few tweaks and it should be able to cancel just about anything within ten meters."
"You might want to up that to one-hundred, Tosh. I don't know how strong this thing will be."
She just nods, saying, "Give me one hour," before rushing off.
"I'll get the weapons ready," Gwen adds, also leaving.
Ianto is about to say something when Owen interrupts, "Why don't I set up the van, this time, Ianto? You two should catch up." He just sends Owen a thankful smile before holding out his hand.
"Come on, I've got something to show you."
