A/n: This has been floating in my head for a while. It takes place during Cyberwoman in between the pizza girl's death and the next morning when Ianto is cleaning the hub.

This is darker than I normally writer, but hey when the plot kiwi strikes… There's also no character death despite the title.

Warning: Characters are kind of out of character.

Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood.

Chapter 1

Gwen, Jack, Owen and Tosh stood, with guns lowered, watching their colleague slowly lose control of his carefully constructed emotionless façade. Owen kept expecting Jack to shoot Ianto, but his captain was still as a board. Tosh wasn't disgusted easily, but felt her stomach roll at the sight before her. Quickly and silently, she removed herself from the room before she could be sick. Gwen felt her heart breaking for Ianto. She wanted to step forward and comfort him, but the look on Jack's face kept her locked in place.

"I want you to…" Ianto began. He let out a strangled noise and sobs began to wrack his body.

Jack's eyes and face remained emotionless. Gwen and Owen couldn't think of anything to break the obvious tension in the room so they stayed silent. Gwen was about to leave when Jack finally moved in deliberate, slow motions. He stopped when he reached Ianto's crumbled body.

"Get up," Jack ordered, his voice was quiet, but there was no doubting the authority in his voice. When Ianto didn't move, he pressed his gun into the back of Ianto's skull, an action becoming far too familiar for his taste.

At the touch of the gun, Ianto moved as Jack ordered him without question. Gwen and Owen offered no comments as Jack pushed Ianto forward past the pair. They paused only when Jack stopped.

"Start getting the bodies prepped for autopsy," Jack ordered before pushing Ianto forward again.

Once Jack and Ianto were out of ear and eye sight of the others, Jack stopped again. This time Jack turned Ianto to face him. Jack could clearly read the wild emotions, mostly what looked like mind numbing pain, running rampart in Ianto's eyes. The emotion not normally present quelled some of Jack's anger and pushed down some of his desire to shoot Ianto for betraying him.

"Where's the third body?" Jack asked making sure his voice only held a trace of the anger he was feeling.

"What other body?" Ianto asked. Jack wrote his employee's confused expression as shock not a purposeful lie.

"The doctor on the film footage you didn't erase completely," Jack prompted.

"In the storeroom down the hall and to the right of where L..Lisa was," Ianto managed to get out, before falling silent again.

Jack nodded wordlessly and pushed Ianto forward again until they reached the main part of the Hub.

"I want you to stay within sight of the CCTV cameras at all times." Jack ordered before stepping away.

Ianto just watched his captain warily as the man holstered his gun and retraced his steps to the door leading to the underbelly of the Hub. Ianto assumed he was going to retrieve the doctor's body from the storeroom.

Jack found the body in the room where Ianto said it would be. It took a little bit of looking because Ianto had hidden it under a blanket. Lifting the blanket to confirm it was the doctor, Jack reeled back at the sight of the mutilated face. He quickly high-tailed it to the other end of the room, and threw up everything he'd eaten that day.

"Owen, I've got another body," Jack said into the com on the wall.

"Who is it?" Owen demanded crabbily.

"The doctor from the CCTV footage Tosh recovered."

"So, the tea-boy killed someone else?"

"Not exactly. You helped clean up Torchwood One right?"

"Yes. You were the one who stole some of the bodies and made me dissect them."

"Right…" Jack trailed off, remembering. "Well, you're going to that knowledge for this autopsy. I'll get the body to you, but you are under no circumstances to let Gwen see it. Understood?"

"That bad?" Owen inquired.

"Yes," Jack replied tersely.

"How am I supposed to get Gwen out of here?" Owen complained. Jack sighed with annoyance.

"Tell here to look after Ianto. He's in the main part of the Hub in sight of the CCTV footage. My only instruction for her is to make sure he doesn't kill himself or something else drastic. I'll be up shortly."

Owen clicked off the com system. Jack appeared a few minutes later with the body under a blanket. As he set, it down, Owen set his tools for the autopsy.

"If Ianto didn't do it, was it his girlfriend?"

"Yes. I wouldn't consider her his girlfriend any longer." Jack commented just staring at the covered body.

Tosh padded down into the medical bay with a handheld camera. She let out a horrified gasp when Owen uncovered the body.

"I gave Gwen several tasks after watching Ianto in case she gets bored with that assignment," Tosh said distractedly. Her eyes remained glued to the body.

"Good." Jack confirmed. "Hopefully she won't come down here because she wants to know what we're all going. It would mean a lot of questions on her part."

"We definitely don't want that," Owen agreed thinking about Gwen's compassionate nature and her inability to leave something alone.

Owen picked up the knife and looked at Tosh. Tosh nodded to indicate that she was filming, but there was a sickened expression on her face/

"Victim Dr. Tanizaki. Date of the autopsy: September 27. Time of death: 1607 hours. Cause of death: a half converted cyberwoman attempted to convert him to a cyberman. The extent of his conversion will be determined during the autopsy. I, Dr. Owen Harper, of the Torchwood Institute, Cardiff Branch, will perform the autopsy." Owen dictated to the camera ignoring Jack and Tosh's presence.

Tosh shuttered slightly. "If this is going to be a problem you can give me the camera and leave," Jack offered.

"No. I'll be fine. Thanks for the offer though," Tosh gave Jack a small and weak smile.

When Owen placed the knife on Tanizaki's chest, Tosh placed her hand over her mouth. She handed the camera to Jack and rushed from the room. This was a bit too much for her. Jack took the camera and Owen cut into the body. When he was done, he set down the scalpel.

"I'm done," he announced.

There was a beep as Jack stopped recording. He leaned back against the stairs and stared up at the white ceiling not thinking about anything in particular.

"Have you decided how you're going punish Ianto?" Owen asked peeling off with his bloody gloves.

"No."

"You are going to punish him aren't you? I only ask because of the autopsy I just performed. Ianto's actions almost made victims of all of us. He's got to atone for that."

"You think I don't already know that." The immortal snapped. He ran his hand through his hair."Besides what about Gwen, I didn't punish her for the deaths of all those men."

"If Lisa had gotten out, the whole universe was in danger." Owen argued.

"But she didn't get out. I'm calculating that into how severe the punishment is going to be."

"She killed you and threatened the rest of our lives. You can't take that lightly. We can't protect the world if we're dead. Besides, that was Gwen's first day and Ianto knew he was doing something against the world."

"He watched a girl die because of his actions as well as losing someone he loved, no matter how inhuman she was. I think that's a start on his punishment."

"Why are you suddenly so defensive of him?" Owen growled. "You weren't so wild about him a few hours ago."

Jack was silent for a few minutes. "I have an idea about how I want the rest of Ianto's punishment to go," Jack admitted.

"What's your idea?"

"I'm not completely sure I should share that."

"I'm your second in command. You should consult me in decisions like this."

"You might be my second in command, but last time I checked, I'm still in charge." Jack pointed out. He stood up straight and put his hands in his pockets.

"It's my professional opinion; you're making decisions off personal bias." Owen called as Jack ascended the stairs.

Jack froze. His eyes narrowed as he glared at Owen, "I'm in charge. Prepare the other two bodies for autopsy. I'll be back down shortly."