Disclaimer : I don't own torchwood or doctor who or assassins creed I do how ever own series one and two of torchwood and part of series one all of three and all of series four of doctor who and a copy of assassins creed.

Summary: torchwood help rescue a trapped man called desmond the technology holding him is way beyond jack and with out tosh his tech wiz he has only one option left sound like some one needs a doctor. Rated m to be safe maybe slight o.

E-mails and codes

Boo dum, the sound of a message on Gwen's computer caught her attention she brought it and called for her boss "Jack! Better take a look at this." Gwen shouted across the vastness of the hub and her bosses reply was quiet "can it wait?" Jack asked

"Not really the e-mail is for you and it's encrypted." Gwen answered inside Jacks office he was on the phone "ok prime minister I'll have to call you back….yes sir….national security sir… ok sir goodbye." With that Jack leaped to his feet and strode out his office door and shouted across the hub "ok this better be important because I've just cut off the prime minister."

"Over here Gwen said showing him the e-mail

"Interesting." Jack said as he began to read the e-mail out loud " vidic gone mad stop Jack need help Desmond trapped in Animus stop vidic won't let him out hurry stop" "who's it from?" ianto asked

"Ok sent by a woman very neat and precise, always chooses her words carefully even in a crisis." Jack answered

"What about the Animus what's that?" Gwen asked

"It's a machine able to access latent memories even from our ancestors." Jack answered

"But... How's that possible... is it alien?" Gwen asked

"Bits of it, but the technology it's self was thought of by Doctor Warren vidic of Abstergo industries." Jack answered

I've never heard of them."Gwen said

"Few have but every major brake through with in the last century has been made by the abstergo industry" jack said boo dum another e-mail appeared on Gwen's computer "same type of email from the same address… how come there appearing on your computer Gwen?" jack asked

"How the bloody hell should I know!" Gwen said shouting slightly here welsh accent more pronounced than it had been for a while.

"Ok! Just asking." Jack said raising his hands in mock protest

"What doses it say?" Ianto asked pointing to the computer

"Good question ok hear we go it says err...`Captain Harkness! It's me Lucy this e-mail has been diverted to anther address before this one now get off your perfectly formed arse and come on!' ok everyone in the SUV." jack ordered and with that Gwen and ianto hurried out of the hub and to there black coloured sports utility vehicle and jack followed after grabbing his grate coat from his office once they were all in the SUV a other e-mail popped up on the monitor this one showing the address of Abstergo industries.

"You know I always thought that e-mail was something Yorkshire farmers got in the mornings eemail" jack said with a smile and that little chuckle of his that at any other time brought a smile to Gwen's face but not today they were in a hurry by the look on Jacks face and with that his little joke just got him a "time and a place jack the e-mail said hurry." from Gwen

"yeah right sorry off we go" jack said turning the ignition on revved the engine a few times and floored it out on to roald darl plass

"Jack what's going on?"

What do you mean?"

"You know what I mean I know that were in a hurry but the circumstances…."

"Circumstances?" jack asked

"First you get an e-mail you do nothing you get another one saying that the sender was called Lucy and suddenly we are tearing ass like were running from the boatman on the river Styx."

"Didn't know you knew about Greek mythology Gwen?" jack asked

"Don't change the subject who is she?" Ianto asked

"Just someone I trust nothing to get your suit in a crumple about." Jack answered

"So who is she come on you can tell us Jack." Gwen said

"ok about two weeks ago I get an e-mail from H. a front name that Torchwood some times uses and it was like the rest encrypted files all that jazz but then I got blue prints on this thing called the animus ." Jack said

"She mentioned that in the e-mail what is it any way?" Gwen asked

"Well I didn't know myself until last week then she sent me another e-mail explaining what they were doing and what the animus dose." Jack said

"Which is?" Gwen asked

"Lets you live past lives." Jack said

"I'm sorry did I hear you right but I thought I heard you say lets you live past lives?" Gwen asked

"Yep you heard me right."

"How is it alien?"

"bits of it its' explained in the e-mail but then I get this other e-mail telling me about the patients and what was happening to them or rather what had happened to them."

"What happened to them?"

"They died all of them sixteen people killed for reacherch." Jack said getting slightly angry

"So who is Desmond?"

"Number seventeen and they are killing him as well."Jack said his fists clenching on the steering wheel his knuckles turning white

"What do you know of him?"

"Well the file said that he had been targeted because of one of his ancestors a person called Altair ibn-ahad son of none bird of prey an assassin." Jack said slightly excited at the prospect but still angry at what he had previously said

"Wow, so you were saying about the animus I know that you said it lets you live out past lives but how exactly?" Gwen asked

"Ok think of it like this you know when you sleep you dream right." Jack said

"Yes your point being?"

"My point is that when you dream it seems real yeah, you move around, you talk and interact with others yeah. Well that's what the animus dose."

"It puts you to sleep?"

"Sort of it puts you in a sort of deep sleep then a probe searches for the right memory then brings it out as a dream and you can interact with it."

"Like the matrix." Ianto said

"Not far off Ianto and that's the alien bit the memory probe." jack said as the SUV pulled up to it's destination "ok game faces on guys." jack said stepping out of the SUV but as the team step up to the sliding doors of the front of the abstergo industries the doors slammed shut locked and a smoke screen activated "watch out its' tear gas back to the SUV." jack shouted as the team fell back to the SUV jack opens the boot takes out three gas masks jack stopped for a moment and sadness briefly swept over him when he saw the two remaining masks and thought of Owen and Tosh then snapped out of it and grabbed the spare masks "better take these just in case ." Jack finally said then the team rallied round the front of the building Jack started demanding that they open jack spoke muffled by the gas mask that he was now wearing jack pounded the glass "I said open up were torchwood"

"I know exactly who you are and I'm under orders not to let you in under any circumstances"

"I understand just following orders." Jack said stepping back away from the glass doors the gas was still thick on the out side so the guard didn't notice Jack draw his webley revolver

"So let me put it like this torchwood out of the way." Jack shouted slightly still muffled by the gas mask said shooting the glass as the glass shattered jack leapt through the door frame "Gwen, Ianto up stairs !" Jack yelled still muffled the guard froze and the sight of this mans bravado exuding confidences a sort of Sauvé authority

About him and something he couldn't put his finger on a strange sort of aftershave that he had never smelt before little did he know that this smell was Jacks fifty first century pheromones that Jack exuded all the time nor that he couldn't help it.

"What floor is the animus on?" Jack asked

"The…thir…thirtieth floor sir."

"Thank you and that's Capitan" he said still muffled by the gas mask Jack didn't like the news he just received then he noticed the lift had just reached the first floor hold that lift jack yelled as he ran for the temporally open doors jack got in just as the lift doors were about to cloths Jack searched for Gwen and Ianto on his vortex manipulator there they are just about to reach the third floor so he pressed for the forth and then the thirtieth floor because the lift was a business lift it was large and spacious so that a lot of people could use it at one time to save waiting times and it was fast not ridiculously fast but fast enough

As Gwen and Ianto reached the forth floor the doors to the lift opened.

Jack had searched for gas levels after he searched for Gwen and Ianto and they were Benin and he had taken off his gas mask the doors of the list opened to reveal Gwen and Ianto and when they saw him he just said "fourth floor men and women's lingerie department my speciality ."

Jack has you found what floor this things on?"

"yep it's the thirtieth floor so get in so that we at least look like professionals" with that Gwen and Ianto were in the lift the lift rode up to the thirtieth floor jack just said something to brake the awkward silence "the ideas I'm getting in here he said with his movie star smile

"Maybe later" Ianto said

"Ooh promises, promises" jack said

"No don't mind me, you do remember me don't you Gwen welsh girl, worked with you for two years …ringing a bell."Gwen said jokingly

"don't worry Gwen they involve you to jack said with a chuckle and this time that chuckle of his not only brought a smile to Gwen's face this time but a flush to her check and a sense of arousal wash over her jack noticed this striate away and said "later pc cooper later oh and bring your cuffs." jack said jokingly Gwen knew this but in her mind she just said "yes jack anything you say jack" these thoughts were wrong she told her self she was married for Christ sake even when she was just going out with rysh she found her self attracted to Jack right from the moment she met him even when she had been shagging Owen she thought of Jack and even when rysh had saw here with jack as they headed off to the meat factory storing that alien whale thing when he confronted her and asked her if she was fucking that man in the blue coat she replied aloud "no of cause not" but in her mind she answered "only in my dreams." All of these thought how ever took Gwen less than a micro second to think of them then quickly forget about them

….

"Please come to your senses vidic. Let him out of the animus you're going to kill him and you won't get any information then will you." Lucy pleaded

"Lucy you and I both know that giving him breaks wasn't getting the information we needed quickly enough so I've stopped them. Listen to your self and adopt one of Desmond's own beliefs: nothing is true every thing is permitted." Lucy muttered to her self "you wouldn't say that if you knew the concept behind it you bastard."