Mark Lain hurried down the dark alleyway. He hated this route but it was the only way to get to his house tonight as the roads had been closed down, a car crash by the sounds of it. Mark sighed as he thought about his empty, dark, lifeless house. He couldn't call it home any more. Home went away when Carla died. His beautiful wife, always laughing and smiling about anything and everything, they had been married for over 56 years and now she was gone. He wrapped his coat around his body tighter, as he was starting to really feel the cold winds. The hairs on the back of his neck rose. Someone was behind him, he could feel it. The elderly man turned around quickly. Nothing. No-one was behind him. "Must be my imagination," he thought shaking his head a little as if to shake out all the paranoia. "Getting jumpy in my old age." He started to walk down the alley when he felt his hairs on the back of his neck rise again. He turned around again and this time there was someone. A woman in her early twenties by the looks of it. Mark didn't have to be at an opposite side of the alleyway to see that she was inhumanly beautiful with her pale skin and her bobbed blonde hair. Mark turned around now desperate to get to his house but when he turned around a man was there blocking the exit. He like the woman seemed to be in his early twenties and like the woman he was inhumanly beautiful. His dark hair was spiked up effortlessly and his eyes were a deep black. Mark was scared now. "I haven't got any money on me. Please just let me pass?"

"Stupid man," said the blonde who was now leaning on the wall dangerously close to him.

"Stupid stupid man," the man said his voice soft made it even more menacing. "We don't want your money, we want your blood,"

"Wha...what do you mean?"

"Like we would tell you that." Then Mark felt an excruciating pain in his neck as the female bit into the flesh. Then everything went black and Mark Lain breathed no more.

TWTWTWTWTW

"Jack," called Gwen from her station.

"Yeah?" Jack bounded over eagerly. The rift had been unusually quiet so everyone had been getting restless. Well everyone apart Ianto. He unlike the others was calm and hadn't thrown any staplers at Owen's head yet. So right now Ianto was Owen's favourite person, well until next week.

"There's been a murder in Splott. A man called Mark Lain 81 years old, a widower. He was walking back to his house at about half nine last night when he was attacked, his body had been mangled and it took a while to identify him-"

"A weevil then?" asked Jack already itching to go get the weevil spray.

"No. I don't think so." said Gwen frowning slightly. "His body may have been hard to identify but there was no blood in or out of the body. Jack there was also bite marks all over the body, human bite marks and by the looks of this report this isn't the first murder just like this. Five people have been found, no similarity in age, race or gender just in the way they've died. All the bodies have been drained."

"Right." said Jack momentarily stumped. "We go see the body, run a few scans and see where that takes us. There must be something." Gwen nodded her head and went to get her jacket draining the last remains of her coffee. "Owen, Tosh time to go out. I'll brief you in the SUV," shouted Jack. Ianto entered at that moment into the main part of the hub. "Ianto," called Jack bounding over to him. "Just the man I wanted to see. There's been some mysterious murders, you'll find the details on Gwen's computer see if anything like this has happened before. Then check the CCTV for around those areas at the times."

"Yes Sir," Ianto said stiffly.

"Ianto how many times must I tell you not to call me Sir it's Jack." Ianto just nodded. Jack sighed, rolled his eyes and then left through the cog door where the rest of the team had already gone. As soon as Jack had left, Ianto raced to the computer at an unnatural speed. Although Ianto had been deep in the archives he had heard every word that Jack and Gwen had said. Ianto looked at all the footage and cursed in multiple languages. "No, no, no," he muttered to himself. "Great just great." After he had seen all the videos he went to work. Although he knew the others wouldn't look it up he had to be safe. Fifteen minutes later and Ianto had finished smirking slightly. Although he wasn't the one killing those humans, he did not need Torchwood finding about him and his kind. Then he went onto the hub's CCTV, he couldn't let any of the others see how fast he was. After he had slowed it down he had nothing to do as he had already checked the archives as soon as he had joined Torchwood. He got to his feet and made his way to the archives so wouldn't cause suspicion to the team. Luckily there were no cameras in the archives so Ianto went at his own pace down there, whether he wanted.

Jack opened the door of the SUV and strided to the dark grim building confidently. The rest of the team carried on at a slower pace almost wary of the building as it had an almost threatening aura to it. All of the team felt it, except for Jack but even then he could have just been hiding that from his team. A couple of UNIT guards were positioned by the doors, the bright green paint peeling away from years of being overlooked. When the team had reached the doors the guards pushed them open and signalled that they could go in. The light was bad in the building, the windows tiny and dusty. When the team had entered and the doors had been shut, the light flickered on revealing a woman in her mid thirties, with curly red hair tied back roughly. She would have been quite pretty if her face didn't have a frown on it. Behind her stood a tall man his short crop of hair greying. The woman stepped forward. "Captain," she acknowledged "I am Major Fiona George and this is my partner in this case Matthew Jenkins."

"My team mates" said the Captain. "Gwen Cooper, Toshiko Sato and Owen Harper."

"Where are the bodies?" asked Gwen looking around the empty room.

"Follow me," Fiona said before walking out of the room into a another smaller one. Five body bags were lain on the floor. "Can we?" asked Jack almost cautiously.

"Be my guest," Fiona nodded. "We'll be just down the hall if you need us." Then Matthew and Fiona left closing the door behind them. Almost immediately the team surrounded the nearest body, pulling down the cover while Owen got out his equipment. "Anita Black, 26 years old, engaged to Gareth Kelly, was walking home from her job as a florist last Tuesday when she was attacked." Tosh read from the information sheet.

As Owen looked at the body he told the team what he could see. "Just like the other victims, all the bite marks are clean, no blood no nothing. Gwen do you see that green device, rectangular, about five button's unit?"

"Yeah found it," said Gwen after a little rummaging she picked up the device and passed it to Owen.

"Thanks," Owen grunted.

"Owen didn't that come out of the rift about a month ago?" Tosh asked, she remembered looking over the device with Ianto.

"Yep, I've figured out what it does, see if you just press this button here turn this switch and then we will be able to see what the body was like just after the attack." Jack didn't look to impressed. "Hey we might find a result here, that we couldn't before, these bodies are all over twelve hours old some at least by four days and I'd rather not see how the body is straight after, not if that means another life will be lost."

"Ok," said Jack nodding his head. "Lets just hope the family don't want to see the girl's body." The whole team laughed except for an unimpressed Owen, who just rolled his eyes. He then turned to the lifeless body and turned the device on.

"This will measure body heat, how quickly the body shut down after the attack, if anything was released into the body etc., etc.

Body heat is normal on most of the body,"

"Most?" Tosh asked curiously.

"Yeah most, every where there's a bite the body heat is almost at freezing point and where the bites are there's venom like a snake maybe," explained Owen. Twenty minutes later and Owen had examined every body, they all had the same results.

"Look if we go back to the hub, Ianto should have gone through the CCTV and checked the archives by now so then we can see what we're dealing with." said Jack confidently walking to the door ready to leave. He knew Ianto would have found something, he knew the archives better than anyone not to mention when he had to find something it was like he had to find it.

Ianto heard the team before he saw them. He felt them before he heard them. He smelt them before he felt them. Just as he always had. Just as he always would. He got to the pile of files he had found about blood sucking creatures and brought them up to the main base just as the team entered through the cog door. "Find anything Yan?" asked Jack.

"Nothing on CCTV sir but there are a few files that might tell us what it is."

"Well if any one of those files contain dropping the temperature of the skin by the bite or any venom which could do anything to its victim then you've definitely found it," Owen called from his desk.

Ianto took away about three files. "None of these say anything about venom." He then took away the rest. "and none of them say anything about unnatural body temperature changes."

"That's just bloody fantastic," said Owen sarcastingly.

A couple of hours later it was early evening. But as it was also early winter so the sky was now dark. The members of Torchwood were still working in the hub. Owen was doing some last minute autopsy's, Gwen was still trying to find some link between all the victims, Tosh was checking over CCTV footage whilst trying to work out when the rift would be active next and Jack, well Jack was trying to get Ianto into bed with him, Ianto was staying strong and was now hiding up in the tourist office. It didn't help that he had blocked the door somehow and Jack couldn't get in. So he was now watching Ianto from one of the cameras when a pretty young woman almost danced into the tourist office. Her dark brown hair was short and spiky and she seemed to have an almost Ianto quality to her. Ianto got up from his seat and started to hug the girl, Jack's heart sank as he watched them interact. They started to talk happily smiling all the time. The girl hugged Ianto again and left. Only moments later and Ianto was entering the hub looking genuinely happy. Before he could say anything Tosh called out "Anyone expecting visitors?" Jack went over to Tosh's computer which was now showing the area just outside the Plass. Just by the water tower were about ten people all perfectly still. The images weren't good enough to see any detail but Jack suspected that the girl from before was there. "Me," Ianto said. "Family, they've just moved to Cardiff actually I was expecting them later this week but as always they like to keep me on my toes. Sir that was what I came down here for to see if I could have the evening off."

"So you weren't coming down because you had finally seen the light and decided to join me," Jack said throwing a cheeky grin at Ianto but he just rolled his eyes.

"I'll see you tomorrow then," he called already at the door.

"God he's fast when he wants to be," Jack couldn't help but think. "Yeah sure thing."

When Ianto had left the team looked oddly at Jack. "Have you actually shagged the tea boy yet then?" Owen asked.

"Ermmm.... well.. you see, " Jack simply answered. Owen and Gwen groaned while Tosh started to smile.

"Pay up," she said holding up her hand while Gwen and Owen put two ten pound notes in it.

"You were betting on me and Ianto having sex?" Jack asked frowning.

"Well kinda you see it just seemed like you were. Always going off with each other for long lengths of time." was all Owen said.

"Hey," Tosh said putting her hands up defensively. "I said that you hadn't. Although I had started to worry when you kept disappearing." she added as an afterthought.

"Just get back to work. When you've finished we can go to the pub." Jack heard Owen rush to the Autopsy bay desperate to finish now that he knew alcohol would be his reward.

Ianto stepped out of the tourist office gracefully the cold wintry winds not affecting him in the slightest even though it was one of the coldest nights of the year so far. In seconds he had reached his family. "What took you so long?" Emmett asked folding his arms.

"Nice to see you too Emmett," Ianto said dryly. Just then he was almost knocked to the ground as the all the female Cullen's ran and hugged him. "Hey maybe I should leave more often if I get a reception like this every time," he joked. "Um.. guys can you let go of me.... please?" Every one let go and moved back a bit.

"It's good to see you again," said a blonde male.

"You too Carlisle." Ianto said sincerely. "What's the face for Rosalie?"

"You stink of human and something else as well. It smells worse than that wolf." she said pointing at Jake. Jake arched one eyebrow up obvisoulsy used to these sorts of comments but Renesmee made a noise that was almost a growl.

"Oh that would be Janet or maybe Myfanwy." said Ianto briefly after having worked with them for a while now he was used to the scent and didn't notice it as much. But the Culens definitely would as not having encountered them before. Everyone looked curiously at Ianto except for Edward as he had now read his mind and seen who everyone was including Janet and Myfanwy. "I'll tell you later."

"Have you been staying at the house we used previously while here last?" asked Esme curiously.

"Yes. I hope you don't mind, it's just easier."

"Of course we don't mind Ianto, actually if you were living some where else then we were going to ask you to move in with us."

Ianto smiled at that. He had missed his family. He had been with them for twelve years so when he went to move to Cardiff without them it felt odd. But it hadn't taken long for him to go into a routine as he had been a vampire for just over thirty years. The first eighteen years were spent alone. The Welsh vampire shook himself out of his thoughts and then with Carlisle, Esme, Rosalie, Emmett, Alice, Jasper, Edward, Bella their child Renesmee and her beloved Jacob went home.

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