Ever-Living

by The Phantom Rising

Jack and Ianto are in the worst situation where they have a dead body that is giving off a new type of radiation, the body seems to never wither or die and have the possibility of an all out massive crack for the whole of the planet to fall into. Set between Journey's End and Children of Earth: Day One.

2. It's a Dead, Dead Miracle

TORCHWOOD
EVER-LIVING
TWO
It's a Dead, Dead Miracle

JACK WAS HEISATANT ABOUT BONES. After Bones had killed him, Jack went straight into an autopsy with it. The question was, how could it have been alive? If something was buried under the snow, it wouldn't start to come back just to kill. After the autopsy was finished, Jack noticed something in the bones of the skeleton and scraped it off.

"There's a lot of black dust around him." Jack mentions.

"He would have been a smoker then." Ianto argues.

"No, because this person is in fit condition. Even more so than when I dragged him out of the snow." Jack says. "It's reviving itself."

"That's not possible." Ianto says.

"I would agree, the human race hasn't found that revival drug yet. So, what we have here... is a body that is a rebuilding itself minute by minute. And all because of this black dust around it's bones." Jack explains. "And the time radiation coming around it, so yeah... it's not possible."

Just then, the skeleton started to move it's hands again.

"Jack..." Ianto says.

"Give me a minute, I'm trying to think here." Jack tells him.

"Jack.!" Ianto asks him, louder.

"What?! Ianto, what?" Jack inquires.

"The body is moving again." Ianto tells him as it moves its body to sit up straight on the table. Ianto edges to get a weapon.

"Don't Ianto. It has no heart, shooting it now will be a little scratch on himself." Jack says as Ianto stays where he is. "But if you want to do something, go and check records for who he is."

Ianto rushes to the monitors as he types in a description of who this skeleton is whilst Jack tries to do something with the body in the Autopsy room.

"Okay, tell me what you want?" Jack asks it as Bones's jaw-bones reconfigure as it starts speaking.

"I want... revenge." Bones tells him.

"What for?" Jack inquires.

"I want revenge for the people who killed me." Bones says.

"Jack, there's no such person on the database who had a body like that." Ianto tells him.

"First, tell me your name." Jack requests.

"My name is Thomas Rearshedden." Bones introduces himself, as Jack notices that red patches are being filled into his face.

"Hello, Thomas. Nice to meet you, my name is Captain Jack Harkness." Jack tells him.

"Jack." Ianto says.

"Yeah?" Jack asks him.

"That time radiation. It's not just there anymore. It's here. And it's doing something to the world." Ianto explains.

"What, what is doing?" Jack inquires.

"Cracks... in the skin of the world." Ianto describes it, as Jack looks at the monitor and then Thomas. Shit has just hit the fan.