Title - Start Me Up - Prologue
Disclaimer - I own nothing of Torchwood, unfortunately. If I did I would be a very happy woman.
Rating - T
Pairings - Eventual Jack/Ianto
Summary - When Ianto's body disappears from the Torchwood vault after rift activity, Jack's at a loss at what to do. But when The Doctor shows up with a new companion, things change forever. Post CoE
AN: Thanks for all the reviews and favourites! It's good to know that people like the idea for this story. Anyway, hope you like this chapter as much as the Prologue!
It was the new team's first Weevil attack, and Jack was apprehensive as to how they would work together in the field.
When the recruits had joined them, Jack had briefed them on the most common of aliens found in Cardiff, one of them being the Weevil. He didn't need someone to freak out when they were trying to stop the damn things.
Someone had called Andy at Cardiff Central Police Station to let him know of a group of homeless people in a warehouse that looked very strange.
Andy had immediately called up Gwen to let her know as it sounded suspiciously like something Torchwood would deal with.
Gwen and Andy had a sort of agreement now he knew about Torchwood. He would be their contact inside the police force to let them know of anything suspicious that was going on.
"Thanks Andy, I owe you one." Gwen said, hanging on the call. "Jack, we've got some trouble."
Gwen quickly explained the situation, before Jack nodded and starting putting together the team in his head. It was going to be a good way to test the team. The Weevil's weren't attacking yet, but a group of them joining together was never a good thing.
"Right Gwen, you direct us to the Weevil's. I want you staying in the Hub for this one." Jack said firmly.
"But Jack! Besides you I know the Weevil's better than anyone here. And just because I'm pregnant doesn't mean you're going to make me sit out of everything!"
"Gwen, this is going to be a training exercise of sorts. I want to see how well they do under pressure. So you'll be sitting this one out."
Gwen had been about to respond when Jack just walked away from her, already yelling out orders.
"Gareth! Victoria! Colin! You're with me, we've got some Weevil catching to do!"
The ride in the SUV had been quiet, each member of the team nervous in their own different ways.
For Colin, a man who had worked in UNIT before, he was more nervous about impressing Jack than anything else. Working in UNIT, he'd seen a bit of alien activity, and so wasn't too put off by going straight into a warehouse full of Weevils.
Gareth and Victoria on the other hand, had never seen any alien before in real life. Both had done some research through the Torchwood database, but they were both apprehensive about actually seeing alien life in person and having to fight it.
Though Jack was a little nervous to see how the team worked together, he felt reasonably confident that he had chosen well and everything would go accordingly.
Gwen was giving him directions through his earpiece, and sounded a little sullen but did her job none the less.
They arrived at the warehouse quickly, and Jack told everyone to arm themselves, but be careful. He didn't want anyone getting nervous and start to fire bullets in every direction.
What they didn't need was for the Weevils to panic and start to scatter. All they wanted to do was break up the gathering, and maybe try to subdue a couple of them to take back to the Hub.
Jack took the lead, the three others following close behind him. They spilt into two groups, Victoria coming with him while Gareth and Colin moved round to the other entrance.
The Captain could hear the heavy breathing from his teammates in his earpiece. They were all nervous, and nervous sometimes caused mistakes.
"Move in." He whispered through the communicator, before kicking down the door gun leading the way.
It was a quick operation, mainly scattering the Weevils so they went back to the sewers. Jack didn't want his Hub to be filled with Weevils stinking up the place.
"Good job team. Nice thinking Colin, shooting in the air to scatter them. The last thing we want is to clean up a Weevil body. Hell to get blood stains off of this coat." He joked, holstering his gun.
What he hadn't noticed was a Weevil watching them in the shadows that suddenly leapt from the corner.
Victoria panicked as the Weevil went for Jack, and fired three shots. One of them got its target in the shoulder, and the Weevil squealed before running out the warehouse.
The other two had hit Jack in the chest. Victoria wasn't the best shot in the world, and the Weevil had been coming up behind Jack.
With a lasting breath, Jack slumped to the floor, and Victoria let out a loud gasp before she panicked.
"Oh my god Gwen! I shot him, I didn't mean to… it was an accident, he was just in the way and the Weevil was coming. I didn't think, my god Gwen he's not moving." Victoria screeched into the earpiece.
Gareth was checking Jack's vitals for any sign of life, and shook his head when he found none.
"He's dead! He's actually dead! What have I done?" Victoria was staring at the gun in her hand, while Colin stood there frowning.
He'd heard that Captain Jack Harkness couldn't die and yet the man was quite clearly dead. It must just be bored UNIT employees making up gossip to pass the time.
Back at the Hub, Gwen wanted to smack herself. These new recruits really didn't know anything, and she really didn't need them screaming down the communicator at her.
"Victoria calm down! Just wait a couple of minutes okay?" She paused, hoping that the woman wouldn't freak out too much when he came back to life. "Though I should warn you about something. Jack's a bit special you see he…"
There was a scream, and Gwen could guess that Jack had just revived. At least it had been quick this time.
Though it was going to be interesting trying to calm down Victoria.
After the Weevil operation, Jack had explained to the new team that he couldn't die, but they should avoid from killing him where possible. He liked to keep count.
The three of them had paled at that thought.
Jack was a formidable man; no one wanted to get on his bad side.
Things had been going quietly for the past couple of days, and Jack knew that it wasn't going to stay that way for long.
It never did. There was never a 'quiet week' when you worked for Torchwood.
There was a sudden spike in rift activity, alerting everyone on the computers. It was a large spike, and it was close.
"Tell me where it's coming from people!" Jack boomed, running out of his office and into the main work area.
Gareth was tapping furiously away on his computer, but when he saw where the rift activity was coming from his fingers flew over the keyboard to check again. Turning to Jack, he looked very surprised.
"It's coming from inside Torchwood sir. Inside the vault, specifically drawer number 107."
Jack instantly knew that was the drawer that Ianto's body was kept in.
Without another thought, Jack fled the room and ran to the vault where they kept all the bodies. He'd done this so many times before, but now it was with an urgency that he hadn't felt for a long time.
Pulling open the drawer, Jack expected to see Ianto's body lying there, perfectly preserved, just as he had always been.
The white body bag was there, but it was flat.
Not wanting to believe what he was seeing Jack tore open the flimsy material to discover the truth.
Ianto's body was gone.
The rift had taken Ianto's body.
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