"Doctor," Jack cried out in delight pulling the man to his feet. Smoke still pored out the open TARDIS door and swirled around our feet.
"Jack good to see you again." The doctor said through coughs. I reached down and offered my hand to the man at my feet, I couldn't see his face through the smoke and after he took my hand I pulled him to his feet.
"Thanks tea boy." Exclaimed Owen. I couldn't move.
"Owen?" I demanded. I reached my hand out and touched his frozen cheek.
"Um… Jack?"
"Yeah, what's up?" He asked turning to face me. I could see his expression out of the corner of my eye. I still had my hand resting on Owens cheek and looking down into his eyes.
"I thought we managed to get rid of it?" I asked not breaking eye contact. Jack came running over and dragged Owen away from my hand pulling him into a hug. I stood with my hand outstretched until the Doctor came to stand in front of me.
"Ianto Jones. Nice to finally meet you in person. I've heard so much about you through Jack and Martha."
"Good things I hope, sir." I wasn't thinking properly and realized my mistake afterwards.
"Oh no. No sir, just the Doctor." He said with a smile.
"And… And how did you?.." I asked pointing at where Jack still had his arms around Owen.
"Ahh, well… Your Captain kind of let slip that you had a team member who was 'the walking dead,' I found out what happened to him and decided to check it out. I found a man sitting on the floor of a radioactive room. I guess you can link that to here." He told me scratching his head. I stared into his deep brown eyes before looking over at Owen. "
"So you survived?" I asked him as the two of them walked over to where we stood.
"A week and a half before he found me." He motioned towards the Doctor with his thumb.
"Always has had trouble with dates." Jack mumbled earning a scowl from the Doctor. I chuckled and my phone went off. I pulled it out and answered it.
"Ianto…" Breathed John. "There are some huge energy readings coming from the Plass. I don't know what it is and your machine keeps beeping at me." He told me.
"Were dealing with the Plass and I'll be down to stop the beeping in a little while." I told him. He groaned and I ended the call. "Captain issues. Shall we go inside." The Doctor looked confused and Owen looked annoyed.
"Doesn't he always have issues?" He asked looking at he with a twinkle in his eyes. I laughed.
"Amazingly we have a more issue prone Captain." I told him walking towards the invisible lift.
"Please tell me he didn't get Tosh's job." Winged Owen, I could hear the anger rising.
"He didn't get Tosh's job. He only just came back." Jack told him. "We'll go around." Jack said as I jumped on the lift. I could hear the beeping before I was even below the surface, I gave Jack a worried look as I disappeared below ground level. I couldn't see John anywhere as I reached ground level. I ran across to Shorty's station and begin looking across the screens. It wasn't a normal rift alarm. I hit Esc and it stopped.
"What? How did you do that?" Demanded John jumping out of his hiding spot under all the cushions on the lounge where he had been trying to hide from the noise.
"Um… I pushed Esc?" I told him.
"Oh. I think my alarm clock mush have got caught up with all your equipment. One hell of a wake up call." He told me.
"Yeah, right." I mumbled closing all the windows I had just opened trying to find the problem. The cog door rolled back and John looked over at the newcomers. "Hey, the hot Doctor is back." He cried in delight. "I thought I killed him, wasn't that why you hated be?" John mumbled the question to me. I shrugged and tried to get the systems functioning again.
"Beeping?" Jack asked John. He ignored Jack.
"Oh, and who might this be. Another one of Jack's pets?" John teased.
"Yeah, Jack wishes." Mumbled Owen walking into the hub.
"I'm the doctor." He told John.
"Oh." He sounded disappointed. "How is this going to work." He scratched his head. "The cute doctor?" I don't know, I'm to tired." He winged walking over to the lounge and laying under all the pillows again.
"Well why'd you set your alarm off at…" I glanced at my watch "… Ten o'clock at night." I asked walking towards the lounge and sitting on his back. He grunted an tried to push me off.
"Because I thought you, eye candy, would be like any good little boy who would be tucked up in bed by now." He told me managing to push me onto the floor.
"Ahh, you could be wrong then." I told him with a cheeky smile.
"Oh, how I wished I wasn't." He mumbled making room for the Doctor who sat next to him. Jack pushed my head towards the floor before sitting behind me.
"Your picking up bad habits off Conway. Go and finish cleaning the autopsy bay." He told me.
"Thought you were taking me home to Idella." I said turning and leaning against the coffee table behind me.
"Oh yeah."
"What did you do to my autopsy bay?" Cried Owen looking down at the mess.
"Conway decided to repaint." John told us. The two of us laughed at the memory. Jack glared.
"No. John decided to repaint the autopsy bay and Conway." I voiced my afternoons discovery. John kicked me with his foot.
"Oh no. You didn't." Begged Jack. I chuckled darkly.
"No of 'coarse not Jack. Not me. I wouldn't do a thing like that." Said John sweetly, fluttering his eyelids at Jack. The Doctor laughed at Johns attempts.
"Maybe you should be cleaning instead of Ianto." Jack threatened.
"No Jack. I'm fine. He wouldn't clean it anyways." I commented worried about how that threat would turn out. Probably with the whole hub smelling like rotten meat for months. I shuddered.
"Anyways…" The Doctor changed the topic, "I got a call from Martha a few days ago saying I should probably drop in and see you." He commented looking at Jack.
"So she did get you. I thought you just missed me." Said Jack raising an eyebrow seductively, I shuddered instinctively as I watched. "Looking like we need you to stick around. We have some visitors that are due and they look like trouble." Jack told him. My memory forced the images of Jack, broken and sobbing into my arms on New Years Eve into my head. I rubbed my foot against his calf to encourage him. He smile and looked at me out of the corner of his eye. The rift alarm suddenly went off. I jumped up and ran to Shorty's station.
"Weevil attack has been reported to the police. Owen, you want to come along?" I asked him. I saw the twinkle in his eyes, the smile that lit his face.
"Take John, call Shorty and tell her its under control and feed that dog while your at it. She may as well come here, she's probably lonely at your place." He told me. I smiled and blew him a kiss, grabbing the equipment we need and heading for the SUV with the others close behind. John starched across the back seat and I gave Owen the keys.
"It's good to be back." He said breathing in the sent of the SUV as we roared along the road towards the sighting. "But I have to ask, number one the dog?" He asked. I dragged her name out.
"When I was with Lisa we bought a dog because we couldn't have kids and my friend took her when I moved to Cardiff. They just bought a house and there not aloud dogs so she made her way to Cardiff and now lives in my apartment. Great Christmas present." I told him.
"And Shorty?" He asked. It clicked and I pulled my phone out of my pocket.
"An alien." I told him as she answered on the second ring. She sounded breathless.
"Do you want me to come in?" She demanded, I could hear her pulling on cloths.
"No, me and John are dealing with it. Have fun, what's his name?" I asked her.
"Hang on." I heard a conversation on the other end.
"Blake." She told me.
"I'll have coffee waiting for you in the morning." I told her. "Along with your painkillers, yes." John laughed in the backseat.
"She said at least she can get some." I told him.
"You don't know the half of it." He claimed. I heard groans from the other end.
"I'm going, bye." I told her hanging up.
"Alien?" He demanded.
"Oh I don't know the half of it. You mean that bum you fuck last week and the poodle two nights ago… Anyone I'm forgetting?" I asked him looking over my shoulder.
"Give me an hour."
"You stay away from my dog." I yelled at him. "I swear, one finger on her and you won't be able to fuck anyone ever again." I told him.
"Oh, it won't be a finger." Me and Owen both groaned at the thoughts.
"I feel sick." He claimed. I gave them both the weevil spray and one needle full of tranquilizer.
"There is one that I know of but the heat energy signatures suggested two." I told them as Owen pulled up outside the warehouse. There was an ambulance and a police car. I climbed out. "John deal with them." I told him walking towards the door and pushing it open The warehouse sunk like rotting fish and I could hear running water somewhere inside. The torch didn't help much, it just showed the hundreds of rotting fish corpses across the floor. I walked forwards and could hear the weevil moving deeper in the warehouse. Owen was following me.
"Not I remember why I hated this job." He told me. I heard him heave once but he kept up as I moved across the floor. The weevil was inside the office on the second floor. It was standing over in the other corner. Owen's instincts kicked in and he launched towards the Weevil. He had it on the ground in seconds but I was frozen to the spot, staring at the screen of the computer which showed CCTV footage pf the Doctor and Jack sitting in the hub.
"They got inside." I voiced moving across the room and sitting at the computer.
"What? Who?" Demanded Owen coming to stand next to me. I opened files and looked threw the information.
"They have everything, even the archives. The passwords, everything." I told him.
"Who?" He demanded.
"I don't know." I admitted. I pushed the button on my com. "John, I need the virus program that's on the CD in the SUV." I told him looking through the all to familure information.
"I'm going to go see if there are any more Weevils around." Owen told me.
"No need. The other ones gone." I told him as I looked at the heat signatures of the building. We waited for John to arrive and when he did I took the CD and put it into the computer. Installing it into the software until it finally crashed. Haling the Weevil over my shoulder I followed the others out to the car. No one spoke as I climbed into the backseat and began sorting threw the Torchwood documents. Pulling out my phone I dilled Shorty's number. She picked up on the third ring. "I'm so sorry but we have a problem." I admitted to her.
"What's up, Ianto?" She asked.
"Someone's been watching us, Torchwood. We found a computer which has been used to hack into everything. They could see everything. I need you to get to the hub, set up a firewall and double check everything, securing files. I'm going to have to reprogram all the passwords." I told her.
"I'm on my way. I'll see you in a little while." She told me. I could her Black arguing in the background.
"Where are we headed?" Asked Owen as we stopped at a set of traffic lights.
"My place." I told him.
"Left." John told him. We eventually turned into my apartment block.
"Okay, now I'm really scared. How do you know where I live?" I demanded as we climbed out of the car and walked towards the lift.
"Oh, you'd be surprised what I found out that night we went out with Conway and Jack." I had forgotten about that. This scared me more then not knowing.
"Come on." I told them
Idella bounded into the hub. Shorty was sitting at her desk and Idella walked over to her, I walked over to Conway's desk and began working on the passwords again.
"Hey girl." She cooed as the dog sat on her feet. John carried the bag of dog food into the kitchenette and Idella ran after him. When I had finished Idella was laying across the lounge with her head on John's lap. He was running his hand down her back lovingly. Owen was cleaning the autopsy bay and Shorty was still sorting threw files.
"Is Jack in his office?" I asked her.
"I'd say so. I haven't seen him since I came in." She told me. I thanked her and headed towards the stairs. Jack and the Doctor were sitting on the lounge in Jack's office.
"Your back." Said Jack happily as I stepped in and went to lean against his desk.
"Sorry we took so long. Ran into a bit of a problem. Seems our firewall has a few holes. I dragged Shorty in and she's almost finished fixing it." I explained to him. He healed his hand out towards me and I moved across to him.
"You mean…"
"Someone's been inside Torchwood. They could have walked threw those doors and we wouldn't have known. I wiped everything." I told him.
"Any idea who?" He asked pulling me onto his lap. The Doctor smiled at us.
"None." I told him, heat raised into my face. Jack had never been this open abut our relationship in front of anyone. I heard Idella bark somewhere in the hub.
"I'll be back. Have to save my dog from John." I told them jumping up and running out the door. Conway was standing just inside the cog door and Idella was standing in font of him barking and growling. John and Owen were laughing so hard and Shorty was leaning against her computer to hold herself up.
"Idella." I called. "Leave him alone." She bounded forwards jumping onto he's shoulders.