Ianto didn't know what was happening. One minute he was trying to make his way down the street so he could get home and to bed, and the next he was being rushed into the back of the SUV and staring into a pair of familiar eyes.
"Hospital, Jack!" Owen snapped, not looking away from Ianto. "Shit, Ianto. Why didn't you say something?"
"You were busy," Ianto gasped, closing his eyes tightly to try and stop the nausea welling up as Jack slammed on the gas, "Didn't want to be a bother."
"Shit, Ian," Owen muttered, squeezing his eyes shut. Ianto's eyes flew to the other man at the sound of the long forgotten nickname. "Anything happens, anything, you fucking find me, alright?"
Ianto nodded slowly, his mind racing to catch up with what was happening – which was difficult considering the pounding ringing through his head. He had to be imagining this. He had probably passed out on the side of the road and was just dreaming that Jack – the man who was quickly coming to mean more to him than he wanted to admit – and Owen – his brother – had come to find him.
There was no way this was happening. Jack was probably out looking for a shag for the night and Owen was probably shagging Gwen. Now way they were here.
"Oi, Tea Boy! Stay awake!" Owen growled, snapping his fingers in Ianto's face.
"Owen!" Jack snapped.
"Just drive the bloody car, Harkness! Let me worry about Tea Boy!"
Ianto closed his eyes once again, this time to try and stop the black dots that had suddenly appeared in his vision. This wasn't real. Jack had barely looked his way since the Lisa thing – hell, Jack hadn't even looked his way before the Lisa was nothing to the man. Nothing but someone to clean up after him and the rest of the team.
And Owen… Owen hadn't talked to Ianto, really talked, since he was ten years old. He had never acknowledged the connection between the two of them when Ianto had come to Torchwood. Ianto had never even been sure Owen knew who he was. Until they starting working together, he hadn't seen him in twelve years.
Of course, after Lisa, Owen had made sure Ianto knew he wasn't worth his time.
Ianto let out a deep grown as the car hit a bump in the road, making his body jostle along the seat. Pain exploded through him, making those black dots swim and slowly start to overtake his vision.
"Shit! Ian! Fuck, Jack, drive!"
Jack was sitting beside Owen, a worried frown on his face. Owen was hunched over, his head buried in his hands.
The hospital had rushed Ianto back as soon as they brought him in. Owen had tried to go back, claiming he was the doctor in charge of his care, but the Doctor had been blocked and informed that it was a conflict for him to work on Ianto and he needed to wait outside.
Jack had had enough.
"Something you need to tell me, Owen?" Jack asked softly, raising an eyebrow when the doctor jumped.
Owen glared at the other man, "Why the hell did you bring him anyway? He doesn't do fieldwork! He's the bloody Tea Boy!"
Jack glared right back, "It was supposed to be a team bonding exercise! He wasn't supposed to get hurt!"
"But he did!"
"Why do you even care? You've been a bastard to him since he joined!"
Owen fell silent, a closed off expression overtaking his features. Jack sighed almost feeling bad about his outburst when he saw the look on the other man's face. "I'm going to ask you one more time, Owen. What is going on with you and Ianto?"
Owen continued to stare at Jack defiantly for a moment, then let out a deeps sigh. "My parents got divorced when I was just a kid. Right after my little brother was born."
Jack frowned, "Owen-"
"Just listen, Harkness! My mother took me with her to London. My father kept my older sister and little brother. I saw them maybe once a year, during the summer growing p. I left when I turned eighteen. Haven't really seen, or talked, to any of them since."
"Why don't you just tell me-"
"I am telling you! Ianto stayed with tad and I lived with mum! Haven't seen the kid since I moved out of mum's house when he was ten."
Jack froze, his eyes wide. That hadn't been in any file or – "I didn't see that in any of the –"
"Yeah, well, I don't know how Tea Boy did it, but he seemed to completely erase any mention of me from his file," Owen muttered, a scowl on his face. "And mine says my parents were divorced and I grew up as an only child. Which is true."
"You said a sister-"
"Rhiannon. Older than me by a couple of years. She and Ianto aren't really close from what I can tell. I haven't talked to her in… well, she called me after Canary Wharf."
"Wh-"
"She doesn't know what Ianto does, but she knew he worked in that place. Knew he was missing. Thought I should know. First conversation I'd had with her in years."
"So you knew your younger brother was somewhere in that building and you didn't think you should inform me?" Jack asked, fury overtaking his features.
"Didn't really consider him my brother," Owen replied, not looking the other man in the eye, "hadn't seen him in years. Was a little pissed he worked for Torchwood London, though. Then you had to bleeding let him work in Cardiff."
"He deserved-"
"You though he would be a good fling," Owen snapped, standing quickly and scowling down at the older man.
"Well you never said-"
"Didn't know if he knew who I was," Owen muttered, scowling. "And if he did, he didn't seem to care that I was there. Didn't try to talk to me or any shit like that. So I just treated him like everyone else."
Jack studied the younger man, wondering if he really believed that. "You treated him like crap, Owen."
"Which is what he deserved!" Owen growled out, eyes flashing. "After letting that Cyberwoman-"
"She was his fiancé-"
"I didn't even bloody well know he was engaged!"
"Did he know about Katie?"
Owen froze at the question, the scowl sliding off of his face. "He didn't need to."
"Owen Harper?" The Doctor attending to Ianto asked, stepping into the room with a tired look on his face. Owen and Jack made their way over quickly. The Doctor looked at Jack for a moment before turning his attention back to the younger man. "Your brother is going to be fine. He has a concussion, a couple of broken ribs, and some internal bleeding. We've stabilized him for now – we just have to wait until he wakes." Owen and Jack both let out deep sighs of relief. "Now, we have some paperwork for you to fill out."
Owen looked uncomfortable, "I'm not sure if I'm the one to –"
"Mr. Jones has you listed as his emergency contact and next of kin, Doctor Harper." The other Doctor replied, raising an eyebrow to the shocked looks he received from the men in front of him. "Someone should be with you shortly regarding the paperwork. We will let you know once Mr. Jones wakes."
