The Hacker – Part Two
Summery: When Jack, Martha, Mickey and Gwen are called out on a werewolf hunt something mysterious happens in the hub that Jane and Ianto must solve.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the information/characters of Doctor Who or Torchwood.
A/N: (: Okay people this is part two! Hope you enjoyed the 1st one. This little mini epic fic should be finished by the next part. There isn't too much to go.
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'There's got to be something in here that can stop it!' Gwen leaned over the back seat and searched around in the back compartment of the SUV for something to catch the werewolf with.
'Turning right,' Mickey shouted as he turned the wheel of the SUV hard causing Gwen to be thrown across the back seat.
'Careful!' she shouted as she pulled a small tranquilizer gun out of the mess, 'Do you think this will work?' Gwen passed it to Martha for observation.
'There isn't much left in it but I think we'll at least stun him,' Martha reported holding the tranquilizer in her hand.
'Turn left, Mickey!' Jack suddenly shouted over the communicator.
As Mickey took a hard left they came face to face with the werewolf and Jack on the other side of it. They were now in a shipping yard and there were abandoned warehouses everywhere. The werewolf looked weak from the bullet in its arm but nevertheless it crashed through the window of one of the warehouses.
Getting out of the car Mickey, Gwen and Martha run up to Jack who was entering through the window. Using his gun to move away the broken shards he climbed through. Trying to walk quietly inside his heavy boots crushed against the glass scattered across the floor. He tiptoes around taking cover next to old, abandoned shipping containers. As he was about to carry on walking there was a loud crunch of glass from the window where Gwen was entering from. Quietly mouthing sorry Gwen carried on walking until she reached him.
'We found a tranquilizer gun in the back of the SUV,' she whispered quietly into Jack's ear as they pressed them selves up against a container. 'Martha doesn't think there is enough to send him to sleep but there is enough to weaken him.'
'The bullet he took from Mickey's gun is taking a toll on him. He's really feeling weak and he's slowing down. If Martha can get him with the tranquilizer then maybe, if he's a real werewolf, he'll turn back for us.'
As Martha and Mickey join Gwen and Jack, Jack started giving the orders for where to covering. Indicating that he would taking front right and Martha would take front left Gwen and Mickey was to follow close behind respectively. Counting down from three the team got ready to run until the container they took cover next to was hauled over their heads and thrown half way across the warehouse. The werewolf stood tower over them with its shiny claws waiting to attack.
'Run!' Jack shouted as the werewolf scooped him up, digging its claws into his sides. Screaming in pain he tried to release him self from the werewolf's grip but it was just too tight. Feeling his blood pour down from the wounds he started to feel dizzy and weak. He could feel the werewolf sticking its nose close to him and sniffing carefully at his sent. Fearing that the werewolf might eat him he held his breath tightly and shut his eyes but instead he was flown across the room before crashing into something and falling to the ground unconsciously.
'Jack!' Martha screamed out as she watched Jack hit the wall.
'Leave him,' Gwen cried as she tried to distract the werewolf. 'Tranquilize him!'
The werewolf started to run towards Gwen and Mickey and once it was close enough it stuck out its hand to grab Gwen around the waist. Squeezing its hand tightly Gwen was allowed just enough breath to shout, 'Now, Martha!'
As Martha ran forwards she thrust the tranquilizer deep into the werewolf's back causing him to drop Gwen and howl in pain. Just as Jack predicted the tranquilizer was just enough to force the werewolf to transform back into its human self.
Mickey ran over to Gwen and helped her up as Martha walked closer to what used to be the werewolf.
'Oh my god! Come here, you need to see this!' she shouted.
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Jane held the gadget Ianto past to her onto the laptop. Blue and red shining lights sparkles on the gadget as random letters and numbers were entered as Tosh's password. Once the numbers and letters had stopped changing the words 'Accepted' glowed on the screen.
'Yes,' Jane cried out, 'It works!' She started to enter instructions into the computer and pages upon pages of passwords and combinations filled the screen. 'We've got it Ianto. Every password and combination to the hub.'
'Come on then,' Ianto shouted at her as he ran towards the hub door, 'Let's get out of here.'
Jane stayed seated and watched Ianto, 'What are you waiting for?' he asked.
'We're just going to leave this hacker in here to steal all out information?' Jane questioned him.
'There's nothing we can do. We don't even know if it's a person.'
'Yeah, but that doesn't matter. We're meant to fight alien, not cower away from them. Let find out what it is.' Jane looked back down onto her screen and started to type in some more instructions.
'This can be very dangerous Jane.' Ianto ran back to her and looked over her shoulder at the laptop.
'Yeah, well that's one reason I join – the adventure.' A new screen appeared with a new set of letters and numbers this time ones that looked more like co-ordinates.
'This is every chamber he's opened, every file he's looked at. This person is moving quickly. He cracks it then goes onto the next one he doesn't hang around too long. He not yet half way through everything so we have time to cut him off.' Jane pulled out Tosh's old palm pilot from the lap top back and started downloading the information from the laptop onto the palm pilot.
'What are you doing?' Ianto asked.
'Well, if I am not mistaken this guy has been quite logical. He's opened every file and chamber nearest him first. So, if I'm lucky I am cross reference with opening time and see which was open first this mean he'd somewhere near there or there. Then we can go find him.' Jane began typing again without looking once and Ianto.
'No. No I am not allowing you to do that. I can't let you go off to look for this guy on your own.'
'Who says I am on my own. I've got you haven't I?' Jane smiled at Ianto as she jumped up from the seat armed with the palm pilot and a gun. 'Come on we haven't got all day.'
As they ran down Torchwood's grimy, wet corridors Jane came to a halt.
'Is he near here?' Ianto asked.
'No but this looks like the next chamber he's going to open,' and just as she predicted the door swung wind open in front of them. Daring to step inside Jane found there was nothing. It was a small 8 by 10 feet cell.
'Why'd he open this one?' she asked Ianto who was still standing out side the cell.
'There isn't anything inside it,' Ianto pointed out. Before any more words could be said the door suddenly shut back on them trapping Jane on the inside.
'Ianto!' she shouted as she banged her fist against the door. 'Ianto, help!'
From the other side Ianto was doing the same. Trying to turn the handle of the cell door it was lock tightly. 'Jane, Jane can you hear me?'
Over the communicator Jane hear Ianto, 'Yes, I can.'
'You need to open this door,' he shouted.
'I'm trying,' she called from the inside. Trying to work the palm pilot she entered a few more codes and digits but was cut off when her screen turned black and writing appeared on it, You will never leave alive! As she finished the message an opening from the top of the cell opened and water started rushing in.
Screaming for her life she shouted for Ianto, 'Help, you've got to help me!'
'Why what's wrong? Jane?' Ianto banged his fits against the door in hopes that it might open.
'He's opened a seal and water's rushing in. He wants me to drown. You've got to get me out of here.' Jane tried hard to push the door open, to move it anything but the door was held tightly. 'Please Ianto,' she could feel tears starting to fall down her cheeks. 'Please,' she cried for the last time.
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Martha couched down next to what used to be the werewolf. Instead of a huge, massive hairy creature in front of her lay a helpless, small, thin, young boy. Martha reached out a hand to feel his pulse. 'He's still alive,' she cried out as Mickey helped a wobbling Gwen to Martha.
'Oh my-' Gwen started, 'How old is he?' she asked.
'He looks 14 - maybe younger.' Martha covered her mouth to stop her self from gasping. 'How did this happen?' she asked her self. Turning him over so that he was facing up his blood started to pour from the bullet hole.
'Oh my god. Mickey you shot a kid,' Gwen said.
Martha quickly reached out to put pressure on the wound. 'Mickey, I need you to rush to the SUV and get me the 1st aid.'
As Mickey left a groaning came from the far corner of the warehouse. Jack was awake and healed from his attack from the werewolf. Gwen hobbled over as quickly as she could to assist him. Putting her arm under Jack to help support him she asked, 'Are you okay?'
'Not too bad for someone who's had a ferocious werewolf stick it claws in them.'
'I'm not sure ferocious is the right word,' as they got closer to the body Jack looked down at the young boy. Martha was reaching into the ME's kit and pulling out different antiseptics and equipment needed to take out the bullet.
'Is he still alive?' Jack asked.
'Barely, we're going to need to take him to a hospital. All I can do is take out the bullet and treat him. Full recovery should take place in a hospital,' she said caring on dealing with their victim.
'Fine, but I want him under you're care then. You'll be the head doctor for him.' Gwen rested Jack down as they watched Martha do her magic on the poor innocent boy.
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In the cell at the hub the water was rising up to Jane's knees. She leaned against the door feeling her tears mix with the water that poured in from above her.
'I can't get it open,' she hear Ianto shout over the communicator.
'What? No you can't leave me in here!' the fear rose in her as she tried not to accept that she might be dying here. Her voice was breaking and her breathing quickened as she tried crying and scream for help at the same time.
'You have the password with you - can't you open it from there!' the sound of Ianto's voice was soothing. He didn't sound scared at all. Everything he said was soft and calm. Jane felt only slightly reassured to know that he was on the other side but when she thought about it the fact that she was trapped and that she couldn't get out over it whelmed her.
Wiping away her tears and brushing her wet hair out of her eyes she tried to read the screen on the palm pilot, 'Try the code 47DE8OP.' In her head she told her self to breathe in deeply and hold, breathe out slowly and hold. But she could feel the water rising up to her waist.
'Jane,' Ianto said softly into the communicator, 'it's not working.'
Jane took a big gasp of air and tried not be hysterical, 'He's changed the code. And I can't find out what it is. Ianto, I can't get out of here.'
'No, I am not leaving you!' he shouted over the communicator.
'I don't know if I can get out of here.'
'You can. Please, Jane, think! There has to be a way. I'm not leaving you in there.' She could hear Ianto starting to get scared. His voice was trembling and getting softer.
Jane turned to look at the door. Examining every part of it he rested her hands on the hinges.
'Ianto,' she called.
'Have you found the code?' he asked.
'No but if you get a power drill I just might be able to get out of here.'
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Carefully using a pair of tongs Martha slowly pulled the bullet out of the young boy's shoulder. He was still unconscious but he moved slightly as the bullet finally left him.
Dropping the bullet into an evidence bag Martha said, 'Okay, we've got to get him to a hospital now.' They wrapped him up in a blanket and Jack carried him to the dented SUV.
They drove quickly to Cardiff General Hospital where they stopped at the Emergency Area. Jack quickly carried the boy into the hospital where Martha flashed her medical card at the nurses and doctors.
'This boy has just been shot. The bullet has been removed but I want to do some further tests on him. No one but me is allowed to touch him alright?' she told the nurses and doctors that were crowding around the boy's bed.
Gwen, Jack and Mickey sat patiently in the waiting area. Jack pulled his coat tighter around himself to conceal his blood stained shirt – there was no need for him to be rushed into ICU just for the doctors to find blood but no scares. Gwen held her wrist tightly. She had sprained it after being thrown across the warehouse by the werewolf.
They waited patiently and quietly for the next 10 minutes before Jack finally stood up, 'I am going back to the hub see if I can't find a way to get Ianto and Jane out of there. Gwen you stay here and have Martha see to your wrist once she'd done. Mickey -' he thought for a moment, '-just stay here encase of anything.' He tossed the keys to the SUV at Mickey before rushing out of the hospital, his coat waving in the wind behind him.
Just after Jack's departure Martha finally came out of the ICU centre, dressed in the white doctor's cost, looking for her colleagues. 'Where's Jack?' she asked.
'He's gone back to the hub. He thinks Jane and Ianto are still trapped inside,' Mickey replied to her.
'Okay, well we'll have to do with out him. I'm waiting for the results of some test I've done on the boy but I need some more advanced equipment from the hub. Not to mention I've got to try and find out who this boy is.' Martha sat down next to Gwen and took her wrist in her hands. 'It's just slightly swollen. We can get that wrapped up and everything will be okay.'
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Jane could feel the water starting to rise up to her neck. Hopefully if Ianto was able to drill directly through the hinges and weaken them then the pressure from all the water should press against the door and open it. It was only and theory at most and the possibility of it work, as Jane calculated it, was very slim.
'Jane?' Ianto called from the other side of the door. 'What do you want me to do?'
'Drill directly into the hinge,' she shouted trying hard trying not to breathe in water at the same time. 'They're old and brittle so they should break easily but they are quite thick so you'll need to drill hard.' Jane could feel the water level still rising. Her feet were still touching the floor but as more water rushing in her feet soon lifted inches off.
From the other side of the door Ianto started to drill. Aiming directly at the middle of the hinge he prayed hard that it would work. As the drill got deeper and deeper into the hinge he could see water seeping out of the hole he was creating. Once he could go no further he moved onto the next hinge. There were 4 all together and Ianto hoped that Jane would still be alive by the time he finished the last one.
Inside the cell the water was inches from the roof. Jane took a large breathe and swan under the water. She calculated that she has less than a minute to go before there was no more air left. She broke the surface one last time to take in her last breathe as the water finally reached the roof. She swam under the water and examined the drill holes that Ianto was making. She couldn't see a direct hole but she could fee the hinges becoming soft. As she felt herself loosing air she quickly tried to push the door. Forcing her self onto the edge where the hinges were she banged her fists hard against them. She only had seconds more air left in her and there was none left in the cell. She felt her self become weaker and weaker and her eyes wanting to close slowly. Trying to stop her self from giving up for felt her last breathe leave her as she closed her eyes and drifted in the water.
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Jack ran into the tourism office and past the beaded curtains that separated the Torchwood hallway from the rest of the office. Running up to the metal door he tried to type in the access code but it denied him. The hub was literally dead locked from the inside. Turning on his communicator he tried to contact Ianto or Jane but there was no reply. He pulled out his handphone and tried to call Ianto's cell but the connection failed. He quickly tried to think of any the routes in but there weren't any that were not dead locked. He banged his fist against the door feeling defeated.
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Ianto stepped back away from the door. He had drilled into every singed hinge but the door was yet to budge. There were only tiny dribbles of water trailing out of the holes he'd just created.
'No!' he shouted frustratingly. He didn't want to feel like this, defeated and beaten. He couldn't lose a nothing member of the team and especially not one which had just joined. Angry and upset he threw the drill at the door. It hit the hinges square on and caused more water to flow out of the holes. Standing back he waited before moments later the door burst open and the water flooded out caring Jane with it.
Glad to see her he rushed up to her but she was curled up on the ground with her eyes closed. Pulling his ear to her chest he checked for a heartbeat only to find it beating softly and slowly waiting to disappear. Tapping her face softly and shaking her shoulder he tried to get her to wake up but she wouldn't.
'You can't leave Jane,' he said soft checking her pulse again. With her heart beat decreasing there was only one thing he could think of doing. Laying her flat he lifted her face up and pressed his lips against hers. Breathing into her deeply he released and continued CPR onto her chest. Checking her pulse a second time it was still slow and irregular so he tried again. Pressing his lips against hers and breathed out. As he lifted his lips off of Jane's he could see her eyes flickering open. Slowly they revealed her crystal grey coloured eyes that stared into his. She took a deep breath before coughing up water. Taking her hand and wiping it over her face she looked back at Ianto. As smile crept on her face as she lift her arms and threw them around his neck.
'Thank you,' she said soft into his ear.
'My pleasure,' he replied as Jane loosened her grip around his neck. Bring her face to look at his she quickly pulled him down so his lips met hers. She kissed him deeply before releasing him and dropping her eyes.
Slightly still overwhelmed by the kiss Ianto got up and pulled Jane along with him. Jane brushed a few strands of wet hair out of her face as she pulled out the wet palm pilot from her jeans.
'Wow, its water proof,' she giggled to her self as the screen lit up. The screen showed the lay out of the Torchwood hub. On the map was a red blinking dot. 'That's where our hacker is.' Jane pointed out.
'Let's find out who he is then,' Ianto said as he grabbed Jane's hand and began to run down the wet and grimy hallway.
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A/N: So, what did you think? Any good? Comment if you think… or if you don't think. It's nice to see what people think XP