A few minutes passed, Jack was stood by Arialle, Ianto at his side. Suddenly, Arialle took a deep breath as her eyes shot open, Owen looked over in surprise. She was covered in blood, but without a single scratch.
After a few minutes and a change of clothes, Arialle was back to her usual self. She appeared to have got changed into some skin tight leather jeans, kept her docs and replaced her top with a black vest that the material cut off just below her ribs and was replaced with black mesh that reached her hips. She then pulled on a black leather jacket and her weaponry belt.
"Jack, where's my gun?" she asked
"Here," he replied passing her the gun as he walked past.
"We are going on a trip," Jack told the team "to the countryside," he added, Owen groaned in obvious disapproval.
"Bloody Countryside: it's cold; wet; cold and... That smell," Owen grumbled with a grimace "What is that smell?!" he asked loudly
"Grass," Gwen replied, sarcasm, annoyance and boredom lacing her voice.
"It's disgusting," Owen scoffed.
"If you'd smelt some of the planets I've been on that would smell like heaven," Arielle told him, exchanging a look with Jack, they both smiled weakly, then continued as usual.
"17 reported missing in about a month, this isn't just a coincidence," Jack announced
"And now that Sherlock over there has finished that strike of genius, we need to think about how and why." Arialle concluded, earning a scowl from Jack. They set up camp, Owen grumbling the whole time.
"Gwen, Owen, go get some firewood," Jack ordered in the hope that Owen would stop moaning. Arialle and Jack were having a talk about something.
"Always left out of it aren't we," Tosh commented. Not in a bitter way, just she sounded hurt, "Never noticed by the ones we love," she finished with a sigh as she watched Owen enter the woods
"He'll notice you one day Tosh," Ianto responded sympathetically.
*skip to when Jack, Owen, Gwen and Kieran are in the pub with Arialle*
"Tosh and Ianto have been ages," Arialle commented
"Probably dead if they're out there," Kieran muttered bitterly
"Don't say that," Owen and Arialle retorted immediately.
"They're cleverer than that, but either way, I'm gonna go look for and possibly help them if it's needed." Arialle informed everybody as she walked towards the door.
"You can't go out there, they'll kill you," Kieran protested
"I'd like to see them try," Arialle retorted with a bitter laugh as she left.
"Ianto, Tosh?" she shouted "Ianto!" "Toshiko!" she continued to shout. "Ya-" a hand covered her mouth before she could say anything. She was dragged somewhere when she started to make a fuss, a bash to the head was given, knocking her out cold. Arialle came round when her captor had nearly gotten her to where it wanted her. She turned round and muttered
"Lets have a look at you," she pulled his facemask up "Oh, now you're a beauty," she commented. In reality her captor was a middle-aged man who was missing a few teeth from the front, and those teeth that were left were yellow and rotting. Arialle looked him in the eye and said
"so.. You single?" he nodded and she kissed him, then pulled away, and breathlessly ordered
"Tell me everything you know,"
Arialle was shoved into the room to join Ianto and Toshiko roughly, the door swinging shut behind her, she stood up and looked at her company. Smiling, she ran to hug them both
"I thought you were dead already," she mumbled Toshiko pulled away from the hug and Arialle lost her grip on Ianto and looked at the two of them.
"What do you know about this place?" Tosh asked
"A fair amount, that man was very helpful," she replied with a smile "we aren't prisoners," she told them, after taking in their serious expressions "We're-" she was cut off by the door opening
"Are any of you hurt," the cowardly woman queried. She looked them over and decided they weren't, then took them up to the kitchen.
"Do they look like us?" Tosh asked
"How else are we going to look?" a man asked.
"Well that's disappointing, I kind of thought we might have been caught by some Raxacoricofallapatorians. But no, all I get is that, brilliant, trust me to get captured by-" Arialle was cut off by the man hitting her with the end of an air rifle.
"Well, the meat needs to be tenderized before we eat it," he commented with a grin as he stoked down Tosh's face, he walked near Arialle who spat in his face when he tried to get near her, having her hands tied behind her back made it incredibly difficult to fight anyone off. He got to Ianto, who smiled innocently, then head-butted their captor, who immediately fought back by punching him and hitting him in the face with a rifle. Arialle was held back by the woman and Tosh ran as ordered to do so by Arialle. The aesthetically challenged kidnapper hit Ianto round the head with the rifle a few times before Arialle lunged at him
"Get off!" she yelled, he turned and slammed the rifle into her head, then went to look for Tosh. Another not particularly good looking man walked in
"They're definitely a town of lookers," Arialle muttered "Aesthetically challenged," she continued, loud enough for anyone in the room to hear. Earning herself a bash to the head, Ianto laughed at her comment
"Shut up!" the new addition screamed at him.
Screams. Ianto's screams of pain. That's all Arialle could hear when she resurfaced from her unconscious state.
"Stop!" she yelled, shaking free of the hand lightly holding her arm, she ran towards them and threw a kick at the head of Ianto's tormentor. She looked at where Ianto lay, barely conscious, and dropped to the floor next to him, managing - after a long time of struggling - to loosen the rope around her wrists enough for them to slide to the floor, she untied Ianto's hands, and held him close
"We'll be ok, don't worry," she soothed. The now slightly bruised man stood up, looking at Arialle
"Little whore," he spat, wiping some blood from his face, she was grabbed from behind and her hands were tied up tightly, the rope so tight she could feel the bruises forming almost immediately, bit didn't protest, as she knew this would give them what they wanted. Her previous victim stood up and grabbed Ianto by his collar. Arialle felt someone grab her chin, forcing her to watch as Ianto was beaten mercilessly. When he was finally done with him, and Ianto was unconscious, he shoved a sack over the Welshman's head and turned on Arialle. Of course she wasn't such an easy victim, having had much more experience in this kind of thing than her best friend. Eventually she was nocked out for the second time that day.
After about half an hour, Arialle came round, having heard voices, she sat up groggily. Immediately, her hair was grabbed, turning her head to look over at Ianto, who was now conscious and gagged. It was then that Arialle noticed the dirty tasting cloth gagging her.
"Human meat you see is like venison, has to be bled for a long time before it's edible," the toothless man who had kidnapped Arialle informed the onlookers. He pickled up a machete and pressed the blade to Ianto's throat.
"Stop!" came Arialle's muffled shout. She was about to make a lunge for them, when there was a loud noise from behind her, she turned to see the wall breaking, and Jack arriving in a tractor. He got out and shot the kidnappers to wound them, one moved to grab a gun
"Oh really?" Jack laughed harshly, shooting his hand. Jack untied everyone, then he and Gwen took who seemed to be the leader of the vile group to another room so Gwen could question them. Arialle and Ianto sat with Owen and Tosh. Ianto and Arialle sat in an ambulance with the doors open, Arialle's head was resting on Ianto's chest, his arm loosely draped round her waist. Toshiko and Owen were stood opposite, Owen with his hand on Tosh's arm, supporting her as she had felt dizzy from the adrenaline and various hits to the head. They weren't talking much, only Owen would ask the occasional question, just generally making sure they were all ok.