Jack, Gwen and Tosh simultaneously jumped back when Ianto sat up. Owen's saw clattered to the ground. He pulled down his surgical mask. "What the fuck?" he asked to no-one in particular. "That's impossible, you're dead. I was about to do the bloody autopsy on you,"
"I guessed," Ianto replied dryly. "When I realised I was lying on the autopsy table and you were hovering above me, saw in your hand."
"At least when I die I'll stay dead tea boy," Owen snarled.
"Do you really think I want to be here?"
"Guys stop it." Gwen called out. They both stopped shouting at each other, but kept on giving each other evils, Gwen chose to ignore this. "Jack, how is this possible?"
"I haven't got a clue. Owen do a full body check on him. Make sure he's all right, then tell me. Also if he drops dead then-"
Ianto coughed loudly. "Still in the room,"
"Come on guys, lets leave them to it," The other three filed out to their respective desks, all of them eyeing the autopsy area with great interest.
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"So tea boy, how are you still alive?" Owen asked as he pressed the cold metal stethoscope to Ianto's chest.
"How should I know?" Ianto shot back at the doctor.
As Owen shined his torch into Ianto's eyes he queried. "What was it like being dead?"
"Well there was a great shining light, like I was at the end of a tunnel, and I walked closer and closer to it." Owen looked at him. Totally believing Ianto and why shouldn't he? "When I got to the end there were these massive gates. I was standing on the clouds and then," Owen shoved Ianto.
"No really what was it like?"
"You shouldn't have to know these things. Otherwise it will haunt you everywhere. I can't tell you,"
"Tell me Ianto, I won't care."
"Are you sure?" Ianto asked. When Owen nodded he started to speak again. "There was nothing there. Just darkness. You were there by yourself, no-one else. I thought, or more or less hoped that I would be reunited with the people I love. But no, there was none of that." He wouldn't tell Owen of the thing in the darkness. He would tell Jack later on, maybe.
Ianto knew he was right in his decision to not to tell Owen everything as the young Londoner was now quite pale. "I told you I shouldn't have said anything about it,"
"No, it's fine. I've finished everything now, why don't you go to the conference room while I get the others."
"Owen in case you've forgotten, I'm naked."
"Oh good lord," Owen muttered. He then turned around and called to Gwen. "Gwen, could you go to Ianto's locker and get some spare clothes." As the Welshwoman stood up to leave Owen quickly added. "If he only has suits in there then go to mine and grab the t-shirt and pair of jogging bottoms."
A couple minutes later, Gwen had returned and gave the pile of clothes to Owen. When Ianto had changed into Owen's spare t-shirt and jogging bottoms he made his way to the conference room, the others all following him cautiously. When they had all seated Owen began.
"Ianto seems to be fine. Literally. If I didn't know better I wouldn't believe he had tried to kill himself half an hour ago. But he's completely healed. Remember how Ianto was covered in bruises and cuts, but now there's nothing. When Lisa threw him across the hub, I suspected he'd have a least bruised ribs. But there isn't anything. His heart beat is good and strong, he's reacting well. In fact the only strange thing is in his blood."
"What's in there," Ianto asked.
"Your blood seems normal, but there are traces of this weird energy and I haven't got a clue what it is. But I have seen the same energy before in someone else's blood."
"Who's Owen?" Gwen asked intrigued.
"Jack's,"
"What, how is that possible." The American demanded to know.
"I don't know okay Jack. All I know is that Ianto has little traces of this energy in his blood, you however have much more. The energy in your bloodstream is much denser and powerful. In Ianto's there's barely any and it from my results there seems to be less and less every time I check. By my guess, it will all be gone in just under twenty four hours."
"Owen can I have a look at the blood samples," Jack asked his voice strained.
"Sure," Owen nodded and then brought it up to the T.V screen.
"Just as I thought." Jack said to himself. Then to everyone else. "I think it's time I told you something about my past." Everyone turned to him and started to pay even closer attention than they were before. None of them wanted to miss anything, as Jack rarely gave away any information voluntarily. "I originally come from the 51st century. When I was old enough I joined something called the time agency. Don't ask me what it is because I'm not going to tell you. I can't it's all in my past. Somewhere, where I don't go often. Anyway thing's happened and I ended up leaving. I became a con man. I had this," Jack held up his wrist. "A vortex manipulator, it lets me travel anywhere I want to any time I want. I travelled to the year 1941 and tried to con these two people. The Doctor and Rose Tyler. Except it didn't go to plan. Hell I almost killed the human race. The Doctor had a ship, that could travel in space and time. He called it a TARDIS. He offered to let me travel with him and I accepted. We travelled everywhere. In that time the Doctor made me human again. But then we travelled to the year 200 100 to a game station, circling around the earth. The Dalek's were there, so the Doctor sent Rose back to the 21st century as he knew that we wouldn't survive and he had promised to protect her. The Dalek's shot me while I was defending the Doctor and I died for the very first time. But Rose came back, she had looked into the TARDIS and absorbed the time vortex. When she came back she brought me back to life. But she couldn't control it, so she brought me back permanently." Jack was silent for a bit, remembering his travels with the Doctor and Rose. "Anyway, when Lisa threw Ianto across the hub, he was unconscious. Then she deleted me, when I woke up Ianto was right next to me. I kissed him to wake him up and I guess some of the energy transferred into him."
"So this isn't permanent right?" Ianto asked after a while.
"No like I said earlier, twenty hours at the most."
"Right," Ianto had his usual emotionless mask on but Jack saw that he was pleased that he wasn't immortal. Then it clicked.
"From now on Ianto you are not going to be left on your own. I don't want you harming yourself purposely, in the Plass you revealed what you wanted and now we know what to expect. Until we know we can properly trust you, you're going to be in the Hub at day, then either staying here or going to one of the others homes. At daytime you won't be working but recovering. You are not to work for an entire month. Do you understand me?"
"Yes Sir." Ianto spat, clearly not happy with the arrangements.
The Captain tried not to roll his eyes at his stubborn employee. Instead he looked down at his watch. "Right it's 3:30 in the morning. All of you go home and get some well needed sleep. Come in late tomorrow I'll call you if there's any trouble." They all nodded and stood up to leave. "Not you Ianto," Ianto slumped back into his seat sighing loudly. Once everyone left Jack said smiling, raising an eyebrow. "So wanna bunk with me?"
"In your dreams," Ianto spat, standing up going to one of the many spare rooms located in the Hub. Jack stared after the young man. Getting Ianto to open up and start to trust him and the whole team was going to be harder than he first thought.
Told you this chapter would be longer :D
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