Owen stitched and dressed jacks wounds roughly, making sure to catch any internal bleeding.
Owen and ianto carried jack back to the suv, getting him onto the back seat while gwen and tosh got the alien into the boot. Everyone climbed in and owen drove off, being more reckless than usual.
"Owen your gonna hit something! If not someone!" Gwen rationed.
"Would you like our boss to bleed to death, gwen?" Owen asked calmly.
"No..."
"Then shut it, would you?" He asked in the same calm tone.
"Okay okay."
"Good."
Upon ariving at the hub they lifted jack onto stretcher, taking him to the med bay. Owen got to work once jack was on the same table rhyce had been on when he'd been shot.
Ianto paced the main hub restlessly. Usually Owen would have complained or snarked something sarcastic. But owen was down in the med bay working on jack.
Seconds past into minutes, minutes into hours and jack was still down in the bay. Gwen frowned. Ianto had given up pacing, deciding to clean the hub instead. "Ianto, come over here please."
"What do you need?"
"Why dont you try to relax a bit? You've been working around the hub for hours."
"Yeah ianto take a break, come on. Lets go sit on the couch. Yeah?" Tosh offered
"Okay." Tosh and gwen led him to the couch.
"So. Whats up? Hmm? You seem really bugged." Gwen enquired.
"I cant do anything about whats happening with jack. Didnt do anything about it when it happened."
"Oh pet. That was because he wanted you safe. Thats why he didnt let you go i bet." Gwen said.
"Yeah, it probably would be you on that table if he'd let you go out there." Tosh reasured. He sighed.
"Yeah, but i still could have done something. Warn you guys about the lost communication or something. But i didnt think anything of it."
"It'll be okay ianto. Your only human, you make mistakes. Its okay because your human." Tosh said.
"I hope he'll be okay."
"We all do."
It had been seven hours since they brought jack in. And jack was still unconscious while owen worked on him.
Finally owen finished. They moved jack into the tiny wing of recovery rooms that they had.
Gwen ended up bringing in a flannel blanket for him a day later. Tosh had gotten him a blue wool one the day after that. And still he hadnt woken up. Ianto was always in there. Watching over him.
"Does he have any family?" Gwen asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"We might want to tell them..." the unsaid words were clear. "Sorry...i just thought maybe...well never mind...forget about it."
"No. We should tell them. Would you mind? Gwen...calling them...for me..."
"Sure. No problem ianto."
"Its selfish. I should be the one doing it."
"No, youve got enough on your mind."
"Thanks gwen." He handed her the phone. "Linette, Austin,Carla and Rylinn are the names. They're in the contacts."
"Okay." She took the phone, nodded and left the room to make the call.
"Hello?"
"Hi. Rylinn?"
"Yeah. Why? Whos this? And why've you got iantos phone?"
"Well, ya see here, jack's been hurt...badly...hes struggling. I'm a friend, and im doing ianto a favor, hes got a lot on his shoulders at the moment."
"Oh, god. I'll be right there. Bye gwen." And she hung up.
"Hello?"
"Hi. Carla, is it?"
"Yes. Whos askin?"
"Im gwen , jacks been hurt. Hes struggling."
"Dear god, i'll be right up, jus gotta grab jaylinn."
"Okay." And it cut off.
"What'a ya need?" Austin said.
"Hi. I'm gwen, ya see jack has been hurt, and hes not keeping up well."
"Be right over."
"Hello? Whos this?"
"This is gwen. Jack has been hurt badly and isnt keeping up very well."
"Be right over." And it cut off.
Gwen and tosh greeted jacks family, and three of them promptly almost ran them over as they sprinted to the recovery wing.
"Sorry about them. That was Carla, Rylinn and Austin. Jacks sibblings. They get very...excited... at times"
"Like children?"
"Yeah..."
"Just like jack then." Owen pipped up.
"I'm guessing hes in the direction they all just bolted to?"
"Yeah."
"Okay. By the way, im linn, jacks mom." They nodded, making way for her to go to jacks room.