Title: Entity
Pairing/Characters: Jack/Ianto Ianto Jones, Captain Jack Harkness, Owen Harper, Gwen Cooper, Toshiko Sato
Warning: None Really
Summary: Chapter 1 - A not so routine rift investigation
Author's Notes: Sushi Chi && I are writing this one together. Thanks to her for coming up with the story Idea.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and the team are owned by BBC && RTD

Ianto wasn't sure how long he was out, only that his head finally felt a little bit better. There was still an aching that wouldn't give in but it was nothing compared to the time before.

"Jack?" He murmured, noticing the croakiness of his voice immediately. He clutched at his throat unconsciously.

"Huh? Yan?" Jack jumped, waking suddenly from a light sleep. He quickly got closer to Ianto. Not that he was far away, no, he hadn't left Ianto's side, but he needed to be as close as he could get.

"I think I feel a little bit better." He mumbled.

"Don't speak too soon." Jack chuckled. "Are you okay?" he asked suddenly.

"I don't know." Ianto admitted, moving his gaze to the floor.

"Do you think you could do something for me?" Jack asked. He immediately felt horrible for even thinking what he had thought.

"I'm up for anything at the moment." Ianto shrugged slightly. He did feel better, which made him feel like he could do most anything. The pain now mostly nagging.

"I'll get Owen, just in case." Jack murmured leaving Ianto's side for the first time in what felt like forever. Ianto felt a chill as Jack moved, like he was now missing part of himself.

Ianto sat in the meeting room feeling tiny. He didn't know why he felt so alone in that room, but he did. He watched as the others came in and one by one they sat down around him.

"Now Ianto, I need you to concentrate really hard. I need any information about this thing that you can find." Jack said, slipping back into his roll as the boss.

Ianto nodded and closed his eyes in concentration. He sighed deeply, trying to control the pain via breathing. "I…I don't know Jack. Ah! It just blocks me out." Ianto groaned in frustration.

"Go deeper Yan."

"It…it wants to learn. To find out about us." The Welshman said after a length.

"That could be easy to fix. We just show it around and then it'll leave." Jack said, hoping it could be as simple as that.

"It's not that simple Jack." Jack sighed, of course it wasn't simple. Nothing ever was, "This thing wants trouble. It craves it. I don't think it plans on letting me out of this alive." Ianto sighed, feeling the pain of the concentration.

"Okay, breathe. Go deeper, find out who it is."

Ianto paused, wincing in pain as he tried to search for the entities name. "Ah! God!" Ianto yelled in pain.

Jack jumped up and was at Ianto's side as soon as he heard Ianto's cries.

"Stop! Stop okay, that's enough." Jack urged, feeling his boss persona cracking away.

Ianto shook his head, "You need this information Jack."

"I'd prefer to have you alive." He swallowed thickly.

"The information could help us."

"No Ianto, you need to stop, please." Jack begged.

"If I go a bit further, I know I can find it, trust me Jack." Ianto's voice still calm, stating to Jack that he was in charge and he could control it. But Jack knew that Ianto could not control it, no matter how much he wanted to,

"I trust you but I don't trust it. You need to be careful. You need to stop."

Ianto yelled out in pain and lulled his head to the table. Jack pulled his head up, looking him in the eyes. Terror played in his mind. As quickly as it happened, Ianto rose his head back up.

"Yan? You okay?"

Ianto paused, looking around the room at everyone in sight, blinking slowly. "Yeah. I'm okay." His voice didn't seem to have it's natural flow.

Jack looked to him skeptically. "Owen, check him over."

Owen nodded and stood up, walking over to Ianto. "Come on tea boy."

They walked out to the Autopsy bay. The three left in the room sat, deep in thought.

"That wasn't normal." Tosh murmured after a length.

Gwen nodded silently in agreement.

"Something isn't right. I knew I shouldn't have gotten him to do that!" Jack yelled in annoyance.

Out in the main area of the Hub Ianto had already knocked Owen out stone cold and had let the doctor crash to the unforgiving ground before leaving via the cog doors, having turned off the alarm before hand.

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