"You didn't say anything to Bergen?" Jack asked as the team got some stuff together before heading back to the circus grounds.

"No." Owen said.

"That poor girl." Tosh said. "I wonder what happened to her and the others."

"We'll find out soon enough." Jack said as he slid his arms into his greatcoat. "And we'll make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else." he added. "We all set?" he asked.

"Yes." everyone muttered as they made their way outside.

"We did some background checks." Ianto said as he settled into the backseat. "A circus has popped up a few times in what some stories." he added. "Claude Bergen has also gone by the name, Douglas Frey, Richard Hatter and Wendell Holmes."

"How long has he been around?" Tosh asked.

"Wendell Holmes goes back the furthest." he answered as he looked at the piece of paper he held. "Back as far as 1813."

"Almost two hundred years?" Owen asked. "So what, he needs the teenagers to keep him young or something?"

"Don't know." Jack said as he took a corner quickly and knocked everyone around.

"Richard Hatter shows up first around 1873 and Douglas Frey around 1920." Ianto went on as he grabbed hold of the handle on the seat in front of him. "Claude Bergen showed up in 1942."

"Doug didn't last too long." Gwen said.

"No, he suposedly died in a fire that killed his wife and daughter." Ianto said.

"Please tell me his daughter's name wasn't..." Gwen started.

"Christine Rose Frey." Ianto finished for her,nodding slowly.

"So we've got a man and his daughter, thought to have been dead for the last almost ninety years, sucking the life out of kids." Owen muttered.

"By why these teens?" Gwen asked.

"Let's ask Mr.Bergen." Jack said as he pulled the SUV up outside the entrance to the circus. Looking around, they all noticed that the place seemed to be totally empty.

"I wonder where everyone went." Tosh said, looking around.

"Don't know." Jack said, "Let's hope they all went home. We don't want anyone else getting hurt."

"Good evening." a clown in a garish red and gold outfit came up, bowing to Gwen and Tosh. "Perhaps the ladies would like a boquet of flowers?" he said and with the wave of his hand, a bunch of paper flowers appeared.

"Excuse us." Owen said, moving to push past the clown.

"I can't let you pass." the clown said, moving to block Owen's way.

"Sure you can." Jack said. "There are five of us and only one of you." he pointed out with a smile.

"More than that." the clown said, smiling, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth.

The group watched as about ten more clowns, all different shapes, sizes and colors, came out from different tents and moved towards them.

"I think we've been sucked into 'It'." Owen groaned as he watched the demented clowns approach.

"It what?" Tosh asked as she drew her gun along with the others.

"The movie." he answered.

"Never heard of it." she said, raising her gun.

"We need to have a movie night." Owen said.

"Come now, boys and girls." the first clown said, beckoning to them slowly. "No need for those silly things, put them down and we can have fun together."

"Stop, or we'll shoot." Jack said, raising his gun, finger poised over the trigger.

"Now, now." another clown said. "We can have fun." he repeated the first. "Come ladies, you don't want to shoot us."

"Stop!" Jack said once more before firing, soon followed by the others. "Come on." he called as he ran past the fallen clowns.

The others ran after him quickly. As Ianto went to run by, something grabbed his ankle and we was brought down. As he fell, he looked up to see the other clowns closing in on him.

"Get away!" Jack called.

"Arrghh!" Ianto howled as one of them sank it's razor-like teeth into his thigh.

With a shot to the head, the offending clown fell away and Jack quickly got Ianto to his feet and handed him off to Owen who had come back to help.

"Get him out of here." Jack said as he was grabbed and dragged down.

"Jack!" Gwen called, moving to run back, but Tosh grabbed her arm and dragged her along in the direction Owen indicated.

"We can't just leave him out there." Gwen said as they huddled in an empty trailer.

"He can't die, remember?" Owen said as he bent to look at Ianto's leg. "This is ugly." he said.

"Nice way to reassure the patient." Ianto groaned as Owen ripped a strip of fabric from his shirt and tied it around Ianto's leg.

"Better than lying and saying it wasn't too bad." Owen replied. "I must have dropped my medical pack out there."

"What do we do now?" Gwen asked, pulling back the dingey curtain that hung over the small window overlooking the front of the circus ground.

"Wait." Owen said with a shrug.

"That's your idea?" she asked as she turned to look at him. "Wait?"

"Do you have a better idea?" he asked. "Jack's out there, God only knows what they're doing to him and when he'll be able to rejoin us, Ianto's been used as a chew toy, and we don't know what else is out there."

A banging came from the door and they all stood perfectly still, staring at the door.

"What if it's one of them?" Tosh asked as she sat next to Ianto, holding his hand, trying to distract him from the pain.

"Guns at the ready." Owen said, drawing his own, standing in front of the others.

"Is someone going to let me in?" they all sighed in relief hearing Jack's voice.

Peeking out the small window, they checked to make sure it was actually him before opening the door.

"Jack, are you all right?" Gwen asked as she threw her arms around his neck, almost knocking him back out the door.

"Nothing I won't get over." he said as he moved Gwen back a bit. "How bad is it?" he asked as he moved away from Gwen and over to Ianto, kneeling down and squeezing his hand.

"It's not good, but I don't have my medical pack." Owen said.

"How'd you get pass them?" Ianto asked.

"They left." Jack said.

"Just left?" Tosh asked in surprise.

"Yeah. One minute they were chomping on me, the next they were slinking away." he said, not taking his eyes from Ianto.

"Well, Captain, what's our next move?" Owen asked.

"We get to Bergen's trailer." he answered. "He's the one behind all this, right?"

"In theory." Tosh said.

"Okay then." Jack said as he stood up. "Toshiko, you stay here with Ianto, we'll head for Bergen."

"Okay." Tosh muttered, nodding.

"You ready?" he asked Owen and Gwen.

"Not really." Owen said. "But, then again I don't know how to mentally prepare for flesh eating clowns and almost two hundred year old men who suck the life from teenagers."

"Unfortunately, we don't have time to figure that out." Jack said as he moved to the door. "Lock the door behind us, Toshiko."

"Okay." she said again.

"Let's go." Jack said as he swung the door open and hopped down out of the trailer, Gwen and Owen right behind him. After hearing the door lock behind them, they set off where Gwen said to go to reach Bergen's trailer.

Notes: I'm gonna have to end this chapter here instead of finishing off the s/l...can't think of an ending at the moment, so I hope you enjoy this bit...hopefully the rest will come to me soon, although any ideas on your part(s) are greatly appreciated :)