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Ianto lay on the desk with Jack snuggled on top of him.
"Gods, I needed that!" Jack sighed, nuzzling into Ianto's neck "Been so long since we did that. Sturdy desk."
"You did love a good desk" Ianto agreed as he rubbed his back and enjoyed the warmth. "Come on Cariad. We can spend the last few minutes eating something and then moving on."
Jack got up and stretched, his back cracking as he groaned and Ianto sat up, letting his hands slid over the taught stomach of his beloved. He was also wiping him down with a cloth from the drawer than may have been a duster but needs must.
They went back out to find everyone else doing up their vests and getting ready to move out, Mickey strangely amused by something. Ianto accepted an energy bar and chewed as he looked around some more, Jack now energised and calm, pulling out some boxes. "Oooo, look. A braxion gamma ray!"
"Really? In working order?" Ianto leaned in and Jack scented them on him, the musky scent he loved so much. It had been a while since a good roll in the hay. So busy with Pip, others… the train. He knew they had to try harder to carve out time for one another.
"Awesome, I want it!" Mickey said as he looked around and Ianto pointed. Mickey whooped as he saw what Ianto was pointing at, a hover trolley. One large enough for a body! Mickey started putting parts on it that he knew Bonny would drool over, even as Ianto silently added things to the lower shelf that he knew Tosh would possibly shed a tear to see. He also watched Jack check boxes to add so he went in search of another hover trolley. Something they had hoped for, Archie a fan of these things as his old body hated manoeuvring the large crates about. Finding the two shelf one was great, a multi-stack of three or four sleeves would be nice too.
Sean called out to him as he jogged to catch up and Randy was still laughing as he walked in the other direction with Liam to check another corner of the large warehouse style room. Ianto found one, full of shit that needed to be pulled off and he was humming softly when he suddenly realised he was not looking.
He straightened up and scanned the area, everyone the same as him. Heads down scavenging. With horror he saw no lookout and as he thought it Dean swung to look at him while Frank started to stalk the perimeters.
Shit, stupid that.
All these recons and he took his eye off the ball. Sean looked up from helping Ianto to find him walking with purpose in the direction of Randy and Liam who he could no longer see.
With a shrug, Sean continued pulling the boxes of tat off the hover so they could use it.
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Randy reaches over while still talking to Liam and opens the other small office door. The metal gate swings back opening up the door.
A SIX-FOOT MONSTROSITY STANDS IN THE OPENING. GHASTLY BEYOND IMAGINATION, SQUAMOUS, COVERED WITH TENTACLES, IT HOPS DOWN LIKE AN OVER-SIZED BIRD AND GRABS RANDY IN RAZOR-SHARP TENTACLES.
Randy lets out a horrible shriek, and the thing grabs his head in one claw and is about to TWIST IT OFF LIKE A MAN PULLING THE HEAD OFF A CHICKEN, but Frank slams into it and THEN THROWS IT TO THE FLOOR WITH AN AUDIBLE CLUNK.
Clutching Randy's unconscious body against him, Liam watches as Frank roars and stands between them and the monster. The monster looks past them at the Wolfling baring down on them.
THE MONSTER LEAPS HEAD-FIRST INTO AN AIR SHAFT.
Liam and Frank are left in shock. After a moment, Ianto joins them.
"What happened? Where is it?"
They break from their paralysis, and Ianto runs toward the opening the creature just leaped into. It is another shaft, going down into darkness.
Jack cries out with alarm as he follows, yelling for Abner to see to Randy.
Ianto quickly turns a couple of corners and then comes to an abrupt halt when he notices that a DOOR LEADING TO THE LOWER LEVELS HAS BEEN WRENCHED OFF ITS HINGES.
He hesitates, uncertain what to do, then there is A SOUND FROM THE DIRECTION OF THE FURNACE... AND THE INNER LOCK DOOR IS OPEN.
Ianto hesitates and peers into the lock s he calms himself back to human form.
The creature is squatting in the middle of the floor, gnawing on a bloody dog leg. It does not see Ianto.
Stealthily, dropping back into the shadows, Ianto presses the coms in his ear speaks into it.
Whispering he asks "It's in the furnace – can we fire it up?"
"Give me a minute" Sean replies with a shaky voice, his hands not as deft as Ianto's but he knows the general gist of the system. A sound of an alarm to empty the room and then the whoosh of air that is followed by the roar of flame.
Ianto peeks into the window and watches the monster die. He turns to find Jack is behind him, also peering in.
"So. Not quite a Xenomorph but definitely an insectoid" Jack mutters and Ianto sighs as he nods.
"Come on. We wasted time with that" Ianto says like it was no big deal and they head back to see it Randy is OK.
Especially as they have just seen another level door by the furnace they did not know about.
Time was ticking.