5

Owen was annoyed that the room was supposed to be off limits, that they could not talk about it more and especially the fact Jack told the team it was not an active case right now. Clearly it was their Vampire Case.

"Bullshit" he spluttered "I know where that is!"

"No you do not" Jack sighed, glad the address had been erased from the board after Ianto had pointed out that maybe it was a bad idea to have that on display.

Jack had hoped it was over with as the Wraith were both absent for the time being, down in the lower levels exploring what would be their home now. Ianto was so glad to have a companion. He missed the Big Foot people and his lovely Rhiannon but the pull to be with Jack was so strong... so bloody strong. He had never felt this before, this… bond.

They entered the Hub late in the afternoon to wraith up to the rafters and Ianto instantly noticed Owen was missing, turning to look for him with interest. Toshiko would have him on the screen, tagged and following. Right?

Nope.

He watched everyone moving around like there was no problem, even though he felt certain there was something wrong. Very wrong. He waited until Jack was in his office to slide around the walls into the room and stand behind him to then whisper softy "Where is Doctor Harper?"

Jack jumped, and then he laughed as it was a rarity for him to be surprised "Shit. What?"

"Owen?"

Jack walked to the window and looked down "I didn't notice him gone. Huh."

Jack walked out to the mezzanine level "Tosh? Where's Owen?"

Toshiko looked over at the autopsy bay and frowned, standing to go look over the railing "I didn't see him leave. Little shit, hold on. I will ping his phone."

She clicked away and sighed as she looked again at the autopsy bay and Jack knew the phone was there. Not like him at all. Then Andy turned from his own workstation "His bike is still here too. He took one of the old vehicles for some reason."

Ianto knew a possible reason and sighed. Toshiko looked up what Owen had done last then told Jack that Owen had been going over CCTV footage and …. "Ianto? Is that shadow moving around the room … is that another Ianto creature or something?"

"Yes" Ianto said, stepping into the light while motioning for Clark to stay hidden "It's me."

Toshiko gaped at him as Andy started a high pitched braying laugh. "Oh god… shit. You prick. How did you … where the fuck did you come from?"

"I think that is the least of our problems tight now. He was looking at the board for the address before I erased it, damn it all" Jack spat with anger "The little fucker. I told him to leave it alone."

Jack spun to look at Ianto only to find him already gone, another following him as they moved with speed towards the Nest.

Of course this is where Owen would be.

Twat.

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Owen was standing in the street outside the house gaping at it in broad daylight. Fucking idiot thought he was safe as it was daylight. Had he never heard of bloody Familiars? Jack was surprised he had not just walked up and knocked on the door.

"Owen, what the hell…" anything else Jack was about to say died in his throat as Owen made a noise of confusion, staring at Jack like he didn't know who he was. "Owen? Owen, can you hear me?"

"Jack? What… I … what?"

"Glamoured. Owen, where did you see one?" Jack asked softly "When?"

"Huh?"

"Owen, snap out of it. At some stage one of them hypnotized you so that when you came here you would shut down… like this. Come on, it's a good truck to get prey to come of its own accord but I thought you were not so bloody stupid…. A night club. Aw Owen, I said no nightclubs." Jack groaned. Ianto had hold of Owen's jacket as he strained against him and Jack realized the little twat was trying to get to the house. Ianto had been holding him back all this time. He was not frozen in place, he was anchored in place by the Wraith. Oh fuck.

"Huh?"

Jack fought the urge to face palm as he knew dammed well this idiot had gone night clubbing for the weekend as per usual despite the totally hour length conversation in the meeting room about night clubs being a hunting ground for the fucking vampires. Really? Actively thinking about them had triggered the suggestion left by the blood suckers and now he had the address, the little twat had come here and then once close enough to be in their zone…. Had gone fugue.

He wondered who else had been glamoured with the suggestion to go like this is they decided to come here.

Why now?

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"I still don't understand what happened" Owen admitted as he sat in the Hub staring at Ianto with open shock.

"Look… I did die but I came back. I came back here with Jack and am now your resident ghoul. OK? The vampires glamoured you, several people most likely. They know you are Torchwood and they could get to you, so they did. No doubt scared that Torchwood was onto them, they made sure that if you ever found their nest, you would simply shut down like you did. Jack had to bodily wrestle you into the SUV to come home." Ianto sighed as he waved a hand to show his impatience with the explaining thing.

"Well, that makes sense because remember Gwen did the same thing on that street when we were chasing that Hoix that night?" Toshiko pointed to the screen and the image of the house "I remember that house. She seemed… shocky. I thought she had hit her head when she tumbled over while tackling it."

"Yeah" Jack looked at Ianto who suddenly looked around himself with alarm.

Where was Clark?