Wanna get this show on the road?
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9
Jack was sitting at his desk in his office as the clock in the hallways chimed eleven o'clock. Damn. He couldn't sleep, pacing and thinking like a bear with a sore head and as he waited for the request for a check on Ianto to come back from his old crew he found himself pacing as he kept going over and over past conversations he and Ianto had shared. Did it matter if there was a Hoodlum connection? It would be the Welsh connection right? Nothing at all to do with New York and even if there was a New York connection…did it matter? Like he told Ianto, another life. Right?
Jack's phone went and he snatched it up, throwing himself in his chair to hear the voice of his commander. Not his teammate he had expected. Huh? "Commander?"
"Sorry Jack, I am using Hart's phone as he is the one you chose to contact. Listen, we are trying to keep this under the radar but we are in the middle of a shit-storm here. The database was hacked and some delicate files were pulled. One of them is in your town and we currently have no one in the area that is capable of giving an assisted cover. The file should be in your emails now. Can you cover until a team can get there?"
Jack was floored "Hang on. The FBI's Witness Protection Program was hacked? Are you serious?"
"Jack. It was hacked earlier today, we were not informed straight away as IT thought they had continued until the first death. Then the second death before the link was established. We now know all the J files were taken and so far two of our witnesses are gone. We are trying to cover the remaining six Js out there. Again… can you assist?"
Jack clicked on the file and looked at that familiar face with horror, his stomach knotting as he croaked out "I need background. I need to see who is coming at us."
He glanced at the clock and knew he had to act fast. His mind already going over the routes to here from the city and calculating times for impact. If a city crew were coming for a sweep of this subject they would be over half way here. Fuck.
Jack rose from the chair and went to wake his son, stepping over the bloody cat.
And to get his gun.
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Ianto was awake as well, Jennifer at his house as she and Paulie snuggled on his sofa. Ianto was pacing as he also considered the evening and the ramifications of what he now knew. He could call someone and talk about it, but he didn't want to. He didn't want to ask about Jack, open Pandora's box.
The flash of lightning made him jump, swinging to stare at the window, counting in his head until the boom that was far too close and far too loud for his liking. Shae yelping as he ran from his bedroom looking for his father and instead seeing Jennifer and Paulie, running to snuggle with them as Ianto ran his hand over his face and walked to the large bay windows to stare out at the dark front yard.
Another flash of lightning and there was someone in the garden, running towards the front door.
Ianto barely had time to register it before Jack was slamming into the house, shutting the door and yelling at Ianto to get away from the windows.
Jack was soaking wet, frantic as he let go of Joseph who ran for the cuddles on the sofa as Ianto gaped at Jack. The kitten fell from the kid's arms to wrestle with its litter brother, both tabbies delighted to be in the same room once more. Jack just seized Ianto's hand and dragged him towards Ianto's bedroom.. he thinks… he realized he has never been in this part of the house.
Ianto rerouted him to a room to the left and they closed the door, Jack panting with adrenalin as well as fatigue from the panicked run.
"Jesus Jack, what the hell is going on!"
"He's out. He's out and he knows. A breach in the FBI mainframe gave away all the J files in the Witness Protection Program and in the last 24 hours the infamous Subway Slasher is loose on the street? Where do you think he is coming? He is coming for his kid right?" Jack said, then pointed in the direction of the other end of the house "Red hair?"
Ianto stared at him long and hard then felt the blood drain from his face, numbness setting in as he whispered "Paulie? Paul is…. Oh god. Jaimeson? Why his school files were weird. I asked at the time… doctored."
"Yeah. Jennifer and Paul are in the program and right now their cover is blown!" Jack said as he looked around "Went to her house and she wasn't there. Remembered she was working late and…. Shit Ianto. Weapons? What do you have?"
Ianto nodded and walked to a bookcase, pulling at it until it pulled away from the wall on hinges to reveal an arsenal hidden in the wall cavity. Jack gaped "Shit."
"Once a reject…." Ianto shrugged.
"Always a bad arse" Jack finished for him as Ianto reached for some nasty looking knifes.
Time to arm up.