Chapter Six

Ianto waited patiently, well impatiently. He was pacing back forth waiting for the SUV to return. According to Jack Molly had yet to regain consciousness. Ianto worried that she was to far gone to save and he felt responsible. He saw Gwen watching him with questions on her mind and worry.

Suddenly Jack burst through the garage door carrying Molly in his arms. Ianto followed him up the stairs and watched as Jack placed Molly on the cart, "What happened?" he asked.

"You know what happened Ianto. I told you," Jack replied as he began to hook Molly up to various monitors.

"Move over," said Ianto as he pushed Jack aside.

"Ianto…"

"The both of you get out!" yelled Ianto turning to Gwen and Jack, "Get out right now!"

Jack just stared at Ianto as he pulled off all the wires that Jack had placed, "Ianto let me help."

"No, get out now."

Jack felt a pull on his arm and he turned to follow Gwen out of the room. When the door shut he heard it lock. Trying to gain entrance he found he was unable.

"You can seal it off from the inside. Wasn't quiet sure why that was a feature but I guess Ianto knew," said Gwen to Jack.

Jack just stood there looking at the shut door trying to see beyond it, trying to make sense out of everything. Turning away from the door he walked to his office vaguely aware Gwen was following him. There was too much, too much everything. Too many lies from the doctor, too many secrets between Ianto and Molly, too many thoughts in his head clouding his judgment. He should have known what the doctor was up to. Gwen with her soft heart had shown him a way out of whatever mess he gotten into and he knew she'd help him.

Jack placed his head hands and tried to clear away all the extra thoughts. He could deal with Ianto and Molly later. He could deal with his over reactions and feelings of jealousy latter as well. What he needed to do was get answers from the good doctor. "Right, no more nice."

"Jack?" asked a questioning Gwen.

Jack looked up at Gwen who was sitting across from him, "He lied to us Gwen. He lied a lot and now we get answers."

"What did he lie about?"

"Well for starters his house had been ransacked, but by him."

"Okay, so he was afraid that the thing would come get him so he…"

"Stop, stop right there Gwen Cooper. I know you want him to be innocent and after seeing that thing attack Molly," Jack's voice wavered as he glanced across the hall, "I believe that he is at least innocent of the murders, but he has something to do with them. He is some how connected."

Gwen looked at Jack and saw hardness in eyes, "I know."

"Good. Did we ever verify his alibi?"

"Yes the doctor was on a teleconference when the first murders took place. He was notified mid-way through and that's when he went to his office."

"Okay, let's do some digging. I have a crazy notion that the doctor has lied to us about where and when he found the artifact in question. Heck he is probably lying about what it is."

"You still think there's an artifact?"

"Well that thing went the house looking for something. We just distracted it from it's original mission."

"Right, okay I will look into the story how and when the artifact was originally found. You can check up that article he said ran recently, the one the backer did."

Jack looked up at Gwen as she left the office. There she was again giving orders, always trying to take the lead. A natural born leader she was. It usually bothered him, but not today. Jack turned to the computer monitor on his desk and began typing furiously. He ignored the door across the hall and focused on finding holes in the doctor's story.

Meanwhile on the other side of the door Ianto waited patiently. Molly had always been a fast healer. Probably had to with her past and quiet a past it was. Molly was full of secrets and funny quirks. It had taken two months for her and her brother to trust him with them all so he wasn't about to slip up now just because he had been dead for over a year.

He had found out about the biggest one on the night she was shot. Jeremy had tried to push him away and out when he had tried to take her back to headquarters. Jeremy said they never went to Torchwood's surgery, said they had a pretty good set up at home. Ianto had refused to leave her side then and through a delirium of pain Molly had told her brother she trusted him. That night he had been introduced into the Robert's most dark secret and he had sworn to never tell and to protect Molly at all costs. It hadn't been that hard to do since he already felt that way.

Checking her pulse, Ianto took comfort in the fact that it was strong and steady. In her unconscious state Molly was healing herself. The way a body does when you're asleep. It was really the best medicine for any ailment.

Looking closer he noticed a finger twitch and then Molly's right hand moved to her brow and after only 20 minutes she opened her eyes and said, "Ianto I know what it wants and what it will do if it gets it."

He helped her of the cart and steadied her as she regained her balance, "Perhaps you should rest?"

"Can't Ianto it will destroy Cardiff if he gets it. He already has one piece he needs the other."

"I don't understand," replied Ianto as he helped her to the door.

"It's a traveling device that slipped through the rift a couple of years ago. Marchek, that's things name has been tracking it so he can return home. Two days ago he met Dr. Wilson at a bar and in his druken stupor Dr. Wilson told Marchek what he had found two years ago on the street. Not decades ago on some dig. It took Marchek a couple of days to find the doctor but when he had he set in motion. He doesn't care about who he hurts or kills he just wants to get home."

"And his leaving will destroy Cardiff?"

"Yes."

The pair went across the hall to Jacks office, "I know what it wants," stated Molly, "And when it gets it. It will destroy the whole of Cardiff."

Jack looked at Molly, "Well quiet the ephiany you had while you were out."

"He feed it to me telepathically as he was killing me. Malchek, that's his name wanted me to know that I was dieing for a good cause."

"Telepathically?"

"I don't think that it can talk…" Molly stopped when Jacks hand went out.

"Gwen, go ahead," said Jack as looked at the pair of them in the doorway, "Right it's time I talked to the good doctor. Get him ready Gwen."

"What did Gwen find?" asked Ianto.

"Dr. Thomas Wilson went on a dig decades ago but it wasn't in Wales it was Epyt. He didn't find anything there and he declared nothing at customs."

"Well maybe he hid it," replied Ianto.

"Doubtfull, but it would sure have been much easier back then. But that's not the point," stated Jack in his please follow along voice.

"Then whats the point?" asked Ianto.

"The point is he lied about that. So what else is he lying about," Jack walked around his desk and out the door with purpose.

Ianto looked at Molly, "You're not going to tell him are."

"No and I don't think it will matter really. He seems to be figuring it out on his own," answered Molly, "We should go down and help they need it."

Ianto followed Molly out the door once again. Paying close attention to her, she did after all just get nearly electrocuted. That's it. Ianto rushed past Molly and raced down the stairs to the terminal that he had taken as his.

"Ianto what's the rush?" asked Jack as he looked up from Gwen's computer.

"I was just thinking, if this Malchek kills his victims by electrifying their insides maybe that's the reason we can't see him on the CC TV. He's to charged and messes with the frequency."

"Yeah so," answered Jack as he made his way to Ianto.

"Well, maybe I can look through the recent footage and look for camera anomalies so we can get an idea of where it his."

Ianto typed furiously on the keyboard. Eyes focused on the monitors looking for anything that would be out of place.

"Right good idea, you stay here and keep looking. Gwen you and I will go talk to Dr. Wilson again and Molly well you rest," said Jack as he moved to the holding cells.

Molly watched as Gwen followed him away and then she turned to Ianto. Rest, right she was so not going to rest if Ianto was going to be working. He'd just come back from the dead. Moving behind Ianto she focused on the monitors. Ianto was right, if Malchek killed with electricty it made sense that they couldn't catch a clear image of him on the CC TV.