My brain is working in overdrive tonight so, in a desperate attempt to shut it up, I'm putting up the next chapter. I have a plot (sort of) worked out in my head for this story, so maybe i'll finish it. It all depends on how popular it is though. But hey, keep calm and carry on, right? R&R xoxox

"Are you looking for me, Jack?" came a voice from directly behind him. He spun around in shock.

"Where the hell did you come from?" He demanded. If she was playing a trick on him then she 'got him', but Jack had a bad feeling about this.

"I've been here the whole time." She laughed. "You look a little pale. Are you alright?" He stared at her. She hadn't been there a second ago, right?

"I'm fine." he turned on his heel and walked out, leaving Ari standing with a confused expression on her face. She turned to face the creature in the cell. It's eyes looked so cold, so full of despair. It was lonely in there, she could tell. If she let him out Jack would go beserk, though. She placed her hand on the glass. The strange creature inside mirrored her actions. She smiled. Then frowned in thought.

"Did your family vanish on you, too?" she asked him sadly. He grunted in response. She smiled again. "I'll tell you what. For personal reasons, I'll take that as a yes." she was intending to keep talking to him (she had decided it was a him) but her words were cut short by her gasp of pain. Her head suddenly felt as if it was on fire. She lay on the floor and tried to breathe, but she couldn't seem to manage it. It was almost as if she was no longer in control of herself.

She couldn't sit up, she couldn't even move. What could she do?

She screamed.

"... and that, my dear Ianto, is how to stop a planet from being attacked by giant plants." Jack finished.

"That's very interesting, sir. I'll know in the future that if the world ever gets attacked by giant plants, it's not dangerous as long as we have some strawberries."

"Oh, bugger!" Owen yelled as the electricity cut out. "I was on level 17!"

"It's alright, Owen" Tosh said into the darkness, "I'll fix it"

"I better go find Ari." Jack announced, "If I can."

"What was that, sir?"

"Nothing."

It took Jack approxomately 5 minutes to reach the cells, where he found Ari standing straight up and staring at him. Something was off though. He couldn't quite put his finger on it.

"Ari, there's been a power cut. Are you alright?" She didn't answer. She just kept staring at him. "Ari?" He reached out a hand to touch her shoulder. He had just made contact when she ran at him, screaming and thrasing about. He tried to control her flailing limbs but she just seemed hell-bent on hurting him.

He eventually managed to push her into one of the cells and lock her in. She banged on the glass and yelled, though no real words were coming out. Eventually she admitted defeat and backed away from the glass. Jack stared at her.

"Who are you?" he demanded. She just stared. She was moving her lips, but she seemed to be talking, or arguing, with herself. He tried to hear what she was saying.

"No...not safe...get home...my dad...stop"

"I demand to know who you are!"

Her head snapped up. She looked possessed. Jack hadn't completely ruled that out.

"I..." she started. Her voice was warped, overlapping with another.

"Try and speak to me, come on."

"I can't find him...He was just here. It crashed, now he's gone."

"Who's gone? Who are you talking about?"

She looked as if she was going to say more, but then she stopped.

Then Ari collapsed.