5
They got home triumphant and half expecting to find Bitchfest Part II in session but to their surprise everything seemed fine, Mica in the garden with Tosh harvesting carrots as Suzie stood guard at the gate, "Did a perimeter sweep fifteen minutes ago, nothing moving."
"Good girl" Jack said happily, "We string this around the fences and nothing can surprise us. They don't climb so…that's all she wrote. I suggest we get to….what's she doing?"
They turned to watch Gwen as she stalked across the grass to the boundary fence then hung something on it before going back in and Ianto turned to Crypto who was already going to investigate and Ianto huffed softly as he listened to the creature "He says she is hanging perfumed sachets. Like…poesies. Is she mad? Does she think that will keep them away?"
"No" Jack sighed, "She thinks it will ward off the illness. Shit."
Ianto felt the blood draining from his body as he looked at Jack, "Are you telling me she isn't immune?"
"Well, it makes sense. She is being shifty, trying to cause arguments so we are focusing on one another…shit. Owen leaving almost sent her into a tizz" Suzie looked at Jack, "Do you think we have a window or is she already on the turn?"
"She hasn't yet, why not?" Ianto drowned, then looked at Owen, "Hormones? Is she cycling or something? Could hormones affect it?"
"Ah shit" Owen slumped, "You have got to be shitting me."
"Well, one way to find out" Suzie said as she headed of the house and Ianto blinked as Jack swore, running after her.
"Owen if she is still intact can you get her appendix out?" Into asked "And what if it's too late?"
"Don't know mate" Owen shrugged, "This is a strange new world, let's hope Suzie is about to make a dick of herself and nothing more, yeah?"
They headed in and found an argument in progress "I am telling you, look. I have the scar!"
Gwen lifted her top to show the white slash on her skin, "Seriously! I had polyps or whatever they are called."
"Polyps?" Owen asked, "Wait…wait it a full removal or partial? You know if they remove polyps once upon a time they cut away the area affected, not the entire thing."
Gwen stared at him as Tosh worked, muttering away as she tried to find Gwen's medical records then she called out, "She's right. Polyps."
"Show me!" Owen demanded as he leaned in and looked at the screen, then swore, "Told ya. She still has a portion."
Gwen looked between them, "what does that mean?"
"No idea" Owen said as he looked at her, "You have some in there, it was listed as a disection not a removal so …that means about 50% is still there."
"Does it mean she will turn?" Andy asked with concern.
"If she was going to, I would say she would have by now" Ianto offered his opinion, "Maybe it is slower acting…if you remove the rest of it…there might be time? Right? Owen?"
Gwen was clasping at Rhys as he looked at the doctor, "So? Owen? Can you take this bit left behind away?"
Owen frowned, "The singularity scalpel might do it"
"Owen!" Jack growled but Owen waved his hand, "Practice quickly."
"Right" Owen shot out to the SUV as Ianto looked at Jack, the unspoken knowledge that Owen was about to do something as risky as keeping Gwen intact.
Ianto had read the reports on Yvonne's deak form T3, knew damned well Owen had no idea what he was doing.
They decided to make the small side room that had been used like an office as the medical room, Suzie looking around as she gauged it and saw room for a bed if they pulled out the desk. Ianto grimaced but helped pull his Grandy's big desk from the room and out onto the back porch where he hoped it would remain dry then they set up a single bed.
"I could totally sleep in here" Suzie said after a while and Ianto nodded, still trying to get used to the change in the one room he had hoped to keep.
"Come on, get up here" Owen patted the makeshift bed and Gwen lay down as Owen started to fiddle with a weird contraction, "Right, don't breathe."
"What?" Gwen squeaked as Owen hummed then there was a weird pop noise and she yelled, slapping at her stomach as she rolled up in a ball with pain.
"What the fuck did you do!" Rhys roared.
"Saved her" Owen said smugly, "You could say thanks."
"Owen!" Jack warned "Stop it."
"Right, let me check I got it all" Owen said and Gwen barked with alarm as she shuffled along the bed away from him.
"Fuck off, you don't get near me with that again!" she roared and Rhys looked at Jack.
"Owen, check the recording, come on" Jack asked and Owen shrugged as he plonked on the sofa out in the main room to look over things, Suzie looking at Gwen as she sat hunched over on the bed panting.
"Well? Are you done? I want my room"