I didn't expect 4 reviews on this first chapter, so thanks for that. This chapter seems to move as if the stories going to be over soon, which it isn't as I still have a few more chapters planned.

Owen and Tosh had quickly made their way back towards the point that they had split up in to the two smaller groups before heading east from there, finding the bank of trees was harder than they had originally thought it would be and Owen was looking at the ground, trying to see if he could find any footprints to follow. Toshiko wasn't surprised that he was able to find none at all.

Toshiko pulled a different device out of her shoulder bag and typed in Gwen's mobile number before a blue dot appeared on the screen and a blue line from where she was stood, showing the easiest pathway to get to her.

"Owen, this way." Toshiko called pointing towards one of the banks that was just ahead of them, Owen quickly ran over to follow her before speaking.

"And how do you know that it's this way?"

"Because I'm tracking Gwen's mobile now let's go."

"Oh of course, you couldn't have done that minutes ago." Toshiko took no notice of Owen's comment and just kept going up the bank, she knew that he would follow her eventually before she got too far out of his sight..

After making it up the bank Owen drew his gun. Tosh now followed behind him slightly and even after telling Owen plenty of times that she wasn't picking up any alien signal in the near area around them, he still refused to put it down.

As they were told the police tape was around the trees, clearly not done by Ianto, as his would always be completely straight, but still it served as a perfect marker if you wanted to find somebody. The pair ducked under the tape without really knowing what to say. Gwen turned around at hearing their presence, slightly shocked at first, standing quickly with Jack's gun in her hand.

Owen held his hands up before putting his gun away as Gwen lowered Jack's and made her way over to the two of them.

"Okay what's happened?" Owen asked Gwen as she stopped in front of them, before looking back in the direction that she had come from.

"I'm not exactly sure, but I heard someone shout and when I got here I found Ianto holding onto the side of some rocks above a giant hole. Jack ran over and tried to help him, managed to grab his arm, but then Ianto fell and Jack fell with him and he said that Ianto needed a doctor and there both injured and I don't know what to do." Gwen was generally upset as she made her way towards where Ianto and Jack were.

"It will be okay Gwen." Owen said causing Gwen to turn around and face him again.

"How will it be okay, we can't help them from up here and their both injured and... and-" Owen wrapped an arm around Gwen shoulders and lead her back to where she had been sat previously. Tosh followed, placing both of alien tracking device and mobile tracking device in her bag before sitting down next to Gwen.

Owen removed the arm that was around here shoulder and looked at the whole in the ground. "So they fell down here, yeah?"

Gwen nodded.

"Jack, Ianto, how're you doing down there?" Owen called.

Talking could be heard above them and Jack wondered if it was Owen and Tosh or their rescue team. That was until he heard Owen's familiar voice calling down to them.

"Alright for now, have you got a rescue team with you by any chance?"

"No, but I have a first aid kit."

"Owen that's not very helpful to have up here since they need it down there." Toshiko pointed out as she looked around the edge of the hole.

"Then I'll go down." Owen made to move forwards, but was quickly stopped by Gwen.

"You can't." She told him as she reached a hand out to grab his arm, "How would you even get down there?"

"I'll climb." Owen spoke as if that was the most obvious thing ever and made to move once again, but was stopped by a chorus of three different voices all shouting no at him very loudly.

"Owen don't you dare climb down here." Jack shouted up to him and every one of them knew that you had to follow the bosses orders or in their case Captains.

"Alright I won't. Make your mind up." Of course Owen mumbled the last bit to himself.

Silence washed over the group as Toshiko continued to make her way around the edge of the hole looking at every rock and every possible danger to Jack and Ianto or any risk of the whole thing collapsing in on them. Sirens broke the silence, not voices. Gwen recognised it as police sirens straight away and instantly recognised the man who stepped out of the car to be Andy.

"Police are here." Owen shouted down again, his voice being the loudest and Gwen was losing hers from all of the shouting that she had done earlier.

"Great that's just brilliantly helpful." Jack mumbled.

"What is?" Ianto's slightly muffled voice as his head lolled freely against Jack.

"Don't worry it's just the police."

Owen was instantly on his feet and walking over to meet Gwen and Andy while some other officers climbed out of the car. He was desperate to ask them a question that he hoped they could answer.

"Can you get me down there?"

"Sorry what?" Andy asked slightly shocked that Owen wanted to go down into the way of danger.

"He can help them." Gwen pushed her old friend from the police.

"I couldn't do that. The fact that they've fallen down means that it's not safe, which means that I really shouldn't send you down there either." Owen sighed and Gwen looked down to the floor, Toshiko hadn't looked up from her study of the rocks at the side.

Andy, Owen and Gwen joined her at looking down as she had now managed to go around the full circle of the hole.

"Owen what's going on up there?" Jack asked as he lightly shook Ianto in an attempt to keep him awake.

"The police are deciding to be idiots." He looked to Andy as he said this, "What about you?"

"Ianto's falling asleep." Jack needed to say no more at all to get Owen even more desperate to get down there.

"Let me go down and help them." Owen almost shouted.

"I said no, it's not safe." Andy told him.

"Actually it is safe or now, but it could get worse the longer you leave it. My advice would be that you get them both out of there as soon as possible and the easiest way to do that is to send down a doctor to check on their injuries and then get them out of there." Toshiko told Andy.

"But we're still waiting for-"

"The ambulance to arrive, yeah we know." Owen interrupted, "Well I'm a doctor. So hurry up and send me down there."

It took a few minutes to set up a system that could get Owen down safely, but eventually that was sorted and Owen was throwing on a harness and his rucksack with his first aid kit in. Toshiko had continued searching for alien activity while Gwen had sat by the edge of the rocks and helped whenever there was something that she could do.

"Jack mind out in a minute we're sending Owen down to you with a first aid kit." Gwen called down to the Captain and Ianto – who wasn't really listening – to warn them that Owen was on his way down, just in case he fell on them.

"Cave rescue on its way ETA one hour. Over" A voice off of a radio spoke.

"Yeah could you see if they could hurry that up?" Owen asked as he finished clipping the harness on and clipping on the rope to that.

"But you aren't even down there yet, how do you know they need to hurry up?" Andy asked and as far as Owen was concern he was getting very annoyed, of course he could have put annoyed in different words, but they didn't seem to fit this current situation, so he decided to put it in a different way instead.

"If you had say twenty people in a fire would you wait an hour or try and get them out straight away?" He asked, but he didn't really say it as a question as it wasn't on in a way.

"Get them out of there of course."

"And if you had the top ten wanted criminals running around Cardiff would you wait until they murdered everyone or would you try to find them?"

"Try and find them."

"And if you were stuck in your police car falling off a bridge would you-"

"Yes alright I see your point, I tell them to hurry up." Andy replied angrily, before walking off towards his police car in annoyance with the doctor.

"Did you really have to use all of those examples Owen?" Toshiko asked.

"It worked didn't it?" It did and you had to give him credit for that.

A moment later Owen was being sent down into the hole. The further down he went the more debris followed him, which was okay for him as he was wearing a hard hat, but he was being extremely careful as both Ianto and Jack weren't.

When he reached the bottom he made sure that his feet were firmly on the ground before unclipping the rope.

"Owen are you ok?" Gwen called down as he sent the rope back up to them.

"Yeah, I'm good, I'm safe." He turned around and flipped his torch on as he did so. He could already see the small amount of light from Jack's torch. He was sure that it had gotten darker since he had first arrived even though the sun was now directly above them and unknowingly to him, Gwen and Tosh were thinking the same.

"Jack." Owen's voice bounced off the rocky walls making it sound so much louder than he had actually originally said it.

"Nice of you to join us Owen." Was the only reply that he was given, but it was enough to tell him that captain jack was alright.

"You're welcome." He replied as he made his way over to where the pair were, "How's Ianto?"

"Half awake, half asleep, oh and I think he mentioned that there was something wrong with his ankle, right before you ask."

"Okay, what about you?"

"Left leg, nothing to worry about for a moment, so sort Ianto out first."

"Alright, Ianto are you awake?"

"Y..yeah, wait Owen? W..what are you-?"

"I'm helping you and Jack until the ambulance gets here. I am a doctor remember."

"You never let us forget it." Ianto replied, seeming to be slightly more awake now.

"Yeah well we can discuss that later."

"I'll hold you to that Owen." Jack replied before turning back to Ianto, "I managed to stop his lip bleeding, his forehead's not bleeding as much as it was. I'm not sure what's wrong with him arm and I haven't even looked at his ankle."

"Okay let me see his forehead first." Owen told Jack as Jack lifted Ianto's head from his chest. Owen looked at his forehead for a minute before looking around his first aid kit, soon finding what he was looking for. "Hold this for me." The doctor told the Captain as he placed some cloth over the wound on Ianto's forehead.

"So, how is it?" Jack asked as he held the cloth with Ianto starring up at him.

"It's not to major, it just looks worse, because cuts on the head and face bleed more than anywhere else on the body as there are more blood vessels in the skin there." Owen told Jack as he moved down to look at Ianto's arm, "Dislocated at the elbow, probably from your grip on him, you're stronger than you know I think Jack."

"Well I would usually take that as a compliment, but in this current situation, I don't think that I can do that."

"Good you're learning something from Ianto anyway this might hurt him." Owen had barely finished speaking when Ianto cried out as Owen pulled his elbow back into place, but a moment later the Welshman defiantly felt better than he had before. Owen had turned his attention to Ianto's ankle, but wasn't exactly sure what Jack thought was wrong with it.

He picked his torch up to see if he could get a better look. Jack, Ianto and Owen sat in silence once again as the doctor conducted his examination. And there was Owen thinking he would have left this behind when he joined Torchwood.

"It looks like he's sprained it, so it should be alright in a few days if he stays off of it." Jack nodded satisfied with what Owen had said, after all he was Doctor Harper, "What about you? You said something about an injured leg?"

"Don't worry about it Owen, it's not serious." Jack insisted, Ianto just looked at him from his position against the captain's chest and Owen opened his mouth to speak.

"We've got time-"

"Leave it."

"Let him look at it Jack," Ianto's voice was louder now and both Jack and Owen were looking at him, "Please?" Ianto's voice sounded like he was asking it as a question, however Jack knew that he meant it as more of an order, so – although it was completely unlike him to do so – he gave in and allowed Owen to look at it.

Toshiko was fiddling with her laptop looking at nothing in particular. She was monitoring the rift as well as trying to find the alien signal that was still present.

"You alright?" Gwen asked as she walked back over to where Tosh was sat. She had been talking to Andy about him getting people to hurry and get here.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just wondering how Owen's doing down there with Jack and Ianto."

"He's probably fine. Owen's a really good doctor, besides he's been down there for what ten minutes with no problems," Gwen said as she sat down next to her friend, "Andy says that they should be here in half an hour."

"That's good." Tosh didn't really know what else to say, so she and Gwen moved onto talk about what type of alien they thought they were chasing.

"Jack how could you say that this wasn't bad?" Owen asked fully.

"Well I've had worse."

"Yes, but you've got a broken tibia and patella and you didn't want to even let me check it? Whoa I'm glad I have Ianto here to talk sense into you."

Ianto and Jack just smiled. Owen got up and walked over to where the hole had the most light (the same point where they had lowered him down to) and looked up trying to see Gwen or Tosh or maybe even Andy.

"Gwen how much longer do we need to wait?"

"About half an hour Owen." Gwen called before the voice changed to be that of Tosh's, "How are you all doing down there? Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, Ianto and Jack should be alright as well, they were both quite lucky really. It could have been a lot worse." With that said Owen walked away from the light and back into the darker part of the collapsed ground. As he made his way back to where Ianto and Jack were sat he couldn't help, but think how good a trap this hole would be for an alien.

If it was running away from them at a fast pace it might not notice it or it could be really stupid or – well there were quite a few others, but Owen decided against making a list – at least that was after he realised that he could almost be calling Jack and Ianto stupid for falling down into it. And he wouldn't want to do that.

Defiantly not, Jack would kill him. Injured or not.

Owen felt something hit his head, well not his head exactly, but his hard hat. He looked down at the ground to see that it was a rock. Not exactly a small rock, but it was relatively bigger than the small pebbles that children collected on a day trip with the family or their friends to the local beach.

Ianto looked up at him, noticing that he had stopped walking. Jack, who still had Ianto leaning against him, noticed the way that Ianto was looking and followed the youngers line of eye sight.

Leaves continued to fall, but Tosh and Gwen weren't really watching them anymore, after hearing from Owen that things were going alright down there, they were now looking intently at Tosh's computer screen. Both girls were excited at creating a new version of one of Tosh's devices. Originally it had been one of her many alien tracking devices, but with a few updates they had turned it into a Weevil tracking device in particular.

What made their new device even more exciting was that it worked and the screen was showing were a Weevil should be. Tosh had at first thought that it was wrong, however after checking her other device – the same one that they had been following earlier – she found that it was a Weevil that they had been trying to catch all along.

A slight bang was heard, pulling both Tosh and Gwen's heads up from the technology to look at the hole. A few medium sized rocks were slipping down and presumably hitting some more rocks further down as it was either that or Owen's hard hat.

Then before either of them knew what was really happening they were on their feet shouting.

Owen was aware that both Jack and Ianto were staring at him, but he didn't really mind at the minute.

"Owen, what's wrong?" Jack asked and the doctor knew that if he could have made his way over to join him them he would have done so.

Owen made his way back over and sat down looking through his first aid kit, deciding that he would give Jack something for the pain that he knew must be present in his leg. As he worked more debris and leaves started to fall down onto them. He was concerned as to how they were reaching the area where they all were now.

"Alright Jack I'm going to give you-" Owen didn't get to finish his sentence as he suddenly looked up only to find a flurry of debris falling on to his head like heavy rain. Jack wanted to pull Ianto closer as a natural reaction, but he managed to stop himself from doing so.

Owen was about to rise onto his feet to move out of the way of the falling items, but he didn't get anywhere as some of the side rocks gave way, falling out of the rocky side in giant clusters of stone, forming five or six massive boulders, which made everything go a lot darker.

Unluckily for all of them Owen realised slightly too late, what was happening, Jack had seen what was going on just before him and had to force himself to let go of his hold on Ianto, pushing him away from his body. Due to his leg he couldn't move and Owen couldn't get up from the floor in time as everything caved in.

Alright, sorry for the cliff hanger with that turn of events, but I plan have the next chapter up in a few days, so it shouldn't be too long a wait. Thanks for reading and please review.