Here's chapter six a little later than planned, but I still hope that you like it.
Owen moved closer to Jack, who was now stood up, completely balanced on his two feet. The doctor looked over him twice, not quite believing what his eyes seeing and what his brain was telling him. It was impossible.
For Jack to be stood in front of them was truly impossible. He had died – all of them saw it with their own eyes – he didn't have a pulse and yet now he's stood up in a morgue, completely one hundred percent alive.
"That- Thi..this isn't right," Owen started and he didn't have to look back to know about the confused looks and Tosh and Gwen's faces, "You can't be alive."
"Well I am." Jack replied with a smile, however Owen still didn't look at all convinced that Jack should be stood in front of them. Jack's eyes moved down to Owen's arm that was now in a cast, "What happened to you?"
"I injured it helping you," Owen answered before shaking his head and continuing with his previous point, "Even if you are alive, you had a broken tibia and patella – they're two of the bones in your leg – and your stood on it when you really shouldn't be able to and-"
"Well I should probably tell you all then." Owen was cut off by Jack who was now looking around at the rest of his teams faces.
"Tell us what?" Tosh asked. From the look on her face, it looked like she was worried that the world might end any second soon if Jack did tell them.
"Look, I can't die, so I come back to life every time and all of my injuries heal. I don't know quite how it works, it just does."
"Couldn't you see a doctor about it?" Gwen asked.
Owen couldn't help but laugh slightly, "Yeah like he can just walk up to a doctor and say 'Can you help me find out why I can't die?' because I don't think that that would go down to well. Do you?"
"I was talking about an out of space doctor or something," Gwen replied before looking to Jack, "Is there an out of space doctor, Jack?"
Jack seemed to be in deep thought for a moment before he replied, "Yeah out there somewhere, there's the right kind of doctor for me."
Silence fell between them all as they thought about what Jack had just said. The right kind of doctor. It made Owen wonder if he was anything like 'the right kind of doctor' that Jack was looking for and that's when he remembered.
"Doctor Strong said he would find out where Ianto was." He was directing it at Jack more than anyone else that was in the room as all of them already knew. Jack's face lit up again.
"Then why are we stood about here? Let's go and find Ianto." Jack said as he once again lead the team, walking out of the doors, his great military coat flaring at the ends behind him and with the speed that he was going, he easily left Owen, Tosh and Gwen behind in his wake.
Walking through the corridors, Owen had managed to catch up with Jack and walk beside him, leaving Gwen and Tosh to walk behind them. The doctor watched as Jack was almost knocked over by a young man – who was obviously in a rush to get somewhere – he apologised very sincerely to them all.
"I'm sorry."
"No harm done." Jack replied and Owen was glad that no harm had been done to the Captain.
"Why don't you slow down slightly," Owen suggested, "Even if you are in a rush, just be a little bit more careful next time."
"Yes of course, I'm sorry. I was trying to find a doctor Owen Harper, I was told that he'd be somewhere around here."
The four exchanged a look before turning back to face the boy.
"I'm doctor Owen Harper, what's the problem?" Owen asked, strangely he was feeling worried and so was everyone else.
"Doctor Strong sent me to find you he said that he needed to come with me." Tosh looked slightly worried as if this may be some form of trap as they still hadn't found their alien from earlier. Gwen seemed pretty uncertain as well. Jack just looked on in slight confusion and Owen was just a normal trusting doctor.
"Alright take us to him." That was all that needed to be said before they were hurrying away to find doctor Strong.
Doctor Strong had made his way quickly through the corridors and down to the main reception desk. He walked behind the desk, sending a brief look at the receptionists who were busy sorting out the waiting public.
The hospitals head of doctors – John Taylor – was also behind reception and doctor Strong decided that he was probably the best person to speak to.
"Sir," The doctor's head turned, "Can I ask you about a patient?"
"Yes of course, which patient are we talking about?"
"Ianto Jones, the one that I brought in earlier, could you tell me what room he's in?"
"Yes, here's his file," Doctor Taylor replied as he handed Bob the file, "Although I do believe that we plan on moving him to University Hospital as soon as he's stable enough. They'll be able to treat him there better than we could here at the moment."
"Alright thank you Sir." Doctor Strong replied before turning and leaving, checking the file for the room number.
He made his way to the room and walked in. Doctor Charlie Davies was still in there, obviously having been assigned Ianto's doctor for the duration of time that he was here. He looked over at his colleague as he entered the room, as did the rest of the hospital staff that were in there.
One thing that doctor Strong noticed quickly – which he wasn't overly happy about – was that Ianto didn't have a private room. Owen would slaughter than all if they didn't sort that out for him soon.
"How is he?" Bob asked, the question rolling off his tongue before any form of greeting could.
"He's doing alright. Better than I thought he would be." Charlie paused, "We didn't have to look for anything really the cuts on his forehead, cheek and lip seem to be healing well. Signs of his elbow being dislocated, however it's already been put back into place-"
"What about his ribs?" Doctor Strong interrupted with his question. He had been reading the file on his way up here and the only thing mentioned on there that had anything to do with Ianto's ribs and lungs was that they were either fractured or broken – which is like he had told them, however he thought they would have confirmed that by now.
"We're waiting to get that confirmed. I've just told them that he's stable enough for them to x-ray him now."
"And his lungs have you looked into that?" Charlie Davies looked completely confused at the mention of any injury to the Welshman's lungs.
"I'm sorry I wasn't informed about one." Doctor Strong was attempting to hold back his temper, "I was told by one of our junior doctors the report that you had given in."
"You can't have been, because I mentioned that he may have a punctured or collapsed lung." The doctor's face was suddenly drained of colour as he realised that he had missed something quite vital.
"I'm sorry, I wasn't aware, I'll get someone to sort that now." A beeping noise invaded the ears of the pair of ears. They looked over to Ianto and realised that they were in an awful lot of trouble.
Doctor Strong was much more used to these situations than doctor Davies – who stood there like a stone statue for a minute before making his way closer to where Ianto lay – finally getting involved.
"Ianto, Ianto can you hear me?" Doctor Strong asked. Nothing. No reaction at all. Quickly he grabbed an oxygen mask and set it up before getting one of the nurses to call for the head of doctors. Doctor Charlie Davies finally stepped forward and asked if there was anything that he could do.
Wanting him out of the way doctor Strong told him to tell someone to find doctor Owen Harper and to bring him the person that told him the report on Ianto's condition. Charlie Davies left in a hurry, telling another junior doctor to find doctor Owen Harper before setting off to find the other junior doctor that had told him the information that he had.
Doctor John Taylor made his way through the hospital corridors. He had only just gotten off of the phone in reception after being told by a nurse about Ianto Jones's condition. He couldn't say that he wasn't annoyed at the junior doctors that were here at the minute.
He entered the room and headed straight over to where doctor Strong was working, nodding in acknowledgement to him before looking at Ianto's heart and breathing rates. He was there for a second before he walked out again.
He needed to make another phone call.
Owen and the others made their way through the hospital. The young junior doctor indicated to a room on his left for them to enter. Owen walked in first and then realised that he didn't actually want to be seeing this. Jack had followed him in and Owen could hear him gasp in shock as he made his way towards Ianto.
"Jack, stay away, you have to let the doctors do their jobs."
"I can't lose him Owen." Jack said as he continued to Ianto's bedside. Owen's eyes flicked to doctor Strong in silent asking of whether it was alright for Jack to do this. Doctor Strong didn't seem to mind as long as Jack moved when he needed to.
Tosh and Gwen stood at the side of the room out of the way of the hospital staff. None of them missed a man in a suit walking back into the room followed closely by two more people who looked like doctors.
Tosh noticed that one of them had a badge and that the other one didn't. An indication to her that one of them was a junior doctor, just like the one who had brought them here to Ianto's room.
"Doctor Strong," The man in the suit started, addressing the busy doctor who looked up for a minute and nodded before going back to looking at Ianto, "We're going to move him now. We don't have enough staff to treat that collapsed lung here, so they're going to do it as soon as he gets to University Hospital."
"Is it safe to move him like this?" Jack asked curious.
"Well ideally we wouldn't like to, however we don't have a choice. If doctor Davies had been told about the collapsed or punctured ling earlier then we would have called in more staff straight away."
Everyone noticed Jack's immediately rising anger.
"Why didn't he know?"
"I wasn't informed correctly." Charlie replied before Owen looked at him with a look that meant shut up if you don't want someone to get injured.
Gwen, Tosh and Owen left the room to get into the SUV deciding to drive down to University Hospital now. Doctor's moved in and out to get Ianto ready to switch hospitals and doctor Strong agreed to travel in the ambulance with Ianto, telling Jack that he could come with them. Jack thanked him and smiled before he moved even closer to Ianto and held the Welshman's hand in his own.
"Come on Ianto, hold on." Jack was begging him now, "Hold on for me."
Although it wasn't an extremely long way to University Hospital it felt like a long time despite the fact that Jack knew that it was only a six minute drive, which was always made quicker in an ambulance.
The whole way Jack refused to let go of Ianto's hand.
When they arrived there Jack had to let them take Ianto away from him. Owen, Tosh and Gwen were already there and greeted him when he arrived with coffee – which Jack didn't even take off of Tosh. He sat down and Owen explained to him the problem that Ianto had.
A tension pneumothorax is what Owen said that Ianto had and that they needed to treat that right now to give him any chance of living.
Jack had listened as Owen had explained that they would do that by removing excess air from Ianto's pleural cavity using either a hollow syringe or a chest tube. In Ianto's condition Owen had thought that the first option was the more likely one.
Gwen had phoned Rhys later on after noticing that he had phoned her while she had her phone turned off. She told him that she was alright and that a colleague had been in an accident, however she did promise him that she would be home for dinner that night.
Toshiko had travelled from the hospital waiting room to the SUV tons of times to check the computers that were in there for any more signs of the alien signal and to check on the rift. She was getting nothing at all.
When she walked back in for the third time and sat back down she noticed that Owen was talking about how it would always be the school holidays that aliens would choose to be annoying and end up almost killing them all.
It was Owen who volunteered to get the next round of coffee, however Gwen had decided to go instead, since Owen wouldn't be able to carry it all with one hand. They all knew that she would only come back with three as it was obvious that Jack wasn't in the mood for drinking coffee.
Owen was happy when Gwen handed him a mars bar as well as a cup of coffee – even though he had already said that the coffee wasn't as good as Ianto's – he took it happily. Tosh thanked Gwen for the chocolate, when she too was handed a mars bar.
The ex-police constable offered one to Jack as well, but as expected he denied it, claiming that he wasn't hungry. Even with the situation, the others couldn't help, but feel hungry. Then again Jack was different to them, maybe he just didn't need to eat to keep going.
Doctor Strong had come and said goodbye to them before he left to go back to Rockwood. He told Owen to ring him and update him about Ianto's condition. Owen agreed and thanked him for helping them out, the doctor had just smiled at them before leaving.
Jack still hadn't said anything by the time that they got the third round of coffee and considered actually getting themselves some proper lunch even though it was after one o clock. The Captain stood up, drawing the heads of his team mates up as well, however he only took off his great coat before sitting back down.
Owen excused himself to go and speak to the receptionist about Ianto, although even that didn't draw a reaction from Jack and they all felt down hearted that he wasn't responding to anything that they did.
Just his own solitude.
Rhys got off the phone to Gwen happy that she thought that she would be home for dinner tonight, especially since he had been considering to cook something special for the night. He shut the door behind him as he meet up with Dav and Banana Boat outside to go out for a little while before Gwen came home.
The streets and parks were filled with children that were busy on their holiday and Rhys couldn't help, but smile thinking that one day maybe he and Gwen would be one of the groups of parents with their children in a park.
Happy, smiling, laughing, not working all of the time and ignoring the person that you claimed to love and spending more time at your work than with him.
Owen had sat down a little while ago still with no report on Ianto. Tosh had been out to the SUV two more times since then and Jack had still said nothing. Gwen was now holding Jack's coat for him as he had just handed it to a little while earlier, although even them he hadn't said a word to them.
"Excuse me did you come in with Mr Ianto Jones? And is there a doctor Owen Harper amongst you?" A young female doctor stood in front of them. Looking at the Captain as he stared at her. It was only then that his team got a good look at his melancholy face.
"Yes, I'm doctor Owen Harper." Owen replied standing up and offering her his left hand since it couldn't be his right.
"I'm here about Ianto Jones. I just wanted to make sure that I was talking to the right people."
"Where is he? Is he alright?" Jack asked, standing up and taking a step towards her, closing the gap, so that he was stood almost right beside her with their shoulder blades nearly touching each other.
"Well you can see him now if you want." She replied seeming slightly intimidated by the American that was stood next to her. "I'll take you to him if you would like."
Jack only had to nod before extending his arm out to Gwen, who gathered what he wanted and handed him his coat before he set off walking beside her. The pair of them stopped when they realised that the others weren't following them.
"Aren't you coming to see him?" Jack asked.
Owen was the first to speak, "We'll see him later Jack."
"Text me if there's anything that he wants and I'll pick it up for him." Gwen told Jack, who nodded to her with a smile of thanks.
"Tell him to get well soon," Toshiko was the last to speak. She looked from Owen and Gwen who smiled at her, "From all of us." She added as the Captain nodded before following the doctor up several floors to Ianto's room.
She left him here and told him to call if he needed anything or when Ianto woke up. Jack insured her that he would before pushing the door open and walking in to stand at Ianto's bedside. Eventually he pulled over a chair and sat down next to him.
Now all he had to do was decide where to put his coat.
There had been so much darkness that there seemed to be no way out and them there was something, pulling him out, dragging him forward telling him to hold on. A warmth that left after a while and allowed him to slip back into darkness.
For such a long time he spent his time seeing darkness and them there was that same warmth back again and something else.
Something continued to pull him through the darkness and then there was suddenly so much light, so much sound and it was like the TV had just been turned back on.
His eyes were open again and the darkness was gone.
Okay, so I wanted to upload this last night, however I hadn't finished the ending of this chapter. I hope you liked although I think that there may only be one more chapter, but maybe two I'm not quite sure yet. I hope to maybe have a new story upload soon (a modern day school one I think) as I have read lots of them and I absolutely love them. Anyway thanks for reading and please review.