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"Jack, it was an accident I swear!" Gwen wailed again.
"I don't care if it was an accident! You know better than to go wondering alone in the archives and you were under strict instructions not to touch any alien tech you did not know the function of. Now your carelessness has caused us to loose Ianto! We don't know what that thing did to him! For all we know he could be laying bleeding to death on another planet!" Jack seethed with anger. He couldn't look at her anymore; he picked up Ianto's clothes and made to leave the archives. Gwen followed him at a distance.
"No. You stay here. I don't want to see your face again until this mess is sorted out. I want to see every file picked up and sorted, ready to be put away for when Ianto returns. Don't touch any other alien device." He didn't even want to consider him not returning. God help her if he didn't, he would retcon her back to infancy.
He made his way back to from the archives, leaving Gwen to sort out the mess she had created. Once a safe distance away he paused and looked at the discarded clothes in his hands. Bringing them up slowly and holding them like they were the most precious things in the world he buried his face in them. Ianto's favorite cologne still clung to the material, along with Ianto's unique scent and the faint smell of coffee. He let go of the sob he had been holding before containing himself once more. The look of determination firmly planted on his face. He was going to find him no matter what it took and when he did he would tell him all those things he had been afraid to say.
"Owen!" He barked into his comm. "Any word from Tosh?"
"Yes, she's on her way. She'll be here in five." Owen responded. Just as he was going to add to that Jack emerged from the corridor leading towards the archives and headed straight for him.
"How's the scan going?" Jack asked, while inspecting the monitors by Owens head.
"The system hasn't found anything so far Jack. The only life signs it has located aside from Myfanwy and our alien tenants are the three of us."
The perimeter alarm then went off as the cog wheel opened and Tosh ran straight to her station. She was just as determined as Jack to find her best friend.