Sleeping Beauty ; Chapter 2
As they drove to the Town Centre, Jack placed a hand on Ianto's thigh. The younger man covered it with his own and then placed it back on the steering wheel.
"Concentrate, Jack. I'm not immortal, remember?" He smiled fondly.
Jack chuckled. "Mmm, sorry."
Parking the SUV, Jack waited for Ianto to straightened his suit and then joined him by the entrance to the St David's Shopping Centre. Going inside, it was full of mothers with buggies and children. Ianto looked into shop windows as Jack walked on ahead.
A passing man, bumped into Ianto and then casually kept walking.
"Ouch!" said Ianto, watching as the man retreated out of the door he'd just came in.
Jack looked back. "You okay?"
"Yep. Some guy just bumped me, that's all."
Jack smiled and began to walk forward again.
Ianto smiled and then stood still. His vision was going blurry and he felt as if his legs had turned to jelly. He tried to make out Jack up ahead, but he couldn't.
"Jack!" it was almost a whisper, then, "Jack!" he screamed.
Jack turned just as Ianto began to sink to his knees.
"Ianto!"
Jack was by his lover's side in an instant, cradling his head in his lap.
"Someone call an ambulance!" he shouted, then turned his attention back to his lover. "Ianto!"
"Can't…breath…"
"It's gonna be okay. Stay with me now. Ianto…"
"J-jack!"
The young Welshman's lips were turning blue and his eyes glassed over. Jack ran a hand through his hair.
"You just hang on, you hear me? Hang on!"
The ambulance arrived five minutes later and Jack was nudged aside so the paramedics could work on Ianto.
"Does he suffer from asthma?"
Jack shook his head. "No!"
"Breathing difficulties?"
"No!"
They lifted Ianto onto a gurney and into the ambulance. Once it left for the hospital, Jack called Owen.
"Owen, I need you at the hospital. Something's happened to Ianto."
"What?"
Before he could ask any more questions, Jack hung up and ran back to the SUV.
TWTWTW
Once in a cubical, the doctors got to work on Ianto. He was very pale and his breathing was coming in gasps.
Jack paced out in the waiting room and that's where Owen found him.
"Jack, what the bloody hell happened?"
"I-I don't know. One minute he was looking into shop windows and the next…" Jack shook his head.
"Is he in there?" Owen pointed to resus.
"Yeah."
"Right. I'm going in to find out what's going on. I am his doctor after all."
Jack didn't say anything.
Owen went through the door and explained who he was.
"We found a puncture wound in his upper arm. It's inflamed and weeping."
"You're tellin' me someone's injected him with something? He was out shopping for a suit for Godsake!"
"We've taken a tissue sample for analysis. I suspect it was poisonous."
"Jesus!"
Owen went back outside and explained it all to Jack.
"Ianto said a guy bumped into him in the Centre."
"Why Ianto?" asked Owen.
Jack shrugged.
"He's in a bad way, Jack. It could be poison."
TBC