irst, a HUGE apology for not updating in... FOREVER! I want to thank everyone who's put on alerts and bothered looking at it again it's been so long, but an improptu trip to cyprus got in the way and I couldn't get back into writing the fic when i got back. Anyway, enjoy the fic!
The wooden doors to the TARDIS were not locked. As Gwen walked in through the doors she gasped. Jack was right, she thought, it really is much bigger on the inside..... Rhys, who was following right behind his wife, was equally impressed by the size of the interior of the ship.
"Bloody hell," he muttered as the husband and wife took a moment to look around the console room. They spent time looking at the central column, arches and railings, as well as the coral growing on all of the walls. It took them a moment to notice that there in the middle of the console room was the Doctor, whom they had come to see. He was looking worn out and exhausted, but was still energetically running about gathering pieces of gallifrean technology from several metal compartments around the edge of the room.
"Aha!" he cried, as he pulled free a bronze coloured metal gadget which had several dials and buttons and a black screen. "Now if you're done gawping and want to help follow me," he added, not turning to look at the couple but instead wondering through a door and down the many numerous halls of the TARDIS until he reached the room he was working in. Gwen and Rhys hurriedly followed behind.
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If there's a virus, there must be an anti virus..... If there's a virus, there must be an anti virus..... If there's a virus, there must be an anti virus..... Jack chanted the mantra to himself as he rolled out of Ianto's bed and fought with his trousers and shirt to get changed. For the first time in days jack was filled with hope and he finally thought he had a lead on how to save his lover. All he had to do was tell the Doctor and put his plan into practise.
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"Oh my!" Gwen gasped as she walked into a small room behind the Time Lord. In the centre of the room was her former college, Ianto Jones, wired up to a series of cables carrying out tests on his deceased body. "What are you doing to him?" she demanded, rather alarmed at the extent of the machinery in the small room.
"Well, Mrs Cooper.... er Williams?" The Doctor began, "Congratulations on that by the way! Martha told me, shame about the Nostrovite, still could have been worse-"
"Doctor!" The husband and wife interrupted in unison.
"Right, yes, well, I have been running tests on our Mr Jones here, trying to find out exactly what the virus was that killed him... Aha!" he paused reading one of numerous screens much like the ones present in the console room. "Just like I suspected...Now," he continued turning to the husband and wife team who wore identical expressions of confusion uncertainty, "What would you say the cause of death is?"
After looking and his wife quizzically for a moment and confirming to himself she was just as lost as him, Rhys stepped forward his answer. "Well, um, it's that virus, that killed him..... Right?" he questioned, hoping not to sounds too stupid in front of the alien, after all, it was the first sentient alien he had had a conversation with.
"Wrong!" the doctor shouted, "Sorry, that was rude, but the answer was wrong. You see," he began as he walked round the body, "Death would be the cause of death."
"I beg your pardon?" Asked Gwen. She was growing impatient while watching the ever-energetic man in front of her reading screen after screen and running to and fro. Even the dramatic way she noticed he'd remove his glasses and put them back on was becoming wearisome.
"Curious isn't it? The only thing wrong with Ianto Jones is the fact that he's not living.... and that he has copious amounts of the virus in his blood stream.... the virus hasn't taken hold of anything just made him..... stop."
"But jack said Ianto died in his arms, he was coughing and struggling....surely that was because of the virus it must have affected his body?" Gwen questioned, still not fully comprehending the time lord.
"Hmm...psychotically induced symptoms?" proposed the doctor.
"Hang on, that was on Casualty that one time – where you think you're ill so you actually show the symptoms when you're not ill to begin with?" Input Rhys, feeling smart and in the know for a first for the duration of this confusing conversation.
"Exactly!" Shouted The Doctor causing Rhys to beam and his wife to hold his arm appreciatively. "All Phychological."
"So what do we do from here?" Rhys asked, voicing the question all three of them were thinking.
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"Doctor!... Doctor!... Doctor!..."" Shouted jack Harkness as he ran towards the TARDIS. He had an unpleasant feeling of Déjà Vu from back after Abbadon, the last time he had chased the time machine. Putting the horrifying memories of the year that never was aside, the captain reached the old wooden doors to the 1950s police box. "Doctor!... Doctor!!" He continued shouting as he made it into the console room. He failed to noticed that with each cry of 'doctor' the volume of his voice increased alarmingly. The TARDIS was kind enough to lead jack to the person he had come to see, despite her feeling that jack was wrong, like the Doctor himself she put her issues aside to help the man in need. After all, she used to like him a lot and once would have done anything to help him.
"Doctor!" Jack shouted one final time upon reaching the room. "And Gwen and Rhys?" he added noticing the crowd of people. "Yan?" he almost whined seeing what they were surrounding in the room.
"Sh, now, jack. Calm down." Began the doctor, trying to be as comforting as possible. "What is it you're here for?"
"If there's a virus... there must be an antivirus...." Jack panted out as he caught his breath.
The captain and the Time Lord them proceeded to share their findings with each other while trying to figure out once and for all how they would save Ianto.
Hope you enjoyed that! Now how about a review? I won't bribe you, you can rest assured - the fic is now (almost) complete.... just a few tweaks to go. I should manage a chapter a day now with the epilogue on sunday (aka my birthday..... you know what wouild make a great bday prezzie? reviews!)But reviews would still be AWESOMES :)
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