In honour of Ianto's birthday - chapter 7 :)
It's shorter but the next one's extra long, promise!

"So what you're saying," The doctor clarified, "Is the first thing we need to do is go back to Thames house and extract the antivirus?"

"Yes." Began Jack Harkness as the group returned to the room where Ianto laid. The doctor had moved him into the TARIDS to make it easier to run tests, and somewhat gruesomely Jack found it comforting to know he was near. And he also thought it was only right to try to include him in the plans to bring him back. Jack had only seen 'the darkness' but he had every faith (and hope) that there was more after death and as far as he knew Ianto could be listening to them now.

"We know the 456 have easy access to an antivirus for what they unleashed; they gave us one in 1951. Sadly, that strain of virus wasn't the same as what this monster set free in Thames house, so we can't just use that... But, now think about it," Continued Jack, and Gwen was very happy to see him revert back to 'Hero Mode.' There were still obvious ghosts behind his pale blue eyes that were clear for everyone, including herself, to see, but at the same time it was as if there was something else in him too. And she knew what that something was; it was hope. It ceased not to remind her of Nikki Bevan, and she prayed that this bout of hope would end happily. Not only did she want Jack, her friend, to be reunited with his lover, but the young Welshman was also quite a dear friend of hers. She was fortunate to have Rhys to lean on when things got tough, but it still broke her heart to know that her young colleague had died.

"The virus it released is part of a bartering tool. They wanted to scare us, us to know they weren't messing around, and make us cave in to them easier." This was met by a round of nods from the group. "But there was always that chance the virus could escape.... it so happened Thames house is very secure and the alien knew that – but it might not have been.... and I don't think that would have stopped our alien. You know why?" Now heads shock before jack. "The aliens would have had the antivirus the whole time. What if the virus got out? Something that advanced and alien to our planet would have spread like wildfire, killing men women and children alike... now as for the men and women they wouldn't have cared much... but the children, they were deemed purposeful, they'd have had to been saved so that the alien could get it's sick fix or whatever it was after.... They must have had an antivirus f sorts; children don't produce the hormones they're after when they're dead, right? Including that poor child the alien was getting high off the whole time it was in that god forsaken blue box. The child, still very alive and producing hormones, in the same box the virus was produced...." Jack paused for effect.

"And that child would have been subject to the virus the alien produced?" Gwen clarified.

"And been in need of an antivirus?" Rhys added, starting to understand where jack was coming from while at the same time noticing both the captain and the time lord didn't half like to go off on one.

"Exactly! The 456 itself would have been fine but it would have needed and antivirus for that one child, and if I'm right... which, let's face is happens a lot" he added with a wink, "The antivirus must still be in the tank."

"So we go to the tank, get the antivirus and it should clear the virus clean out of the system of our Ianto Jones here." The doctor concluded. "Jack, that is.... excellent."

The captain felt like a five year old getting praise from a pretty teacher and thought it was strange how the doctor still had that effect on him.

"Well let's get going then!" Gwen declared as she and her husband turned on their heels towards the doors.

Jack and the doctor remained stationary and let a look of amusement pass between them. "we're in a space ship, remember?" Jack asked as the doctor got to work on making the TARDIS fly.

"Allons-y!" he exclaimed as the blue box vanished only to materialise instantaneously in the dreaded room of floor 13 in Thames house.

OOooo, they're getting somewhere! lol

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