Ianto frantically searched the hub top to bottom, from the bunker to the autopsy bay and the more places he searched the more his worry increased. He was on the verge of tears by the time he'd finished searching the whole of the hub and he prayed he was wrong.
"OWEN!" Ianto screamed, hoping to get the medic's attention.
Owen was standing in front of Ianto faster than the Welsh could blink, with panic clearly visible in his usually calm face.
"What is it?" Owen asked, his lack of sarcasm showed his worry over the situation.
"I don't know what to do." Ianto admitted, tears streaming down his face as he tried to explain the situation.
"What happened?"
"Jack's missing." Ianto said, choking back a sob.
"Calm down now, did you search..." Owen went to say but Ianto cut him off.
"I've searched our flat (shortly after Jack had been on bed rest Ianto had referred to the flat as theirs since all of Jack's things were there anyway) I've searched the whole of the hub and his favorite hang outs...Owen I can't find him...what if what's happening to the others happened to him?" Ianto asked, wiping at his tears.
"What makes you think he's missing? He could have just wandered off for a bit." Owen asked and Ianto shook as he answered.
"I was talking to him one minute and the next he was gone. I thought his vortex manipulator had malfunctioned so I searched all night and...nothing."
"We'll find him Ianto. We'll find him if it's the last thing we do." Owen swore, grabbing Ianto and bringing him in for a hug, listening to the usually composed man sob.
"What's wrong?" It was Tosh and she sounded worried as she saw Owen hugging Ianto.
"Jack's become a victim." Owen explained and Tosh's eyes widened before she ran for her computer.
"Jack has a tracking device on him." Tosh explained, clicking away on the computer to find Jack's coordinates, and hoping he'd still be on earth. If he wasn't on earth there was nothing they could do.
"The tracking device has been deactivated Tosh." Owen noted.
"Semantics Owen. I can still find him. Deactivated or not it still sends out a signal and it's just a matter of finding the frequency the signal is being transmitted at." Tosh explained.
"Let's hope you're right." Owen answered, continuing to hold Ianto who was clinging to Owen for support. Ianto had never in his life been so afraid.
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"Why four bedrooms?" Those were the last words Jack had heard Ianto say before his world was spinning. It felt like he was in a tornado being spun around repeatedly and it wasn't settling with his stomach too well.
When the world finally stopped spinning, Jack immediately threw up everything he had eaten for the last five years it seemed. It took a while but when his stomach was finally empty, Jack wiped at his mouth and looked around. He looked to be in a warehouse, blocked off from any natural light. It was dark and it smelled moist, like the place hadn't been used or cleaned in years and it made Jack second guess his sick spot. If he was going to be stuck here for a bit the smell of vomit wasn't something he would want to be stuck with.
Knowing he really shouldn't wonder in a situation like this, Jack straightened his coat and made his way around the room, trying to find a clue as to who had done this.
"Hello?" Jack called before mentally kicking himself. Whoever answered him wouldn't be someone he wanted to talk to.
"Why are you here?" A woman asked, looking up from her place on the floor. She'd apparently found herself a place to hide because Jack had had no idea she was there.
"I don't know." Jack admitted, hoping to get this woman to trust her enough to talk to him.
"So far only woman have been brought here and only ever for the same reason." The woman said, tears falling from her eyes as she looked frantically side to side, hoping THEY wouldn't come back for her.
"What reason is that?" Jack asked, leaning down to look her in the eye.
"Stem cells..." The woman said and Jack's eyes widened in fear and shock.
"Are you sure?" Jack asked, throat dry.
"Yeah, I'm next in like to be taken. I've been hiding for days hoping they can't find me, but it's their warehouse...they know where to look."
"I'll help you." Jack promised as he wiped her tears away. "I promise I won't let them come near you."
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"Found him." Tosh said, shouting in victory. "He's in a warehouse about a day's drive from here. Let me load his coordinates into the GPS and we can go."
"I'll get our supplies." Ianto said, having finally calmed enough to let anger over take him. Whoever had taken Jack would pay.
Supplies packed and coordinates loaded, Owen and Tosh made their way to the SUV, waiting on Ianto who was on the phone with Gwen.
"Either come with us or keep the hub, your call." Ianto said into the phone.
"I'm too far off, I'll keep the hub...bring him back safe." Gwen said, hanging up and Ianto sighed before making his way into the driver seat.
"Ready?" Ianto asked, and when Owen and and Tosh nodded, he drove off towards Jack.
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"They're coming." The woman said, tears falling from her eyes in her worry over the situation.
"Hide, I've got this." Jack said helping to cover her. "My name's Jack."
"Wendy." The woman said before she was covered with boxes and such to keep hidden.
"Jack Harkness...what a surprise."
Jack looked up and frowned at who he saw. He thought he'd left that bastard in his past but his past just kept catching up with him.
"John." Jack said, malice in his voice.
"Don't sound so happy to see me." John Hart said, smiling at Jack.
"I would have been happy to see you, if this wasn't what you did in your spare time." Jack said, pointing around the room.
"Oh come on now, it's not bad. I just need stem cells. I don't hurt the mothers all that much, I mean they do live."
"And exactly how long do they live?" Jack asked, frowning.
"About a minute or two, but they survive."
"Oh goodie." Jack said, sarcasm thick in his voice.
"You wound me. Grab him." John said, issuing his guards to grab for Jack.
Jack fought off the guards easy enough and looked at John, a little out of breath.
"I don't need you alive to harvest your kid Jack, don't make me kill you."
"You can't." Jack said, fear clawing at his throat. He didn't want his son to die.
"So you keep saying." John said, grabbing a pistol and aiming it at Jack's head. "But I can prove you wrong."
Jack closed his eyes and braced himself as he heard the gunshot and felt the bullet enter his head, but there was no death, and barely any pain.
"What the fuck?" John asked, anger spurring him to pull the trigger again, and again the bullet punctured Jack's head and again the wound healed too fast for Jack to be able to die.
"That's fine, I can just cut it out of you while you're still alive." John said and Jack's fear built. How long could his body protect the baby before it too failed him. How long could he go with immediately healing wounds before the energy had worn itself out...He didn't know but he hoped the others found him before his body gave up.
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"All day drive my ass. I made it in..." Ianto looked down at his watch "Four hours."
"Almost killed us in the process." Owen said, grabbing his medical kit and running from the car and into the warehouse Jack was being kept at, Ianto and Tosh not far behind, both severely armed.
Ianto looked around the warehouse and had to take a breath to calm his stomach, the place was damp and horrid smelling, he had no idea how Jack had put up with the smell.
Ianto made his way around ahead of everyone, trying to assess the situation. He couldn't die, they could.
"Who's there?" Ianto asked, pointing his gun at the moving pile of rubbish.
"Don't shoot." Came a woman's voice and Ianto lowered his gun.
"Are you okay?" Ianto asked, kneeling before the Wendy.
"Just perfect." She said, raising a gun and aiming it at Ianto's head. "John told me I'd be spared if I kept you lot out."
And with that said she pulled the trigger to the screams of Tosh and Owen. Ianto fell to the floor, dead, as Wendy raised the gun towards Owen.
"I'm sorry. I just want my baby to live." She said, going to pull the trigger.
Tosh wasn't going to let Owen die as well so she raised her own gun and with a well aimed shot, took the woman down.
Once the woman was dead, Owen and Tosh ran to Ianto, tears falling from their eyes for their lost friend.
"Jack is not going to be happy." Owen said between tears and Tosh nodded, lowering her hand to pet Ianto's hair.
Ianto gasped and shot up, grabbing his chest and groaning in agony. It didn't matter how many times he died and came back, it still hurt like a bitch.
"You're like Jack?" Owen asked, wiping his face and checking Ianto's head for any remaining wound.
"Yeah. Let's go." Ianto said standing and making his way to the back of the warehouse.
"Is this what you meant by fixed point in time?" Tosh asked and Ianto nodded.
"I'll explain later, let's go."
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"Your body is being annoying." John said, trying so hard to cut into Jack's abdomen, but the cut healed instantaneously and it was starting to annoy the piss out of him.
Jack would respond but he was in agony. The cut might heal immediately but the pain wasn't less because of it. With every new cut Jack would scream in pain, but he couldn't even get a breather since John was relentless, trying so hard to get Jack's abdomen open. Nothing was making sense, how was his body doing this? Why hadn't it done the same thing when the Doctor was cutting the aboriri out? It just made no sense, but his body hurt too much for Jack to think anymore.
"Maybe if I kill the kid your body will have nothing to protect so I can cut out it's remains." John hypothesized, grabbing a larger knife.
Jack was struggling against his restraints harder now. He hated feeling powerless, he just hoped and prayed that the team would get to him in time.
The door was kicked open and Ianto came into view, which made Jack relax a bit and close his eyes to the welcoming darkness.
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Jack opened his eyes and looked around his and Ianto's bedroom and sighed happily. They'd gotten to him in time and they were all safe. Ianto was lying next to him on the bed and didn't look to be moving any time soon.
"Owen checked you over, the baby's heart rate is a bit high, but it'll even itself out as the day progresses and you are perfectly fine." Ianto said, opening his arms for Jack, who turned and held onto Ianto for dear life.
"I don't know how." Jack admitted and Ianto shrugged.
"Who cares how, I'm just glad you're okay."
"But he cuts healed instantly...that's never happened before."
"We'll figure it out Cariad." Ianto said, placing a kiss to the top of Jack's head.
"I hope so...I'm worried."