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Chapter 8.

Jack and Ianto got back to the entrance of the Tourist Information. Ianto was still struggling to process everything that Jack had just said, but he knew he somehow had to just get on with the job in hand and deal with the other stuff later. His friends were in danger, and he had to help.

Jack got in first and pushed the button under the desk to open the door that led down to the Hub. He really felt like he needed to say something to Ianto, but couldn't come up with anything good enough, plus Ianto was keeping his distance and not looking at him directly. They got down to the main Hub in record time and were greeted by three very worried looking people.

'What's going on?' asked Jack.

'Look on the monitor, it's the other three aliens.' said Gwen, 'They have got into one of the lower levels, but thankfully at the moment they haven't come any further.'

'How the hell did they get in, in the first place?' said Jack.

'They teleport somehow, that's why they kept disappearing so quickly. Lucky for us it's impossible for anything to teleport above where they are now, or else they probably would have just come straight here and we'd all be dead' said Molly. 'I just wish I'd managed to get the security measures to cover the whole Hub.'

'Ok, so how did they even know how to come here?'

'Well, when Jamie was doing the autopsy a signal was detected coming from the alien. It took Molly and I a while to realise that's where it was coming from, but by then it was too late and we realised security had been breached.' Gwen said. 'They are obviously coming for the one we killed, and to probably kill us in return.'

'What are we going to do Jack?' Molly asked, hoping she didn't sound as scared as she had felt. It was one thing to face an alien threat on the outside, but in their own base it was ten times worse.

'We need to split them up and take them out. Going in lockdown isn't going to help much if they can teleport out, but we need to make sure we end this here. If they escape we might not find them again.' said Jack.

'So you're saying we split up and make them follow us so that we can try and kill them, without them taking one or more of us out first.' asked Jamie.

'Yeah, that's about it.'

'Great, and what if they kill us all first?' Jamie said

'Well at least one of us is guaranteed to get out of here.' said Molly, and Jamie noticed the other three all look at Jack who just shrugged.

'Am I missing something?' said Jamie.

'You know, it's not really important now, but once this is over I'm sure one of them will lbe more than happy to fill you in.' Jack paused thinking over how he was going to split the team, he really wanted to keep Ianto with him, but he knew this wasn't going to be a good option and he wasn't even sure Ianto wanted to be anywhere near him right now. He decided to split them so that one experienced team member was with a newer one. 'Right, Gwen, I want you and Jamie to take one, Molly and Ianto another, and I'll deal with the third. I want constant updates, got that?'

They all nodded in agreement. Then they checked that their weapons were fully loaded before Jack said. 'Molly I need you to lift some of the security protocols so that they come the way we want them too, hopefully that way we have a bit of control over the situation.'

Molly nodded and set to work at her computer, not at all convinced that anything they were about to do would see them in control. 'Ok I've set up three pathways, one up to autopsy, one that will lead through the cells and another that comes through past the archives.'

'Ok good, I'll stay in autopsy with the dead alien as that is what we know they want, Gwen and Jamie take the cells, Molly and Ianto the archive route.'

They started to walk in their respective directions, but Jack stopped Ianto for a brief moment. 'You going to be ok doing this?' He was worried because ever since they had come back in Ianto hadn't spoken.

'What, will I be ok doing my job.' Ianto answered back more harshly than he had actually wanted to. 'I'll be fine.' Then he walked away to join Molly without looking back at Jack.

After everything that had just had between them outside not that long before Jack wasn't surprised by his tone. He knew Ianto needed time to think, so an alien infiltration of the Hub had come just at the wrong time, not that there was a right time for such a thing. Jack just wanted to get this threat over with so that he could start to somehow make it up to Ianto. He watched the aliens on the monitors and saw that they took the bait and had split up. 'Ok everyone they have taken the paths we wanted them too, be careful.' He then cocked his gun and waited.

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Gwen and Jamie took the shortest route to the cells, and as they approached they could hear the alien coming from the other direction.

'So do we have a plan, or do we wing it?' asked Jamie.

'I think the best plan is for one of us to keep the aliens attention, while the other tries to get round to the back to shoot it.' said Gwen. 'Although quite how easy that will be I don't know. You ok?'

'Yeah, I'm fine, does that make me weird. I am about to face off with some bad alien that wants to kill me.'

Gwen laughed, 'No you're not weird. I'd say that means you are definitely one of us.'

Then as they stood at the end of the dark cell lined corridor the door at the other end burst open. The alien came rushing through, its red eyes shining in the gloom. It ran at them, claws raised ready to strike. Gwen and Jamie parted so that the alien missed them and hit the wall. Jamie shot at it to get its attention, planning on being the decoy because he figured Gwen was probably a better shot. It turned and went for him, Jamie managed to dodge its claws, but it's arm hit him and he fell hitting his head against the wall. Gwen fired off some more shots to divert it away from Jamie while he got back up. It again lashed out striking Gwen, but sensing movement from behind, it turned, and Gwen managed to get the shot she needed hitting it at the base of it's head, killing it. Jamie walked over to her, and held out his hand to help her up. 'Thanks. Well that's one down, lets hope the others are as lucky. How's the head?'

'It's fine, although it will feel like I have a hangover for a while.' Jamie answered smiling. 'Nothing some painkillers won't fix. How about you?'

'I'm fine, its just a scratch. Let's go back up to the main Hub and see if we can help the others.'

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Ianto and Molly walked down the stairs to the corridor that led to the archives. Ianto was in no mood for this, he just wanted to be away from everything and everyone and think over what Jack had said to him outside. The thing was he wasn't sure whether he was more concerned with what Jack had told him about Canary Wharf and Lisa, or the fact that Jack had just told him that he loved him. He knew he had strong feelings for Jack and he was pretty sure he loved him back, but he had too much going on in his head to know for sure. He then thought that maybe this alien had come at the right time, he had something to take out his frustration on. Ianto suddenly snapped back to reality when he thought about the alien, and he remembered Molly was with him, looking rather nervous. 'It's going to be ok, you know.' he said.

Molly jumped slightly when he spoke. 'Oh.. Sorry, I thought you'd forgotten I was here. Yeah I know it will be ok.'

'I was a bit distracted.'

Molly hesitated, 'I know this is the wrong time, but is everything ok between you and Jack.?'

'I think it will be, it's just… he just told me quite a lot of heavy things and I need some time.'

'Oh'. Molly didn't know what she could say to that.

'Once this is all over, I'll tell you.' Ianto wasn't thrilled at the thought of repeating some of what Jack had said, but he figured he owed Molly an explanation as she had been the one there throughout his nightmares. 'Come on, lets get this over with.'

They started to creep up the corridor, finding the door to the archives open and standing in the middle of the room was another of the aliens. Molly started to creep around one of the filing cabinets in the room, hoping that it wouldn't notice her while it's gaze was on Ianto. It lunged forward at Ianto who shot at it while leaping to one side to get out of it's way. As the alien landed it knocked the cabinet over, missing Molly by inches. It kept up it's advance on Ianto and went to grab him, but it gave Molly the shot she needed. Even though she was on the floor she managed to get a good enough angle to shoot the alien where she needed too and it fell to the ground.

'Damn, I'm fed up of always landing on the floor.' said Molly, as she got up. 'I have so many bruises.'

Ianto smiled as he too got up. 'Yeah I know that feeling.'

Gwen's voice then came through on the comms, Ianto, Molly, how are you doing?'

'We're fine, our alien is down, you?'

'Yeah, ours is down too. Have you heard from Jack?'

'No, and he's the one that wanted updates. He's probably busy with his alien.' Ianto said trying not to sound worried, even though he was a little.

'We're heading up to autopsy' said Gwen, 'Meet you there.'

As she said this Ianto and Molly took off back the way they came, heading back up to autopsy.

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Jack was alone in autopsy, watching on the monitor as the rest of the team went their separate ways. He was considering the best way to deal with the alien that was heading his way, the one that he could now hear getting closer. The others had an advantage because at least one of them could get behind while the other kept it busy. Jack waited by the autopsy table until he could see the third alien enter the room. As it started down the steps he ducked down behind the table so that he wouldn't be seen, or so he thought. The alien was obviously aware of his presence as it headed straight for him. Jack stood up and shot the alien, but it did no good. It grabbed hold of him and threw him against the wall which stunned him momentarily. As it raised its claws to strike him, he got hold of his senses enough to move to the side. He kicked out with his leg catching the alien and knocking it off balance, this gave him the chance to get behind it and shoot it, right at the back of it's head. The alien fell backwards straight on top of Jack. He then heard a voice from above.

'Now how come no ones surprised to find you in that position' said Gwen.

'What can I say,' said Jack as he heaved the alien off him and got up. 'I'm irresistible.' He grinned. Jack looked up at the other four standing above autopsy, looking slightly the worse for wear. At his comment he had seen Ianto roll his eyes, but also he could tell he was surprising the urge to smile. 'Everyone ok?'

'Yeah, we're all fine, just cuts and bruises. The other aliens are down.' said Gwen. 'What are we going to do with them?'

'I think we should get rid of them completely, maybe incinerate them. I don't want to take the risk that they are all giving off signals and more follow them.'

Between the five of them they dealt with what was left of the aliens and tidied up the Hub. 'Ok,' Jack said finally, 'I don't think there's anything else that needs doing, go to your homes and get some rest.' They all smiled at him gratefully, said their goodnights and headed for the door. Jack watched though as Ianto gave Molly a hug and whispered something to her, she then smiled at him and walked out of the door, waving to Jack as she did so. Ianto then walked back over to Jack.

'Would you mind if I stayed for a while longer?' Ianto asked.

Jack was surprised by this. 'Sure, you can stay as long as you want, but I had thought you would be the first out of the door.'

'I probably would have been earlier, but I decided that I need to face things head on, no running away and I figured if you were with me it would be easier.'

Jack moved close and put his arms around Ianto pulling him into a fierce hug. Ianto responded by wrapping his arms around Jacks waist. They stayed like for a few minutes before Ianto pulled away. 'If I'm going to stay though, I need something to eat, pizza maybe?'

Jack smiled. 'Sure, I'll order the food, if you make the coffee.'

'No problem.'

Jack watched as Ianto walked towards the kitchen, it was starting to feel like things were starting to get back to the way they were. He knew there was still a way to go, but he now had a full team again and they were working well together. As for his relationship with Ianto it was a work in progress, but he was now glad he had told him he loved him, and Jack hoped that Ianto would say it back soon.

The problem with Torchwood though, was that you never knew what was around the corner.

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A/N. I just wanted to say that this is not the end of the story, just the end of that particular alien threat. Now i have established the team i have more stories to tell, hopefully people will want to continue reading lol. The next part will be more about Molly and her past, but there will be plenty of Janto moments. I actually have the next 4 chapters planned out, i just need to get a move on and type them up. :) Please review and let me know what you think.