A/N. Thank you for the reviews of the last chapter. I hope you enjoy the next chapter. :)

Chapter 23.

Molly sat at her computer watching the signal coming from her phone flashing on the screen as a red dot moving along the road. So far she had no idea where Ianto could be heading. She glanced up at Jacks office, wondering how he was coping. She let out a sigh and then noticed that Jamie was coming over to her.

'Hey, I thought you were going down to the cells?' she asked him.

'I'm meeting Gwen down there, but I wanted to talk to you first.'

Molly looked down at her desk, she knew what was coming, and really didn't want to talk about it. She looked back up at him, 'What about?'.

'About what Ianto said.'

'I really don't think now is the time.'

Jamie moved so that he was bent down in front of her. 'I just want to know if there's any truth to what he said.'

Molly tried to turn away, but Jamie reached up and put his hands gently on either side of her face so she had no choice but to look at him. 'Look, I'm not going to get mad whatever you say. I realise there's a lot I don't know about what happened between you and Alex, but I do want you to be able to trust me and to be able to tell me.'

'What he said, it's not exactly true, but it's not completely false either.' Molly looked at Jamie and could see that this wasn't easy for him to hear. 'I do trust you, I never would have stayed with you last night if I didn't. That was the first time I've took that step with anyone since Alex. I told you it wouldn't be easy, and that's because of me and my insecurities and I am trying, but you have to realise that things with Alex were great to start with and then went very wrong. Part of me can't help, but think that that might happen again.' Molly looked down at the floor blinking away yet more tears that were threatening to fall, she had hoped she would never have to tell Jamie all this. She really did like him and knew he was nothing like Alex, but part of her was wary. 'I'm sorry.'

'You have nothing to be sorry for. Alex is the one who did this, and I understand that this isn't easy for you, but I am not going to become like him.'

'I know. If you really want me to talk about it then I will. I also understand if you want to call things off.'

'I doubt I will want to do that.' said Jamie. 'I better go and do this interview, we'll sit down properly when all this is over.' Jamie stood up, but before he went he leant down and kissed Molly softly.

Molly watched Jamie disappear down the corridor that led down to the cells. She then looked at Jack sat in his office, his head still in his hands. The last time she had seen him looking this lost was when they first met. She got up and headed up to his office. 'Can I get you anything?' she asked. Molly knew it was pointless to ask if he was ok, because he looked anything but.

Jack looked up at her and shook his head. 'No, there's only one thing I want at the moment.'

'I'm working on that.' she said with a small smile. 'I'm sorry I couldn't do more to stop him leaving. I did try down in the archives.'

'You have nothing to be sorry about. There was nothing any of us could have done. Are you holding up ok?'

'I'm ok I suppose, considering the one person I trust most threatened me with a gun, and said something that has now raised an awkward topic of conversation with Jamie.'

'You know he wouldn't usually break your trust like that.'

'I know, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt though.'

'I know how that feels. The way he spoke down there, and the way he looked at me, it was all so cold. I just wanted to help him.'

'We will, then you two can make up in whatever way you see fit.'

They were interrupted by the sound of beeping coming from one of the workstations. 'That's my tracking programme.' Molly said and hurried out of the office and over to her computer. Jack came out of his office and stood on the balcony.

'What is it?'

'The signals stopped moving.'

'So Iantos got to wherever it is he's going?' said Jack as he started to come down the stairs and over to the computer.

'Possibly, but there's also the worse case scenario, which is he's found the phone and thrown it out of the car.'

'Let's try to think positive. Where is the signal coming from?'

'It's a building site, about half a mile away from the docks.'

Jack moved over to Gwen's desk and picked up Sam's file. 'Sam and Dan worked as builders doing a renovation, near the docks. Ok, when Gwen and Jamie get back up here we move. At least now we have somewhere to start searching.'

'For what though? We have no idea what we are going into and how to stop those infected from going crazy on us.'

'Hopefully Gwen and Jamie will have some answers for us.'

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Jamie caught up with Gwen and they walked down to the cell that Sam Green was in.

'Molly ok?' asked Gwen. Jamie had said he had forgotten something, but she knew better.

'That transparent huh,' he replied. 'She's ok although her feelings have been hurt more than she's going to admit to me.'

'It's going to take time for everyone to deal with the events of today. Seeing Ianto acting like that was horrible. The sooner we can deal with this the better.'

When they reached the cell, they approached cautiously. They could see Sam sitting on the small bench in there looking confused. When he saw them he stood up and moved towards the front of the cell. 'Where am I?' he asked.

Gwen and Jamie looked at each other. The question was spoken calmly, they had been expecting him to still be angry when he woke up.

'You are inside Torchwood, my name is Gwen and this is Jamie. We need to ask you a few questions.' There was no harm in telling him this because they would be retconning him later.

'Why am I in a cell?'

'For your own safety.'

'I was pretty messed up earlier.'

'What do you remember?' asked Jamie.

'I remember smashing the windows in my house, and feeling like someone was trying to keep me there. I also had this feeling that I needed to be somewhere. I have no clue where though, it was just like something was pulling me. I have no idea how I'm going to explain this,' he said regretfully.

'How are you feeling you now.'

'I feel fine, apart from my head feeling a little fuzzy. It's like the other stuff was a bad dream.'

Gwen and Jamie stepped away from the cell so that Sam couldn't hear them. 'What do you think?' Gwen asked.

'He seems fine, so he's either back to normal, or a very good actor.'

'This is weird. How do we know for sure?'

'I need to run another blood sample, although I'm not sure I actually want to go in there in case he is faking.' said Jamie.

'I'll cover him and you take the sample.' Gwen went back over to the cell. 'We need to take a blood sample from you because you were infected by something, and we need to see what is happening. If you try anything while Jamie does that I will shoot you.'

Sam nodded that he understood. Gwen and Jamie entered the cell, Gwen had her gun trained on Sam the whole time Jamie was taking the sample. They left after and headed back towards the main part of the Hub where they found Jack and Molly were looking at her computer. Jamie headed straight down to the medical bay to run the sample.

'Did you get anything out of Sam?' asked Jack, as Gwen reached the computer.

'Yeah, he remembers everything he did, but he can't tell us why he did it. He also remembered the feeling of having to be somewhere. It's the strangest thing though, he seems perfectly fine now. Jamie's running another blood sample. How are you getting on?'

'The signal stopped moving a little while ago at a building site,' said Molly.

Jack walked over to the medical bay, and called down to Jamie. 'How long will it take to run that sample?'

'Not long, I've managed to modify the scanner to look for the exact virus that was in the first sample.' After a few minutes the scanner beeped. Jamie came up out of the medical bay and put the results of both tests on Gwen's computer so they could all see. 'This is the first sample I took when he came in, and the one I took just now.'

'It's gone,' said Gwen incredulously. 'but how though?'

'I can't say for sure, but my best guess without having the time to run a lot of tests, is that the sedative I gave him calmed him down enough that his body was able to fight the virus off. The sedative may have even helped the process.'

'Then why haven't the others who were affected fought the virus off yet and returned?' said Molly.

'They could have found the source,' said Jack. 'If they are where this virus is most potent then they are just going to get more and more agitated, and the virus is going to cling to them harder. If this is the case we are going to have to be quick about destroying it before it infects us too.'

'That's a happy thought.' said Molly. 'We still have no idea what the source is.'

'We don't, but I have a feeling it will be obvious when we get there.'

'Get there?' said Gwen.

'To the building site. We are going to go and find Ianto. This will hopefully lead us to the source of the virus and the other people. Get your stuff together we are leaving in ten minutes.' said Jack.