She carefully placed her fingertips on either side of his head over his temples.
"You still alright with this?" she asked him hesitating. He nodded; she closed her eyes starting to push into his mind. Suddenly she felt his lips on her, she pulled back raising her eyebrows.
"Sorry, you where just so close, I couldn't resist!" she tried again, she made the connection. Jack gasped. She moved through his thoughts and memories. She felt him move into part of her childhood, she let him in a little but then imagined a door as he reached her 'teenage' years and she felt his irritation. She came across no door either because Jack was concentrating on her memories rather than where she was in his, also she was much softer at it than him his approach in her mind was more like a weevil in bright light in a shopping centre. She entered a recent memory and she felt like she couldn't breathe, she was suffocating again and again in the darkness. She'd almost finished moving through his minds as Jack reached her relationship with the doctor she moved it replacing it with more recent memories. No doors required. A lot of Jacks memories where damaged or mixed together but it was enough for her to piece it together. She'd been allowed to see everything in Jack's head except only one door remained.
"Please, let me in let me see." She whispered.
"No, those are mine "Then he hit her memories of the night before, her thoughts and feelings towards him.
"Whoa," he pulled back and the connection was broken, "very emotional." He smiled.
"I'm an emotional teenager!" she laughed.
"I thought you said you weren't a kid."
"I'm not, I'm 382 my DNA alters slightly to help me blend in more with where I am. So on earth I'm 18/19 so my emotions mimic that along with my hormones, so even though I'm more in control and have more control but that's not the point."
"You have a very graphic memory." He smiled.
"Yes well..." she blushed. He kissed her again. She pulled away. "Not a good idea." He looked at her enquiringly. "Ianto." She said simply.
"What about him?"
"Aren't you and he together? Isn't this unfair on him?"
"I'm going to lose him anyway."
"You can't think like that."
"Well I am thinking like that and anyway we're not exclusive."
"I've had a good look into him today and he's sensitive and kind, I won't hurt him."
"Well if you change your mind." he got up and headed for the door.
"I won't." He paused slightly but then carried on to the door leaving the room.
TWTWTW
The Hub door opened and Ianto entered.
"Your late." Jack said loudly as he bounded past Gwen to a computer.
"Yes for the first time ever in working for you Jack, sorry I just couldn't wake up properly this morning."
"Side effect." Louise whispered leaning over Jack to pick up a Torchwood issue mobile off of the desk. She went and sat on the sofa, she pulled her sonic screwdriver out of the top of her boot. She flipped open the mobile and turned it over and removed the battery discarding it onto an empty pizza box. Gwen was over with Jack at the computer and Ianto came over and sat next to her to see what she was doing. She ran the screwdriver over the back of the phone, replacing the back she handed it to Ianto, then quickly unclipped the Bluetooth head set from his ear and ran the screwdriver over it then handed it back to him. She turned the phone on and Ianto's eyes widened. She typed some numbers into the contacts on the phone then handed it to him. He looked confused.
"It will call anywhere, anytime for absolutely nothing. I've put my numbers and the doctors into it oh and it will always have battery." She stood up, flipping the screwdriver so it spun a full circle and she caught it before putting it back into her boot.
"Show off." Jack said as she leant over his other shoulder.
"What's that?" she pointed at the screen as a huge spike of rift activity flashed up.
"Whatever it is it's not good." Ianto came up behind them looking over their shoulders.
"Grab your gear lets go." Jack flew off the chair down to the armaments compound, whilst Gwen raced off to get the SUV.
"what do you think it is?" Louise asked Jack as they gathered equipment.
"I don't know we just need to find out what it is."
"And contain it!" Ianto grabbed a stone like object off the shelving.
"Can I come?"
"Yeh sure your part of the team properly now, you can come." Ianto smiled at her as Jack said it.
"So I'm actually allowed out whenever I like now."
"Hey, don't sound so surprised, I can change my mind you know! So don't misbehave!"
"Yes sir! "She saluted him mockingly and snapped her heels together he shot her a look and she ran off to the entrance of the Hub before he could retaliate. She made it up to the street and jumped into the front of the SUV with Gwen.
"oh Jacks not going to be happy." Gwen said cheerily. Lanto got in the back. Jack opened the front door, saw the lieutenant closed the door and went to the back. He looked at lanto.
"I'll draw up a timetable, sir."Gwen hit the gas.
TWTWTW
"The spike of energy is dropping we'll lose it soon." Ianto said to the car at large. "We should be on it...Now." Gwen braked suddenly. They looked out of the darkened windows of the SUV.
"There." Gwen pointed at a small pod on the floor. They got out and Ianto wondered how the hell Gwen could have spotted it so quickly it was no bigger than a marble and looked like a marble. Clear with a fleck of colour with init. Jack lent down to pick it up and as he got closer it wriggled slightly. Ianto grabbed his arm.
"Don't it could be like those 'sin eaters' it could be dangerous." As the other two gathered round the 'marble' and Jack went back to the SUV and grabbed a pair of tweezers and an evidence bag. Louise ran her eyes around the area. She heard the others behind her.
"Is it a larva of some type?" Gwen asked Jack.
"Looks like it."
"No it's to clear to be a natural if it's it would be opaque."
"Good point Ianto, maybe it's not a larva." Jack said putting it into the bag.
"Jack..." Louise called from where she was stood looking down a small side road. He straightened up and gave Gwen the evidence bag, he walked over to her.
"What is it?" he asked putting his hand into the small of her back looking at the worried look on her face. She pointed. Then her heard the angry buzzing and saw the huge writhing group of insects in front of them. They all stopped randomly swarming and it seemed to Jack that they all turned and looked at them in one movement. Jack looked at Louise and she looked at him and they both turned and yelled at the same time.
"Run." They headed to the SUV. Gwen slammed the boot and he and Ianto ran and jumped in slamming their doors and Jack and Louise got in closing their doors as the bugs slammed into them. Thousands of small mosquito like insects attacked the paint work.
"Drive." yelled Jack. Gwen threw the SUV into reverse. Speeding backwards down the road the bugs momentarily left behind caught them and continued their frenzied attack on the car.
"What are we going to do?" Gwen yelled over the buzzing.
"I have no idea," Jack yelled back. Louise listened to the tapping on the car it didn't sound like insects. It sounded like a tack tapping on metal. She pulled out her sonic screwdriver.
"This is hardly the time to put up a cupboard!" Jack added.
"Fingers in ear." Louise shouted as she twisted the screwdriver up a sequence and activated it. A small sonic wave blasted out of it. All the mosquitoes froze momentarily in the air suspended for a split second before they fell to the ground.
"Let's bag them." Louise said stepping carefully out of the car.
"What?" Jack yelled.
"I said Bag them!" she shouted.
"Alright no need to yell!" he said smiling cheekily.
"Won't they wake up?" Gwen asked a little loudly all their ears effected by the pulse.
"Well I hope not their mechanical, so that should have stopped them." She carefully picked one up turning it over. "See, batch number and date created, this one is the 509th of 800."
"These are amazing." Jack studied the one he was holding, "where do you recon there from?"
"No idea, we'll have to dissect one." She said scooping a load of them up in a bag.
Back at the Hub, they laid out each of the insects on their backs over several autopsy tables in the lab. Ianto was carefully putting them in order and making note of each missing insect. Louise picked up a scalpel and pulled a small screwdriver out of her pocket. "I'll start with number one!" she said. She started to dissect it carefully removing its wings, then its legs, carefully slicing open the body and pealing it apart. She marvelled at the intricate clockwork mechanism inside the bug. Ianto peered over her shoulder as she worked, Jack picked up his discarded notebook.
"Here, Ianto look at this." Jack watched as Louise explained what she was doing he watched her work intrigued by her and by how she was working. He felt a pang of jealousy watching him look at her. It was then he realised all his messing around and leaving him out, not telling Ianto everything was pushing him away. It was at that point that Captain Jack Harkness knew he was going to lose Ianto to someone else someone more reliable who could give him what he had always wanted. A family.
"This is criminal." Louise muttered as she carefully removed the other mechanism that controlled the legs and wings."
"Oh my, there scout bugs. How many are we missing?"
"6, There consecutive 300 to 306." Jack read off the paper.
"We have to find them." She said looking up at Jack. She carried on her dissection of the insect. "They are easy to stop but we have to find them and what they are looking for."
"Why?" asked Gwen.
"Well their scout bugs they are only sent to do one thing."
"Scout." Jack said loudly.
"Ok, so what might they want?"
"No we can't look at it like that."Louise said still intently examining the bug. "we just need to concentrate on finding the other six, Gwen go check the ground around where we found these, Ianto check the rift activity any activity round the original could be those bugs returning or more coming. If these have come from a hostile planet who want resources rather than one particular thing then these little blighters will only be the start." She concluded darkly.
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