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"Ok so what does that body tell us?"
"Something with a sharp sting is loose in Cardiff!" Gwen said rattling a small golden spike in a test tube at Louise.
"What is that?" asked Ianto and Gwen handed it to Louise. She tipped it out onto her hand.
"I think it's a sting." Gwen said, "It looks like it's snapped off our boy down there has been used as a pin cushion." Miles looked at the sting lying in Louise's hand.
"May I?" she tipped it into his outstretched hand.
"Careful it's sharp." Gwen said as Louise gasped as the sting had slid down her hand it had cut through the soft skin on her palm. Ianto grabbed her hand and watched as it healed over. He breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at him.
"I'm fine."
"Yeh but you might not have been." She looked at Gwen.
"So what actually killed him?"
"That would be blood loss he had more holes than a sieve in him."
"Ok so it's a defence mechanism, not poisoned, so if it stung you once you'd live."
"Yes."
"It looks like metal." Miles mused.
"Oh my." Ianto got up and walked out the room.
"Oh I love it when he does that." Gwen said sarcastically. He returned moments later with a tray of bugs all pinned out neatly.
"You displayed them." Louise said astonished. Looking down at the mechanical bugs they had collected from a previous mission.
"Well we do the same to alien bugs, dry them out and then display them."
"Right but these are mechanical."
"I know, but I've been studying them trying to work out where they are from, what they are like and I noticed some of them have a retractable sting, we didn't see it before but it tucks up inside the bug, and then it can be pushed out, presumably if the insect is under attack."
"Trust you to use your spare time to examine alien insects." Gwen said smiling.
"Yes but at least we know what we are looking at." Louise compared the snapped sting with the one still attached to the insect. "Yes is definitely from one of our missing six. Where was our man found?"
"In his flat, the police noted the address it's in his file."
"Alright Gwen you go check it out?"
"Yeh sure I'll take Miles." She smiled at him they both stood up. Miles carefully tipped the sting back into the test tube.
"Right, Ianto you get to store our friend down stairs and I'll work on trying to track our missing insects now we have a bit of one we can hope to track it." They all left to do their separate work.
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Gwen drove through Cardiff carefully passing the other drives in the slick SUV. Miles preferred it when Ianto or Gwen drove. Louise wasn't as savage as Jack but at least you knew your life was at risk when Jack drove. Louise managed to drive like a maniac without you knowing. Gwen pulled up outside a shabby block of flats. They got out and headed up to the 3rd floor. Opening the front door with the key Gwen and Miles started to search the small flat.
"He's tidy!" Miles commented.
"Yeh makes it easy to see what's out of place!"
"What nothing?" Miles said sarcastically. Gwen could see what he meant nothing was out of place, not a magazine askew on the coffee table or a pen out of a pot.
"This guy didn't go down fighting." Gwen commented as she moved through into the bedroom.
"I can see that." Miles called through from the bathroom. They fell into silence as they worked their way through the flat. Miles shook his head he had a buzzing in his ear the niggling kind you didn't know if it was in your head or outside it. Gwen dropped to her knees and looked under the bed. She stood back up too quickly and got a ringing in her ear but it didn't go away.
"Miles?"
"Hang on I can't hear you I've got this buzzing in my ear." He wandered through to the room rubbing his left ear. She looked at him smiling. He looked confused.
"That's not in your ear." Then he understood turning around the buzzing went into his right ear. He smiled. Glancing back at Gwen they started to move carefully round the room towards the buzzing.
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"Thanks for that." Ianto said sarcastically.
"Well I was hardly going to do that job myself was I?" Louise said hammering away at the keyboard linking all the scans and hardware together.
"Ok I'll give you that." he said coming over and resting his chin on her shoulder. He slyly slid his arms around her waist. She removed them.
"No Ianto," she said as she walked over to Gwen's desk calling up more programs and predictions.
"It's only us here!" he protested.
"yes and I really don't want Gwen finding out as well as Miles and telling Jack."
"You don't beat about the bush do you?" she didn't say anything. "I'm sorry I told Miles he's my friend he knows I like you is that so wrong?" she hung her head.
"No it's not that."
"Lou, I love you. I don't care who knows and who has a problem with it." He walked over to her. "and if you have a problem with me wanting to be around you then you're going to have to get over it." She looked up at him.
"I'm sorry; I just can't do public displays of affection."
"I know." He smiled down at her.
"This just feels so fast."
"Fast? Lou we've known each other months you've stayed at mine and I've been nothing but a gentleman. I just want..." he trailed off she could see the point he's been making. They fell into silence. "And well last night was fantastic." He smiled and she smiled as well. She kissed him.
"Yes it was Mr. Jones."
"Ok so just to set the record straight, we're good. I love you. Miles knows and to be honest I want to shout it from the roof tops!" she laughed, "You've changed me Lieutenant Carter-Jones and you know I kind of like it!"
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"Over there." Miles pointed at an upturned mug on the bedside table. The buzzing was coming from under it.
"It's under the mug?" Gwen said surprised.
"It sounds muffled so I would think so do you have an evidence bag?"
"Yep." Gwen pulled it out her pocket and handed it to him.
"Thank you." He carefully pulled the mug to the edge of the table top the bug dropped down into it and he sealed it quickly. The bug sort of buzzed half heartedly.
"Nice." Miles said sarcastically.
"Right let's get this little beggar back to the Hub so Ianto can pin it out with its buddies!"
"You have such a delicate way of putting things Gwen." They made their way out of the flat locking the door behind them.
"Why don't you drive Miles?" Gwen said, throwing him the keys he caught them clumsily.
"Okay." He said unsure.
"Look its easy trust me and you can go as fast or as slow as you like!" he looked terrified.
"Look I promise not to tell Jack if it goes badly." He smiled and they climbed into the SUV.
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