Thanks to JonesIantoJones for a lovely time on Sunday drinking coffee and talking all things Gareth, John and Torchwood amongst other things and for reading this and correcting my grammer etc.

Disclaimer: Not mine.

Returning to London part 15

Ianto drove them back to Cardiff, as Owen was still feeling emotional after talking about Katie. Jack had sent them the location of the sightings to Owen's phone and as it was on the way back he text Jack to say they would meet them there instead of the Hub.

Ianto looked briefly at Owen "You ok?"

Owen had his eyes closed. "Exhausted. All I want to do is curl up with you and sleep for a week. But I can't as we have a job to do." He sighed tiredly.

Ianto grinned at the thought of curling up with Owen and said softly. "Maybe later?"

Owen laughed. "Definately later."

They pulled into the park and stopped the car behind the SUV and as they got out Ianto turned to Owen. "I'm not ready to tell them about us just yet. Let's see where it's going first." He said quietly

"Me niether." Owen agreed.

They walked round to the front of the SUV and met the others.

"Right this is where and I quote 'large men wearing leather masks and with big long teeth' have been seen." Jack said.

"Do we know how many?" Owen asked

Tosh looked up from her PDA "Six maybe seven, depends which witness you ask."

Ianto looked around. "Where are the witnesses?"

"With Andy giving statements." Tosh replied.

Ianto turned to Jack. "Do you want me to get them some tea to help with the shock of what they've seen?"

"Sure Ianto I think I saw a refreshment hut near the swings. Make sure they all have some." As Ianto walked away Jack noticed Owen watching him and smiled to himself. "I wonder if something has happened?" He thought. He pointed to the map as he continued the briefing. "Right the weevils were last seen in this area here. Owen with Gwen and go right. Tosh, you and I will circle left and hopefully we will surround them and take them down. Spray or stun only - don't shoot unless you have to - there are too many people around. Understood?"

They all nodded as they moved off.

Ianto made his way over to the play area where Andy was stood surrounded by eight people. "Hi Andy." Ianto shouted over the talking. "Want some help with this lot?"

"Please." Andy replied with a weak smile.

"Right." Ianto called "If you could all quieten down and let me speak."

Ianto waited a few minutes untill there were fairly quiet. "Thank you. Now I know you all want to tell PC Davidson what you saw but I think it would be better if you did it one at a time."

Andy nodded then turning to the man closest to him asked him what he had seen.

"In the meantime I will get you all some tea." Ianto continued. He walked across to the hut selling tea and coffee. "Can I have ten cups of tea please?"

The young lad stared at him before starting on the teas. Ianto had managed to slip retcon into eight of the cups and was handing them out. As he gave the last cup to a young woman he glanced towards the swings. What he saw made him smile; a young girl was on the swings trying to see how high she could get, as he watched her a movement caught his eye that made his blood run cold. At the far side of the small playground stood a weevil looking towards the swing. Ianto put his hand up to tap his comm only then did he realise he'd left it back at the Hub earlier. "Shit." He muttered. He didn't have any weapons with him either. "Oh God what am I going to do." He thought. Although he was anything but calm, he walked over to Andy and whispered in his ear. "Can I have your baton?"

Andy's head whipped around and he asked. "Why?"

Again Ianto whispered so no one else could hear. "Because there is a weevil on the other side of the play park, a girl on a swing and I've got no weapon and no way of contacting the team."

Andy didn't need asking again just handed it over. "Do you need any help?"

"Can you try and get the girl off the swing without drawing attention to yourself and keep this lot away?" Ianto asked moving away, trying to be as inconspicuous as possible as he headed towards the weevil. He managed to get within twenty feet of the weevil before something distracted it and all hell broke loose. He knew he couldn't let it anywhere near the girl so he did the only thing he could. He got between it and the girl with only a police baton for protection and screaming at Andy to get the girl and run.

Across the other side of the park the rest of the team had found the weevils and surrounded them. They managed to take them all down using the spray and then sedating them. Once they were all on the ground Jack and Owen started taking them to the SUV and loading them in the back. As they put the last one in Owen observed. "Either the witnesses can't count or we're missing a couple."

At that moment Jack's phone rang. "Hi Andy. What's up?"

"OK. Yeah be right there." He turned to Owen. "Grab the med kit. Ianto's in trouble." He turned and started running towards the play area.

The others looked after him then spurted into action. Tosh and Gwen ran after Jack while Owen grabbed his bag from the SUV then followed.