Penultimate-chapter-thanks to thedeejay, milady dragon, NikkieSheepie, Marian Locksley, Quiet Time, TV-a-holic, gernumblies, brionyjae, L.A.H.H. and Daimia De Luke! This is a bit of a short chapter, but I'm currently going through a packing-for-uni rush, so I hope you don't mind.

Traps

Half an hour later, and Jack had called an emergency council. "Ok. We need to think like rats. And like Owen too."

"Medical bay?" Tosh offered.

"Already been round it." Ianto said. "And I checked the cupboards."

"Kitchen?"

Ianto nodded for that too. "Including all biscuit tins."

"Showers?"

"Jack, where you'd go is not the same as where-" Ianto frowned suddenly. "Actually…"

He was back in ten minutes. "No."

Tosh threw up her hands. "He could be anywhere! Under the floorboards, in the walls… I should never have left him!"

Gwen squeaked despondently.

"We've tried the kitchen, haven't we?" Ianto nodded for a second time and Jack looked down again.

"We could set traps or something." Tosh offered hopelessly. "Those humane ones, of course. Or is he smart enough to avoid them?"

"Traps…" Ianto thought back to a few days ago. "I put some down a while back. Want me to check them?"

The first thing Owen did when Jack released him was bite him.

"Hey! I was only trying to help! And it was your fault, running off."

Tosh did her best to stop laughing at both of them and scooped Owen up. "Come on." she told him. "Let's get you back to normal before you can cause any more trouble."

Jack and Ianto glanced at each other. They doubted that Owen would find some way to cause trouble no matter what form he was in. He could probably even manage it as a jellyfish, if that was what the next hour brought.

"How do we know they'll go back to the right bodies?" Ianto asked as they re-entered the medical bay with its two unconscious occupants. "Jokes aside, I really cannot stand the thought of Owen in Gwen's body."

Tosh shrugged. "I just think they will find their way back, somehow. And if they don't we'll just have to keep doing it again until we get it right."

"Great." Ianto muttered.

Tosh plonked Owen down on top of… well, on top of Owen, really and watched for a moment as he began to explore. Jack did the same with Gwen as Tosh carefully put down the 'furryfier' (the name had unfortunately stuck). "I don't know if they have to be touching it or not. Someone must have hit a button last time, but I don't know if it just used the bodies in the surrounding area. You'd better step back, just in case."

They all retreated to the balcony. Ianto hoped that was far away enough. Below him Owen was burrowing under his own shirt, poking his head out in the gaps between the buttons. One thing to look forward to when he woke up, Ianto thought.

"I'm running in five, four, three…" Tosh called out. Jack leant even further over the railings. It was a bad idea.

Ianto picked himself up off the floor, still slightly stunned from the force of the second explosion. How come they had all forgotten that?

Tosh came running over to him. She had clearly been out of range. "Ianto? Are you alright?"

A new voice rose up from below. Owen's voice. "Arrgh! Get it off me, get it off me!"

"Wassup?" Came Gwen's dazed voice. "Owen?"

Jack used the railing to pull himself to his feet, a bruise already developing on one side of his forehead, looking down just in time just in time to see Owen extract the rat from his shirt and dangle it by its tail, ready to hurl it. Gwen cried out in concern: "Owen! Don't!"

Yes, they were back.

"Hiya guys." He beamed down at them, causing them to look up. Owen dropped the rat. "Enjoy yourselves?"