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Kara had looked at her jeep … you know. The dead one.
She had walked around it and immediately known how close she had come to losing her baby brother. This was something she had never experienced with her Tad before, or at least never noticed, this ability to play down something so horrific.
"Kara?"
She turned to Willem, her eyes filling with tears as she swung her arm at the remains "Look what they did."
"One just landed" he replied calmly.
"Landed?"
"Whatever your Tad was doing, someone just got….sort of … zapped? Landed with a hell of a thud just outside the entrance to town. Looks like someone threw him through a tornado" Willem explained, "Has a VM. I know it was…."
His reminder that they had agreed not to use their VMs as it left a traceable code was met with empty air as she touched the recall button to take her to her father's side and he sighed as he turned to run as fast as he could to meet up with her, Jack already looking at the mangled heap of Time Agent at his feet.
"Wow, this is what bird strike looks like?" Kara asked as she crouched to look more closely as the body.
"Yeah … except more feathers and less arsehole" Jack replied sagely. "Don't jump again love, you know we promised Tad."
The sound of the SUV roared closer and they turned to watch Gino drive up then swing around to park as Ianto slid from the slowly reversing vehicle like it was no big deal that the belly was now gynormous.
"Is it one?" he was yelling "Did I catch one?"
"Darling, you might have to adjust the strength or something" Jack soothed as he turned to face the man striding towards him with a look of doom.
"Yeah, like … ahhh … a tweak?" Kara agreed, "So they are more stunned and pliable than … squished."
"Squished?" Ianto frowned as he looked around them and paled, "Shit."
He swung to vomit, his hands clutching at his beloved coat to ensure nothing splashed on it and then he took some deep breaths and energetically strode up and down for a while like a marching soldier.
Good for the glutes" Jack said to his daughter as she snorted then Jack went back to poking the corpse with his foot but Kara was curious too, crouching to go through pockets.
"Ewwww" Ianto groaned as he glanced over and looked away, more puffing and striding about as his little dumpling shoved her hands into mangled mess with a look of glee. Looked like she did when playing with playdough as a child. Ewwwww.
"Wallet" she said as she flicked it back and Jack expertly caught if with a snap of his wrist like they had practiced it. So alike that they seemed to flow. He opened it to look at the ID as she now removed the VM and rose to see if it was damaged.
"Ooooo, this one is a class B" Jack said happily, "We are getting more difficult it seems, they think they will send a higher class of dickwad?"
"What were you?" she asked.
"A" Ianto answered for him as he now focused on the VM in his daughter's hand, "That will have a jump memory?"
"You're not going anywhere" Jack said with a bored tone as he reached for the VM, "Preggers. No jump back with teeth, guns and balls swinging. Nope."
Ianto snarled and then stomped for a while.
Jack was still fiddling with the VM when a voice came out, a recording that had them all freezing, "….and if I did know I wouldn't tell you space vermin…." John Hart seemed to be choking out the words and Jack growled as he shook the VM "….more than you bargained for…. Will tell you to have better armour than that…..wankers. You reap what you sew….wish I could see…." Jack sighed as he glanced at Ianto who knew the problem now.
John was being tortured for information on them, he was still someone Jack had once loved and despite the little 'killy killy die die' thing between them there was this stupid Partner Code thing making Jack twist.
"Well … fuck" Ianto spat, "Fucktity fuck fuck wank!"
"Taddy! Little ears!" Kara was scandalized as her Tad proceeded to show her that there were some good Welsh words there too, then other languages before something she didn't know came out and Jack roared with mirth as he leaned in to whisper to her that is was Gallifreyan and he didn't know where that one had even been shared. Probably during sex.
"Ewwwww" she slapped at him.
"They will be expecting a rescue mission" Ianto said as he calmed.
"They will be expecting me" Jack agreed, the VM folding in his hand as he looked behind Ianto with a look of extreme thoughtfulness.
Ianto swung to find Gino leaning on the hood if the SUV with a look of confusion.
"Huh?"
Ianto swung back to look at his little girl and he sighed as he fingered his own VM before removing it and looking over at Willem.
Yes.
Jack was right.
They would expect the captain to weigh in with his suited mate bustling through the front door blustering up a storm.
Not a mental woman and her two highly trained Dogs popping in sideways.