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Chapter-14

Josh awoke in his parent's bed alone and a little frightened, "Daddy, daddy" he cried out. Jack rushed out from the bathroom to take his crying son in his arms, knowing it was hard for the little boy to have Ianto so suddenly MIA.

Josh finally calmed down as Jack wiped the last of his tears from his little cheek, looking up at his father he pointed to the bathroom. Jack was confused until Josh wiggled out of his arms saying "tad put on pot-tee". Jack knew he had to maintain some normalcy in Josh' life until Ianto returned and followed him to the bathroom. Potty training had mostly fallen under Ianto's duties, but he could fill in.

"Alright big guy, Daddy will help you go potty".

Unbeknown to Jack and his son, their life would never be the same again.

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In a nondescript hospital room in Newport, the drowsy patient in room 214 mumbled the name "Josh" as the nursing staff arrived to prepare him for his treatment. Still hazy from the sedative he had received earlier, Ianto slowly opened his eyes becoming aware that he was in unfamiliar surroundings. He tried to speak but his mouth was too dry.

"Good morning young man. First thing first; let's elevate your head, and I will give you a sip of water through a straw." Nurse Janice knew his treatment wouldn't involve surgery or anesthesia so it was permitted. After drinking the water Ianto studied the woman, she appeared to be in her late fifties and was obviously a nurse judging by her clothing.

"Who are you and where am I?" Ianto asked

Dr. Steward always left special instructions for the staff handling his patients that were receiving his special treatment to always go along with what the patient said to placate them. This made them more susceptible to his treatment.

"My name is Janice and I'm your nurse for the day. You're in the hospital, the orderly waiting outside your door is going to be taking you down for a CAT scan, you had an awful fall."

Ianto frowned as he rubbed his temple, that didn't sound right. "Do my family know I'm here?"

Janice sighed, "No dear, you were unconscious when you arrived,( the information had already been provide by Dr. steward ) but if you can give me their information I will contact them and when you come back from your test they should be en-route here."

After getting Ianto's contact information, she motioned for the orderly to come in and Ianto was transfer to a wheelchair and wheeled down the hall to Dr. Steward's treatment room. Ianto was perplexed, he worked for Torchwood and had acquired more injuries than he cared to remember. Something here wasn't right. Owen always reminded him no fluids or food for several hours prior to a CAT scan, so why was he given water instead of a few ice chips?

As he was wheeled into a large room, Ianto senses went to full alert as he scanned the room. This may be a hospital but this definitely wasn't the proper setting for a CAT scan. The room boasted a large paned window from ceiling to floor covered with white lace panels and long blue drapes. Two of the walls were covered with various vintage photographs, and along the opposite wall was a floor length book case in-line with file cabinet, which he assumed were filled with medical records.

Ianto's eyes moved to focus on a man in a white lab coat sitting behind a desk. When the man moved to approach him, Ianto yelled, "don't come near me!" as he struggled to get up. The orderly who was still present made a move to restrain Ianto but was stopped by Dr. Steward who dismissed him.

With a soothing voice the doctor spoke, "Calm down young man, no one is going to harm you. I'm Dr. Michael Steward, co-founder of this hospital and the attending physician on duty when you arrived late last night." He said, extending his hand to Ianto.

"Why am I here, I was told by the nurse that I was going for a CAT scan and this is obviously an office so I ask again why am I here?" Ianto demanded ignoring the doctor's extended hand.

As Dr. Steward listened to Ianto he knew this young man was different and wouldn't be so easily manipulated.

"Very observant of you, young man," Dr. Steward said with a smile, "but if you look closely you will see that this is the outer office to where the tests are performed" he pointed to the adjoining door. "The tests are done in the other room. Our Hospital believes that most patients are nervous as well as frightened when they have to have various tests done so we try to present them with a calming atmosphere."

Ianto appeared to accept his explanation and his posture become more relaxed which pleased the doctor.

Dr, Steward continued, "The nurse added the information you provided to your chart Mr. Jones, and going over the results of the tests that were performed when you arrived you seem to be fine."

"Were my family contacted?" Ianto asked.

"Yes they were, I want to make sure you are physically and mentally fit before we can discharge you considering how you arrived." Dr. Steward raised Ianto's wrist to check his pulse, pulling out his stethoscope he asked Ianto to breathe slowly in and out. Thinking he had Ianto distracted he removed his secret device from the pocket of his lab coat, unaware that Ianto was watching him from the corner of his eye.

Seeing what the doctor held in his hand Ianto gasped in horror "where the hell did you get that?"

~~~~ Flashback ~~~~

It had been a relatively slow day, a stray Weevil had popped up in downtown Cardiff and two bits of Rift debris had needed collecting. The first had turned out to be completely harmless, a 36th century piece of jewelry that Jack had identified as a friendship charm for a bracelet. Tosh was still running tests on the second piece.

It looked like something straight out of Star Trek, a small spherical device with no obvious seams or buttons made out of a strange type of metal their computers didn't recognize. There was a spiral pattern along what appeared to be the top of the thing and tiny grooves along the edge at the bottom. Tosh had been running scans on the device for over an hour, trying to figure out what it did and how to activate it. Ianto was just bringing her a fresh coffee when her laptop suddenly beeped.

Tosh sat up excitedly and leaned forward to read the results off her computer screen. According to the readout it was activated by pressing your fingers along the groove of the second whirl in the spiral at the 12 and 6 o clock positions. When she did so, thousands of micro claws descended from the grooves.

Ianto's grip tightened on the forgotten coffee mug as he continued to read over the tech experts' shoulder. The micro claws were designed to penetrate the skull at the temple, feeding themselves into the temporal lobe of the brain where they would strip the mind of specific knowledge and memories. When programmed, the device would non-surgically implant new memories to replace the missing ones. It was worse even than Retcon, the device could effectively brainwash anyone unfortunate enough to find themselves on the wrong end of it.

~~~~~~End Flashback~~~~

Ianto struggled to get away from the doctor, but it was too late. Dr. Steward had placed the alien device on his temple and the small micro claws were already implanting themselves, causing Ianto to slump over in his wheelchair as false memories were being weaved into his brain.

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