clockmaster | [Voice/Failed private call to Ianto and Jack.-Backdated to yersterday]

Jack runs up from the lower levels of the Hub, Ianto following closely behind him, a flashlight trained on both of their feet on the ground to make sure they've only got one shadow.

"Hakuba!" he calls out. "Hakuba, we made it!"

"Jack, over there!" Hakuba yelled form his position near the computers, gun in hands. Not like it will be of much use but it's a fake sensation of security.

"Right, okay," Ianto said, "just let me..." He ran over to his little kitchen corner.

"Ianto," Jack said in disbelief, "now is really not the time to be making coffee."

Ianto rolled his eyes, shining his flashlight around to make sure they were safe before crouching in front of the refrigerator and grabbing out the meat that he had waiting for Myfanwy in there. She'd probably forgive him for using it. "We can try and distract it with this!" Ianto called, clutching the package to his chest and hurrying over with Jack to where Hakuba was stationed.

"Any sign of it yet?" Jack asked, putting a hand on Hakuba's shoulder.

Hakuba rolled his eyes, but quickly looked around again to be sure that no shadow was moving. It was hard because the Hub was not exactly the most illuminated place in earth, even when ALL the lights on. He shook his head and looked worried at Jack.

"Nothing yet but who knows for sure. There's so many places where they can be hiding."

Jack took the meat from Ianto, stepping aside to start unwrapping it from its packaging. "Right, so. According to the Doctor, this thing is attracted to meat. So, we're going to use this as bait, while we have some other genius way of destroying the little bastards, alright? I'm thinking fire is our best bet, but we're going to need to make sure we get them all in one go. I'm not sure how smart they are--best not risk having to try the same thing twice."

Ianto nodded, turning to Hakuba. "What do you think? We were discussing it on the way up--it sounds like this is our best option. The only other one would be calling for help from the Doctor, but who knows whether he'll be able to get here in time, and then there'd still be the matter of the Vashta Nerada being on Earth in the Hub no less."

"I don't think it's a good idea to get more people here. And he's too important to get killed because of this." Not like their lives weren't important but the doctor was...well, the DOCTOR.

"I think I can built a container similar to that one Jack has with..uhm..that hand." he ended a bit insecure.

"Right, okay," Ianto said, turning to Hakuba. "Do you have all the supplies you would need to start building that here?" He moved to look in the medical bay. "There should be a bunch of tools in there. I moved them out yesterday while I was cleaning up the work-station, there should be enough light in there to get things done."

"Uh, Hakuba," Jack called out, standing very still. "You might want to get on that. Like, as fast as possible."

"We know that, Jack what are you getting--..." Ianto trailed off, looking down. "Jack. You have two shadows."

"Yeah, I know. So, like, now would really be good," Jack said, looking up at the two of them, urgency written all over his face. He made no move to get any closer, knowing that he just had moments until the Vashta Nerada singled on him and started their attack.

"Oh god..." Hakuba murmured in shock, but composed himself in a few seconds. "Hang in there, I will be as quick as possible." He adventures a glance to Ianto and squishes his arm to reassure him before to move down to the medical bay. He moved in a rush, but with an eye on his surrounding just in case the Vashta Nerada was split in more than one swarm.

Ianto stood frozen. He wasn't sure what to do. He knew that Jack could survive anything, but he also knew that every death, every injury, it hurt as much as it would on anyone else. Being able to come back from it was only a minor reassurance, in the long run. "Jack, I..."

"Ianto," Jack said firmly, "go help Hakuba. Go find some way to fix this. That's an order." His voice softens. "You know I'll be fine, it's you two that still need to worry about this. Now go."

Jack shut his eyes. He didn't need any more nightmares of the darkness coming to swallow him up, thank you, he'd rather not watch what happened. It was bad enough that he was claustrophobic because of the thousands of years underground, he didn't need to be scared of his own shadow too.

Ianto turned away and deliberately made himself go over to Hakuba, down to the medical bay, away from Jack. Orders were orders, which was the only thing that kept him going down the stairs when the screaming started.

Hakuba was already working in the container by the time Ianto come near him, he tried to focus in his task, whatever to not think in small alien piranhas. Specially not think about those mentioned alien eating his friend alive. Even if Jack was immortal that had to hurt like a bitch.

"Ianto I need to.." He looked around, trying to find a remote control in the middle of the mess that was the table now."..think about a way to close the container without actually doing it manually so we don't go near it and..are you listening to me at all?"

Ianto was a bit pale. No, he hadn't been. Not really. He'd never really get used to hearing this sound, the sound of the man he loved dying. Even though he knew he'd come back, it wasn't really comforting in the moment.

He shook his head. "No, I'm sorry. We should..." he fished around for something to say. "I'm not sure that our idea will work anymore. I don't think they'll give up on him anytime soon. He's kind of a...all you can eat buffet. I mean, from what the Doctor said, he should be dead by now, but." The screaming continued. Obviously, Jack was very much still alive.

"Ianto..eh.." oh god,it's hart to try to focus and not think about what's happening to Jack, but they need to. Hakuba stopped, turning to face Ianto for a moment, his hands in his shoulders to have this attention.

"Ianto, listen I know it's hard, and he's suffering but we need to try this and we will find a way to get their attention." he squeezed Ianto's shoulders. "I can't do this quickly enough by myself and I need your help. so we can help Jack and help ourselves."

Ianto took in a deep breath and let it out shakily. "Yeah, sorry," he said. "It's just that... I don't think we're going to distract them away from him. I think we're going to have to come up with a different plan."

A horrible light-bulb went on in his head. "...we already have them all gathered in one spot," he said quietly. "They're all already on Jack. What if we...?"

Hakuba frowned slightly but nodded. "What is it? If there's a faster way to solve this we should do it." All to make Jack's pains top.

"Well," Ianto said, with a shudder. He couldn't believe that he was actually suggesting this, but he just wants the screaming to stop. "I mean. All of the Vashta Nerada are in one place. All we'd have to do is take the flamethrower on them..." Jack would come back eventually. It would hurt like hell, but he'd understand. He might even be grateful for it. Still, it didn't make it any less of a terrible idea.

"..." Hakuba paused, eyes wide. Ianto from all the people was suggesting to burn his lover alive? Even if jack could survive that woudl hurt so much. "We..should..ask him."

Ianto's eyes watered suspiciously. Now was really not the time, so he fought down his emotions. "If you want to ask him... I'm not sure that he'll be able to answer, what with..." he trailed off. Jack's voice sounded like one continuous scream. Obviously, his special healing abilities were the only things keeping him alive. The Vashta Nerada were literally eating him alive, and Ianto wasn't sure he even wanted to think about how that looked, let alone see it. "If it'd make you feel better about it, though, then." He made a motion in the direction of the main Hub area where they'd left Jack.

Hakuba ran a hand through his hair. "If someone was going to do that to me, healing habitability or not, I woudl like to know..." He trailed off and bit his lip. More time they kept discussing this more he would suffer. "I will talk to him and I..will do it."

Not like he wanted, but he thought that Ianto doing that to Jack would hurt too much both men, taking in consideration their history together. "Can you find the fire thrower in the meantime?!

Ianto nodded, not really able to answer back. He was lucky that he was in this situation with a friend like Hakuba. A lot of other people wouldn't understand that this was probably their best option; they'd probably go after Ianto for being heartless and cruel. He knew that Akihiko, who'd worked with them before all this, would have been very against this, and would have insisted on another option. But there were no more options, and there was no more time. Ianto hurried up the stairs and out of the autopsy bay, across the Hub from Jack to where the armory was, looking for the flame-thrower becoming his goal to focus on as he tried hard not to pay attention to Jack's pain.

Hakuba wondered what kind of person he was when what he had to do was to find the best way to tell a friend they were going to burn him alive. One part of him told him that it was the only solution, the logical way and that jack will live again...the other was hearing the screaming and cringing. He tried to focus in the first one, even if it hurt, for his sanity.

"Jack?" He told him, quickly. "Jack we don't think that the container won't work because we can't manage to make them to leave you alone. There's no much other option but..." Hakuba doubted. it was painful to say this. "..burn them."

Jack just barely had enough presence of mind to acknowledge Hakuba's words. "Just do it!" he managed to answer. True, it would hurt, but it would stop the agony going on at that moment.

Ianto flinched at Jack's words, grabbing the flamethrower from where he'd had it stored since he'd last reorganized the armory, stopping a moment to check to see that his gun was loaded. He grabbed the flamethrower and hurried out of the armory, back to Hakuba. "Here," he said, coming up next to Hakuba. "I don't want to drag this out longer than we have to. Do you want to, or should I?"

Hakuba grabbed the flamethrower and shook his head. Better not to think at all, better him than Ianto. If he did that to Jack he wouldn't be able to think about anything else but that the rest of his life. "Look away." He says to him before to turn on the weapon into jack's direction. he wished he could stop listening.

((ooc: sorry I thought I already replied this :/))

Edited 2010-04-08 23:16 (UTC)

Ianto sent one last pained look at Jack, put his hand on Hakuba's shoulder and squeezed in support, and then turned away. He would owe Hakuba a great debt after this, and he only hoped that he could make it up to him somehow.

Jack, for his part, didn't care a great deal for what they did to him, just so that they stayed safe, got rid of the Vashta Nerada, and stopped this horrible, horrible torture. He tried his best to brace himself, but he was pretty sure that the flames wouldn't hurt any more than what the Vashta Nerada were doing to him now.

((It's fine. You replied now, that's the important thing. I'm sorry that it takes so long to do RL's with me, and yet I insist on doing them all the time... ._.))

((thanks ♥ and do not apologize. :3 And I'm not sure how jack would look like now. Bones?))

...And it was done, finally. Hakuba won't stop after he was sure that all the creatures were dead and gone, turned into nothingness. It was not easy and he felt like throwing up. He didn't even dare to look at what was left of Jack now. When the sound of the flame-thrower falling to the floor made him jump the boy realized that he was shaking and that he could not make it stop.

Ianto turned to Hakuba at the sound of the flame-thrower dropping to the ground, and almost immediately noticed the shaking. "Come here," he said softly. He moved to put his arms around the boy, granting him a rare hug. Ianto didn't frequently dole out hugs, but when he did they were necessary. And he was a pretty good hugger as well. He chanced a glance at Jack, who, well, wasn't really recognizable as Jack anymore, and moved his hand to rub Hakuba's back. "You did what needed to be done. And Jack'll be back, you'll see. It's alright."

((Not exactly bones, but...he's one crispy critter at the moment. 8X ))

[Voice/Failed private call to Ianto and Jack.-Backdated to yersterday]

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