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aviv_b_artworkTITLE: Chapter 62 - Emergency
AUTHOR: Aviv_b
RATING: Chapter 62 - PG
CHARACTERS: Ianto, Jack, Alonso, Aaron
DISCLAIMER: Not mine; Aunty B's and RTD's
WORDS: ~ 1390
SUMMARY: Ianto senses something's wrong with Aaron. What's going on?
Title is from: We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it. C.S. Lewis quotes
As Ianto swayed on his feet, Jack and Alonso helped him out of the conference room. They eased Ianto to the floor and Jack began to loosen Ianto’s tie.
‘Call the rescue squad, tell them to go to our house, break down the door if necessary,’ Ianto pushed out. Jack hesitated for a moment. ‘Damn it Jack, do it now; Aaron doesn’t have much time.’
Jack grabbed his phone and ordered a Priority One emergency medical assist to Ianto’s home. “No, we’re not sure what exactly is wrong, but the man is clearly having a severe medical crisis…Yes we were able to communicate with him briefly before we lost contact.”
Alonso’s eyes widened a bit as Jack ended the call. “Well we did. Just didn’t use conventional methods.” As Jack helped Ianto to his feet he asked Alonso to take over the negotiations. “I trust you, just get it done. I’m taking Ianto home now, make whatever excuses you want to the UNIT brass but I’m leaving with Ianto now.”
When it appeared that Jack wasn’t going to say anything else, Alonso turned to go back to the conference room. Jack sensed he was uneasy and a bit confused. Jack ran over to him.
“Alonso, Ianto needs to be with Aaron and he’s not fit to drive. I’ll call you as soon as I can.” Jack kissed Alonso on the forehead whispering, “Go take care of those Unit bureaucrats, Tiger Pants.” Alonso smiled and kissed Jack back, then headed back to the conference room.
Ianto had been standing still concentrating on connecting with Aaron. “Come on,” Jack ordered. “We’ll take a Torchwood emergency vehicle, it’ll be faster.”
They practically ran to the parking garage. Jack drove out of the parking garage so quickly, that Ianto thought the car might skid as it screeched around the ramps. Jack put the siren on as soon as they hit the streets. As they made the drive to Ianto’s and Aaron’s house, Ianto was strangely quiet. Jack glanced over and saw that Ianto had tears in his eyes.
“Ianto, tell me what’s going on. What do you sense?”
'I don’t sense anything, Jack. Aaron’s not there!'
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(Evil author decides that anxiety levels have been sufficiently increased to continue with the story).**
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As soon as they arrived at the house, Ianto was out of the car running for the open front door. He entered inside to find paramedics working on Aaron. He tried to get nearer but one of the paramedics held him back. “Who are you?” he asked.
Ianto had no idea where his phone was. Shit, how was he going to be able to tell them who he was. Fortunately, Jack came in just behind. “He’s the spouse,” Jack yelled.
The paramedic looked puzzled for a moment and then nodded his understanding. Another paramedic yelled, “Ok, we’ve got a heartbeat back now, let’s get him loaded and out of here.”
As they worked on getting Aaron moved to the ambulance, one paramedic stayed off to the side radioing information to the hospital. When he finished, he turned to them saying, “He’s had a heart attack. He was conscious when we got here, but coded as we were taking his vitals.” His radio crackled. Ok, we’re ready to go, we’re taking him to Kings College Hospital. Take your time, secure your house, get any documents you’ll need, it will some time before there will be any additional information for you at the hospital.”
After the ambulance left, Ianto looked to assess the damage. The front door hadn’t been damaged, that was odd. Had Aaron been able to let them in before he collapsed? And then it hit him, where the hell was Shayna? He began to frantically look around the house when he heard her barking…outside.
As he ran back to the front door, Jack was already outside speaking to…oh their neighbor Susan Goldsmith. Ianto relaxed. She had Shayna on a leash. She took care of Shayna occasionally if there was an emergency or both Ianto and Aaron were away on business at the same time. The dog was pulling a bit on the leash trying to get back to the house but quieted when she saw Ianto. Ianto hand signaled for Shayna to sit and she immediately did so.
“I was walking Sadie, when the paramedics arrived. They told me that the call had come from Torchwood, so I knew you’d be on your way. And since I have your house key I let them in. But when they tried to go over to help Aaron, Shayna wouldn’t let them near him. I finally coaxed her away and thought it best if I moved her into my house until the paramedics were finished. She’s been frantic every since I took her to my house. She’s always so obedient, but I think her protectiveness toward Aaron overroad all the training.”
Ianto unconsciously fished for his cell phone and found that it had somehow ended up in a trouser pocket. 'Can you take Shayna for a bit until I can make other arrangements?'
“She can stay with me and Sadie as long as is necessary. The two old girls get along fine, its no trouble at all.” They went back into the house and Shayna immediately went over to the spot where Aaron had been laying. She whined, and lay down on the spot refusing to move.
‘Let’s just leave her there while we get her stuff.’ Ianto quickly gathered up her dog bed, food and few toys. Jack volunteered to take the stuff over to Mrs. Goldsmith’s house. Ianto kissed Shayna, and typed something on his cell phone that when played sounded strange to Jack. It wasn’t English and he was pretty sure it wasn’t Welsh either. Shayna paid very close attention to the voice simulator.
When Ianto signaled for Shayna to go with Jack and Susan, Shayna hesitated for only a moment. Shayna looked as dejected as Ianto felt. He heard Susan say “Shayna, would you like some ice cream?” Shayna barked once, and Ianto heard Jack laughing. Ianto looked out the door and saw that Shayna’s tail was up a bit and she looked much happier.
‘I wish ice cream was all I’d need to feel better,’ he thought.
When Jack returned, Ianto had located Aaron’s cell phone and wallet to take with him. He looked around in confusion, not knowing what else to take.
“Hey,” Jack said gently, “let’s lock up the house and get to the hospital. I can come back and get anything you need later.”
Ianto nodded in agreement and they left for the hospital. The paramedics had been right about the long wait. It was several hours before anyone came to speak to them. In the meantime Ianto had texted The Brigadier and Stephen to let them know what had occurred. They all agreed to wait to call Bryan. Since Bryan had moved to Australia almost ten years prior, it didn’t make sense to contact him until they had more information.
Jack called Owen who made arrangements to have Aaron’s test results sent to him as they became available. He also called Alonso and learned that the final draft of the Memorandum of Understanding had been completed and would be official once Jack and the head of UNIT signed it. Even before Jack told him, Alonzo knew that Jack was going to stay with Ianto until the crisis hopefully passed.
“The UNIT brass were quite upset with what happened with Ianto. I didn’t know what if anything, they knew about his abilities so I just told them that he was feeling a bit dizzy and that you were taking him to the hospital for a precautionary check-up. One of them wanted to call Aaron’s father, but I persuaded him not to.” Alonso was relieved to learn that Ianto had already contacted The Brigadier.
”Let me know if there’s anything you need. And Ianto…tell him I’m thinking about him.” Jack was a bit surprised at Alonso’s last remark, but thought it was a nice gesture.
After the call ended, Alonso continued to think about Ianto and Aaron. He never really imagined himself in an exclusive relationship with anyone. He wondered what it would be like to have someone so devoted to you that you couldn’t imagine living without them.
He smiled thinking, ‘well that’s sure not going to happen with me and Jack.’
Chapter 63 Here: http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/33345.html
