Lycan Ianto

Summary: This is a Torchwood where Ianto is holding back a secret, a secret that he is not comfortable with, keeping a secret from the other Torchwood team, a secret that if they knew, they would imprison him or even kill him. Ianto has to learn to adjust to his secret life, will Jack and the team learn of the secret and will they help him or harm him.

Setting: Before Gwen joined the team, although she does soon after this story begins, even though she is not my favourite character but Torchwood is not Torchwood without the whole team.

Rating: starting at T then may go to M for some later chapters for violence and adult themes

Type : Angst, science fiction, humour, drama

Disclaimer: I own nothing of Torchwood, characters or the BBC, oh that I wish that I did as I would never have killed off the best characters.

A/N: This will be an ongoing story with little stories interspersed, the main storyline concerning Ianto and how he copes with the changes to him. I am hoping that I portray the right amount of angst and drama with some humour thrown in. Also I'm hopeful that this story will take off as I have quite a few chapter ideas jumping around in my head. I will not be posting a chapter a day as I have done previously as chapters have not been written yet but I have written the synopsises of 18 chapters though.

Chapter 1

Owen stomped down into the autopsy bay grumbling under his breathe. Jack and Ianto had brought in yet another weevil victim, that was the third one tonight or morning as it was now, no weevils were caught but this band of weevils were leaving a gruesome and deadly path unseen until recently. Over the past month an unusual activity of weevil attacks, more than usual which was the reasoning behind Owen's frustration. Thankfully the Cardiff police, once seeing the victims would call Torchwood, knowing that no man could do the amount of damage that the victims appeared to have sustained. Then the activity would quieten then start again, almost like it was a ritualistic event for them. Owen was getting frustrated by the lack of capture of these weevils that were acting differently from their norm. Not to mention the work that Owen had to do of sewing up these poor hapless souls in order to return them to their families so the families could not see the damage done to them. It was easy enough to convince the coroner that an autopsy was not required or provide a coroner report for the family.

"What are you whining about?" Jack inquired.

"These bodies, the clean up, can't we just have them be reported missing?" Owen, like the others in Torchwood hated to have innocent victims left here in the Torchwood morgue but more importantly to have the families believe that their loved one was missing and never to be found again. It was an awful thing to happen but he was getting tired of doing the cover up. Well Ianto really did the cover up stories, Owen did the patch up job on the actual bodies but still it was eating into Owen's 'on the prowl' time and he was in need of a shag.

Before Jack or Ianto could reply the phone rang, it was Detective Swanson letting them know of a weevil sighting on the outskirts of Cardiff in Blackweir Woods.

"Okay lets go, let's see if we can catch this weevil or weevils red handed" Jack said jumping into action, Ianto grabbing his recently discarded coat, sighing, it was a busy night, and he was tired, this would be the fourth time that the boys had been out tonight and it was only four in the morning.

"Again?" Owen growled.

"But this time the weevil was sighted, if we rush we could get there in time, it's only a 10 minute drive"

"Okay we should be there in 5" Ianto said quietly.

Jack arched an eyebrow and turned his head in the direction of the Welshman quizzically in an apparent questioning of Ianto's meaning but knowing all along what Ianto was implying.

Ianto hadn't meant for Jack to hear, "Just saying sir, and the fact that the many speeding tickets demonstrate your driving ability"

"Oh I like that 'driving ability' " Jack said impressed nudging Owen whilst they quickly moved down to the garage.

"That's not a compliment Jack" Owen said wearily.

Ianto gave Owen a stern look as they fought to keep up with Jack. Jack liked to run.

The silence in the park was eerily quiet; the breeze rustled the leaves and wind whispered through the trees lining the park leading into the woods that skirted the boundary of Cardiff Castle. Visibility was low for this time in the morning as the moon was still giving a shadowy radiance, even so as their eyes adjusted to the dimness and they could make out the tree line boundary of the park.

"Eyes alert boys" Jack said in an almost whisper, "let's fan out but keep each other in sight"

"Yes sir" Ianto reply enthusiastically hoping to stop the continual mutilations once and for all.

Owen saluted Jack in a mocking gesture, "And I thought we were here for the early morning air"

They spread out, Ianto a step or two behind looking between the heat sensor and the park grounds, his eye sight stretching out to the tree line. Owen and Jack were doing the same but without the heat sensor, it was decided that Ianto would hold back a bit and give them feedback as he could scan more effectively with the scanner, Tosh had it tuned to the particular heat signature of weevils, a five degrees lower body temperature of humans, so Tosh had the scanner calibrated to show human body heat and the weevils' heat signatures differently on the scanner. Glancing down Ianto saw 3 dots representing Jack, Owen and himself. Satisfied that no other dots were in the vicinity he walked steadily onwards using the old fashioned method of his eyes, not that he didn't trust the Tosh-rigged heat sensor, it was that it had a delay that Tosh couldn't improve.

Distantly a growl was heard by all three agents, they all turned wildly, their stun guns at the ready.

"Anything Ianto?" Jack called out.

"Not on the scanner, sorry sir" Ianto replied after a quick glance at the scanner, also keeping an eye out for possible attack.

"Really?" Jack said annoyed, "I thought that thing could scan for weevils"

"There is a time delay of 4 seconds Tosh couldn't get it any better than that" Ianto said defending his friend, of all the Torchwood agents, Tosh was his favourite besides Jack, but Jack had his other purposes to Ianto that Tosh couldn't provide as he didn't see Tosh that way.

"So nothing? I heard a growl"

"Sorry sir, nothing on the scanner"

"It's gone, another wasted morning" Owen moaned.

"Let's just searched a while longer, we're just got here" Jack admonished.

"Wouldn't have been so bad if you let teaboy here make us a coffee before we left"

"Yeah and we would have got here too late possibly leaving another victim, now just shut up" Jack said getting frustrated.

"I'll make breakfast when we get back" Ianto said trying to defuse the tension, he knew that Owen had been working a few nights in a row and he was getting extremely tired, and a tired Owen is an irritable Owen, who could be quite rude and scatting, so Ianto tried to sooth the tired and frayed nerves.

"What! I don't want any of your tofu burgers, I want real bacon and nothing less" Owen grumbled.

"Owen I can't understand, you a doctor should know the damage that meat does to the body" Ianto said wearily, he has had this conversation with Owen before, he couldn't convince him that a meat free diet is the best for optimum performance and longevity.

"I wa…."

"Shhhh listen" Jack said in an angry whisper.

Owen and Ianto stopped and strained to listen, however they weren't from the 51st century and therefore not having the enhanced hearing that Jack had, that was developed through the many years of selective breeding.

Before any of them could re-act a dark shape bounded from the car park growling, they all quickly turned around to see a dark shape descending onto Ianto, who was the closest to the car park. The growling weevil leapt onto Ianto in one huge jump flattening him to the ground, its teeth sinking into Ianto's shoulder before Owen, who was closest to Ianto, took a shot at the creature. The bullet shattering into the creature's upper arm that was holding Ianto down as it's salivating gaping jaw inched towards his throat. The bullet caused the weevil to be flung back away from Ianto, roaring its displeasure at being shot at.

The weevil quickly righted itself and ran off with Jack taking off after it, his Wembley out. Shooting at it several times but each time the bullet missed as was his haste to catch the weevil and his anger that it had attacked Ianto.

Owen rushed to Ianto's side knowing that Jack would have been able to capture the weevil on his own and besides Ianto looked to be needing immediate medical attention and that was more important than catching the weevil. Owen knelt beside Ianto, quickly assessing the situation, the blood pouring from the wound soaked into the grass beneath him, the wound itself did not appear to be deep and Owen considered that it could be stitched up back at the Hub, he would just need to stop the flow of blood which was flowing freely.

"You'll be right mate, I've got you" Owen said in a reassuring voice.

Ianto grunted through the pain but wouldn't acknowledge that his shoulder felt like it was on fire, it was that painful.

Owen struggled to get to a pressure pad from his med kit that was around his neck and across his chest. "Can you hold here I need to get to my med kit, okay?" Owen indicated that Ianto hold a part of his shirt to the wound.

"Hmmm" Ianto smuggled to say, "Sure"

"Stay with me Ianto, you're going to be okay, just need to put pressure to stop the bleeding, okay?"

"Hmm arg" Ianto mumbled through the pain.

Owen pulled the med kit up and over his head for better access and reached for the necessary items needed to help Ianto before getting him to the Hub's med bay for a thorough fix.

"Okay Ianto I'm going to give you a needle for the pain" Owen said gently, noting that Ianto's eyes grew larger at the mention of the injection, he hated them but in this instance there was no way to avoid it this time, Owen was amazed he didn't pass out from the pain, as the wound seemed to be quite a nasty one on closer inspection, very jagged, even in the dim light.

"Hmmm, if you must" Ianto said clenching his teeth, breathing forcefully through the pain.

Five seconds after plunging the needle into his arm Ianto fell into a painless sleep. Owen removed the strips of Ianto's shirt, placed a pressure pad on the wound and wrapped a large gauze around his shoulder and around his underarm, to hold the wound together until he got Ianto into the Hub's med bay. Owen hoped that Jack wouldn't be too long capturing the weevil as he really needed to get Ianto to the Hub's med bay to stitch him up, Owen looked up to see if he could spot Jack. At first Jack was nowhere in sight then off in the distance he saw him emerging from the wooded area.

"Come on Jack, need to get Ianto to the Hub" Owen called out.

Jack spirited back faster upon hearing Owen say that Ianto needed to go to the Hub even though he was thoroughly exhausted, four weevil alerts in one night will do that. Hearing Owen say that Ianto needed to get to the Hub, that could only mean one thing, Ianto was injured. For a fleeting moment Jack's heart skipped a beat, Ianto was someone that he had grown to love, not that he would tell him that but he wasn't ready to lose him yet. A puffed out Jack sped up to get to Ianto and Owen, cursing.

"What?" Owen couldn't recall hearing Jack swear, he was not one to swear, now if it was Owen cursing then no-one would have batted an eyelid, but Jack, now Jack very rarely cursed, something must be really aggravating him.

"I lost it, that weevil was fast, faster than what we have encountered before" Jack said puzzled, "it's stance and run was different too. Owen, I think you're right that this is a different, more advanced species"

Jack knelt down closer to Ianto, worried etching his face, the weevil forgotten for the moment, "How's Ianto?"

"He'll live, but he'll have a really impressive scar on his shoulder" Owen said sorrowfully, "help me get him into the car"

Jack bent down to reach under Ianto to lift him up; luckily Ianto was not a heavy set person so Jack was able to lift him without Owen's help who was not known for his strength. He gently placed Ianto on the back seat as Owen slid in next to him to monitor him on the way back to the Hub. Jack tenderly reached out his hand to stoke Ianto's face.

Owen watching said, "Don't worry Jack he'll be back on track soon and providing services for you before you know it, what's the concern is that I'm not going to get a coffee nor breakfast, even a tofu one" Owen whined.

Jack snorted thinking that if Owen was complaining about not getting a coffee from Ianto then he was going to pull through, Owen wouldn't be an arse if Ianto's life was in danger.

As Jack pulled out of the car park a distance howl rang through the woods.

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