With a sharp intake of air, Jack was back in life. He hated suffocation, the feeling of not being able to breathe. Drowning was especially bad. Still, blood loss was worse. He felt weak for hours after coming back.

Ianto was holding him, he noted. Jack locked his fingers around Ianto's arms while his body resumed its functions. He took a moment to sort through his rather jumbled thoughts.

"You shouldn't be here," he started to say, but it didn't come out right, and it wasn't the biggest issue anyway. "Gwen. Where's Gwen? Have to find her," he managed to choke out.

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He was alive! Ianto's mind cried in happiness. "Jack, Owen and Tosh found haraliane in Gwen's blood. Do you know what time...she left?" He almostfinished that sentace with 'kill you?'-'Do you know what time she killed you'- but that sounded too wrong.

Jack frowned. He hadn't exactly been keeping tabs on the time before he died, and he had found that it could be rather challenging to tell time when he was dead.
"Ten minutes ago?" he guessed. Suffocation didn't cause that much damage, and the less damage, the less time it took for him to come back.

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Owen and Toshiko barged in through the tourist office, after chasing after Ianto when he tore off. The worry and the anxiety wasn't doing Owen's temper any good, so Tosh remained silent during the car trip. When they made sure the tourist office was clear, they made their way into the Hub and saw Jack and Ianto together.

Owen barely managed to close his mouth and stop from hurling an insensitive comment to them. Instead as Tosh uploaded the CCT videos of the Hub, looking for any sign of Gwen, he went to the telepathic monitor that measured the Weevil telepathy. With some help from Tosh, he had been working on a monitor to see if he could find a way to read the Weevil's emotions. He watched as the monitor light glowed orange, the colour that Owen assigned as for fear. "Jack," he cried. "She's in the tunnels."

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I was cured all right.

"Wonderful," Jack sighed. "Bunch of angry Weevils and a psychopathic Gwen."
He paused to struggle to his feet, leaning on Ianto for support.
"So. Who's coming with me into the creepy dark tunnels?"

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"Jack, they're scared," Owen corrected him. "I don't think they're going to be a problem. Unfortunately, whatever's spooking those Weevils can't be good. Now, we're going to use tranquilizer darts. I can manufacture a chemical that counter the toxin, but we're going to have view Gwen as..well, not human now."

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I was cured all right.

Ianto helped Jack to his feet. "Of course we'll come Jack." He said. "Do we have enough tranquilizer's for every one?" He asked.

"More importantly," Owen retorted. "Do we have enough tranquilizers that are strong enough? Haraliane increases body strength, endurance, agility. We're talking about big game level. Elephants, rhinos, tigers. That kinda level."

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I was cured all right.

"And how sure are you that shooting Gwen with a rhino tranquiliser isn't going to cause any long-term problems?" Jack asked. "Haraliane or not, I'm not liking the sound of knocking her out with something that strong..."

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"Trust me," Owen said. "Once I neutralise the haraliane in her, the chemicals will take the excess sedative and flush it down through the kidneys."

"He's right," vouched Tosh. "I've done a simulation of her body and what would happen to her with the chemicals. She should be fine." Owen looked at Tosh as if to thank her. Even though he was rude to Toshiko at times, he still liked her and was grateful that she supported him like that.

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I was cured all right.

"Then hurry up and get the sedative before she kills anyone else," Jack ordered, starting to feel more than a bit nervous.

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It's twisting on a thread
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