Gwen floated in and out of conciousness, mumbling in a strange, incoherant language, still convolsing randomly at times.

(Whooo, we have life lol )

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Illuminate the way to my heart,
It's twisting on a thread
+ COME RAISE THE DEAD +

*Bumpies!*
"Well hurry up!" Ianto growled. He flipped on the computers and began typing furiously, opening the archives of all the aliens they had catologued. "The archives are up, Owen" Ianto said through clentched teeth. He sliped over to Gwen's side and grasped her hand. 'Gwen, you've got to stay with us" He pleaded, his voice laden with intense emotion. "Come on, just stay awake" It sent a jolt right through his heart every time she convulsed. He felt so helpless, seeing her jolt uncontrollably.

Owen extracted a sample of DNA from the blood and gave it to Toshiko. Admittedly, he knew how to compare the DNA but so did Tosh. And he had other things to do. He examined the alien blood once more before going towards Gwen with a syringe. "This might sting," Owen cautioned. He jabbed the syringe in and extracted a blood sample near the wound. He compared the two samples under the microscope. "Ok," he declared. "The alien blood definitely got into Gwen's blood." He's seen human blood cells long enough to tell them apart from alien cells. He squinted through the microscope. He then transferred the images that he saw through the microscope into a projector that began to show the images on the screen hanging from the wall in the cold storage. "Ok, basically what has happened to Gwen is that the alien blood cells are with her own human cells. Now the white blood cells in her body doesn't recognise them so they attack. Only one problem. The alien blood cells behave much like the HIV. Only difference is they're not viruses." As he spoke, three microscopic alien cells began to attach themselves to what Owen knew was a leukocyte. "Right now the alien blood cells is behaving both like the HIV and a normal bacterial pathogen. It destroy her immune system and infects the rest of her body."

Toshiko who had stood at the doorway of the cold storage during Owen's entire lecture heard a shrill beep from her computer. She had send to try to match the DNA strands with any known species. She rushed towards her computer, knowing that her fellow colleague was in danger. "No exact match," she said with a slightly high pitched voice. "Around twenty different related species based on DNA results."

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I was cured all right.

(( Let's get this moving again! ))


"Owen, you're going to need to find a way to stop the cells from killing Gwen," Jack ordered, slightly panicked. "Tosh, narrow things down. Find the closest matches."
He looked back at Gwen, who was still twitching uncontrollably. Just... stay alive, Gwen. Stay alive.

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Gwen could tell she was dying, somehow. She could feel someone holding her, she tried to open her eyes but she convulsed again. Tears came to her eyes, pouring down her face, the pain was un-imagine-able.

(Yeah, it kinda died there for a minute lol)

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Illuminate the way to my heart,
It's twisting on a thread
+ COME RAISE THE DEAD +

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Illuminate the way to my heart,
It's twisting on a thread
+ COME RAISE THE DEAD +

(( Daaaaaaaang, that's a sheisty idea. xD ))


But Gwen couldn't die. She couldn't. She couldn't, could she? The team needed her. They couldn't lose Gwen, not now. Jack bit his lip, wishing that there was a way he could take the pain and the hurt away, that it had been him instead of her. It was his fault, anyway. His fault they were all here in the first place. He tried to push those thoughts away.

No, Gwen, stay alive. Don't die. We need you. I need you. And, Jack realized as something on her hand sparkled, someone else needed her too.


(( I don't think Married!Gwen has popped up yet... I don't know, I'm too lazy to go back and look. xD And on another note, I had no idea I was actually capable of writing a Jack/Gwen-ish post... Wow. Go figure. ))

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(( It lives! ))

Ianto clenched his jaw, trying desperatly to keep the tears at bay. His comrade, his leader, his good friend, was dying right in front of him. Never had he felt this helpless, this lost. Not even with Lisa He thought to himself. Hoping for at least a bit of consolation, he looked to Jack. All hard feelings of abandonment and anger melted away. His true leader, the one who was always there to pick him up out of darness, stood across the table, clentching just as desperatly to Gwen's hand as Ianto. For a split second surprise flitted across Jack's face. He glanced at her ring.
"She's engaged, Jack" Ianto managed to stutter through clentched teeth. "She's set to marry Rhys."

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Illuminate the way to my heart,
It's twisting on a thread
+ COME RAISE THE DEAD +

(( We could do something with DeadZombie!Gwen, but I'd feel bad for Rhys. PossessedPsychoKiller!Gwen might be fun... As long as she doesn't hurt Rhys. Rhys is teh win. ))


Gwen Cooper. Married. Jack smiled. "Good for her," he said quietly. Oh, and Rhys would be good for her. Would be. Gwen wasn't dying here, not now.
"Stay with us, Gwen," Jack said, brushing her hair out of her face.


(( Ooh, so let's say that this ebil alien virus thingy does kill people, but then they don't exactly stay dead, they come back as psychotic psychokillers. Which would mean that Gwen and that random dude in the street a few pages back would both be running around Cardiff killing people... and they recruit others to their ebil agenda...
And then we can make up a magical cure. Like muffins. xD ))

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Owen scrambled around the cold storage, scattering instruments likes fall leaves. "I'm on it, I'm on it," he reassured Jack, taking this vial and that test tube and mixing them together while simultaneously, peering into the microscope. He threw himself towards the large medicine cabinet and went through the disorganised medicines that came from Earth and the Rift. After several precious minutes wasted rummaging through the medicine, he returned carrying two vials. One of them he injected a syringe into and extracted the liquid then injected the syringe into Gwen, explaining, "This medicine came from the Rift, probably two or three hundred years later. It helps the body's immune system when it's compromised, like you. I'm going to give you another injection in thirty minutes. This should give you another day or two."

Tosh watched Owen work hurriedly and frantically as she waited for her programme to read the DNA of the alien and the closest and most relevant match. She shot glances at Gwen at several different intervals and wondered if Owen could really help her. While she knew that she would be devastated if Gwen died, she knew Owen would take it far worse. And it wasn't because of their affair. But because Owen, inside deep behind his hard armour of cynicism and sarcasm, was a very caring person. Which is why she continued to be infatuated with him, even though he has given enough reasons for her to stop. A shrill series of beeping noises came from her computer, alerting Toshiko to it. She quickly put her glasses on and scanned the readings. "The closest thing to the thing inside her is a perahin," she dictated.

(Shadowcat, you're free to make up anything you want with the "perahins". I just made that name up right now"

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I was cured all right.

(( Oh, the liberty... Hmm... ))


Jack relaxed slightly. One or two days. That gave her a chance. Jack patted Gwen's hand, then let it go. He paced, trying to remember what exactly it was that Perahins did.
"They're a semi-intelligent species of marine mammal, capable of shapeshifting," he recalled. "Carnivores. They have a kind of venom in their teeth that incapacitates the victim until they eat it, or if it's left alone... well, that, nobody's really sure of. They always come back for their food."
So if the Perahin had fallen through the Rift, it would make sense that it would want to find the nearest source of water. Assuming it wasn't near the Bay, it would've headed for the nearest sewer entrance, where it most likely met the Weevil. So the Weevil killed it, then went on to scratch Gwen's arm. Lovely.


(( There, I tried. xD Hope it's not too horrible... I had to go back and piece things together from February's posts. You guys can add stuff on if you want. ))

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Illuminate the way to my heart,
It's twisting on a thread
+ COME RAISE THE DEAD +

(( Psychokilling!Gwen running around Cardiff because a Weevil killed a carnivorous shapeshifting sea mammal with venom in its system that turns victims into Psychokillers... Mmmhmm, I love this fandom. xD I'm all for it.

PsychoKiller!Ianto... Phwoar... *melts* Strangler!Ianto in Adam was rather hot...

I don't suppose we could work the pterodactyl into this? xD ))

Gwen had stopped twitching and convulsing. She'd be fine. Owen would find a cure, and she'd be perfectly fine. Jack relaxed slightly. They had a whole day in front of them. They'd find something. Gwen's life wasn't ending here.

(( Just wondering; should teh Jack send everyone else home, and then PsychoKiller!Gwen can escape teh Hub? ))

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Illuminate the way to my heart,
It's twisting on a thread
+ COME RAISE THE DEAD +

(( AnimalReflex!Gwen. Rawr. So then Psycho!Gwen ... kills Jack? Or just does a runner, and the next day doesn't show up for work? ))

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