Ianto Jones (
torchwoodteaboy) wrote2010-08-29 03:17 pm
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Entry tags:
- ghost ship,
- rl,
- sulu,
- virus
[RL WITH SULU]
The past few days had been exciting ones, and definitely not in the way that Ianto would have predicted them to be when he'd first set foot on the boat. They should have known that there would be something wrong with this, but how were they to know that Sulu saying that nothing could go wrong after what they'd accomplished on the first night would come back to quite literally haunt them, as it were? Because there really was no denying it anymore. There'd been enough talk about what else had going on in other people's cabins enough to know that it wasn't just their suite. The whole ship was buzzing about it, and though everyone was reporting different things happening, there was really no doubt about it. Regardless of whatever was causing it, the place was haunted.
Ianto'd tried ignoring it. He'd tried rationalizing it, and any other number of things to keep from admitting that what they had were ghosts on their hands. There was really just no denying it anymore. What had started out as objects moving every once and a while, and strange sounds in the night had turned a lot more active over the next few nights, the hot water switching itself off as Ianto was showering, their suitcases emptied out all over the suite while they slept. Ianto'd made sure that the door had been locked each time, and had even taken to sleeping with the key in his shorts pocket, but it wasn't any use. The door hadn't been opening to let anyone in--whatever was happening in the suite, it wasn't coming from the outside.
What had started out as them trying to make the best of their vacation had ended up with, well, at least Ianto being very wary of his surroundings, and of what could possibly go wrong with them. As much as he'd like to initiate something more with Sulu, the idea that they would be watched while they did was...more than a little bit of a turn-off. He hoped that Sulu understood, as it was.
Sulu, for his part, seemed to be taking this whole ghost thing pretty hard. Because paranormal things were sort of right up Ianto's alley, considering that he worked for Torchwood and all, he was trying his hardest to be a good Torchwood officer, keep a level head for the other man, and not freak out at anything that might have otherwise given him pause. Sulu hadn't admitted to being frightened of these ghosts, but. Ianto could tell that he was definitely a lot less comfortable with the thought of them being around than even Ianto himself was. It was almost nice, to be able to be there for Sulu like he had to be because of these hauntings. Almost.
Ianto'd tried ignoring it. He'd tried rationalizing it, and any other number of things to keep from admitting that what they had were ghosts on their hands. There was really just no denying it anymore. What had started out as objects moving every once and a while, and strange sounds in the night had turned a lot more active over the next few nights, the hot water switching itself off as Ianto was showering, their suitcases emptied out all over the suite while they slept. Ianto'd made sure that the door had been locked each time, and had even taken to sleeping with the key in his shorts pocket, but it wasn't any use. The door hadn't been opening to let anyone in--whatever was happening in the suite, it wasn't coming from the outside.
What had started out as them trying to make the best of their vacation had ended up with, well, at least Ianto being very wary of his surroundings, and of what could possibly go wrong with them. As much as he'd like to initiate something more with Sulu, the idea that they would be watched while they did was...more than a little bit of a turn-off. He hoped that Sulu understood, as it was.
Sulu, for his part, seemed to be taking this whole ghost thing pretty hard. Because paranormal things were sort of right up Ianto's alley, considering that he worked for Torchwood and all, he was trying his hardest to be a good Torchwood officer, keep a level head for the other man, and not freak out at anything that might have otherwise given him pause. Sulu hadn't admitted to being frightened of these ghosts, but. Ianto could tell that he was definitely a lot less comfortable with the thought of them being around than even Ianto himself was. It was almost nice, to be able to be there for Sulu like he had to be because of these hauntings. Almost.
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Sulu did everything in his power to keep his jitters to himself, to keep Ianto from noticing just how much this sort of thing freaked him out - he knew that he was doing a shit job of it, but he was grateful that Ianto at least pretended not to notice. It was a nice gesture; one that Sulu appreciated more and more as he continued to get spooked by footsteps, knocking on the walls, water pressure changes, lights flickering - ugh.
The worst part, Sulu had to think, was that there was no way to hide out from the eerie phenomena. The entire ship was haunted during the night; during the day, it was fine, but that was hardly a consolation. In fact, it just made the nights more unbearable. And no amount of reassurance from Ianto could... well, could really stop the fear. That was the worst part.
The only place that seemed the "least" haunted, as far as Sulu was concerned, was the shower. The water pressure sometimes changed, pelting him with hard water; other times, the water temperature would drop to freezing or up to scalding, but honestly... That really was the worst that could happen. At least, that's what Sulu kept telling himself, especially tonight as he got ready to take a shower. A few minutes respite, he figured.
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He figured he might at least try getting ready for bed, changing quickly into the shorts and t-shirt that he'd adopted as his pajamas for the duration of the virus. He was trying very hard to pretend that everything was alright, that he wasn't getting a little spooked himself about all of this, because he knew it was the right thing to do for Sulu. He'd just... He'd just get into bed, like there was nothing wrong, and wait for Sulu to join him, and then if they clung to each other a bit more during the night than they might have otherwise done, that was fine. They both understood that the situation was less than ideal, as it was, with their night visitors.
Ianto lay down on the bed, slipping under the sheets, letting his mind wander. Aside from the ghosts, the cruise really hadn't been all that bad. He'd even gone swimming once, which really wasn't something he did all that often. But there was no masking the nights, and the way that the ghosts and Sulu's masked but still noticeable freaking out about the ghosts had kept him up more often than not.
After a few moments of thinking, the bed dipped behind him, an arm coming to loop around his waist. He sighed into the touch, and a cool kiss was pressed to the back of his neck. At least they had each other in this, right? That made it not nearly as bad as it could have been.
A sound echoed from the bathroom, and with all of the random noises happening, Ianto didn't think that much of it. Until he heard Sulu curse. From inside the bathroom. He stiffened, his eyes shooting open, the arm still wrapped around his waist, the presence still at his back. "...Sulu?" he called out. Please, god, let him just have hallucinated Sulu's voice from the other room...
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"Yeah?" he called back, trying to blink his eyes and only managing to get more soap in them. He leaned over to splash water in his face and felt a cold chill run up his spine - deeper than anything the water could have caused. Shuddering a bit, he forced himself to not turn around, and absolutely refused to look into the mirror. Who knew what might be looking back at him from behind?
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With as much dignity as he could muster, considering the situation he'd inadvertently found himself in, Ianto threw back the covers, launched himself from the bed, and sprinted to the bathroom. He felt no need to turn and look and see if there actually had been anyone there, especially not if there was something to look at lying in the bed still. He knew what he felt, and it had been a solid presence, a solid arm and pair of lips that had touched him, not some ghostly brush or whatever people sometimes talked about. He really, really didn't need an image to go along with that.
He thanked all the gods he could think of that Sulu hadn't locked the door to the bathroom, and all but ripped it open, throwing himself inside before shutting the door forcefully behind him. He leaned back against the door, holding it shut, his breathing coming fast and definitely not from how quickly he'd just moved across the bedroom. He swallowed hard. He'd probably have to explain himself to Sulu, in a few moments, but right then, he just really needed to be not alone in the bedroom anymore.
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Pausing, Sulu gulped and tried to give Ianto a casually curious look. It failed utterly as his expression revealed just how freaked out he was by Ianto's sudden appearance. "Ianto? - What happened?"
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Ianto took a step forward. He hadn't exactly calmed down, but he didn't think that he could, all things considered. He reached out, and grabbed Sulu by the forearm, not thinking about the fact that Sulu was in front of him dressed in nothing more than a towel and that he probably needed his arm to keep that towel on, or that his grip was probably a lot tighter than it might normally have been. He just knew one thing.
"We need to leave. We need to get out of this room and we need to leave. Now," Ianto said, his voice not exactly steady, his pulse still racing.
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Because, the fact of the matter was that if Ianto was freaking out - Ianto, the one who dealt with things that were far more paranormal than the things Starfleet dealt with, who had damned ghost machines for crying out loud, was panicking, and that made Sulu even less eager to stay in the room than he had been before.
"Okay," he said quickly, "All right." He didn't want to ask what had happened - he didn't want to know. He knew he should probably grab some clothes, but... fuck it.
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Upon reaching the parlor room, he wasted no time in dragging Sulu to the door. He had every intention of turning the knob and getting them the hell out of there. There was a minor flaw in this plan, however. The doorknob wasn't budging. Not a single bit. He pulled the key out of his pocket, fitting it in the lock. Maybe it was just stuck? He spun the key around, unlocking the mechanism, and moving to turn the doorknob again. Still no luck. He tried again. It wouldn't move at all. "No, no, no, come on. Don't do this," Ianto said, trying the lock one more time and having it fail on him again. "Shit!" He sounded decidedly less than pleased with this turn of events, really.
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The lights started to flicker like candles in the wind as Ianto tried the door, that ugly, terrifying cold chill sweeping down Sulu's spine like a - like someone -
Sulu spun and slammed his back up against the wall beside Ianto, trying to decide if closing his eyes or keeping watch for the possibly physical manifestations would be better. "Ianto," he said, in a very quiet and strained voice that rose in pitch as he spoke, "I don't want to point out the obvious, but our room is haunted and up until now, I could mostly deal with that, but now I am starting to panic and I think I need that door open now thank you."
Well. The calm rationalization of the last few nights had been great while it had lasted.
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Ianto lay his head against the door. He heard the panic bubbling up in Sulu's voice, knew that he'd just terrified the other man with how effected he was by this whole ghost thing. He'd been strong for him up until then, but the ghost climbing into bed with him had rocked him, and he needed to get his footing. "Sulu, it's no use," he said, trying to keep his voice low and as calming as he could, because the other man really wasn't going to like what he had to say, "I'm sorry. The door, it... It won't open. I've tried the lock a dozen times, but it's. It's no use. It's not going to let us leave. Not tonight." As Ianto spoke, a shadow passed over the two of them, like someone had walked in front of the light, and yet Ianto knew for a fact that no one had. He shivered.
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"This is a bad time to mention that I'm Not good with ghosts," Sulu mumbled to Ianto, "I'm really, really not good with ghosts." He didn't like the cold air, or the feeling of eyes on them, or the footsteps, or the damned things trying to touch them, and he wasn't sure he could keep it together long enough to deal with this.
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There was a sound in the bedroom, like the noise of one of their suitcases being dragged across the floor. Ianto shivered and stepped closer to Sulu, trying to stay as calm as he could, putting himself between Sulu and the noise. "I know. I'm sorry. If... If I had known about this, I would've...I don't know, propped the door. Found someone to call so we could get out. I just... I didn't think it'd be that bad. It'd never touched either of us before..." Oops. Maybe... Maybe he shouldn't have said that. No. He really probably shouldn't have said that.
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Because, despite his fear, despite the fact that ghosts - spirits, entities, whatever they were - despite the fact they scared him, terrified him even, they were incorporeal. The most they did was throw things around; maybe they'd stack furniture, or make noises, but they never, never were supposed to touch the people they were haunting. If they did, it moved from the realm of "acceptable fear" to "terror," and Sulu... Sulu couldn't do that.
"I really don't want to be in here, Ianto," he said weakly, listening to the suitcase being opened and the whisper of noise the clothes inside made as they were taken out. He tried not to focus on the fact that he could almost hear some kind of talking, or humming.
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He sighed. He didn't want to lie to Sulu, because once he started, he was convinced that it would open a door that would never close, so. "I mean... That while I was waiting for you in the shower, it..." He dropped his eyes to the ground, so Sulu couldn't see the fear in them as he continued, his voice dropping low too. "That it climbed...it climbed into bed with me and it. There was an arm around me, and it..." He couldn't say the part about the kiss, he just couldn't. "I thought it was you, but then you weren't in the room so, I..." Ianto was pretty sure he almost heard a giggle from the other room, and it sent chills down his spine.
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Sulu practically felt the blood drain from his face as Ianto spoke, eyes narrowing and moving to look towards the bedroom. He heard that laugh - it sent shivers down his spine to hear it, to know that something was in this room and had touched Ianto, and apparently thought it was fucking funny.
Sulu had two different actions he could take at the moment. The normal route at this point, with the fear and hot-cold adrenaline running through his veins, was to try everything to get the hell out of the room. But Sulu knew that there was no safety out there - people had been seeing ghosts out there, and there was nothing to say the thing wasn't going to just follow them.
The other option was to let that adrenaline take over, embrace that fear and move past it to get pissed off at some dead... demonic son of a bitch to try touching either of them.
Sulu squeezed Ianto's hand tightly, and then growled, shouting in the direction of the bedroom, "You think that's funny, asshole?!" Sure, he sounded scared, but he sounded pissed too, and that was the point. The giggling stopped dead and Sulu snarled, "That's right, you shut the fuck up and don't touch either of us!"
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Ianto squeezed Sulu's hand gently, putting his other hand overtop of the other man's, trying to comfort and calm him down. "Sulu..." he said, softly. "Maybe... Maybe it's best if we didn't--"
Whatever he was going to say was cut off by the sound of one of the lamps in the bedroom crashing against the wall in a sudden, very loud sound of broken glass, that made Ianto jump a little in surprise, and stop everything that he had been about to say. It was probably too late by then, anyway, the initial damage had been done.
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He wasn't sure where to go or what to do at that point, an the sound of glass crunching underfoot made Sulu pull Ianto back, away from the wall an away from the door. And then the footsteps changed from slow and steady to a quick dash, and one of the crystal glasses on the coffee table flew at Sulu, crashing a foot or so away from him against the wall. "Shit!"
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Rule number one of paranormal investigating, which unfortunately Sulu hadn't known about, and really, why should he have? Don't try to provoke whatever it is, especially if there's a chance for it to get violent. Ianto...didn't know what to do. There wasn't any way out, there wasn't a safe place to hide and wait it out, they were in the thick of it all. He heard a loud whisper, sounding like his name, coming from the space between his head and Sulu's, and then the settee shifted very quickly, rotating in its place almost a foot's distance.
A metal cigar box on the desk by the window started rattling, and it was all Ianto could do to tug Sulu out of the way before it went crashing to where his shoulder had been a second ago, leaving a dent in the wall before thudding to the ground. Shit just about covered it. "Christ! Are you alright?" he asked, glad that he'd noticed the thing flying at them before it had been too late.
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"I'm fine," he said weakly, keeping his eyes locked on the room instead of Ianto - he wasn't going to let the same thing happen twice, and he was going to make sure to get out of the way himself, next time. "Probably... shouldn't have said that," Sulu mumbled, as the desk pulled away from against the wall and then slid as though it were on wheels, slamming into the wall across from them.
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Ianto frantically tried to remember all the training that he'd gone through for Torchwood One. It'd been a lot more in-depth than anything Jack made the others who'd joined Torchwood Three go through. Yvonne had been nothing if not thorough, cold, heartless hag that she was. On top of psychic training, minor combat training, and all other sorts of sessions he'd had to sit through, he was pretty sure that they'd covered at least something that might be helpful in this.
"We..." Ianto called out, stepping in front of Sulu just in case his trying to talk made anything happen, trying to make his voice steady, "we're sorry to have...to have offended you! My friend here, he..." God, he felt mad, talking to thin air. "He's just not used to these sorts of things. Listen. If... If you could just unlock the door, then we'd be--!" A chill went up his whole side, the one furthest away from Sulu, and something that felt like a very cool hand pressed against his cheek, causing Ianto to cut his sentence short, his tone tilting upwards in surprise. As much as he was trying to play the strong role, there, he really wasn't ready for it to touch him again, and so he quickly backed away from it, and right into Sulu.
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"I don't think that's going to help either," Sulu mumbled into Ianto's ear, feeling woefully underprepared standing there with Ianto in a towel. He knew that he'd probably made the wrong move, yelling at the thing, and his fear was compounded when he heard that godforsaken voice call out Ianto's name from somewhere near the settee. The decanter and the caddy it was in shook, rattling against the coffee table. Sulu suddenly didn't care that he wasn't exactly dressed for a haunting, so long as all that crystal stayed the hell away from them.
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"Look, I... I'm trying here," Ianto whispered back to Sulu. "I know that you only had my best interests in mind, and that well, you're really not used to this sort of thing at all, but. Yelling at it really wasn't the best thing to've done back there," Ianto said, his eyes never leaving the decanter on the table. It started to shake more violently in its place, like whatever it was was trying hard to pick it up and throw it, but it hadn't mustered enough strength to do so yet. "Just...just play along, and maybe we'll actually make it out of here at some point, alright?"
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Still, Ianto had far more knowledge on how to handle ghosts an the like, so he fell silent, gritting his teeth and closing his eyes because, this whole thing just was too much for him at that moment.
"Yeah," he said, directing his voice towards the decanter, "I'm... sorry about that." If Ianto felt crazy talking to thin air, he had no idea how Sulu felt.
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As Sulu spoke to the ghost, Ianto squeezed his hand in support. He was really glad that Sulu was humoring him and making the effort to try things that were definitely less than an exact science, like reasoning with ghosts. "We're..." Ianto swallowed, picking up where Sulu left of. "We're not going to do any more yelling at you, so. In return, could you... Could you please calm down a little? We're... We're not trying to do anything to harm you..."
The decanter slowly stopped rattling in its place on the table, and the room fell eerily silent as all of the noise from things moving about suddenly stopped. "Th-thank you," he said in response to the ghost, although he turned to look at Sulu, addressing him as well. There was another whispering, the same voice as before, repeating his name, and then the giggles that had happened before. He wasn't sure how it knew his name, or why it kept repeating it, but he figured that if how it had reacted before was any sort of clue, he should probably just let it keep repeating, however uneasy it made him feel.
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He hated that it kept calling out for Ianto. He didn't want it to say either of their names - he wanted it to get the hell away from them and stop ruining what was very nearly going to be an amazing vacation. Fuck.
"...What now?" Sulu asked Ianto quietly, keeping an eye on the decanter.
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