Ianto leaned heavily against Sulu, nodding in response to his condolences, but knowing that he was going to have to keep going, and that it would be almost as hard for Sulu to listen to him explain all of this as it was for him to have to explain it all in the first place. "Lisa...she worked in research. Which was higher up in the tower than the secure archives. I had somewhere safe to hide, which saved me," even if they had found him and he almost hadn't made it in the end, "but Lisa... She hid, but she wasn't as lucky. She hid, and it worked for a while, but. They found her, in the end."
"The Doctor, he... I'm not sure what he did, exactly, but he stopped it all. Sent the Cybermen and the Daleks back through the crack in the dimensions, sealing it up as they left. Only...Lisa was in the conversion unit when it happened. She was still converted, but... She still looked like her, which was how I knew it was her, when... When I went looking for her." He shuddered, remembering that awful day, pulling Lisa out of the burning building to safety. And god, she had been so heavy. "But...she was alive. It. God, it was awful, but she was alive. She...she told me how to make a life-support system for her, but. That sort of technology, it didn't exist anywhere else but Torchwood, and since Torchwood One had fallen, the only chance I had of fixing things was...to work my way into Torchwood Three."
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"The Doctor, he... I'm not sure what he did, exactly, but he stopped it all. Sent the Cybermen and the Daleks back through the crack in the dimensions, sealing it up as they left. Only...Lisa was in the conversion unit when it happened. She was still converted, but... She still looked like her, which was how I knew it was her, when... When I went looking for her." He shuddered, remembering that awful day, pulling Lisa out of the burning building to safety. And god, she had been so heavy. "But...she was alive. It. God, it was awful, but she was alive. She...she told me how to make a life-support system for her, but. That sort of technology, it didn't exist anywhere else but Torchwood, and since Torchwood One had fallen, the only chance I had of fixing things was...to work my way into Torchwood Three."