I posted this a while ago under a different LJ name. I'm just posting it here so all of my Torchwood stories are together.
Title: The Eleventh Try
Rating: PG13
Characters/Pairings: Jack, Ianto and Tosh
Warnings: Jack dies, again.
Summary: Jack, Ianto and Tosh find themselves in a life or death struggle.
It was the wee hours of the morning and they were all tired, even Jack. They'd been fighting all night long and Ianto felt that this current strategy was a bad idea. Toshiko was on the upper floors whereas Jack and Ianto were downstairs, waiting for the attack. Ianto took deep breaths and wiped his sweaty palms on his suit pants. Long ago he took off his jacket and rolled up his shirt sleeves. Jack once told him that the only thing sexier than Ianto in a suit was Ianto in a disheveled suit. Ianto cleared his mind, he didn't have time to be distracted by romantic thoughts.
Soon he heard Jack's voice over the headset. “Here they come!”
Ianto ran to Jack's position, but it was too late. Jack was quickly overwhelmed and went down with such vile cursing that Ianto wondered why he kissed such a mouth. “Protect Tosh!” were Jack's last words and Ianto ran away from the mob towards the stairs.
“Jack is dead again,” he said over the headset to Tosh. The metal stairs echoed with a cold sound as he ran up them. God, he was beginning to hate that sound.
“We'll stand here and take them out as the come up the stairs,” Tosh said as they stood side by side, comrades-in-arms.
Once the first one came into view, Tosh and Ianto rained down bullets. It was of little use, they kept on advancing. Tosh growled something in Japanese as she fell to the ground dying. Ianto knew that this was it. There was no point in running, it would only prolong the inevitable. He stood his ground, still fighting as his life slowly drained away.
Then the miraculous happened. Instead of fading to black, the screen faded to white. “Level completed,” announced the computer.
Shouts of joy came over the headset. “You did it!” Tosh exclaimed. She flopped back onto her bed, careful not to spill her drink into the laptop.
“What'd I miss?” Jack asked, returning to his office with a fresh cup of coffee.
“Ianto saved the day!” Tosh announced. "He killed all of the zombies!"
Jack walked over to the railing and looked down into the hub. Ianto was standing next to one of the workstations, stretching his back. He glanced up at Jack's office and saw him staring. “Good Job,” said Jack.
Ianto ducked his head, becoming a little sheepish, “Thank you, sir.”