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[ the feed comes on, hello everyone. Ianto looks pretty impassive, despite what he's been reading over the last few days since waking up in somewhere that was very clearly not Cardiff. ]

My name is Ianto Jones. I understand that this is obviously not Cardiff, and that there is obviously some sort of illness going around. Can't say I appreciate the unexpected trip, or the not so great timing of the Rift...

If there is a Jack Harkness or a Gwen Cooper about, or if anyone has seen or heard anyone by these names - one's a man in a big flashy coat, almost as flash as the man himself, the other is a Welshwoman, I would appreciate hearing of it.

Thank you for the help, I understand this can't be a good time to ask - but anything else about this place that anyone can tell me, or what is going on, I would also be grateful.

[ a solemn nod and then he's gone. ]

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[Tosh has spent as much time as she could spare wandering around the ship in search of Owen's pod, but she's never found any pods belonging to familiar faces. To say she's a little surprised when Ianto suddenly turns up is an understatement.]

Ianto! Oh my god, it's you!

[ Ianto does not expect anyone he knows to reply. He doesn't expect to hear from Jack or Gwen. So to hear Tosh, he stares at the device a long moment before he replies. ]

Tosh? You're here?

[ how? ]

I've been here for about six weeks now. I've been checking the pods in the ship to see if I could find anybody else, but...well, there's a lot of pods.

The ones we woke up in.

[ a pause. ] Where are you now now?

Yes, those. How we ended up there in the first place is anybody's guess, though. But I've been busy collecting data from the pods to try and develop a way of predicting when they'll open, so...I was searching while I did it.

I'm...[Well, shit. She was really trying to avoid mentioning her illness, hence the lack of video.] I'm sort of in hospital.

I'm not surprised. If anyone could figure this out, it would be you. [ it's truth, even if he's still not entirely sure what 'this' is. He just really missed Tosh. ]

What are you doing in a hospital?

I can't take all the credit - the project was well underway when I arrived. I just helped analyse some of the data by adapting the program I used for monitoring Rift energy back home. I've been working on putting some laptops together, too. The technology here is pretty brilliant.

I'm just a bit under the weather right now, that's all. [You know, just a minor case of the Black Death.]

Under the weather? As in a cough or a cold or something worse than that?

Sort of a bit sicker, yeah.

[She's being deliberately obtuse. Sorry, Ianto.]

A bit.

[ oh. oh. Tosh you are not allowed to do this, not know. Not when he just got here, not when you're alive when you weren't. ]

I'm coming, alright? Just. Stay where you are.

Yeah, you don't have to worry about that.

I'm in room [insert room number here. and possibly directions.].

I'm on my way.

[ and he dashes off to the location given. ]

[Tosh grins up at him when he gets there. She's still in the first stage of the disease, so it's not as bad as it could be...but she's not exactly the picture of health, either.]

It's so good to see you, even if you do have horrible timing.

[ it still takes him a while to find the hospital, even with the directions. Ianto gives her a small smile as he walks in. He knows Tosh will likely object to being hugged while she is sick... his relief at seeing her is cut short. ]

And usually I'm so good at being punctual, too.

[ a beat. ]

It's good to see you Tosh. Really good. [ things have been so different since then. ]

[She wants to ask when he's from, but she's not sure how. It's not like she can just say 'hey, am I dead back home?' So she opts to avoid any and all awkward questions for the moment.]

Do you need a place to stay? I've got an extra bedroom in my flat - not that I'm using my own room right now, obviously.

[ a glance around the room, Ianto isn't sure how to approach her about her death just yet. ]

I would appreciate that. [ of course being in her house without her being in it - she has to come back. She will, wont she? Instead, he adds quickly: ] I could take care of things while you're here.

There isn't much to take care of, really, I just don't want you to end up living on the streets or something.

[Tosh frowns a little, looking down at her blankets.] I don't know how much longer I'll be in hospital. I've still got awhile, I think.

Hello, Mr. Jones.

[Pepper is looking as pale as only a redhead fresh from a case of the Black Death can look, but she's as poised and polished as she can be all the same. That she's also smiling helps take some of the edge off.]

I'm afraid neither of those names has been around here, although the description of Mr. Harkness reminds me a lot of someone I know, but my name is Pepper Potts and I'd be happy to help you get acclimated to life on Verdana.

We're unfortunately not on Earth any more.

Ah, hello Ms. Potts. So that's what this place is called, then? [ trying to recall if he ever read of something called that in the archives but it's drawing a blank, good of a memory as his is. ]

Thanks. He's a bit hard to miss, Jack. Flirts with everything. Man, women, humanoid... alien. Suppose if he were here, he would have made himself known by now. [ okay so no Jack or Gwen... ]

[All right, so someone's cloned Tony from the sound of things. Pepper smiles to herself before a businesslike mien takes her and she gives Ianto a quick nod.]

Yes -- it's actually an entire planet that may or may not be in our galaxy, and is some unknown point in the future from where I'm from -- 2012, to be exact. We've all been brought here in stasis on board the crashed ship you'd have woken up on, although it's... questionable... whether this was our intended destination or not.

Okay, so you're a few years ahead of me. [ Ianto shakes his head, he should not even be surprised. ]

Not the weirdest thing that's happened to me. How long have you been here, if I might ask?

Then you're one up on me in the coping department. And I've been here... a little over two months, at this point. Has anyone warned you about the plague yet? I should probably get to that before giving the full tourist information package, I think.

[ Cybermen, Daleks, cannibals, and there was always a chance of getting taken by the Rift. Right now, it's figure things out first and panic later if need be. ]

Only what I read of it. Which is not much, I'm afraid.

[Pepper's expression is wry as she makes an admission.]

We're unfortunately short on ultimate solutions at this point, although work is progressing. But what we're looking at is a bioengineered strain of the Black Plague that contains the DNA for a virus inside it. Don't ask me how -- I just manage scientists sometimes, I'm not one myself.

So, if you catch the plague and if you recover from it, either from antibiotic treatment or because you're lucky, then you get to deal with a second infection, caused by the virus that's escaped from the dead plague germs. It's nasty, it's gone epidemic, and the city is getting a little... stretched.

Sounds like I was brought here during a not so great time. [ the black plaque. They'd had it in Cardiff for a while, with the Rift and all. It doesn't sound the same, exactly. ]

Thanks for the heads up.

To be honest, [says Pepper with the ruefulness of tone that says that yes, she knows nobody ever says that when it's prefacing something pleasant,] if it wasn't bioengineered Black Death then you might've shown up in the middle of a violent raid, or during a psychogenic fog.

Great tourist destination, basically.

Sounds lovely. I wouldn't want to take my vacation anywhere where there is a chance of being bored and getting to relax a bit, after all.

If it's not half of Cardiff being blown up, or all children freezing in place at once, it's another thing.

Cardiff... paired with explosions and strangeness, I'm sorry if I'm prying, but do you know a Ms. Sato at all? Toshiko Sato?

[Pepper, in her tenure on Verdana, has grown increasingly mistrustful of coincidence, when it comes to the different realities coughing people up onto the planet.]

Tosh? Yes I do, actually. We both worked for the same company.

Well, then you're one of the lucky ones, Mr. Jones. You've got someone from your own reality, or something close to it, already here. Tosh has been working on understanding some of the Ship's systems. I'm sure she'll be delighted to see a familiar face.

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