Jack was halfway through typing a message to send to Ianto when the screen changed. It flickered, and the blue lines to the side of the dialogue box, the ones that signified the file pathways, changed a little. They seemed to twist as though something inside changed them and then words appeared on the screen.

"Huh..."

He looked at the screen and considered. Something sentient, maybe? But what? No rift spike and nothing in the last 12 hours or so. So something that had got here some other way, or been here longer.

Something that didn't know it was nothing but files and electric sparks inside a computer? Something that once was embodied? He'd try and find out.

He typed his own message back.

You're inside my computer.

He never was very good at breaking things gently.