Bonding
Chapter one: departing
Today was the day. The day Ianto and Jack committed to a bonding ritual from Jacks home place. They had sat through three hours of boding rituals; when it was done Ianto and Jack were bonded in every way possible. They even had bonded minds which ment they were telepathic towards each other. They were on their way back to the hub to celebrate with Tosh and Owen as they were the two witnesses at the ceremony. They did invite Gwen but she decided to decline because she was still acting bitchy about Jack and Ianto tying the knot because she wanted Jack to fancy and be with her even though she had Rhys, who was her fiancé. Well ex-fiancé now; Rhys ended it with her when she caused trouble in the hub when Jack and Ianto announced their good news, forgetting Rhys had recently joined the Torchwood team.
When they arrived, they were shocked into silence when they saw Gwen standing there staring at them and giving Ianto evils. She walked up to them all giving them big hugs in turn leaving Ianto till last. Once she got to Ianto she got the knife from where she was hiding it up the inside if her sleeve and plunged it into his chest.
Tosh and Owen restrained Gwen whilst Jack went immediately to Ianto's side. "Ianto? Ianto, love? Come on. Don't leave me. Not now. Ianto? Ianto... come on love... I need you... I love you. Ianto!?" Jack said instead of talking to him via the mind link.
'Jack. It hurts. It really hurts. I can't hang on much longer. I love you. So much. I wish I didn't have to leave you so soon. But, love, don't blame yourself. It wasn't your fault but I know you will blame yourself. Tell...my family...I loved them... and tell Gwen... I...I... forgive her.' Ianto told jack trough the mind link.
"No. I will tell your family but not Gwen. Not Gwen. She caused this. No. Just no!"
'Calm down... cariad... the year that never was... the doctor...forgave...so...am I. I...I...I love... I love you.' Ianto thought.
"NO. NO! IANTO!? PLEASE, IANTO STAY WITH ME...PLEASE." Jack all but shouted in pain as he watched the one and only person he loved with his entire heart die.
"Jack mate, Gwen is in the cell next to Janet. I need to see Ianto" Owen said surprisingly sympathetically for once.
Jack moved away before asking "is...is he...is he dead, Owen" stuttering with pain clear in his sorrow voice.
"I'm sorry, mate. He's gone. I am so sorry." Was Owens reply.
"No. He can't be. He just can't." Was all Jack said before he took of into the depths of the hub that no one had entered in what seemed like decades.