Chapter 1: Freeing a Caged Bird
Harold Saxon had been keeping his eyes on Torchwood since he arrived in that time, he knew that they could be a thorn in his side and cause havoc to his plans. He needed to make them weak.
It started with Suzie, there was darkness in her one that had been just waiting to be corrupted and let out. It was so easy to place the glove in her path and he watched with glee as she fell into its clutches and the sad thing was only one noticed but his concerns were brushed aside.
The Master couldn't explain it why the young Welshman grew his attention he had to admit of all the apes on the planet Ianto was the only one who was interesting enough to watch.
And watch he did the Master watched as the young man pulled the Cyberwoman that was pretending to be his girlfriend out of the wreckage of Canary Wharf, he laughed as the resourceful young man conned his way into Torchwood Three and hide a Cyberman right beneath they're stuck up noses.
How many humans could do that?
That had the Master curious and he did some digging into Ianto Jones' past and what he found was rather interesting, Ianto Jones didn't truly exist until he was four years old adopted by the Jones family. What the Master read about them he hadn't been impressed.
That baffled him, why would he care about some ape? Ianto Jones should be below his notice and his concern for the young man only grew after his teammates discovered that thing posing as Lisa and he was filled with a wrath and vengeance as he vowed to destroy those so-called teammates of Ianto if they harmed him.
They got lucky and then that fool of a captain took his team out into the bloody countryside and practically handed Ianto on a platter to the cannibals. Those who survived Pretty Jack's rampage quickly wished that they hadn't once the Master got his hands on them, oh their screams were loud enough to drown out the drums that never left him alone.
It had been so easy to obtain Ianto's blood from the crime scene and the Master didn't bother getting any of those apes he staffed to check Ianto's blood simple because those fools would have no idea what they were looking for.
It was easy enough to find it and it had been more than he could have hoped for or dreamed.
"My son, you lived. Somehow you lived." The Master whispered in awe as he stroke the screen with reverence and care.
This changed everything he would destroy all those who had harmed his son. But that left one little problem, the Immortal known as Jack Harkness. The Master wasn't blind he could see what was happening between his son and that... freak. He might have understood and even approved it if Jack was as loyal to his son as Ianto was to him. But no he saw how that jezebel Gwen Cooper looked at Jack, how she fluttered her eyes and flashed her chest at Jack and that idiot captain tripped over his tongue as he made a fool of himself rushing to ensure Gwen didn't even get a paper cut all the while tramping all over Ianto's heart.
No, that would not be forgiven or forgotten by the Master. And it only got worse as Jack callously and cruelly left his son behind to go chasing after the Doctor. The Master knew what was to come and it gave him time to deal with what mattered now.
"Very soon Ianto you will once again fly free and together we shall create a Utopia out of this mudball of a planet." The Master vowed as he watched a rather sullen Ianto close up the tourist office that served as the Hub's secret entrance. His son was truly wasted here.
It was time to free his son from his captivity that was his life as Torchwood kicking boy and mule and together usher in a new era of the Time Lords as father and son.