Disclaimer: Nothing but the plot and Luciana and Carlos belong to me. Us fangirls will never stop trying to steal Torchwood though!
A/N: Third in the series, follows 'Who What Why' and 'Trial Through Fire'
Persuasion
"Explain yourself!" snapped Jack as he held the doctor at gun point, his face serious, he was not in the mood to be messing around after finding himself waking up on the floor in the vaults. Being pretty sure he hadn't fallen asleep there, the only possible explanation was someone stunning him, and since Luciana was the one holding the stun gun while everyone was in a pretty helpless position, she seemed the obvious culprit.
"He… I…" stuttered Luciana, she had no idea how to begin to explain the recent events. Jack obviously had no idea what he had been doing which was only going to make the situation more difficult to resolve.
Carlos attempted to slip out from behind Luciana while Jack was occupied, a plan which only increased Jacks suspicions. "You stay where you are as well Carlos. I want you both where I can see you."
"Why? This had nothing to do with me Jack, unless you count me being attacked and all…" complained Carlos innocently.
Luciana couldn't help herself, a small giggle escaped her. "You really think you're going to get away with this Carlos?"
Jack sighed, "What part of, 'I'm holding you at gun-point', do you two not understand?
Luciana figured this was as good a time as any to try and explain what had happened, and hopefully get away from the deadly end of Jack's pistol. "Ok, so, I was finishing off that autopsy when I heard a lot of noise from up here. So I looked up and saw you and Ianto having a smooch and left you to it. Ianto keeps on screaming but I figured everything was ok, you wouldn't hurt him. The alarm goes off and in walks Gwen with the pizza," Luciana gestured to the three now cold pizza's laying next to the rolling door, "More screaming so I check what's going on and find you attacking Gwen. I figured…"
Jack cut her off. "You're saying I'm the cause of all this?"
"See, she's loosing her mind Jack, probably too young to be working in a place like this."
"And you're what? 3 years older then me maybe? What has my age got to do with anything?!" retorted Luciana, her rage flaring up once again.
"Do I need to remind you two, I'm the one holding the gun… Maybe I'll just shove the two of you in the vaults until you're ready to talk sense." Said Jack calmly over their bickering.
Luciana was shocked, Jack hadn't believed a word she had said. "I swear to you Jack, everything was the truth. Ask Gwen and Ianto."
Jack looked around Luciana to Gwen and Ianto, both of whom nodded in agreement with the doctor's last statement. Completely dumfounded Jack continued to point his trusty pistol at his two newest recruits.
"Honestly Jack, she's not lying." Added Ianto sincerely, "Presumably you have the keys for these?" he said as he strained against his handcuffs. "They're really tight."
Practically jumping on the spot through sheer annoyance Luciana rally let rip at Jack. "You attacked Gwen and Ianto. You cuffed them to the workstations. I ran off to find a stun gun and you came after me. I confronted you down in the vaults, zapped you, came up here and found Carlos poking fun, not helping, poking fun at poor Gwen and Ianto. Happy?"
A rare feeling came over Jack, he was speechless, either Luciana was spinning a hell of a tale and had somehow cajoled Gwen and Ianto into defending her or he really had attacked his team. He couldn't handle this right now. He shook his head in disbelief. "That's a hell of a story Luci." He began, receiving an annoyed look from the young woman, "I'm just gonna go with safe rather then sorry and put the pair of you down with Janet. I'll deal with you later." And with that he marched his two suspects down into the vaults.