Chapter Seven
Ianto was thrown from side to side as the lorry turned and stopped then moved off again. All the time, he could only think about how he had wronged Jack. How he had believed the rumours.
'I should have know better,' he thought. 'Now I'm probably going to die without seeing those beautiful blue eyes ever again'
He wanted to scream at the top of his lungs, but there was no point. No one would hear him anyway. With tape across his mouth, all he could offer was a muffled groan.
He wondered if it was his captors behind the wheel. But then again, did it matter?
Jack hadn't noticed him being taken out through Costa Coffee. Why would he? Ianto was supposed to be at the bar, after all. And Jack didn't know there would be two of them. Come to think of it, neither did Ianto.
The lorry suddenly stopped, knocking Ianto's head against the side of the van so violently, that he was knocked out cold.
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Jack ran up the slope to the side entrance of the Terra Nova. The guy in the coat was gone. He looked around, frustration written all over his handsome face.
Taking out his phone, Jack hit Speed dial 3 and waited.
"Tosh?"
"Jack?"
"I need your help."
"What's happened?"
"Ianto's been abducted by the guy who sent the text….the guy in the coat. I need you to get into the CCTV cameras at the Bay. Find the guy in the coat from ten minutes ago. See where he went."
Jack heard a shuffling noise.
"I'm on it, Jack."
Jack walked to the railings and looked down into the eyes of a concerned Rhiannon. He tried to smile, but failed.
Tosh's excited voice came over his head set.
"I've found him!"
"Where?"
"Sitting on the wall outside Harry Ramsden's."
"I'm on my way."
Jack gave Rhiannon a 'thumbs up' and raced off.
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As the driver got out of the lorries cab, he slammed the door shut and walked over to a portacabin twenty feet away.
"Paul?" he called, before reaching it. "Dave wants this thing crushed right away."
The door to the portacabin opened.
"What's the hurry? Can't it wait 'til morning?"
The other man laughed. "You know Dave. It has to be done straight away. It had a tarp covering it. He thinks they'll most probably be back for it later."
"It'll take at least twenty minutes to fire it all up."
"I can wait."
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Barry and Frankie had their backs to Jack and as the immortal placed a hand on each of their shoulders and squeezed, they visibly tensed, not looking round.
"I think you gentlemen took something that belongs to me."
Barry slowly turned his head and saw the coat. "I got this on eBay, I did. I just…liked the way it looked on you," he smiled. "Sort of important like."
Jack squeezes harder. "Where. Is. Ianto. Jones?"
"Who?" asked Frankie, unconvincingly.
Jack leaned closer. "If anything happens to him, this Cariad will make you both wish you'd never been born!"
"You!" said Barry.
Jack smiled and nodded."Yep. Me! Now where is he?"
Frankie shook nervously. "It was all his idea…"
"Shut. Up!" exclaimed Barry, through clenched teeth.
"I don't even know him!"
"Frankie!"
"He's in a van. Over by the old Dock Gate. In an old white van."
Just then, a police car pulled up and Andy Davidson got out, approaching the three men.
"Tosh called me," he explained.
Jack nodded.
"I'll take it from here, then."
Again, Jack nodded.
"Right. Let's be 'avin' you!"
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Rhiannon waited by the Tourist Office for Jack to return.
"We know where Ianto is," he told her. "I'll go get him."
Despite herself, Rhiannon smiled at him.
Jack touched his head set. "Tosh, CCTV. Old Dock Gates. White van. Ianto's inside."
"Checking now, Jack."
A few minutes passed.
"Tosh, have you got it?"
"It's not there, Jack."
"What?"
"It's gone!"
TBC
