"But why? I mean why try and kill you when you are not a threat to humans? It just doesn't make sense" Ianto stammered, rubbing his head to extinguish the amount of thinking he had just undertaken. He didn't know if he had learnt anything during the last couple of hours or just got more confused by his answers.
"I'm a threat to animals." Jack pointed out, with a small shrug added with his eyes glistening in the light's beam.
"That's just nature, you're just catching your prey, and it's life that's how it goes" he answered also adding a small shrug.
"Okay, but what would happen if the animals were the humans instead? Then how would you think? If I ate humans instead of animals" he questioned.
"But you're not"
"What if I was though Ianto, tell me what you think then"
"I, I don't know. I would think of you differently than I am now. I would think of you as a creature and not as a person. You would be a creature who doesn't second think anything in life, a creature who wouldn't listen to anyone's points of view but it's own. But you are not that creature Jack; you are a caring person in my eyes and always will be" Ianto truthfully answered. He was quite impressed with his statement; usually he can't even answer a simple question. For instance the other day, someone asked him where the nearest petrol station was, but he couldn't even think of what a petrol station was for a while, he was truly embarrassed after he found out what it was.
Jack's mouth performed a hint of a smile towards him, slowly nodding his face up and down he began to reply,
"That's how people describe me, as that creature. That's what they think of me, as an arrogant sod" Jack spoke, his forehead rested on his knuckles , his facial emotion had turned cold, his mouth straight, his eyes locked on Ianto.
"Well I am not other people, I'm my own person with my own unique thoughts, and my thoughts are miles away if you compare them with other peoples, they just don't know you like I do"
If it was possible, Jack's heart would be beating and have a temperature from the cause of Ianto's comment, but alas he wasn't alive, he couldn't even make body heat or even get his lungs to properly function, without him faking the act.
But one thing Jack could feel was this static electric surge running through his veins, his body was beginning to feel even more complete than it usually was, did it have something to do with Ianto? He hoped it was, he had a good feeling it was him, his heart told him the same thing as well, this feeling made him feel even more alive. The electric was acting as if it was bringing him back from being dead, if only that was possible. It would only happen in his dream, that's if he did dream.
Moments past by until he realised he was staring directly towards Ianto, probably for the last couple seconds, a minute maybe?
"Sorry" he murmured, "Got distracted in thoughts" he apologized, one thing he liked about being dead was that he couldn't blush; no matter how much he tried it wouldn't happen.
"What were you thinking about?" Ianto questioned, watching Jack's facial expression turn into a slight grin, his eyes showing towards Ianto that he was performing a real grin and not a fake grin he has seen people use.
"You actually" he replied, he noticed Ianto's eyes slowly began to widen, but they didn't widen as much as he expected them to.
"Really?"
"Yeah, I was thinking about how special you are to me Ianto, I wouldn't change that for the world either" he announced; Ianto was slightly surprised by the sudden answer. Just a few hours ago, Jack was snapping towards him and belting sentences and ordering him around, but now it's the completely other direction, Jack was acting the other way towards him, acting as if he truly loved him.
"I feel the same way for you too" Ianto chipped in, the corner of his mouth turning into a small smile, he couldn't help but feel he was falling for him, but he only wondered if Jack felt the same exact way towards himself...
They talked for hours on end, things didn't seem to be too serious for them, it was just casual chat, but Jack liked it. It was nice for him to act even more human, and for once he could let out all of his thoughts and secrets he dared not to tell anyone. He even managed to tell the name of the three vampires who caused the death of his mother, 'John Hart', 'The Master' and 'Rhys Williams' was who he recalled, but he still didn't quite understand why Rhys thought he was better than all the other vampires, when he needs to cut down on the blood and raw meat.
Some of the adventures he and the Doctor had were also told in the chat, involving how they ended up in the forest in the first place, and the places they were headed in the future, but it never seemed to happen, maybe it could happen with him and Ianto in the future.
That's when it hit Jack.
What was going to happen in the future? How will Ianto's future come to be, in fact? How will his life hold in these years yet to come? Jack couldn't help but think he was going to cause his future, and it will probably be bad as well. But the future was ages away still, he should at least enjoy the moment he was having right now, time is limited after all, well for Ianto it is.
Speaking of Ianto, he glanced towards him and found him slowly drifting away into slumber sleep. His head slowly swayed side to side, his eyelids began to flutter, he was surely going to doze off soon. Jack knew it was late, but he didn't know how late, probably midnight? They have been talking for awhile after all.
Pulling himself onto his feet, he walked to Ianto's sleeping figure and scooped him into his arms...
His eyelids fluttered, followed by a couple of blinks and a small moan, he eyes began to focus to the lights beam for the new day. He realised he was in his bedroom, but he couldn't quite remember how he got there. He remembered being with Jack last night, but near the end his vision began to turn blurry, did he doze off? That's probably what happened, how embarrassing, did Jack carry him the whole way here? If so why couldn't Ianto now find a trace of him in his room? Was he going to see Jack again? And if so when, there are no clues telling him about it, but somehow he knew he would see Jack again, But when?
Gwen joined Owen and Tosh at the cells in the Torchwood facility, these cells were all connected together, acting as if it was a dungeon, there was hardly any light, and the place was mostly made out of stone and chains. The place was covered in moss and was damp in certain places; they surely wanted this place to be a torture chamber for anything they captured.
"Have you found any news about Harkness?" Owen asked Gwen who just joined him by his right, Gwen had a sly smile on her face, Owen smirked towards her.
"Indeed I have found out news about Harkness, during my investigation I found out his first name was Jack, he's not acting as clever now is he! Anyway, before Harkness and Ianto dispatched away from my sight I figured out that Jack was scared of the wolves, which can come in handy" she grinned towards Owen who grinned back.
"Excellent" Owen spoke, "You done well Gwen"
"Wait there's still more, also during my journey back I heard Harkness and Ianto screaming, so who knows; maybe they have been ripped to shreds, if not we can use Ianto as the decoy, but it's most likely that they have been killed" Gwen replied, "This means we can go forward with our plan, a plan to use the other vampire we have here to help up make our fowl equipment work with his special thingy majiggy, to help us with world domination and kill the vampires once and for all!" Gwen declared.
"You haven't quite mastered the name of the item yet Gwen" Tosh smirked,
"Oh well, that item is important to me for how it works, not by it's name, besides that's not the point, the point is we need Jack dead, and he probably already is" Gwen stated, walking towards the right corner, accompanied by Owen and Tosh.
"You hear that my friend, Jack is gone and there is nothing keeping you from helping us now!" Gwen spoke, forcing the males chin up to face her, his eyes was black from thirst, his health wasn't very accurate and wasn't improving at all, and he was not far off from being weak.
"If I didn't eat humans, you would be dead by now" he croaked, his eyes narrowed towards her, "Jack isn't dead, you're lying" he cursed towards her, with a slight growl in his voice.
"Alright try me, if he was alive then why did I hear him screaming? Plus if he was alive then why hasn't he come to get you then? If you two have known each other for so long" she laughed, releasing her grip on his chin and watch him crumple to the ground, rising up she left him with Owen and Tosh following her. Leaving the vampire to think of the fact that Jack is dead, and he now might have no choice but to help Torchwood.
