Jack walked out of his office and strolled into the centre of the hub. Tosh was sat glaring at her computer screen, taping her fingers on the desk. Owen was writing on whiteboard he had pulled out of storage. They both turned to look at Jack and Gwen as they rejoined them.
"Okay, where are we?" Jack asked. He looked over to Owen and made a face that indicated he wanted to hear his side first.
"Well I am charting all the rift activity we have been chasing...as you asked. And trying to help Tosh isolate a...what is it?...Rift frequency point?" Owen looked over to her.
"Yes. Each spike has a certain frequency, not like from a radio, more like a gamma wave. Some can have a high value, some a low. And I think this indicates where it originated from. Like an IP address from the web. If these spikes have the same and we think John caused them. We could start to track where he came from."
"Even if you get the same frequency point, how can you tell where it came from. IP addresses are registered against computers and modems. I doubt worlds or planets have the same." Gwen asked.
"Or a yellow pages" Jack noted.
"I am going to compare them with rifts where we know the origin, including John first appearance. To see if they are the same. Its a place to start." Tosh said.
"Good, that's great. That is what I like to hear." Jack said. "Gwen, we need to carry on looking at CCTV. I want to check all areas where the rifts appeared, to see if there is anything we missed. At the same time, look at the time when John came through before. It might help." All of a sudden the bell alarm from the tourist office rang. Tosh turned the camera on. The image was of a delivery man stood at the door, waiting for the door to open.
"Was Ianto waiting for a delivery?" Tosh asked.
"Not that I know of" Jack said.
"I'll check it out." Gwen said. She disappeared and the others watched Gwen as she made her way to the office. She received a package and headed back down to the hub. Gwen walked through the big door and headed over to Jack. She handed him a small box.
"It's addressed to you." She said. Jack looked at the faces of each of his friends. No one knew Jack was there. The residents of Cardiff only knew that Ianto manned the office. Jack took the package carefully from her.
"Who knows you are here?" Gwen asked him.
"Not many, if any." He said. Tosh had stood up and was waving a small device over the package. "What are you doing?" Jack asked her.
"Checking that it is safe." Tosh said. She carried on waving the device and after a few seconds she nodded that it was safe. Jack placed it on the table and proceeded to open it. He looked inside and pulled out an envelope. Inside it he pulled some photographs.
"Are they..." Gwen started to ask as she looked over his shoulder. Jack nodded as he looked at photographs of Ianto, taken from a distance.
"John must have been following him." Jack said. Owen took the photos off Jack and checked them over.
"This was yesterday, I remember taking the mickey out of Ianto about the crooked tie." Owen said.
"And that one was the other day, I remember the shirt." Tosh said.
"He has been following Ianto for a while." Gwen said.
"He planned this, all of it." Jack said, anger evident in his voice.
"Jack, there is something in here you should see." Owen said. He pulled out a black object and handed it to Jack.
"It's another wrist strap." Jack noted. He placed it on his left wrist and pressed a button. A hologram of John started to appear.
"So Jack, I see you got my package. Kinda like a postcard...wish you were here and all that junk. Well by now I can imagine you are either so enraged you want to blow my head off, or so upset you can't think straight. Well don't sit back on that sexy ass for long Harkness. Your Eye Candy may need you soon. He will want to see you bursting through the door all butch and man like. Actually I would love to see that too. Hang onto this wrist strap, when I want to talk to you, I will. Oh and Jack...I will keep him all warmed up for you."
John had left Ianto alone for a few minutes as he disappeared through a back room. Ianto looked around him, taking in anything he could see. Anything he might be able to use as a weapon, as a chance to escape. The room really was deserted. There was nothing within Ianto's reach, nothing in the room. He decided to try and go straight to the source. He looked down to his cuffed hand and examined the cuff sat tightly around it. It was more of a heavy duty cuff, one Ianto had seen before. It was electronic and Ianto wished he could just call on Tosh and get her assistance. But that was impossible, he had to figure this out himself. He looked up, making sure John wasn't in the room. When he was satisfied, he looked back to the cuff. The red light blinked away on the top, but Ianto saw no obvious entry point to get to the wires or electronic crap beneath it. He closed his eyes and imagined what Tosh would do. She would have had him out of them in less time than it takes Jack to get naked. But Ianto knew it was his only hope. He looked up once more, seeing no sign of John, he looked back to the cuff. He moved it as much as he could, trying to make sense of the workings of it. There was no obvious key hole to pick. Ianto figured that trying to short out the hidden mechanism might be his only hope. It was obvious John controlled the cuffs, some sort of electronic key or something. Sometimes technology scared him.
Ianto tugged on the cuff, the other end clattering on the pipe. All of a sudden a small electronic charge surged from the cuff and into Ianto, giving him an electric shock. He flailed about, laying on the floor, as the surge coursed through his body. Parts of his body shook, he felt dizzy and felt as if he was going to be sick. His blurry eyes focused once more to see John stood over him.
"Oh did I forget to tell you about that little treat?!" John smiled. "Packs a punch doesn't it?" Ianto regained his composure and feeling in his body and sat up again.
"What was that?" Ianto asked him.
"A bright spark like you not figuring it out. The cuff is rigged, electric shocks...and I control them." John said raising his arm to show his wrist strap.
"Figures." Ianto said. John leant down and grabbed a handful of Ianto's hair, yanking his head bak roughly.
"Try and do that again, and an electric shock is the least of your worries." John snapped at him. He let go of Ianto's hair, leaving the tired man to sit stunned on the floor.
"What are we doing here John?" Ianto asked him.
"Just a bit of kiss chase with your beloved. Hoping I am the one doing the kissing." John took a bite of a roll he held in his hand. Ianto couldn't help but stare at the piece of bread, realising how hungry he actually felt. His captor looked at him and then to the roll he held. He crouched down beside Ianto. "Hungry?" John asked him. Ianto didn't want to give him the satisfaction of hearing the words, but his stomach was staring to speak for him.
"Like you care." Ianto replied. John got slightly closer to Ianto, almost sniffing him with glee. Ianto shuffled back slightly, his back crumpled against the wall.
"Oh I care. I don't want my play thing to starve now do I?"
"I am no ones play thing." Ianto said through gritted teeth, trying not to look directly at him. John ran his hand down the side of Ianto's head, feeling his soft hair. Ianto moved his head to the side, trying to get away from John's hand. His hand ran further down Ianto's neck and onto his chest. Ianto battered his hand away with his free hand.
"You want this, you need to work for it." John giggled slightly.
"Not a chance." Ianto growled back. Angered, John got up and paced away from him. He stopped, his back still facing Ianto.
"All in good time." John said turning back to Ianto, he threw the roll to him. Ianto caught it and gratefully took a bite. "It's a good thing I like you."
