Jack allowed his tears to travel down his cheeks, it was Ianto after all who was watching them fall, but sometimes Jack wished he was just alone with no one to witness his tears, it usually saves hassle. Out of Jack's blurry vision he saw Ianto who had turned back to his vortex manipulator, he was in deep thought, but Jack didn't know what he was thinking about. He could be thinking about Jack's story he had just been told or thinking about his vortex manipulator, who knows? Only Ianto knows.

"That's why you don't have your vortex manipulator on" Ianto mumbled, playing with the strap, not daring to look at Jack's clouded eyes.

"Yeah, but more importantly I didn't leave you on purpose Ianto, I tried for months to get back to you" Jack sniffed, wiping away his tears, "So can you trust me to look after your manipulator?" Jack asked now holding out his hand for Ianto. Ianto looked towards it, examining the markings then making up his mind.

"Fine, but you better not under any circumstances touch it once you put it in the safe!" Ianto ordered Jack who nodded in agreement.

"You have my word" Jack saluted to Ianto who ignored it and turned his attention to his vortex manipulator. Ianto's hand shook whilst he reached down for the strap, he never wanted it to be taken off, but he is only taking it off so Jack can start gaining his trust in him, making it easier for Ianto to escape. It was all part of the plan yet to come. Ianto slowly removed the strap from the loop, making it loose enough for Ianto to now take it out of the spike.

Soon the vortex manipulator fell off Ianto's wrist with Ianto catching it in his other hand. Ianto sighed in disappointment, staring down to his now empty wrist showing a tan mark from before, great! Ianto slowly began to pass it towards Jack who glady retrieved. Ianto kept his grip on it even though Jack had already accepted it; Ianto still didn't want it out of his sight. But Jack had other ideas, making his strength harder making Ianto let go, causing Ianto to sigh in frustration; Jack knew it wasn't going to be easy to have it taken away from him.

Ianto glanced back down to his wrist staring at where his vortex manipulator used to be then growled.

"I've got a tan mark! It looks like I am a freak!" Ianto moaned, pulling his bloody jacket over it to hide it away, but it was too late, Jack had already discovered it. Jack looked towards the pale skin and couldn't help but laugh. Jack's lungs began to hurt from him laughing too hard but he didn't care he was more concerned in his laughing. "It's not funny!" Ianto snapped to Jack who laughed harder, this only caused Ianto to sigh and pull his jacket over even more, but that made him get Jack's attention.

Jack's eyes locked onto an item hanging around Ianto's neck, it shone in the light making the beam to shine in Jack's eyes. Jack moved his hand closer to examine the item. Jack lifted up the necklace, it had a key attached to it, but what was it supposed to be slotted into?

"What's this?" Jack asked, moving the key around in his hand, examining it closer, soon he found the two letters engraved there, it was the letters 'I' and 'J', Ianto's first name and second name. Ianto looked up towards Jack, to see what Jack was going on about, but when Ianto saw him holding his key, he instantly tackled Jack towards the ground, Jack on the bottom with Ianto on top.

"Let that go!" Ianto ordered to Jack, who choked then released the key, it was Ianto's TARDIS key, the one he needed to access the inside of the TARDIS. Both time agents panted staring into each others eyes on the cold surfaced ground. Ianto felt a strange urge of electricity in his body, one he had never felt before, it gave Ianto the creeps, he's suffered from electricity before but it didn't feel anything like this now, so what was going on? Ianto concentrated on two things, 1) looking in Jack's eyes for no reason and 2) reaching into Jack's pocket to receive an item he definitly wasn't going to leave behind. It was hard reaching into Jack's trench coat with out being spotted so Ianto needed to distract Jack and he knew how. Ianto used his other hand to reach down towards Jack's hand which held his vortex manipulator where he tried to get it out of Jack's grasp, getting Jack's attention allowing Ianto to go for Jack's pocket once again.

Jack stopped his gaze towards Ianto's eyes and turned to his hand with the vortex manipulator in, plus Ianto's hand that was trying to take it back. Jack wasn't going to give in that easily.

"Oh no you don't!" Jack announced, rolling the both over making Ianto fall off with a thud, and Jack step to the side with the vortex manipulator still in his hands. "Nice try Ianto, but better luck next time" Jack huffed, standing up once again on his two legs, beginning to walk away with Tosh, Owen and Gwen re-entering dried and now refreshed. "Guys make sure Ianto fixes the water tower" Jack ordered his team, walking off into his office leaving the Torchwood team and Ianto lying on the ground.

"Oi, Ianto go over there and fix that water tower!" Owen ordered Ianto who shrugged, grinning towards the team.

"Fine by me" Ianto replied, gaining his strength to stand up on his feet, and then walking towards the water tower with a big grin on his face. Tucked away in Ianto's jacket pocket was the sonic screwdriver he regained from Jack, Jack was always easy to trick.

"And you better be quick about it too!" Owen added, making his way towards his workstation, shaking his head making the water droplets fly off his hair and onto the workstation.

"Are you saying I'm slow?" Ianto questioned to Owen, bending down to receive the broken pieces of the water tower then re-standing to the broken level of the water tower.

"Yes, well no, uh just get on with it!" Owen ordered Ianto who grinned and turned back to working on the tower.

Gwen and Tosh, made their way to Gwen's workstation where they began to chat about clothes, leaving Owen to watch porn DVD's and Ianto to take action in his second escape, this time it was going to be a lot harder for them to find him. For one main reason, Jack won't be able to track him because Jack has his vortex manipulator. Ianto began to set everything into place, putting the broken pieces into their correct position then taking out his sonic screwdriver to mend them together before the final part of his plan.

The sonic screwdrivers buzzing echoed around the room causing Gwen to tilt her head up, Ianto breathed slowly; they might remember what the sonic screwdriver sounds like.

"Isn't that the machine noise Ianto used before?" Gwen asked out to the team.

"Don't be daft! That annoying Jack Harkness took it away from me! Besides I was whistling" Ianto replied, whistling after making the exact sound of the sonic screwdriver but in whistle mode.

"Alright then" Gwen replied, turning back to her chat with Tosh, these people were thick!

Ianto turned to Jack's office and found Jack in there, sorting out his clothes and hair from being soaked, with Jack occupied Ianto could finally make his second escape commence.
Ianto smirked, turned to Tosh's computer, aiming the sonic screwdriver then firing the signal there, making Tosh's computer explode with a bang. Tosh practically jumped on the spot, deep breathing when she realised what workstation it had came from. Tosh slowly turned to face her workstation and snapped inside when she saw her computer.

"OWEN! WHAT DID YOU DO?!" Tosh screamed, rushing over to her computer where she began moving wires and controls trying to make the screen come back on, but it was completely smashed.

"I didn't do it!" Owen snapped, joining Tosh by the workstation who growled towards Owen.

"Of course you did! You usually break my things! If you didn't then who did?!" Tosh shouted to Owen who began to shout back.

Ianto turned back round to the water hub with Tosh and Owen scrabbling behind him distracted Ianto could now fully escape. Ianto climbed inside the water tower, carefully picking up the broken remains of it on the floor behind him. Ianto carefully placed it into its correct position on the water tower, using his sonic screwdriver to stick it back to place, making it now once again connected to the tower, Ianto grinned, he was now inside of the tower, and this was his chance to escape for sure.

Ianto stared up to the dark space above him; Ianto twisted the consol on the sonic screwdriver making it turn into a light, allowing him to see the water tower base. Ianto placed the sonic screwdriver into his mouth, giving him full access of his hands to climb up the tower. Ianto grinned and began to climb.

Jack heard a loud bang from outside his office, followed by screams and shouts from Owen and Tosh, something bad had happened. Jack instantly emerged from his office to find Tosh and Owen scrabbling over Tosh's computer.

"What the hell is going on?!" Jack demanded to the two.

"Owen's broken my computer! Again!" Tosh snapped to Owen.

"For the last time I haven't broken your stupid computer!" Owen fought back.

"Oh yeah? Then who did?!" Tosh snapped causing Owen to sigh, he didn't know who did it, but Jack had a clue on who did.

"Where's Ianto?" Jack eyed everyone in the room, who all stared towards the water tower, Jack also now stared at the tower. It was fixed just like Jack ordered him to do, but there was no sign of Ianto there. "I told you to keep an eye on him!" Jack shouted to his team, sprinting towards the water tower, to examine it carefully for clues.

"We did Jack!" Gwen shouted back, when actually she wasn't she was talking to Tosh instead.

"Honestly Jack we were, we-" Tosh began but Jack cut in.

"Ssh" Jack spoke, placing his ear against the tower, to listen to it. Jack jumped by a loud thump, coming from the tower, Jack now knew where Ianto went.

"He's climbed up the Tower?!" Gwen shrieked.

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