"I can't do this." Gwen sobbed.

"You can." Ianto smiled but it soon faded when he laid his eyes on the knife in her hands. He shot his look to The thin man.

Gwen got up of her knees and walked over to see Ianto. "Yan, I can't." She couldn't remove the tears from her eyes.

He was speechless. The knife looked so sharp. What was he going to ask her to do with it? He looked helplessly at Gwen his speech was staled. "Just...do it." he closed his eyes and tried not to let tears pass his eyes.

"I want you to cut him. Now, across the arm." The thin man instructed.

Gwen moved the knife to Ianto's arm. She closed her eyes and slid the blade from one end to the other. Ianto's eyes sprang open. "Ah! God!" he cried. Looking down, he could see blood flooding from his arm. The shock was almost to much for threw his head up and closed his eyes again.

Gwen sobbed softly. She couldn't take watching her friend suffer and for her to be the cause of it, ripped at her core. She couldn't do this, one cut and her heart ached.

Jack watched from afar. He now knew how it felt for Ianto when he was being tortured. It felt like a part of him was being beaten. Like an important part of him was hurting. He moaned in pain from the sight of it all. All he wanted was for it to end.

15 minutes later.

Instruction after instruction to hurt her favorite tea boy. To make him suffer. Gwen's tears blinded her. How could she keep her head up when all she saw was the pain in Ianto's face? His suffering.

"Bored now. Get out the Hedge Shears." The thin man insisted with a yawn.

"No! That I refuse. You can torture me all you like, I quit!" Gwen snapped. She threw the knife to the floor.

The thin man shook his head. "I thought you would last longer."

"You thought wrong you creepy son-of-a-bitch!" Gwen looked back at her team member. Cuts covered his arms up and down causing his arms to be covered with blood. She could see he could take no more and nether could she and she wasn't about to unleash Hedge Shears upon him. No way. It wasn't going to happen. Whatever happened to her would be worth it.

Tosh was out there and they would be home soon. She would be home soon in Rhys arms. She was so worried about him. How long had she been away? What was he thinking had happened and if something did happen to her what would Rhys do? How would he cope? Never knowing how she died. She couldn't take the thoughts any longer and blocked them out, focusing on her captor.

"As I said before, if you didn't finish this, both you and Ianto would be punished. Take her away." The man sighed and with that Gwen was carried from the room.

Ianto lay breathless in his chair while the men untied him. They picked him from his seat and took him to his room, ready to be punished.

Jack was left. Teary and discouraged. His lover had suffered so much but for nothing. He didn't blame Gwen. She was a good person and that helped Jack believe his team would survive this. He was sure they would escape.

Soon, hopefully soon.