Rather than taking the Doctor directly to the kitchen for tea, he instead paused in the hub. The rest of his team was all ready there and working. Jack took the Doctor over to Gwen and put the breaks on his chair. Coming around it he could see the Doctor looking at Gwen in confusion.
"Doctor, this is Gwen. She is going to spend a little bit of time with you while I take care of something," Jack told him softly. The Doctor's eyes bolted to Jack before going back to Gwen.
"Why?" the Doctor snipped slightly. He didn't want to stay with Gweneth. He wasn't even sure how Gweneth was here when he had watched her die in the basement as Rose and him watched on. She died protecting them from something. He tried to think of what it was but it was like digging in sand, every time he got a glimpse of the information it faded again. An alien species that was just a large head came to mind. It didn't seem to fit but he could sort that out later.
"Because you are safe with Gwen. Also you are safe with the rest of my team." Jack pointed to Owen. "That is Owen. He is the doctor here and he is your secondary doctor when Martha is unavailable. He also helps her out on occasion. And this is Tosh. I think you know Tosh."
"Yes," The Doctor stated happily as Tosh came into view. He recognized her. He had met her before that he was sure of, how though he didn't remember. He looked towards Jack as he pointed at her. "Jack?"
"She met you when the spaceship crashed into big Ben. I knew you were going to be involved from the stories you had told me, so I had to send her to investigate," Jack explained to him.
"Do you remember the mermaid?" Tosh asked him gently. "It was really just a pig that had been made to look like alien by the aliens." The Doctor smiled at her. The story sounded insane. Pigs weren't aliens, but he liked her anyways. He still didn't want to stay with them and when Jack thought he was distracted and started to walk off. He noticed.
"Jack," He snapped angrily as he started to squirm in the chair. He wasn't buckled in so as he squirmed he moved lower in the seat. Afraid he was going to fall out Jack returned to him and picked him up under his arms to move him back. As he did so the Doctor struck him in the arm.
"Oi, be nice," Jack scolded him. "I can still buckle you into the chair."
"No," The Doctor argued back. He slapped the arm of the chair hard.
"Then behave and calm down. I am only going to be gone a few minutes. I am sure that if you ask nicely Gwen will make you tea, but not if you hit and yell at her," Jack chastised. The Doctor continued to glare at Jack but he stood his ground.
"Tea?" He growled still looking at Jack.
"Ask Gwen," Jack said firmly. The Doctor sighed and turned to look at Gwen.
"Tea." The amount of sarcasm that the Time Lord could put into the single word amazed Jack. Gwen smiled at him.
"Three sugars?" She questioned and he nodded. After Gwen left to go and make his tea Tosh moved to sit beside him and started to tell him about the space pig again. Jack waited until she had his full attention before taking a step backwards. He kept going slowly until he was half way across the hub. Gwem returned with his tea and he allowed her to help him take a drink. Satisfied he would be fine for a moment, Jack finally turned and headed down to the cells. He half expected the Doctor to call him back but the call never came.
He headed to Ianto's cell to find him reading a book as he ate a piece of toast. Jack wasn't surprised by the sight. He was fully aware of the fact that Gwen and Tosh took turns delivering food down to the cell, even on days Jack ordered Ianto to starve. They also gave him books for him to read, not because they felt sorry for him, but because they were genuinely nice people, who felt he should be allowed to read if he wanted to. Jack cleared his throat as he approached the cell and Ianto put the book down.
"I am arranging to have you transferred to UNIT," Jack informed him.
"What made you finally change your mind?" Ianto asked in surprise from the news. He had asked Jack to let UNIT or the local police force take him into custody several times over the years. He knew that the sentence he received there could be worse but at least he wouldn't be trapped in a cell with only a weevil scratching in the next cell for company.
"I didn't do it for you. I did it for the Doctor," Jack explained snidely. "I would prefer that you rot in these cells for the crime you committed. I one time trusted you and you broke that trust in the most horrible way possible. Even if I live to be a million, I will never understand why you did it."
Ianto didn't answer him. They had the conversation in the past as Jack tried to understand what drove Ianto to hurt someone so brutally. He had seemed like such a loving man, that when he snapped, Jack couldn't help but wonder how he judge of character could be so wrong. If anyone had told him what Ianto was capable of he would have thought they were lying, but here he was a witness to it.
"One day you are going to have to answer for your crimes against him. I hope then that you have an answer because he isn't going to accept you being quiet," Jack told Ianto. Regardless of whether or not the Doctor ever remembered what happened to him, he was still going to have to be told one day why he had spent two years in a vegetative state. Jack didn't know if he would actually confront Ianto on it but he didn't want Ianto to ever forget for a moment why he was in the cell. He had succeeded where so many had failed in the past and completely broken the Doctor.
The Doctor had just watched the woman he loved disappear before his eyes. He had both of his hearts shattered. Jack could picture him walking down that long corridor devastated from losing Rose and the thousands of people he was unable to save. Then just when he thought his day couldn't get any worse, Ianto proved him wrong. Jack slammed his fist into the cell door causing Ianto to jump.
"I hope they lock you up for life," Jack snipped as he left the dimly lit cells. He was relieved to be back up in the bright room of the Torchwood hub. Even if that relief was short live because the Doctor had noticed he was missing.
"Jack," The Doctor called out angrily as he tried to get away from Gwen and Tosh. He quickly ran to the Doctor's side.
"Shhh. I am here," He cooed softly.
"Jack, no," The Doctor snipped at him, holding up a finger as if he was scolding Jack. Jack smiled at him.
"Don't worry. I won't leave you again. I promise," Jack reassured him. He gave the Doctor a small hug. Leaning back he looked the Time Lord in the eye. "Let's get you something to entertain you so I can work."
"Jack," The Doctor rolled his name in amusement. Jack sighed as he realized that he had been wrong. The source of the Doctor's focus today wasn't tea again but Jack himself. He knew he was going to be in for a long day.