Chap 14
"Oh shit. Ianto... what're you doing?" Owen hisses with horror.
"I'm giving him an assignment." Ianto rolls his eyes.
"I am offering you a choice. If you work for us we will drop the charges and you can go back to your normal life. If not, you will go to prison, and your husband and daughter will be left disgraced and alone. Your life will be destroyed." Ianto says and Owen leans forward excitedly watching Ianto think on his feet.
"Oh, wow thanks. Um, let me see—"Jack pretends to think about it.
"Yes or no." Ianto demands and Jack snaps.
"What do you think? Of course yes! What's involved?" Jack roars, at the end of his tether.
You will be contacted with the assignment."
"My husband can't know about this." Jack cautioned.
"No one must know! Especially him. You must appear to live your life normally, showing nothing. The security of this planet depends on it. Can you do that?" Ianto asks smacking Owen for giggling.
"I think so." Jack nods.
"Think carefully. You will be lying to the man you love. The person who trusts you the most." Ianto warns and Jack frowns.
"I can do it!" Jack snorts.
"The code name of your contact will be Boris. Your code name will be—"
"Natasha?" Jack asks sarcastically.
"No. Doris."
Jack screws his face up at the insult.
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The unit-seven van pulls up in the spooky shadows under the bridge, stopping next to Jack's red Accord. The door slides open and Jack gets out. He is wearing a hood, which is whisked off by one of the black gloved hands. He spins around in time to see the door slide shut and the van speed off.
"Wankers" he screams at the retreating brake lights.
The van pulls up by the Millennium Centre. The door opens and Adam is pushed out, followed by Ianto, who is in his black jumpsuit and wearing a ski-mask. Owen swaggers after Ianto as they climb to the roof. He guides Adam to the edge of a sheer drop. Ianto pulls off the hood and Adam takes in his surroundings.
Adam squeals like a little girl as he sees how close to the edge he is.
"You son of a bitch. Did you really think you could elude us forever, Carlos?" Ianto snarls.
"Wait! You got the wrong guy. My name's Adam. Look, just let me go. There's no need to kill me. I haven't seen your…" Ianto removes his mask "…face. Shit! Shit!"
Adam squeezes his eyes shut and won't look at Ianto. Then it dawns... He looks up, brightening hopefully. "It's you! Hey, you still interested in that Vette at all?"
"You can drop it now, Carlos. The game is over. Your career as an inter-galactic terrorist is too well documented."
"No... I sell cars. That's all! Not even foreign cars. Nothing international, I swear. I'm no terrorist. Everything I said was a lie... you have to believe me." Adam is crying as he begs, "I'm actually a complete coward. If I ever even saw a gun I'd…"
Ianto pulls his pistol out in one liquid motion and snaps the muzzle right in front of Adam's eyes.
"…faint. Aahhh! Don't kill me. I'm not a spy. I'm nothing. I'm cum on a whore's dress. I have to lie to women to get laid. And I don't score much. It's pathetic." Adam looks down at himself and whines, "See, look... would a spy piss himself?"
Ianto is finally disgusted by his begging. He pulls Adam away from the edge, then gestures with his gun. "Beat it."
"No. Soon as I turn you'll shoot me." Adam whimpers, backing away with fear.
Ianto starts back to the transport. Adam walks alongside still begging "Please don't. You can have the car for free!"
"Take off, dipshit!" Owen pushes Adam back and Ianto calmly shoots several times into the ground by Adam's feet, forcing him to dance backward like a western. The two agents get into the van and tear off in a cloud of dust. Leaving Adam alone in the moonlight.
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Next morning and Owen drives while Ianto watches the PDA screen.
"We should pick up visual at the next light." Ianto tells Owen as they cruise along.
The scrambler phone in Ianto's briefcase rings. He picks it up. "
Morning, boss."
"Ianto, this report on last night's operation is the thinnest piece of crap I've ever seen from you. I'm sure you won't mind giving me a little more detail on why all these assets were deployed." Suzie asks down the phone and Ianto cringes.
"Absolutely. But can it wait?" Ianto asks politely, "I'm on a critical surveillance right now."
Ianto spots something up ahead. He snaps his fingers and points, then whips a pair of alien-tech binoculars to his eyes.
Andy, on the Yamaha with Janet on the back, rides through the intersection up ahead. Janet cruises to the sound coming over her I-pod headphones as Andy shoots between cars. Owen makes the turn, pulling in behind them at a distance.
"Is there anything you want to tell me Ianto?" Suzie asks softly, obviously reading the report again.
"No. Not that I can think of." Ianto says with mock sincerity.
Ianto? You know we never fire anybody." Suzie snarls before breaking the connection.
Ianto stares into the distance for a moment, then returns his gaze to the PDA.
"We're dead, right? So..." Owen grimaces, "where'd you put the transmitter?"
"In her I-pod. It's the one thing I knew she'd be taking." Ianto answers as they continue to follow the two kids.
Ianto walks toward the closed warehouse doors, past Andy's parked Yamaha. We hear MUSIC from inside.
A garage band of teenagers, mostly older than Janet, are playing loudly. Janet has the microphone, belting out a song.
Ianto watches from the shadows, standing behind a pillar not far from the stage. Watching his daughter gyrating in the spotlight. His reaction is hard to read.
After a few minutes he gives a signal and the stage is plunged into darkness and the music stops. Before the band members can react, they hear the big metal doors rolling and sunlight blazes in. Janet shields her eyes against the glare and seeing an ominous silhouette standing there. The shadowy figure walks toward them.
"You! Come with me." A voice roars with a welsh lit and to her horror is turns out to be her Tad. Her heart stops.
"Oh my Gooooood." Janet whispers as her Taddy stalks over to her, grabbing her by by the arm. He takes her outside to some industrial junk nearby, overgrown with weeds, and sits her down for a talk.
She is hostile, still humiliated from getting dragged out in front of her friends.
"There are going to be some changes Jan. You're going to start following some rules. And I'm going to be there to see that you do." Ianto informs her.
"Yeah, right." She huffs.
"You're going to stay in school." Ianto says solemnly, "Do you understand?"
"Why? So I can wind up like you?" Janet frowns, "What's the point?"
Ianto rears back like he's going to go off on one but instead he smiles. He pushes the hair back from her face.
"Did I tell you about the time we first met?" he says softly and Janet looks up with surprise.
"You were quite young at the time. All wet and still attached to your birth mother by a cord. You opened your eyes and looked right at me. And I knew then I would always love you with all my heart." Ianto reaches for her hand and squeezes.
Janet stares at her Tad with a dawning awareness. This is not just some shit that she has to put up with. This is her Taddy. He is a part of her. No matter what happens they are in this thing together. Tears start to run down her cheeks.
"Somewhere along the way I got lost, Cariad. I forgot about what was really important. I'm sorry baby- I mean" Ianto stops speaking as Janet launches herself into his arms for a fierce hug.
Janet, regarding this singing" Ianto sighs and she is suddenly wary. Oh shit.
"You were pretty good." Ianto admits with a smile.
Janet sits wedged into the front seat between the two men. They are all singing raucously loud, with the windows down. Ianto pulls the car to the curb in front of Janet's school.
"Taddy, how come you know the words?" she asks as she exits the car.
Cariad that song came out when I was exactly your age. It's a classic" Ianto laughs with a shake of his head.
"Unbelievable!" Janet roars with rage, "Andy told me he wrote it. He's history."
Although this scene was cut from the movie, I loved the idea of it so I've put it back. So there!