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With his pistol held in both hands -soaked to the bone- Jack strides towards the entryway, dropping five guards with two perfectly-placed shots apiece. He ejects the spent clips, slaps in a replacement, drops to a knee, and fires off six shots at the two gunmen as they round the corner, dead before they hit the ground. Jack drops his pistol, retrieves a submachine gun off a dead guard, unfolds the stock, presses it to his shoulder, and enters the shipyard.

With a trembling hand, Sean pours himself a drink, staring at the door... ...from behind which is heard the sound of sheer, unadulterated chaos: Ted roaring, gunfire, screams, and explosions.

Silence.

THUM! THUM! THUM!

"Open the door, goddammit!"

Sean drops his glass, and unlatches the door. Katherine stumbles into the room, leaning heavy against the desk, pausing to take a swig of whisky, blood trickling down from her forehead, her left arm limp at her side. Katherine reloads, reaches into a drawer, finds a snubnosed .38, and tosses it to Sean. "Do you know how to use that?"

"Yes, Kitty." He sighs, "What have you done? It sounds like world war three starting out there."

"Follow me." Choosing not to answer Katherine swings open the door, and with her pistol in both hands enters the corridor.

Bodies lay everywhere. Gunshots ring out. A number of panicking henchmen flee the yard. Sean stays close to Katherine, his sweaty hands clinging to the pistol. As Katherine rounds the corner-commotion as she and Jack collide.

SLOW MOTION... ...as Jack looks past Katherine, his eyes locking onto Sean... ...who -panicking- raises his pistol, and fires -hitting Katherine in the shoulder.

"You piece of shit, motherfucker!" Katherine screams as she turns towards her husband but Sean turns and flees... ...as Katherine and Jack disarm one another. Katherine roars -in pain and anger- driving a fist into Jack's side, breaking ribs as she uses all her Teddykin power. She follows through with a wild left, but Jack avoids it, slapping it aside, and Katherine's forward momentum sending her fist to shatter again the iron wall.

Katherine howls, wrapping her arms around Jack, crushing him... ...and as consciousness begins to fade... ...Jack's teeth close around Katherine's nose, cleaving it from her face. Stunned, Katherine releases Jack who kicks out her knee, moves behind her, wraps his arms around the wounded bear's head, and snaps her neck.

He hated to do it, stands with remorse as he looks at her body. He has never harmed a female before and was trying to hold back but she had been too strong, he didn't even go full ted but she was too powerful and if he hadn't…

Ianto's voice is so soft that it is a sigh "Cariad?"

"Still here Honey" Jack answers as he is reminded why he must do this.

Sean emerges from the lower deck, firing back into the darkness as tears roll down his face. A beat... ...and Jack emerges, the very visage of death: his chest etched with bullet wounds, blood trickling down his face, wet, dirty, wounded, pale, and yet... ...unstoppable. Jack moves at a steady pace, the gun in his hand at his side, arm limp. Sean sprints towards the far end of the docks, and climbs up the ladder towards the crane.

Jack follows.

Overlooking the entire shipyard, the crane offers little in the way of escape. Instead, Sean now finds himself trapped. He searches the desk and finds a letter opener which he yields like a knife, turning... ...as Jack enters the room.

Silence.

Ianto's father is visibly shaking as he raises the pitiful weapon, "Well, come on, son of a bitch! LET'S DANCE! YOU AND ME!"

A beat... and Jack lowers the pistol, and fires off his last round into the floor.

Sean lunges ...his hand comes down with the letter opener held in his fist. Jack catches his wrist, and snaps it as his right hand darts up, constricts around Sean's jaw, cracking it in two... ...lifting him from with the ground...and hurling him against the wall.

"She's dead" Jack says calmly, "The twins are still alive but they belong to me now."

Sean looks up at him with open confusion.

They came into my home, tried to take Ianto again" Jack explains, "The twins thought they could just take what is mine like one might lift a fucking piece of artwork. Ianto is understandably pissed. "

"What?"

"The real problem here is not what your wife has been getting up to, or even your spawn" Jack sighed softly, so damned tired all of a sudden, "No. The real problem now is that fact Ifan wants a word. A serious Teddykin Chieftain word."

Sean stops breathing as he feels his balls slide up into his belly.

Jack stares down at him for a long moment, turns... ...and leaves.

He has better things to do.