Right Chapter 26. I know I said that I was going to take a break but I started this last night so I just wanted to finish it. There is only a few chapters left now so it's nearly there.

Disclaimer: I do not own Torchwood as it is owned by the BBC

Chapter Twenty Six

Why are we doing this again?

James felt weird as he stood in the office of the man who he had once slept with many years ago. As a rift thief before he got to find out who his equal was he had been told that he was allowed to go to any era that he wanted to. It was treated as a holiday after finishing their training. He had chosen the forties because it seemed to be like the perfect era where men went off to war for their country. He ended up joining the British army and was stationed in Cardiff. He spent his time going around the various dance halls sleeping with various men, this was the time when many of the solders hid their sexuality but revealed it behind closed doors.

One night he was on his own, minding his own business. When this dashing Captain came up to him and ordered him a scotch. They were at the time at the gentleman's club that had recently been done up in the twenty first century. He started to flirt with this captain who had laughed at his strange ways but didn't seem to mind. That night they revealed to each other that one was an immortal being while the other was a rift thief. They didn't seem to care and made their way to the bedroom. The next day James woke up to find himself alone but that was to be expected it was only a one night stand. He remembered though that he had been a bit rough but apart than that he never had the same experience again.

He watched Jack at his desk as he looked at the device that James had given Peter. His eyes slowly looking over the strange markings that covered the device. James knew it as a manipulator; he had bought it from a strange trading station on the moon of Hyrathon. He had been told at the time as it was a very expensive device and so that was why everyone was limited to only buying one. He had accepted this and had left the station a very happy customer but that was when he had also bumped into a man that he thought he would never see again. It wasn't Jack but another man who he did have sexual relations with but knew to be a very insane person. He watched him buy the same device but didn't say anything just kept walking until he had found out what he really was up to.

"So James I heard these things are really expensive. How did you get one?" Jack asked snapping him out of his thoughts

"Well for some reason I had a lot of money in the bank" James explained "You let Peter get kidnapped?" He added

"Don't you start? I was drugged by the bastard" Jack protested. "But he is a genius, even as we speak the kidnapper's image is being put through the database"

"You could just ask me who he is. I'm the one who called you about the potential kidnapping at the gentleman's club in the first place" James told him

Jack laughed "And take your word for it?"

James thought about this. No he wouldn't believe him, he was a rift thief from the 51st century for god sake. But then again Jack had been a time agent who had lost two years of his life and had gone to the 40s to try to con time agents. He had of course met a Time Lord called the Doctor and his companion Rose Tyler and they had save him from his ship. On one of their adventures he had died and was brought back to life. He first found out he couldn't die in the 1800s. He had of course been in Cardiff as to avoid his former self who was stationed in London. James was told all this before they had slept together and actually believed every word he had said.

"Well I believed you when you told me all that stuff before you fucked me" James pointed out.

"Well you could have easily not believed me" Jack told him

"The thing is I'm not human, therefore I know a lot of stuff about the universe. Time Lords have been dead since the time war, um being immortal is an impossible thing, the Doctor of course is the oncoming storm. Hey did you ever find out why you were immortal?" James asked him while going off on a tangent.

"Yeah but do you want to know?" Jack asked him

"Not really, I was just asking that's all" James answered with a grin

"I wasn't going to tell you anyway" Jack smiled and got out of his chair. The device was still on his desk. "You know I always liked your strange way of flirting"

James smiled and stepped away from the desk. He didn't want to find himself in an awkward situation where he would end up regretting it. He remembered back to when he had told Peter that he had slept with Captain Jack Harkness. He had seen in Peter's eyes that he was happy for the first time that he was starting to like the Captain. He didn't know what had happened since then but he just didn't want to do anything stupid.

Jack could sense the awkwardness.

"Relax I'm just going out to see how the others are doing" Jack smiled, patted James on the back and walked out the door.

"Any luck?" Jack asked as he stopped in front of Toshiko's monitor.

"Not yet" Toshiko answered "but it keeps saying error like it can't read it"

"That's because you are looking through the wrong database" James voice said from the door of Jack's office.

"How would you know?" Tosh asked looking at him

"Well I know is that recently the military made a database that was separate from the citizens' one. It contains information of all the solders who served the British army during World War Two" James explained

"Why would they do that?" Jack asked.

"Some solders information has to be kept secret. Some pretty strange stuff happened during those times" James explained.

"So you're saying we will find the kidnapper in this database?" Tosh asked.

"Not at all but it's worth a try" James smiled

"Alright Tosh you find that database and see if the kidnapper makes an appearance" Jack ordered

"Ok Jack" Tosh smiled

Peter we will find you I promise!

I was still standing in front of the mirror. It had been ten minutes since I had told the others to leave me alone. Everything was starting to fall into place, it seemed that 'John' knew all our grandparents but how or even when? Was it during or after the war? Had my grandfather stolen the object or did he accidently find it? Did the kidnapper know that it was my grandfather or? Don't be stupid he would have just kidnapped you! Think about it he must not know who had stolen it but had a pretty good idea who it might be.

I heard the door open but instead of who I thought it might be, the familiar sight of the kidnapper or 'John' walked in. That familiar insane smile was resting on his lips as he walked closer to me. He stopped in front of the mirror.

"You are a very handsome man, hasn't anyone told you?" he said as he started to kiss my neck.

"Yeah they have. Never believed them, you know just because I kissed you in that cell doesn't mean you have the authority to touch me" I said as I slipped away from him

"Well what about Jack? You slept with him and look what he did to you. Served you up to me on a platter, does he still have the authority to kiss your smooth skin, to hold you in his arms and fuck you like there's no tomorrow?" He sneered

"Yes, because he thought I was going to be safe" I answered with a smug smile on my face.

"Well in that case, we will see if you will still do later on" He said

I looked at him. What did he mean by that? Surely he wasn't going to...? No think about it who was also mates with your grandfather? Was all I could think of as I was knocked unconscious with thin air?

"Jack! I seem to have found the kidnapper!" Toshiko cried from the monitor. The team stopped what they were doing and raced to the monitor. They saw a picture of a man with black hair, brown eyes and wearing a military uniform.

"I know him..." Jack said in complete shock. The rest of the team looked at Jack and didn't know what to say but let Toshiko go on.

"Ok his name is Captain John Holloway, according to this he is thirty, British born, um served the British army from 1939-1945. But this can't be right, can it?" Toshiko asked looking up from the monitor.

"Well I also served during those times and I still look the same as I did then" James pointed out. "Jack here also" he added.

Toshiko smiled at this. She knew from being stuck in 1942 with him when they had met the real Captain Jack Harkness. Jack had also told her that he had been a con man but she never told the others this.

"Ok then but why is this bastard kidnapping young men?" Owen asked quite unfazed by it all.

"I was going to tell this earlier but I got sidetracked. The connection between all these men is that their grandfathers served in the British Army between 1939 and 1945. They were all mates and stuck together no matter what. John here met them during the war. I thought that I wouldn't remember that night but..." Jack broke off.

"Ok I think what he is trying to say is that John had this object that was sacred to him. I slept with him once, and this is why I know. I don't know what really happened that night but apparently he ended up losing this object. Maybe one of them stole it from him and gave it to his grandson" James explained "Also if I might add, the event happened after I slept with him"

Ianto looked at the screen and noticed something interesting. He had been listening but he really did want to make himself useful.

"Sir, it also says here that he is renting a warehouse" He said looking up from the screen.

"So? You know it's not illegal" Jack said then stopped "Good one Ianto"

"What?"Gwen asked looking back at the screen.

"Does it say where it is?" Jack asked ignoring Gwen.

"In the industrial part of the docks" Ianto smiled.

"Everyone, we have just discovered where he is keeping the men. Now we are getting somewhere!" Jack announced to the team.

All of them smiled at Ianto, he might be the tea boy but sometimes it felt like he was really part of the team.

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