A/N. Thank you for all your reviews for the last chapter, i'm glad that my twist at the end was unexpected. As much as i love fluff, i do love my drama and cliffhangers too. Enjoy the next chapter, the good news is that i am nearly finished with the next one. :) Cookies to reviewers.

Chapter 29.

Molly wasn't sure how long she had blacked out for, but when she woke up, it took her a minute to focus on her surroundings. She was sat on the floor of the van, and she also realised her hands were tied behind her back. She started looking frantically around for Jess, but couldn't see her.

'You're awake.' said a male voice from behind her. The man then moved and knelt down in front of her.

'Where's Jess?'

'She's at another location, she's safe for now.'

'I don't know who you are, or what you want, but you have to let her go.'

'No, I don't think I'm going to do that. We've been watching you for a long time, the fact you had that girl with you today is a bonus for us. Quite honestly I think she'll make a better hostage.'

Molly tried to move forward to get to the man, but he just pushed her down and struck her on the side of her face with a gun he was holding in his right hand. Molly fell back down, but didn't show how much it hurt her, even though she could feel the blood trickle down the side of her face. 'What do you want?'

'There are certain things that I need, and you can get them for me.'

'What things?'

'The first is a device that I believe you spent some time working on, it can black out a room, turn it silent. Secondly I also need what you call retcon.'

Molly stared at the man in horror, how did he know about these things, and worse what did he need them for. If you put all the things together that he wanted, you could commit no end of crimes, and get away with them. 'I don't know what you're talking about?'

'Maybe, you'll be more co operative if I get one of my colleagues to do this to the girl.' He said as he slapped Molly.

'No.' said Molly trying not to panic. 'I know what it is you want, but how do you know about that stuff.'

'I used to have an associate that helped me procure items such as these, but because of you, and who you work for, he is now unable to help me.'

Molly was stunned by this as she realised exactly who it was he was talking about. 'The people I work with, they can get you that stuff, just let Jess go, she can pass on your demands.'

'Like I said, not a good idea. You are going to go and get me the things that I want, and when you have them I will trade them for the girl.'

He leant over Molly and started to untie her hands, whispering in her ear as he did so, 'Don't think about trying anything, or it won't end well for you or her.'

'At least let me talk to her, please.' Molly begged.

'I thought you might ask that.' he said as he reached over to where he had a laptop. 'Here.'

On the screen Molly could see Jess sat in what looked like a small room, to her credit she was trying her best not to look scared, even though Molly could see it in her eyes. 'Jess.' she said. There must have been someone with her, with a webcam as Jess looked into it and said. 'Molly, is that you? Where are you, what's going on, are you ok.'

'It's going to be ok Jess,' said Molly, not convinced at her words, but at the same time admiring the fact that Jess seemed more concerned with how she was than herself. 'I promise that I'm going to come and get you.'

The screen was then abruptly turned away from Molly.

'Go and get me what I want, and I'll be in touch.' The man pulled Molly up to her feet and then opened the door of the van. He pushed Molly out of the door and then slammed it shut. It then drove off at speed leaving Molly standing by the roadside shaking. She took a deep breath to calm herself, before realising she was just around the corner from the Plass. Even though her head was hurting quite badly now, and she could still feel blood on her face from the cut she had, Molly ran as fast as she could around the corner, onto the Plass and to the entrance to the Tourist Information. Molly hurried as fast as she could down into the Hub.

Jack was sat in his office when he heard the alarm on the cog door sound. He stood up to go and see who was coming in. He expected to see Gwen and Jamie back from the UNIT conference, as he knew it wasn't Ianto, as he had gone down to the cells to feed the weevils that were in there. Jack walked out of his office and looked down to see Molly rush in. He was about to make a comment when he caught a glimpse of her face, it was bloodied and bruised. He rushed down the stairs to meet her as she came in, 'What the…' he started to say, but stopped as Molly swayed slightly as if she was about to pass out. 'You need to sit down.' Jack led Molly over to the couch and sat her down.

'They took her,' Molly said making to get up again, but her legs were unsteady and Jack held onto her and made her sit down again.

'Don't get up. Take a deep breath, and tell me what happened.'

Molly sucked in a breath, and let it out slowly before saying, 'They took Jess, they took both of us. I tried to get them to let her go instead, but they wouldn't, they wouldn't listen to me.' Molly spoke as fast as she could, hoping this would stop the tears she could feel forming at the back of hers eyes.

Jack inwardly cursed as he put his arm round Molly trying in some way to comfort her. With his free hand he activated his comms and said, 'Ianto, I need you to get back up here, and bring the first aid kit with you. I'll explain when you get here.'

Ianto appeared about a minute later, and as he hurried over he stopped in shock when he saw the state Molly was in. 'Oh god, what happened.' He said rushing over. He grabbed some gauze out of the kit and pressed it against the wound on Molly's head. 'That might need stitches. Jamie will have to take a look at it when he's back.'

'He's going to kill me. This is all my fault. I should have been able to stop them, to protect her.' Ianto looked up at Jack a little confused.

'Molly and Jess were snatched earlier, they still have Jess.' said Jack.

Ianto leant in to hold Molly in a fierce hug, Jack moving his arm out of the way so he could do so.

'Molly can you tell us what happened?' said Jack.

Molly pulled back out of Ianto's hold and looked at Jack, then nodded. She then told them what had happened from when the van pulled up to them, until she was let go.

'And you have no idea, who they were? Asked Jack.

'No, I didn't really see the ones who jumped us, and I didn't recognise the man that was talking to me in the van.'

'This was not your fault, it sounds as if they were going to take you anyway. You couldn't have stopped it.'

'Maybe not, but I'd rather be the one they were holding than Jess.'

'I understand that, but they obviously didn't think twice about hurting you. You said Jess looked unhurt, that's a good thing.' Jack stood up, and took his phone out of his pocket. 'I need to find out where the others are.' He walked away and rang Gwen. 'Gwen, how long until you're back… Good, come straight back to the Hub, we have a situation.' Jack didn't say anything else, not wanting to have to explain this over the phone. 'Ianto, I need you to start looking at any CCTV footage you can find, to try and find that van. Gwen can help when she gets back.'

'What can I do?' asked Molly.

'You can sit there and wait until Jamie checks out that head wound, I don't want you going into shock and passing out.'

Molly went to argue, but the look on Jack's face told her not to try. Molly went over to her desk and picked up a notepad, before sitting down again. She had to do something, so she tried to write down everything she could remember, even trying to sketch the man that spoke to her. Not too long later and the alarm on the door sounded again, and in walked Gwen and Jamie. Gwen gasped when she saw Molly, while Jamie rushed over to her.

'Are you ok, what happened? Where's Jess, is she ok?' Jamie said, reaching out to look at the cut on her head, but Molly pulled back out of his reach and tears began to fall.

'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I…I.. couldn't stop them.' she managed to choke out.

Jack came back over. 'Gwen, can you go and help Ianto, he'll fill you in. Jamie, over here,' he said gesturing for him to move out of earshot of the others.

'I need to know what's going on, where's my daughter?' he said his voice rising, but moving over to Jack.

'We don't know. Molly and Jess were ambushed, they still have Jess.' said Jack.

'WHAT', shouted Jamie, looking round at Molly, who now had her head hidden in her hands. 'Who were they, what do they want, what are you doing about it.' All the questions tumbling from his mouth in one go.

'We don't know who they are yet, but we will find them.' said Jack. 'They will pay.' He said a steely determination in his eyes, no one did this to any member of his team, or their family and got away with it. 'We know what they want, and I'm going to work on getting that.'

'But why, why her?' said Jamie, his voice breaking slightly with the emotion.

'This isn't what you are going to want to hear, but it's just a case of her being in the wrong place at the wrong time. From what Molly told us, they've been watching her for while. It seems they were all poised to take Molly today anyway, Jess being with her was bonus as far as they were concerned.'

Jamie didn't know what to say, he was torn between feeling sick and punching the wall. He settled for reaching an arm out to the nearest wall for support.

'You need to go to Molly. She's hurting as much as you are at the moment.' Jack said. 'You need each other. We will keep working on what we can find out.'

Jamie stood up and walked over towards Molly. He had so many emotions going through him at that time, but when he saw Molly's face again properly, the doctor in him took over. 'Here,' he said moving the gauze away from her head. 'Let me look at this.' He pulled open the first aid kit and gently cleaned the wound up, before covering it over with more gauze and taping it into place. 'It's ok, a little deeper and it would have needed stitches. I'll keep an eye on it.' Jamie then moved his fingers over the bruise on her cheek. 'Whoever did this is going to pay.'

'I tried to get them to let Jess go, instead of me.'

'This isn't your fault, Molly. You didn't know you were being watched. I should have been with you today.' Jamie sat down next to Molly on the couch and pulled her towards him. 'Did you see Jess before they let you go?'

'Yeah, I saw her on a webcam, she looked fine. She asked me if I was ok.'

'That sounds like her, worrying about others before herself.'

'She's brave, I think she takes a lot after you.'

Molly and Jamie sat there for a minute, just holding each other in silent support, before they heard Ianto say. 'I think we have something.' They went over to the computer where he was working with Gwen, and Jack joined them too.

'It took some time, but I found a traffic camera, just over the road from where they jumped you. It's not a great angle because you can't see the men properly, but it gives us a rough place to start.'

They all looked on as the footage played of what had happened. The van pulling up, the men jumping out and Molly trying to fight them off before being knocked unconscious. Jamie took hold of her hand and squeezed it tight. 'There's no way, you could have stopped them, there were too many.'

'Didn't go down without a fight though.' remarked Jack.

'So what do we do now?' asked Jamie, 'because I need to get out there and do something.'

'We've managed to pick up the van on a couple of different cameras, so we are trying to see if we can work out some kind of route,' said Gwen. 'It may give us an idea of where they went at least.'

'The bigger problem is though, we have no idea who they are, and we have no images that can help us.' said Ianto. 'I don't like the idea of dealing with people like this without even a vague idea of who they are.'

'There's someone that can probably help with that though isn't there.' said Molly quietly. The others looked at her. 'Come on, I bet you're all thinking it, just none of you want to say it. They said they had an associate who helped them get items like the ones they want now, and that we stopped him.' Molly took a deep breath. 'We need to talk to Alex.'