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Jack spent the next morning sitting at his desk, quietly trolling for the brothers Holmes.

Sherlock did get around.

Mycroft? Well, there was another weasel alright.

Jack saw no similarities between Ianto and Mycroft, bar their piercing stare but the more he learnt about Sherlock, the more he saw the conditioning and training Ianto had placed in the child he had loved so much.

Did Sherlock know his brother was alive?

Tosh had been running a new program and decided to run a system clean, surprised to find Jack trolling. Curious, she peeked.

Ianto?

She frowned as she started to backtrack Jack's activity and found something she never thought she would see. His T1 file and she gleefully clicked into the forgotten backup server expecting to see his entrance assessments.

She was looking forward to finally seeing if his IQ was as high as she thought.

She expected to see a standard staff file.

She did not expect a file similar to her's at Unit.

A captive.

A subject for study.

She felt her heart pounding as she shakily tried to click out of the many windows and escape the briar patch she had just found herself in.

Oh god.

She hoped those little noises were too quiet for anyone else to hear as she covered her tracks and opened many other servers and files to create false trails.

Finally satisfied that she couldn't be found, even a ghost of her, she sat back and breathed deeply as she demanded her heart to calm the fuck down.

A cup of green tea was a complete surprise, as was the soft hand holding her in the chair so it looked to the world like Ianto was just providing his usual afternoon gift.

"I always knew it would be you" Ianto said softly as he straightened up and looked down and she was struck with the sorrow on his face.

"How I feared it, how I hoped … well. Really, I always knew." Ianto looked past her and she watched as his eyes tracked to the left, then back to her.

"Don't tell Jack that you know" he finally said, "He might not be as calm."

"what was that. I mean …"

"It was exactly what it looked like. I was one of their guests." Ianto looked deep into her eyes.

As he walked away she swallowed down the urge to vomit.

It didn't make sense.