A/N - Sorry it took a while. Heres the next chapter, Enjoy!! Thanks for all the lovely reviews.
(The flashback is from the Doctor Who episode 'Boom Town' just so you know) I still don't own anything :(
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As the figure was revealed to the audience gathered around the hub the words he spoke reverberated in the vast space and at an alarming volume.
BLAIDD DRWG.
Jack had heard those words before and if this man knew them… it was bad.
Flashback
'How'd you think of the name?'
'What Blaidd Drwg? It's welsh.'
'I no but how'd you think of it?'
'I chose it at random that's all, I dunno, just sounded good. Does it matter?'
'Blaidd Drwg.'
What's it mean?'
'Bad Wolf.'
'But I've heard that before, Bad Wolf, I've heard that lots of times.'
'Everywhere we go, two words, following us. Bad Wolf.'
End Flashback
Half an hour later, the negotiator (Basham) had taken over completely, Ianto had been locked in the vaults, Gwen had been knocked out and Jack had been killed three times, once trying to prevent Basham dragging Ianto off by his hair, once trying to break him out of the cell that had been given extra protection and once trying to sneak up and disable Basham from behind.
After he woke up (again), Jack and Basham had reached a stalemate.
'How did you know those words?'
'Give me the artefact.'
'How did you know them?'
'Give it to me.'
Eventually, it came down to Gwen, after recovering, to make peace. Sort of. She had organised that a civilised meeting was to be held in the boardroom where both parties could argue in a controlled and reasonably safe environment. It worked for five minutes before Jack started yelling abuse at Basham and Deena and ended up getting shot in the head leaving a nasty blood stain on the wall.
Deena was apparently talking to herself, but she knew she was being listened to. 'They're arguing again. It's been 27 hours of non-stop arguing. Basham isn't talking to me, I think he blames me for mucking up my mission. I spoke to HQ earlier, back in the future, they don't blame me, and they said that had they known how stubborn the Captain was going to be then they would have sent Basham straight away. Anyway, he told me some of his plans for if the Captain doesn't give in soon, I hope he does, for both our sakes, I really am sorry.'
Gwen was trying, and failing, to keep the peace. They've been arguing for flipping ages. I cant keep intervening, Jack doesn't like it and every time I speak, Basham looks as if he is going to kill me. So I left them to it, there is a stack of paperwork on my desk and I might as well get it done while I can. I've popped down to see Ianto a couple of times, he seems ok, although a little depressed. I think he's missing Jack more than anything. It can't be nice, stuck in a small, dirty room with nothing to do. Unfortunately, Basham's increased security around his cell so we can't open it, we cant even pass thing through the little holes, some sort of force field I think. Poor Ianto. Deena's been acting a little strange too, although that's only to be expected with friends like Basham appearing out of nowhere. I think she looks up to him although I don't know why. Anyway, back to the paperwork. If it's not done Ianto will kill me, if he survives.
Ianto was bored. He could here distant sounds of fighting coming from somewhere above him. The boardroom he suspected. He missed coffee, he missed all the neatly arranged files in the archives, and he missed Jack. Jack please come, please I need you to save me Jack. Please.
Jack had been keeping a mental record of the 'debate'. 27 hours, 5 cups of coffee, 38 deaths. Still he'd survived worse. Hopefully it wouldn't go on for much longer. He wanted his Ianto back, safe.
It wasn't until the clock showed that the arguing had continued for a total of 29 hours 37 minutes that Basham decided to take it up a notch and force Jack to give in.
'Ok pretty boy, here's the deal. You have twenty minutes to give me what I want, or I'll start hurting the teaboy, and if need be, I wont hesitate to kill him, right in front of you.'
With that Basham got up and left the room with Deena scurrying along behind.
Jack had twenty minutes alone in the boardroom to make a decision. He couldn't risk giving them some unknown alien artefact that could possibly harm the existence of the future of the human race. But he couldn't lose Ianto.
It was a long twenty minutes and the fear that he had masked so well came out in a flood of tears as he struggled to make one of the hardest decisions of his long, long life.
A/N - Please dont kill me fellow Ianto fans! I love him too but I still don't know how this is going to end. Please review.