A/N. Hi everyone, i'm back with another chapter. I want to say thank you to rosieposy for her review for the last chapter, i really appreciate it. Did anyone listen to the radio plays last week? It was so nice to have Ianto in them. House of the Dead was my favourite, got slightly emotional though! Anyway enough rambling and on with the chapter. A little bit of the mystery is starting to be revealed and there will be more in the next chapter. As always please review, they really do encourage me to carry on. Kat xx.

Chapter 8.

Jack made sure that Tosh, Owen and Gwen were busy at their workstations before going over to where Lexie was still sat on the sofa, huddled in the blanket. Ianto had put the drinks he'd made down on the table and sat next to her. Jack pulled up a chair and sat in front of them. He looked at Lexie who had her head down, seemingly very interested in the floor. Jack reached out and put his fingers under her chin to lift her head so she was looking him in the eye. Her eyes were sad and filled with tears that were threatening to spill over.

'Hey, it's okay. Those people are in the cells now; everything's going to be okay.'

Lexie shook her head then whispered, 'This is all my fault.'

Jack took Lexie's hands in his own and replied, 'No it isn't'.

'It is. It's my fault my parents are dead, my fault they broke in here, my fault Ianto got hurt…'

'I'm fine,' Ianto interjected, 'Jack's right this isn't your fault.'

Lexie pulled her hands away from Jack's and picked up her mug of coffee. She wrapped her hands tightly around it before taking a sip and then staring at it intensely as if it would give her answers. Jack sighed, Lexie looked as though the fight had gone from her. The only other time he had seen her like this was after she had come through the Rift.

'Lexie, I know this is hard for you right now, but we need to talk about the man that we have in the cells. Do you know him?'

'Yes,' Lexie replied. 'His name is Byron and he's from my home colony. He works for the Hopkins family'.

At her words Ianto looked confused as he didn't know anything about the time Lexie came from. One look at Jack though told him that this was not good news. Jack's eyes had widened in shock and for a moment Ianto thought he saw a brief flicker of fear in his eyes.

'I knew I recognised that symbol,' Jack muttered. 'It was the Hopkins crest.'

'Sorry to show my ignorance here, but who are the Hopkins family?' asked Ianto.

'The best analogy I can come up with is their kind of like the Mafia, except the exploits of their boss put the Mafia to shame,' Jack said. 'The man is charge is Thomas Hopkins and from what I heard of him he was an extremely cruel man. He has control of about half a dozen colonies and uses fear and intimidation to get what he wants. I heard the stories when I was with the Time Agency, they sent people in on more than one occasion to try and bring him down. None ever came back though. He'd have more than enough money and pull to do something like this. I just don't understand what his interest is in you?' He said looking at Lexie, who now seemed to be visibly shrinking back into the blanket. 'Were you're family in trouble with him?'

'No it's not that'.

'Then what is it? Help me out here Lexie.'

'There's a reason I never told you about where I came from. I knew that there was a chance you would have heard of the Hopkins family and I thought you'd treat me differently if you knew.' Lexie paused to take a breath and looked at a spot on the wall above Jacks head before continuing. 'Thomas Hopkins is my father.'

Jack went to say something, but found the words wouldn't come out. Of all the things he had been expecting that was the absolute last thing he would have thought of. He thought that maybe Lexie's family had owed Hopkins money, or that they were indentured to work for him, but this. He needed to clarify what he had just heard. 'Thomas Hopkins is your father? I heard that right.'

'Yeah,' came the hushed reply.

Jack stood up and started pacing in front of the sofa. 'You should have told me.'

'Why? I hated my father and the one good thing about ending up here was that I got away from him. You may have heard the stories about him, but believe me, you know nothing,' Lexie said strongly.

'That's not the point. You were a kid when you ended up here, I wouldn't have held who your father was against you.'

'I was scared and by the time I felt safe here I didn't see the point in telling you. How was I supposed to know this was going to happen? I have no idea how he could even do this.' Lexie's voice had risen now and it started to attract the attention of the others in the Hub. She had also stood up, shrugging the blanket off her shoulders.

'Yeah, well it turns out you weren't the only one keeping things close to their chest,' gritted out Jack in his frustration. Almost immediately he regretted his words.

'What?' asked Lexie. 'Did someone else know about me?'

Jack sighed, he had wanted to talk about his findings in Michael's diary when things had calmed done, not like this. 'I think that someone has been watching you for a while.'

'How do you know that?'

Jack took a step towards Lexie, but she took a step back. 'We found Michael's diary and in it he talks about someone being sent to watch you. I've only seen bits, but it sounds as though he knew someone would come back for you.'

'You're lying!' shouted Lexie. 'There's no way my dad would do that to me. He would have told me.'

'I'm sorry Lexie, its true. I didn't want you to find out like this.' Jack reached out towards her, but Lexie moved away from him again.

'Get away from me.' Lexie turned away from him and started to walk away. She stormed across the Hub and up the stairs to the boardroom where she slammed the door behind her. She didn't have a lot of options because she knew she couldn't leave. As soon as the door slammed behind her Lexie slid down the wall and pulled her knees up to her chest. She then wrapped her arms around them and dropped her head as she started sobbing.

Jack went to follow Lexie, but was stopped when Ianto stood in front of him and put his hand out onto his chest to stop him. 'Leave her Jack, she needs her space.'

Jack deflated slightly, 'I shouldn't have said what I did, I never meant it to come out like that. I'm not angry at her, I'm angry at Michael, hell I'm angry at this whole situation. I just don't know what to do right now.'

'I know Jack. I think some of that anger was her channelling you, that can happen right?'

'If emotions are high they rub off on her. I need to talk to her.'

'Not now you don't, you need to calm down or else all you'll do is argue again. I'll go and see she's alright.' Ianto leant forward and pecked a kiss to Jack's lips before walking towards the boardroom.

Jack turned around to see the others hurriedly turn back to what they were doing. He walked over to the workstations. 'Anyone got anything?'

Tosh looked up and gave Jack a small smile. 'I've been trying to get a read on the signature of the teleport devices so that I know what to look for in case there are others out there.'

'Good,' replied Jack. 'Owen, Gwen?'

'We've been going through the diaries, but so far there's not much on who might have been here keeping an eye on Lexie, other than whoever it is, is male.'

'Keep looking; I'm going to go and have a word with our guests.' With that Jack turned on his heel and started to walk down towards the cells. He needed answers and he would do whatever it took to get them.

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