A sigh escaped Jack's mouth, listening to Ianto's deep breathing, who was still clutching onto his vortex manipulator, he wasn't going to let go of it easily. Ianto's eyes showed fear, anger and shock all over, he didn't expect Jack to actually ask him to hand over his vortex manipulator, his most prized possession, he would rather go to hell. Ianto slowly began to take his pace, trying to get far away from Jack as possible. Jack on the other hand had other ideas, reaching his hand out to Ianto to stop his movement all together, Jack needed to chat.

"Ianto we need to talk, so stop trying to escape" Jack asked, moving towards Ianto and sighing in relief when Ianto didn't jerk away. Instead Ianto let Jack get close to him, he wanted the chat over and done with, and he wanted to be in other places at the moment than in the Torchwood hub, he would rather be continuing his search for the Doctor, with out the Torchwood team butting in the way.

Jack placed his hand onto Ianto's protective shoulder, showing his body language explaining to Ianto to relax his arm muscles, Ianto didn't understand at first but eventually relaxed his muscles. Ianto didn't even feel his arm had a stitch until it was relaxed, shows how much he cares about his vortex manipulator.

Jack also now removed his hand from Ianto's shoulder; it wasn't any more needed so Jack just tucked it away in his still soaked pocket. Ianto didn't meet Jack's gaze, he stared towards the ground instead thinking of how to struggle himself out of his vortex manipulator being taken away. Ianto bit his bottom lip, which instantly showed Jack what Ianto was thinking. Well it won't really be that hard to guess would it?

"Ianto we need to talk" Jack announced to Ianto, making him nod in return.

"I think we have already established that" Ianto muttered not lifting his head up from its position, he was perfectly comfortable. He didn't want to even meet Jack's gaze, he was only doing this because Jack was actually torturing him inside.

"Why do you have to take it away from me, you have already taken everything else I have got" Ianto mumbled, stroking the leather of his vortex manipulator, feeling the smooth touch on his fingertips.

"Because everything you have got is classified as a weapon, so is your vortex manipulator so I have to take it off your hands" Jack replied, "Plus I don't want you to escape" Jack added causing Ianto to chuckle.

"I have something else on my mind at the moment" Ianto replied, doing a small smirk at the thought in his head.

"And what is that exactly?" this caused Ianto to lift his head up to now meet Jack's gaze and reply with,

"Getting back with the Doctor" Ianto replied causing Jack to sigh in anger but not showing it to Ianto.

"You can't go back to him, you are now under my control Ianto, and I am demanding you to work here" Jack replied, keeping his voice calm with no signs of anger added, but Ianto knew he was angry. With a sentence like that of course people would know he's angry.

"You think that's going to stop me from escaping? I'm going to do whatever it takes to get out of this hub. theres nothing to keep me here" Ianto growled to Jack, followed by deep breathing. Jack raised his hand for Ianto to stop but Ianto ignored it and carried on his routine.

"You're probably still angry at me because I left you all those years ago aren't you?" Jack sighed to Ianto; he narrowed his eyebrows followed by a nod, looks like Jack has some explaining to do. Jack barely often talks about his past, but since it is Ianto who is part of Jack's past, he might as well explain to Ianto about how he is here now in charge of Torchwood 3. Jack sighed, letting out all of the oxygen in his lungs to give him room for the next couple of minutes. His lungs were going to fill and empty quite often now.

"I was never meant to leave you ten years ago, I had no choice" Jack began to Ianto, beginning to remember the dreadful memories from nine years ago, after he had to leave Ianto.

"How come?" Ianto asked, beginning to make his breathing softer to listen to Jack, "I mean how can you not mean to leave me?" Ianto added into his question, he wanted Jack to give all the answers, if he doesn't then Ianto won't be talking to Jack any time soon.

Jack took a deep breath in, that's when his story began, "I was heading over to your house on your birthday all those years ago. I had the camera and everything, all set for the big party crash at the girls house. But something stopped me from getting to your house"

"What?" Ianto asked

"The Rift" Jack replied, remembering the memory clearly, sometimes he wishes it will just disappear from his mind for ever but it never does. "The rift snatched me from the ground and took me the furthest away from your house possible. I was taken to Earth time 1998, with no clue of what just happened with my vortex manipulator still inside the rift I was stranded" Jack explained, causing Ianto to nod, showing he was at the same pass as Jack.

"And then Torchwood found you?" Ianto guessed.

"Bingo, Torchwood found me and took me in, but they were different people back then. Their leader was a male called Alex at the time, very bossy if you ask me. Any way he kept flying questions towards me asking me how I came through the rift and what I was, they thought I was an alien. But I just kept answering the same questions, 'where is my vortex manipulator', 'where the hell am I', 'I'm not an alien I am A human being' and 'I want to get back to the fifty first century to my best friend Ianto'. I refused to answer any more questions so they locked me up in the cells and treated me like an alien. I barely had any food and drink, I was beaten and I could hardly sleep. Soon they trusted me and believed I was a human which I was, so I started working for them. At first I didn't follow their orders exactly, I would always try and see if I could at least write a letter to you or try and time travel into the future, just to tell you I was okay and I didn't mean to leave you. They always caught me so I was always punished but I soon learned and gave up trying to contact you, it was impossible. After that I began to do field missions for them, that was until new years eve 1999" Jack spoke to Ianto taking another deep breath in, "When I came back the Torchwood team were all dead with a message wrote on the wall in blood, it was from Alex explaining that they couldn't handle the things that came through the rift, like they couldn't handle me. So Alex killed the Torchwood team and himself leaving me in charge. Now I have the new Torchwood team, up and running" Jack explained to Ianto with tears forming in his eyes, Ianto felt sorry for Jack.

Ianto was now beginning to open up to Jack, slowly thinking about their friendship going back to normal, but Ianto didn't know yet, Jack could still be dodgy at the moment, so Ianto will leave it till later.
But Ianto now understands why Jack was threatening him with torture and cruelty; he's only acting this way because this was how Jack was treated...

Please review! Happy Easter, well it's still Easter for me because I still have a Easter egg to eat, -Jaggerz