Be warned there are large spoilers for 'Fragments' in this chapter. Please read and review!
Everyone in the main room turned to stare at Ianto who was now running down the stairs, his eyes were blazing and everyone knew he was heading for Jack. Tom had stood up and moved away from the computer he and Jack had been sitting at to make sure Ianto wouldn't lash out at him when he was aiming for Jack. Jack stood up slowly and looked around the team as if asking any of them if they knew what was going on. His gaze stopped on Aaron who shook his head and shrugged. Jack turned back to Ianto just in time to be pushed against the workstation behind him. "Careful Ianto that equipment costs…" Tom trailed off as Ianto turned to glare at him.
"What's the matter Ianto?" Jack asked calmly, causing Ianto to stare at him in shock. He had pushed Jack against a desk and Jack was still managing to stay calm. Ianto managed to recover from the shock pretty quickly and remembered what he was doing.
"You told him to leave me," Ianto muttered just loud enough for Jack to hear. He didn't want the rest of the team to know much about his past. Ianto didn't like thinking about it himself and if the whole of the team knew about it he knew they'd constantly be bringing it up.
"You know about that?" Jack asked, struggling to turn and look towards Aaron in Ianto's grip.
"Yeah I…" Ianto looked up at Aaron who shook his head. Ianto didn't know why but Aaron didn't want Jack to know he had told him the truth. Ianto had to think fast. He needed to tell Jack how he knew about what Jack had done. Ianto suddenly remembered Aaron's scrawled writing on the back of the envelope which had been written in a hast meaning Jack must have told him not to tell Ianto which hopefully meant the whole situation had been captured on CCTV. Ianto turned back to Jack. "I checked the CCTV. You and…" Ianto paused again, he wasn't used to saying the word 'dad' so decided to call Aaron by his first name. "Aaron were taking longer than you should have so I checked the CCTV to see where you were."
"There's CCTV in the SUV?" Jack asked in a surprised tone. Ianto froze – Jack had confronted Aaron in the CCTV.
"Yeah," Ianto replied slowly. "I installed it recently." Ianto paused again. "Actually." Ianto suddenly realised he was being led off track and jumped back on topic. "You forced him to leave me."
"Ianto, you've got to understand," Ianto could just make out a tone of panic in Jack's voice. "It was either him leaving you or you getting injured. I saved you and your sister. I really didn't want to do it. I wanted to help your whole family get away but they would have sent someone else. They would have found you all and they would have hurt all of you. You may all have died. Not just your mother."
"How do you know she died?" Ianto questioned though he began to loosen his grip on Jack.
"He was there," Ianto jumped as Aaron's quiet voice sounded out from behind him. All sorts of visions began to appear in Ianto's mind.
"You killed her?" Ianto asked Jack.
"No, no," Jack shook his head. "I tried to stop them. I helped Aaron and you mother escape. I had realised that I could find somewhere for the whole family to live together but then your mother was shot and Aaron ran off. I tried to find him again but I couldn't." There was a pause as Ianto had run out of questions to ask. Ianto stood up and let go of Jack who quickly stood up. The rest of the team where staring at them, unsure what had happened because none of them had heard more than a word or two of the quiet conversation. "Now do you see why it took so much for me to hire you?"
Jack felt the Weevil push him against the tree and grunted. The Weevils were beginning to get harder and harder to catch. They seemed to be getting better at fighting and they were becoming stronger. Jack pushed himself off the tree and span round past the Weevil and pushing it against the tree he had just been pushed against himself. Jack was beginning to get tired now. They had been doing the same thing for the past ten minutes. Jack pulled out the Weevil spray but before he could use it against the Weevil, it was slashing out at him and had knocked the spray out of Jack's hand. The two fell into a wrestle and began to try and Jack ended up on the floor with the Weevil on top of him. He began to wonder if the Weevils had schools down in the sewers and if they were teaching each other how to fight. He would have laughed at the ridiculous thought if a Weevil hadn't have been on top of him. Instead he pushed the Weevil over so he was now on top of it and few a few punches at it. Just as Jack thought he had the upper hand he was back underneath the Weevil. This time he wasn't thinking about Weevil schools in the sewers but instead the thought of dying again sprang to mind as the Weevil went for his neck. He began to scream as pain travelled through his body, trying to push the Weevil off him but it was no use.
Suddenly the Weevil's weight had left him. Jack had frowned. It was unusual for a Weevil to give up its attacking without making sure the victim was definitely dead. Then Jack saw a young man with a stick attacking the Weevil. Jack thought he recognized the man at first but couldn't picture his name. He quickly shook the thought away and picked up the Weevil spray he had dropped earlier as the man wrestled with the Weevil just as Jack and the Weevil had done so before.
Jack jumped to his feet and pushed the weevil away from the man and onto the floor. Before he could end up on the floor again, Jack began to spray the Weevil and he put a bag over its head just as it began to fall asleep. He then got up and turned back to the mystery man he recognized who quickly thanked him. As Jack returned the thanks, he still couldn't remember how he knew the man in front of him. He tried asking the man his name but even when he knew the name (Ianto Jones), he recognized the name but still had no idea how. Jack even tried saying his name to see if Ianto recognized him but that didn't seem to work either. Instead Ianto correctly named the creature he had helped Jack contain.
It wasn't until Jack checked up this Ianto Jones on the Torchwood database that he suddenly realised who the young man was and stared in horror at the computer screen. The man had been left in the middle of nowhere after going camping with his dad at the age of nine. Exactly as Jack had previously told someone to do – Ianto Jones was the child who Jack had taken parents away from.
The next day Jack was met once again by this Ianto Jones. At first he worried that the Retcon Ianto had been given as a child was wearing off but it turned out Ianto just wanted a job. Jack had immediately refused although Ianto was right when he said he had the right qualifications for the job. Normally Jack would have hired him as soon as he had asked but he didn't want ghosts from the past working with him. Everyone in his team knew he hid from the past, even if they didn't know what he was hiding.
Ianto had continued to ambush Jack and Jack had continued to leave Ianto standing alone watching after him with no job. One night he decided to do some research and realised that Ianto had been working on the floor below his father for years in Torchwood London and if his father had wanted to make contact he would have done so.
Then one night, after a run in with Ianto, a Pterodactyl and a bar of dark chocolate Jack gave Ianto the job. At first Jack had kept his distance from Ianto in case the young man ever found out the truth behind his father abandoning him though Jack soon realised the Ianto didn't like thinking about his past which made it safer for Jack to talk to him.
Now after 21 months they had been as close as ever but Aaron's sudden reappearance was becoming close to ruining their complicated relationship.
