Chap 10
"You did good out there." Jack soothes as they lay boneless on the floor.
"Yeah, right." Ianto snorts as he nuzzles in for a few more moments of pleasure.
"It's a fucked-up situation" Jack hastens to reassure him, "I never put too much faith in cops, but you did all right."
"You trust me?" Ianto snorts.
"Hell, no." Jack laughs as he kisses Ianto gently.
"You know, I really don't understand you at all, Captain." Ianto pulls away confused.
"The only one looking out for me is me." Jack sighs as he watches Ianto escaping his grip.
"Doesn't that bother you?" Ianto asks as he retrieves his uniform.
"Nothing bothers me." Jack grins as he accepts his trousers from Ianto's outstretched hand, "I stopped worrying a long time ago."
"Don't you believe in anything?" Ianto asks, trying to hide his hope for a positive answer.
"I believe in staying alive." Jack answers and Ianto's shoulders slump.
"Yeah, but for what?" Ianto tries one more time for the answer he seeks. Me?
"Stick around, I might let you know one day." Jack is looking down as he fastens his trousers and misses the pain the flitters across Ianto's face. He is not a reason then.
"When?" Ianto whispers, looking away from the man who has just claimed and broken his heart in a matter of minutes.
"When the tide is high and the water's rising." Jack says cryptically as he checks they are both fully dressed and opens the door.
"Doing okay in here?" John leers, standing just outside the door.
"Check this out." He cocked his head and winks at Jack who frowns as he realises the man had been listening for a while.
John beckons them down the corridor and they follow slowly, Ianto at the back as he struggles to hide his emotions.
John leads them to another outer door and turns with a flourish. "It's pretty solid. One way in and a back door out, leading to the rear entrance."
"A good, sturdy door." Jack nods sarcastically, "So, what's your point?"
"What about it?" Ianto asks, frowning as well.
"It's rather cosy, don't you think?" John leans around Ianto to push to door shut, trapping the three of them in the small space. John sniffs Ianto and growls deep in his throat as he scents Jack on him.
"I don't believe this. You lured me back here to seduce me?" Ianto gapes as Jack laughs softly.
"Well, the way things are going I thought this might be our last chance to, uh, to dance." John glances at Jack defiantly.
"Yeah." Jack huffs.
The sound of gunshots saves Ianto from having to decide between the two suitors and they rush to find Owen shaking, the rifle still powered up as he looks into the cell with horror.
"Fuck him," Owen spits, "whatever the fuck he is. He was doing my head in with the skin peeling thing."
"It's out of him." Yvonne cries, "Everyone go! Now!"
Suddenly Ianto slams as if he ran into an invisible wall, then he drops to the ground wailing.
"No" Jack roars as he watches the entity invade his new mate.
Ianto is writhing and frothing as he struggles against the thing tearing at his defences and Jack slumps as he watches Ianto fail.
"Let's take him out back." John demands.
"What the fuck do you mean?" Jack splutters as Owen gapes at the two men facing off.
"We ain't moving him anywhere." Jack shakes his head.
"It's taken him over, man." Owen realises as he raises the rifle, "There's nothing we can do."
"Easy, man," Jack reaches out to steady Owen, "I lost a brother in this. That's not him."
"Come on." John moves towards the convulsing man.
"Let's put him down, before they hear us." Owen raises his rifle and Jack slaps it away.
After Ianto starts to snarl, they drag him to the back door and as Jack struggles against John who holds him back, they dump Ianto into the red dirt.
"Oh." The third idiot holds up his hand and Jack sees Ianto's pillbox, "This belongs to him."
"Where did you get it?" Jack shakes John off and snatches it from his palm.
"I stole it." He shrugs and steps back when he sees the anger in Jack's eyes.
"Do you know what it is?" Jack shakes his fist holding the silver box. "It's his stash. This will mess with anything in there."
"Bon voyage, baby" Jack whispers sadly as he pops a pill into Ianto's mouth in the hopes that his last moments turn to blissful ones and he rises to leave the writhing man on the ground.
"Come on. Let's get the hell back in here." John grabs Jack who struggles as he realises they are pulling him back inside and he cries out as they leave Ianto outside the safety of the building.
"I was aware of having thoughts or memories." Ianto tells the panel impassively, "Like I'd been invaded by something, and it was trying to take me over."
The panel shifted and some leaned closer.
"Something inside of me wouldn't let that other thing take over, and I fought it. I didn't know where I was at first, and then it hit me. I was outside, alone...
Unarmed."