"Jack, I'm not going to tell you anything!" Rose yelled as Jack had kept her in the interrogation room, it had been at least an hour or so now, and Tosh and Ianto had left, leaving only Jack, Rose and Owen.
"Well, like I said before, you aren't leaving until you tell me."
"Why should I? It's in the past!"
"Rose," Jack began gently "please, just tell me." He begged "what did he do to you?"
"Really?" she asked "You really want to know?"
"Yes!"
"Fine!" Rose gave in and looked at him "fine! I'll tell you everything alright?"
"Thank you." Jack said gently and sat her down. "Now, what happened, start from the beginning."
"Well, that's where I was planning on starting." She began and took a deep breath and began "he was my first 'proper'" she said in quotations "boyfriend, I was sixteen, left school, he persuaded me not to carry on at school and just get a place with him, so I did, we got a place, still on the estate, of course Mum hated the idea, we argued forever over it, then we didn't talk to each other for ages, months I think, that was when it all happened, when it started." She explained and Jack nodded.
"What did he do to you?" he asked softly and sat down opposite her and Owen silently walked out of the room.
"well, in the beginning it was just a punch here and there," she began "I just kept brushing it away, thinking 'oh it was nothing', of course it was," she sighed "then it got worse, I was his own personal punching bag, then he started getting me in to his group of people, drugs, drink, the drink was fine, I enjoyed it, but the drugs, the drugs..."
"Shh, take your time." Jack whispered, and held her hand
"I hated it, the first time I tried it, I was young, wanted to try every new thing, but once was enough for me, I didn't want to do it again, but he made me, forced me to take it, it was horrible." She said, her voice was shaky as she remembered what had happened and recalled the memories. "That's when everything started going wrong, I realised this wasn't the love of my life, wasn't a dream relationship, it was hell! I didn't want it anymore, but I was too scared, I was a coward, I couldn't bring up the courage to leave him, it was like something was forcing me to stay.
"He was." Jack whispered.
"I know, but I tried, I really did, I guess I just got frightened, he'd threaten me, tell me that no-one would ever believe me and that my Mum would never take me back in now, not after leaving her like that," she hesitated slightly "but yeah, he got me in to the drugs, he would beat me up and then there was the time we came to Cardiff," she began "that was what Owen saw, Jimmy convinced me we needed time alone, together, and of course, me being me, begin so bloody thick, I believed him. So we came to Cardiff, just for the weekend, then we went out, he got a bit angry, so I ran, ran down to the river, hoping someone would be there, or that I'd lose him, he wasn't exactly the healthiest of blokes, I reckoned I could outrun him, but I couldn't. Then it was just what Owen saw he hit me, then took me away to the bushes, and he- well he-," she hesitated and Jack got what she meant and held her hand.
"What happened after?" he asked gently.
"We went back to London, I tried to let it go, ignore what happened, move on, but I couldn't , he tried it again, this time I tried to stop it, but he was too strong," she explained and sighed "then on my 17th birthday, he tried it again, I couldn't take it anymore, so I punched him in the balls," she smiled to herself and Jack laughed "then in the face, then ran home, told my Mum everything, then it was all over, well I thought it was, she told me to report it to the Police, so I did, I told them everything, I didn't realise it would all go to court."
"Did he go down for it?"
"Yeah, few years I think, he'll be out by now, didn't get long enough if you ask me. He made my life hell," she sighed once again "that's when I met Mickey, well, not met him, but y'know what I mean, I guess me made me better, made me be normal again, well, as normal as I could be, he was sweet, made me who I am today I guess."
"Well, I guess I can thank him for that." Jack smiled "only thing he's done."
"He's a good bloke."
"I know." Jack smiled and hugged her "I'm sorry." He sighed "I had no idea."
"It's fine, not like you could have stopped it, besides, it was in the past, the past is the past, right?"
"Right." Jack agreed and smiled.
X
Owen searched for Jimmy Stone and saw what he had gone down for, Domestic Abuse and Rape.
"Is that it?" he whispered and did another search on him and found his location, he wasn't going to let him get away with it, and just his luck, Jimmy Stone was right where Owen wanted him, somewhere where he could get to him easily. Cardiff. Moved here after he came out of prison, told he couldn't be near Rose Tyler anymore, so he came to Cardiff.
"Perfect." Owen smiled and tracked Jimmy's location and went in search for him.
