Time Intertwined
Chapter 6
"What are you doing here?" Ianto spat, "how did you get in"
"Oh it's not me that you need to be concerned about eye candy" John said smugly, "you should check out what Marcus is doing with your rift manipulator"
"What?" Ianto said racing off in the direction of the rift manipulator, luckily he was still wearing his comms in his ear, pressing it he shouted, "Jack get down here now"
John stood there smiling, glad that his plan was working like a charm, Jack will come storming down here, he'll probably grab me and with him close enough to the rift manipulator, I will be able to whisk him away from this backward planet. He needed Jack to be close to the rift manipulator as he worked out that with the combination of his working Vortex Manipulator and the rift he could have the boost he needed to get Jack and himself away from this rock with their stupid rules and limitations, how could Jack stand to be here, really he's doing Jack a favour. Soon they would be back travelling the stars having fun, he thought gleefully.
Jack hearing the alert by Ianto quickly pulled on his trousers and grabbed his shirt as he climbed up the stairs, stumbling a bit but managing to get down to the kitchenette within a minute.
"Where are you Ianto?" Jack said full of concern.
"The rift manipulator" Ianto said quickly, seeing Marcus sitting at one of the computers that the rift manipulator was connected to.
"Marcus, what are you doing here….again? Ianto asked recognising the man who almost killed him a few weeks back.
"Look I don't want to hurt anyone" Marcus said with his hands up, "I just need to get back, John here said that this device can get me back"
Ianto had forgotten that John was in the Hub in his rush to get to the rift manipulator. Hearing John's name Ianto remembered that John accosted him in the kitchen, looked towards John who was standing to the side, leaning against railing, his arms folded across his chest, looking smug. "What eye candy, he's a very determined man, what can I say?" John Hart said.
Jack rushed in, taking in the scene, "What's going on here?" he said angrily.
"Oh Jackie boy, glad that you joined us" John said smiling smugly, standing closely to the rift manipulator.
"What do you want?" Jack said his voice full of venom.
"Jack?!...Nothing, why would you think that I want something, my motions are selfless, Marcus here is very distraught, he just wants to go back to help his daughter, you know what's that like, to want to help a family member, to go to another time" John said sounding sympathetic.
"John, you know that the rift manipulator doesn't do that" Jack said pointing to the rift manipulator.
"What! You told me that they had a machine that could take me back!" Marcus shouted shoving John as he rushed up to him.
"Sorry….got it wrong" John said shrugging his shoulders, trying to look innocent in a mocking way, then quicker than Jack or Ianto had time to react, John clamps the other side of a set of handcuffs onto Jack's wrist that were hanging unseen from his wrist, "but it serves my purpose, say bye to eye candy Jack" John said.
"John your Vortex Manipulator is as dead as mine, we're not going anywhere" Jack says to John as if he is talking to a naughty little boy caught trying to start dad's car but using his toy car keys.
"That's where you're wrong my dear captain, my working Vortex Manipulator in connection with your rift Manipulator gives me the boost that it needs. Let's go somewhere, some-when" John says smiling, very pleased with himself.
Marcus, standing close by to John, quickly understanding what's going on, launches himself onto John as John presses a button and all three fizzle out, leaving only a surge of blue light that connects the blue light of the rift manipulator to where they were standing.
"NO!" Ianto screams as he lunges towards them only to touch the electrified air where his lover was only a moment ago.
A/N: Sorry this is a short chapter, but this is where the cliff hanger ended.