A/N. Thank you to JolinarJackson for her beta work to improve this chapter. I also want to say thank you to rosieposy and specialfrancine for their reviews for the last chapter, i really appreciate it. I hope you enjoy the next chapter. Please review. Kat :)

Chapter 9.

Ianto looked around trying to get a sense of his surroundings. He was in a room adjacent to one of the main labs in the science block. Ianto could see a few tables with small pieces of equipment on them, and he could also tell the room was soundproofed, not surprising really, Morgan wouldn't want anyone hearing what was going on inside these rooms. He hadn't been able to look at the main lab much as he'd been roughly shoved through into this room and then handcuffed to a pipe on the wall. Jessie was in a similar position next to him. They were alone, but they could see shadows moving behind the small frosted glass window in the door, which meant they were being guarded.

'We're screwed, aren't we?' said Jessie, speaking for the first time since they were brought into the room.

'No,' replied Ianto, hoping he sounded a lot more confident than he felt. 'The others will come up with something.'

'Not that I want to cast doubt on the abilities of your team, but they have no idea where we are, and even if they did how are they going to get in?'

'They will come up with something.'

Jessie sighed, 'I hope so.'

Silence fell between them again, but this was soon interrupted by the door opening and two men walking in. The first was one of the men that had brought them into the room, the other was Morgan. He looked just as Jessie and Ianto remembered him, tall with greying hair, a white lab coat, and glasses perched on the end of his nose. Morgan was the epitome of a mad scientist. He walked up to Jessie and stood in front of her.

'I couldn't believe it when I saw you in the halls. Of all the people to run into it had to be you. I knew as soon as I saw you that you'd be trouble, always were.'

'I hope you don't expect an apology.' Jessie replied defiantly. She was scared, but was trying her hardest not to let it show.

'Just like before you're trying to ruin my experiments by running to Torchwood 3. They won't be able to do anything though, they were always the lowest of the Torchwoods.' Morgan said disdainfully.

'I think Torchwood 3 is more capable than you think,' said Ianto trying to draw Morgan's attention away from Jessie.

'Well, you're one of them so you would say that. I can't understand why you would want to go and work for them after working for London, talk about trading down.'

'My reasons for where I choose to work are not of your concern.'

'Maybe not, but for now you are both going to do something for me.'

'I'm doing nothing for you,' answered Jessie. She regretted her defiant tone as the second man in the room pointed his gun at her.

'Do you really think you have a choice?' asked Morgan.

'You have to stop what you are doing,' said Ianto trying to stall for time. 'Messing with parallel words will only end badly. Did what happened at Canary Wharf not teach you anything?'

'I'll admit Canary Wharf did not go as planned. Yvonne Hartman didn't understand all the complexities involved with what I was trying to do. This time though I am free to do what I need.'

'Which is what?' asked Ianto. 'What are you trying to achieve?'

Morgan took a step back so that he could look at both Ianto and Jessie. 'Think of the possibilities. All of these worlds out there for us to explore, the things we could learn from them.'

'Learn from or take from?' asked Ianto disbelievingly.

'There are worlds out there that will have technology and resources we could only dream of. If bringing them here benefits us then so be it.'

'What you're doing is dangerous. You think you can just walk into some parallel world, take their technology and they won't notice?' Jessie said incredulously. 'What if they get through here and start a war, it'll be Canary Wharf all over again.'

'No, it won't because I have control.'

'Yeah, that's what Yvonne Hartman thought,' muttered Ianto.

Morgan decided to change tactics. He stepped back up to Jessie. 'What if by travelling to these worlds you could find Sam again? He died at Canary Wharf right, but what if you could have him back?'

Jessie visibly paled at the mention of Sam and Ianto could see the tears forming in her eyes. Using Sam was not a smart move.

'Sam's dead,' said Jessie, although it came out as barely a whisper.

'Not in another world, he isn't. Imagine if you could find him and be together again.' Morgan clearly thought this idea would entice Jessie, but he was mistaken.

'No,' said Jessie. 'It might be true that there is another Sam out there, but he wouldn't be my Sam. No one could ever replace him. You're more delusional than I thought.'

'Fine, I tried to be nice. You,' Morgan gestured to the man with the gun. 'Take her next door, she can be my next test subject.' Morgan walked back over to the door to the lab without saying anything else. As the man walked over to Jessie, Ianto attempted to get out of his restraints but it was futile.

'Leave her alone,' he shouted desperately, knowing it would do no good.

The man just smirked at him and pulled Jessie away from the pipe on the wall. She immediately started to try and pull out of his grip, but he held on tight.

'If you don't stop struggling, I will shoot you,' he said.

'Fine, shoot me, I'd rather that than taking part in some insane guys experiment,' replied Jessie and she attempted to pull away again. The man pulled her against him harder this time and raised his gun, but instead of pointing it at her he pointed it at Ianto. 'Okay, how about this, you keep struggling I'll shoot your friend.'

Jessie immediately stilled. 'No. It's okay I'll go.'

'Good girl,' replied the man and he forcefully pushed her through the doorway into the lab leaving Ianto alone in the other room.

Ianto slumped against the wall, his only hope now was Jack. He hoped Jack had heard something when he switched his comm on, and that he had figured out a way to get to them. The only problem was time was running out, he had no idea how long it would be before Morgan did something bad to Jessie. Out of the corner of his eye Ianto thought he saw movement by the far wall. He shook his head, it had looked as though one of the floor tiles had moved. Then he saw it again, faint movement. Just as Ianto was certifying himself as crazy, the tile was lifted up completely and then Jack's head came into view, quickly followed by the rest of him as he hauled himself up from the hole in the floor. He then extended his hand back down, and helped to pull up Tosh, who was then followed by Owen. Jack surveyed the room and grinned as he saw Ianto.

'How on earth did you…' Ianto trailed off, still slightly shocked from Jack and the others appearing from what seemed to be some kind of hidden trapdoor.

'I have my ways,' said Jack walking over to Ianto. 'Aren't you a sight for sore eyes,' Jack said taking in the fact Ianto was currently handcuff to the wall.

Ianto rolled his eyes, 'I don't think now is the appropriate time, do you?'

Jack just shrugged and set about freeing Ianto from the cuffs. 'I thought you would have been able to get out of these,' he said raising an eyebrow.

'Maybe I need more practice, I'm not usually the one wearing them, am I?'

'Oh, I did not need to hear that,' said Owen making his way over to the pair. 'What you and Harkness get up to in your own time, should be kept to yourselves.'

Jack just grinned at Owen and then said, 'There you go,' as he got the cuffs off Ianto.

'Thanks,' replied Ianto rubbing his wrists. 'We need to get in to the lab next door. Morgan had Jessie taken in there, said he was going to use her for an experiment.'

'Okay, do you have any idea of how many people are next door, other than Morgan.'

'There's at least two men in there that are armed, but I suspect there's more.' Ianto said, then he came to a realization, 'Where's Gwen?'

'She's out in the main corridor, when we give her the signal she'll come in that way.'

'I still don't understand how you managed to get in here.'

'We can explain that later,' replied Owen. 'Right now we need to get to Jessie and shut down Morgan's experiment.'

'Can't we just shut down the power?'

'No,' answered Tosh. 'If the systems running the portals aren't shut down properly they could go out of control, and we'll have portals popping up everywhere. Either that or everything will explode.'

'Okay, I'm for shutting down the systems correctly,' Ianto replied.

'Right, when we get next door, the three of us and Gwen will keep the way clear for Tosh to get on with what she needs to do. You might be needing this,' said Jack pulling Ianto's gun from his pocket and handing it to him.

'Thanks.'

They got into position behind the door and waited while Jack checked that Gwen was ready. The anticipation could be felt in the air, and Ianto just hoped that they weren't too late.