Jack wasn't good at waiting. He was pacing, wearing a hole into the hospital floor. Gwen and John were sat opposite him, watching him, waiting for a reaction. Ianto was being seen by doctors and he wasn't allowed in to see him. When Ianto had been wheeled away he had begged and pleaded for Jack not to leave him but the nurse had told him he could see him soon. That was half an hour ago.

"Why did you do it?" Jack finally asks, there isn't hate in his voice like John thought there was. Just this sympathetic tone that made John realise that Jack would never be his.

"Save him?"

"Take him. Help it." Jack said through clenched teeth.

"I wanted to get back at you." John sighs, and he sees how pathetic it was. "In my head... I thought get rid of Eye Candy, then you would be crushed enough to want to be with me."

"You knew that would never have worked." Jack sighs.

"I know." John says. "I hadn't come here to plan to ruin you. I missed you, in a sick way I missed all of you. Eye Candy and all." John sighed. "But then I saw you on the Bay with James, I watched as he spoke to Ianto and this stupid plot just came in my head, all twisted and made me think it was a good idea."

"What made you change your mind?" Gwen asked. She was shocked by everything John had said, though she knew that John wasn't as heartless as he made himself to be, he had helped her and Ianto when Tosh and Owen died. He had helped Jack. He wasn't a monster.

"Ianto." John said and Jack felt a twinge of something in his heart, he was so used to John calling him 'Eye Candy'. "He... he basically told me I was an idiot." John sighed. "He was chained to a wall, bleeding... and he was just so confident that I couldn't get you back Jack, he told me it would never work. I hated him for it. I let him... I let that bastard hurt him like that... because I was jealous... and... I could hear him Jack...he would whimper your name in his sleep... and when I helped him he thought it was you...he...you two need each other."

"I do need him." Jack sighs. "More then he needs me."

"I see that now. And I know apologies are over rated but you have to believe me Jack, I am so sorry."

"I believe you." Jack says. "And if Ianto makes it out of this okay, I might forgive you." John knows that that is as good as he is ever going to get.

-x-

It's another forty seven minutes until Jack is allowed to see Ianto. "Sir, may we please speak to you?" She asks. Jack nods because he knows what this is about. "I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this but your boyfriend, well he was raped."

"I know." Jack sighs. "You guys rushed him in so fast you didn't give me a chance to tell you."

"I'm sorry," She apologises.

"Is he okay?"

"We've given him some pain killers because he was complaining of a lot of discomfort. The police have been contacted, they will be here within five minutes they'll want a statement from you and your friends."

"We're Torchwood." Jack sighs. "Just... send them over when they get here."

"Very well, sir." The nurse says. "You can see him, just be quiet. And... with many rape victims they don't like to be touched, don't take it to personal if he moves away form you when you go near him. With all cases like this we offer therapy, we recommend for your..."

"Boyfriend." Jack says slowly.

"For your boyfriend to take the sessions." She placed a comforting hand on Jack's shoulder and squeezed gently. "Patience is the key, okay." She says softly and Jack nods. "Because he is asleep only one of you can go in."

"That's fine, Jack you go. Me and John will go back to the hub."

"Make sure James doesn't go any where."

"What are you going to do with him?" Gwen asks, because as much as she wants to kill him for hurting her friend she knows it's not an option.

"It's Ianto's decision." Jack says after a moments of silence.