6
Ianto blearily opened one eye and looked around, finding himself on the floor in the main corridor as voices screamed overhead and he sat up to woozily clutch at his head.
"How long has this be going on!" the female voice demanded.
"Almost half an hour. We tired the suppressant, even the gas… the fucker will not go down. He's wreaking the joint." Came a gruff answer "None of us are going in there until he tires himself out."
"What the hell happened in there. Who…" the voice paused then added "Jones! Are you alright?"
He looked up "Ma'am? What the fuck?"
She knelt... careful to fold the skirt around herself "Look at you. That will leave a mark."
Ianto remembered. Rising to reach for the man with the stunner who had hit him and the man yelped as Ianto seized his collar and punched him solidly with the other hand. He snarled as he drew back for another sold thump.
"Ianto!"
He paused, looked at Hartman and released the man who slumped to the floor.
"They attacked him, attacked me and that fucker stunned me. This one" Ianto was reaching for the man now on his hands and knees that yelped as he tired ot get way.
"STOP IT!" she screamed, stomping a foot, then she said more calmly "what do you mean?"
"Five of them, waited until I left the room. They went in to terrorize and torture him. I came back so they beat the tar out of me. Jack came to try and help me, got them down. Then security came and tazzed the fuck out of me for some reason like it was all my fault." Ianto said slowly, methodically and with venom.
"Is this true?" she asked a very worse for wear looking fucker who had previously been unconscious on the floor of the room.
"Madam, we dragged out those he attacked including Mister Jones here. We saved his life as the freak was…erghhhh…"
Ianto had this one now, shaking as he leaned in and to everyone's shock, bit him on the cheek. The man screamed and staggered back as Ianto hissed at him in a feral way "Who you calling a freak?"
"I said stop" Hartman was calm now, understanding the facts. "Jones, you say he came out of his cell to defend you?"
"Want to see?" Ianto whipped out the little tablet and some one behind them groaned with horror as they had not thought of the camera that was not on the main grid. She watched. Turned and pointed.
"You, you, you, you… you and…you too. All of you… fired."
"What?" came the collective squeak.
She reached for her earwig and tapped it "security, I have six men here for immediate retraining."
Everyone shuddered as this was not a nice thing to hear, retraining meant… Antarctica or somewhere for a few years. Well. They started it.
"Jones, can you calm him down?"
Ianto opened the door and stepped in "Jack."
Jack seized him and started to check him for injuries, then saw Hartman and dragged Ianto behind him like he was going to shield him from her and she smiled "Well now, look at that. All this time I thought it was a woman you would show affection to, all those interns sent with your meals that you never looked twice at. You like the pretty boys, do you?"
Jack showed his teeth in a silent snarl.
"Good. Very good Jones, he seems attached to you. Right. I want this place cleaned up and Jones… I want to see you outside for a moment."
"Sorry Ma'am, he will not release me now he had hold" Ianto apologized, "He knows I am upset and will continue to shield until the danger is gone."
"Very well. Since you can clearly use my secure codes… continue. If you can get him to talk, to tell us something about the Doctor… you will get a raise beyond your wildest dreams" she said grandly, then motioned everyone to get out.
After the cleaning crew was done and gone, Ianto stood there looking at the room with dispassion. "It's contaminated now. I hate that. Like someone taking a lick of your lollypop."
Jack watched as Ianto walked around morosely trying to straighten the files now back on the desk and Ianto added "Fuckers."
Then he turned to Jack "so. The Doctor. I did wonder what her game was, so they want you to spill on the mad man in the blue box eh? Well… too bad I don't speak…. Whatever you are. And even if I did… I would not be telling them now. They have no idea how many languages I CAN speak."
Jack was not sure but felt that if he could trust anyone, it would be this young man who had not only risked everything to try to protect him, but had shown himself to be more than he let on. Jack settled to watch as Ianto turned in a small circle and muttered some more. It became obvious that Ianto had his own secrets as he changed language when cursing the doctor.
It was nice to hear Galactic Standard after all this time.
And with a Welsh accent it was delectable.
Jack knew they were running out of time and sooner or later Ianto would be used to get a reaction from him. He had been so careful but this one, this young man had slid under his defenses like a fucking mist.
Jack had to get Ianto out of here.
Or they were both dead meat.