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A/N: Penultimate chapter, sorry guys. Hope you like. Please Read and review.

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Chapter 9 – I killed Frank…

Ianto woke up that morning, having slept better than he had done in weeks. Jack was gone, which was annoying but there was a note.

Yan,

Back soon. Cancelling the maid service for a while. I'm bringing breakfast. I love you,

Jack.

Ianto stretched. He did feel better after telling Jack a little of why his mother hated him. It wasn't what he had told Jack but what had happened later on.

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Jack had indeed come back with breakfast and afterwards Ianto told Jack he wanted to tell him more. Jack nodded at him as he recalled the events of yesterday.

"So, I told you the beginning of my downward spiral" Jack nodded, not wanting to interrupt or something.

"Well…don't laugh…but I sort of became well emo. Emo at the time anyways, it's changed now. I grew my hair long, just underneath my chin, brought the records…dress with baggy jeans, ripped knees, got my nose pierced, toilet chain on the trousers from front to pocket. Leather jackets, that sort of thing."

Jack tried to imagine what Ianto looked like with all these things. He couldn't.

"Me and some of the bad kids at school started a band, called ourselves 'Blue Gillespie'. We went to concerts and rocked out. And that's when it started. One night we went to a party, there was lots of alcohol, almost everyone was drunk, including me and I got offered drugs, which I did. I wanted to be bad, everything my parents didn't want me to be I guess. I noticed this guy called Frank kept looking at me. He was really cute. Dark brown eyes, long dark brown hair. When he noticed me looking back at him, he out his head down and his hair covered his face in a sort of curtain. He had two piercing one on his bottom lip and one on the left side of his nose. I actually talked to the guy. I was normally so shy, the drink and the drugs had their effect. He was drunk too. I spoke to him for a while. I told him he was cute and again he hid behind his hair, so I lifted his face to look at me and I kissed him. It was one of the best kisses I've ever had. I think. Hard to tell from little of what I remember. Only reason I remember a lot of what happened that night was because Frank filled me in. Turns out we had a lot in common" Ianto seemed happy remembering Frank. Jack wondered what happened to Frank. He could find him as a gift for Ianto. Then again he remembered what happened that last time he tried to re-unite Ianto with people he had no contact with…

"Jack…Jack...JACK!!!"

Jack snapped out of his daydream.

"Sorry Ianto, deep in thought I guess" Jack laughed slightly at this. Ianto raised an eyebrow but didn't ask him about it.

"Shall I continue?" jack could tell Ianto was gaining in confidence about telling Jack his past. Jack nodded. Ianto nodded back, he felt a bit like one of those annoying nodding dogs that he sometimes seen in the back of cars.

"Frank and I dated for a while, in secret of course. He understood about my parents. We continued drinking and taking drugs. I still went to school, occasionally ditched to be with Frank. I never realised it until a few months ago but I loved him. First person I ever loved. Then Lisa and then well…you. Everyone I seem to love dies Jack. Although I guess I don't have to worry about that with you, then again you can leave me at anytime"

Jack shook his head.

"I will never leave you Ianto. Your stuck with me" Jack tried to make it sound like a warning. Ianto laughed at him.

"Good. I don't want to leave. I'm glad you're stuck" Jack couldn't help but grin at how happy Ianto was becoming.

"Well Frank hated authority; it's why he ditched school so much. He got in trouble with older kids a lot. He fought them and most times he won. I'd always take him when he didn't. His parents were hardly ever in. I cleaned him up. Guess I was the women of the relationship" Ianto pulled a face at this and jack couldn't help but laugh at him.

"One day when he met me at the school gates he was angrier than I've ever seen him. He was raving about the toughest guy in school. Something about, he made fun of me and Frank being together. Frank being Frank did not take this at all. The fight was scheduled for half five that night. In the park. I begged him not to do it but he wouldn't listen. Frank was about 5'4 and this guy was almost 6ft. I knew Frank didn't stand a chance but he wouldn't let it go. I had to go, try and do something. Help if I could. How could I not? My parents were getting angrier and angrier at me constant grounding. My older siblings stopped talking to me eventually. I knew they were ashamed. I didn't care anymore. I had to protect Frank. And he protected me. If they forbid me from going out I did so anyways. I stayed at Frank's. They always called to make sure that was where I was." Ianto's eyes had filled up and his voice had went thick with the emotion. Jack pulled Ianto into his arms and the lay on the bed. Jack rubbed circles onto Ianto's back and talked to him in a soothing voice saying things like; "Yan, I'm here, it's okay", "You don't have to tell me anymore if you want" and "I love you, I'm not going anywhere". Ianto murmured responses to these but Jack wasn't quite sure what he said. Ianto traced patterns on the bed sheet. He felt a bit like a little kid but he was happy. Even if talking about Frank hurt him so much.

"Can I continue?" Ianto asked in a small voice.

"Of course cariad" Ianto smiled at jack using the word cariad. No one had called him that since Frank. Well maybe Guin had but no one meant it like Frank or Jack had.

"So Frank and I went to the fight. There were a big group baying for Frank's blood. He pissed of a lot of people. He bowed to them" Ianto shook his head whilst smiling.

"Typical Frank, never cared for anyone, except me. Or so he told me anyway. At half fie exactly the fight began. The circled round each other. Frank was small so he could dodge most of what came his way. For about 10 minutes this went on for. Each minute felt a lot longer than it really was. Eventually the other guy had enough and he pulled out a knife" Ianto had his eyes shut for this part of the story and Jack could tell he was re-living this part. The memory must have been dormant for years and re-surfacing now was causing Ianto pain but he had to remember and tell someone. To let go of it and move on. Ianto's voice was thick again and his eyes were still closed. Ianto's voiced dropped below a whisper and jack had to lean in to catch every word.

"I wanted to yell out and dive myself in the way. Frank was shocked to, he looked at me. His brown eyes larger than they had ever been. I saw the knife move and I lunged in trying to pull the knife away from Frank. I didn't care if it stabbed me. I couldn't think anything but; Not Frank, please God not Frank. Frank saw what I was trying to do and He tried to help. The three of us struggles with it. It kept jerking this way and that and eventually it…it…it plunged into Frank. Frank gasper and staggered back. The group of kids surrounding us screamed and fled away into the darkness. The guy looked at his he had no idea what had happened. Frank fell o the ground and I fell to my knees next to him. I cradled him in my arms. Some adults had been watching on and had phoned an ambulance. The police arrived too. Then my mum turned up with my siblings. Apparently she had called round at Frank's house. To see if I was okay. Frank's Mam let it slip about me and him and about the fight. She marched over to the park. Saw Frank with the knife sticking out of him and me holding him. She thought I did it. I never said anything I said nothing. I ignored her. Spoke to Frank tried to keep him awake. The ambulance team arrived but not in time. His last words were "I love…you" And he died. All the while I was crying over Frank when they took him away. I wanted to go in the ambulance, My Mam stopped me, and she yanked me back and screamed in my face.

"NO SON OF MINE IS A GAY MURDERER. I HATE YOU IANTO. DON'T EVER COME BACK!!!"

I never really got a chance to say good bye. But he loved me. Jasper and Guinevere tried to get mum to change her mind but she wouldn't listen. I never knew what one of us killed Frank. I hope he knows I would never ever have done it on purpose."

Ianto's tears were falling thick and fast now. Jack wiped them away with the corner of the duvet. Ianto shook his head at him.

"And I suppose your going to leave now"

"Ianto. Why are you so sure I'm going to leave? Nothing you could ever say would make me stop loving you"

"I murdered someone Jack. I loved him and I killed him, I stabbed poor Frank. He loved me and I killed him!!!" Ianto was standing up now pointing his finger at his chest. He seemed so angry yet he had tears rolling down his cheeks.

"I…..loved him and I….." His sentence disappeared into a wave of sobs.

"I don't believe you killed him. You could never kill anyone for fun or pleasure. Probably not even revenge or hate" Ianto nodded at Jack slightly.

"What happened to the guy that killed Frank?"

"Well…he got arrested but he never got convicted, there is no way to prove who done it" Jack nodded.

"Ianto?" Jack asked as a thought popped into his head.

"Do you know where Frank is buried?" Ianto nodded slightly.

"I think we should visit him"

Ianto who had been kneeling on the floor crying over Frank, stood up as though electrocuted.

"WHAT?"

"Shhh Ianto. Neighbours" Ianto laughed slightly and then sighed.

"Your right Jack. I hate it but your right"

"I can drop you and you can be alone with Fra-"

"-No, you're coming with me. I want…I want you to meet…Frank"Ianto felt sure Jack would laugh at him and to be honest it did sound stupid in his own head.

"If you want me there" Ianto nodded.

"When will we go?" Jack asked quietly.

"Now. I'm ready now"

Jack looked shocked by this and he was.

"Are you sure?"

Ianto smiled at Jack.

"Positive"

Jack got the keys to the S.U.V and linked arms with Ianto. And they the hotel to go to down to Scotland to visit Frank in Cardiff.

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A/N: I am soooooo sorry for the massive delay but I was busy on other projects and I couldn't get the right words, but I got there in the end. Still a few chapters to go. Hope you like. Read and review?

Love Sam x