HI

Sorry its been so long but I have had so much to do and so little time!

Well I hope you like this little chapter but it will, again, be a while before I update so I shall apologize before hand about that!

Amy

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CHAPTER SIX

A different prospective

IANTO'S POV

Everything hurts. My hands tied above my head ache like there's no tomorrow, and judging by the blood I can see pooling at my feet, unless I get some medical attention fast there won't be. The beast by my side ran her soothingly cool tentacles down my sore sides. She spent extra time caressing my newest wounds, winding her unforgiving arms around me in a rib cracking embrace. My mouth opened to scream in protest, but my throat was to hoarse from crying out hours at a time.

I could physically feel the thin bones in my chest snapping, but her skin on mine felt so good, towering over any pain with the pure pleasure of the sensation. I barely heard the door open, its steal coating scratching the tiled flooring.

It wasn't until I heard the panicky voice of my lover that I looked up, breaking the semi spell Fi3fi3 held on me. My heart raced as Jack practically shook with anger, his eyes glazed with tears he wouldn't allow to fall. Even now Jack had too much pride to cry at the sight, and what a sight I must have been.

I was walking along the edge of sanity, 1 month I had been here, my mind flirting with the boundaries between normal and insane. Fi3fi3 left my side to flee to her Master Bloody evil sadistic prick I thought bitterly to myself.

I watched Jack, although he refused to let our eyes meet, focusing on what was going on before him with the two aliens. I saw their lips move, but no sound reached my ears, I squirmed uselessly in my chains in a futile attempt to hear their plotting.

Suddenly Jack burst forward as if to attack the tentacle being boring her silver eyes into me. After what seemed like forever the dispute was stopped by the Master. Casting his gaze over to me I heard that timelord speak, almost as if it was directed at me.

"Now now don't be a bad boy after all our training. And anyway, if the final test for you goes as planned then there will be no need to have my darling Fi3fi3 touch him. But we all know it's not going it be that simple. It never is"

The words made my blood boil as the Master took a daring step towards me, Jack faithfully at his side, his face red with rage. He looked as though in one swipe he would tear the Master big head off his shoulders, just waiting for the opportunity.

I waited in silence as Fi3fi3 skipped over to me ahead of the others, her tentacles roaming over the bare skin of my chest, and for reasons I cannot fathom I was glad I still had my trouser's on in front of Jack, the only person in this room who had seem what lie beneath.

I would have been on with handing stark naked in front of Fi3fi3 or the Master, knowing they wouldn't be judging and that their constant glances would be there purposely making me nervous. Jack however, being the nymphomaniac he is would just be unable to not stare, or worse make a comment.

Now was really not the time to be thinking of Jack staring at my nuts. I cast the thought out, for now, and focused on the more pressing matter at hand. Why was the Master looking at me like that?

His eyes wide and wild with a hunger that was new to me, not the torturous glare I often received when he came in to watch Fi3fi3 work her masterpiece as she called it on my body. This was a different hunger, the kind of look that promises children coal in their stocking at Christmas. Promising the monsters in the dark.

I could feel my heart beat faster as they approached, but my eyes lingered on Jack, staring intently at the Master, just waiting for his chance. I notice the collar around his neck, the red painting the edges of his flesh surrounding it where the thin piece of leather had clearly been tugged ruthlessly until it had chaffed.

Jack still seemed oblivious to this, all his attention focused on hating the Master, who suddenly stopped 3 feet away from me, Jack almost crashing into my hanging body before he stopped. At last my lover met my longing gaze and he smiled weakly at me, like he was apologizing for something.

It wasn't his fault though, I was here because of him yes, but I was the one who fell in love with him… even if he still doesn't love me back quite yet. He thinks I don't know, that I'm just another knock in his bed post, but I do. I know he doesn't know the feel of how my love for him eats away at me day after day as he never fully returns any emotion back, it's only a mask. A mask the hurts so much more than the reality that lies behind it.

But I won't give up. I know he is capable of feeling love in there somewhere, if he can love the doctor, then why not me?

I would allow my false beacon of hope to shine upon me still, lighting my way through this darkness. Although my heart ached with rejection I looked lovingly into Jack's icy eyes which only returned fear, and the tiniest hint of rage creeping in the corners.

I sighed and was the first to look away, unsure whether my heart could take or if it would just give out and finally bless me with the death I had been praying for. Out of the corner of my eyes I saw Jack cast his gaze to the floor, he knew why I looked away, what did he know? His saddened eyes glistened with a knowledge that chewed him up inside and I could see the internal battle he was fighting inside.

The Master finally turned to Jack, his eyes too burning with a malicious sense of knowing.

"Come my pet are you ready?" Jack just nodded furiously, standing up straight and looking the Master in the eye, even the Master got more emotion than me, even a hate is better than nothing I suppose. "Good, now…" the Master got out a long blade from within his inner jacket pocket handing it over to Jack.

"What do you want me to do with it?" Jack's eyes glistened with the prospect of using it to take his rage out on something.

"I want to cut darling Ianto over there" He smiled at me, both mine and Jack's eyes going bambi wide like a deer caught in headlights, well at least that's what Jack looked like, he was so cute when he was scared… I snapped back to the reality of the blade held loosely in my lover hand.

Jack smiled an evil little impish grin, walked over to me and took my hand in his. He lifted my index finger and pressed the blade ever so carefully to the tip causing a tiny little droplet of blood to ooze from the opening. I didn't even notice the pain, I just smiled along with Jack, we both knew that he had done exactly what the Master had asked of him. He had pasted his last task.

"Oh no, I was you to slit his pretty little face open" The Master smiled sadistically, walking over to me, taking the whole 2 steps it took. He put his finger to my mouth, both me and Jack flinched at the contact. He drew and invisible line up from the corner of my lips to half way up my cheeks on both sides. "Just like that" He whispered childishly.

"No, I can't do that! You cant make me!" Jack was furious again, he threw the knife to the floor, standing defensively in front of my hanging body. The Master shook his head, taking the whole situation like they were discussing a football game.

"In that case, Fi3fi3 honey, why don't you cut out Ianto's precious tongue? As a lesson for what happens why my pets disobey me." Fi3fi3 jumped at the idea, pulling a blade of her own from her skirt, she leapt over to me enthusiastically.

"NO!" Jack cried, launching himself to get between me and the alien, only to begin convulsing in agony, his body falling to the floor dropping like a fly.

"Electro's in the collar. Now Jackie boy, you can make Fi3fi3 stop, and have Ianto come out of this with the ability to speak… all you have to do is a pretty pattern on his face for me. The pain will stop eventually and it won't be too long and he will actually be able to speak. A right Fi3fi3 is taking away from him, because of you"

Jacks eyes met mine, only for a moment before dropping to floor, he couldn't look at me… but why? He wasn't going to, was he? He couldn't! Not if he loved me! I felt a lone tear slide through the scabs on my face just at the thought of something so barbaric.

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Amy

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