CHAPTER 1: IANTO

"Dave, Grab those handcuffs and secure these two, yeah?" The boss, Dale, yelled out. Ianto sighed inwardly with frustration. He couldn't get his way out of those. Couldn't they be normal villains, and use something more sensible, like rope?

He watched as Rhys was secured and then one of the men, who he recognized as Dave, approached him. Ianto glared at him as he roughly grabbed his arms, and pulled them behind his back, tightening the cuffs so that they dug into Ianto's skin. He tried not to wince, but it came out anyways.

"Sorry, does that hurt?" The man sneered, his voice dripping in sarcasm. "Well, maybe I should take the focus off of that, huh?" With that, the man punched him square in the jaw. Ianto stumbled backwards, not completely falling over, but still kneeling over with pain. He was pulled up almost right away by Dave, and Dale grabbed Rhys, and they were led away.

When they entered the large storage room, Ianto took one look at the creature, the living creature they were slaughtering, and tears came to his eyes. "What is it?"

Dale answered him. "The lads call it the cash cow." Before he could say anymore, the nurse for the creature ran out.

"Dale, what are you doing?"

"They couldn't bear to see us making money, Vic." He turned to Rhys. "Fancied some for yourselves, eh? Thought we'd be a pushover?" Ianto could see Rhys trying to muster up some strength to talk.

"Man, you're so out of your depth."

"It's funny, I was just thinking the same about you." He pushed Rhys out a little and leveled the gun with Rhys's head. "Show yourselves or I shoot the delivery boy!"

Ianto watched as Gwen came out almost immediately after Dale yelled out. He inwardly moaned. "Okay! There's no need to make any threats." Dale looked back over at Ianto.

"Just the two of you, is it?" Ianto looked at him, then back at Gwen, remaining silent. "Gun down, kick it over here."

"I don't have a gun." Gwen said, moving forward a little. 'Don't lie to them Gwen!' Ianto thought desperately.

"He had one, so you must have!" Dale yelled, nodding towards Ianto.

"Okay." Gwen reached behind her, grabbing out her gun and holding it up, then slowly placing it down on the floor "Okay."

"Any more of you? And before you awnser, have a proper think. Cause if you lie…" Dale moved his gun so it was pointing at Gwen. "I will shoot you." Ianto looked around, hoping Gwen would carefully consider her next words.

"There's just me." Dale seemed to contemplate her awnser, then finally accept it.

"Get against the drum!"

"We can help you out, Dale." Gwen said, still moving closer.

"Yeah, help yourselves more like." He gestured to Rhys. "Come on, stand next to her." He glanced back at Ianto. "You, too." He threw Rhys over to Gwen and Ianto started to move towards Gwen, but he didn't get very far before…

"Dale! Two more. Far corner. They can't get out, it's locked." A voice shouted from somewhere above and behind Ianto. Dale grabbed Ianto before he could get any further away, pointing the gun at his head.

"Take out your weapons, stand where I can see you!" Dale yelled out to the others, who Ianto assumed were Jack and Tosh. Dale pressed the gun more forcefully to Ianto's head, as the others started to appear. Jack immediately started to talk. 'Typical Jack.'

"You know what you've got here, Dale?"

"Shut up now." He now had the gun pointed almost directly at Ianto's heart.

"It's an alien. A creature from another galaxy. It came through a rift in time and space, and it was unlucky enough to find you." Ianto was silently struggling against the handcuffs, but nothing was working…He just hoped he didn't die. He couldn't die, not without Jack knowing how he felt.

"Did you really think it originated on this planet?" Tosh added. "Have you ever seen anything like it before?"

"It can't be." Vic piped up. "Can it?"

"Look at it." Jack ordered. "Look at it." The creature breathed in deeply, and started to expand. Dale, still with Ianto, Vic, and Dave all backed away from it, although Ianto didn't want to exactly. It was a lost creature, far from home and family, and it needed to be shown compassion.

Dale tried to deny it. "It's just meat, that's all." But Ianto could tell he was scared…he was tightening his grip on Ianto's shoulder.

"You're carving up a sentient creature, and you've got to stop." Jack was really getting mad now, Ianto could tell…and that's when he noticed it. They were slowly backing towards a door. What was Dale's plan? Just to shoot him?

"And then what've I got? I'm making money here! This is my business! For the first time in my life, I've actually got something for myself!" Dale shouted.

"Dale, stop, you can still walk away from this." Gwen told him.

"No." He moved his gun from Ianto's head, and pointed it at Gwen. "You lied to me." Rhys jumped in front of Gwen, taking the bullet as a shoot rang out. He was suddenly being pulled through a door, and it was locked behind them.

"Jack!" Ianto yelled out behind him, as if he were completely oblivious to the gun now pointed once again at his head. He thought he heard Jack yell his name back, but he couldn't be to certain with Dale barking out orders.

"Dave, take some men and grab everything out of the safe. If someone tries to stop you, radio me in and be sure remind them that we still have a hostage here." He nodded towards Ianto. "Scott, meet me at the truck, but first go grab me a chair and some duck tape. And you, pretty boy..." Dale said, talking to Ianto now, "…you're coming with me. Wherever you people are from, I'm sure the others don't want to lose you. You'll make an excellent hostage." He pushed Ianto out a door, where a large truck was waiting. Dale yelled out for someone to start the truck and prepare to leave. Scott walked up to them carrying a wooden chair and a roll of duck-tape.

"What do you want me to do with this stuff boss?" Scott asked.

"Put the chair in the very back of the truck, and hold the Duck-tape. I'll be right there." Dale told him, all while looking for his other men.

"You know. I'm sure what Gwen said was right. We can help you." Ianto said calmly as Scott carried the chair onto the truck. Before Dale had time to respond, Dave and two other men ran up, carrying bags of cash. Ianto smirked. They even had the cliché money symbol on the side.

"What took you so long?" Dale asked.

"They caught up with us. We tried to radio you, but the Japanese one blocked the signal with some sort-of device. We told them, about the hostage. The one in the long coat got mad, kept saying that if we so much as lay a finger on his precious Ianto, he would hunt us all down and kill us very, very slowly." Dave said. Ianto smirked at him.

"What did you do about it?" Dale asked them, his grip on Ianto getting tighter and tighter.

"We killed him, sir. Left his friends to deal with it while we grabbed the cash and ran." Ianto knew Jack wouldn't stay dead, but these guys didn't know that. He had to act like Jack really was gone.

"J-jack is d-dead? B-but, he-he can't be." Ianto started to cry and tried to sink down to the ground, but Dale stopped him.

"Shut up! You've got bigger problems to deal with than just your friend being dead." He pushed Ianto into the truck, and pushed him to the very back, or front, depending on which way you look at it. He forced him to sit in the chair, and took the silver duck-tape from Scott. He wrapped it around Ianto four times, tightly then ordered the driver to leave.

Ianto started to talk to him. "You monsters. You killed Jack. And actually, that was a stupid mistake. The rest of my team won't stop until you are all dead. Then what are you gonna do, huh? What will you do?" Ianto screamed the rest at him, hoping that if he didn't know Jack couldn't die, that is what he would say. Before he could say anymore though, a piece of duck-tape was placed over his mouth, preventing him from talking anymore. So he just let the tears silently stream down on his face, and hoped to god for the best.

A/N: I really appreciate reviews and I would love to know what you think of my story! I'll probably update it either tomorrow, or in a few days. Thanks a bunch!

-Harmony