Ianto sent one last pained look at Jack, put his hand on Hakuba's shoulder and squeezed in support, and then turned away. He would owe Hakuba a great debt after this, and he only hoped that he could make it up to him somehow.

Jack, for his part, didn't care a great deal for what they did to him, just so that they stayed safe, got rid of the Vashta Nerada, and stopped this horrible, horrible torture. He tried his best to brace himself, but he was pretty sure that the flames wouldn't hurt any more than what the Vashta Nerada were doing to him now.

((It's fine. You replied now, that's the important thing. I'm sorry that it takes so long to do RL's with me, and yet I insist on doing them all the time... ._.))