AN: Happy Birthday Jess x Hope you had a brilliant day – here's a bit of Janto fluff for you.
AN2: I promise to do at least one chapter of "Lost Trust" next week (I am scared!) but I have been distracted by NaNoWriMo this week, but I can reveal that there will be a new 50,000 word Janto fic heading your way by the end of the month.
Ianto walked up out of the archives where he'd been busily working for the past few hours and stopped in his tracks. The rest of his team was stood in a semi-circle and they were each grinning at him, apart from Owen of course who had a rather put out expression on his face. Toshiko was holding a plate on which a cake was balanced with a handful of candles dotted about on it.
"Happy Birthday Ianto." They all cheered in unison.
"What's going on?" Ianto asked confused.
"It's a surprise party for your birthday!" Jack explained.
"Which was three months ago." Ianto pointed out.
"Hence the surprise." Jack returned.
"I don't understand." Ianto said still confused by the whole thing.
"We didn't celebrate your birthday on the day, so I wanted to do it now." Jack said as though it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Er Jack I vividly recall celebrating... most off the night in fact..." Ianto's voice trailed off as he smirked, remembering the night in detail.
"If you're going to start talking about you two shagging, I'm going home." Owen spat.
"I bought you a gift if it helps." Jack said, ignoring Owen.
"You didn't have to." Ianto said.
"Are you always this anti-birthdays?" Jack asked getting slightly bored with Ianto's negativity.
"Pretty much." Ianto said.
"Well if you're going to be all stubborn we can just forget about it… I don't have to propose." Jack muttered, knowing full well that it was loud enough for Ianto to hear.
"You don't have to what?" Ianto asked.
"Propose. I was going to propose… but if you're not interested…" Jack said with a smirk.
"I'm interested." Ianto replied quickly.
Jack smiled. "I love you Ianto – marry me?"
Ianto grinned. "Really?"
"Oh my god just say yes so we can all go home… why Jack needed an audience for this I do not know." Owen continued to grumble.
"Really Ianto. Please?" Jack said softly.
"Yes." Ianto breathed as his eyes filled with tears.
As Jack crossed the space between himself and Ianto and wrapped him up in his arms as he kissed him, Tosh placed the cake on the nearest desk and crept out the Hub with Gwen and Owen.
"I could grow to like birthdays." Ianto said softly as the two men parted.
Jack smiled. "Let's go celebrate." He whispered before leading Ianto off to his office.