[WARNING!] Containing spoilers of Season 2 of Torchwood and minor spoilers for Day 1 of CoE
this story is based between "Exit Wounds" and "Children of Earth – Day One"
After many sleepless nights, Jack can finally get some rest, but after just one night of sleep, everything goes wrong.


After A Good Night's Sleep

Ianto stepped into Jack's office. Jack looked up from his paperwork as Ianto placed the cop of coffee on the desk.
"Thanks Ianto" Jack said leaning back in his chair stretching. Jack had been working non-stop for the past four hours. The rift had been extremely active for the past week, and a lot of alien artifacts had fallen through it. The workload had increased so much that Jack had spent a lot of sleepless nights examining every single one of the artifacts, and even more sleepless nights filing the artifacts and sending them to storage. Ianto had been in the HUB every single night with Jack, but being human, he needed sleep, so when Ianto got to tired, he had been spending the nights on the couch.

Gwen had hardly been in at all in the past weeks. Coming in at eleven o'clock and leaving again five hours later. Jack had had enough of her Welsh attitude. Being all happy when everything was going her way, and then getting angry at the smallest mistake, or when someone denied her something. Jack had no idea how Rhys kept could stand it. If he could, Jack would have fired Gwen in an instant, if it hadn't been for the deaths of Toshiko and Owen.

Jack hated to admit it, but he missed them both. Owens sarcastic jokes that were so bad that he made everyone laugh. Tosh's expertise on alien artifacts, he missed them both.

Jack came back to the present when Ianto shook his shoulder slightly.
"Are you okay, you look totally out of here" Ianto asked, keeping his hand on Jack's shoulder, a worried look in his eyes. Jack took Ianto's hand and kissed it lightly. Ianto blushed and pulled his hand away.
"Yeah, I'm fine; I just need a bit of sleep." Jack said and continued. "Look, why don't you go and shut everything down, and I'll be out in ten minutes when I finish off this last file, okay?" Ianto smiled weakly and nodded.
"Sure, I'll go and wait in the SUV, see you there" He said, and started to walk out of Jack's office.

Ianto stopped at the door and looked back at Jack. Jack was back to doing the paperwork again. Ianto felt a ball of guilt rise in his throat Ianto had offered to help Jack with all the paperwork, but Jack had just said that Ianto was doing enough by just being there. Ianto disagreed with him, but didn't say anything. Ianto was only making coffee, and watching re-runs of the Paul O'Grady shows that he had missed whilst being on missions. He turned around and walked out of the room.

Jack woke up the next day, to the sound of his PDA beeping. He got slowly out of bed, trying not to wake Ianto. He looked at his watch, and realized that he had been asleep for ten hours. He picked up his PDA and sighed as he read what there was on the screen. He walked over to Ianto and shook him a bit.
"Get up sleepy head; We have a 'hitchhiker' to attend to"

[WARNING!] Containing spoilers of Season 2 of Torchwood and minor spoilers for Day 1 of CoE
this story is based between "Exit Wounds" and "Children of Earth – Day One"
After many sleepless nights, Jack can finally get some rest, but after just one night of sleep, everything goes wrong.