AN – Random little thing. This is going round my head at the mo, so I thought I'd put it in Ianto's for a while.
Usual I don't own it stuff.
It was the waiting that got to him.
Jack had been gone for two days now and Ianto was waiting.
Oh, he wasn't waiting for Jack to return. In his heart of hearts he knew that was going to happen any time soon, if at all.
He was waiting for the pain.
His mind and heart had gone into shut down when Jack had gone, leaving Ianto suspended in a fog of numbness. He could cope with the numbness.
But the numbness would wear off. Sooner or later it would wear off and be replaced by the hurt of loss, abandonment, unrequited love.
And Ianto just had to wait for that to happen.