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Ianto was scowling at Gwen as she berated Toshiko for forgetting to get sugar in her Starbucks. They clearly hadn't noticed his approach and he currently stood with the bin bag tucked into the belt of his trousers, the waistcoat tucked perfectly above that ample arse Jack was leering at and his free hand not splinted was tapping the stun gun strapped to the opposite hip as he finally spoke, "Did someone say Starbucks?"
Silence.
Ahhhhhh.
Jack was surprised to find he was weighing up whether to save her or see if he was actually gonna taser her this time as Owen yelled from his workstation, "I got flares!"
"Fuck" Gwen shoved Tosh aside and stormed over to lean in, her tits almost suffocating the startled man, "Where!"
Ianto turned to Jack and said softly, "She needs some form of sedation. Or maybe a while in the cells with Janet."
"Gwen?" Jack called softly "my office please?"
She swung and Owen ducked with a squeak then watched her storm upstairs.
"Fuck she is getting on my nuts, not in a good way" Owen muttered as he looked at the screen again.
"She does seem to have that Hitler Mode engaged today" Ianto agreed as he picked up an empty cup and looked at Owen, "coffee little one?"
"Yes pwease Unka Yano" Owen said in a silly voice as he tapped the screen to enlarge an area, "Ah. Just fishing flares. Looks like some sort of music festival or something. Fucking hippies."
"Careful, Jack was one for a while. Found his bellbottoms in the closet" Ianto said as he moved away and Owen called after him.
"Only thing of his still in there mate!"
He sniggered at his own joke for a while as little ones do.
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Gwen, please take a seat" Jack motioned as he sat in his usual swivel chair and she sat primly, her eyes wide and on alert. "Bored much?"
"Huh"
"I heard Owen say something about a flare or two going up inland. Might be a vessel in distress. Wanna go take a sneaky look? Rhys said he wanted more responsibility since we let him do the front desk up there, the two of you might be a good team" Jack pointed up at the ceiling and her eyes widened.
"Really? As a team? He would love that" she gushed happily.
"Right, go on. Be on coms at all times with Toshiko" Jack waved a hand and she brushed past Ianto then grabbed him to steady him as she slammed him back.
"Sorry pet" she said softly, "How's that poor wrist? You need anything?"
"I'm fine thanks Gwen" Ianto smiled, the tray of drinks not spilt as he was still excellent at that, even with one hand as he had perfected the Gwen Dance of Doom.
She smiled at him and took off, yelling that she needed her gun.
"Where are you sending her?"
"The flares" Jack said as he swung in the chair and hummed for his coffee.
"A music festival, made Owen do the hippie growl thing" Ianto frowned.
"I know. They will all be off their faces and tripping mad balls, the Torchwood SUV careening in with her nibs waving a gun will really stir them up" Jack nodded, "Not a bad rave actually. I might get Tosh to record this for my viewing pleasure… hey she might fall in the mud too."
"Naughty man" Ianto scolded without malice, his hand stroking Jack's hair back as he leant in to kiss him, "So bad."
"Awful" Jack agreed happily as he watched Ianto walk off with a soft smile.
Then he picked up the phone as an idea formed.
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Rhonda was carrying her 'baby' as she did the rounds of the Hub, the teddy bear worse for wear with an arm missing that she had left for Uncle Yano to fix later on his desk. Magic that man ya know, tomorrow Teddy would have it reattached without any hassle. Super cool how he did that.
"Hey baby" Owen said distractedly as he reached out to bop her head and watch Gwen racing about the Tourist Office as Rhys punched the air and did a Homer Simpson impression of dancing.
"Huh, off on an adventure are we?" he said in an evil voice as he changed screen to the vehicle pool and tapped to bring up the SUV's interior CCTV now watching as they entered the vehicle and she gave Rhys instructions on engaging the enemy.
He sniggered with glee as he hit record hoping to catch some good shit to treat himself with later as Rhonda wandered up to see Uncle Cappy. Jack also doing the head bop, but then a kiss as he leaned forward holding the phone away before resuming the call so she settled at his feet to play with Baby Ted.
What?
A trip?
She watched Jack check the calendar and then call down to Tosh that he wanted the weekend off with Ianto if she didn't mind looking after the place with Owen and the beast considered her options then went down to chew on Teddy's leg and consider some more.
I wonder where to.
Would he remember Ted's leg?