Your Life And Mine
This is a Jack / Ianto pairing (obviously) but other then fluff and all the stuff we love to read about there will be an actual plot that I have thought through for once.
I'm not too sure when this is set in the series, probably middle of series 2
Chapter 1
Ianto sighed as he finished putting all the important files away in the correct folder, a flash of annoyance filled his mind as he remembered looking through the files to see them in the wrong cases, wondering for a brief moment who had let Owen loose in the archives, but all thoughts of a nasty punishment for Owen and the person who had let him of his lead left his mind as he felt a pair of strong arms wrap around his waist.
"Are you nearly finished?" Jack's American accent filled his senses, and Ianto felt his lips move into a smile with no control, he turned around was surprised at how close they actually were, Jack lowered his head and pressed his lips against Ianto's in a soft delicate kiss, making Ianto shiver and want more.
"Would have been finished quicker if you hadn't come down here half an hour ago complaining you were bored.." Ianto pointed out his hands absent mindedly played with the ends of Jack's hair. Jack couldn't help but smile, he remembered the look of pure determination as Ianto tried to move the files before something extremely tasty to Jack, spilt over them, he also grinned when he remembered the lines of swearing in both Welsh and English poured from Ianto's mouth as he failed to keep the files clean.
"Would have saved some cleaning too." Jack winked making Ianto blush what could only be described as a beautiful shade of pink, though Jack would never admit to thinking that Ianto was beautiful – it just wasn't manly enough – he couldn't help but admire the younger man silently.
"Do you want company tonight because you're going the right way about making it your hand and not mine." Ianto said forcefully, as he pulled away from Jack who couldn't help but laugh. Though if any of the team were to ask what he was laughing at, none of them would believe they were laughing at Ianto mainly because he kept his personality hidden from every one else, something that Jack didn't understand why but knew that one day he would find out.
"Nope, your hand is definitely more enjoyable." Jack grinned, "And so are your lips, and your..." Jack was cut off when he heard the door open.
"Ianto, phone call." Owen smirked, knowing what he was interrupting.
"Who is it?" Ianto asked, a confused expression written on his face as he moved away from Jack and headed to the door.
"I don't know, I didn't ask." Owen shrugged and followed Ianto, curiosity getting the better of both Jack and Owen as they followed Ianto up to the main area of the hub, no one ever phoned Ianto.
"Hello?" Ianto picked up the phone, "What, I'm at work!" Ianto said in a sharp voice which meant the issue was clearly personal, which struck every one as odd, Ianto didn't have a personal life outside of Torchwood, well that's what they thought until Lisa happened. "I can't just drop everything because..." Ianto turned around and stared at Jack. "I'll be home tonight, then we can talk.." Ianto rolled his eyes and bit at his lips, and Jack knew from personal experience that he was trying to stop himself from swearing, "Where are you?" Ianto sat down at this moment, still aware that every one was watching, this was something that didn't happen every day. "Hold on." Ianto covered the phone with one hand and looked up at Jack.
"Take the day off, something is clearly going on that's more important then what ever is happening down in the archives." Jack smiled, and could have swore he saw a look of disappointment on Ianto's face.
"Thanks." Ianto mumbled and uncovered the phone. "I'll pick you up, just stay where you are okay.. no you're not coming to meet me, I'll pick you up and drop you off at the flat and then we'll talk..." Who ever was on the phone clearly hung up because Ianto put the phone down and sighed.
"Who was it?" Owen grinned.
"My little sister." Ianto snapped.
"You don't have a sister." Jack said matching the odd looks of Gwen, Toshiko and Owen.
"I like to think so." Ianto smirked.
"You never mention her." Jack said, wondering if maybe Ianto didn't mention her because he didn't ask.
"Not a lot to mention." Ianto shrugged. "You sure I can take the rest of the day off?"
"Go, take your sister out for ice cream." Jack laughed.
"She's sixteen, I doubt she'd want ice cream." Ianto smiled.
"If you need a place to hide, my bunker is big enough for two." Jack winked.
"Trust me, I'll need a place to hide once I've picked her up." Ianto grinned as he walked out of the hub.
"He's never mentioned a sister." Gwen said as she walked over to Jack.
"That's because he doesn't have one." Owen said as he pulled up Ianto's personal profile, "Both parents died when he was nine, car crash he was brought up in care, no other blood relatives." Owen read. Jack felt his heart ache, he didn't even know Ianto was an orphan, he never asked about his personal life.
"Well who was he on the phone too?" Toshiko asked, it was clear from the looks of everyone in the room that no one had known about Ianto's family, as they all reflected the same thing; sympathy.
"Pull up the CTV." Owen suggested, Toshiko looked hesitantly at Jack who nodded, even though he knew this was breaking some rule in their relationship, something weird was going on here, and he needed to know what.
-x-
Ianto pulled up out side the train station, he saw the familiar figure of his younger sister, she looked completely different from the last time he had seen her, her once brown hair was now short bright red and was in untidy plaits, but suited her none the less. She was sat on a small bag which looked as though it was full of clothes which only meant one thing – she was planning on staying.
Taking a deep breath, Ianto got out of his car and walked over to her, "Nice hair." He said trying to break the ice that had formed from the phone call.
"I didn't think you were going to come." The girl sighed, her welsh accent clear in her voice.
"You're my kid sister, I wasn't planning on leaving you here." Ianto smirked, "Though if you're not even going to say hey I might re consider letting you in my car."
"Hey Ianto." She smiled hugging him tightly.
"Kerry, you going to tell me what's going on now?" Ianto asked as he grabbed her bag, which was heavier then it looked, and they headed to his car.
"I ran away." She said simply, "You didn't even send me a card Ianto!"
"I'm sorry." Ianto sighed, knowing his sister was talking about a birthday card, "I was going to come and visit.."
"But you forget, god Yan you always forget!" She was shouting now, and a few people had turned to look at what was going on.
"I'm sorry, come on calm down we'll go home and you can tell me everything and it will be okay." Ianto sighed.
-x-
"Too young to be a girlfriend." Owen pointed out.
"Not to mention he's seeing some one." Jack said sharply causing Owen to shrug.
"Everyone has secrets," Gwen sighed, "Even you Jack. So Ianto's never mentioned he had a sister, what's so wrong with that?"
"Its not that he didn't mention it, but she's not in the records, why hide it?" Jack asked curiously.
"Well there's one comforting thing about this." Owen smirked.
"What's that?" Toshiko asked.
"She's not half metal."
-x-
"So, you ran away." Ianto said as they sat in the living room in Ianto's flat.
"I couldn't take it there, every one else was leaving to go start a family, but no one wanted me, so I just went, I'm old enough to be on my own."
"But if you wanted to be on your own, why come to me?" Ianto asked.
"Because I don't want to be on my own." She said simply, "But if you don't want me here..."
"I do." Ianto smiled. "You're my little sister, of course I want you to stay, you're just lucky I have a spare room."
-x-
"So, what do we do?" Gwen asked, she was still a little startled that the Torchwood files were so detailed that they knew about her old aunt Bessie who had died before she was born, which only made every one more worried that they hadn't picked up a sixteen year old girl.
"We ask him about it." Jack said simply.
"That simple?" Owen asked, raising an eyebrow, he had yet to see any sort of threat and wasn't taking it as seriously as Toshiko, Gwen and Jack who were all frowning as they stared at the CTV footage of Ianto and his sister back at the train station.
"If there's nothing to hide then he'll tell us." Jack sighed.
"Us, no way Jack, you're doing the asking." Owen laughed.
"He's right, he's closer to you, he wont talk to us.."
"Okay, I'll talk to him tomorrow." Jack sighed and walked to his office.
-x-
"If you're going to stay here, we're going to have to make some rules." Ianto said as he watched his little sister unpack her clothes, and fold them neatly into the cupboard. Watching her now, Ianto realised how much he missed her, he hadn't seen in her in five years only spoke to her once every couple of weeks, enough to remind each other they existed.
"What rules?" She asked as she sat on the bed, Ianto continued to stand in the door way.
"Like school, college, you're not going to waste your life sitting in my spare room." Ianto grinned.
"School sounds good." Kerry grinned. "Thanks for letting me stay."
"Don't worry about it, I'll talk to a girl at work, she'll know what good schools are around here, then maybe go shopping get you some new clothes as you can't live out of what two pairs of jeans and three hooded jumpers."
"I pack light." Kerry smiled. "So, what's knew with you Ianto?"
"Everything." Ianto laughed. "Come on, I'll make us some dinner and we can I don't know catch up."
-x-
The following morning Ianto was woken up by loud music, he was almost about to grab his gun from his bedside table when he remembered he wasn't living alone any more, groaning slightly he looked at the clock, seven in the morning, what the hell was she doing up. He got out of bed as he pulled on a tee shirt.
"I made you some breakfast." Kerry grinned as she started to sing along to the heavy metal song. "Do you like it?" She asked still smiling as she gestured to the music, "They're my favourite band."
"Who are they?" Ianto asked noting that the music didn't sound too bad, and if it wasn't seven in the morning, he was sure he would appreciate it more.
"The Blackout, they live where we used to live." She smiled, Ianto nodded, South Wales, what a place.
"Thanks for the breakfast." Ianto smiled as he started to tuck into the full English that was on the table.
"Least I can do." Kerry smiled, Ianto just smiled in return, the food was pretty good.
"So I got to go and get ready for work, and I'm not too sure what time I'll finish, you'll be okay on your own?"
"I'm not a baby." Kerry laughed. "But I'll be fine, can I go sight see?"
"Don't get lost." Ianto laughed as he finished his breakfast.
-x-
After getting dressed, Ianto dropped Kerry of at the shopping centre giving her some money so she could buy stuff to help her settle in, he only realised what the time was when he walked into the hub to see every one staring.
"Where's the coffee?" Owen grumbled.
"Good morning Ianto, nice to see you, how are you? I'm fine thanks Owen how are you?" Ianto said sarcastically as he made his way to the coffee machine.
"Just give us the coffee.." Owen moaned, and then smiled in thanks once Ianto had made the coffee for everyone, he was just about to walk up to Jack's office as Jack walked down the stairs and into the main section.
"Is that coffee I can smell?" Jack grinned, Ianto smiled and handed his boss his coffee.
"Sorry I'm late sir." Ianto said when he realised Jack was looking at him strangely.
"Don't worry about it, everything sorted out at home?" Jack asked, aware that Owen, Toshiko and Gwen where now listening in.
"Yeah," Ianto smiled. "Sorry about yesterday, I'll make up the lost time tonight." Jack was stunned, he was pretty sure that was a come on, Owen had actually spat out his coffee as he heard Ianto say it. "Serves you right for listening in." Ianto smirked and headed down stairs to the archives.
-x-
After an hour thinking of what to say to Ianto, Jack picked himself up from his chair in his office and headed down to the archives. He smiled when he saw Ianto sat cross legged on the floor a folder in his hands.
"So, how's your sister?" Jack asked and sat opposite him.
"She's moving in with me." Ianto replied, not looking up from the file.
"Good thing or bad thing?" Jack asked.
"Good thing." Ianto laughed. "Its weird, it was like I had almost forgot she existed we drifted apart that much, but now she's back in my life its as though she's always been there."
"You know you've never actually mentioned you had a sister." Jack pressed.
"You didn't ask." Ianto said a little too quickly.
"I'm sorry," Jack sighed. "So, tell me about her."
"She's just Kerry." Ianto said after a few moments thinking, "There's not much to say."
"Not much to say because you don't know?" Jack said trying his best not to sound as though he was accusing Ianto of anything.
"I've not seen her in five years." Ianto said. "So excuse me for not knowing what to say." Jack could tell Ianto was getting annoyed, angry and didn't understand why, something just wasn't right.
"She's not in any of the records." Jack said instantly knowing it was the wrong thing to have said.
"What the hell Jack you checked up on my fucking sister!" Ianto yelled. "What gives you the right?" Jack knew Ianto had a point, but before he could think of anything to say or mutter an apology Ianto continued to shout at him, "You're just upset because you'd like to think you're the only one whose important to me Jack, well you're not! What gives you the right to check up on me and my family when you don't tell me anything about you! I don't even know your real name Jack!" Ianto stopped shouting now, his angry expression was replaced with a look that reflected just how hurt he was, he didn't say anything else, he just went back to what he was doing before Jack had came, giving Jack the impression Ianto didn't want him there.
Jack walked away, determined to know exactly what was going on with Ianto, knowing that something was definitely wrong.