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The Wrong Mr Jones
"Captain Harkness?" called a pretty nurse, any other day Jack would have taken more notice of her but not today.
Oh god, thought Jack. This is it, I have lost him.
The look on the nurse's face said it all; it also confirmed his worst fears. He felt the world slip from below his feet.
"I'm so sorry. There was nothing more we could do. Mr Jones passed away... "
None of this was registering in Jacks mind. All he could hear was "I'm so sorry…" , "nothing more we could do…" and "Mr Jones died…" circulating round in his head like a broken record .
Jack barely felt the nurse helping him onto a chair. How many more could he lose? Despite popular beliefs he did care, he did love. Especially those who could break down the barriers he put in place to stop him loving and losing.
It was all his fault. If he had seen those weevils, maybe just maybe he would have been able to save him.
Several lifetimes seemed to pass when eventually another nurse approached him and said "You can go see Mr Jones now . He's just returned from surgery."
Noticing the completely bewildered look on Jacks face the nurse put two and two together and realised what had happened and said "Oh god. I'm so sorry. Your Mr Jones is recovering and is out of surgery. The other nurse must have confused him with another Mr Jones who recently passed away." Seeing the complete relief wash over Jack she said "I'm sorry, you can go see him now .You know what its like with all these Jones's."
"Yeh I know . But there's only one Mr Jones for me. Unless he has an identical twin." said jack flashing the nurse a typical Harkness grin.
Ianto woke up , all he could feel was the excruciating pain of a weevil attack. A slight shuffling at the door of his room indicated Jack was there. Jack, thought Ianto, had a weird look upon his face. Plus there was obvious dried in tear stains running down his cheeks.
"Hey there. How are you?"
"Well I'm not going weevil hunting for a while . That includes the other kind." He paused then continued "Are you ok Jack you kinda look like shit plus your cheeks are stained with tears."
"Well nothing gets past you." he took a deep breath and continued "Well the hospital had a slight mix up. Turns out they had another Mr Jones in but he passed away and they told me that so I presumed they meant you. Wasn't till another nurse came over and told me I could go see you as you had returned from surgery. That sure confused the hell outta me. So the point was they got you mixed up but you're the only Mr Jones for me , not unless you have an identical twin brother. Now I'm thinking that could be fun."
"Bloody typical."
Jack crossed the small room and sat down on the chair beside Ianto's bed. "For a moment I thought I had lost you. I kept blaming myself. I know sooner or later it will happen . I'm kinda hoping more later than sooner but it is the unavoidable with Torchwood. If anything this whole thing has made me realise how unready I am to lose you . I guess what I'm trying to say is . . . I love you."