A/N Set in 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' after the confrontation in the bar with Captain John Hart. One shot, might turn into more if i have ideas, prompts are always welcome aswell.
"We were partners."
"In what way?"
"In EVERY way"
"Ianto! Wait up would you?" Jack said, whilst running after Ianto, who had quietly gone off out of the bar to have a moment with his thoughts... Jack just wouldn't let him wallow in self-pity. Not if he could help it.
"Jack, just leave me alone... Please?" That did it. The pleading in his voice was too much for Jack to handle, and he just went up to hug him, explain to him. Just to be there with him.
"Ianto, please let me explain, it's just that-" Ianto interrupted Jack there with what he had wanted to say back in the bar, but he didn't want to embarrass Jack.
"No, Don't worry, I should have expected it really. You being a time agent... and you. i should have known you wouldn't have stayed single for long."
"Ianto, look. You know that I'm no good with words, so you have to let me say this, or I might never get to. You are amazing, Ianto. You're my coffee boy and well, my life. Life without you was like hell, and not because of the master... Look, what I mean is... What I'm trying to say is, that I don't want to live without you, and I don't want you to hate me just because of my past, and John is just that, and I don't want him in my life! I don't even know how he found me, I just wish he would leave me alone." By the end of his speech, Jack was crying and Ianto had crawled his way over to him, and was currently curled up to Jack, the way a Labrador would curl up to a child, as if trying to protect it from things much bigger than itself.
"Jack. Jack, look at me. Please?" Jack turned to look at him, and saw that he was smiling. He was about to get up and leave, thinking well, if he thinks my thoughts are a joke then I'll just go. when Ianto started speaking again. "Look, Jack, when you left me... Left us to fend for ourselves, we all thought that you would come back, but by the end of the first month, it was just me left. Gwen had taken over your office, and it was like they had all forgotten that you even existed. Eventually, I was about to give up hope. I'd handed my resignation into Gwen, and that was going to be my last mission, and then you turned up. Gwen said that she would destroy my letter if i wanted to stay, but i wasn't sure. Well, now i am. Jack, can I have my job back? Pleeeaase?"
Jack just sat there for a moment, flabergasted. Ianto had quit, and it was all his fault. And now he was begging for his job back, like it was unlikely that he would get it. Jack wasn't sure what to say, so he sat there for a minute, and this made Ianto think that he was seriously considering not giving him his job back, so he started to get up and leave. Jack sensed this and Held onto Ianto tighter than before.
"Yes, Ianto, of course you can... If you still want it, that is?"
Ianto looked at him and smiled, an actual smile that Jack hadn't seen since before the incident with Lisa, and it was contagious. "Yes, Jack. If you'll still let me?"
"Always."