Disclaimer: I do not own TORCHWOOD, quite obvious really but then it needs to be said.

Spoilers: Set between Greeks Baring Gifts and They Keep Killing Suzie. Not that it really matters all that matters is after Cyberwoman.

Dedication: Hobbit985 who BETAed this and had in-depth discussions via e-mail about

TORCHWOOD, Doctor Who and other vitally important subjects with me. Thank you.

Give or Take

Ianto Jones sat at the desk at the reception of Torchwood three, thinking. How had he got himself into this mess? It had been so simple before the war, before the Cybermen and the Daleks. He had worked there, he had Lisa and then wham, everything happened at once. His girlfriend had been turned into a robot and he had no job.

So he had moved back to Wales with Lisa and had looked after her as well as he could and then well… At least it seemed the team had forgiven him. Mostly. Gwen and Tosh were saying silent, thankfully, he hadn't wanted to talk about it, not to them, they had shot her but never known her. Owen, he had expected nothing less than sneers, scowls and scorn from him and he hadn't be wrong but luckily the other's told him to pack it in. And Jack... Ianto shook his head. How had his life got into this mess?

His team mates had killed his girlfriend. He had no one to talk about it. And he fancied his boss. It couldn't get much worse.

He was pulled from his thoughts by a knock on the door.

"Torchwood?" The young boy said as he opened the door. It was the pizza boy.

"Yes" Ianto answered. He still didn't know why they ordered pizza to Torchwood.

The boy walked forward and put the pizzas on the desk.

"Pizza sir"

Ianto nodded and smiled. He wasn't often called Sir and he liked it. He reached into the drawer that contained the money and handed over the correct amount before the boy even asked. He didn't need to, Ianto knew it automatically, they had been ordering the same types and amounts of pizzas at least once a week for so long that the only thing that changed was the person who delivered it.

Ianto nodded at the boy to go and as the pizza boy closed the door Ianto pressed one of the under-desk buttons and the door automatically locked. Ianto pressed the button next to the one he had just pushed and the door next to him opened. He picked up the five pizzas in and walked though.

Soon enough he was in the hub, looking around. Tosh was working on the alien hologram projector. Owen was searching on the internet for something. Gwen was typing something into her computer and Jack was examining his 'alien hand' wearing his 3-D glasses.

"Anyone want this pizza?" Ianto asked. It was amazing the reaction he got. Almost everyone dropped what they were doing and came over to him. The one person who didn't was Jack who was still looking at the hand.

"Sir?" Ianto asked nervously, he couldn't really look Jack in the eye, because…

"Oh, coming Ianto" With that Jack slipped the glasses off and tossed them lazily at the closest table to him. They missed. Jack shrugged and walked over to them.

Ianto put the pizzas down on the table he was standing next to. Everyone except Ianto dived into the pizza. Ianto carefully walked around the talking and eating team to where Jack had thrown the glasses, he picked them up and put them on the table. If he didn't do it now no one else would do it and there was no putting it off until later. And he couldn't spend that long in the company of the team anyway and especially he couldn't spend that long with Jack.

"Not joining us Ianto?" Jack asked, concerned about his friend. He seemed to be spending less time around the team again. After the Lisa episode that was expected but by now the team had forgiven him so Jack was wondering what was keeping the young Welshman away from the team.

"No Sir" Ianto said as he stood up, "Would anyone one like coffee first?"

There was a collective yes from everyone including Jack and as soon as the word was out of Jack's mouth Ianto had turned and left. Jack shook his head. He was going to have to have a word with the Welshman. He turned to the pizza and tucked in.

"Jack?" Gwen asked her mouth full of pizza, "At the Brecon Beacons you never did tell us who your last kiss was"

Tosh shuddered at the mention of the place but looked on eagerly.

"So?" Jack asked, but the rest of the team wouldn't let it go.

"Does it have to have been with a human?" Jack asked.

"Yes" Tosh replied.

"And a kiss as in I kissed them?"

"Yes Jack" Gwen happily bantered back at him.

"Well then" Jack smiled, "The last person that I kissed was…"

"If you're going to tell us then just do" Owen butted in.

"I'm getting to it; the last person I kissed was … Ianto"

At that moment a head stuck itself around the door and everyone excluding Jack stared at Ianto.

"Sorry coffee coming up" Ianto said, seemingly oblivious to the whole team's stares at him.

"But some people", he glared at Owen at this point, "never put their coffee mugs in the kitchen".

With that he walked across the hub to Owens desk and picked up his mug, walked back to the kitchen door. He walked in put the mug down in the sink and stuck his head out the side of the door again.

"Coffee won't be long". And then he closed the door.

He hadn't seen that Owen's, Gwen's and Toshiko's eyes had never left him since he walked in.

Together they turned from the kitchen door to Jack.

"What?" They all said in perfect unison.

"Ianto?"

"Tell me you are joking!"

"You…you…you…didn't, you didn't, you just didn't"

Jack listened to the onslaught of questions and statements.

"Yes Ianto, no I'm not joking, I did"

"But…why?"

"Kiss of life"

"Oh" said Gwen.

"When?" Asked Tosh clearly confused.

"When…the Hub powered down and he was knocked out"

The others looked at each other. Well that was when the Cyberwoman ran rampant on them and when discussing Ianto it was a touchy subject so no one mentioned it. Owen opened his mouth to say something but Gwen elbowed him so he closed his mouth again.

"So" Tosh started, "It was just a kiss of life?"

"Yes, but I did enjoy it"

"Jack!!!" Gwen said and thumped him playfully and soon the four of them were involved in a play fight. Owen joining in but doing little.

Ianto walked in at this point carrying the tray with the coffee on.

"You four, that pizza is going to go cold soon"

They looked up suddenly and Owen, Gwen and Tosh looked from Ianto to Jack and back again. Jack rolled his eyes at his team and sat back in his chair. Gwen, Tosh and Owen followed his example and Ianto handed around the coffee. He took the tray back to the kitchen and then as he walked back in put his hand to his ear and listened.

Ianto was the only person that left his earpiece in all the time and left it on. Tosh often left hers out so it wouldn't irritate her while she was working because the last thing she needed was to get a call while working. Gwen preferred to use her mobile phone rather than her earpiece so she often left it out while in the hub, she always picked it up when they went out though. Owen wore his for looks but didn't have it turned on all the time and Jack normally left it in but when relaxing at the hub had it turned off and relied on the computers and Ianto to tell him what was happening.

The others stopped talking and listened to the conversation happening via the earpiece.

"Yes, alright, we'll be there…" Still talking into his headset he walked over to his computer and put in the details that he had been given.

"Thank you" With that the conversation ended and Ianto turned back to the team, who were waiting for him to tell them what, was going on.

"We've got an alien sighting off St. Ifan road, no ship just the alien, not disguised as a human, general appearance a metre high, blue turquoise, three orange eyes with green pupils, no more information that that, Sir"

Jack had already got up and turned on his ear piece, Gwen and Tosh were by now putting on their coats and Owen just stood up and brushed down the lapels of his leather jacket.

Ianto reached over to get Jacks coat and gave it to him as he passed. He then sat down by his desk as the team filed past him to the SUV. He wouldn't go with them, he only navigated and that meant he was sitting next to Jack, this was really getting silly now, he couldn't even be in the same room as him for long periods of time. He really had to get over this, but he couldn't. Ianto sighed, got up, closed the door that the others had left open, watched them leave over the CCTV and started to clean up the hub.

Scout Girl

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