The Brecon Beacons had been a terrible experience for Ianto. He felt secluded from the rest of the team. Yes sure Gwen had hugged him and told him everything was ok. That he would be fine. But would he though? He flinched at the memory of what had happened to him. He saw the butcher's knife in his head again. It was so close to his neck. He jumped out of his skin and gasped when he felt the warm skin of someone's hand on the back of his neck. He looked up and saw Jacks piercing eyes staring back at him. Jack opened his mouth to speak, but Ianto beat him to it. He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on and began to babble, "I have filed the report on the weevil sighting and retconed the people who saw them." Ianto began to walk away from Jack but Jack called after him. "Ianto." Ianto turned around and stared at him. "Thank you." Was all Jack said. Ianto gave a very small nod and walked away and went through the passage way which leads to the archives. He stayed in the archives for three hours. He cried for two and a half of them.

It had been three months since the 'incident' as Ianto referred to it as. Three months and he hadn't said anything to anyone about it. He couldn't even bring himself to talk to Tosh about it and she was the closest thing he had to a friend in this place. He defiantly did not want to talk to Jack about it. He still wasn't sure where he and Jack stood after everything that had happened over the past couple of months. He barely spoke to Owen as it was and he was certainly not going to try and have a brotherly counselling session from him. If he even tried to talk to Gwen she would adopt the position as mother which she had to do far too often and was getting to good at it. So Tosh was the only one left but even she was keeping her distance.

At 4 o'clock Ianto emerged out of the archives. He went down the kitchen area of the hub. He switched on the coffee maker and waited for the coffee to brew. While he waited he thought about Lisa. She had liked instant coffee and Ianto always told her off if she brought jars of instant coffee into the house. She would just laugh at him and kiss him and call him her fussy welsh man. He came back to reality at the sound of the coffee machine beeping. He opened the clean white cupboards and pulled out five mugs and poured in the steaming liquid. The steam of the coffee burnt his hands but he didn't even flinch, after everything he had been through and little burn didn't affect him any more. He put the mugs on a tray and began to climb the steps leading up to the main part of the hub. He missed his footing and tripped on the steps the mugs flew in the air and the steaming liquid of the coffee hit his head and back as his face smashed into the cold, hard, stone steps. He had knocked himself out.

Alerted to the sound of a crash Jack jumped up out of his office chair and ran out of his office his hand ready on his webbley. "Everyone Ok?" He yelled, his American accent thick with worry. The American called out all the members of his team. Owen called back saying it was not him. While saying this he came into the view of Jacks eyes form the medical bay. His white doctor's lab coat had spatters of a weird green coloured thing on it. His face had a few speckles of the stuff here and there as well. Gwen and Tosh looked up from their workstations and said they were ok. Tosh looked at Owen and suppressed a giggle but Gwen just grinned at him. Owen glared at them. "Well we all seem to be fine can we get back to work then." said Owen not taking his glaring eyes off Gwen. Gwen laughed her school girl laugh and tossed her black shiny hair back and said to Tosh, "Tosh love, have I got anything on my face?" Tosh caught on straight away and smiled. "No, no I don't think so."

"Hmm that's strange. I thought I did." Sighed Gwen "Never mind then."

Jack cleared his throat in a meaning full sort of way and said "Sorry to ruin your little bit of fun here but has anyone see Ianto?" His voice was ice cold and deadly. The faces of the other three changed almost immediately. All of them began calling out his name and looking around the hub. Tosh went down to the archives to look for him.

Owen pulled Gwen to the side and whispered: "You don't think another Lisa thing do you?"

"Oh for Christ's sake Owen! He wouldn't do that again and anyway we saw Lisa we shot her. There's no way she could have survived the amount of rounds we put through her."

"Yeah but that's what I'm saying though. Who knows what this guy is capable of he has already hidden that from us who knows what he could be hiding."

"Oh for fuck sake. Get a hold of yourself. Just go and look for him before I bloody well shoot you alright." With that she stormed away leaving Owen looking utterly perplexed.

Meanwhile Jack was finished looking around the medical bay area and was walking over to the stairs leading down to the kitchen unit when he saw Ianto laying there on the steps. He belted over to him at top speed and knelt down beside him. "Ianto wake up buddy." He shook him gently. Jack took in his surroundings. He saw the coffee mugs on the floor. Two of them were broken. He looked back at Ianto and stared at his head it was all red and bleeding slightly from where he had hit it on the steps. Jack touched the almost invisible earpiece and spoke to the team. A few minutes later they were all by his side Owen with his medical kit checking Ianto over. "Well he is well and truly out for the count." Said Owen.

"So what do we do?" snapped Jack. He was cradling the young Welshman's head in his hand stroking his hair softly. "We wait for him to wake up." Glared Owen.

"We have to move him to the bed." Toshiko whispered.

" Well done Quincy. Owen get his legs." Hissed Jack angrily. Toshiko shrank back in fear and hurt of Jacks tone towards her and stayed quite. Owen sighed and grabbed Iantos legs and they began to move him.

Once he was settled on the bed and Owen hooked him up to a machine which took his vitals Ianto began to stir. "Oh timing." Laughed Jack. He looked at Tosh who was standing on the gallery above them. He said he was sorry to her and she smiled back at him knowing he was. Jack was never fully angry at his team especially her. She walked back to her work station to take readings of the rift and Gwen soon followed mouthing at Owen to leave Jack and Ianto some time alone. Ianto was really beginning to wake up now and was starting to move. Owen looked at Jack and said to call him if Ianto needed him again. Jack smiled gratefully and Owen turned on his heel and walked away up to the main hub.

Ianto eventually opened his eyes and Jack smiled his winning smile at him. Ianto sighed inwardly. He sat up far to fast and got a head rush. "Whoa easy buddy. Take it easy. Don't want you leaving me again." Whispered Jack gently at he put his hand on Ianto chest and guided him back down to lie on the bed. He smiled again but Ianto looked away. Jacks smile faltered. "I have work to do" Murmured Ianto and he tried to sit back up but Jacks hand pushed him down more forcefully this time. "No!" Jack snapped. Ianto visibly flinched at his voice but recovered himself. Jack moved his hand to stroke Iantos hair and said gently: "You gave us all a fright there. I don't want you getting hurt again." Smiled Jack tentatively. He put his hand on Iantos cheek and smiled at him. "Are you ok Ianto?" he asked, his voice full of concern for the young man he felt so strongly about. "I'm fine." Said Ianto through gritted teeth. At that moment Gwen came down the stairs and said: "Rhys called. We are going down the pub, all quite here so no need for us, bye." She ran back up the stairs and the hub cog wheel door was going off as Owen and Tosh said their goodbyes. It all happened so fast Jack didn't know what to say. He looked back down at Ianto and ginned his winning "Jack" grin showing all of his pearly white teeth. Ianto glared at him. "I. Am. Fine" hissed Ianto. He pronounced every word with a hint of venom in his mouth. Now it was Jacks time to glare. "What's going on with you Ianto? Why are you being like this? I am trying to help you." Jacks voice had a hint of sadness and hurt but never lost its authority while speaking. Ianto sighed a loud exasperated sigh. "I'm tired I need rest so goodbye." With that he closed his eyes and shut Jack out. "Fine." Jack huffed he stood up his chair scraping along the floor. "I will be in my office if you need me."

"I won't." Ianto muttered. Jack was not sure whether he was supposed to hear that. He climbed the stairs with silent tears streaming out of his eyes.

Next Chapeter Up Soon. Hopefully.