Chapter 1
The sun had just begun to set over the bay as the team walked toward the hub after another job well done. As they stepped into the fake tourist help room there was an eerie silence.
"Ianto" Gwen called waiting for that little perky head to pop out from the back room.
"Where is that Welshmen?" Jack responded to the quietness that followed Gwen's call.
"Out for an afternoon stroll" Owen joked, Ianto has rarely left the hub the past few days. The door to the hub opened behind Owen as he joked about his usual way.
"Well? Lets not waist time waiting for him to appear." Jack remarks to the others as he begins the walk down the damp hall.
The cog door rolled away and the tired crew stepped into the hub. Laughter echoed around.
"What was that?" Gwen asks.
The laughter comes again, but louder this time.
"Uh, Ianto?" Tosh began.
"Maybe he's been in the liquor cabinet" Owen whispers to Gwen.
They both start to giggle but stop abruptly when Ianto jumps down from above them.
"Yes?" Ianto boomed with a devilish smile on his face.
"Are you OK, mate?" Owen questions.
"Why wouldn't I be?" he laughed.
"Well, first off, your tie is around your head like a…what's the word?" Jack responds before Owen can.
"Hippie" Owen remarks.
"yes, and?" Ianto jeers, "guess what! Pizza, we got it, want some? Nooo, you probably don't. How 'bout some ice cream, oh yes, that would be wonderful. Or we could get some Chinese, chicken balls? HAH! Wow, that's…that's, BRILLIANT!"
"Jack, what's he doing?" Gwen asks with a little quiver of fear in her voice.
"Nothing, Owen's probably right."
"Oh, but isn't that the big question. What am I doing? More like what am I not doing? Are you scared Gwen? Little Gwen with her petty boyfriend and her shag partner Owen." Ianto teased.
"OI" Owen yells.
"Don't be like that, you're the most ignorant. Sex, is what you want, isn't it. SEX SEX SEX! But you're so blinded you can't see the one that has been chasing you, hoping you'd realise her. Ain't that right Tosh. He hasn't realised you has he?"
"Ianto, stop." Jack threatens when Tosh begins to tear up.
"Or what Jack. What will the handsome Captain Jack Harkness do? Who is it that you truly love? Ahh, I know. The Doctor isn't it? You wait here with us hoping he'd come for you one day, but guess what? News flash! He hasn't!"
"It's not like that" Jack mutters.
"Oh but it is. He is AMAZING. Cybermen, Daleks, saving the world countless time's. And you adore him, possibly even envy him. Oh this is his, isn't it? The hand of the Doctor." Ianto teases as he dances around the hand.
"How do you know about that?" Jack asks startled by how much Ianto knows.
"You talk in your sleep" Ianto replied back sounding quite pleased with himself.
"Jack, what is he doing?" Gwen asks more courageous this time.
"I don't know, is he, drunk?" Jack asks no one in particular.
"HAH!" Ianto sang. It goes quiet for a second then he sits on the ground and begins to sing to himself. The team stand there for a bit waiting for Ianto to do something other than sing, but when he doesn't they manoeuvre their way past him.
The hissing of the door and the short siren sound awake Jack. He finds himself in the hub on the small couch, with a sleeping Ianto in his lap.
"Aren't you two cozy" Owen remarks when he and Gwen step into the almost empty hub.
"mhm" Jack groans as he tries to gently shake Ianto off without waking him.
"What happened last night Jack?" Gwen asks a little sceptically.
"I'm not too sure myself." Jack mumbles.
"At least he fell asleep." Owen points out.
"My god, it took him long, he kept talking about things that didn't make sense, then he suddenly fell asleep."
