Thanks for all the flattering comments guys it means a lot.

strgzr - don't worry you'll get to see pretty much everything that Jack and Ianto get up to on their time off! ;)

laalratty - I'm actually at Uni in Aber as well which is why I'm writing about it! ;)


"You're going on holiday?" Gwen asked again as Jack finished shuffling through the files on his desk, making sure there was nothing that couldn't wait a few days.

"Yup."

"With Ianto?" Gwen seemed to be working this one through in her head.

"Yup."

"For how long?"

"A few days." Jack replied as he piled the folders up on the corner of his desk before checking the bottom drawer was locked. He caught Gwen's sceptical look. "You'll manage fine without us I'm sure. Besides you'd have been managing without Ianto for the week anyway."

"He's not that badly injured is he?" Gwen suddenly looked extremely concerned.

"No, but he's run down and he's had a lot on his plate with his family recently." Jack stood up straight, a frown on his face. "Actually I can't remember the last time Ianto took time off work."

"Apart from his Mam dying and the whole thing with his Cyber-girlfriend." Owen spoke up from the doorway. Both Jack and Gwen turned to glare at Owen who held his hands up in defence.

"Just saying what you're all thinking." Owen shrugged, leaning off the doorframe and making to move away. "He alright this morning?" Owen inclined his head towards Jack.

"He's groggy, bit of a headache, but still as quick witted as ever." Jack gave a wry smile and Owen nodded in response, obviously satisfied that Ianto wasn't going to drop down dead anytime soon.

"So where you going on holiday then?" Tosh questioned, leaning on Jack's desk as he disappeared down his manhole.

"Somewhere in Wales. Aber something or other." Jack called back up through the hatch.

"Yeah, that narrows it down Jack." Owen scoffed.

"Abergavenny? Aberdare? Abertillery?" Gwen reeled off. She was going to run out of Aber's eventually. "Aberystwyth?"

"That's the one!" Jack yelled with triumph as a bag came soaring up the hole to land at Gwen's feet, followed closely by Jack.

"Apparently Wales' answer to Brighton." Jack smiled as he stuffed the shirt sleeves further into the bag.

"You two will fit right in then." Owen leered as Jack shot him another look.

"I think it's nice that you two are going on holiday." Tosh happily swung her legs clear of the desk as she watched Jack doing up his bag. "You can have romantic dinners', strolls on the beach and just get away from it all for a few days."

"As well as building sandcastles and playing trains and not stepping on the cracks in the pavement." Jack continued as three sets of eyes looked at him as if he had gone mad. A dazzling smile broke out on his face as he pulled his coat on before slinging his bag over his shoulder.

"We're taking Ianto's nephew, Finn, with us." Jack moved past Owen and across the hub to the door. "Have fun without us kids. And remember," Jack spun on his heel, raising a finger to point at them. "No calling us unless the worlds coming to an end."

All three of them watched as the cog door rolled back behind Jack.

"I do not envy Ianto." Owen sighed as he moved over to the autopsy bay.

"Why?" Gwen sounded thoroughly confused.

"He's not just got his nephew to contend with, he's got Jack as well." Owen replied as he disappeared out of sight. Tosh and Gwen exchanged a significant look of concern as realisation dawned.


"No." Ria shook her head slightly before turning and leaving Ianto's kitchen.

"What do you mean no?" Ianto turned, following Ria out of the kitchen.

"I mean no Ianto, how can I make myself more clear?" Ria was thundering up the stairs now, picking up the detritus of Finn as she went.

"Why not?" Ianto realised only after the words were out of his mouth how much like a whiney child he sounded. He couldn't help it though, his sister brought it out in him.

"Because I said no Ianto, now leave it." Ria moved into the spare bedroom where Finn was pulling his pyjama top over his head. He looked rather pleased with himself until Ria started digging his arms back out of the sleeves and turning the top the right way round.

"It's not as if he's going to miss nursery Ria. It's bank holiday weekend." Ianto tried to reason.

"Are we going somewhere?" Finn asked innocently as Ria pulled on his pyjama bottoms over his nappy.

"No, we're staying at Uncle Ianto's while he goes away on holiday with Jack." Ria said as she patted him on the backside. "Go do your teeth."

"Can we go on holiday with Jack and Uncle Ianto too?" Finn blinked up at his mother with wide eyes. Ianto knew that look; he'd used that look on his own mother when he was a kid.

"No." Rhiannon sighed, exasperated. "Now go do your teeth."

Finn frowned before disappearing out the bedroom and clomping down the hall; all but slamming the bathroom door open.

"Ria you need to sort things out with Chris and you can't really have adult," Ianto had to stop himself from using sarcastic quote marks, "conversations with Finn about can you?"

Ria sighed again, picking up Finlay's clothes and bundling them up in one hand as she pulled back the bedcovers ready for him.

"I don't want you taking him with you Ianto."

"I don't understand why not, it's not as if me and Jack aren't responsible. We can take care of a four year old for a few days." Ianto argued.

"I know you can." Ria turned to Ianto and he could see the tears in her eyes. "But he's my little boy and I've just lost my husband and I don't want – I can't –"

Ianto reached out and pulled his sister into his arms again, crushing her hands and Finn's dirty clothes between them.

"You need to sort this out Ria and if Finn's here you'll just be worrying about him all the time. Chris will just want to put it off to another time if Finn's there and he'll use Finn as leverage to get what he wants out of this and he definitely doesn't deserve anything." Ianto whispered into Ria's hair. "Do you really want Finn to hear all the arguing? Do you want him to have the lasting memory of his parents together at each other's throats?"

Ianto felt Ria shaking her head into his shoulder as she pulled back slightly.

"We'll call you every day and we'll take care of him." Ianto kissed Ria on the forehead as she pulled back. "Might even send you a postcard."

Ria laughed as she wiped at her eyes, brushing the tears from her cheeks with Finn's dirty clothes. Galumphing footsteps were coming back down the corridor and entering the bedroom again before jumping on the bed. Finn had toothpaste all over his face which made Ianto laugh and Ria roll her eyes.

"Come on you," Ria held out a hand to Finn, "Face wash."

"Also I might have a surprise for you." Ianto teased, but he missed Ria's warning look. "How would you like to come on holiday with me and Jack?"

"Really?" Finn bounced off the bed, jumping up and down in front of Ianto. Ianto nodded, a smile of his face.

"Yup. Also, if you're good me and Jack might take you on the train."

Finn squealed in delight, jumping up and down again before grabbing hold of his mother's outstretched hand and trying to make her jump as well.

"Mam! Thomas! Uncy Yan is gonna took me on Thomas!" Finn started dancing round his mother as he realised she was reluctant to join in the jumping up and down. Ria just glared at her brother who was watching the progress of his nephew with smiling eyes.

"You couldn't have waited until the morning to tell him?" Ria asked derisively.

"Why? Look how happy he is!" Ianto gestured at Finn who was starting to pack his toys into his Thomas the Tank Engine rucksack.

"Yes, but now you can have the pleasure of putting the hyper four year old to bed." Ria replied disdainfully as she disappeared out the bedroom. Ianto's face fell.


Ianto trudged back down the stairs a good hour and two stories later to find Rhiannon sat on the couch with her feet up watching FRIENDS.

"Get him to bed did you?" Ria asked mock innocently.

"Eventually." Ianto grumbled as he flopped down on the couch beside her. No sooner had his arse touched the cushions than the front doorbell rang.

"Well you can't moan." Ria continued, looking back at the TV screen as Ianto pulled himself back up onto his feet. "You were the one that got him all hyper about tomorrow."

Ianto rolled his eyes as he pulled open his front door to reveal his Captain taking up most of the doorframe.

"You're wearing that?" Ianto was scrutinizing Jack before he had even stepped over the threshold.

"It's what I usually wear." Jack replied, looking down at his military coat, shirt and trousers. "Why, is there something wrong with it?"

"You do realise we're going to mid-Wales," Ianto stated dubiously. "In rainy spring." He added when Jack's look remained impassive.

"Runs off when it gets to the skin." Jack replied, flashing Ianto a smile as he brushed past him into the hall.

"Don't you own jeans? Or a regular jacket?" Ianto questioned as he shut the door behind Jack. Jack didn't get a chance to reply before Finn was jumping up and down, tugging on the sleeve of Jack's coat.

"Jack! Guess what!" Finn screeched.

"I thought you were in bed?" Ianto asked sternly, but neither Jack nor Finn paid him the blindest bit of attention.

"What?" Jack questioned excitedly, bending down to Finn's level as he deposited his bag on the front doormat at Ianto's feet.

"We're going on holiday and, and," Finn continued to tug on Jack's sleeve like he was trying to gain the attention of an already attentive man. "Uncy Yan said we might go on a choo-choo train."

"Only if you go to bed Finn." Ianto threatened. "Now." He added when Finn didn't move. Finn seemed to jump slightly before scampering off up the stairs.

"See you tomorrow kid." Jack chuckled at Finn's retreating back.

A distant cry of, "Night Jack." floated down the stairs to them as Jack brought himself back to his feet, kicking off his shoes and hanging up his coat before turning to Ianto with a smile.

"Holiday starts here?" Jack asked, wiggling his eyebrows seductively as he leaned forward to try and capture a kiss from Ianto who dodged out of the way.

"What did you tell everyone?" Ianto asked as he lead the way into the living room where Ria was now channel hopping.

"That you and me were going on a top secret mission to the heart of Wales to check out those latest UFO sightings." Jack bluffed as he sat himself down in the armchair. Ianto gave him a look as he settled on the couch beside Ria.

"I just told them we were going on holiday for a few days, that you needed time off and I decided I would take some as well." Jack answered earnestly.

"I think they're more likely to believe the first one knowing you two." Ria laughed as Ianto and Jack shared a pointed look.

"When you thinking of heading out tomorrow?" Ria questioned as she passed the remote to Ianto, bored of channel hopping now.

"Well it's about a two and a half hour drive so I was thinking we could get there in time for a late lunch and then spend the rest of the day in town. I phoned the woman from that B&B you recommended and she said we can't get in until three anyway so we can just park the car outside of it and leave all the stuff in the boot. Maybe set off between ten and eleven, give us a little bit of leeway depending on the traffic, because you never know how busy the M4 is." Ianto reeled off.

"I only asked what time you were setting off." Ria laughed, staring at her brother incredulously. "Not a blow by blow account of the day."

"He likes to be organised." Jack said patronizingly, reaching out a hand and patting Ianto affectionately on the knee. Ianto pulled out of Jack's reach, scowling.

"It never hurts to be organised." Ianto huffed.

"We're going on holiday Ianto, not on an SAS survival weekend." Jack retorted.

"Still doesn't hurt to be organised." Ianto grumbled as he switched to the BBC interactive page to check the weather forecast for the weekend. Ria gave Jack a sympathetic look as he rolled his eyes. The biggest challenge that Jack would be facing this weekend was getting Ianto to relax for more than five seconds.