Chapter 2
It had been a week since Ianto's first day in Torchwood 3 and to be honest it wasn't very eventful in Ianto's mind.
He woke up to loud knock on his flat door, he looked at his watch. It was 4:30 in the morning. As he walked down the hall, still half asleep, in grey joggies and t-shirt there was another knock.
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" He shouted at the door, wondering who the hell would be knocking at this time in the morning. He opened the door to Jack with a mischievous grin on his face.
"Really, if I knew all I had to do was knock on a door to make you do that I might do it more often." He said still grinning.
"Ha-ha very funny. Now what are you doing here at this time in the morning?" The Welshman asked while yawning and moving to the side to allow Jack inside.
"There has been a spaceship crash and we need to get to it before UNIT does." Jack replied turning a little serious, before his smile came back. "So you need to get ready, everyone else will meet us at the crash site."
"Ok fine, just give me 5 minutes to get changed." Ianto replied as he walked, groggily, down the hall away to the bedroom.
As Jack waited he looked around Ianto's living room. There was a 3 person sofa, a book case filed with books and a flat screen TV. Other than that there was nothing; no photos or anything that most people clutter there house with, to Jack it looked as if it was the room of a person who felt alone in the world. His thoughts were put on hold when Ianto stepped out of his bedroom in a red shirt, black suit and waist coat. All Jack could think was that Ianto looked good in a suit and even better when wearing red.
"Ready?" Ianto asked his boss, who nodded and they both headed for the door.
xXx
The car journey to the crash site was silent and when they arrived they were met by Owen and Tosh but no Gwen.
"Where's Gwen?" Jack asked but they both shrugged. "Call her and find out where she is." Jack said and went to investigate the spaceship. "Are there any life signs?" He asked Tosh.
"Yes, only one and it seems to be moving."
As Jack approached the spaceship he saw pieces of the ship move and a figure emerged. Jack raised his gun as the figure tumbled out of the spaceship and fell to the ground. He rushed over followed by Owen, Ianto and Tosh. The figure was like a young woman and looked no more than 20 years old, with blonde hair. She was wearing a green t shirt, black combat trousers and army boots.
"She looks human." Owen said. "She is still alive but she has cuts and bruises everywhere; we need to get her back to the hub before she loses much more blood."
"Ok, Owen you're with me. Ianto, Tosh you stay here and see if you can find anything in the wreckage that might be useful and bring it all back to the hub." Jack said.
"Gwen said she is five minutes away." Tosh said to Jack as he lifted up the woman.
"Good tell her to keep the police away, if UNIT come: get out of here. They won't like you taking things from the crash site.
xXx
When Ianto, Tosh and Gwen arrived at the hub with all the 'objects' deemed useful, they saw the woman from the spaceship lying on the autopsy table unconscious.
"There wasn't much we found interesting on the spaceship." Tosh shouted over to Jack.
"Ok, just leave them in my office for now and I will look at them later." Jack called back. "Come over here once you've done that."
They three of them placed the stuff in Jack's office and then headed over to the med bay.
"So is she human?" Ianto asked as he stood next to Jack around the unconscious woman.
"Nope, she has 2 hearts and the only alien I know of that has 2 hearts is the Doctor. The mysterious thing is, is that he is the last of his kind. Which makes me wonder, who is this?"
"Can't we just ask her when she wakes up?" Ianto asked.
"It looks like we might have to. Owen how long do you think she is going to be unconscious for?"
"It's hard to say. She should be awake by morning but she might wake up before that. There is no real way to tell."
"Ok. Owen: keep an eye on the girl. Tosh and Ianto help me figure out what things you found are and Gwen write up a report about the crash site."
xXx
Ianto was down in the archives, archiving the 'objects' they had found at the crash site when Jack called him up to his office. He knocked on the door and walked into the room.
"You wanted to see me sir?" He asked. Jack gestured for him to sit down opposite his desk.
"Yes. I meant to ask you on Friday but I forgot: how did your first week go?"
"I think it went rather well sir: much more enjoyable than Torchwood 1."
"Why would that be?"
"Well, at Torchwood 1 nobody really laughed or joked around like we you do here. It was all very formal and rather boring if there was no alien stuff going on."
"Well, I'm glad you like it here." Jack paused. He stared at Ianto, not wanting to break eye contact. It was taking all his will power not to just jump over the table and take him. "It's getting late you should probably start to head home."
"Before I go, there was one thing I wanted to ask you sir. I was wondering if I have done anything to offend Gwen."
"No, why would you think that?" Jack asked slightly puzzled.
"It's just, it feels like she is going out of her way to ignore me and when I make the effort to speak to her she always says that she is busy."
"Can't say I've noticed; I wouldn't take much notice to be honest Ianto. She is like that with almost everyone."
"Thank you, sir. I was just worried that I had done something to offend her. Anyway, you're right I really should be heading home. Good night sir." Ianto said as he got up and walked towards the glass door of the office.
"Good night Ianto." Jack said while staring at the Welshman as he walked away. He realised he might not be able to control himself much longer.
xXx
Ianto tossed and turned in his bed trying to get comfortable, in the end he gave up. He checked the time: 5:23.
After his shower he got dressed and walked into work. As he walked into the hub he decided to make some coffee, it was still early and he needed something to wake him up if he was going to start working so early.
As he waited for the coffee machine to finish making his coffee he heard a sound from behind him. There stood Jack leaning against the wall he was wearing only a white t-shirt that clung to his torso and his suspenders were dangling next to his legs. Suddenly Ianto felt himself getting rather hot.
"How come you're in this early?" Jack asked as Ianto turned around to face him.
"I-I couldn't sleep so I thought I may as well come in." Ianto said finding it hard to tear his eyes away from Jack.
"You don't need to start working right away do you? I mean, you don't actually start for another 2 hours." Jack said starting feel really hot as Ianto stared at him, never looking away.
"What do you suppose I do instead, sir?" Ianto said as Jack pushed himself off the wall and walked over to the Welshman. Ianto stared into Jack's eyes as he stopped just inside of his personal space. They weren't touching but Ianto could feel the heat radiating from Jack's body.
"Lots of things you can do to fill your time, Ianto." Jack said as he stood transfixed, staring into the depth of Ianto's blue eyes.
"There's quite a list." Ianto replied.
Not able to control himself any longer, Jack grabbed Ianto's face and slammed his lips against Ianto's. Ianto stood in shock but leaned into the kiss once the shock passed. He grabbed Jack by the waist and felt Jack's tongue trace his bottom lip, begging for entrance. As soon as his lips parted Jack's tongue went straight into his mouth. Their tongues battled for dominance and Jack's quickly won. He explored every inch of Ianto's mouth and his hands roamed the Welshman's sides and finally settled at the small of Ianto's back.
Suddenly the alarm notifying them that the cog door was opening blared around them. They jumped apart: Ianto hurried over to the Coffee machine and Jack back over to the wall. Gwen walked into the kitchenette where both the men were standing. She locked eyes with Ianto as he turned to watch her walking over.
"Good morning." Ianto said trying to sound as if he hadn't almost been caught making out with his boss, she glared at him and walked straight past him completely ignoring his existence: not realising that Jack was in the room with them.
Once she had left the two men alone Jack walked back over to Ianto who looked up at him. He placed a chaste kiss on the Welshman's lips and then spoke.
"I see what you mean." He then walked away leaving Ianto to stare after him, his coffee completely forgotten once more.
