I really think I should prioritise stuff!

Here's the next long-awaited chapter to Easter Egg Excitement!!

I would love to know what you think!

Enjoy... bon appetite!

Easter Egg Excitement 2

"You've got to be bloody kidding me Harkness! There is NO way I am going to go easter egg hunting in the Hub!" Owen screamed at Jack, whilst the other leaned on each other for support as they giggled at Owen's complaints.

"Come on... Owen, it's... not that.... bad..." Gwen gasped in-between giggles, looking at him with watering eyes she promptly collapsed to the floor, her giggles becoming fully-fledged laughs.

"Not that BAD! I HATE easter Gwen! And I have a good reason to!" Owen snarled at her, all his anger and hatred showing in his voice, face and eyes as Gwen just continued laughing.

"Well, Owen. Spending easter with us might make your reason to hate easter become unimportant. You can't hold back on something because of a bad experience. It's not good for you" Ianto said, his voice not neutral like usual. He sounded almost as if he understood how Owen felt. "You would probably say something along the lines of 'stop wallowing in your own self-pity you sad bastard and join in the fun'. Maybe you should practice what you preach" Ianto's eyes locked onto Owen's whose were filled with pain, anger and hate. Ianto's eyes were filled with a calm that seemed to spread out across the Hub to him, he felt himself relaxing and didn't understand why. Ianto's eyes gained something a look directed at Owen 'don't say anything, just relax. The stress is pointless' And Owen did relax and stayed relaxed even after Ianto had looked away.

Realising he should say something he looked at the others, they were all silent and looking at him – except Ianto who was staring at the ground, and Jack who was staring at Ianto with a strange look on his face. "Right well, teaboys' right. I'll practice what I preach and join in the fun." his voice was still snarky, like usual, but there was no underlying anger or pain there anymore. It felt nice to be so relaxed. "Let's get this party started shall we Harkness?"

Jack's focus snapped away from Ianto to Owen, his strange look remained for a moment as he surveyed the doctor before it was replaced with one of his mischievous little grins.

"Of course Owen. Tosh, would be please play the CD that's on your desk. Gwen, go up to the Tourist Office and wait for Rhys – yes I invited Rhys" Jack smiled at Gwen, his smile grew larger as he saw the look of disbelief on her face. "No it isn't a joke, Ianto persuaded me"

"Thanks Jack and you as well Ianto" Gwen's look of disbelief turned into a grin as she took off across the Hub towards the Tourist Office.

Tosh smiled at Jack and went over to her station, she placed the CD into her CD-R drive and proceeded to play the various songs gathered on it. All of them had no lyrics – which meant that Jack might end up coming up with his own.

"There we go. See, it's already beginning to feel good" Jack grinned at Owen who didn't glare or hit him with a snarky comment, instead he smiled at him in amusement. "Trust you to find this fun Harkness."

Ianto looked up at Owen for a brief moment and their eyes met for only the shortest of seconds before Ianto turned and left Jack and Owen where they were in the boardroom. He went straight over to the coffee machine, he needed a nice, bitter cup of coffee and he would have to make the others one as well or they'd shut-up about it.

Up in the boardroom Jack watched Ianto whilst he set about making coffee, his face had that same, strange expression from before on it. Owen watched Jack watching Ianto and decided to find out why he was watching him. "Jack, why are you looking at Ianto like that?"

Jack's head snapped up and his eyes locked onto Owen's. "I think you know why Owen" he didn't say it with any maliciousness in his tone, but he still looked at Owen in that don't-ask-me-you-know-what-I'm-on-about way that Owen always found annoying. But today, he didn't feel annoyed about it, he felt somewhat pensive about it instead.

Choosing his words carefully Owen spoke to Jack with some of his curiosity showing through "So, Ianto's had that effect on you as well then?"

Jack nodded and looked back to Ianto who was distributing the coffee's around the Hub, Tosh's cup was placed beside her, Gwen's and presumably Rhys on Gwen's desk and the three remaining cups on the tray belonged to Owen, Jack and Ianto himself. He continued to watch Ianto as he entered the boardroom and placed the tray on the table without uttering a sound. He leaned over and took his cup from the tray as Owen did the same.

He took a sip of it, his eyes focusing on the cup in his hand when Ianto spoke, "Just ask your question already Jack, you're giving me a headache."

He froze with the cup only an inch away from his lips, he focused on Ianto who was focused on him. Blue met blue and Jack suddenly felt the urge to ask his question. "How are you doing that?"

Ianto broke eye contact and Jack's urge disappeared, he took a sip of his own coffee before answering "I don't really know, I can just calm people down or get them to ask what's on their minds and stuff like that." he sighed and looked at Jack again, this time Jack felt no urge to do anything "I can control it luckily. But, we can talk about this properly later and Owen can abuse me with his medical tests then because we have a party that I've had to decorate the Hub for and so I'd like it if we actually had the party first."

The alarms sounded signalling that Gwen and Rhys had just entered the main Hub, Gwen looked across to the boardroom and saw the three Torchwood men in there, each one looking at each other. It piqued her curiosity but she put it on hold, Rhys was with her so everything else could wait.

"Guys, come on! I want to play some games!!" She shouted at them as she and Rhys joined Tosh at her station.

"Coming Gwen" Jack called back, "Later it is then" he added quietly, looking at Owen then Ianto.

Owen nodded and Ianto said "Don't tell them yet Jack, I'd like it to be kept between us for now if that's alright?"

Jack nodded and they left the boardroom heading over to Tosh's desk where they all stood together and waited for Jack to explain the rules of the game.

Rhys looked at Jack and his outfit, and instantly felt jealous. He chanced a quick look at Gwen who was focused on Jack intently, too focused for Rhys Williams. Jack was wearing a soft, silken, long-sleeved shirt that was a sky-blue colour. The top two buttons were undone and it showed the golden skin of his neck. He was wearing a pair of jet black slacks, his suspenders were also black and the embroidery silver. He looked, quite-literally, drop-dead gorgeous. Rhys understood why everyone was staring at Jack like that but he couldn't help but be a little bit jealous when his wife was drooling over another man 'I mean who could?'

I hope you're enjoyed it thus far. I'm sorry for updating this so late, but better late than never right! I hope you all like what Jack's wearing, I don't know if it works very well but I tried! The next chapter will be the party!!

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