First Meeting

Ianto hung up the phone and headed back down to Jack.

"I got ahold of him. His name is Bobby. He's a lot older now then he used to be. The guy he was working with, John, died a year or two after they got back to the United States. But he had sons, Sam and Dean. Bobby is sending them over to help us. He said they should be more useful since they're younger and stronger."
"Can't wait to meet them Ianto." Jack smiled at him. "Just promise not to flirt right in front of me."
"You don't need to worry about me. In fact, I should be worried about you."

"Really?"

"They are straight, just so you know. But apparently they are quite cute."

"How cute?"
"One is tall, like gigantic, with short brown hair, and puppy dog eyes. And the other is a bit shorter, with short spiky blond-brown hair, and an attitude."

"I like the sound of them already." He paused and could see the saddened look on Ianto's face. "But of course, I would never do that to you! I love you too much."

Ianto's expression cleared right up. Jack cupped his hand in Ianto's chin and pulled him close. Ianto could smell his natural cologne. Jack slowly got closer to Ianto, making him beg for a kiss. Jack slowly planted one on him after a while of torturous yearning. Ianto gave into the kiss fully, not wanting to let go. Jack pulled away just as slowly as he had come into the kiss. Ianto opened his eyes at the same rate. Once separated by a considerable distance for the two loving men, Jack gave Ianto a sweet smile.

"I should go check on Tosh. I'll be right back." He pecked Ianto's lips and left the room.

Ianto stood there. He didn't remember the last time he'd been this happy. He loved Jack. He wasn't sure if Jack knew it completely, but he did grasp the concept. Jack would say it back, but Ianto didn't think Jack could ever actually mean it. Until today. He saw a glimmer in Jack's eyes when he said 'I love you'. That had to mean something. Maybe Jack's defensive walls were coming down. He hoped.

Ianto decided to head out for coffee. He left a note on Jack's desk to not expect him for a while. He would get coffee then go pick up the guys from the air port.

Ianto called Bobby to tell him his plan. It rang a couple times then he answered. "Hello."

"Hey Bobby. It's me Ianto."

"Hey Ianto. I dropped the boys off at the air port a six hours ago. They should be there within an hour or two."

"That's what I thought. I was going to get coffee then go to the air port and pick them up so they didn't have to pay for a taxi."

"That would be nice. I'll call them in an hour and tell them that. What should they look out for?"

"A black Land Rover with Torchwood etched on the side. The word is smaller, so if there's many of them, they'll have to look. Or I could just go into the air port with a big sign that said..." He paused.

"Winchester." Bobby finished for him.

"Yeah that. What would you prefer?"

"To make it easier for the boys. Maybe you should go in with a medium sign with the name."

"Will do Bobby. Make sure you boys know what's going down."

"As soon as possible."

"Talk to you later Bobby."

"Yup. Bye." He hung up. Ianto sat in silence for a while, then turned the car on and left the parking lot near the hub.

Ianto landed in one of his favorite coffee places. He ordered his usual and sat at a table. All the servers looked at him. It wasn't like him to stay. He would usually leave right away with handfuls of coffee.

"Can I help you all?"

"No sorry sir." One of the men replied.

"What's your name?"

"Me? Umm my name is Nick."

"Nice to meet you Nick. My name is Ianto."

"Very nice to meet you sir."

Ianto got up and went to the boy. He held out his hand and the kid shook it.

"How old are you?"

"Just turned 25 sir." He paused look Ianto over. "And you?"

"28."

"That's a nice age."

"Yes it is." Ianto looked at his stop watch. "Oh God. I have to go. I'll probably come by later for those other coffees."

"We'll be waiting."

As Ianto left he could feel Nick looking at him. He was certain he was checking him out. But he had his mind set on one man and one man alone. Jack.

Ianto slid into the drivers seat and made his way toward the air port. Once there he picked out a sign he had and wrote 'Winchester' on it. He got out. He looked down at what he was wearing and was relieved to find a suit. He had forgotten what he was wearing.

He could see people staring at him as he walked in. He didn't really care, he was just looking for the two men. Mostly for the taller one. He still didn't know which one was which and who was older. Hopefully Bobby had warned them that he was picking them up. His train of thought was cut short when he saw two men standing randomly in the middle of the air port looking confused. One of them looked over and saw him, he nudged the other and pointed to him. He could see they were talking but couldn't hear them.

Sam and Dean had made it to Wales. They walked down the gently sloping and dimly lit gate walkway. They took their first steps into the brightly lit, air-conditioned space of the terminal, bustling with people in various stages of anticipation waiting to board the next flight and Dean breathed deeply, trying to rid himself of the tension he'd built up over the seven-hour plane ride. Immediately, Dean was aware of how many people were looking at him concernedly and how thick many of their accents were. They had no idea in which direction to go. Bobby had called and told them that the Ianto guy would pick them up but they had no idea what he looked like. They stood there for a few minutes looking for the guy. Sam was the first to see him.

"Dean. That guy has a sign with our names on it. Maybe it's him."

"Possibly. But we'll have to find out for sure."

"Shh. He's walking up."

Ianto walked up to them.

"You guys the Winchester's?" He asked both of them.

"Yeah, who's askin'?" Snapped the shorter one.

"My name is Ianto. Bobby sent me to pick you up." Ianto said calmly.

"Oh. Okay. Sorry about the snap." He apologized sincerely.

"Not a problem. You get used to it."

"My name's Dean. This is my younger brother, Sam." He pointed to the taller one.

"Nice to meet you both. If you would follow me." He turned on his heels and headed for the door. The brothers keeping up with him. They made it to the car without any trouble. Ianto got into the drivers seat slowly, waiting for them both to figure out the layout of the car.

"God. This is gonna take a while to get used to." Dean commented.

"I'm already used to it." Sam joked.

"Know-it-all."

"I can tell you two are brothers by the bickering." Ianto cut it. "And sorry about the interruption."

"It's fine, Ianto." Sam replied. "And, you're actually one of a few that think that we are brothers." He paused, looking embarrassed. "Some people think we are... 'together'." He made a disgusted face. Dean did the same.

"I don't see why. You two look pretty similar. Besides the height."

"Seriously? No one's ever said that before." Dean exclaimed.

"Really now? That's odd." Ianto said as he started up the car. He drove down some pathways leading to the shortcut back to the hub.

"These shortcuts?" Sam asked.

"Yeah. You get used to them when you've lived here your whole life."

"I would hope so. Or it would be creepy as hell driving here."

"It still is, even when you know your way around."

"Now that's not cool." Dean complained.

Ianto laughed lightly at the comment. "No. Not cool at all." He flashed a smile to the back seat.

Dean smiled back.

"So did Bobby tell you about my job?"

"No. He didn't really say much. Except you needed help." Sam explained.

"Well, I'm on a team of course."

"You the leader?" Dean asked.

He scoffed, "No. The leader is Jack." He paused looking embarrassed, "I'm just the Tea Boy."

"The Tea Boy?" Sam asked.

"Yeah. I clean up after the team mostly. I get them food and drinks too."

"That job has to suck." Dean said sympathetically.

"It has it's perks."

"Like?"

He sat in silence for a second thinking. "Like, not getting hurt, I guess."

"Oh." Dean sighed.

"I mean. I've been going on missions with the team more often lately and it's a lot more fun then just hanging in the hub."

"The hub?"

"That's what we call our layer. A more common name is Torchwood."

"Torchwood? Really?" Sam said, wide eyed.

"You heard of us?"

"Oh yes! A hell of a lot. You guys are the best and the brightest here in the U.K."

He laughed, "Not all of the team is bright. Like me, I'm not the brightest. I would put Tosh under the brightest category."

"Who's Tosh."

"She's one of the team."

Dean looked up, "She?"

"Yeah."

"Dean, don't even think about it."

"What is he thinking?" Ianto asked, concerned.

"Anything that's a she, he wants to..." He trailed off knowing Ianto knew what he was going to say.

"Ahh. That's like Jack. Except, Jack is more for anything that moves."

"That's a little creepy." Sam said. "No offense."

He smiled at Sam. "None taken from me. But Jack on the other hand, may have something to say about that."

Sam chuckled at Ianto's comment. Dean just sighed.

Ianto pulled into the same parking space he had left hours earlier.

"Here we are."

"Where is it?" Sam asked.

He pointed to the water tower. "Under that."

"Sweet." Dean said.

"Follow me." Ianto got out and so did the brothers. He stood on the lift outside of the hub.

"What is this?" Dean looked confused.

"Our invisible lift."

"Invisible lift! Now that's cool." Sam said smiling.

"It is. Jack found out about it quite a while ago." Ianto explained. "Hold on. We're going down."

Sam and Dean braced themselves and down went the lift. They got halfway through and the pterodactyl that Ianto and Jack had captured years before flew around the lift.

"What the fuck is that?" Dean screamed.

"It's our pet pterodactyl." Ianto said smiling.

"Awesome." Sam said in amazement.

They got to the ground level and Ianto stepped off. "This way please." He motioned to the stairs. "They should all be in Jack's office." Ianto started to climb the stairs with the two men behind him.

Sam and Dean were nervous to meet the rest of the team.

Sam whispered to Dean, "You as nervous as me?"

Whispering back, Dean said, "If they are all like Ianto I won't mind meeting them."

They made it to the top and Ianto opened the door.

"Ianto! You're back!" Yelled a man.

"Hey Jack. I brought the guys that can help." He motioned to the brothers.

"You were right. They are cute." The man, called Jack, said. Ianto blushed.

"You said we were cute?" Dean asked.

"I was trying to give him an image. Sorry."

"Not a problem Ianto." Sam put his hand on Ianto's shoulder.

Jack grabbed ahold of Ianto and pulled him his way. "I've missed you Ianto." He hugged the Tea Boy.

"Same for you Jack." He hugged back.

Tosh and Owen were standing looking confused.

"Tosh, Owen. This is Sam." Ianto motioned to Sam. "And this is Dean, his older brother." Doing the same toward Dean. "They are the professionals I told you about."

"Nice to meet you both." Tosh said with a smile.

"And you, Tosh is it?" Dean asked.

"Yeah."

Owen stepped in front of Tosh before they could shake hands. "I'm Owen." He held out his hand. Dean glared at him but took his hand anyway.

"Nice to meet you." He said, not as enthusiastically as he had with Tosh. Sam stood behind him smiling. "I can feel your smile, Sam. I would stop if I were you." Sam's smile disappeared quickly.

Tosh came around from behind Owen and went toward Sam. "Sam is it?" He nodded. "It's very nice to meet you. And may I say, you are quite tall for a younger brother."

"I get that a lot." He gave her a small smile.

Before things get could any more awkward, Jack clapped his hands loudly. "Well everyone, if you could get back to the subject at hand." He motioned toward the screen. "Tosh, if you would do me the favor."

"Of course Jack." She smiled, leaving Sam's side. She stepped next to the screen and turned it on. "As I was saying a couple hours ago, the rift has been opened once again. This time letting out things this team hasn't seen before."

"How did Ianto know to call us then?" Sam asked, looking to Ianto.

"I worked for a different Torchwood years ago that had this same problem. Luckily for us, Bobby and his friend were in town when it happened. My team was working the case and we ran into them. We worked well together and Bobby had left me his number. I had kept his number for a long time but recently lost it. We just had to have a psychic here to get the number from my memory."

"A psychic." Dean stared at him. "Aren't psychic's evil?" He asked his brother.

Sam glared at him like it brought back a memory. "No." He said mad. "Not all are evil, Dean."

Dean looked down like he just remember something that was important. "Sorry Sammy. I forgot."

"It's been a while. It's okay."

"Sorry, we missing something?" Owen asked.

"Owen. It's their business. Leave them be." Tosh said.

Owen stared at her. "Fine." He sighed, giving up.

"Alright. Back to what I was saying." Tosh returned to the screen. "The rift is still open." She looked to Jack who's eyes got big.

"It's still open? Why didn't you tell me Tosh?"

"I'm sorry Jack. We had more pressing matters at hand at the time."

"God Tosh." He got up from where he sat. "Ianto."

"Yes Jack?"

"Coffee please." He put on his begging facial expression.

"Will do." He left the room and went to the coffee maker.

"You know, you guys should be nicer to Ianto." Sam said. "I'm sorry if I'm speaking out of terms here. But, he does so much for all of you and you never even give him a thank you."

"Excuse me?" Owen snapped. "You don't know us or Ianto. How dare you say that to us!"

"Owen, shut up." Jack snapped at him. "He's right."

Sam looked at him, more confused than he's been this whole day. "Really?"

"Yes. We need to start treating him better. I mean, especially me. He is my boyfriend after all."

Sam and Dean traded looks. Dean grabbed ahold of Sam's arm and whispered to him, "God Sammy. Remember what we said about Jack in the car with Ianto. He must have hated us for that."

"If he did," Sam whispered back, "He didn't show it. In fact, he seemed like he enjoyed talking about it."

"Uh boys? We're over here." Jack said, waving his hand.

"Sorry. Personal stuff." Sam tried to explain.

"No need to explain. We need to finish with this though."

"Can I just ask one thing?" Dean questioned.

"Sure thing." Jack said with a smile.

"How long have you two... You know?"

He looked to Tosh and Owen. "For a year or two."

"That long?" Owen asked. "And you didn't tell Tosh, Gwen, or I?"

"Umm. Who's Gwen?" Dean asked.

"Another one of the team. She's off on her honeymoon. She should be back in a day or two." Jack explained.

"Don't get off topic Jack Harkness." Owen glared at him.

"Don't make me mad Owen Harper." Jack glared right back.

Owen looked away, mad from the obvious win on Jack's side.

"Please explain Jack." Tosh pleaded.

"Alright Tosh." He looked to the door to see if Ianto was coming back. He wasn't. "It started a while ago. I think officially, it started when I was brought back from death after Abaddon. The kiss we shared. All of you saw it."

"We didn't think it was like that Jack." Owen said, trying to act cool.

"Well I didn't think Ianto felt that way either, until Captain John returned."

"And Ianto's attempt to kill him cause John almost killed you." Tosh said plainly.

"Exactly." He paused to look at the door once again. This time Ianto appeared.

"Here's your coffee Jack." He hands him a cup.

"Thanks Ianto." He smiled at him. "You're the best."

Ianto blushed, "Really?"

"Of course. I love you." Jack said looking at Ianto. Ianto looked at the two men that they barley knew. "They know Ianto. It's okay."

Ianto looked back at Jack. "I love you too." He picked up Jack's chin and kissed him lightly on the lips.

Dean had to look away. He never liked seeing others kiss, not just two men, but a man and a woman also. He could deal with his own kisses. But he felt weird watching others kiss. Unless it was porn. Porn he was okay with.

Ianto and Jack released from their kiss and they smiled at each other.

"Alright everyone. Please, this is important." Tosh clapped her hands to get their attention.

"What is it Tosh?" Jack asked.

"It's the rift." She paused. Everyone looked to the screen. "I think it's getting bigger."

Those words got Jack's attention. "Bigger?" He got up from his seat.

"Bigger." She repeated.

Jack looked at the screen carefully. "It is." His smile flared bigger. "This is great."

"How is it great Jack?" Ianto asked.

"That means it'll be easier to locate the demons." He looked to Ianto who gave him a worried look. "It will be okay Ianto." He went up to the man and hugged him tightly. Ianto returned the hug, not wanting to let him go. Jack slightly pushed Ianto away and brought his attention to Sam and Dean. "Can you guys really help?"

"If we know what it is, then yes." Sam tried to comfort them all.

"We just need guns." Dean explained.

"That will be easy." Ianto said. "We have an armory in here."

"Regular guns?" He asked.

"Of course."

"Do you have empty shells?"

"I think so."

"We'll need everything you've got. Mostly the guns and empty shells." He paused and looked at his younger brother. "Oh and if you have salt, we'll need that too."

"Salt?" Jack sounded confused.

"It slows them down a bit. If we have enough, we can use them to keep them where they are and get ride of them. Sam will do the incantation." He explained.

"I've got it memorized."

"Nerd." Dean joked.

"Okay. Ianto, get the approximate location of the activity please." Jack

"On it." Ianto went to one of the computers and started to type. His eyes went wide.

"What is it?"

"I can get you the exact location of the rift. It's that powerful."
"Damn." Dean said.

"What's the location?"

"It's actually just around the corner."

"That close?"

"And we didn't even notice it."

"Okay everyone, get your equipment. We're leaving in five."

The team and the brothers got everything they needed and headed toward the Torchwood car. Jack slid into the drivers seat and buckled in. Tosh, Owen, Ianto, and the brothers sat in the back.

"I don't see the point in the car." Owen pointed out.

"And why not?" Ianto asked.

"It's around the corner right? Why waste the gas when we could walk there."

"Because Owen, we have all this equipment that would slow us down. We need a place to store it while we fight." Ianto said, sounding mad.

"Ianto, it's okay. He was just asking a reasonable question." Jack said, trying to calm down his boyfriend.

"Right. Sorry Owen."
"Whatever."

Ianto glared one of his scariest looks at Owen. Owen had to look away. He never hated Ianto. It's just, he's been getting on his nerves lately. He was hoping once this is over with, he can make amends with the Tea Boy.

"Don't fight, girls." Tosh said sarcastically.

Ianto laughed, lightening the mood.