3
Ianto walked confidently up to the desk and smiled.
"Sean Harper." He said confidently "I'm here for my first class."
The woman hummed and checked her computer with the universal sign of boredom.
She handed him an envelope and pointed, "Third door on the left hand side."
"Thank you" he smiled softly and she blinked, then blushed happily.
He walked though the scanners, placing his things down and then hesitating, waving the PDA at the guard, "My little computer might get shaken up in there, can I just hand it over? It's a prototype I'm still working on and the professor will never believe me if I get to class and it doesn't go."
The guard nodded and gave a sympathetic roll of his eyes, "Sargeison? He's a prick like that."
"Tell me about it" Ianto grinned as he shucked off the backpack and skipped thorough the detector.
The guard was fiddling with it and the screen started up, showing a Pokémon was down the hallway and the guard laughed.
"Bloody Pokémon, they're everywhere" he said as he handed it back and Ianto rolled his eyes.
"Bloody interlopers, yeah!" Ianto snorted, "My niece put this on here and now I'm buggered if I can get it off."
"Nah. Leave it. Give the old prick something to whine about" the guard said and Ianto shot back to the name the guard had used.
"Like Sargeison needs a reason?"
The guard laughed and Ianto walked confidently into the main faculty.
Instead of going into the class he headed for the library, checking the PDA from his pocket once he was safely in the stacks, feeling more at home than he had since his resurrection.
He was still letting Mainframe connect to the main servers when he heard a commotion and saw a woman being hustled out of the library by two angry guards.
Something about her was familiar and he frowned as he tried to remember where he had seen her.
It was weird, like there was a whole section of memory he didn't know existed.
He found himself on his knees, clutching at the shelving as the image of Toclofane and the Master slammed into his psyche.
Jesus. Jack's time away. God.
This throwing up thing has got to stop.
He rose and stepped out, calling out, "Tish? Where are you going love?"
She spun and saw him, her own memories still in place and she acted instinctively, "There you are! For Godsake! I've been looking for the last half hour for you! They think I'm a bloody terrorist or something."
"Don't be silly" he said as he rushed over, thrusting his ID at the guards, "I'm Sean Harper and this is my girlfriend Tish Jones. God, don't tell me you forgot you ID again. One day that is going to get you in deep shit!"
"Tell me about it" she grinned, grasping his hand for grim life as he pulled her from between the guards and into his left armpit.
"I'm sorry guys. I sometimes think I would have been better off to just date a blonde" Ianto sighed, then yelped as she slapped him angrily.
"Oi!"
"Well, don't forget your bloody ID then and I'll stop wondering if you are secretly blonde in some elaborate disguise!" he let his Welsh accept broaden and the guards laughed as they relaxed and started to move away.
"Sorry guys" he called after them with his most disarming smile, then he was yanked into the stacks where Tish started patting him down.
"Wow, easy there darling, not without a meal and a movie first" Ianto was appalled as he heard Jack's humor coming from his mouth and her soft laughter was just as amazing as she turned him and grabbed his face, kissing him.
"Ianto bloody Jones" she whispered, "you son of a bitch. I heard you were dead."
"I heard you were great at being stealthy" he shot back and she hugged him to her.
"God. Oh Ianto, it's been so long" she sighed.
"What are you doing?"
"I think the hidden entrance is in here somewhere." She whispered as she hugged him again.
"We have to stop meeting like this" he quipped, "Always at the end of the world, never just for a coffee like normal people."
"But where's the fun on that?" she asked with a soft giggle.
Mainframe pinged in the PDA and Ianto looked down with surprise.
"Speaking of coffee, let's get to the cafeteria and regroup. I'm bloody starving" he hissed and she grinned as she took his hand and they walked to the food court.
They settled with a meal and she reached for his hand more than once, still amazed that he was there with her.
"You remember The Year That Never Was?" she asked softly after the meal was almost consumed.
"Not in life, but this resurrection seems to have jump stated everything. It sort of …" he struggled for the words, "Unlocked the part of my brain it was hidden in. Yes Tish, I remember you. Sort of miss that outfit."
He looked appalled again as she laughed.
It did remind him what he really wanted to ask thought.
"Where is Jack?"