Title: Time Intertwined
Author: Bendyfish
Story line: A man plots to get hold of the rift manipulator to turn back time as he wants to prevent a murder in the past. Ianto /Jack; Owen/Tosh; Gwen
Chapter 3
Tosh's birthday and the team were heading to the local pub, the one without the karaoke. The rift was quiet so they decided to head there in the early afternoon. Tosh brought along the remote rift alarm, to alert them if the rift decided to spew something out although the predictions say the rift should be quiet for at least 2 days but working for Torchwood means that the team have to be ready for anything.
The rift wasn't the only thing that was quiet, Owen was unusually quiet, Ianto walked up to Owen.
"so you asked her?"
"Yeah, we going tomorrow, I've made a booking"
"So why so quiet?"
"Mate, I don't want to mess this up, my track record is not that good"
"I wouldn't worry about it, Tosh has seen you at your worst and she still likes you, go figure!" Ianto laughed and jogged up to Jack who was arm in arm with Gwen. Ianto didn't get jealous any more with Jack and Gwen, well not too jealous, Gwen had her Rhys, they were getting married and she was happy. Ianto slipped his hand into Jack's hand, Jack turned towards him and smiled his megawatt smile. After all this time that smile of Jack's still made Ianto melt, Ianto leaned his head to Jack's shoulder and closed his eyes momentarily in the gratefulness that was his life.
The pub was not so busy as it as it still quite early, people hadn't clocked off work as yet, but in about an hour the pub would probably fill with tired workers having a drink before heading home. The team picked a booth to fit them all; Rhys was expected to come in 45 minutes, while Jack went to get them all a drink, bringing back a giant cocktail for Tosh, with all the trimmings, thankfully it had a straw so she could extract the heady mixture. As Jack sat down next to Ianto he noticed that Ianto was distracted and was searching his pockets for something.
"What's you lost? …well other than your heart to me" Jack said with a smirk to Ianto.
"I got Tosh a small gift from us all and bloody hell, well I forgot it in my desk" Ianto sighed.
"Give it to her tomorrow"
"No, tomorrow is a special day and it's got nothing to do with me, you or Gwen"
"Huh?" Jack queried
"Tosh is on a date with Owen tomorrow" Ianto whispered "So today is with her friends, tomorrow is Owen's day, so I want to give it to her today, besides today is her birthday"
"Okay l will go with you" Jack said
"Jack! No, I am quite capable of going by myself, I'll be gone for 5 minutes, 10 minutes tops, if you come we won't be back for 30 minutes or more" Ianto admonished Jack, knowing that if Jack and he went back to the Hub then Jack would take advantage that they had the Hub to themselves whilst the guys were in the pub, "besides it's Tosh's birthday and not yours" Ianto winked at Jack.
"aww, you don't play fair" Jack quietly whined to Ianto
"If you play your cards right you might get to play and I'll let you cheat" Ianto smiled at Jack and left before Jack could say anything more.
In the shadows of the corner of the pub, Marcus watched this exchange, he had slipped into the pub when he realised that the torchwood team were going there. When he saw one of the team, what he thought was the youngest member of the torchwood team leave he decided to see where he was going, hopefully back to the headquarters. So he quietly slipped out of the pub, and followed the young man walk down to the pier to the tourist office.
Ianto quickly opened the tourist information door, and just finger locked it, he was only going to be a few minutes so he didn't want to waste time by locking and unlocking all the locks.
As Ianto opened the hidden door, the tourist office door burst open and Marcus with a wild look on his face pushed Ianto up against the wall and quietly said "Get me the time shifter" with a knife to Ianto's throat.
