AN:/ Sorry it's been a while...
Chapter 3
It had been 3 weeks since Jack left the team and they were finally back on a steady rota and Ianto delicious coffee. Ianto was now an official active field agent for torchwood and was going down to the archives every so often to sort files and artefacts out. Mostly before everyone leaves so that he can go to the pub with them, it was their new weekly trend, they go to the sae one every week just to have a casual chat even though torchwood is the only thing they can talk about as none of them have lives.
Ianto still missed Jack a lot that was still obvious but thanks to Gwen he could get through the day without mental breakdown downs or suicidal attempts. If Gwen hadn't found Ianto that night, then he would be down in the morgue right now, with all his possessions stacked up in a garage. No one else knew he tried to take his life that night as Gwen told him that it was a small moment of weakness and that no one had to know if he didn't want them too.
Gwen was getting paler and paler by the day as the stresses of becoming torchwood's fearless leader begun to sink in, Ianto had helped her a lot with the paperwork recently as he did most of Jack's back when he was around but she guessed it was because he didn't want to be sat alone in his flat without anything to do but think. She herself insisted that he becomes leader as he had most experience in torchwood if you include his years at London and the amount of work he did of Jack's but he refused not wanting to be in the spotlight he said...
It was a typical torchwood morning, Ianto had supplied everyone with their morning coffee then sat down at his desk, it used to be Gwen's but she was in Jack's office now as the leader of Torchwood. Owen and tosh were giggling away, again. Ianto was happy to see Tosh laughing again, even if he was slightly jealous, being the only operative without a partner, now that Tosh and Owen were together Ianto didn't have anyone, apart from Gwen but he knew that it was affecting her relationship with Rhys. The alarms began to sound as Gwen's door opened.
'Weevil alert, Tosh, Owen it's okay just one weevil me and Ianto can take care of this one... we'll call if we need a cell. I doubt we will but just in case.'
Gwen bolted down the stairs grabbing the weevil spray and a stun gun then waved her hands for Ianto to follow.
'Hurry up, Ianto! We don't want to miss it!'
Ianto grabbed his jacket and stun gun then sprinted through the doors behind Gwen, leaving Owen and tosh alone to look after the hub.
'So... How long do you think they'll be?'
'Owen?' They stayed in silence for a few more seconds looking at her computer until she continued 'Judging by the problem, and depending on how violent it'll be I would say... oh... 30 minutes maybe an hour...'
'Better hurry up then...'
TWTWTW
They found the weevil eventually inside a car park, on the 3rd floor, for some reason they always went to a car park? Out of all the places to go, they find a car park?
It wasn't very violent and was a first offender in coming up from the sewers so they put in the SUV and took it down to the tunnels and let it go, they didn't normally come back up after being caught, no one understood why really...
'Gwen? I was wondering... You know that you've been helping me... well sort myself out?' Ianto questioned nervously.
'Yeh, why? Ianto are you alright?'
'Oh Yeh I'm fine, I was just thinking, you seem to be looking more restless and sleepy are you and Rhys ok?'
Gwen turned away as soon as the name was mentioned.
'Gwen? Come on... you've helped me, at least let me try and help you...'
There was silence for a few minutes until Gwen turned around to face Ianto eyes all botchy and red from tears caught in her eyes. 'Oh Ianto we split up... me and Rhys, he was complaining how I was never home from work and we needed to spend more time but I couldn't give him what he wanted as we had this new rota and as the leader I couldn't just go swanning off... I'm staying in the flat still but I'm on the couch as he's already asleep by the time I get home and I'm gone by the time he's up... I'm sorry for landing all this on you I just don't know what to do...'
'oh Gwen why didn't you say/ You can stay with me we'll get your stuff before we go back to the hub I'll ring tosh and Owen and let them know... and I won't take no for an answer you've helped me so much this past three weeks and now its my turn to return the favour... Now come on dry those tears...'
As they got into the SUV Ianto rung Tosh's phone as it was very unlikely Owen would answer his.
'Hi Tosh, Yeh it's all sorted, we don't need a cell but we just needed to run some errands so we'll be back in a few hours, if you need us just give me a ring and we'll be over but you should be alright Yeh?'
As Ianto hung up the phone he swore that Tosh sounded slightly out of breath like she had been running...No Tosh wasn't the type of person to have a quickie at work... Owen yes but Tosh... wow Owen must be quite a catch if he's changed he so quickly...
