Chapter Four

"Hello Captain Harkness, Ianto has told me a lot about you, about all of you." Steve smiled at them. "I'm Captain Steve Rogers."

Tosh and Gwen stood there mouths open staring at the other man.

"Steve, who is I..." Ianto's voice trailed off as he saw their visitors.

He moved forward and hugged Tosh and Gwen. Owen slapped him on the arm and smirked.

Ianto stood back not sure what to do with Jack. Afraid to give him and Steve the wrong idea. Steve moved forward and placed a hand on the centre of his back.

"I'll go and get a shirt on." Steve kissed Ianto on the cheek and turned and walked away.

Ianto, the girls and Jack turned their heads to watch him leave. Ianto shook his head and couldn't help but smile. Somehow he had managed to end up dating Captain America.

"Ianto..." Jack's frown became more pronounced when the Welshman didn't turn around. "Ianto." He said again louder this time,

Ianto looked back at them blushing. "Sorry."

"Don't be." Tosh said with a grin. "It was a very nice view. So how long have you and he been seeing each other."

"It's a new thing. Please come in." Ianto moved away from the door and they went inside his apartment and sat down.

"So how did you meet him?" Gwen asked, wondering if this was how Ianto felt whenever she had been in the room and the two men had been together. She did owe him and apology, a huge one and hoped that he would except it.

"We work together."

"You do like your office romances Ianto don't you?" Jack muttered.

Ianto turned and glared at him. "My closest friends are the people are work with. Just like working with Torchwood, what I do now is important."

Gwen slapped Jack on the arm glaring at him. There was a knock at the door. Steve walked out of the bedroom, with a shirt on much to the disappointment of Tosh and Gwen. Ianto stood and walked out to the door.

Steve walked closer and then stared at Jack for a moment. "Ianto has become important to all of us that he works with. He does everything he can to make our lives in and out of work run smoother so we can help people. Ianto is much of a hero as we are to us, he just doesn't get it. We are trying to show him that he is important." Steve made the implication clear that at Torchwood Ianto didn't feel that way. "Also he now has some very dangerous and important friends who wouldn't like to to see him upset."

"Do you mean you?" Jack replied standing up.

Steve laughed. "I'm a soldier and yes can be deadly but I wasn't the one I was thinking off."

Ianto walked in laughing with another woman. "Hey all this is Natasha Romanov. Tasha this is Jack Harkness, Toshiko Sato, Gwen Cooper and Owen Harper."

"She is." Steve answered quickly.

"She is what?" Ianto asked looking confused.

"Someone who cares about you." Tasha said simply raising an eyebrow waiting for any of them to say answer.

Ianto turned back to her. "What are you doing? Not that I don't always love seeing you."

"Steve called and said you had some visitors. Clint's on his way with another vehicle. I'll drive one lot and he will drive the other."

"Why can't some of us go with Ianto?" Jack asked he did really want to speak to Ianto alone.

"Because I go with Steve and he has a motorcycle." Ianto replied easily enough.

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Director Nick Fury stood and eyed Jack Harkness, he had done his research. He knew what this man was like. They needed him and that was all. Tosh was working with Hill and they were on the computer terminals, Owen had gone down to the infirmary to see if he could learn anything or teach about what he knew and saw. Gwen was standing off to the background, her police work wasn't really much help here and neither was interaction with the public.

Jack was amazed at where Ianto worked. It was completely unbelievable and that fact that he worked with Tony Stark. It wasn't just that. Ianto Jones their Welshman worked with The Avengers. He had seen it all on TV and they were an amazing group of people.

"So were waiting for who?" Jack asked.

"Thor." Ianto smiled as he walked past.

"Of course, Thor." Gwen muttered.

Ianto placed a hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry you do get use to it. It's a bit of a trip for him." He turned to Nick for a moment. "I have to head out to Miller's won't be long."

Nick nodded at him.

"Miller's?" Gwen asked.

"If anything we need is in the local area Ianto likes to go out and meet them. Give it the personally touch. He hasn't been there for a while. It works though." Nick shook his head.

Gwen and Jack smiled that did sound like their Ianto.

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Nick looked down at his watch and then turned to Hill.

"Is Ianto back yet?"

Hill looked down at the screen, her face pale. "There is a hostage situation down at Miller's, in the large warehouse at the back."

"Call him now to see if he is out. Get the rest of them up here now." Fury ordered.

Gwen went and held Jack's hand. "I hope Ianto's going to be all right."

TBC