Path to forgiveness Part four
A week after Ianto comes back from his suspension; he is hurt by an alien device. Deaging fic. Spoilers up to Cyberwoman. Warnings Gwen bashing and preslash, Janto of course.
Beta'd by the amazing Owensheart
CHAPTER SIX
There was barely enough time in order for Owen to calm Ianto down before Jack and Tosh had returned from their hunt with their newly captured weevil.
They quickly took the weevil down to the cells so that they could lock it up before the Weevil Spray wore off, it would end well if the creature managed to break lose. Well there was that and the fact that they didn't want Ianto to notice the scary looking alien and freak out.
None of them believed that Ianto would react well to seeing the weevil and they didn't want to cause him to have any nightmares.
When Tosh and Jack returned to the main area of the hub they were both shocked and slightly scared at what they found there.
Gwen looked absolutely terrified whilst Owen looked a mixture of being furious and concerned. But it was Ianto that worried Jack and Tosh the most, there where tear tracks going down the toddler's face making it obvious that he had been crying. The only question was what, or rather who, managed to upset Ianto so much
"What the hell happened here?" Jack demanded, as he tried to keep himself calm so that he wouldn't upset the small child further. "I thought that I told you both to look after him, why has he been crying?"
Neither one answered for a few moments and Jack used that time to take the upset child from the medic's arms and start to rock the still sniffling child in the hopes of calming him down.
"It's nothing Jack, just a misunderstanding," Gwen lied, rather inconvincibly, she knew that Jack would be furious with her when he found out what had happened and she didn't really want to get into trouble with her boss. Though she knew that Owen would have no problems with telling Jack exactly what happened, she just hoped that Jack thought he was over exaggerating.
"Do you have anything else to add Owen?" Jack asked not believing Gwen for a second, she really was a horrible liar, and he desperately hoped that the medic would be willing to actually tell him what really happened.
"Well the thing is," Owen started, he was slightly afraid that Jack would be angry with him for trusting Gwen with looking after Ianto even though she had been treating him horribly lately, even worse than anyone else.
"I needed to finish cleaning up after my last autopsy, Ianto would kill me if there are blood stains in the medical bay because I didn't clean up fast enough," Owen continued. "So I left Gwen to look after Ianto for ten minutes and when I came back he was crying his eyes out."
"Do you know what she did to upset Ianto?" Jack interrupted, whilst Tosh walked up to her workstation and logged into her computer.
"No I didn't," Owen answered. "But that isn't the worst thing, when I came up to see how they were doing Gwen was about to smack Ianto across the face. I barely managed to stop her in time."
"I wasn't going to really hit him," Gwen insisted as Jack turned to her with fury in his eyes. "I was just trying to calm him down, it just must have looked wrong from where Owen was standing."
"She's lying Jack," Tosh informed her boss from her workstation, she knew that it would be much easier to discover the truth by using the CCTV footage, probably faster as well. But even she wasn't prepared for what she saw.
As Jack headed over to where Tosh was sitting Gwen really started to get worried, she had completely forgotten about all the cameras that were placed all around the hub. Jack would see everything that Happened and Gwen had no idea how she was going to explain it all to Jack, especially if she didn't want Jack to think too badly of her.
It didn't take long for Tosh to show Jack all of the relevant footage and jack carefully handed Ianto over to Tosh before going to his office closely followed by Gwen and Owen. After all he didn't want to scare Ianto by having a go at Gwen in front of him.
"What the hell were you playing at?" Jack yelled as soon as the office door closed. "What is your problem? How could you treat a three year old like that?"
"I'm so sorry," Gwen pleaded. "I had a really bad headache and I just snapped at him, I didn't mean any of it, honestly."
"I don't care if you had a headache that is no reason for you to act like such a heartless bitch," Jack snapped. "Besides I heard all you said to Owen about how he didn't deserve getting looked after by us and you were wrong. He made a mistake, trying to save someone he loved, and that doesn't mean we should just abandon him. What kind of friends would that make us?"
"But Jack," Gwen whined. "We were almost killed because of him, two innocent people died because of his actions."
"What about what happened with the alien sex gas that you released?" Jack demanded. "All those innocent men killed because you decided that it would be a good idea to throw a chisel near a meteorite."
"That's different," Gwen protested. "I didn't mean for any of those men to die, it was an accident."
"Neither did Ianto," Jack replied. "He just wanted to save the woman he loved."
"I'm sorry Jack," Gwen said as she looked at the captain apologetically.
"Just go home Gwen," Jack signed not wanting to talk about this any longer. "Think about what you did today and I will see you tomorrow, hopefully with a better attitude."
"Fine!" Gwen snapped as she stormed out of the hub, she couldn't believe that Jack had taken Ianto's side over her, she was much more important than Ianto and she didn't understand why Jack was acting like it was really the other way around.
"Oh and Gwen," Jack called out just as Gwen was about to leave his office. "If you ever treat another member of this team like that ever again, you will be instantly fired and Retconned. This team is my family and I will not stand for any of my family getting bullied especially from other members."
"I'm sorry for leaving Gwen alone with Ianto," Owen apologised once Gwen had left the office. "I should have thought about how she treated Ianto before and realised that she wouldn't look after him now. Though I really didn't think that she would be capable of this."
"It isn't your fault," Jack reassured. "You were just trying to do your job properly, if I had thought about it I would have taken Gwen with me instead of Tosh."
"It's neither of our faults," Owen stated. "It's Gwen's fault, after all she's the one who acted like a total bitch today. I can't believe how much she has changed since she started working here, it's almost like she's two different people."
"I know," Jack agreed. "If she keeps acting like this I am really going to have to consider replacing her."
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AN – I am also asking for prompts for one shots. I am working on Torchwood, Merlin and Harry Potter fics. Preferably slash and I will not do any sex scenes or character death. Thank you =D.