The next morning Ianto finally emerged from Jack's office around 10 am. Jack was still sound asleep and Ianto had idly wondered if he had gotten any sleep in the last hundred years or had just waited for Ianto to be with him before he was able to relax. He was touched to find that the clothing he had kept stored in Jack's closet was still there. He had taken one of his suits out of its bag from the cleaners and had dressed, the well fitted garment making him feel normal once again.

He stepped out of Jack's office and paused on the landing, looking down into the Hub. Most of the staff was already there. Obviously this crew was better about showing up in the morning than his team used to be. He came down the steps, the heels of his shoes announcing his presence. Todd looked up and whistled.

"Wow, very retro!" He exclaimed as he looked at Ianto who was dressed in a three piece suit, complete with fob watch. "Very nice."

"Thanks, I think," Ianto said wryly as he descended. He took a look around the room and nodded to each member of the team. He decided to wander over to the kitchen area to see what was there. After poking around the new appliances that were there, he noticed that there was a cloth draped over something. Peeking under one corner, he laughed as he saw that his coffee maker was still there. He pulled off the protective cover and folded it. Hunting around the cabinets, he found everything he needed to make coffee and set about doing so.

The sounds of the grinder whirring and the coffee machine spouting out liquid drew the staff over to watch. Rob leaned against the counter, watching as Ianto retrieved several mugs from the cabinet and placed them next to the machine.

"Anyone up for coffee?" He asked. He smiled at the eager nods and asked each of the how they took it. They only had to tell him once and he prepared each cup in turn, handing it as he finished. He pulled a final espresso for himself and leaned back against the counter to enjoy it.

"This is amazing, Ianto," Julia said as she took a sip. "No wonder Jack wouldn't let us get rid of that. In the hands of a master, it makes a superb cup."

"Thank you," Ianto said with a smile. "Anything going on this morning?" Todd shook his head. "Good, we can let Jack sleep then."

"Jack's asleep?" Rob asked. Ianto nodded. "Wow, that has to be a first. He never seems to sleep."

"Yeah, bad habit of his," Ianto said. He looked down at his mug, wondering how much they knew about their boss.

"I know it's none of our business," Rob said. "But are you two...?" He searched for a word.

"Together?" Ianto supplied and Rob nodded. "We dabble." He had used that word in the past and while there was more to the relationship than that it seemed to be as good as any other word to describe them. He could see Todd's eyes grow wide. "What?"

"Saint Jack in a relationship?" The young computer whiz asked. He started laughing and Gwri and Rob followed suit. Julia just sat on the sofa with her legs crossed and shook her head. Ianto choked on his coffee.

"What did you say?" He spluttered. He couldn't have heard that right.

"That's his nickname," Rob said. He turned to Ianto with a quizzical expression on his face. "Saintly as a monk."

"Jack?" Ianto asked again with a note of disbelief in his voice and everyone nodded. "Celibate?" Another nod. "Since when?"

"Since forever," Todd said. "You never see him on the pull, or going out with anyone. He just mopes around here most of the time, or downstairs in the archives."

"You have got to be kidding me," Ianto said. He looked down into his empty mug. "My god, this deserves another shot. I don't think my brain can handle the concept of a celibate Jack Harkness." He turned, made himself another cup, and drank it down quickly. "I must be hallucinating, because that certainly isn't the Jack that I know."

"Why are you surprised?" Gwri asked curiously. "If you are together or whatever it is you are, wouldn't you expect that?"

"Not Jack," Ianto said with a shake of his head. "Are you saying he doesn't flirt with everything in sight?" Gwri shook his head. "What has happened to him?"

"Maybe he was waiting for you to come back to him," Julia suggested. Ianto turned to her and considered her statement. He shook his head. It was still too fantastic an idea to even fathom.

"Mind boggling, that's what the concept is," Ianto muttered to himself. He made the team another round of coffee before taking a seat next to Julia. "So, what's a normal day like in Torchwood in the twenty second century?"

"Much like any other," Todd said with a grin. "We watch the rift, chase down aliens, wake Kip," he said, nudging the other man who was nodding off in a chair next to him. "Pull in bodies, artifacts and keep the city safe." The others nodded.

"I was looking at the recent records last night," Ianto said. "What was the last one there? An earthquake?"

"It certainly felt like one," Rob admitted. He rubbed the back of his neck as he thought back to earlier in the week and what happened. "Alien ship crashed and caused a rift spike. Something in the engines destabilized the rift protection field and it almost took down the Hub."

"Is that what damaged my cryo tank?" Ianto asked. Gwri nodded. "Luckily there wasn't more damage."

"Oh there was," Gwri said. "We were just able to transfer some of the more dangerous suspects to other caskets before they thawed." Ianto shuddered as he thought of some of the creatures trapped down there. Any one of them getting out could spell trouble, but more than one at the same time could spell certain disaster. "Though we didn't realize that there were live people down there."

"You didn't?" Ianto asked in surprised. Both Gwri and Julia shook their heads, followed by the others. Ianto gave Julia a troubled look. "Not even with your medical override?"

"Never thought to look, to be honest," Julia said candidly. "I think we all thought that they were deceased."

"Jack never told you what's down there?" Ianto felt himself getting mad on their behalf. "How can he expect you to work for him when he actively cripples your ability to do so?"

"Need to know, Ianto," Jack's voice said from across the room. Ianto looked up at Jack who was leaning against the railing. Ianto got up and walked over and stared at Jack. He put his hands on his hips and looked up at Jack with an annoyed look on his face.

"And you didn't think that detail important enough for them to know?" Jack shook his head, though his eyes avoided the younger man. "Jack," Ianto's voice was laced with disappointment as he pointed to the group behind him. "If you can't trust them, who can you trust?"