"Kitty? Kitty, how did it get you?"
"I…I don't know."
Ianto frowned slightly. Why had she hesitated? He glanced at Jack to see if the older man had noticed anything, but it looked like he hadn't.
Jack stared at Kitty for a moment, then shook his head. "Probably doesn't matter. Go on, you go plan our wedding party or something."
"You sure?"
Jack grinned. "Yeah. Go on, go plan!"
Kitty glanced over her shoulder as she left, looking puzzled.
"Jack?" Ianto said as soon as the younger woman had gone.
"Hmm?"
"I know when you fake-smile. Something's wrong, what is it?"
Jack looked at him. "Ianto, the only way it could have got her when she wasn't beside the water tower is if the Rift is spreading on her side."
"And that's bad?" Martha asked.
"I'd be very surprised if it was good." Jack told her grimly.
Kitty hummed to herself as she flicked through a catalogue of wedding decorations. She glanced up when Ianto sat down beside her, peering over her shoulder.
"So…are you going to tell me what's up?" she asked. Ianto looked puzzled.
"Up with what?"
Kitty laughed. "Come on, Yan, I'm not stupid. Jack's not telling me something."
"Well, you're not telling us everything."
"Excuse me?!"
Ianto looked at her. "When Jack asked you how the Rift got you, you hesitated."
"No I didn't."
"Ok, if you don't want to tell me that's fine. But if it's something that could help us…"
"Ianto. Honestly, there's nothing."
Ianto shrugged. "Ok, if you say so." He looked at the page she was looking at and grimaced, "No. No way am I having that as a centrepiece."
"But it's so cute!"
"Well, at you're wedding you can have it then!" he grinned. "God, you are going to be the wedding planner from hell aren't you?"
She shrugged, grinning. "What about guests?" she asked.
"Hmm?"
"You know, people who you invite? They come to the wedding and sit in little chairs?"
He gave her an ironic look. "I don't know really. I mean, obviously Jack doesn't have any family anymore, or yet if you want to be technical. I mean, he might want to invite Sarah-Jane…"
"What about you? Your family?"
He shifted uncomfortably. "We don't really get on."
"Oh?"
"My mam sort of…freaked out when I told her I was bisexual."
"So she doesn't know about Jack?"
He shook his head.
"Why don't you tell her? I mean, you are getting married after all."
He smiled bitterly. "I think she's hoping I'll see the error of my ways and settle down with a nice girl. She was so thrilled when I started dating Lisa. I think the idea of me entering a civil partnership might…upset her."
"You'll never know unless you try."
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The next week passed almost without incident. Which disturbed Jack a lot. It suggested that his theory that the Rift was unravelling somewhere was wrong. Which meant he still had no idea how Kitty had wound up there.
Jack didn't like not knowing what was going on. It made him feel vulnerable.
"Jack?" he looked up as Kitty walked in. "I was just wondering if there was anything I could, you know, do. Don't get me wrong, planning the wedding's great, but this is Torchwood for crying out loud! I'm in Torchwood! I have to at least, I dunno, clean up an alien or something!"
He smiled. "Don't let Ianto hear you say that or he'll give you all his cleanup duties." He paused. "Actually, he wouldn't. He loves them too much."
Kitty laughed.
"You could always help me with this paperwork." Jack said hopefully.
"I'll go find Ianto, see if there's any alien guts to clean up!"
Jack pouted and Kitty grinned at him. "Oh, Kitty?" he said as she left.
"Yeah?"
"Can you get Ianto to come up here? We need to talk wedding dates."
"Sure." She scampered out of the room. Jack smiled. The young woman really did have such energy towards things. Although Jack still wasn't entirely sure she'd registered how much danger came with Torchwood. She was too used to seeing it all happen from the comfort of her own sofa; where if someone got hurt one week they were fine the next. He looked down at the report he was trying to write. Only, now he looked at it, the last paragraph he'd written didn't even make sense.
He sighed and laid down his pen, stretching his arms up behind his head.
"Kitty said you wanted me."
He looked up in surprise as Ianto came in. "Yeah! I was thinking we need to discuss a date for the wedding."
"Right."
"Don't sound too enthusiastic will you? I can't take the excitement."
Ianto grinned ironically at him. "It's just; we can't guarantee an invasion free day, can we? Sods law is there'll be no alien activity for weeks before and after the day we pick, and a full blown invasion on our wedding day!"
"But if we don't pick, no-one will know when to turn up and it'll just be you, me, Kitty, Toshiko and Martha. Janet will have to be maid of honour.
Ianto laughed in spite of himself. "Ok…how about the 16th?"
"That soon?" asked Jack in surprise. That would only give them 3 weeks.
"Is that a problem? I mean, it's just a suggestion, we could leave it later…" Ianto babbled.
Jack silenced him with a kiss. "The 16th sounds wonderful. Honestly."
"You sure?"
"Absolutely. Besides, the sooner we have it the better. Means Kitty can stop being a trainee bridezilla."
"You know, I can't help but feel sorry for James."
Jack looked at him questioningly. "Huh?"
"I mean, if she's like this for our wedding, what's she going to be like for hers?"
Jack snorted. "Oh my God, that is so true."
Sorry, I know this is uber short, but next chapter should be longer because it's going to be…
…dun dun dun…
…The Wedding! I know people want to see it happen :)
Look forward to it people! Reviews are adored as per always x