Ok, so not very happy with this, but it moves us on a little...

Lunch

Ianto looked up as Lisa joined him at the lunch table. He swallowed his mouthful before smiling and greeting her.

"How's your day going?" He asked

Lisa huffed, "Bit pants actually, some blokes from Cardiff are here and Hartman has got us all working to rule, they've gone overboard on confidentiality and secrecy. Liz got her wrist slapped for not locking down her computer when she went for a pee! She was only gone 5 minutes!"

Ianto nodded in sympathy "Yeah, we've had to recall all artefacts and audit all our records against actual objects going back six months. Fortunately Ian's got a good system going, we're only out by 3%, well within limits."

"Well providing what's missing is safe!"

Ianto grinned, "Just some paper records and a screwdriver with a sonic mechanism. I mean, why would you bother making a screwdriver sonic?"

"No idea. Are you going to eat that tomato or just look at it?"

"Neither – you have it; I only like tomato when it's on a pizza."

"I'll make you like veggies if it's the last thing I do" Lisa tapped him on the knuckle, Ianto smiled and caught her hand,

"Yes Mum, so how's the work on the ghost shifts going?"

"Hush! I'm not allowed to talk about it!"

Ianto looked around the canteen, it was full of people chattering and banging crockery, the noise echoing round the tall ceilings. "No one could overhear us in here, we're safer than if we were on a park bench in the middle of a park."

"I know, the whole thing is so interesting, I'm busting to tell you about it, but today of all days, I just can't." Lisa leant forward and pecked him on the lips.

"So is this seat taken?" A woman's voice interrupted arrogantly. Ianto looked up, a snarky retort on his lips, but Lisa broke across him.

"No that's fine, we were just going, come on Ianto you can make me a coffee." She pulled him gently by the hand, and he followed reluctantly.

"That's one of them! I saw her being shown round as I was coming down in the lift!"

Ianto looked back as he walked out of the canteen door. He saw a tall man in a grey coat sit down with the woman. He frowned; something about that coat was familiar. He knew he would be able to place it in a while.

Jack raised an eyebrow at Suzie, she handed him her PDA, there was a photo of Ianto as he looked up at her. The facial recognition programme finished and Jack nodded as it confirmed his suspicions. Why was Torchwood 1 so interested in a kid from Newport that they tracked him down and recruited him, and had one of their top undercover agents babysitting him?

Stay with me for angst, kick ass Ianto and something that may take longer than five minutes to read. I may be gone a while...