Another short one, the first of a couple but some bigger ones coming up.
Forgetting Torchwood.
Ianto wakes up the next morning to the ringing of his alarm clock and he felt slightly shaky. He felt as though he was hung over but otherwise fine. With the last 5 years of his memory gone but Ianto not knowing that part, Ianto wondered why his alarm had gone off and as he looked at the bedside table where is alarm clock was, he noticed a note book so he picked it up, still sat in his bed and read it.
"Dear Ianto,
You were involved in an accident a while back and you suffered head injuries. Due to these head injuries, you some times lose chunks of memory and that is why you wrote this down in this note book. It is a rough guide to what you need to know should you lose part of your memory again. Read it and hopefully it will help you. If you have lost any memories, call into work, number inside and call in sick for the day. There is a lot to get your head around depending on what you have lost. Good luck and be happy. Yourself. Ianto Jones," he wrote covering all bases before the Retcon.
Ianto thought a second about what the letter at the start of the note book had said and then read it again to make sure that he had it all right. Ianto had the strange feeling that something wasn't right but as he looked at the note again, he saw that it was his handwriting and his signature so it must be right. As the note requested, Ianto read the section on work about Alison and her family, as the note told him to take the day off if he lost any memory, which he had. He found the number in the note book and went to his land line and he called the number and spoke to Alison, telling her that he needed the day off which she agreed to. For the rest of the day, Ianto spent most of the time sitting with his feet up, drinking tea and reading the note book, over and over again so it stuck in his mind.
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The next week went on as usual, well, as usual as it was going to be now. Ianto went to work every day, went home, did something new to make more memories and went to bed for it all to start again. Unlike the old Ianto, he had time to kill now and he caught up with what was on at the cinema, went to the pub and even took Alison out one night to the cinema. He took back to her house afterwards and as they said goodnight on the door step, Ianto kissed Alison. When she went in, he began to think as he walked home. "That didn't feel right. Why didn't it feel right? She is pretty, funny and we get on like a house on fire so why didn't that feel right?" Ianto thought to himself.
He went home that night and was unable to get it out of his head. The next morning he went to work and carried on as usual but he didn't say a word to Alison about it not feeling right when he kissed her. He didn't want to hurt her feelings and telling her that, would. Life was as normal for Ianto Jones as it could get. There were no thoughts of Torchwood, no thoughts of his colleagues and no thoughts of Jack and there were no reminders either.
The team had avoided going into the shop to get their dinner orders, opting to leave Ianto alone. They didn't want to go in the shop and see Ianto, going about his job like he didn't know them, after all that they had gone through in the past years. It hurt them too much. It hurt Jack more and he made sure that he never went near Ianto even though he wanted nothing more than to go and see him, talk to him, touch him, kiss him but he didn't want to risk any memories coming forward. Ianto didn't know him anymore and it hurt him.