"This has become a regular thing now" Andy said pushing a blonde lock out of his face.
"What has?" Gwen asked while Ianto turned to stare at Andy curiously.
"Delivering pizza to other people's houses. The pizza place is going to hire us any day now" Andy said knowingly.
Ianto rolled his eyes and Gwen decided to ignore Andy in favour of Owen Harper's front door that had just been opened by an elderly woman. The elderly woman smiled at them. "Oh you must be Owen's little friends. Come in; come in its freezing out there. I don't know how those little children cope going round outside asking for sweeties" she picked up a bowel filled with toffees. "Would you like one? They're for the children but you can have one"
"No thank you Mrs...?"
"Oh you can just call me Nana dear, Jackie does. The boys and the quiet Japanese girl are upstairs in Owen's room. Upstairs first on the right"
Gwen and the others followed Nana's instructions, the moment the sweet elderly lady was out of hear shot Andy began to chuckle. "Jackie? Does she mean Jack? I didn't realise he was female. Out of luck there Gwen" he teased.
"I have you know that Jackie is a perfectly good name for a very manly man" Jack said lightly from the doorway, his arms crossed as he leaned against the frame. "And Nana is a sweet lady, who would want to upset her?"
"Hi, I brought the pizza" Gwen said kissing Jack's cheek. "How come Owen's grandmother lives here?"
"Because she's my guardian you nosey cow" Owen grumbled from the bed, Tosh sitting beside him looking very embarrassed and unsure with herself. "My parents never gave a damn about me. The end, can we watch the movie now?"
"Sorry" Gwen said nibbling on her lip.
Owen shrugged. "Doesn't matter. Movie, now"
Jack rolled his eyes at Owen's impatience before putting the DVD on, Gwen flicked the lights off and the six of them sat on Owen's bed which was fortunately a double. Dracula 2000 was a rather badly done horror compared to most, however it had enough things to make people jump and most of the group were definitely jumping. Andy was clinging to Ianto's wrist, his nails digging in tightly much to Ianto's discomfort, Gwen was clinging tightly to Jack's shirt while resting her head against his shoulder and Tosh was buried completely into Owen, muffling her shrieks into his shirt. While Ianto ignored Andy and Jack merely wrapped an arm round Gwen, Owen couldn't let Tosh remain terrified and turned the DVD on.
"Flick the lights back on will you?" Owen asked Jack in a bored tone. Who pulled away from Gwen to do so. "Let's eat and chat instead, that film was shit"
Tosh pulled away slightly and smiled up at him gratefully while Andy complained loudly. Gwen knocked Andy telling him to shut up while Ianto passed out drinks to everyone, varying between soft ones and alcoholic depending on the person.
"Let's tell a story instead" Jack said jumping back on the bed and picking up a pizza box, helping himself to a slice. "Come on I'll tell you the tale of the haunted car"
"That's Christie by Stephen King" Ianto said frowning.
"Yeah be a little original Jack" Owen scoffed.
"Ok" Jack grinned. "Once there lived a police officer. Nothing special just an ordinary girl with a boring boyfriend and an average job. One stormy night a murder had been committed and the crime scene was closed off for a special secret team. The girl being curious climbed up onto a fire escape and watched them...bring the person back to life"
Everyone laughed at Jack's dramatic spooky tone and sat there listening as he told how the girl kept following the people who brought the murder victim back to life using a glove and how she was killed by one of them who went psycho. After Jack Ianto took over and told them a gruesome story about a man who had a half robot girlfriend hidden in the basement. The robot girlfriend went psycho and killed the man's friends and then the man before taking over the world. Andy then jumped in with a very detailed story of an alien that got a woman pregnant by biting her, the next day she was nine months pregnant and it was her wedding day, the others shuddered at the thought of her laying there in her white dress all torn up and covered in blood once Andy had finished telling the tale. Gwen then told a creepy story about a group of friends gone camping near a village and each one of them went missing one by one. It was discovered later by the police that the teenagers had all been eaten by the villagers. Tosh then surprisingly spoke up and told a story about a mind-manipulator that destroyed a group of friends by making them believe everything. They ended up alive because they erased their memories of the two days but with one of them suffering flashbacks of his dead family, another believing he was a murderer, one forgot her boyfriend, and the other lost his self-confidence and another believed she was in love with the manipulator. It was enough to give everyone the shivers, all thinking about Adam. The story had hit a little too close to home.
"My turn" Owen said breaking the tense silence. "Now my story is a true urban myth. It's been rumoured for decades that in the sewers of Cardiff live the most hideous, primitive creatures anyone has seen called the-"
"Owen" there was a knock on the door and the boys tried to cover their snickers at the inappropriate timing of Owen's grandmother. "Owen dear it's time for your friends to go, it's almost midnight"
"Ok Nana, just a minute. You go ahead and get some sleep" Owen called back before shooting a glare at the others.
"Thank you for having us" Tosh whispered politely as she slipped her coat on.
"Yeah Owen, we had fun. Should do this again" Gwen agreed.
"If you want some help tiding up-"
"Nah it's all right" Owen interrupted Ianto. "You lot bugger off. I'll see you in school"
"K, bye Owen"
"Later mate"
"Goodbye"
"See ya"
"Goodnight"
The front door slammed shut as all of Owen's friends finally left the house. Owen wandered up and turned left into his grandmother's room where she sat comfortable in her bed. He smiled weakly as he passed her, her tablets and helped her drink her water.
"You shouldn't have waited up Nana" Owen chided gently. "If you're tired then go straight to bed. I would have made sure the others would leave in time"
"Now Owen dear I wouldn't be a proper grandmother if I didn't care would I?" Nana said softly. "They're good people Owen. You have very good friends"
"Yeah...probably too good for me" Owen muttered before kissing his grandmother's head. "Goodnight"
"Night, night dear"
