Morning

As soon as Martha saw them enter the dining room she knew something had happened. The quiet air of desperation both of them had carried for months had dissipated. She observed them as they helped themselves from the buffet and realised they also had a recently shagged look about them as well. She smiled to herself. She loved it when a plan came together.

"You two looked like you enjoyed yourselves yesterday," she said with complete innocence. She saw them exchange a small smile with each other.

"Yes we did," Jack said spreading butter over some toast.

"See some good sights?"

"Oh yeah," Ianto replied as a hand went under the table and Jack squeezed his knee. Ianto jumped then gave him wanton look which made Martha stifle a laugh.

"I called at your room this morning because I wanted to go over our general strategy for today, but you must have been in the shower," she said as she took a sip of coffee.

"I was with Ianto, we were..." Jack started to explain

"Jack was giving me a hand in preparation for the first session of the day," Ianto added as Martha raised both eyebrows.

"I bet he was" she muttered to herself.

"And I needed a hand for my facilitation of the session I am running later today," Jack added as he paid attention to his breakfast trying to avoid the way she was looking at them.

"And you did this in Ianto's room?" Martha checked. Ianto pulled his lips over his teeth giving her a coy look and nodded. "And I suppose later today you be giving each other another hand," she teased

"Most likely," Jack added as he stole some jam from Ianto's plate.

"Absolutely definitely without a doubt," Ianto replied.

"Oh yeah," Jack replied looking at Ianto with a tinge of lust who, was returning his gaze then took a bite of his own toast.

"I need more coffee," Martha groaned as she stood up.

"Good save!" Jack whispered as Martha moved away from the table.

"Do you think she suspects?" Ianto asked.

"I don't think so," Jack said as she returned and opening her laptop bag handed out the e-pads

"Well you forget these," she told them.

"There they are," Ianto told her in surprise.

"We were saying earlier we wondered where these were," Jack commented.

"So while you two were giving each other a hand I picked up the revised schedule for today," she handed them both a copy.

"Thank you very thoughtful of you," Jack said reading down the sessions for the day.

"Very thoughtful," Ianto replied.

"I can see the two of you are going to be busy," she teased.

"Oh I certainly hope so," Jack muttered.

"Yes we will," Ianto agreed as he ran his hand unseen along the inside of Jack's thigh. Martha rolled her eyes at the look Jack threw at Ianto.

Typing into his e-pad Jack tried to keep up with the conversation around him but all he could think of was Ianto. Last night and this morning had been incredible. He had woken up with Ianto draped all over him, his morning erection awake before he was. He had turned over then kissed a sleepy Ianto fully awake. What followed was a long hot shower, and it never amazed him to the uses for shower gel...well, they were both left very clean. Again he was careful to ensure every touch was gentle but firm and most importantly Ianto came first.

He had never realised just how demonstrative Ianto was. He stopped himself; well, Ianto had laid it out so he knew but until now never understood just how important this was. Not only that it went both ways, as Ianto had washed him down something he found completely surprising and erotic, he found he had forgotten how good this felt.

A plan began to form in his mind. It was a way to ensure that Ianto could tell him exactly what he wanted without having to be put on the spot, something he knew Ianto was extremely uncomfortable with. Secondly he knew he was bad at missing the little things. Well he had that covered too. In fact he had come up with a way for Ianto to tell him exactly what he needed. As for the rest, that could now all fall into place.

A thought came to him and he pulled out his mobile and sent him a text outlining exactly what he wanted to do to him later as he recalled the huge bath in his room. 'Order in some champagne and strawberries and dark coffee chocolates' as he fantasised what that would taste like on Ianto's lips as he kissed him. He looked up as the opposite delegate glared at him so pressed send and snapped it shut.

Listening to the drone of the speaker Ianto tried to keep his concentration. He was trying to make notes but his mind kept drifting back to the events of the morning. He has woken spooned against Jack's back as the alarm had gone off. This had led to a very wonderful start to the day, by being kissed awake, followed by loads more kissing leading to a hot shower. He was glad he didn't have to pay for the hot water bill and he hoped the walls were soundproofed. It was heaven. The love making had been more heated than the night before doing each other in the shower with interlinked hands.

They had then washed each other down, something Ianto admitted he had enjoyed very much. As they had soaped each other up Jack has told him he has plans to kiss him all over and admitted what was going to be really difficult was waiting till tonight. His attention was pulled back as he felt his mobile vibrate. He flipped it open and read the message, it was from Jack. He felt himself blush deeply as he keyed in a response. Looked around and saw another delegate glaring at him; he pressed send then put his phone away and tried to concentrate.

New Beginnings.

Lying on Jack's bed, both dressed in hotel dressing gowns, Ianto's head on his chest as Jack wrapped his arms around Ianto kissed the top of his head.

"What happens now?" Ianto asked softly.

"Well I was wondering...you and chocolate sauce...emm…," Jack said.

"No, I meant after tomorrow? I mean this is our last night, tomorrow you go back to Cardiff and I head back to Glasgow," Ianto interrupted taking a deep breath. "It's one thing being here, but another going home."

"Well we can always pray for another conference," Jack suggested.

"Yeah but after your suggestion that what we really need is a 'Men in Black' type of organisation going in the final report I can't see you being invited again," Ianto pointed out.

"They could take it seriously, we do need alien border control, and you already look good in a suit, pair of dark sunglasses, you're already well-armed, perfect agent material," Jack teased.

"I'm serious," Ianto said bringing them back on topic.

"We make it work, we talk to each other," Jack told him honestly. "If that's what you really want?" he asked fearfully as Ianto took his hand and kissed the palm.

"Yes, I do I want us to work this out," Ianto replied looking up at Jack.

Jack put his finger under Ianto's chin. "I know you don't want a long distance relationship with us just meeting up every now and then, and I heard you when you said you want something real."

"Look I'm no fool Jack; I know how important Torchwood is to you. Mickey, Martha, Owen and Tosh have all told me about what you've done, it's no longer an outpost. I mean you've been fundamental in making major changes, moving Torchwood to fulfil its potential."

"And I don't want you to walk away from something you worked on from the ground up," Jack told him as Ianto sighed. "There is no way I want you to give up being Director of the Artefact Project to move to Cardiff."

"So how do we work this?" Ianto said sadly thinking there was no solution.

"For now we talk to each other, email, mobile, text. I will come up to you and you can come down, we can meet in the middle," Jack explained. He saw Ianto begin to speak he kissed his words away.

"I don't want this either, but for right now that's what there is so please let's try and make this work," Jack continued. "I no longer live in the Hub, I have my own place, so if you do come down I have somewhere nice," he explained.

"To make this work we have to be together," Ianto said slowly. "Long distance relationships are kind of half and half…neither one thing nor the other."

"You want more Ianto and I hear you…I want more… "He hesitated for a moment then took a deep breath. "Three months, I can't say anything because in the past I have made so many promises and broken them and this new start," he kissed Ianto and cupped his face, "this wonderful new start shouldn't begin with me making a promise I may have to break, so I'm asking you to trust me that we can work something out. In three months we come back to this very conversation and we work out what we do next."

"Three months," Ianto checked out.

"That's all; three months. In the meantime we work at getting us right," Jack said.

"To get us right Jack we have to talk about one more thing, Gwen." He felt Jack take a sharp intake of breath.

Taking Ianto's hand he kissed it, "I swear to you nothing happened Ianto…" Ianto put a finger on Jack's lips.

"I've had a lot of time to think. I'm still not sure if you did or didn't. I know you're from the 51st Century…" Jack stopped his word with a kiss.

"I am not going to lose you over anyone else, especially Gwen Cooper," he stated firmly.

"If you do Jack, it's over. I will never speak or see you again."

"I hope my behaviour here has shown you how serious I am about us," Jack pointed out.

"This is an absolute deal breaker Jack. Cheating is the one thing I can't handle, if there is even a hint that you and Gwen or anyone else..."

"My actions will prove over time Ianto, you are enough for me. I won't look, I won't think," Jack stated.

"Now you're being unfair on yourself Jack. You can think, look and I know there will be times when you might have to use your charms, but this is a look, don't touch understanding."

"I will never put you in any situation where you will doubt my fidelity or my commitment to you again," Jack agreed as Ianto kissed him.

"New beginnings" Ianto said gently caressing his face when they pulled back.

"New beginnings," Jack agreed as he took his hand and kissed it.

Now," Ianto said as he fed Jack a truffle, " what happens if they really take on board your idea? We could turn Spud into some kind of talking mutt like that pug."

"If would be great until some alien appeared looking like a duck," Jack quipped.

"We could set up the base in some high rise building in London."

"I could be chief Zed," Jack said suddenly.

"Too good looking," Ianto told him. As he kissed him he pulled open Ianto's dressing gown and ran his hand along the inside of Ianto's thigh.

"Em, I see you've recovered," he heard Ianto moan in delight as he pulled him in closer.

"Stop talking and kiss me," Ianto demanded.