Thinking back to Ianto as wedding fairy. Time to clean up after a Williams' party again.

Party fairies - Chapter 20

They removed the dead bodies and took them to the SUV which Johnson had used to come to the party. One of them always had the car just in case it was needed. Ellie seemed to be recovering more quickly than expected and Mitchell had strapped up her arm using the hotel's first aid kit. Jack's leg was already beginning to knit itself back together but he was very sore. Ianto, Jase and Aidan had put all the chairs back and sorted the tables. Blood stains had been removed from the carpet.

'I'll let Rhys know that he can bring them back in. I've smoothed it over with the staff. Most of them weren't aware of what happened. The food is ready to serve. We've checked with the police and no calls reached them thanks to Aidan's quick thinking. It is contained to here so we just need to pop a few pills in all the drinks later on. The room is booked until the early hours of the morning.'

All the people returned. Luckily all of the windows had been French doors so they just opened them as it was a warm day. The meal was consumed and the drink began to flow. They'd put the story about that it was a gang attempting to rob the hotel and that they had been dealt with by Special Forces who left quickly having sorted things. Most seemed ready to believe that the gang had done something to block their phones. After the retcon Ianto and Aidan would have to go round and check every phone to remove text or pictures.

The music had started as the DJ arrived and the dancing began. Jack had said to Ianto that they needed to talk but Ianto had avoided him for some time. His sister and brother in law had turned up so Ianto had sat with them. Jack was left on his own for a bit. He got himself over to where Aidan and Jase were sat down still limping a bit but his body was recovering quickly.

'I need to know who he is. I thought he was a friend of yours. That's not all he is and Ianto's avoiding me. Something is going on and I want to know what.' Jack was angry and worried as well as being in some pain.

'We just know him as Iestyn Evans. We met him about five years ago. He's a money man in Cardiff. He wanted to play rugby and he was good. That's all we know.'

'Not all I saw you talking to Ianto. He looked embarrassed and you looked concerned. There's something that you're not telling me. Something that happened last night. Tell me.' Jack was insistent. He had grabbed Aidan and was holding on tight. Aidan removed his hand.

'Jack we can't tell you. Anything you need to know you need to talk to Ianto about and anyway surely we need to be thinking about what we are going to do about this threat. Your love life comes second to that. I've been using my PDA to check any CCTV available. About a mile away someone had a camera put up in a street to catch speeding drivers. It picked up a van speeding along the street. The van is registered to Clements Chemicals. Either they're stupid or they wanted us to know. Tomorrow we need to sort this. There was something wrong with that attack. They had no weapons with them. It looked like a test to see if they could control the creatures despite their natural aptitude to kill.'

'You're right' said Jack 'but I will need to talk to Ianto. Your friend Iestyn is a time agent. There are only seven of them left. I was one myself. He's here for a reason and we need to know why.'

Ianto was desperately trying to stay away from Jack and so was Alice. This was the first time she had seen her father die. Johnson had tried to protect her but her father had actually died trying to do the same. She knew he died but she hadn't realised how much pain he suffered. She didn't want to talk to him yet but perhaps in the future she might. Jenny would support her what ever she decided to do. She had also put her life on the line to protect her. Alice needed a drink. Johnson as always when driving drank nothing but water.

Ellie sat with Mitchell. She was beginning to recover. She knew that the man who'd burst in had guessed what they were but who was he and would he say anything? Mitchell had been to Gwen and thanked her for the entertaining day but that he was taking Ellie home. Gwen had assumed that he was a doctor and he didn't tell her otherwise. They left in Mitchell's car. Gwen had given Ellie some retcon but she knew she didn't need to use it. Mitchell was used to keeping secrets.

Several couples were up dancing on the floor. The music was the sort that people danced to at parties. Children had fallen asleep on the chairs. The retcon worked more quickly on them. Gwen was dancing with Rhys and their parents were up as well. The music changed to a slow dance and Alice pulled Johnson to the floor. They danced together without caring what others thought. Jack went up to Ianto.

'Do you mind if I remove him?' he said the Rhi and Johnny. They'd left the children with Johnny's Mum as Mica had been well enough to be left.

'No problem I think we'll have a dance too eh Rhi.'

Jack pulled Ianto up from the chair to the dance floor. He held Ianto close but noticed how tense he was.

'It's OK Ianto I'm not going to ask questions now. I know from your face that you didn't know what he was. Just dance with me please my leg is almost recovered.'

'OK Jack and you're right I didn't know he was a time agent but there are some things we need to talk about.'

Jack put a finger to Ianto's lips to tell him to stop talking. Ianto put his head on Jack's shoulder and they swayed to the music.

By midnight everyone in the room other than Jack, Ianto, Gwen, Rhys, Johnson and Aidan were asleep. They would wake up gradually over the two hours thinking that they had been very drunk or tired. Gwen had organised some rooms for those who wanted to stay. The hotel had a mini bus service which was on stand by as well. She wondered whether Jack and Ianto would work their way through whatever had happened and later that day they were going to have to work out what to do. As people came round Gwen, Rhys and the others sorted out rooms. They then managed to get retcon to all the staff as they shared a drink with them to thank them. Ianto, Johnson and Aidan checked all the phones and dealt with any problems. By two am the room was cleared.

'Meet at the Hub at mid-day.' Gwen said. 'And try to get some sleep.'

'She grabbed Ianto's arm and said 'are you and Jack OK.?'

'I'm going back to my flat' said Ianto. 'And Jack is going back to crash at the Hub. We need some space. I'll try not to let it interfere but yes there is a situation that we have to deal with and I don't know what is going to happen. I love him but I'm not sure that that's enough anymore.'

Johnson was there when Alice woke up.

'I must have drunk more than I thought. We'd better go home.'

Some stayed and some left.

'Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day' Aidan thought as he put Jase in the car. He hadn't wanted to retcon him but Gwen insisted.

'He may know about some things but we can't have him knowing everything.'

All passed the next few hours wondering what would happen come morning and some like Jack got very little sleep at all.