Author Note: Torchwood is owned by the BBC.

Chapter Forty Three

"Come to bed" moaned Jack but Ianto shook his head "I'll only be ten minutes, you go up, I'll join you in a minute."

Jack sighed and flopped onto the sofa, placing his head in Ianto's lap, who was busy typing something on his laptop which was balanced precariously on the arm rest. "What are you doing anyway?"

"Test for Gwen."

Jack snorted "are you serious?"

"Did you or did you not say that I can train her in the manner that I see fit?" said Ianto looking down at Jack crossly.

Jack held his hands up in submission "sorry."

Ianto sighed "it's a test on the manual; she obviously didn't read it the first time round because she didn't even know who the Doctor was when you went travelling with him."

Jack raised his eyebrows, that was a mild way for Ianto to put it, he usually didn't like to mention his time away or the Doctor. Ianto clearly hated the man, although Jack had put it behind him Ianto had never forgiven the Timelord for calling him 'wrong' and the fact that it took him three months to get Jack back just irritated the young man further.

"So this way you know if she's actually doing as you asked?"

"Yep" said Ianto.

Jack grinned "I love your evil side."

"It's not evil" grinned back Ianto "it's just procedure."

Jack shivered theatrically "some might say that paperwork is evil."

Ianto closed his laptop and set it down on the coffee table in front of them "some people meaning you right?" he said, running a hand through Jack's hair making him melt into Ianto's lap. Jack closed his eyes in pleasure and was only slightly startled as he felt Ianto place a chaste kiss on his lips. "Come on let's get you to bed."

-TW-

The next day Gwen came into the hub holding the heavy manual "finished" she declared proudly to Ianto placing the book on his desk with a flourish.

Ianto looked at her and wondered if she expected a 'well done'. Instead he said "here, do this will you please?"

Gwen looked down at the sheets of paper in her hand and saw thirty questions based on the manual that needed to be answered "really?" she asked.

"Yep" said Ianto looking back at his computer "we need to know that you know the important details."

Gwen huffed but soon began to complete the test, nearly half an hour later she gave it back to him. Ianto scanned it and sighed "you've got a lot of these wrong Gwen."

Gwen huffed "I did read it! How am I supposed to remember everything?"

"I'm not asking you to memorise it word perfect Gwen" said Ianto crossly.

"That's impossible" Gwen snorted.

Ianto sighed and gave Gwen the manual "find chapter sixteen and the section on Weevils."

Gwen did as she was told and was amazed as Ianto began "Weevils can be subcategorised into two groups, wild Weevils and tagged Weevils. Wild Weevils are becoming extremely rare, and are usually found to be either from the rift, or a sign of the current Weevil population reproducing. Shall I continue?" asked Ianto.

Gwen was amazed, Ianto had remembered the passage correctly, and she shook her head.

"Good" Ianto said "read it again tonight, today however we have firearms training."

"Ianto, I already know how to hold a weapon."

"I know" said Ianto "but Jack ordered retraining which includes weapons training."

"But I already knew how to fire a gun when I was with the police" Gwen said defiantly.

Ianto sighed, his patience with Gwen was wearing thin "did you or did you not receive weapons training when you came here?"

"Yes" admitted Gwen.

"So I will go downstairs, watch you fire a few guns and then sign the appropriate paperwork okay?"

"You're doing it?" Gwen asked surprised.

"Yes, Jack's busy" said Ianto shortly.

Gwen's mind flew back to her training session with Jack when she joined all those months ago; she guessed that was when she had truly begun to have feelings for the enigmatic man. He had pressed up against her whilst correcting her stance and his muscled body behind hers had excited her. She remembered soft, smooth hands on her arms, hands and waist, she remembered warm breath on the back of her neck and she remembered being disappointed when all the soft touches didn't lead anywhere.

Gwen's cheeks coloured and Ianto rolled his eyes "he has that affect on everybody that he trains."

"Even you?" asked Gwen curiously, following Ianto down to the practice range, she wondered what it would take to make the usually calm Ianto flustered.

"Nope" Ianto said tightly and Gwen could have kicked herself, when Ianto was firearms trained Lisa was probably just down the hallway.

Gwen and Ianto walked into the shooting range and Gwen saw a range of standard issue firearms as well as some more alien looking weapons laid out on the table.

"Jack never showed me how to shoot an alien weapon" frowned Gwen.

"I know" said Ianto "they're for later on" he offered no more explanation and Gwen picked up her usual firearm.

"Okay" said Ianto looking at his clipboard "first I need you to show me that you know how to change the clips and clean the weapon."

Gwen sighed and began to dismantle her gun; she cleaned the weapon thoroughly and then slammed the clip back in with more force than necessary.

"Good enough?" she asked sarcastically.

Ianto just frowned "is there a problem Gwen?"

"You know that I know how to clean a gun."

Ianto snapped "well Gwen I also thought that I knew that you knew not to touch alien artefacts that could potentially kill everybody!"

Gwen flinched and realised that she had pushed too far, but Ianto showed no signs of stopping.

"If you want to pass your six month probation, you need to be retrained. I am the only one who can retrain you and without both mine and Jack's signatures on all the relevant paperwork you will not be allowed to stay here. If you keep giving me attitude then I will just give up on you, do you not think that I have got better things to do than watch you clean guns? Or have to check that you've even read the bloody literature!"

"I got some right" Gwen replied sullenly.

Ianto unclipped Gwen's test from underneath his paperwork for the firearms training "okay here you state that if you were faced with a swarm of Vashta Nerada you would turn off the lights."

Gwen frowned "I thought they were something to do with lights."

"Yes" bit out Ianto "they can look like shadows Gwen! If you lead a team and tell them to turn off the lights you are all dead."

"Oh" said Gwen.

"Yes oh" said Ianto angrily "you've answered questions incorrectly on several procedures including how to catalogue artefacts safely and correctly, how to communicate with telepathic species and basic filling!"

Gwen bit her lip she should have really gotten the cataloguing artefacts question right after what had happened."Sorry" she mumbled.

Ianto visibly calmed down and smoothed out his tie "right, let's get on I have a busy day." Gwen aimed her gun and Ianto sighed "no Gwen, er... just widen your feet a little to improve your stance." Gwen shifted her feet and Ianto said, "stand sideways as well."

Gwen grit her teeth "like this?"

"Yeah" said Ianto "it creates a smaller target for the enemy."

Ianto continued to give Gwen instructions and she growled in frustration when a few of her shots went wide.

"Here, watch my stance" said Ianto, putting down his clipboard and taking a gun.

Ianto fired off a round and Gwen was annoyed to see that he didn't miss the target once. "How did you do that?" she asked.

"I had basic training in London, but well... Jack managed to disarm me quickly when... Lisa" Ianto said quietly. "I practiced a lot down here and Jack helped me a lot."

Gwen suddenly wondered if the two of them had ever had sex down here and blushed. She quickly raised her gun again and aimed at the paper target, "no Gwen like this."

Ianto moved over to the woman and manipulated her arms and waist so she was in the best possible position. Gwen trembled, she had never really thought of Ianto as attractive before but this was just like it was with Jack, she could feel his warm breath blowing gently in her hair and smell the subtle scent of his aftershave.

Just as quickly as he touched her, he moved away and Gwen thought that it was probably the most contact she had had with Ianto since she had joined Torchwood. She always thought that Ianto didn't really like touching people, but she had noticed that since he had grown in confidence within the team, he often hugged Tosh and he and Jack were always discreetly touching at work.

Gwen fired and she hit the paper target in the centre.

"Good" said Ianto.

"Thanks" said Gwen breathlessly, she wondered why she was thinking about Ianto in this way and put it down to the thought of him and Jack having sex in this room, the idea of it had just flustered her.

A short while later Ianto declared that Gwen was proficiently trained in the use of firearms and said that she could spend the rest of the day re-reading the manual. This time Ianto was pleased to see that Gwen took out a notepad and pen and began making notes as she read.

Ianto made his way up to Jack's office so that he could sign the relevant paperwork and was surprised when he saw that Jack had the CCTV footage from the shooting range up on his computer.

"Where you watching us?" he asked surprised.

"Yeah" grinned Jack standing up and wrapping his arms around Ianto "you're quite sexy when you're bollocking people."

"Yeah?" smiled Ianto "well she needs to be told off sometimes."

Jack rested his head on Ianto's shoulder and sighed "that she does." He smiled into Ianto's neck "you know... we haven't been down in the shooting range for a while."

Ianto grinned wickedly "I'd much rather be down there with you."

"Good to hear it Jones" said Jack before kissing Ianto softly "bring the stopwatch" he whispered.

Ianto grinned; suddenly his day was looking a whole lot better.