AN: This chapter brings up to the end of chapter 8 of Fester's Fun for those trying to place this in my massively interlocking web of fics :)
Ianto Tharmus Addams Jones was looking forward to Gwen's first full day of training at his mercy, he had allowed her to spend more time with the manuals before her firearms requalification the other day, but today she would be working with him exclusively, or she would when she finally arrived. She had it easy the last few days, he hadn't even made her train at all. She had been late the day after her requalification and had ended up getting herself arrested for trying to blow up the Plass, not that it had actually been her plan that would require too much thought for Gwen.
When he had collected her from the station and dropped her home he had been surprised how pitiful she looked, normally it was all an act with her big doe eyes, but for once it looked genuine. He could tell that she was disappointed that it was him picking her up and not Jack and he decided to lengthen her punishment in a way, all under the guise of caring for her wellbeing of course. Instead of taking her back to the hub and forcing her straight into training, which he had initially intended to do, he took her home and gave her the next day off. It may not seem like a punishment, but he could tell that she desperately wanted to see Jack, to get him to hold her and tell her that she was safe that they would find who was trying to kill her and promise to do something about the boorish behaviour of Cardiff's finest.
A day and a half without any contact with Jack would be a small punishment for her and he would start her training after that, it would also allow the team a bit more of a reprieve without her. They had all enjoyed the calm state that had settled over the hub while she had been away with Archienius. When he had returned without Gwen none of the others had been that bothered that she wasn't there, even when he informed them he had given her the next day off as well, it wasn't as if she was allowed out in the field without him at the moment anyway. They had two teams of two to go into the field if necessary, Owen and Toshiko and him and Jack, although it would be preferable to go as a group.
It was with a spring in his step that morning that he bounced towards his car, Jack following along behind him pretending to still be waking up although Ianto could feel his intense stare on his backside. The first thing he did when he got into the hub was make a round of coffee for everyone but Gwen with the French press he had dug out of one of the cupboards. He would put the kettle on to make Gwen's decaf when she got there, she wasn't getting proper coffee for quite some time after what she had done to the coffee machine. He was still in the process of getting replacement parts for the bits that she had broken and he would be taking the expense out of her pay.
He did wonder at her thought processes sometimes, he did have to give her credit for realising that the most obvious thing for him to drug would be the coffee, but she should have realised that Ianto would never take the obvious path. He had been amused when Rhys had messaged him informing him that he had overheard her muttering about breaking their families control over people and coffee in her sleep. He could just imagine how smart Gwen must have thought herself for figuring out for herself what the plan could have been. Not that there was a plan of course, his family was already deep within Torchwood there was no need to try and control the team and he wasn't, Gwen just couldn't seem to understand that things didn't always go her way.
He had several tasks that he was intending to train Gwen on today that she would no doubt think repugnant and beneath her, something he was looking forward to. The first task he was intending to train her on was the proper care and feeding of Myfanwy, she was lucky that Janet had moved to Flat Holm or she would have been cleaning up after her as well. It may not seem like something that was necessary to a field agent, but it was something that they should all know how to do. Gwen was essentially hub bound until she shaped up and was trained to his exacting standards while he would no doubt be going out into the field more, so she would have to learn to take care of the hub and its residents.
He then intended to go through every single piece of paperwork that was ever necessary to their jobs with her, something that she would no doubt despise more than cleaning up after their pterodactyl. Gwen seemed to be allergic to paperwork, she never seemed to complete it or if she attempted it her work was often sloppy or inaccurately filled in. Ianto had given up after the first month, it had been much easier to do the majority of her paperwork himself than try and fix it once she was done with it. He was done being Gwen's office slave though, she would learn to do these things right before he moved onto more field related training.
Gwen's misery kept him going throughout the day, she hadn't even realised that he had switched her to decaf although she was hardly drinking the coffee anyway, glaring at it suspiciously whenever he wasn't around. She had whined profusely as she had traipsed up to Myfanwy's eerie behind him, moaning that she shouldn't have to clean up after his pet. He had been about to correct her, and remind her that Myfanwy was more than just a pet and not just his, when Myfanwy took offense to being called a pet and let out a shriek that had Gwen stumbling and almost falling in fright. Ianto would be lying if he hadn't enjoyed the small squeal that Gwen had let out as a result.
The paperwork was torture for Gwen, and for Ianto as well, he had never had to dumb down information so much before. He was pretty sure that Micah could understand what he was asking with the forms without any simplification but for Gwen he had to explain everything in detail. The others could see that he had been close to losing his patience with her and Toshiko had taken over to explain one of the forms relating to using alien technology. The form was essentially a review form so that Tosh got feedback on how the device worked, anything that there were issues with etc so that it could be looked at to see if it could be improved upon.
Ianto had bid a hasty retreat to the kitchen to make more coffee before shutting himself in Jack's office with his lover for a good half hour to try and calm himself a bit. He had actually felt like his intelligence was lowering the longer he spent trying to teach Gwen how to fill in basic forms. It was for that reason he was glad to get out of the hub that evening and spend some time with his family, even if he knew that it was likely that he would need to come back into the hub when his uncle's attempt to scare the Cardiff residents hit the news.
He hadn't expected to have to deal with Gwen though, but he supposed with something potentially affecting the dead Owen would be safer in the hub. At least Jack had stuck by Gwen being in the field with him rather than with Jack or Tosh, as Ianto could use it as a training exercise. He intended to let Gwen be herself and then use their evening as an example of what she shouldn't have done before going through all the things she no doubt should have done instead. Firing her weapon like she had done without first assessing the situation was his main problem with their outing that evening, and he would be removing her firearm from her when she got in to the hub the next morning. She had barely passed her certification and she was going of half cocked in the field, he wasn't willing to put the safety of the team at risk in order to allow Gwen a gun to protect herself, he would issue her with a stun gun after she had certified with it.
As he and Jack crawled into their bed at the manor, not having the energy to even think of driving all the way back to their flat that evening, Ianto couldn't help but smile at the scream of rage Gwen had let out when Jack had abandoned her for him to come home. Jack may not have noticed the glare she shot them as Jack kissed his cheek but Ianto had and he had the wicked idea to up the level of affection he allowed Jack to show at work just to irritate her even more. It would be a just punishment for the stupidity she had shown throughout the day.
