AN: So I know I said I would have something else by the end of the month for you, this is a lot quicker than I anticipated, but Ianto!muse insisted that he got to show you how he gets his revenge on Gwen and this first chapter practically wrote itself. Not sure when the next one will be as I am meant to be working on something else at the moment :(
Ianto Jones had known that there would have been some issues that were bound to come up during his trip to Torchwood Two in Glasgow. Archenius requesting personnel files had clued him in that he was up to something, so the request that he sent back to Cardiff with Ianto for Gwen to be sent up for training was not really a surprise to him. In truth it was an oversight that should have been seen to long before now, Gwen had been scraping by with the bare minimum of knowledge required for a Torchwood Operative. Ianto was being kind in saying that she was almost at the same level of knowledge Yvonne Hartmann had required of the janitors of Torchwood Tower, not that Ianto agreed with many things that Yvonne Hartmann had done, she had at least made sure that her staff were prepared to face alien invaders.
To say that Ianto was quite happy that the spoiled woman would be put through Archienius's style of training was an understatement. It wasn't as if she was being fully retrained, it was only a small area of training for now, but Ianto was sure that his cousin would be making several recommendations to Jack when he was done with her. The good thing was that Jack normally listened to Archienius's opinion, even if he did think him mad at times, and tended to act on their discussions. Ianto had proposed that she be further trained in the past, but Jack had never got round to actually setting anything in place or letting Ianto do it. As the second in command of the Institute Ianto had the power to go over Jack's head in this, especially as Owen who was Jack's second in command of Torchwood Three agreed with him, but they were always so busy in Cardiff that he hadn't had time with all his other duties to start the ball rolling. He would do that this week, as no doubt Archienius would have a timescale he had in mind for retraining, as he was positive his cousin was going to request Gwen be pulled from the field when he saw exactly what he was dealing with.
Ianto was just glad that she would be out of the hub for a while. He had expected that Gwen would try something with Jack while he was away, but he had never imagined that she would do what she had done. He had partly expected her attempted takeover of the manor, and he had warned Rhiannon in advance that she was likely to try something, but he had never expected her complete lack of respect for his and Jack's property or her assault on him.
He had expected her to make a bold move and come on to Jack while he was away, trying to convince him that she would be a better lover than Ianto, he had never expected her to break into their toy box. He was positive she thought she had found Jack's replica toy rather than his, and that she no doubt thought that her shot was wasted when she realised that she had been utilising what she believed were her skills on him and not Jack.
When he had returned to the manor he had not spoken to her at all instead he just took in the sight of her misfortune, the family stringing her along about an antidote to the mood pellets that had been in the coffee, and then left when Jack arrived heading back to their flat. That evening they had discussed what to do about Gwen, but they had not come to any definite decisions, what she had done had nothing to their work as Torchwood, it was entirely personal. Ianto had decided that he would push it aside for now, after all saving the world there was often no time to consider personal feelings, but Archienius's request for Gwen to be sent up north had given him some respite and breathing space to figure out how he was going to deal with the woman.
His first small little piece of revenge was her travel arrangements, he had agreed with Archienius that he would deal with her transport, although Archienius would take the blame for his devious plans so that his little revenge wouldn't cause friction in the Cardiff team. After a talk with Jack and Rhys they had all agreed to help him with his scheme. Gwen had pitched a fit when Jack hadn't backed down or talked Archie down from her training and hadn't thought to say anything to Ianto when he had left a folder with her travel arrangements on her desk for her. He was glad as he didn't really have anything to say to her at the moment, he knew she would have had an even bigger strop if she had actually looked at the arrangements but she was in too much of a mood to do so.
Ianto knew that she probably wouldn't even bother to look at the arrangements, she would no doubt ask Rhys to drop her off, his cousin was going to offer if she didn't, and would leave it to him to make sure she was where she needed to be on time. Ianto smiled to himself as he watched her storm out of the hub carrying the folder, knowing that they now had several days of Gwen free bliss in the hub and that she would be regretting ever hearing of Torchwood by the time Archienius was done with her.