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Jack entered and stood with his hands on his hips leering "Oh my. Turn my back and here I find a Ianto sandwich!"
Ianto hummed as hw wriggled between the two women. "All OK?"
"Yeah, stay there a little longer Holdfast" Jack said as he sat and pulled off wet socks, reaching for fresh ones "The cavern was starting to flood with condensation on the walls. We will have to pump it out … lucky it's not winter or it would all freeze."
"You were right?"
"Yeah, seems young Sol though it might be an idea to cool the place, turned to dial right down then it stuck." Jack snorted "Mostly because we have never put it there before. It had frozen, had to use some blowtorch cajoling to get it back up. Bonnie, I will need you to take a look when it's warm again … Kris was hammering at it with that huge hammer of his, dented some of the casing. If there is a way to lift it, to get in would be easier. If we can cut it all back then had a cabinet built around it instead…"
"We can use some old car bonnets, repurpose them" Bonnie was saying as she and Alli started to brainstorm and Ianto smiled up at his love, pouting for a kiss so Jack leaned over Alli and kissed him before heading back out to finish repairing the small leaks that had appeared from the sudden temperature change.
Ianto yawned, then grunted as Kris appeared, dishevelled and slightly frozen, ice in his beard. "Jack said to come here."
"Get in" Ianto demanded, "Warm up. That's what he means. You did your job, the patch-up crew doesn't need you. Sean will be working, good for him."
Kris slid in behind his wife and felt the heat, groaning with delight as he snuggled into her, spooning.
"So … how did you meet him? Captain Cheesecake as Mickey calls him when they are play fighting" Kris asked.
"Well … you know how. T1 to T3. I needed a job because of Lisa so … yeah. I tried to beg. Cajole, Seduce … even offered him some of my coffee"
"No! Even the coffee didn't work?" Kris snorted.
"He did hesitate there" Ianto laughed "Thought it would be my arse in tight jeans but no… he did hesitate at that first sip."
The girls were enthralled as Ianto told Kris about the Bute Park come on, all the tries until in the end he offered Myfanwy. Kris snorted "That old girl? Really? Shit … you still had her?"
"Yah … still do. Remind me tomorrow…well…this avo and I will take you to her barn. We will need to take a sheep with though, she is cranky in her old age." Ianto smiled back and the two women looked at one another over Ianto's chest. They had no idea why Kris was making excited noises now.
"So … I got in, slid Lisa in, spent a year or two thinking I might save her then she rampaged, killed a few people.. died terribly and I fed her to the furnace." Ianto sighed. "But while he didn't know about her in the basement we started …well…funning."
"Funning?"
"Yeah… like a fun run … ah… sometimes without clothes. Or upright"
Giggling again as they all poked at him and he laughed "We dabbled, OK? We … had a lot of fun. Then the world went to shit and we found out almost too late that it wasn't just funning at all. We realised that deep down we were in love."
"Awwwww"
"I still remember the early morning sound if traffic outside my apartment as I would rise and start the coffee. Feed him a cup as he sat on the edge of the bed blearily checking his watch and muttering about bloody commuting and why can't we just live at the Hub all the time, these weekends off always ending in having to commute… usual stuff couples talk about I guess. He would shower while I laid out his clothes, most times I would join him for some … funning … then into the office where Owen would be waiting to scream like a little chick in a bird nest waiting for it's parental, mouth open going coffee coffee coffee" Ianto laughed long with them at the image "Toshiko would arrive just after us, look at Owen to check I had watered him then sit at her work station as I made her cup of tea, then off we would go."
"Just the three of you?"
"There was another but she was as useful as tits on a bull" Jack said, making them all jump and then giggle softly. Jack kicked off his boots and slid in behind Bonnie then kissed her ear before settling. "My favourite time of day was the morning. Ianto all suited and booted, that cup of coffee placed on my desk as he perched his pert arse on the edge, listing off my jobs for the day like I was in charge and it was a friendly reminder instead of the real scolding it was for not having done all theses thing the day before like I had promised. Sexy."
"Stop it!"
"What! I love desks!"
Giggling as Ianto hissed while pointing at his belly "And look where THAT got us."
Kris watched the way the two men made eye contact and saw for the first time that Ianto was more than happy. He was content. He decided to stop needling the Captain for a while.
Maybe.