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"So when did that happen?" Ianto hissed as he and Jack watched Gray huddle further into the sofa with a blanket over himself, like he was creating a pathetic little blanket fort for one.

"She told him a long distance relationship would not work for her and he was best to go to Switzerland with her for the semester. He said no. She said bye" Jack replied "Looks like she was looking for an out and found it. I know he is a little… ah… "

"Young" Ianto said diplomatically as Gray shifted under the blanket some more.

"Immature is the word I was going for" Jack hissed back under his breath, then smiled softly at his boyfriend "But he is trying to be an adult here."

"Well, I for one am a little relieved. She seemed to be a bit of a gold digger, always flashing the latest gift from him. Looks like she was trying to assert authority over him and it backfired. If he had gone with her it would have been the end of any relationship with your mother, you know she hates all of us 'scruffies' her babies insist on hanging out with. He will find someone better, someone with bigger tits and some good childbearing hips." Ianto said in a silly voice then clapped his hand over his mouth before whispering "Do they come bigger do ya think?"

Jack snorted and leaned in to kiss his lover, glad that he did not have the same troubles as his little brother. "You know, when we get wed he will be your problem too."

"Oh no... no.. no… you can't do that one mister. Not when you've met Rhiannon and that fat bustard she's married thanks to that little fat baby boy she produced suddenly" Ianto said as he stepped away with hands out "And besides. You are more than a handful on your own."

"Oh ho ho… am I now?" Jack leered, the two men trying to keep it quiet as on the sofa Gray seethed at the world in general.

Lucy had been his everything and now he was adrift.

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"Come on pet, you will feel better with a few beers in your gut and a nice girl to dance with" Gwen said as she cajoled Gray into the nightclub, exited to have met them there. Ianto looked around but could not see Rhys, surprised to find Gwen there on her own. Mind you, a game coming up. Rhys was a good sportsman who was probably doing as his coach asked and not overdoing it.

Before long Gwen had Gray up dancing and Ianto sat with Jack watching as she gyrated on the floor. Jack leaned back on the stool to say softly "you know, for someone as top heavy as her, she does have good balance on those heels."

"Killers, I would love a pair of those" Ianto whispered back, making Jack roar with mirth at the thought of his mother finding Ianto in a pair of those. The legend of the Jones Blood already horrified her to the edge of insanity as they were able to produce a male pregnancy once every generation or so. To find him in heels and clearly the 'wife' might put her over the edge all together and a hit would be organized toot sweet. LOL,

Across the room the laughter caught some attention and one of the girls sighed as she lowered her bright pink drink to say to the other girl with her "Such a shame. Look at them. Two of the most handsome and eligible men here and they are bloody gay!"

"He's a Harkness too, right?" she asked her friend with surprise looking at the way Gray was dancing.

"Yeah, the little brother. Oh, you were after that other one right? The Welsh one?"

"Yeah. Thought I had a shot before that Harkness Dreamboat sailed into his port… yeah. Didn't know there was a little brother to the Harkness one though. Interesting, he looks so young and cute. Not at all polished and Hollywood like his brother" she said as she looked intently at the man.

"Gray. His name… Gray." The pink drinker said then watched as Lisa Hallett rose to stride over there with those long man eating legs to cut between Gray and Gwen with ease, soon having the younger Harkness man drooling over those long limbs and Amazonian look.

Gwen stomped back to the table and poked at Ianto "Oi. Control your ex!"

"She's not my ex. We were never a thing, she was my stalker. BIG difference there" Ianto laughed. "Besides, I thought he was a breast man… there ya go. Legs man like me… Jack has amazing legs."

"Her? That's Lisa Hallett?" Jack asked, looking around then to watch her dance with Gray "Christ, I had an entirely different imagine my mind. Like, heavy set bodacious mama with one of those big bottoms that jiggle, an afro that went for days and those fucking hoops earrings… fingernails like claws and lips that could Hoover a rug… wow. She is capitally pretty bloody hot. And as for those legs… she could break a man with those."

Ianto stared at him and then frowned "Excuse me. That is the bitch that made my life hell while trying to get into my pants. Remember? You had to have the lawyer send a cease and desist."

"Well… she clearly does not have the fishing tackle for you anyway" Jack said, with a waggle of his eyebrows then roared with mirth at his own joke.

Ianto was starting to get annoyed no. He didn't even want to come, only did because Jack begged him to come for Gray's sake. The music was too loud, Ianto's headache was settling in too deep behind his eyes and now this crap?

"I'm going home" he announced as he rose from the table and everyone looked at him with surprise. Usually he stayed to the bitter end, making sure Owen had a cab to get him back to his place, rolling him in it and offering extra tip if they get him there before he barfs everywhere.

"Come on, she upsets you that much?" Jack laughed. "God, you are not on your rag again are ya?"

"I am tired, my headache is full on and you know I had it since this morning and I have that bloody paper due on Monday. I will go home, do some more work on it, slouch about in my old man PJs and when you get home you can let me unpeel you like some dirty, pornographic banana."

"OK… sounds better" Jack nodded, turning to talk to Owen and dismiss Ianto.

It was not until he was at home in those old man PJs Jack hated so much that he pondered, not for the first time, how Lisa knew they were there.

What was her game now?