7

Next morning found the team assembling, making Ianto think of X-Men or something.

Torchwood Assemble!

He found it even more amusing to put Sean Connery's voice in there.

He made coffee and settled on the sofa to read the overnights, Jack still on the phone and Tosh decided to start her fun.

"Ianto, should you be drinking coffee?" Tosh asked with wide eyes and Ianto looked up at her with surprise.

"I'm fine. Owen is going to give me a complete physical later but me head is quite fine today ta" Ianto said and Gwen pounced as Tosh knew she would.

"I can ask Jack to give you some time off Pet, maybe a few days to…."

"If I wanted time off I would bloody ask him myself" Ianto snarled with rare temper, "I don't need you handling me!"

Gwen blinked with shock and Tosh held back until Gwen chose a Danish and took a big bite, then saw her cue.

"He doesn't mean it Gwen, he's just hormonal. What with the baby and all" Tosh said like it was a throw away comment and she watched with glee as Gwen choked in her mouthful, Owen rushing to thump her back vigorously until she was screaming uncle.

"Oh dear, need a drink?" Ianto said with horror, shoving the cup he had been drinking from at her and she took a big swig, then gargled as she spat it out.

"What the hell it that shit!" she roared, Ianto's face changing as she used the dreaded word and Owen clasped his hands together like a small child at Christmas as Ianto snarled at her.

"That is the best green tea for my bloody stomach!" he said angrily, "Do not act like a child."

Gwen broke free and ran for Jack's office slamming into it and startling Jack as she entered with her hair wild, still choking and coughing so he resumed the slapping Owen had started, then turned her for the Heimlich manoeuvre.

Ianto entered to find Jack thrusting against her as she looked at Ianto, her face showing gleeful enjoyment as she pretended it was some sexual act and his blood boiled, making him turn and stalk back downstairs.

Tosh saw it all on CCTV and decided to pull out the big guns, bitch really went too far and Jack needed a good smack as well.

They shouldn't wake the dragon.

She was rolling that fire in the back of her throat as she watched Ianto's shaky hands shoot his cuffs.

Ianto then headed for the conference room as Gwen flounced down adjusting her blouse.

"Gwen, Ianto wanted your OK on the seating in the confenrce room" Tosh said, knowing Gwen couldn't resist and as she shot in there after Ianto Tosh stalked up with Jack's still undrunk cup of coffee.

"Ah, me double proof elixir made by my husband's fair yet just hand" Jack sighed happily, "What the hell was she choking on anyway?"

Tosh reached around to key in the CCTV for the conference room and Jack looked dup with a noise of pleasure, "There he is. My Welshman."

"Shhh" Tosh said patting his shoulder and they watched as Gwen entered the frame.

"I've had to bend over backwards for you, doing your paperwork, covering your incompetent mistakes, but I won't stand for it anymore, Gwen. I can take what you do to me, but when you start hurting my family, I draw the line!" Ianto snarled as he walked around the table, keeping distance between them both.

"Ianto, how dare you? You can't talk to me like that!" exclaimed Gwen. "Ianto you're crazy. You need help. I'm going to get Jack."

Ianto snapped as he stepped to the door and closed it, blocking her exit. "You're not going anywhere. But I'm sure Jack would love to hear about what you've been up to. Maybe that's who I should be talking to, Gwen. Maybe he should know how sick and obsessive you are: planting your personal items around him, the lipstick on his collar and mug. And when that didn't work, you planted your panties in his bed for me to find."

Gwen looked scathingly at the young Welshman.

"Ianto, do you think Jack would believe you?" she asked. "Jack loves me. Did you know, he told me that he came back for me, but I had Rhys, so he settled for you: a poor pathetic, snivelling tea-boy, who he could have whenever he wanted. You still weren't good enough. You think you were the only one, but I know there were others, just as young and handsome."

Jack was at his desk clenching his fist in anger. How could he have been so wrong about Gwen?

"I pity you," replied Ianto. "That you are so heartless and vicious. You must really hate me, and you can't see what a good man Rhys is, and one day, it will be too late. But I'm warning you, Gwen, you try to destroy my family again, and I will give you a hell you have never dreamed of."

"You want to know what hell is, Ianto?" she looked at him in anger. "It's what you put Jack in. You trapped him by getting pregnant, and we both know that it was no accident. Jack was forced to give up his love for me so he could marry you. And yes, I planted those items. I did it to set Jack free so that we could be happy together. But you couldn't have that, could you? So you conveniently get pregnant again."

With a wicked venomous laugh Gwen said, "How does it feel, knowing when you and Jack make love that it me he's thinking of, my lips he's kissing."

Ianto's soft laughter was not what she expected as he canted his head to look directly at the camera blinking in the corner of the room.

That eyebrow was question enough and Jack rose from his chair with a soft growl.

Time to sort this shit once and for all.