Ianto slept all night cuddled into Jack. For once he was so tired he didn't dream. He woke the next morning still feeling tired to find Jack watching him.
"How you feeling?" asked Jack gently
"Still tired" he whispered
"Close your eyes and sleep" he said planting a gentle kiss on his lips; Ianto opened his mouth to Jack. As he pulled away a few seconds later he closed his eyes. Jack entwined his fingers with Iantos and lay watching him sleep.

It was almost 10am and Jack and Ianto hadn't appeared for breakfast. Aggie cleared up the dining room and went upstairs. She gently knocked on the door
"Come in" said Jack quietly
Aggie opened the door
"Jack, are you alright?" she asked concerned
"Fine Aggie, Yan's still asleep," he whispered
She nodded
"Would you like a coffee?" she said
Jack flashed that Harkness grin
"I'll bring you one up, what about Ianto shall I make him a tea"
Jack looked at his peacefully sleeping lover, then looked back to Aggie and nodded. Aggie left the room.
Jack really hated to wake him; he slipped gently out of the bed and headed for the bathroom. He stepped under the shower. He heard movement and then Yans voice
"Jack"
"I'll be out in just a minute," he answered
The bathroom door opened and Ianto walked in. He stripped off the t-shirt and his underwear and stepped into the shower with Jack
He wrapped his arms round him and laid his head on Jacks shoulder
"I won't hold you to what you said last night" he mumbled as Jacks hands roamed over his back
"I meant every word Yan, when you're feeling up to it we can go and find out a civil ceremony and choose rings, everything"
"Really" said Ianto pulling back to look at him
"Really, don't doubt me Yan, I love you"
"I love you too Jack so much"

They were just stepping out of the shower when they heard a voice call out from their bedroom
"I know you're in the shower, I'll put your drinks by the bed, feel free to come down for breakfast when you're ready"
"Thanks Aggie" called Jack as he wrapped himself in a huge fluffy towel and followed Ianto back into the bedroom.
"What happened in the woods Yan? why did you shut down?"
"I was scared Jack, so scared. I couldn't get out the more I wandered the more lost I got, I started to hear noises it all came back and I couldn't cope. If you hadn't found me when you did"
"Don't think about it now Yan, you're safe that's all that matters"
"How did you find me?" asked Ianto
"It doesn't matter," said Jack
"Please no secrets Jack" said Ianto looking at him
"Alright I called Tosh and had her activate your tracker"
"What tracker?" asked Ianto shocked
"I'm sorry Yan, I planted a tracker in your wallet not long after…." He couldn't finish the sentence he didn't want to remember, he didn't want Ianto to ever remember that weekend again
"Its alright Jack, I'm glad you did but why me, why not the others too"
"They have them too Yan, I got too close to losing everyone I wasn't going to risk that again, I can't ever risk losing you not again"
"Do they know you planted trackers on them all"
"Tosh does, I told her last night, by now she's probably found hers," he said smiling

They sat on the bed together. Jack picked up his coffee and downed it.
"I promised Tosh I'd call her," said Jack
Ianto nodded as he sipped his tea.

"Torchwood" said Tosh
"Tosh, how's it going?" said Jack
"Jack, how's Ianto?" she asked
"He's fine, just tired," he said running a finger up Yans naked thigh
"IS he awake can I talk to him?"
Jack held the phone out to Ianto
"Tosh wants to say hello," he said
"Hi" said Ianto taking the phone from Jack
"Ianto what were you thinking of, if Jack didn't have that tracker on you he'd never of found you, you could have died out there Ianto"
"Tosh I'm alright" said Ianto smiling
"But you might not of been, Jesus Ianto do you realise how worried Jack was about you when he called me last night, how worried I was"
"I'm sorry Tosh, really I am but I'm ok" he said looking at Jack, Jack knew he needed to tell someone, so he nodded
"Tosh, promise you won't say a word to the rest of the team" said Ianto
"Oh god, what, what's wrong?"
"Nothing just promise me Toshiko"
"I promise"
"Jack and I are getting married," he laughed as he pulled the phone from his ear, Jack heard the scream down the line and laughed
"When did that happen? What changed?"
"I can't live without him anymore" he said simply, he's anchored himself to Jack last night. Now he had a stable place to go when other people's emotions got too much for him to cope with. Being a grade 1 empath, he was constantly bombarded by others emotions. Most of the time he could filter them out but every now and then it got too much and he risked a brain embolism if he couldn't anchor to someone to help filter the emotions. The last person he'd anchored to was Lisa, when she'd died he nearly died too. It was like someone had pulled a huge section of his brain out and expected him to function without it. It had taken him months after the half cyberised Lisa had been installed in the basement to slowly let go of that anchor and learn to filter the emotions alone. Now he had Jack and he was forever, he would never leave him. Well not for long anyway. He died but always came back to him.

Ianto spent a few minutes talking to Tosh and after promising to call her again he hung up. He finished his tea and lay back in Jacks arms. In love and content.