The team were back at the hub; Ianto was pleased to see that all the clothes were a near perfect fit. Gwen had raised her eyebrows at some of the clothes that Ianto had picked. Ianto had been thinking a lot over the last hour. With the other three unable to help with work they really need to do something if there is a rift spike. What were they supposed to do with them; they couldn't exactly bring them along as some sort of outing. He needed to talk to Jack about this. He walked the short distance to his office, and entered with just one backward glance to check that they were all okay.

"Jack we really need to talk" he said.

"Listen Ianto if you have just found that all the chocolate biscuits have gone then I'm sorry okay?" Jack said without looking up.

Ianto just stared at him for a moment "No that isn't what I came to talk about, that is going to be a different conversation" he said coolly. Jack swallowed nervously "No, I came to ask about what you plan to do when we inevitably get a rift spike; we are three members down Jack, that's hardly a functional team."

Jack thought for a moment "Well we will just have to improvise" he said evasively.

"What do you mean improvise?" Ianto raised an eyebrow.

Jack just shrugged "You know do what comes to mind at that moment." Jack replied as though it was the simplest thing in the universe.

"I know what Improvise means Jack" Ianto said with an eye roll, "I mean you need a plan for what to do, what if there is are several weevils? What are we going to do then?"

"I'll deal with it" Jack replied.

"That's what I'm worried about" Ianto said "A lot of the time you dealing with weevils means charging in without thinking" Jack opened his mouth to protest but Ianto just continued "Don't act like you don't" he said "remember how we met? I bet you improvised for that too! If I hadn't come along you would have defiantly died." Jack mumbled something and Ianto was sure he heard 'come back anyway' "It doesn't matter Jack! I don't care how many times you come back to life. You still don't know for sure if you will come back every time, it's not set in stone Jack, you will die eventually, everyone's time runs out" he said getting more visibly upset and his voice broke a few times but anger was still prominent.

Jack stared shocked at Ianto, he felt guilty and proud at the same time, proud of Ianto and the fact that he didn't take his ability to evade death for granted. That someone actually cared if he lived or died. And guilty that he in a way didn't care in the same way if he died. Yes dying hurt, every time the excruciating pain that he went through when he was shot or was stabbed, starved or died of dehydration. And then the pain of resurrection, his lungs filling with air, and then his brains shock of coming back to life and the few moments he worried about returning to death immediately after rising.

"Okay then" he replied "What do you suggest?" he asked Ianto, given he seemed to have a strong opinion, he needed to know it, he trusted his team and he needed to show that by trusting there judgement.

"We call Rhys," Ianto said calmly.

There was silence for a good ten seconds and then Jack reacted.

"No!" Jack said definitely, not in any way willing to budge on his decision.

"Seriously we need him. You can't go and deal with three weevils by yourself whilst I sit in the car with these three, because we can't leave them in the hub with objects which could make the situation worse anyway." Ianto reasoned.

"No I am not having that man in the hub" he said.

"Why not, you say that like he is going to cause the apocalypse" Ianto joked.

"He might" Jack said.

"Well can't be much worse than you" Ianto mumbled under his breath.

"What?!" Jack snapped, glaring at Ianto.

"C'mon Jack, we need help, you will need help in the field and I'm the only one capable of that at the moment, and we can't take six year olds with us, it's too dangerous! So we need to leave them here and I don't partically want to leave them alone, especially after how much trouble you caused." He said and Jack smirked, it soon fell when Ianto raised an eyebrow.

Jack thought about what Ianto had said he had a point; he had more than a point. If they didn't get some help in then someone was going to get hurt and possibly killed.

"Fine he can help, but you can explain what's going on" he said.

Ianto smirked, "You're just worried he would punch you if you told him the truth" he said.

Jack just shifted and then pointed to the door dismissing Ianto.

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Ianto was stood in the kitchen when he rang Rhys.

"Williams" Rhys answered.

"Ooo, very nice Rhys." Ianto teased, unable to stop himself.

"Ianto?" Rhys asked "What's up?"

"There has been an incident at work" Ianto said and he heard Rhys take a breath probably preparing for the worst. "Don't worry, Gwen is fine…ish."

"What do you mean 'ish'?" Rhys asked not really wanting to know the answer.

"Well the incident has left Owen, Tosh and Gwen unable to complete their duties. We kind of need you to come to the Hub and help us out." Ianto explained.

Rhys stood still trying to take that all in and then Ianto's words seemed to catch up with his brain "What do you mean help out?"

"You wouldn't be going into the field" Ianto reassured him "You aren't trained for one thing. You would need to take care of things at the Hub end. Seriously it would be easier if you could come to the Hub, just come to the tourist office and I will bring you down and you can see the problem for yourself he said, looking out the kitchen door window and was just on time to see Owen give a good tug on Tosh's hair "I've got to go" and he hung up. Leaving Rhys frozen with the mobile still attached to his ear.

….

Thirty minutes later Ianto was leading Rhys into the Hub.

"Now it might be a bit of a shock" Ianto said as they got off of the lift.

Rhys looked at him "What's so bad that I have to help out."

Ianto just motioned for him to walk through the cog door. He did and he took a few moments to look around the space before his eyes fell onto Owen. He blinked a couple of times and seemed to come to the conclusion that he wasn't seeing things. He then spotted Tosh watching him and then he spotted Gwen who seemed as shocked as him to actually see Rhys in the Hub.

"What the hell has happened?" he asked Ianto.

"Well, Jack was looking at an artefact and then he pressed a button and the artefact kind of shot at those three and well…" he indicated the three children.

Rhys stood shocked for a moment before he asked "And the effects will where off?"

"They did last time" he said with a nod.

"Last time?"

"Jack" Ianto replied with a sigh.

"Fucking Jack Harkness" Rhys said.

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Hope you enjoyed that.

I felt doing a Jack/Ianto chapter although the main Fic will be about Owen/Tosh/Gwen. Just to explore their relationship.

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