Chapter 19

Of all the days to be late… stupid landlord… I wonder what Jack will think of the suit he's been pestering me about wearing it since Christmas.
Phone rings
"Hey Jack I'm on my way the landlord decided today was a good time to question me about my upstairs neighbour, whom I've never even met.… Where are the calls coming from? …. Of course their anonymous, why wouldn't they be…. So you and Tosh are on your way to interview people now? Ok I'll be at the hub in 10 minutes to co-ordinate with you…. Bye"

Fuck! There goes my sexy morning entrance.

Ok why aren't the phones working think... They can't be out of range they're still in the city for crying out loud. Maybe whatever's at the hall's causing some sort of dampening field knocking out electrical devices. Damit Gwen hurry up, how long does it take to get to Sage Street.

God they're in the 1940s?! How the hell did they get there… how are we going to get them back… Oh god Jack, Tosh.

How can a man in the 1940s be here? Maybe he's like Jack, maybe Jack's not as alone as he thought he was… no, Torchwood would have found him if that was the case, they found Jack after all and he's got enough future knowledge to have us all running in circle if he wants. That mean he must Travel through the rift… that bastard knows how to get them back and he's doing nothing but playing head games with us!

Bloody Owen, why the hell Jack hasn't fired his disrespectful, arrogant ass by now I'll never know. Why's he dragging Diane into this she left! There's no record of her in history where ever the rift took her it was forwards in time not back. Then he has the gall to drag Lisa into this… God Jack hurry back, I don't know how much longer I can put up with his shit.

A photo with the codes, God Tosh your brilliant. Now all we need is the rest, Think Ianto think, If you were Tosh what else would you hide to codes in?

"Gwen have you seen Owen running around there?... Good keep and eye on him… I don't know, he's still a bit haywire from Diane, It's his first day back and he's already causing problems and stirring shit up… I will, call me as soon as you find anything… we'll get them back Gwen, I know we will."

I only wish I could believe myself but I really don't know.

Blood, Oh God, Tosh's blood, what's happening there that means she has to write in her own Blood!

How Dare He! What right does he think he has to go trough Jack's Safe! He's going to destroy the bloody planet with his stupidity. I have to stop him!

Ianto stood his ground between Owen and the rift manipulator. He could feel the ache in his stomach from not allowing himself to feed this morning. Being too worried about Jack and Tosh to worry about his own needs.

He watch Owen's body language carefully while trying to talk Owen out of it because he knew that in his weakened state there was every chance that Often would actually beat him.

"I'm tired of being in Awe of the rift. I'm tired of living with Jack's secrets. We don't even know who he is." Owen said emotions so close to boiling point that Ianto didn't know what would happen when the hit.

"He's out leader," Ianto reasoned, knowing that should have been enough to subdue the man normally.

But Owen wasn't behaving normally, he was still holding on to all his grief and anger.

"Not anymore!" he said and charged at Ianto. "Get out of my way!"

Ianto grabbed the smaller man as he tried to pass pulling them both to the ground. Owen drops the file and it slides to the floor a few feet away from them.

Rolling on the floor they each try to get a decent hold on each other until finally Ianto succeeds Holding Owen in a head lock to his chest while he laid on his back with Owen on top of him.

"Ianto!" Owen says as he tries to squirm out of the lock,

Ianto's grip sliped a little but it's enough for Owen to twist and ram his elbow into Ianto ribs painfully.

Seeing the file they both reach for it. Owen grabbed it first jumping to his feet, turning and kicking Ianto, causing the younger man to roll over and couch in pain as he tried to get his breathe back.

Owen scrambled down to the tower and using Jack's instructions got the rift manipulator ready to use.

Ianto climbed to his feet and reaches into the top draw of Tosh's desk where he knew she'd stashed a spare gun when she thought he wasn't looking.

Taking a deep breath and squareing his shoulders "Put the key down," he demands raising the gun to aim at Owen "Or I'll shoot."

Owen scoffs at him but turns to face him anyway.

"You have to let Diane go, like I did with Lisa," Ianto says trying to reason with the other man not wanting to have to shoot him.

"Don't compare yourself to me. You're just a Tea-boy," Owen sneered

Ianto's grib on the gun tightened in anger "I'm much more than that. Jack needs me,"

"In your dreams, Ianto. In your sad, wet dreams when you're his part time shag maybe,"

Gritting his teeth to control his anger Ianto steps forward threateningly.

It was bullshit he knew that. No one in the hub even knew about his relationship with Jack except for Tosh. He'd never been a part time shag, and if he had been to Jack, he sure as hell wasn't now. Not after Jack's proposal. Owen was just grasping at straws, he knew that, but it still mad him mad.

"That rift took my lover and my captain, so if I die trying to beat it. Then it will all be in the line of duty."

He's MY captain, MY Lover, My mate. Diane chose to leave and you got to say goobye. Jack was stolen from ME!!

The two men stared at each other almost daring the other to move.

Finally owen did, hand going to push the key into its position.

Ianto took aim and fired.

Ianto slumped into Tosh's chair in relief as Gwen and Tosh's voice filtered through the coms unit in his ear, cheering their return.

He glanced over at Owen who had staggered to his desk and was now trying to stop the bleeding in his shoulder.

"I told you it would work," Owen sneered

"You're got no clue have you." Ianto snapped finishing the sentance by swearing a blue streak at the other man in Welsh, not caring that he couldn't understand a word of it as he stalked into Jack's office.

Now things had calmed off a little the smell of Owen's blood was really getting to him, reminding him that he still hadn't fed today, his stomach cramping in protest.

Keeping his coms open waiting to hear from his lover, he snatched his thermos out of the fridge in Jack's quarters drinking down a good half of it out of sight before heading back upstairs to clean up and file their research which was still all over the conference room table.

As he worked quickly he found himself dying to hear Jack's voice in his ear, to know the other man was ok, but no such luck, Jack was completely silent on the other end of the coms.

Sighing he began skimming through the file of Owen's research. The way it was organised suggested the man had done nothing but printed out a pile of websites from his search and not even bothered to read them.

He was begining to realise why Jack never asked Owen to do any research unless it was medical, the doctor just didn't care unless it was something to do with him.

Ianto sighed, you'd think he would have cared enough to do this research, then again, I'd been there doing most of it so I don't know why he even bothered doing this much.

Glancing at the last page in the file he froze, heart aching at what he saw, a photo from a conspiracey sight claiming their were Angels spotted at the dance hall in the 1940s.

Hearing the far proximaty alarm sound, meaning the SUV was back in the garage, he stashed the photo in his jacket pocket and headed back into the main area of the hub.

Glaring at Owen as he passed he sat in Tosh's seat before pausing.

He was desperate to see them both, needing to know that they were ok, but with his recent discovery he wasn't ready to face Jack.

Spinning the chair so he was now facing the monitors he pulled up Tosh's Rift program and began searching for the damage Owen had undoubtedly caused.

Sighing in relief as the lost pair made their way through the Cog door, the feelings quickly it flickered to concern seeing Jack's dejected form, before shifting into anger at the man.

Tosh dashed up the stairs and flew into his open arms, hugging him tightly back, which gained a snort from Owen and a surprised look from Gwen.

Jack was watching Ianto with a strange expression that Ianto couldn't quite place, he tried to meet Ianto's eyes but Ianto refused and kept diverting his.

"While this is sweet and tea-boy's finally getting some. Would one of you lot like to give me a hand here." Owen growled as once again he failed to be able to treat his wound on his own.

"How the hell did that happen?" Gwen asked eyes widening as she took in the state of the Doctor.

Jack elbrows were almost to his hairline and Tosh rushed over to Owen's side to help him.

"He was trying to tear open the rift and put the planet at risk. I tried to stop him." Ianto replied

Tosh looked up meeting Ianto's eyes and after a few secounds gave him a small smile and a nod.

She understood that he was willing to sacrifice them to save the planet and was fine with it, knowing she would have down something similar in his position.

Gwen just looked between her fellow team members in shock and Jack stayed sliently to the side.

"But it worked, we got them back," Gwen stated uncertainly.

Ianto just rolled his eyes and went back to the computer scans he was running.

"I knew we did the right thing opening the rift," Owen said directing the statement in Ianto's direction.

Ianto looked up meeting his eyes for a secound before looking back to the computer not wanting to argue anymore.

"Still no sign of Bilis," he sighed

"The world didn't end after all, did it? Good job you're a crap shot,"

Ianto bristled at the insult. "I was aiming for your shoulder."

Tosh seeing another argument building changed the topic. "It was war time, I know , but it was beautiful."

"There were angel dancing at the Ritz," Jack said as he wandered past the team heading towards his office.

Ianto bristle the comment to much of a reminder of what he'd found.

Ianto watched as Tosh followed Jack into his office, leaving Owen to finish sewing himself up.

Gwen watched the pair through the window trying to figure out what was going on, Probably worried she won't be his favorite little confident anymore. Not that she realises she's not his main confident anyway. Ianto thought rolling his eyes at how bloody obvious Gwen could be.

With everyone distracted by something else Ianto slipped away completely unnoticed.

As Owen, Gwen and Tosh left for the day Jack went in search of Ianto.

The younger man had seemed relieved though distant and was acting a little strange when they had returned, though according to Tosh's his behaviour hadn't been much better.

Either way he wanted to be with the lover he'd feared he'd been trapped away from, plus he needed to tell him about the real Captain Jack.

After a quick search of the Hub, Vault and Archives, Jack realized that he was no where underground and headed up towards the tourist office.

"Yan?" Jack called stepping through the door into the closed tourist office, but there was no answer, Ianto wasn't there either.

Pulling out his mobile he hit number two on his speed dial to call Ianto's mobile.

It took Jack a few secounds to realize he could actually hear the mobile ringing both through the phone and from within the small office behind the beaded curtain.

Hangin up his mobile and stepping through the curtain he spotted a small collection of objects placed on Ianto's desk.

Ianto's mobile, PDA, earpeice, watch, even the tracking decive he kept in his wallet which was disguised as a casino chip was there.

Anything he could use to trace Ianto's location was sitting on the desk in front of him. The only thing that kept him from thinking Ianto had been kidnapped was the fact that they were arranged in such a way that it had to have been Ianto that placed them there.

So Ianto didn't want to be found... but Why?!

The question plagued Jack as he stared the the desk, finally noticing the peice of paper tucked under the PDA.

Pulling it out and unfolding it revealed a printed out photo from his and Tosh's time in the past.

Jack's heart clenched as he stared down at what Ianto had found.

A photo, probably taken by that strange Bilis character, just as they were leaving the light of the rift obscuring most of the background but casting an mystical frame around the two occupants in the centre of the photo.

A photo of him kissing Captain Jack.