Ianto didn't sleep well that night. In fact he kept waking so often that in the end he got up and made himself a cup of coffee, sitting down in a chair and looking out over the bay.

He was contemplating going back to the Hub. After all he'd given Jack time to think and no one else would be there, so it would be the perfect time to confront him. Making his mind up, Ianto set the empty cup of coffee down in his kitchen and went to get dressed. He had to wash the cup before he left (hey, everyone knew that Ianto was just a little OCD when it came to cleaning) but he was out of the flat less than twenty minutes later.

He drove slowly despite the fact there was no traffic on the roads. When he got to the Hub he walked as slowly as he dared. He knew that Jack was probably watching the CCTV and Ianto didn't want to look like he was dreading the meeting.

Opening the door to the main entrance of the Hub Ianto slipped inside. Jack was waiting, stood in the middle of the room. His eyes locked with Ianto's and for a moment neither of them could move.

Ianto was the first one to break the spell. He walked towards Jack and stopped right in front of him.

"I couldn't sleep," he said by way of explanation as to his very early arrival.

"Yeah, I know the feeling," Jack admitted, smiling slightly. "I've been thinking about what you said-"

"Jack," Ianto cut across him. "I was being selfish earlier… I can't ask you to let go of every memory you have."

"No, but you were right," Jack continued. "It's not fair to just leave you hanging. So… I want to know if you'll still consider being with me?"

Ianto smiled slightly, stepping forward carefully.

"You'll stop ignoring me?" He asked.

"Yes," Jack nodded, stepping forward himself.

"And you'll stop going off with strange men?" Ianto's lips were barely an inch from Jack's now, his arms snaking round Jack's waist.

"Strange men yes," Jack nodded slightly. "What about men I know very well?"

"As long as that's me and not Owen then yes that's fine," Ianto smiled, pressing his lips to Jack's.

Jack bought a hand up to cup Ianto's cheek, his other arm pulling the Welshman close. The pair stood there seemingly frozen for a long time. When they finally broke apart they remained in the middle of the Hub, foreheads resting against each other.

"Ianto, I…" Jack began but the Hub door started to slide open and Ianto stepped away slightly, turning to look and see who was at the Hub so early.

Ianto slipped his hand into Jack's just as Toshiko bustled in looking worried. She didn't even notice Jack and Ianto as she sat down at her desk and began looking through some files on her computer.

"Something wrong, Tosh?" Jack asked glancing at Ianto who was avoiding eye contact lest he turn a brighter shade of red than he already was.

"No, not really," Tosh said, groaning as she opened something and typed furiously at her computer.

"Are you sure?" Jack wandered towards Tosh's desk, pulling Ianto with him.

"Yeah, it's nothing," Tosh said running a hand through her hair. "But-"

"Ah, I knew that 'but' was coming," Jack said smiling slightly.

"Yeah, I think we've got a situation on our hands is the thing," Tosh shot an apologetic look at Jack. "There's a space ship that's crashed in town. We've gotta take care of it."

"No, now you see," Jack folded his arms. "Crashed space ship is standard procedure. For you to look worried there's something else involved."

"Yeah," Tosh nodded looking up. "Space ship crashed and according to this police file, we've already picked it up."

Jack frowned.

"Ooh, we've got ourselves a group of impostors," He looked over the police file and grinned. "Haven't dealt with anything like this in a long time; Ianto, fetch the SUV."

"Whoa," Tosh stared at Jack. "We can't go storming off, we haven't collected the appropriate information, Gwen and Owen aren't here and we don't even know for certain this is genuine. We've had hoaxes before."

"Alright, alright," Jack held up his hands. "You've got twenty minutes to find everything and make all the arrangements. We'll pick Gwen and Owen up on the way."

Tosh sighed and set about finding the files they'd need. Meanwhile Jack dragged Ianto to the kitchen.

"Any chance you can make a couple of flasks of coffee?" Jack asked. "Because Gwen and Owen are going to take a bit of bribing."

"Yes, sir," Ianto said smiling slightly.

Twenty minutes later all five members of the Torchwood team were in the SUV, speeding towards the location of the spaceship crash. Predictably, Owen was very annoyed at being woken at four in the morning and Gwen was especially quiet.

None of the others seemed to notice the sudden closeness between Jack and Ianto, but then at four in the morning no one was particularly observant. As they parked up the SUV and jumped out, Owen began to complain. After all they'd come to take readings from an empty field.

"Couldn't we have skipped this part and gone straight to find out where our doubles have gone?" Owen asked rubbing his hands together and watching his breath on the cold air. "They left that forwarding address with the police for a reason."

"Yeah, so that we'd go to that abandoned warehouse and walk straight into a trap," Jack pointed out.

"Jack!" Tosh called before Owen could continue the argument. "Owen might, for once in his life, be right. I've got readings for a Dalco ship."

"What's a Dalco ship?" Gwen asked frowning as she wandered over with the small plastic bag she'd collected small pieces of unidentifiable material in.

"Its ship that belongs to the Dalco species," Owen said rolling his eyes.

"Well I gathered that much," Gwen shot back. "I mean what kind of aliens are they?"

"A bit like Weevils, only a bit smarter," Ianto said, frowning slightly at the scanner in his hand. "But these readings are a bit odd."

"Odd how?" Jack asked glancing at Ianto's scanner.

"They're perfect, a bit too perfect," Ianto replied.

"Artificial?" Jack suggested. Ianto nodded. "Trap?"

"I suspect so," Ianto nodded.

"Right, back in the SUV," Jack decided.

"Why do you never listen to me?" Owen asked, talking to himself more than anyone else. "Ianto tells you to head straight to the ware house and you can't get their quick enough…"

Gwen shoved Owen in the small of the back and caused him to stumble as he climbed into the SUV. He glared at her, but she just gave him a withering look.

Jack didn't drive off straight away. He sat thinking, Ianto watching him from the passenger seat.

"Problem?" He asked quietly.

"Nope," he shook his head starting the engine. "But you lot are staying in the car."

He knew it was a mistake telling them before he got there. Jack had to spend the entire journey enduring a tirade of protests the whole way to the warehouse. The thing was he could risk his own life (or well… what little actual life he had) but the others were not about to walk into a trap were anything could happen. He could handle this one situation himself.

When they arrived at the ware house, Jack found the others weren't going to give up as easily as he had hoped. They followed him out of the car and stuck to him like glue.

"Look, it's your safety I'm thinking about," Jack said.

"And what about yours?" Asked Tosh.

Jack sighed, rolling his eyes and caught the 'well you picked this team' look off Ianto who was stood next to the SUV still.

"Fine, you can come, but the first sign of trouble you leave, got it?" Jack said and watched the team carefully as they nodded. "And someone needs to stay with the SUV."

"I'll stay," Ianto offered.

"Right, come on then," Jack said stuffing his hands in his pockets.

As they neared the warehouse he slowed down and pulled out a gun. He turned to look at the others and when they were all armed, he slowly pushed open the door. They all crept inside, keeping as quiet as possible.

Jack and Tosh went one way, Gwen and Owen went the other and they carefully checked all the adjoining rooms to the main area of the warehouse. It appeared to be totally deserted and certainly showed no signs of hiding anything, alien or otherwise. Still you could never be too careful and they checked the whole place out before finally deciding to head back.

"Why on earth would they give the police this address when there isn't even a trap set for us?" Owen asked frowning as they stepped out into the cold morning air. It was starting to get light now and as Jack pulled the door to behind them he heard all three of his team member's gasp.

"I think we might just have answered that question," Tosh said quietly.

Frowning Jack turned round to find them looking at… nothing. Nothing. So why..? Then it struck Jack. No SUV and no Ianto.