Office Seduction Slide One… Pt 3
Disclaimer: Not mine, if they were, well....
A/N Sorry this took so long to update
"Ianto"
Ianto flinched at Jack's roar.
"Yes Sir" he responded at a more subdued tone over the comm. He could swear he heard a low animal growl at the Sir but dismissed it.
"Can you come to the boardroom?" Ianto shook his head, maybe someday Jack would remember they were permanently linked by the comms, but not today. He wandered up to the boardroom coffee in hand.
Jack looked up as Ianto stuck his head around the door.
"You bellowed Sir?"
"Yes, yes, emm sit down….no not there" Jack pointed "there". Jack stood and paced around the table. "Right now Ianto you have been here, what, a year now and…."
Oh God Ianto thought he's going to retcon me. He opened his mouth to answer but kept silent as Jack gestured erratically at him.
"And there are things that need to be said and done that, you know, haven't been, and like I said they need to be and sometimes you try to, and then you don't, mother nature taking its course and that. You know?" Ianto waited, but it looked like Jack was finished, he shook his head slightly but no, Jacks speech still made no sense.
"So since plain speaking was not working I decided that I needed to embrace another format" Jack grinned smugly, and rather blindingly, "Powerpoint presentation" he announced with great enthusiasm.
"Oh sweet suffering Jesus" Ianto thought he had it in his head but when he looked up and saw Jack's smile falter he knew he had said it loudly and with passion. However Ianto was a man who rose to any occasion "I haven't sat through a good Powerpoint in so long". He smiled. Yep, Jacks grin was back. "I am a master" Ianto thought to himself.
Jack dimmed the lights and struck, if he was honest with himself, a stance of power and authority in front of the laptop. Pressing F5 he began.
Ianto blinked, paused, and blinked again. There was music. He hadn't expected that, music and an impressive transition. Jack grinned in triumph. The slide wiped in at speed showing a picture of, well, Jack in all his smiling glory.
'Jack'
The text blinked at Ianto. Jack nodded his head sagely.
Out of left field a transition wiped revealing a picture of Ianto. This one from his personnel file. The one that had not been updated since he joined Torchwood One, aged eighteen, slightly dumpy and plagued by spots. It was not flattering. Indeed just to emphasize his own personal issues hell the blinking text that screamed 'Ianto' seemed just to accentuate his oversized teenage head.
"Jack what the hell?" Ianto whined
"Oh right, sorry. I couldn't resist it." Jack laughed pressing the slide forward.
A new picture of Ianto filled the screen. He had to think for a moment before he recognized where it was taken. He looked at Jack quizzically. The photo showed Ianto in profile. The background was blurry but it looked like the Plaz, in the foreground was a frame, Ianto guessed it was the side of the tourist office doorframe. Ianto was sitting looking down, he remembered that day. It was one of those days when the world seemed to fold around him in the hub. It wasn't long after Lisa had died, maybe a month or two after he had come off suspension. Back then he was still having days when he couldn't breath, when the hub felt like it would crush his soul. Jack watched him constantly, Ianto knew, at first he had hated it, but slowly he had taken comfort in it. Sometimes he would just leave the tourist office and sit on the curb outside, just so he could feel the buzz of humanity around him. The oblivious masses who interacted without fear passed him by, never noticing the stranger locked in his shell.
Jack seemed to shake himself.
"Right then"
The next slide appeared with what, Ianto thought, could best be charitably described, as nausea inducing checker-board-ish-ness, if there were such a word. Jack nodded satisfied by his powerpoint styling's. He could see from the slightly unfocused look in Iantos eyes that he too was impressed. The slide dissolved into a picture of a weevil which slid across the screen in a slightly erratic path and anchored itself to the left hand side. A bullet point faded in stating
Weevil
This was followed by a Blowfish in a purple shirt and green tie, again with the bullet point
Blowfish
Finally a Hoix once more literally labeled
Hoix
The pictures faded slowly to be replaced by a large header
Not your average job
A new slide zipped from right to left.
Not your average boss
There appeared to be a small stickman with a huge smile and a long coat striking a dashing pose beside the tag line.
It was quickly replaced by slide 7 by Iantos reckoning….
'Torchwood'
blazed onto the screen. It appeared to have little flames coming out of it. Ianto had to admit that it was slightly impressive. He sat forward a little in his seat, he was confused but intrigued.
Click, click, click, click, click, click, pause click. Ianto heard Jack's finger hitting the forward button in quick succession but the speed and content of the slides literally stunned him
I've tried to be
Subtle
But
you are an idiot (no offense)
so
you need to understand
your
Ass
Ianto noted somewhere in the back of his mind the small doodle of an ass flashing disturbingly for emphasis
Arse
Dramatic pause and Jack clicked triumphantly
IS MINE!
Thank you. The end.
This has been a Jack Harkness production .
All rights reserved (for my personal pleasure)
Jack was proud of his closing gif of animated Ianto running to kiss stickman Jack.
Jack turned the lights back on in the conference room. He looked expectantly at Ianto who had not moved.
"Right" Ianto said pushing himself away from the table. He looked at Jack.
"Right, Okay then. Well emmm okay then. That was…" He opened his mouth then closed it again "…..Informative. Thank you, Sir" He turned and left the room without looking back.
TBC…….