Ianto in a coma
All characters belong to RTD and the BBC, if I owned them then Ianto would still be alive and made immortal.
Rating: M/M kissing and major swearing … well its Torchwood isn't it
Spoilers: Slight for series one
Normal text is Ianto's thoughts, Jack's thoughts are in italics, and Owen's are in bold.
Chapter Six – It's a two-way thing
As Owen said that, my head snapped up to look at him in absolute astonishment. Did he really just say that? "And what, exactly, does Ianto do to make you think that?" I ask, the disbelief obvious in my voice. I refuse to refer to Ianto in the past tense – I have too much faith in him to believe that he isn't coming back. "Well" Owen replied "It's blatantly obvious when you think about it. I mean, all the looks he's given you, the flirting, the suggestive smirks…surely that didn't go unnoticed?"
"How do you know that he wasn't just responding to the way I was acting toward him?" I asked, instinctively knowing he knows more. Damn, I haven't lived over 150 years for nothing. I was stunned almost into silence as I heard Owen's response "Well…If you really want to know…he did tell me…"
Shit, I thought, I shouldn't have told him that. I heard him gasp "When? Why? Where?" So I told him. After Lisa, one of the nights that Jack hadn't been at Ianto's flat, I had gone round thereto make sure he wasn't doing himself any harm. I had found him trying to drink away his sorrows. I had heard him rambling, more to himself than to me, but I had listened anyway. He had been going on about how he was not worried that he had betrayed Lisa, but how he had betrayed Jack. How he had been worried about Jack retconning him and Jack being nothing but an unrecognisable face in the street. I had put him to bed, and the next morning he had told me that he was falling hard for Captain Jack Harkness.
As Owen told me this, I was feeling confused, devastated and happy at the same time. Confused because he had never told me how he felt. He had responded to my flirting, sure, but I had always thought that it was just because I was his boss. Happy because, after all the flirting and the suggestive banter, he felt the same way. Devastated because he might not make it through this, and he thought that I hated him. And we could have been together. At that moment, one of Ianto's monitors started beeping…