Jack
Blinking back tears, I ransacked my office. If I had to cry, I would do so alone, away from Doctor River Song and her messed-up family. My fingers subconsciously ghosted along my cheek, which still echoed Iantos fashion sense.
But were they?
He would mimic me and my actions. I just had to decide where I would hide something for Ianto and that would be where Ianto, loyal Ianto, my loyal Ianto, would have hidden the clue. I knew exactly where I would go.
Firstly, I would make sure it was somewhere that was significant to both of us, somewhere we had done something significant together but that could have been any number of places: my office, his workstation, the autopsy table, the Tourist Information Office desk, and that was just in one weekend!
It was most likely, though, that he would hide it in my room below the office, where we slept. If we slept at all...
Ianto
m not supposed to use it because Jack says s too dangerous Adam impersonated Jack but wasnHe I said. HeCan I tell you a secret?I He drew a breath for atmosphere,
This was a bad idea!
m gonna write down the date, time and location on the Rift machine and make sure in the future I go there so I can bring myself back and prove Jack wrong!But that could create a paradox,So?Ire extremely dangerous, especially this close to the I cant built yet. That He was fidgeting impatiently as he spoke.
I had to lose him but first make him give me our coordinates, the date and time,
I asked warily.
Adam leant over his desk, scribbling on a piece of scrap paper and muttering as he did so. His scrawl was a strange interpretation of familiar characters until the end where a large, legible number was circled, He handed me the paper,
I smiled vaguely, allowing the cogs of my brain to whirr until I found the method best to get shot of Adam,
He fake-retched,
I played innocent,
m gonna kill her!s office.
If I could get in, hide the papers and get out in time, and if Jack found the note back in the future, then Jack could save me!
I ran back up to the spot I was in by Adamd done it. I knew Id risk anything, even reality itself, for him.
Enter.
Nothing.
What was supposed to happen? Iantot told me and I wasns return. How could I live with myself if I never saw him again? My guilt already threatened to crush me every day but this may just be enough to take away all I had to live for.