"Do you think they're okay?" Toshiko asked as she looked up from her laptop and over at the medical bay where Jack and Ianto were lying on cold metal surfaces; Ianto was still strapped in as his body had started to shake again.

"I hope so," Gwen sighed. Toshiko wondered if Gwen hoped they were okay for Jack's sake or Ianto's. Her crush was becoming far too obvious, and Toshiko knew it upset Ianto, and Jack was far too oblivious to notice anything.

"Jack won,t let anything happen to Ianto." Owen sounded confident, and both girls were grateful for that.

"Have you found anything out yet?" Gwen asked.

"No, there's not much of a body to examine just gunk. What about you?"

"I have no idea how he got in," Gwen sighed. "The alarms didn't go off but when we tested them they worked fine."

"Interference maybe?" Toshiko suggested as she started to scroll down the page she was looking at. Toshiko read the page and then gulped; her eyes had gone wide, and she called Owen and Gwen over.

"What is it?" Gwen asked.

"If Jack doesn't save Ianto within the four hours he's trapped, and the poison that's in Ianto's blood will kill him."

-x-

"What happened Yan?" Jack asked softly, his teenage arms running up and down Ianto's back. Ianto just shook his head and then Ianto's mum walked over to him.

"Ianto... it's okay. The police have checked the house there's no one there, we can go back inside now." She looked sadly at her son and then at Jack. "Come on, your friend can come inside too, I'll make you both some breakfast." Ianto looked up at Jack with pleading eyes.

"Come on, Yan. Breakfast sounds good." Jack smiled and wrapped an arm around Ianto's waist, and they started to walk inside the house. Jack frowned as he walked in the house; when Ianto had spoken about this place he had never mentioned anything about a run-down house, instead he had spoken about a beautiful cottage that he loved completely. Jack groaned inwardly it seemed the demon of fear was taking away everything he could from Ianto's memories. No matter how small the details.

Ianto didn't say anything as he was guided back into the house, he just clung to Jack. Jack couldn't help but be reminded of how Ianto clung to him the night after the cannibals, he had that same look of fear in his eyes. When they got to the kitchen Jack sat down and then pulled Ianto onto his lap, Ianto didn't seem to mind he just clung to him.

"He does that a lot." Was his mums only comment on how Ianto was draped across him. "When something scares him, he'll cling to anyone he thinks will make something better." Jack looked down at Ianto, his eyes were shut and his grip had loosened slightly but not completely. "He's asleep, well... sort of." His mum smiled. "He does that too. It's always amazed me at how he can just fall asleep to shut everything out."

"What happened?" Jack asked softly. The fear was still sketched onto Ianto's face even if he was asleep, and Jack didn't want to wake him up.

"There was someone in the house." His mum shivered slightly. "Ianto suffers from insomnia." She explained, though Jack already knew this. Sharing a bed with an insomniac did have its perks, especially when he didn't need as much sleep as anyone else. "He woke up around one AM, and just started screaming. I rushed into his room and the window slammed shut. He told me there was someone standing over his bed."

"You saw them?" Jack asked eyes wide.

"I saw the window slam shut, it was too dark to see anything." She sighed. "Ianto said he saw a man though, and what with the murder just next door."

"Did he hurt him?" Jack asked, he tightened his grip on Ianto's waist.

"No. just scared him." Jack just nodded his head. "How do you know Yan?"

"I met him yesterday on the beach." Jack lied. He had never met Ianto's mother, and even if he had it wouldn't have changed anything, he wouldn't exactly be able to tell her the truth.

"Oh so that's why he was smiling," Jack grinned at her comment. Ianto was smiling because of him.

Ianto turned in his sleep and would have fallen if Jack hadn't tightened his grip. Ianto blinked his eyes open and blushed when he realised he was sat on Jack's lap. "Are you okay?" Jack asked softly as he brushed the hair out of Ianto's eyes. Ianto nodded and turned to his mum who was smiling at them both.

"I'll make you too some breakfast, Jack, would you like anything?" Jack shook his head it seemed his teenage body didn't need food. "Ianto, I'll make you some toast." Ianto went to protest, but Jack guessed the teenager knew better when his mother shot him a heated look. He got up from Jack's lap and sat down on a chair next to him.

"So what were you doing over here any way?" Ianto asked to kill the silence.

"Well I came to see if you wanted to go out or something," Jack smiled. "What was it you said yesterday, to see if you had time for me." Ianto blushed when his mother shot him a look, a small smile tugging at her pink lips.

"Oh right yeah..." Ianto mumbled. Jack just smiled at him, like his older self Ianto got embarrassed easily and it was just as cute, though Jack had a feeling that this version of Ianto was even cuter because he looked far too innocent.

"Here you go." Ianto's mother smiled and placed the toast in front of her son. "I'm going to go upstairs, call your dad." Ianto just nodded weakly and watched as his mother walked out of the room, before Jack or Ianto had a chance to do or say anything she was back in the room and looked at Jack. "Make sure he eats it please." She smiled and turned to Ianto. "I'll know if you haven't." And with that she walked up the stairs.

Ianto glared at the toast as if it were his enemy and then looked at Jack. "Eat up." Jack smiled. He knew all about Ianto's eating habits and it scared him to know that it had happened long before Ianto joined Torchwood. Ianto sighed and picked up the toast, he broke the crust off, and then tore the toast into messy sections and nibbled on each piece slowly.

"I guess you probably don't want to do anything today, huh." Jack said causally. "If you want we can hang around here?"

"You mean you actually want to stay and hang out?" Ianto asked clearly surprised.

"Course. That's if you have time for me." Jack winked. Ianto blushed and put a piece of toast in his mouth, Jack guessed that he done this to avoid speaking. "We can sit in the garden if you want, talk?" Ianto nodded and then stared at his toast.

"One more slice," Jack smiled. "And then I'll eat the last bit and say you ate it all?" Ianto smiled in thanks and took his last piece of toast and ate it slowly, Jack took the other bit and chewed it quickly.

"Will you come upstairs with me quickly?" Ianto asked chewing at his lip. "Only I don't want to go up on my own."

"Course." Jack smiled. The two boys headed upstairs and could hear the familiar voice of Ianto's mother talking on the phone.

"He's scared out of his mind... we should just come home now... he's your son and he's had a fright Ian... there's murders going on around here it's not safe for him... no of course it's not your problem... fine... see you at the end of the four weeks." There was a loud curse and Ianto knocked on the door hesitantly to see his mum wiping her eyes quickly.

"Mum, are you...?"

"What do you want Yan?" She asked softly. "Did you eat all your toast?"

"Yes." Ianto said, "And I was just going to tell you that me and Jack are going to the beach."

"Are you sure you're okay?" She asked looking her son up and down trying to find evidence that he wasn't.

"Fine." Ianto said, his mother nodded and smiled at Jack.

"Look after him?"

"Always." Jack said confidently. Ianto smiled at him and then with a final look at his mother the two boys left to go to the beach.