Disclaimer: I do not own Torchwood or the characters.

Rating: T (I had originally rated this M but as our boys are only just meeting nothing will happen yet. When it does I will mark all M)

Author's notes: This is completely AU. Set in Jack and then Ianto's P.O.V (I've written up to where they meet so it may change from there on in, as I'm not sure how it will work doing the P.O.V's in different parts!) All mistakes are my own, also this is my first story so please be nice.

Right so enjoy and let me know what you think x

Thanks for the reviews so far x

Trying to figure out what it was I should have said.

Shopping Jack Harkness could manage, at a push but on a crowded Saturday afternoon it was like a living hell. People and trolleys everywhere, children screaming and those people who come to a complete standstill right in front of you. Quite frankly he could not wait to get home. He grabbed the things he needed and decided he'd come back when less people were around for the things he wouldn't need over the course of the weekend.

'Typical' Jack thought as he went to get bread. They didn't have his usual brand so he stood looking at his other options as a trolley gently bumped into the front of his own. "Sorry." He looked towards the person who had just apologised and smiled. He suddenly realised who that person was 'Ianto.' Jack couldn't speak. His heart was hammering in his chest as he took in the other mans appearance.

Ianto simply picked up a loaf of bread placed it in his trolley and walked off. Jack turned to watch him leave, he looked good enough to eat. He quickly picked up some bread and wondered toward the checkout. Thinking about the lovely young Welshman that had invaded all of his thoughts for the last two months.

Trying to figure out what it was I should have said.

Ianto hated shopping at the weekend, talk about a nightmare. Kids screaming and being pacified with sweets and bribes from embarrassed parents. Not to mention those totally annoying people who stopped dead in front of you, others blocking the isles with their trolleys.

Ianto didn't really understand the layout of this shop either it had taken him forever to find necessary supplies the first time he came here. In his mind it was all back to front. Now however Ianto wrote a list in the same order as the shops layout to make sure he didn't miss anything.

He was currently stuck behind a elderly couple which didn't bother him as much, it wasn't their fault after all but it left him wishing he had found time during the week to do his shopping. But what with his several job interviews and house hunting, along with viewings of houses he was interested in he simply hadn't had time.

The elderly couple turned down the pet food isle and he continued on route to get some bread. Just as he'd started to pick up the pace one of those annoying people stopped right in front of him in and he struggled to hold the trolley back from banging into the back of them. Now he was annoyed and really wanted to get back home, to Tosh's flat.

He pushed the trolley a little bit too violently and only just managed to stop it bashing into the one in front of him. "Sorry" he said as the trolleys touched and he looked up to the trolleys owner and felt his mouth go dry.

Although the man in front of him looked tired and as though he didn't want to be there as much as Ianto didn't, he really was breathtaking. He'd never seen this man so close up before. 'Stop staring at him!' he told himself he turned picked up the first loaf of bread in sight and pushed his trolley up the isle and round the corner where he stopped and let out his breath.

He didn't know what it was about that man but he'd really got to him. He thought about him a lot more than you should think about a complete stranger and he was a he for god's sake! Ianto composed himself and continued with his shopping. Before heading to pay he went back to change his loaf of bread.