Okay here's the last chapter of this story, sorry that it's short, however I am planning a sequel to be uploaded soon.
Ianto had to spend another couple of days in a hospital – which ended up equalling a week in total – to make sure that he was in a safe state to go home in. He was allowed a little while with his oxygen mask off each day (so long as he was under supervision) which made him a lot happier as well as it being easier for him to speak and allowed him to eat or drink something.
Jack got Tosh, Gwen and Owen to bring him a lot of grapes.
The doctors suggested that Jack gave Ianto three to six weeks off of work dependent on the job that he did, a longer amount of time off for the more manual labour that he did.
Jack had talked over it with the whole team and decided that Ianto could stay back at the hub and do what Tosh would usually do when they went out, tracking aliens from the inside of the hub, as well as still being allowed to work in the tourist office still.
Tosh would go out more and Owen would have to stay back as well, especially since he was still recovering from fighting that weevil and now he had an injured arm to add to his collection.
The cuts on Ianto's face were all healing well. None of them were bleeding anymore and his lip was already almost completely healed. His forehead and cheek were healing at a slower rate, but they were still healing and that was all that really mattered.
His ankle was indeed sprained like Owen had thought and his arm had been dislocated, but Owen had already sorted both of those that the doctors didn't have to much more to do for them. By the end of Ianto's six weeks off the doctors said that his ribs should be completely healed as well.
When they released Ianto from hospital, Jack was the one who took him back to his flat. They order pizza and sat on the sofa watching the television until Ianto yawned and asked to go to bed. Jack stayed with him that night, watching as Ianto slept, thinking of how easily that could have been taken away from him.
Tosh had found herself quite bored for the past few days as there hadn't been much in the way of work. She and Gwen and done an awful lot of weevil hunting and Jack had assisted them sometimes - when he could drag himself away from Ianto and the hospital for long enough – or when Owen was there.
Whenever Owen came back from the hospital he never seemed overly happy with any of them although it was slightly more obvious that his attitude was directed towards Ianto than it was all of them.
Gwen spent a lot of her time with Rhys trying to fix her relationship with him to the best of her ability. Toshiko looked at her, awestricken at how she could keep a relationship going outside of Torchwood, however it did manage to relight a flame of hope in her every time that Gwen told them something good about her and Rhys, that maybe she could manage with a relationship as well.
That was if he ever realised.
Torchwood was full of rubbish coffee and empty pizza boxes for three weeks, while Ianto was forced to rest at home and even though the team attempted to tidy it and clean the hub up, it never seemed to last.
Owen never seemed to help them tidy up, but Tosh was glad to see that he was recovering from his fight with the weevil and that he no longer had a black eye.
Ianto returned to work after his three weeks off and wasn't best pleased at the state of the hub and he took that out on Jack mainly, who promised to help him tidy it, although Tosh and the rest of the team never got to see it as he and Ianto must have done it that evening as when they returned the next morning the hub was completely spotless.
Owen and Ianto seemed to avoid each other as best as they could, although they wasn't really possible as they were both stuck in the hub.
The tourist office was bust for Ianto's first week back, but settled back to normal for the few weeks after.
Tosh was sat next to Ianto on the sofa telling him all about how she would be seeing her family soon. Ianto smiled at her and this routine went on for the next two weeks.
The team had done a lot more weevil hunting lately and at the same time you seemed to notice more with two members of your team being off work. Tosh had set her rift monitor program to notify Ianto of any rift movement at any point while they were out and Ianto had to say it was helpful.
Especially when it went off and annoyed Owen.
Posters were hung everywhere asking people to vote Saxon and more posters were everywhere around Cardiff at the minute and the city sometimes looked a bit of a mess when you really looked and Jack found himself doing an awful lot more of that lately either from the ground or from the top of high buildings.
The rift hadn't seemed to give them too much in the way of a break, however it did calm down for a while. Jack should have seen it coming, but he didn't even Ianto had thought the same thing.
Reports came in about people hearing old music in an abandoned building, so Jack took Tosh out to check it out with him even though Tosh was meant to be visiting her family later on for her grandfather's eighty eighth birthday and she was meant to be going to London for it.
He'd taken the SUV with them and Toshiko had been on the phone to her family speaking in Japanese until she put the phone down when they had arrived at the building, parked the SUV and climbed out.
Ianto had wanted to come with them, but Jack had told him to stay behind with Owen and Gwen, although he said that it shouldn't take them to long to sort it out.
He was wrong, but of course he wasn't to know that.
When he and Tosh left that morning it was the twentieth of January and Owen was sleeping on the couch. Ianto was doing paper work and watching the rift and Gwen was coming in later to join them. Jack could only hope that leaving Owen and Ianto alone was a smart idea, but he hoped that it was as it was the only real option that they had.
It wasn't like they were going to be stuck there forever now was it.
Okay I think I might write a sequel to this that will be closely based on the episode Captain Jack Harkness as I was always planning to take this into that episode as a sort of sequel, because I wanted to try and elaborate on the two different time lines that were featured in that episode.
Thanks for reading, I hope you have enjoyed reading this story and please review. Also I will update Look Right Through Me tomorrow - thanks for all of the reviews on that story so far.