Chapter 9. Research

'Talk to us grey, come on.'

Owen and Ianto were stood on the outside of the cell.

'What the hell did you do to him?' Ianto growled menacingly.

'What did I do Owen?' Grey taunted. 'Come on, you're a medic, you've seen his blood results.'

Ianto punched the glass and grey flinched. Ianto turned away from the glass.

'We've been at him hours, he's not going to break, so let me into the cell already.' He muttered to Owen.

'We need him alive.' Owen hissed trying to ignore the smug look on Grey's face.

'he doesn't know that, you're a brilliant doctor, you and I both know you can figure it out, whatever it is but you need to know what you're up against, or so he thinks.' Ianto whispered quietly. 'Lets leave him to stew; I need to talk to you.'

Owen nodded and they began to make their way upstairs.

'What's up?' Owen asked.

'He,' Ianto pointed behind them towards the cells, 'was rescued by John right, but he gave him the slip, the odds on John showing up are pretty high, but I don't want him seeing Jack like this, he might try to hurt him or worse.'

It all came out quickly and Ianto had to repeat himself so Owen understood.

'Great minds think alike Ianto, it's dealt with.'

Ianto opened his mouth to speak but Owen cut in.

'Listen, just, trust me on this please, it's dealt with.'

But Ianto persisted and Owen gave up.

'Well I thought, why wait for the good captain to show up,' Owen looked at his watch, 'message should have gotten there by now.'

Ianto stared at him.

'You didn't?' he asked horror struck.

'Intergalactic communiqué received last week was from John, remember it?'

'It was a missing person's poster?'

'Pretty much.'

'I also looked into that gold light you keep giving off.'

'What gold light?'

'You haven't noticed?'

'Obviously not, so, care to enlighten me.' (No pun intended)

'Well, remember when I told you Jack had Alzheimer's and you fainted?'

'Yeah,' Ianto replied awkwardly.

'Well, there was this light you were giving off and there's slight changes in you personality that need looking into and I need a new blood test.'

Ianto nodded before he let some confusion show.

'What do you mean changes in personality?' he just had to ask didn't he?.

'well, just small things, I don't think the girls have noticed, I'm your doctor so I can see these things, first, you're getting a hell of a lot sneakier, and smarter, and angrier, and more protective of the whole team, you also seem to have caught religion, specifically Anglican.' Owen ticked off changes on an invisible list in the air as he spoke.

'Religion?'

'Did you, or did you go to church two days ago?'

Ianto shrugged non committaly.

'So, what did you tell your priest that he didn't already know, and did you actually get any good advice?'

Ianto snorted.

'Funny, last time I got good advice from a priest was Mams funeral, but I told him I was bisexual, strange, first time I admit it and it's to someone who can never understand'

'I don't get it.'

'Anglican church believes that homosexuality is a sin and can be cured through prayer.'

Owen snorted. 'So what happened?'

'What do you think happened?'

'He threw you out and condemned you to hell?' Owen was struggling to keep his temper in check; he hated people like that, why didn't they just Paul McCartney and the wings.

'Actually, he told me to talk to my family and friends and that he couldn't help.'

'Prat.'

Ianto smiled slightly, relief showing.

'My sentiments exactly.'

'So why are you telling me?'

'You asked.'

'No I asked what you told him, not why you haven't told anyone else.'

'You're my doctor Owen,' he said like this clarified everything.

'And?'

'It's psychological, seriously though, what do you think will happen to me if my family decide to disown me because I don't really care about gender?'

'But weren't you, y'know, before you came here?'

'yeah, but, I'd never been in a long term (as In more than one night) relationship with a man before so the conversation never really cropped up, plus, they'd all met Lisa and assumed I was straight.'

'All, how many Jones' are there?'

'Worldwide, last count was approximately sixteen thousand, in my family, I'm the youngest of four brothers and three sisters, four of those seven were stillborn or miscarried.'

'Damn.'

'That's why I can't tell mam.'

'…'

'The only surviving son is the one least deserving of the air he breaths.'

'What!?'

'Listen, you can psychoanalyse me another time, we've got work do to.'

'Ianto-'

'Owen, I'm not important right now, ok, sort Jack out then you can put your keen and penetrating mind to the test.' Ianto said quickly, cutting Owen off.

'And as usual with you I'll come to the wrong conclusion.'

'Whatever.'

Ianto walked back towards the cells.

Owen and Ianto friends? Am I insane? Probably.

Is my story any cop? Only you can say peeps.

Cookies to anyone who gets the Paul McCartney thing, answer in next chapter, also I don't own:

" put your keen and penetrating mind to the test.' Ianto said quickly, cutting Owen off.

'And as usual with you I'll come to the wrong conclusion.'

Idea, I just borrowed it and edited it slightly from Harry Potter 3 the film, it's the Snape/Sirius argument in the shrieking shack. i didn't even realise as i wrot, also i didn't realise i'd nicked a ianto quote about owen either, i watch too much tv it's ingrained now