Melody groaned as she felt Ianto turn round the fiftieth time this night, she opened her eyes slowly and glanced up at the digital alarm clock 3:45 glared at her in neon green, she groaned again. She turned round and glared at Ianto's back.
"Yan go to sleep" she muttered
"I can't" he mumbled
"Why can't you?"
Ianto turned round and she could see the tears building up in his eyes. "I keep seeing them Mel" he whispered hoarsely "those people, those children, their souls all gone because of that creep and his twig of a girlfriend"
Earlier today that fought a man that could take peoples souls and put them in a flask, he was from some strange circus thing and escaped the film footage he was trapped in. his assistant was just as vicious. Melody shuddered just remembering the things they did.
"We stopped them" she said firmly "it's over now"
"We didn't save all those people" Ianto said a tear trailing down his cheek
Melody put a hand on his cheek "we saved that little boy" she whispered "and he's got his whole life ahead of him"
"A life without his sibling, a life without his parents" Ianto reminded her "we let them down, I tried to…but I couldn't…I failed"
"You didn't fail Ianto!" Melody snapped "you stopped them, you saved a life, sure it wasn't all of them but there's one less person to suffer, one less person to spend eternity in a coma. Those circus freaks are gone because of you"
Ianto laid there in silence, tears were still falling freely down his face. Melody wiped the tears away with the sleeve of her pyjama top and stroked his hair with her other hand, he suddenly ducked his head and buried it into her shoulder; she wrapped her arms round him and held him for the rest of the night.
The next morning they woke up in the exact position.
A few weeks later Melody woke up alone, on her bedside cabinet a large mug of coffee was left with a note, she picked it up and read it.
Mel, Jack says you can have the day off today, so lay back and relax, I'll be home round sevenish if any aliens don't invade, I'll pick up some Chinese. Yan xxx
She couldn't help but smile as she picked up the large mug of coffee and took a huge gulp, it was still warm. The day started brilliantly, the shower felt amazing (first time she actually felt clean for weeks) and it was actually sunny for once.
After finishing up some small chores, Melody pulled out her camera and smiled. She hadn't done this for almost a year. Just take a day off and take photos. She was just heading out of her block of flats when she saw him sitting there waiting for her.
"Andy" she cried out flinging her arms round him "long time, no see. How have you been? How's the force going? Got yourself a new partner yet?"
Andy stood there looking grave "Mel, I need your help…I need Torchwood's help"