It's three days till Children of Earth! Yay!
Okay, so in this chapter you'll notice I put in a lot more "coupley moments" between the team. There's a Tosh/Owen moment, a small Gwen/Jack moment (as much as I hate it!) and some one-sided lovesick moments. I'd also like to apologise for how slow this story is at the moment, I promise it will get much more exciting very soon...
fingers crossed for the new series...
"I fucking hate boats…" Owen groaned, leaning over the ships side and emptying his stomach for what seemed like the millionth time.
"Yes, you said that," Tosh muttered throwing a towel at him. "You've been saying that for the last three hours."
Owen wiped his mouth and sat down beside her heavily, leaning against her for support. "Sorry," he apologised. "But it's true. Why did I agree to this again?"
"Because you're a good guy deep down Owen," Tosh leant her head on his shoulder.
"Really?"
Tosh smiled. "Well…maybe really, really deep down."
Owen pouted.
Meanwhile, below deck Gwen was making coffee.
Or at least, trying to…
"Sorry," she apologised for what felt like the millionth time as Jack mopped up the spilt coffee beans.
"Hey," Jack grinned, trying to lighten the mood. "Not everybody can pour coffee on a boat in the middle of the sea! I can…but that's not surprising for a man of my charisma!"
Gwen punched him playfully on the arm. "He'll be okay you know Jack," she said, putting her hand on his shoulder. "He's a big boy; he can take care of himself."
"Yeah I know," Jack replied. "Ianto will be perfectly fine."
"What would you be doing right now? If you were home I mean?"
Ianto leant against the cell wall, pondering Rhys' question. "Well, it's about 9pm, so around now I'd be locking up the hub," Ianto answered wearily. "The others would have left already, Tosh giving me a hug goodbye, Owen making some snide remark (as usual) but then promising to meet me at the pub tomorrow. Gwen would have gone home hours ago of course, to you."
Ianto heard Rhys chuckle softly at this.
"Jack," Ianto closed his eyes as he said his name. "Jack would be waiting outside for me, yelling down his comm. at me to get a move on, and at the same time juggling a phone in the other hand talking to the prime minister, UNIT, the queen, or some angry alien he forgot to call back after a date," Ianto laughed to himself. "Then we'd go to the peer and eat fish and chips and talk…about anything really. You?"
"I'd be with Gwen, of course," Ianto heard Rhys answer from the other side of his cell wall. "Friday night, so we would have ordered in a Chinese, snuggled up on the sofa together; watching Dirty Dancing, Legally blonde, or some other chick flick she had yet again forced me to watch. Of course, when the movie began I wouldn't really care what we'd be watching…as long as I'd be with her. I really wanted to marry that woman Ianto…"
Ianto smiled. "You still will mate…" he reassured him. "We'll get out of here."
"How Ianto?" came Andy's voice from the other side. "We have no way out, and Saeth's already blackmailing you into joining her side!"
"Yes, which of course, I'm not going to listen to!"
"What if you do?" joined in Yestin.
"That question's pointless because I'm not…"
"No, no, no. You're not understanding me properly!" Yestin began to sound excited. "I'm saying I think you should!"
"What?"
"Have you finally lost it?"
"Think about it Ianto, it could be our way out! If you pretend to work for her, gain up her trust for a bit- she'll let you out of the cell! Then, when her back is turned, you can help us all escape!"
There was a long silence.
"That's actually not a bad idea," piped up Rhys, after a while. "It would get us out of here a lot faster than just sitting here would!"
Ianto shrugged, despite the fact that no-one was around to see it. "Fine. I'm willing to try anything right now."
Saeth strolled down the corridor, peeking into the rooms she past as she went. In several rooms, the infected were tied down onto beds and tables, snarling and the medical officers who kept sticking needles and taking samples from them. Horrible…but it had to be done. She stopped abruptly when she arrived at the prison chambers and opened Ianto's cell.
"Well Ianto," she smiled at him kindly. "Have you thought about what I said?"
Ianto looked up and forced his best smile onto his face. "Yes I have," he replied confidently. "Count me in."
Please review! I always get lovely reviews, but lately they've been dwindling and it's discouraging me from continuing!
