Jack looked at Ianto's file that was open on the screen. He looked over at Ianto.

"So what do you think of the Lieutenant? She's a bit of a live wire; she gets on well with Gwen. She just kind of dropped in!" Ianto could tell he was trying to create some small talk to avoid the questions he had.

"She interesting, you know my curiosity will get the better of me and I'll start to delve into the archive files sooner or later!" he smiled impishly. "You want a coffee; I hear you've been battling with the machine!"

"Yes I have, what had you done to it? It wasn't destroyed in the blast! Did you merge it with some kind of Alien tech?" he asked. Ianto looked at him, an innocent look on his face.

"Don't know what you mean Jack, alien tech in a coffee machine? I think you've been down here way to long!" Jack smiled. Ianto hadn't changed at all it felt very strange. It was as if he'd just reappeared, never actually been dead for 15 months.

"I'd give you a stern talking to but I think you'd enjoy it too much!" Ianto raised his eyebrows as he smiled. He walked down to the coffee machine. He came back up a minute later carrying two steaming hot cups of coffee. He offered one to Jack who took it. They walked up to Jack's office; he noted the picture on the desk, before Jack removed it, putting it in the desk draw. Ianto lent up against the desk as Jack sat down in his chair. It seemed like nothing had even happened.

"Ianto I'm so..." Ianto cut Jack off.

"Stop, Jack it wasn't your fault." He looked at him.

"Yes it was, I recruited you, I took you to confront the 456 and I let you risk your life."

"Yeh in a job I loved and still love and to save a planet I love and my family and with the man I loved so, it was nothing to do with you forcing me, if Torchwood one had still been running I'd have still been in the thick of it." Jack looked at Ianto, he was unconvinced Ianto was alright with being back. Ianto fell silent, back to being the shy boy he had been when he first joined Torchwood 3. Jack knew he would need a lot of support like the first few months after Lisa. Ianto was staring into his coffee.

"Ianto are you sure you're ok?" Jack looked over at him concerned.

"No, I'm not alright. I died Jack." He stopped, choking back tears. "I need some air." He put his coffee down and headed out of the office towards the rolling door.

"I'll come with you." Jack stood up. Ianto shook his head.

"I just need a little alone time." Jack nodded and sat back down, slightly disappointed. Ianto headed up in the lift, leaning against the side, he looked at his feet. It was weird, he couldn't remember where he'd been and maybe that was best. He stepped out of the lift into the small tourist information centre. He crossed the room and out the door into the light, cold morning. The small door closed behind him. He walked along the edge of the bay, leaning on the railings. Looking out at the sea the wind blew across his face. He started to walk along the bay, no one was really around, a few people busying their way to work, earphones in blocking out the world. He walked for about 5 minutes before he saw the Lieutenant sat down, her legs hanging over the edge, her arms where crossed on the lowest railing and her chin rested on them. She was staring out to sea. He stopped leaning on the railings to her right. He put his foot on the lowest bar and starred out there as well. Not being able to see what she could.

"So what are you thinking about?" he asked suddenly. She didn't jump or change her position.

"Life, the universe and everything." She said quite plainly.

"Isn't that out of a Douglas Adams book?"

"Yes, if people only filed that book correctly, it's shocking it's under fiction on this planet." Ianto tried processing this information, frankly he wasn't surprised. "What are you thinking about?"

"I'm wondering what your staring at!" she looked up at him and smiled, patting the space next to her and gesturing he should sit.

"Pull up a pew! You won't be able to see it from there!" so he did, he sat down. "Now stay very still and watch the waves." He did, taking the same comfortable position that she had been in moments before. They sat there quietly watching the ocean, Ianto couldn't help thinking that she had completely and utterly lost it, but then he saw it. A large rounded rock bobbed in the water about a mile out to sea, but it wasn't a rock. Rocks can't float.

"What is it?" he whispered.

"It's a giant squid, but it really shouldn't be here! It's…now where is it from?" Ianto kept staring at the creature it rolled in the waves its tentacles reaching out of the water, before it sunk back into the depths of the sea and disappeared. "I recon it's from one of the nebular planets, not sure which one though."

"Aren't they gaseous planets?" Ianto asked.

"Yes, 10 points to Gryffindor Mr. Jones! Planets made from compacted clouds of interstellar gas and dust. Now we just have to work out why it's here."

"And how is it surviving in water?"

"Under the gaseous layer on the planets are worlds just like this one, the gases are just covers to hide what's underneath!" she reached up to the top railing and pulled herself up swiftly. Ianto carefully got to his feet beside her. She turned leaning back on the railings, "These are for you by the way!" she pulled an envelope out the inside of her coat carefully passing it to him. He looked at it. Taking it, he opened it pulling out a huge wad of paper. He unfolded them carefully.

"These are deeds to a flat?" his eyes widened as he saw the address. "A very nice flat!"

"Well, we can't have you living in the Hub all the time; it's not exactly all homely. It's somewhere nice, with a view!" he smiled recalling a conversation with Jack about views.

"Thank you, but I can't accept this."

"Yes you can. You need a place to call home, even if you don't stay there that often!" he smiled at what she implied.

"How did you get it so quickly?" she smiled this time.

"I have my wonderful powers of persuasion! I may not have been here before but I know my way around an estate agent!" She remembered the way the agent's eyes had almost popped out there sockets when he'd seen her, she thought she wasn't that sexy, more wholesome but to some men confidence was all you needed. Turning up before opening a pleading smile on her face and they'd been putty in her hands. Ianto pocketed the document in his coat, as she handed him the keys to his new apartment. "also it's amazing how fast things can be done when you pay cash!" Ianto smiled.

"Should we tell Jack?" Ianto asked gesturing at the squid.

"No it'll wait till Monday! It's not doing any harm; I'll keep an eye on it!"

"Why till Monday?"

"The new Sea Queen arrives then, well should do! It was supposed to be delivered with the SUV but wasn't! That's DHL for you!" she headed off towards the main street.

"Where are you going?" Ianto called after her.

"Shopping, you're quite welcome to join me!" he considered going back to the Hub, to see Jack but didn't, he walked the short distance to catch up with her, offered her his arm which she took and they walked towards the road together.


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