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"Good morning," Gwen called cheerfully up at Jack. The Lieutenant was sat in Jack's office reassuring Ianto it was all going to be fine. It wasn't really working.
"Morning Gwen, we need to have a bit of a chat!"
"Oh what have you done this time?"
"I haven't done anything! Why do you assume that?" she ignored his question and sat down at her workstation turning on her computer.
"Gwen, once you'd left on Thursday…" she looked at him in horror,
"Jack I don't what to know what you and the Lieutenant got up to once I'd left for the evening." Louise hearing this over the comms blushed and Ianto looked at her a small twinge of jealousy in the pit of his stomach.
"No..no Gwen it's not like that will you just let me try and tell you this please?" she nodded and closed her lips tightly, "Thank you, after you left on Thursday something really strange happened to The Lieutenant and she collapsed," Gwen gasped her eyes wide with fear, "no it's alright she's fine but something happened when she was unconscious and well, Ianto's back." Gwen looked at him as if he'd gone insane.
"Jack, Ianto's dead." There was a quaver in her voice,
"Was dead." He said.
"People don't just come back from the dead because someone collapses." She looked into Jack's eyes. Louise got up and Ianto followed her as she walked out of the office and started to head down the stairs.
"I didn't just collapse; I had a sort of fit. It's a bit complicated but what was happening caused me to become very sensitive to my surroundings and well to Jack, he caught me and this caused a reaction that brought Mr Jones and his grandson back into creation." Gwen looked from Jack to the Lieutenant then to the smartly dressed man behind her. She got up slowly tears in her eyes and as Ianto reached the level she was on she flew to him hugging him tightly.
"I'm so sorry." She sobbed.
"Why are you sorry Gwen it wasn't your fault." He hugged her tightly. Jack stood there looking at Louise who just looked at her feet. She turned and started to walk away leaving the friends to reunite.
"Thank you." She turned to look at Gwen who had released Ianto and was now looking at her. "I don't know how you did it but Thank you." She threw her arms around Louise whom a little taken aback by this just sort of stood there she patted Gwen awkwardly. Jack started to laugh.
"Oh I love you guys." He moved forward pulling Ianto, Gwen and Louise into a tight hug. This time Louise hugged them back feeling like she belonged there.
TWTWTW
They all sat round the conference room table.
"So now we are all here, with our wonderful coffee, thank you Ianto!" Jack beamed.
"My pleasure sir!"
"We need to discuss how to reintroduce Mr Jones here back to society!"
"You make him sound like a criminal!" Gwen laughed a little.
"Well I've already put him back on the system, it was as if he'd never been gone if you look at the births register, also I've got him a valid passport, insurance number etcetera, etcetera so we really just need a story for his family!"
"And that's going to be the tough one!"
"So what are our options?" Gwen asked.
"Well, we can go for the truth! However hard it is to believe,"
"Really not the best idea do we really want to publicise the fact I'm an alien?" Louise chipped in,
"Good point that's a no-go then! Option 2, we retcon them, sorry Ianto, so they don't remember!"
"It's been a year sir is that really a good idea?"
"Possibly not, option 3, we sort of turn up on the door step and say we got it wrong?"
"We never get it wrong!" Gwen said smiling.
"That is so true." They all laughed.
"There is an option 4 you know!" they all looked at Ianto. "Well I could have been left for dead but some one saw me breathing, I've been in a coma and when I came out of it 6 months ago I had no idea who the hell I was as did no one else, until recently I've been getting my memory back! Ok I know it's not perfect but it's better than Jack's ideas!" they all looked at one another.
"I like it!" the Lieutenant smiled at Ianto, "I'll go get the car!" she hopped up and headed out the door, Ianto looked anxiously at Jack.
"Jack is it really a good idea if you and Gwen come as well, I mean Gwen told them I was dead and we…er…well my sister is very nosy!" Jack smiled.
"Don't worry we'll stay here and man the fort!" Ianto smiled at Jack and left the room. Then Gwen burst into tears. Jack went over to her to comfort her.
"I'm sorry Jack it's just so over whelming!"
"I know it's alright, he's back it'll take some getting used to but we'll be back to normal in no time!"
TWTWTW
Ianto drove the SUV, over the familiar estate roads to his sister's house. The Lieutenant sat quietly in the passenger side seat, not saying anything the whole journey, it wasn't an unpleasant silence it was a nice silence the kind when you're with someone you know really well and it's just natural. She had been looking at the leather strap on her wrist, which Ianto now realised was very similar to Jacks. She looked concerned for a little while then snapped it shut and looked out the windscreen.
"We're nearly there!" Ianto didn't let on he'd taken the long route, in some ways putting off the experience in others just giving him more time to steal himself for what was to come.
"It's alright Ianto I don't mind I quite like the quiet of the SUV."
"Yes ma'am it makes a nice change to the clatter of the Hub!"
"You don't have to call me ma'am, Ianto it's kind of weird."
"What's your name then?" he smiled.
"Lieutenant Carter-Jones."
"So we always have to call you Lieutenant then, you know ma'am is shorter!" she smiled.
"Don't call me ma'am please Ianto." She smiled at him.
"Alright Lieutenant we are nearly there!"
"That's fine I won't tell Jack you took the long route round." He smiled slightly. He pulled on to the familiar street; he parked the SUV then wondered if it really had been sensible to bring it here again. He sat in the car looking up the path to his sister's house. He felt the Lieutenant's hand on his arm.
"It's alright we don't have to do this." He looked at her.
"Yes we do." He opened the car door and got out. She did the same. He stood there a moment before starting down the path, turning around and coming back again. He checked the car door was locked then looked at her. She looked at him bemused.
"Last time I was here some of the kids off the estate stole it."
"But its state of the art."
"I know that's what I said and I don't know if I trust myself to leave it again!" she laughed a little he didn't look amused. She pulled her screwdriver out her pocket and pointed it at the lock on the SUV. "That ought to do it!"
"I thought locking it did it!" they both smiled. They started to walk towards the front door; Ianto hesitated a little way from the door. She took his hand and gave it a squeeze before ringing the door bell.
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