Everything was starting to get back to normal at Torchwood 3, well as normal as it can get at Torchwood. Everyone was working hard and there had been no major issues since Ianto's return. Things where running very smoothly, almost too smoothly.

Jack found this work load was dropping, with the combination of Ianto and the lieutenant the paperwork was non-existent and Gwen had been able to spend more time at home with the baby. Which was good, Jack didn't like the idea of the kid growing up without its mother.

Jack thought back to a few weeks ago when Ianto had been to see his sister with the lieutenant to tell her he was actually alive.

"So how'd it go?" Jack looked at Ianto who was sat opposite him at his desk.

"Well it was," he grasped for the words, "weird and scary but nice. I don't think Rhiannon quite believed it, but they accepted it well enough."

"I'm glad to hear it." Jack walked around his desk to Ianto sitting on the desk he put his hand on the side of Ianto's face. "In some ways I can't believe it's you." They looked into each other's eyes Jack leaned in and kissed him, slowly parting his lips, he longed for when they could be alone together, without Gwen and the lieutenant in the Hub below. Ianto placed his hand on Jack cheek.

"I missed you." Jack murmured softly.

"I can tell." Ianto kissed him again, he didn't want to leave but knew he had to get on with work. They pulled out of the kiss and Ianto stood up, Jack pulled him close playfully, wrapping his legs around Ianto from where he was sat on the desk.

"I'm not letting you out of my sight again." Jack kissed him and Ianto slid his arms around his neck, one hand in Jacks hair making sure he couldn't pull back. "I felt so awful." Jack tried to say but Ianto pushed their lips back together making sure he couldn't say anymore, their lips parted and their tongues twisted together. There was a quiet knock at the door and Ianto quickly pulled out of the kiss trying to step out of Jack's embrace, but Jack held on tight as he called for them to come in. Ianto stood there his hands now at his side slightly self conscious.

"Sorry to intrude but Jack can I have a word?" Jack was jerked out of his reverie by the lieutenant who had knocked at the door. He gestured for her to come in. "Jack I really want to investigate this." She passed him some paperwork that he scanned quickly. Time's and dates of rift activity when nothing had come through.

"No."

"Why not?"

"You don't get to chose what we investigate."

"I don't want us to investigate I want to investigate it!"

"No, no personal projects."

"Captain please let me it's driving me mad. I need to know what's going on!" he got up from his desk and came round so he was looking down at her,

"There is no point trying to sweet talk me by calling me Captain, Lieutenant it won't work, you are not going to investigate this until I can see a set pattern." He pushed the papers into her chest and headed for the door.

"Oh come on Jack, it's just ridiculous."

"No it's not; ya come in here all guns blazing…"

"It wasn't blazing just waving, so forgive me but I didn't have a clue where the hell I was. You should treat me with the same respect you do the others."

"I do but the others aren't alien."

"I'm a time lord Jack we're peaceful people!"

"Yeh but you're different!"

"OK so you see me as a threat I get it but Gwen's allowed out to track signals, Ianto goes out after Weevils by himself and well I dread to think what you do so why can't I go after this?"

"I know them they've been doing it for years."

"I've been fighting for years; I'm in less danger than them." She was shouting at him.

"Just because you can regenerate doesn't mean you're indestructible."

"Well, it's not like you'd care Jack it's quite clear you don't even want me around." He didn't say anything to that, she let out a deep breath turned on her heel before Jack started again.

"Well maybe I'd let you if you told me what was going on with you. You collapsed and then Ianto comes back from the dead that's not exactly what I would call normal!" she spun back around.

"I've changed Jack that what's going on."

"What do you mean changed?"

"I've been chosen..." she broke off not knowing what to say.

"Chosen for what?" Jack glared at her.

"By the emperor, my DNA..."

"Just tell me."

"I was chosen to be the first empress of the time lords."

"What does that mean?"

"I'm the creator..." Jack looked confused, "I'm God Jack, I've been chosen to carry on the line of the emperor, and I'm the creator, the most powerful person in existence." Jack looked at her. "And it's terrifying, Jack it's terrifying because no one can stop me Jack, God is an earth 18 year old girl all the emotions and hormones and if I lose it no one here can stop me."

"The doctor can stop you." He said.

"No he can't Jack because he's not my partner anymore, I need to find my partner because they will be the only person who can read this," she pulled the small sphere that had appeared at the transformation. Jack looked at it. "Whoever can read this is my bonded partner and they will be able to balance it out."

"How will we find them?" his voice was quite.

"I don't know but I think it will be a Jones, also the thing is my full transformation has only just completed so they may not be aware of any changes, it's complicated."

"So it could be Ianto?" Jack sounded horrified.

"Yes, but there will be more than one, I promise Jack I won't take him away from you."

"You can't promise that."

"Yes I can, if I don't find the person in a month then it could be a disaster but I'll just stay in the TARDIS so nothing happens."

"What if it is Ianto what if he falls for you, you won't have a choice, if it happens I want him to be happy, he's never been sure about us, he always wanted..." Jack trailed off.

"Jack I'm sorry I didn't tell you."

"I can understand why." They looked at each other then she left the office, she was angry that the argument had gone that far.

TWTWTW

She stared up at the bright computer screen willing her brain to work out what that signal meant, it had been flashing on and off for 3 days now, no pattern to it, always somewhere different. She felt someone's hands on her shoulders as they lent over and looked at her computer screen.

"There's no point obsessing over it you know!" Ianto rubbed her shoulders affectionately. She sighed resisting the urge to hit her head repeatedly on the desk. She'd been working on it for 8 hours straight and still hadn't worked out how to track its movements. She moved her neck, she was exhausted and her neck hurt from staring at the monitor all day. Ianto as if sensing her pain gently pressed his thumbs into the top of her spine, the pressure felt great. She closed her eyes and smiled as he continued to massage her shoulders. "You know you really need to loosen up a little."

"Sorry I'll try harder in future!" She laughed opening her eyes. "It goes with being in such a high stress job! I'm amazed you're as relaxed as you are!" he smiled, continuing to move his hands carefully over her shoulders, Taking her smile and eyes closing again as a signal to carry on.

"You know I'm not!" she smiled again remembering the previous conversation. The pain in her neck started to loosen up. "You have a lot of built up stress!" he observed.

"Yes I know. Do you want to know who built up my stress or do you know already?" She didn't need to say it he'd heard her arguing with Jack over something earlier in the day. He'd been pretty harsh on her; he could tell by the way he'd been yelling.

"I think I have a pretty good idea." He felt her muscles relax a bit as he pressed his thumbs into her shoulders again. He though he heard a small groan of pleasure escape her lips.

"Bloody Captain Jack Harkness, that man can make me so cross,"

"Yes he makes everyone like that and yet the crosser he makes you the more turned on you get!" she couldn't believe that those words had just come out of Ianto's mouth but she totally agreed with them.

She tilted her head back slightly feeling her hair catch the open lapels on his jacket. He moved his thumbs in a circular motion feeling the soft cotton of her shirt and the warmth of her skin below it. As the last of the day's tension melted away at Ianto's touch, she smiled to herself thinking how nice it felt. He stopped but didn't take his hands off her shoulders straight away; he ran his hands from her neck to her shoulders to the tops of her arms. In a reassuring manner, before patting her shoulders again.

"You mustn't let Jack get to you." She spun and looked up at him.

"Your turn to let the frustration out Mr Jones!" she stood up and carefully removed his jacket from his shoulders before; she pushed him down into the chair spinning it back around. Putting her hands on to his shoulders, she applied a small amount of pressure feeling his soft skin through the thin fabric layer of his shirt.

"So Ianto what's bothering you, because your shoulders feel like a sailor has put his best knots in them!" he smiled and like her closed his eyes as she smoothly ran her hands over his shoulders. He didn't say anything he just savoured the feeling of her warm hands on him.

"Well?" she whispered quietly into his ear, she was so close he could feel her breath on his neck below his loosened collar. "Tell me everything Ianto, please." He felt her forehead on the crown of his head as she slipped her arms around him hugging him before moving back to his shoulders. He though about his sisters reaction to his return, the way Jack looked at him, Gwen's disbelief then her realisation of everything. The confusion of feelings he had for Jack and the thoughts and feelings he had about the Lieutenant. The young girl who had bought him back from the dead. He wanted to know all about her. Instead of voicing them, he kept it locked away inside his head, unwilling to ask in case he was rude.

"Oh you know the complications of being back from the dead!" She pressed her thumbs into his shoulders again a little harder it was so relaxing. He was finding it hard to concentrate.

"What else?" he hadn't been expecting her to be so interested in him. He thought about what to say, he'd been working with her for about a month now, they had a nice little team, the four of them. Working together, just like it had been before.

"Nothing really, just the usual, worrying about Jack, Gwen, You, coffee, Jack!" she couldn't help but smile. He felt her kiss the top of his head, in a friendly way. He wanted to know why. "What was that for?" he smiled at his own bravery, not knowing whether it was stupid to have asked or even if he wanted to know the answer.

"You're so sweet Ianto." He felt his shoulders loosen as she said it. Great he thought she thinks I'm sweet, well at least she thinks something of me! "As for the coffee no worries there! I think you saved me and Gwen from a fate worse than death in rescuing us from Jack's awful coffee making skills!" she felt his shoulders loosen a little more, as he chuckled at her slating Jack. "Gwen can handle her self but I understand the worrying about the team, I totally get that! Jack is a big boy and can definitely look after himself!" she paused before continuing. "And why are you worried about me?"

"Your quiet, secluded and like Jack we know nothing about you. I'm worried because you're open but your not, you talk all the time but not about yourself, you're very good, you never let anything slip." She'd never had anyone pay enough attention to her to realise how guarded she had become. It came as quite a surprise to her that this young man had noted it.

"You've had too much time on your hands if you've been able to notice that!"

"No, I'm just very observant and I know everything!" he said it in a comical mystical voice that made her laugh he liked making her laugh. She wasn't laughing at him but at what he was saying that was nothing important it was small talk.

"You know I don't understand why your so stressed Ianto I mean you look so in control and so calm all of the time…ok maybe not all the time, most of the time!"

"I'm a control freak, I need control and things have to be ordered. I don't like freefall and in this job, there is so much freefall I'm scared shitless most of the time, in fact I'm so not in control I look like I am. Please tell me how that works?" she laughed at the look on his face and he couldn't help but laugh with her.

"It works because you are in control! Your just worried people will think your not!" his shoulders where totally loose now. He stood up careful so as not to fire the chair backwards into the Lieutenant. She had a wide smile on her face; it was much like Jacks but in some ways kinder and younger. He loved that smile. He looked into her eyes and smiled back at her. Then Jack pounded into the room from his office.

"Alright Children lets roll we've just had a call from the chief of police about a rather funny looking murder scene!" he stopped, looking between Ianto and the Lieutenant, Ianto looked like a rabbit in head lights his eyes wide, a slight blush on his cheeks,

"I'll go get the car," he swiftly headed towards the stairs away from Jack and the Lieutenant.

"Did I interrupt something?" he raised an eyebrow at the Lieutenant, who looked innocently back at him.

"No," she shook her head. He looked unconvinced as she headed towards the large cog shaped entrance to the hub, he followed her quickly and they headed out of the small information centre that was a cover for the back door to the Hub. Walked along the boardwalk and where met but Gwen who was just walking over to them as Ianto turned the corner in the SUV. He pulled up jumping out throwing the keys to Jack, Gwen jumped in the front and Ianto and the Lieutenant in the back. They sped through the city centre to a multi story car park.

"Hang on a minute, I recognise this place!" Gwen said from the front of the car.

"Yes it does seem familiar!" Ianto added watching the rift monitoring system spike again.

"Yes it will do! It's where John came through, first time around!" Jack said. They all looked at one another.

"Who?" They all looked at the Lieutenant.

"Captain John Hart."

"He's a nightmare." Ianto added.

"Just because you don't like being called Eye Candy!" Gwen goaded.

"No I just don't like being threatened and blown up. It's not a nice experience."

"He's got a point!" Jack said as he drove up the multi-storey car park.

"Sorry Captain John Hart?" Louise questioned.

"Yes well I don't think it's his real name!" Gwen added. They got to the top and Ianto used the hand held rift monitor to scan for residual rift activity.

"Something definitely came through but it's not here now." Ianto looked at Jack.

"Right that's great, I bet its him again he never learnt to change his tactics!" they all clambered back into the SUV and headed back to the Hub, Gwen powered up the rift monitors and watched for more energy fluctuations and Jack went to his office, Louise and Ianto went to their workstations and set about finding out where John would have gone.

"I've got a strange disturbance in a building a few miles from the car park, I don't think it's related but I'll go check it out," Louise looked at Ianto, "you want to come?" He scooped the SUV keys off of the side and they left the Hub.


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