Sorry for the wait i'm struggling to write and revise!
Samantha James sat at home that night, turning the small Torchwood business card over and over as she sat on her sofa with a glass of red wine. She contemplated what she had seen that day wondering what to do; did she really want to work for Torchwood? Did she really want to fight aliens and not be able to tell anyone about it? It would be dangerous. Jack had told her that, dangerous job, an exciting job where she would be able to make new discoveries and autopsy aliens.
There was a knock at the door and she stood up carefully slipping the card into her back jeans pocket wondering who it could be at this late our of the evening.
"Miss James?" A woman stood in front of her an inquisitive smile on her face.
"Yes."
"May I come in?"
"Why? Who are you?"
"I would like to talk to you, about your new job at Torchwood. I'm form the united nations intelligence team, UNIT."
"Sorry UNIT?"
"Yes UNIT I'm here to talk to you about Lieutenant Louise Carter-Jones." Sam stood aside and let the very smartly dressed lady in a uniform and red cap enter, she closed the door behind her.
TWTWTW
Ianto busied round his kitchen putting coffee into the machine and getting two mugs out of the cupboard. Louise watched him from the sofa in the living area of the flat her feat curled up under her. She threw her phone and PDA onto the coffee table next to Iantos. She stopped watching him and looked out of the window out onto the bay. Ianto took this opportunity to watch her. He lent on the breakfast bar that acted as a divide between the two rooms. She looked worried, she always looked worried. It was the only bit of her that gave away her real age well not her real age but it gave you the impression she had seen too much of the world, not the world though Ianto thought the entire universe. He always saw the horrors she'd seen in her eyes, ever since she'd let him inside her mind. She was sat carefully curled up on the sofa. She looked at home there although she had never been here before. He shivered, it was a little cold, he went over and turned the thermostat up, he knew she wouldn't be cold, she hardly ever was.
The machine had nearly finished pushing the water through the coffee, producing a perfect dark liquid, the smell filled the apartment. Louise looked back around as she heard the tell tale splutter of the coffee machine coming to the end of its cycle. She watched Ianto pull a bottle of milk out of the fridge and add some of it to one of the mugs on the side. He was smiling to himself. She wondered what about. She found Ianto was adjusting well to being back now.
She found herself thinking again about whether or not john had given her a clue as to who she was looking for, whether it was Ianto or not. She'd promised Jack she wouldn't take Ianto from him but she was finding it harder and harder. It wasn't entirely her fault if he was who she needed but she still felt bad and intended to let him nowhere near the sphere that would seal the bond. It was carefully stashed away in the TARDIS.
It was the first time she'd been to Ianto's apartment, even though she'd found it and thought it suitable then bought it she'd never had a look inside. It was very neat and tidy, a few pictures of people up here and there but nothing too much. Very modern and open it had a beautiful view, she knew Ianto liked it he and thanked her so much the day after his first night there. He'd decorated it accordingly there wasn't much just the right amount of furniture. It was homely. She leant back into the sofa brown cord sofa. It was lovely and warm, she found herself getting sleepy. She never got sleepy; she'd forgotten what it felt like, warm and safe. Ianto came over to the sofa and put the coffees on the coffee table; he sat down next to her and looked at her smiling. She stretched and then yawned; she put her hand over her mouth blushing.
"Sorry I've gone really tired all of a sudden!"
"I've never seen you yawn before." She laughed.
"I can't remember the last time I yawned or the last time I was tired!" she reached and took the coffee off of the table, she took a deep breath letting the smell fill her nose and feel like it was floating right down into her lungs. She'd not wanted to sleep in such a long time, but she suddenly felt tired, safe and tired. Ianto smiled at her.
"Well you don't have to go back to the Hub; you can stay here tonight if you like. I'll make up the spare bed." She shuffled a little closer to him and leant her head on his shoulder. He put his arm around her, holding his coffee in his other hand.
"You know you don't owe Jack anything."
"Yes I do, he's accepted me on to his team and he didn't have to do that."
"Yes he did the Doctor asked him to look after you he would have looked after you he always does as the Doctor asks."
"That's beyond the point." Ianto looked down at her.
"No it's not your here for you now, no one else. What happened to the lieutenant I first met? Jacks not the boss of me, I can do what I like." she laughed.
"Things change, get out of control, sometimes you need a boss."
"You've never needed a boss."
"Not before."
"Your right never before."
"So why now?" she put her coffee down on the table. She kissed him carefully. He put his coffee on the table and looked at her a bemused smile on his face.
"What was that for?"
"Thank you." She kissed him again. "for everything." He kissed her and carefully moved her so she was sat on his lap. She took his face in her hands and kissed him again. He stopped. She looked at him.
"Just for the record you're not taking me from Jack. She looked into his eyes. "you're not. I don't know what I want anymore." She hung her head.
"I'm so sorry."
"What is it with you and Jack an apologising? You both do it when it's not your fault, there's nothing you could do."
"But it's my fault, all my fault."
"It's not your fault."
"Yes it is I've created this mess."
"There is no mess!" he hugged her tightly.
"You know I could really do with a good sleep!" he smiled.
"Me too, I'm exhausted." She stood up carefully and picked up her coffee.
"Come on, I'm going to need to borrow a shirt." He got up.
"Sure, I'll go grab some sheets."
"If is alright with you we're both exhausted, I could just crash in with you? I think I'll sleep better."
She knew she'd get a better night's sleep closer to Ianto she knew she was tired here because she felt safe here, close to him but she would never take him from his life. She never would, it was his choice she didn't want him to feel like she did, trapped.
"Yes of course, come on whatever makes you feel safe." She looked at him. She hadn't said safe, had she? How did he know she'd feel safe? She shook her head slightly stretching, she was defiantly losing it. She followed Ianto along the hall into his room.
Please review - i know this isn't your conventional torchwood story but i'm not a very conventional person when it comes to my writing! please review xx
