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"It's bloody unbelievable." Gwen said looking at the lump of coal in Jack's hand.

"Yeh, you know I'm starting to think Cardiff has its unfair share of dark clouds." Gwen muttered.

"But we always get rid of them that is the important thing." Miles interjected. "Job well done, I suppose."

Gwen nodded at them both.

"Yeh a job well done." Jack nodded in agreement he looked around, "where has Louise got to she looked a little beat up." Miles looked out of Jack's office, down into the Hub and saw the empty sofa where she had previously been sat.

"Ianto took her out for some fresh air." Gwen said off handily.

"When?" Jack asked trying to keep his tone cool.

"Must have been about half an hour ago I saw them going up the lift together." Jack stood up.

"Well I'd better go check she's alright, you two can get off home it's been a very long day." he walked out the office and started down the stairs. Miles looked at Gwen slightly wide eyed. Both knowing what the other was thinking they dashed for the door of the office grabbing their respective gear and heading off for the night.

Jack stepped off of the lift into the plaza a few drunken stragglers zigzagging their way across the expanse of ground. He heard laughing, Ianto distinctive chuckle. He walked over towards it. Ianto was stood a few metres away from Louise clapping his hands together.

"Come on...Come on you can do it!"

"I'm not a toddler Ianto!" she laughed.

"Really?" he smiled cheekily.

"You know when I get my hands on you..." she trailed off.

"Well go on. Come over here and show me what you've got." He jumped up and down a little and Louise broke into a new peal of laughter.

"Alright then you ready?" she said. Jack could hear the smile in her voice.

"Well I'm not getting any younger." Ianto teased. Jack watched as Louise pushed herself up and took the 5 steps she needed to reach him. Her arms wrapped around his neck and his arms around her waist. They hugged and laughed.

"See I told you I would be fine!" Ianto rested his forehead on hers and smiled as he stared into her eyes. Jack felt another twang of jealousy. He wanted Ianto to be happy but happy with him. He didn't blame Louise but he felt saddened by it all. He didn't let them know he'd seen them he backed away and went back down into the Hub.

TWTWTW

"So what did we learn from the last few days events?" Jack asked as the team sat back in their chairs for the briefing the next day.

"We learnt not to take you two disappearing for a few days at face value!" Gwen said with a wry smile. Louise raised her eyebrows.

"True so what did you do in those 5 days?"

"We carried on." Gwen smiled, "I'm sorry for judging you both I knew Jack would never leave us again without warning we should have looked harder."

"You wouldn't have found us we lost those days." Jack said shaking his head.

"But how?" Miles asked. "I didn't."

"The aliens know what Torchwood is now Captain Jack Harkness is a threat to them. The only thing I can think of is that it knew that and well I'm a higher life form therefore a threat so take us out for a few day and it has more chance to... well steal all the energy from the plant and burn it to a crisp."

"Oh you're always so cheery about these things!" Ianto said handing out coffee.

"I like to get to the point." she said taking her coffee off the tray smiling at him. He put the now empty tray on the side and sat down next to her.

"We learnt if in doubt ask Louise she has books and knowledge we don't!" Miles added.

"True but I don't have all the answers."

"No..." said Ianto, "just most." He smiled and she hit him playfully.

"We learnt that Jack is better left invisible!" Gwen said.

"Oh how hilarious. I know you'd miss me really." They all looked at him, "Moving on." There was a pause. "Anyone?" Jack probed waiting for their next project. He looked at Ianto who shook his head.

"There isn't anything." Miles said quietly.

"What?" Jack said surprised.

"Nothing has happened over night. No murmurs. Not a spike of rift activity. Not even a weevil sighting. Nada. Nothing. No alien disturbance. What so ever."

"Right." Jack said a little stunned, "Gwen you can go home and Miles as well in fact all of you I'll page you if anything happens."

"Are you sure?" Louise said.

"Yeh, go on get lost it's not often we have a quiet day." They all practically jumped out of their chairs. Ianto slipped his hand into Louise's and she looked at him surprised.

"I'm taking you out." He said.

"Yes sir! I'll just grab my coat!"

"Meet me up on plaza." He looked like an excited school boy. Less than five minutes later she was stood out in the cold arm in arm with Ianto.

"Where are we going?" she asked as they walked across to the road and Ianto hailed a taxi.

"Just somewhere my mum used to take me, every year. November meant all the Christmas fairs started and ones in town now so I thought it would be nice to go it's just outside of the city and well I thought it would be a normal thing to do." She smiled.

"Sounds great." He looked at her.

"You are so judging me right now!"

"No I'll save that for the journey home." She smiled and kissed him softly on the lips.

TWTWTW

They walked through the centre of the fair, Louise hanging onto Ianto's arm leaning her head against his shoulder. They walked round the Dickensian fair looking at the stalls and vendors. There was a cold bite to the frosty air and Louise knew later that day it would snow.

"You alright there?" Ianto smiled down at her, she was glad she'd agreed to accompany him today.

"Yes thanks. Are you alright?"

"Yes just wondering how well Jack would fit in here!" she laughed,

"Yes I can see what you mean!" they carried on walking up and down the stalls packed with people in Dickensian dress. She looked up at him again, this was Ianto's 'thing' she could tell, he was like a child.

"Oh roast chestnuts!" his eyes widened, "my dad used to roast them on the fire and as they cooked some exploded and he'd just leap round our small living room with an oven glove catching them." He smiled to himself.

"Sounds nice."

"It was Christmas, do you want some?" he gestured at the stand.

"I've never had them." Ianto eyes widened.

"Well that's settled then." He put his free right hand into his pocket and withdrew some change offering it to her, now she felt like a child taking money from her father for sweets; they walked over to the vender. She smiled at him,

"One bag please," Ianto smiled at him as well, the young man behind the cart, smiled and nodded, scooping the chestnuts into a white paper bag. He handed them to Ianto as Louise gave him the money, he winked at her and she smiled shyly at him.

"Thank you," they said together.

"My pleasure." The young man looked at Ianto this time. They walked away, Ianto handed her the bag of nuts.

"Here hold these they will keep your hands warm, He was so flirting with you." He pulled his gloves off and took a chestnut out of the bag, starting to peel it.

"Yeh more likely he was flirting with you!" she linked her arm back through Iantos and cradled the bag of chestnuts in her hands.

"No it's a curse of going round with you and Jack, you get all the attention I just get sort of cast aside."

"No, no you don't," he looked at her, popping the chestnut into her mouth; he took another and started to crack it open.

"Yes I do all the time!"

"The girl over there," Louise nodded towards a young woman probably in her early twenties, long brown hair and beautiful eyes, "she's wishing she was me right now."

"I don't believe you!"

"You don't need too, but she wants to be me right now and I'm glad she's not!" Ianto ate the chestnut and looked at her.

"What do you mean?"

"I'm glad it's me here with you. No one else." He smiled.

"I'll tell you a secret." He said with a smile.

"Go on." She said intrigued.

"I'm glad it's you here as well." She bobbed up onto her toes and kissed him. They continued to walk around the fair that was until Jack paged them.

TWTWTW

Jack sat in the Hub waiting for Louise and Ianto to return. He'd just got off the phone to Archie at Torchwood 2 and needed to get there much to his displeasure the phone conversation had gone badly.

"Hello Jack Harkness speaking."

"Jack old boy it's Archie." A harsh Scottish accent burst down the phone. Jack groaned inside.

"How's it going Archie?"

"Well not so well actually need a bit of a hand." As he said it there was a scream and several loud crashes and some sort of roar.

"What do you mean?" Jack said dubiously.

"We bought in the alien and well now it's grown beyond all proportion and is eating everything and its violent. We don't know how to contain it."

"Oh come on Archie." He said exasperatedly.

"Jack we've tried everything I just need this one favor!"

"Archie I'm really tied up here." He heard some loud gun fire and then the roar of the alien again followed by more gunfire.

"Jack who got you out of the messes you created when you first took command of Torchwood 3? Who unlocked the Hub after Agnes? Who..." Jack cut him off.

"Alright, alright I'll be there as soon as I can."

"Good man Jack." And he hung up.

He heard the Hub entrance roll back and he waited till they arrived up in his office.

TWTWTW

"Look I'm just going to go away for a few days you can survive that long can't you?"

"Yeh of course we can but why?" Louise asked looking at him as if he was mad.

"Old habits die hard." He was not about to let on Archie needed help.

"But Jack you don't have a reason now." Ianto cut in from across the Hub.

"Yes I do and I'm off to visit an old friend. I'll be back by this time next week."

"The world could end by that point!" Louise stated plainly.

"The world will not end! Look you can get hold of me in an emergency and I mean a real emergency the only thing that's different is the fact you need to Hub sit there has to be someone in at all times when you're not off saving the world!"

"Yeh we know what you mean." Louise said turning to Ianto, who looked confused.

"Hub sitting I mean really?" Ianto asked incredulously.

"Oh come on Ianto what would you call it?" Ianto paused for thought.

"Ok I'll give you that!" and with that he turned on his heel grabbed his bag off of the sofa in his office and left the room. They just stood there for a few moments before Ianto blurted out. "Bagsy not telling Gwen!" Louise groaned.

"I'll get you back for that you know."

"No you won't now what do you want Chinese or pizza my treat?"

"Chinese, I'll get the drinks in!" she said as they walked out of the office into the empty and quietly ticking over Hub.

"It's already too quiet without him." Ianto commented after he'd phoned through for the take-away. Louise looked at him and smiled.

"Suppose we'd better make some noise then!" She said handing him a drink.


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