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"Oh Ianto you make me laugh."
"Well I think that's a good thing!" Louise and Ianto where Hub sitting as Jack had called it, Jack had been gone a few hours now and they had settled into the quiet tick-tick of the Hub. Sat on the sofa near to the workstations so they could spring into action at the slightest buzz of activity although they knew tonight would be a quiet night.
"Well I'm not laughing at you!"
"That is definitely a good thing!" he took a sip of his beer. He'd never really drunk at work, just a few times. He remembered the horrible ordeal after the cannibals; he'd practically drunk himself into a coma. Jack had dragged him out of his flat about three days later telling him to get a grip. He hadn't wanted to he'd just wanted to stay there and slowly pickle himself. Liver failure had seemed like a nice option compared to all the pain he'd felt over those recent months. He had to agree with Owen now. He hated the countryside.
But looking back it hadn't been all bad. Even dying hadn't been so bad; he remembered dying and death but not what came after. He remembered lying in Jacks arms, the tears that rimmed his eyes as he told him he would remember Ianto forever. The good times that he had behind him kept him looking forward. Admittedly the future held more adventure and excitement and so much more but it held danger and death and destruction as well and that's what the worry with this job was. Would you see the next day dawn? Tosh hadn't, Owen hadn't and well maybe Suzie had! But she wouldn't anymore. Jack would always see the next day and Louise would for a while longer but he'd noticed a recklessness in her of late, first he was pretty sure she'd died down in the autopsy room when they'd been trying out the cube, secondly the unit woman shot her, and that was two deaths in not much time and he'd been watching her carefully she was much more fearless. She went around almost looking for danger.
He'd never tell her he'd been watching her but he was going to talk to Jack about it. If she could die then she should be more careful he didn't want to lose another team member. Even though she hadn't been there long and they'd lost Sam so quickly it worried him that Torchwood operatives even thought they knew they never lived long, there life spans seemed to be getting shorter.
Louise noted the silence but didn't feel she had to break it. She sat back into the sofa just relaxing enough to feel her muscles relax a little letting out some of the stress from the busy day.
"You know in the little time you've been here you haven't half made an impact on the place!" he said thoughtfully.
"I know I think even Jack is starting to like me being around!"
"Oh that's just a miracle!" Ianto said with a smile.
"Also I think it's been dangerous ever since I got here!"
"It was dangerous without you here!"
"I know but I don't think Jack would be doing half the things we have been if I wasn't here!" she looked at Ianto and he tilted his head to one side as if considering what she'd said.
"I think you're right somehow. You know I can't believe we were only in that cell for half an hour!" Ianto said. She looked over at him. She'd wondered when this subject would be broached again. It had been around two weeks since the incident but she knew somehow it would find its way out into the open.
"Me neither it felt like much longer."
"Although half hour wasn't long enough." he looked at her with a cheeky smile. She blushed slightly as he looked into her eyes she looked away down at her hands, which clasped her bottle of beer.
"Your right it wasn't." she said quietly.
"How do I know your telling the truth?" he asked with a smile.
"The fact you're not going home tonight." She stated plainly. He smiled knowing what she implied, he wouldn't push her he knew deep down inside she really was a scared and nervous teenager. She curled her feet up under herself again. "What is Jack going to say?" She wondered aloud to herself.
"Can I join you?" Ianto offered up and they laughed. Yes she thought that is highly likely.
TWTWTW
"So where exactly is Jack?" Gwen asked once she'd arrived the next day. Miles was sat at his desk tapping away on his keyboard.
"I'm not quite sure." Ianto said again. "He said he wanted a break for a few days so he was leaving us for a while he said if anything massive came up he'd be back but we should be able to manage on our own.
"And we know we can manage." Louise cut in.
"Your right what's the worst that can happen?" Gwen said with a smile.
"Do you really want me to hazard a guess?" Louise asked Gwen looked at her then shook her head. Then walked up to Jacks office just to check he wasn't there.
"She seemed to take that well." Miles observed.
"She hasn't got the envelope telling her Louise is in charge yet." Ianto said walking past them and down into the autopsy bay.
"Don't you want to stay up here and watch the fireworks?" Louise asked.
"No I think that down here is the safest place to be when she explodes. Small space should survive an explosion. Oh wait I forgot it did!" he called up to Louise.
"Coward!" she called after him with a smile. She looked at her wrist strap nothing untoward was flashing up. She took note of the date it had been two weeks since her first encounter with the 'time squad' as Jack had started to call them and she got more and more nervous the longer it took for them to turn up again but in other ways she wasn't so worried she had ordered them away so the technically couldn't come back. She still worried about it she knew her time was up, she either sealed the bond or waited for her fate to catch up with her and she knew what it would be. She went down to join Ianto who was looking at their latest new arrival.
"It doesn't look so bad." She said from the railings.
"You can't smell it from there you couldn't get Gwen to do it could you?" he looked up at her his eyes wide.
"You know I can't give Gwen all the jobs you don't want that's favouritism."
"But Gwen likes autopsies and I am your favourite." He added cheekily. She tilted her head from side to side as if she was undecided before she turned around and yelled up to Jacks office.
"Gwen, do you want to do this autopsy?" Gwen's head poked out from behind the door of Jack's office.
"Sorry?"
"We've got a beautiful cadaver down here waiting to be sliced into you want to do the honours?" Gwen's eyes lit up.
"Sure."
"I told you so." Muttered Ianto, she threw him a look and he smiled.
"Hey don't be cheeky or I'll…" she fished around for what she was going to say.
"Or you'll?" Ianto teased.
"Get you back later." She finished. Ianto raised his eyebrows, his eyes wide as a wide smile spread on his face. He started to walk up the stairs towards Louise as Gwen reached the top of the autopsy bays stairs.
"I look forward to it." He whispered to her and Gwen hopped down the stairs. Ianto walked away into the Hub, no doubt to make more coffee. Louise watched as Gwen set about preparing the body for autopsy. Ianto appeared at her shoulder coffee mugs in hand she took one off of him.
"Thanks."
"My pleasure." He said as he hopped down to put Gwen's on the side next to her. He seemed to have much more of a spring in his step this morning. She smiled to herself trying not to laugh remembering how he'd been last night. "What's so funny?" Ianto jogged her out of her thoughts.
"Nothing. Just memories."
"Good memories?" he asked intrigued. She looked him in the eyes.
"Very good and very recent memories."
"Oh." He said comprehension dawning on his face, "I think I need my memory jogging." He muttered. Clearly last night had given him something of a confidence boost.
"Alright you two you're as thick as thieves this morning, is that a private conversation or can anyone join in?" Gwen asked as Miles came over to look down on the body below.
"That is pretty disgusting." He commented looking at the mangled body below.
"We've had worse." Gwen added as she lifted up the first flap of skin. Miles looked at Ianto and smiled knowingly at him. Ianto who clearly thought Louise was busy looking at Gwen returned the look.
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