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Returning to London part 7

It had been over three weeks since Owen and Ianto had been to London. They were both suffering silently, neither of them wanting to admit to anyone just how hard going to London had been. Ianto immersed himself in the archives and cleaning everything in sight, while Owen fell apart just as quietly in drink and women. Neither realised how much the other was suffering.

"Ianto." Jack bellowed from the top of the stairs "Any chance of a coffee?"

Ianto looked up from what he was doing on his computer "Sorry Sir did you want something?"

Jack repeated his request for coffee. "Yes ok, anyone else?" Ianto asked getting up and moving to the machine. There was a collective yes. As he handed them their respective mugs they all went back to work and he was just about to sit back down when Jack said "Ianto a word in my office if you please?"

Ianto looked up and frowned. He was sure he hadn't done anything wrong or anything to upset Jack so he was at a loss as to what Jack wanted to talk about, but he turned and followed Jack to the office.

"Shut the door and take a seat and don't look so nervous you've done nothing wrong." Jack said laughing at the bemused expression on Ianto's face.

"So what did you want me for?" Ianto asked.

Jack stared at Ianto for a minute trying to work out the best way to say what he wanted. In the end he decided to just came out with it. "I've noticed that you seem to be doing an awful lot of cleaning and while the Hub has never been so clean I'm worried."

Iaton look perplexed "Worried about the Hub being clean?"

Jack chuckled "No woorried about you. When something is upsetting or bothering you, you turn to cleaning to help calm you down, but this has been going on since you came back from London. So as a concerned boss and friend is there anything I can do to help? Are you having nightmares?"

"Thanks for your concern Jack but I'm fine really, I just like to keep on top of things." Ianto reasoned.

"Yes you always did like being on top." Smirked Jack then in a more serious tone added "Are you sure you don't want to talk about what happened in London because I know something did and if you are suffering nightmares talking about them might help. Even if you don't want to talk to me I think you need to talk to someone before it becomes a real problem."

"Everything is fine nothing happened in London so I don't need to talk about it and if you find having a clean place to work abhorrent I'll stop and let you live in a pigsty." Ianto angrily shot back.

"Hey calm down. I was just trying to be a friend."

"Ok and I do appreciate it but there is nothing wrong I really am fine." Said Ianto more calmly than before. "If there's nothing else I need to get back to work."

"No nothing else, but Ianto if you do want to talk about anything I will always find time for you." Jack said as Ianto got up.

Ianto went back to work but he couldn't concentrate. Jack had stirred up the memories of last night's nightmare and now he was itching to clean something to calm him, but he couldn't especially since Jack had noticed and no doubt would be keeping an eye on him.

******TORCHWOOD******

Jack had been watching Ianto as he returned to his computer, he could see him fighting the urge to go and clean something. Jack knew it wouldn't be long before he gave into that urge and with one last look he got up and exited his office. He casually walked around the hub seeing what the others were up to. Tosh had some complicated programme about the rift predictions running and he was lost as soon as she started talking. With a pat on her shoulder and a "Good work Tosh." he went over to Gwens work area to see what she was upto. She had a chart up and a map of Cardiff

"What you doing?" he asked trying to sound intrested.

"I'm trying to pin point known weevil nests in Cardiff. This chart shows were they have been seen and then I put them on the map. This way we can see at a glance the highest concentrations for future reference." Gwen explained. "Did you need me to do something else?"

"No carry on - that's a really good idea." Jack told her as he moved off to his final destination and Owen in the autopsy bay.

"Hey Owen what you doing?" Jack asked although he could clearly see that Owen was doing an autopsy on the purple thing they had picked up in the early hours of this morning.

Owen didn''t look up as he replied sarcastically "What's it look like I'm doing, eating lunch."

Jack laughed then carried on in a quiet voice "You got a minute to talk?"

That got Owens attention - Jack almost sounded anxious. "Yes give me two minutes. I just need to get....ah got it." Said Owen putting something into a metal dish. "Right come on then what do you want to talk about or you want me to give you advice on how to pick up women or men in yuor case."

"No nothing like that. Ianto." As though that said it all.

"Ianto." Owen repeated

"Yes Ianto. I'm worried about him." Jacks voice was full of concern. "He's still obsessively cleaning and I think I might have upset him by mentioning it and now he's fighting the urge to clean something."

"Do you know when it started? At least then we can work out how to help him. But if he won't talk then there's not much we can do." Owen asked looking at Jack.

"It started when you got back from London. He says nothing happened but I'm not so sure. Going back must've brought up bad memories for you both. You seem to be ok but Ianto....Iantos not. Thing is if he's having nightmares and then not sleeping eventually that's going to affect his work and if we're out in the field and he's not one hundred percent alert well I don't want to think of the consequences do you? So you going to tell me what happened?"

"Look Jack you're right something did happen." Owen started, he put up his hand to stop Jack from interrupting "And no I'm not going to tell you. What I will do is talk to Ianto and go from there. Ok?"

Jack wasn't happy about that but he had to concede that maybe Owen was right. He obviously knew what was upsetting Ianto so was more likely to open up to him. "Ok we do it your way for now. But if it doesn't get resolved I will pull him out of the field right?"

"Right just give me a couple days and then we will review the situation." Owen said going back to his purple alien.