When everyone else started showing up, I was putting the finishing touches on my profile. I transferred my file, filled out my name, birthday and date I began working for them.
"Jack finally broke down and gave you a job, huh?" Mel smiled as she sat down at her desk. I smiled and nodded as I hit save.
"I think Ianto had something to do with it. He went into Jack's office and there was some yelling. I walk in and Jack says I get a test run, see how well I work." I shrugged.
"Ianto? Yelling at Jack?" Mel leaned back in her chair, tapping a pen on her chin. I nodded slowly. "That is very out of the ordinary. What kind of yelling was it?" She spun around her chair, stopping to stare at me again.
"I'm not sure, I didn't hear it. Ianto stormed out of there fairly angerly though." I settled into my desk chair. My desk was just outside Jack's office, so we could watch me through the door.
"Oi, that is odd." Mel looked off into space again. "I've been here only about a month and I know enough to know that Jack and Ianto don't fight." She turned back to her computer and looked through some files. "Charlie, why are there no documented vitals for you last night?" She clicked around a few times.
"I didn't stay here last night." I said non-nonchalantly. Mel whipped her head around, her eyes widened. "Calm down, Ianto invited me to sleep in his extra room and Jack didn't object." Mel snickered under her breath. "What?"
"You don't see it? Well, can't blame you, I guess. You aren't exactly what I would call a social butterfly. You wouldn't know the signs." Mel turned back to her work.
"What are you talking about? What signs?" I looked away from the MI5 file I had hacked into. Mel smiled, not looking away from her work. "Melanie! Please?" Mel laughed.
"Miss Know-It-All doesn't know something?" Mel just smiled, refusing to tell me. I sighed and turned back to my work. "Okay, Charlie, you're living with Ianto!" Mel stared at me, a sly smile on her face. I stared at her, trying to sort it out.
"He was being nice. So?" I glanced at the file I was working on, looking for specific information about an incident that happened last week. Mel laughed.
"Yeah, "nice"." She rolled her eyes and started on some paperwork "There is much you need to learn. Lesson number one: Men are only nice if they want something." Owen walked past at that moment.
"What do we want?" He smiled. Mel bit her lip, smiling. "Well, go ahead. Enlighten me, what do men want?"
"Owen, what is the only think you ever think about?" Mel stared at him with a raised eyebrow. Owen pondered the question for a while.
"Sex. And dead people." Owen smiled. I glanced up at him.
"That sounds like it could lead to something very illegal." I laughed. Owen rolled his eyes when Mel laughed too.
"Let's focus on the first of the two. I doubt Ianto wants dead people." Mel smiled. "Anyways, Owen, shoo. Charlotte, back to Ianto." Owen stared at us for a moment before slowly leaving, giving us strange looks as he left.
"So, back to Ianto. He let you stay at his flat, in a different room, in a different bed, in hope that someday, you'll be in the same room, in the same bed." Mel said, spinning back and forth in her chair. "Got it?"
"I think so." I tapped my pencil on my desk, digging deep into my brain to try to completely comprehend what Mel was saying.
"You think?" Mel clocked her pen, a slight smile on her face. "What do you think I'm saying?"
"I-I don't know." The words felt odd in my mouth. "It just doesn't seem like him though. He wouldn't take advantage of me. He just wanted to be nice..." Mel laughed slightly.
"Want me to get Owen to explain it?" Mel joked. "As a man, he would probably be able to explain it slightly better then I could." I looked at her blankly.
"Why would I want Owen to explain it to me?" I scribbled a few notes and stuck it on my computer.
"Well, then should I explain?" Mel laughed. I shrugged. "Alright, when a man loves a women, well actually, when a man gets lonely, he looks for a pretty lady to make him feel less lonely. You are a pretty lady. Ianto is a lonely man. The lonely man and the pretty lady get together in the lonely man's bedroom and then-" Mel broke off into a fit of laughter. "I can't do this. You'll figure it out when you get there. For now, we'll just say Ianto likes you." Mel turned back to her computer and I glanced over at Ianto, who was putting coffee cups on a tray.