Jack's hand moved up and down Ianto's back tracing every muscle that kept tensing and relaxing under his touch.

After a moment he sighed exasperated and rolled on his back. "Yan?" When no answer came from the younger man, the Captain turned around until he was laying half on top of Ianto's back and rested his chin on his lover's shoulder. "So, I told Gwen to dump Rhys so we could leave the city and go be happy elsewhere."

Ianto rolled on his back and Jack fell between his legs. "I am listening to you."

"It didn't look like it." The Immortal sighed and let his fingers sink through the short soft hair of his lover. "Tell me why you came in at the break of the dawn? That's early even for you."

"Couldn't sleep," Ianto pushed his hips up and taking the Captain by surprise, rolled him under.

Jack chuckled, "And here I thought you were missing me."

The Welshman smiled softly before lowering his head down to kiss the Immortal's lips.

At first it was just a peck, the young man's intent to make it brief, however, was shattered when Jack put his hand on the back of his lover neck to keep him from pulling back.

Ianto felt Jack's tongue tracing his lips before gently pushing inside whilst the hand he still had in the Captain's hair, tightened his grip and they both moaned into the kiss.

The archivist pulled back a little to breath, panting, "Are you going to leave?"

Jack frowned, honest confusion crossing his features. "What do you mean?"

Ianto pushed his groin into the Immortal's making him groan and close his eyes. "Now that your Doctor is back, are you going to leave again?"

The silence hung heavily between them but then Jack opened his eyes and looked straight into Ianto's, tightening the grip he had on his lover's waist. "Never," he said confident. His grip softened when he saw the expression on Ianto's face; he looked lost. "Never again as long as you're here."

After a few moments, the young man smiled before grabbing the Captain's hands from around his waist, pushing them over Jack's head and entwining their fingers together.

While pouring the coffee in the mugs to take to Tosh, Owen and Gwen, Ianto glanced towards Jack's office where he could see him talking with the Doctor. He sighed heavily remembering the kiss in the TARDIS, and how once he had got home, he couldn't sleep and had to get back to the Hub and be with Jack, to remind himself why that kiss was a mistake.

"Hey Ianto, you ok?" Gwen's voice startled the young man making him turn around. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."

"It's ok, I was distracted." He put the mugs on the tray and started to get down to the main Hub. Then, remembering Gwen's question, he turned around to face her and made himself smile. "Everything's fine. Stop worrying, ok?"

"If you're sure." She seemed so unsure in her answer, as Ianto had been.

Just as the Welshman was leaving the mug on Tosh's desk, Jack walked out of his office with the Doctor following close behind. "Ianto?" he called. "Come here when you're done, ok?"

Ianto nodded and quickly delivered the coffee before going over to the Captain. "What's going on?" he asked.

"The Doctor here would like to see what we have down in the archives and then you could take him around Cardiff. No one knows this place or the city better than you." Jack's smile was infectious and Ianto found that just as usual, he couldn't deny anything to the man.

"Sure." Then his eyes found the brown ones of the Time Lord and the blue of his own became cooler. "Whenever you're ready, Sir."

The Doctor put his hands inside the pockets of his trousers. "Is now a good moment?"

"Of course." Without waiting for the other man to follow, Ianto turned around and walked towards the archives.

Jack chuckled. "He's not at the top of his mood today. You better hurry up or you will lose him down there."

The alien nodded and started in the direction where the younger man had gone. He found him waiting right around the corner. "Do you really want to see what we've got here?" he asked loosening his tie a bit.

The Doctor's eyes followed the motion and Ianto quickly started walking again.

"Ianto, can we talk?"

"About what, Sir?" The archivist opened a door that to the Time Lord looked exactly like the other hundreds that were on both sides of the corridor, he briefly wondered how long it was before following Ianto inside the room.

"You're different," was the first thing that left his mouth as soon as he had closed the door behind him.

"It's been a while since we last seen each other, Doc." Ianto's hands shook and he dropped the papers he had picked up on the table. "You never told me what you're doing here."

The Doctor grinned. "You distracted me from answering yesterday."

"Whatever."

"So," the Time Lord started looking around the shelves with interest but still glancing back at Ianto once in a while. "You're with Jack now?"

"Like you were with Rose." And the Welshman wanted to slap himself for sounding like a jealous housewife.

"We were never… I never slept with her, Ianto." The Doctor turned around forgetting about the shelves and the artifacts. "You're in a relationship with Jack. That's different."

"Well, you dumped me so you really don't have the right to be angry or jealous. And I don't want to talk about it."

"I didn't dump you," the alien took a step closer to the man who took a step backwards distancing himself from the Time Lord.

"If your next words are going to be that you did it for my own good, I'm going to hit you and I'm not even a violent type of person."

"I know that, it's one of the many things I liked about you. That I like ab…"

Ianto sighed in frustration and turned his gaze on the Doctor putting his hands on his hips. "What are you doing here? And how did you know where to find me?"

"Well, the TARDIS knew exactly where you were but while I was away with Jack, he couldn't stop chattering about his team and about how amazing you were, all of you but especially you. So I knew where to come looking for you. Even though I'd like to have a word with you about working for Torchwood. I get that you're angry with me but working for someone that declared me their number one enemy is a bit extreme."

"I was working at Torchwood London before coming here. Did you know? I was there when you came with Rose." He shook his head and sighed. "As for Jack talking all the time about us, well, we weren't special enough for him to stay."

"Did he tell you what happened while we were away?"

Ianto shook his head. "Never.I just know that it wasn't pleasurable and I know it just because he wakes up with nightmares." His eyes studied the man in front of him for a while, he liked this new incarnation - now that he got the chance to look at him better than while running away from Cybermen - even though it wasn't the one he fell in love with.

"I am still the same," the Doctor murmured as if reading his mind before taking another step closer. "Just brand new body and I like it. What do you say?"

The young man smiled. "It's nice," he said before reminding himself that he wasn't supposed to be happy to have the man back, that he wasn't supposed to feel anything besides anger. "Anyway, I don't suppose you're going to tell me what the heck happened to Jack while he was away, am I right?"

"It's his to share."

Ianto nodded before turning his back to the older man and starting to go through the artifacts he needed to catalogue. "You can look around and I'm sure you will be able to understand what you see on your own and…"

"Does he know?" the Doctor asked tilting his head to the side and staring at the younger man.

The archivist's back stiffened. "About what?"

"About us."

"No, of course not." Ianto sighed and turned around once again facing the alien. "We met long before he met you, before Rose met you and there really wasn't a reason to tell him. When I started working here for him, he was obsessed with you, he still is, and I didn't really think that it was going to be a smart move to tell him that the man he was in love with married me on a planet in a galaxy I don't even know how far from here."

"Oh yes, the wedding," the Doctor put his hands in the pockets of his trousers and swung on the heels of his worn out Converse. "Nice day that was."

"Yeah well we aren't married here so, back to the point, I don't really get why you're here if it's not for Jack."

"You really can't guess?" the Time Lord took another step forward and softly took hold of Ianto's wrist before he could step backwards.

The archivist found himself unable to turn away from the man in front of him. "This last trip with Jack, it really was awful, wasn't it? I can see it in your eyes. You look older." He frowned remembering something. "What regeneration is this?"

"Tenth."

"So I saw three of them. Nice to know I didn't miss anything," he said with a soft smile.

The Doctor tried his best to tell himself that he shouldn't do it, shouldn't kiss Ianto, but the man's next words quickly took the decision away from him.

"If it was a good trip like in the past, like when he traveled with you and Rose…" he trailed off and sighed, "I'm sure he wouldn't have been back. I guess after being through hell, he decided that we were worth coming back but otherwise, I know that he'd still be with you God knows where."

"Ianto…" the name sounded like a plea on the Time Lord's lips. He could see in Ianto's eyes how much he had suffered from Jack's leaving and he told himself he couldn't really blame him since the two people that meant the most to him, had left him behind.

Suddenly, he found himself reaching out for the young man's face bringing him down to lock their lips together and Ianto, for the fraction of a second, was glad that there wasn't CCTV down in the Archives but just a monitor like in Jack's office.

But thinking about that made him think about the Captain, about how the older man had removed the CCTV so the others wouldn't catch them making out or shagging and how he had installed the monitor to keep an eye on the Hub and be sure no one was coming down into the archives.

Feeling guilty, Ianto found the strength of mind to put his hands on the alien's chest and pull back. "I'm going to go feed Myfanwy. If you need anything, you know where to find me." His tone went back to the cool indifference of when they had started talking and before the Doctor could say anything, Ianto walked out of the room.

He stopped around the corner that took up to the Hub and leaned against the wall taking deep breaths. "I can't keep doing this," he murmured in the darkness before walking back into the main Hub.