Thank you so much for the reviews :D there's nothing better for a writer! I hope you will like this third chapter. I was thinking of making the tale of how Ianto met the Doctor into 3 chapters so more like flashbacks than just having the Doctor telling the story. Which way would you prefer? The Doctor telling the story in one chapter or chapters with the story? I'd have about 3 chapters. One for when they met and Ianto was 16 and the Doctor was in his 8th incarnation, one for their first kiss when the Doctor was in his 9th incarnation, and one for their first time (with the Doctor still being Nine). Let me know!

Ianto was cleaning up Owen's desk when he felt observed. Frowning, he turned around finding the doctor staring at him.

"What is it Owen?" he asked annoyed.

"You've been acting strangely lately. What's up with you?" The Londoner took a step forward, arms crossed in front of his chest and looking straight into the younger man's eyes.

"Since when do you pay attention to how do I act?"

"Since you've just been back and I have to decide if you can resume your field work."

"You always know what to answer back, don't you?"

Owen frowned. "Hey, try working with you. You're worse than Jack."

Before Ianto could say anything, they heard a deep chuckle from behind them and turned around finding the Captain with his hands deep into the pockets of his trousers smiling.

"It's not funny," Ianto said before moving away to keep cleaning.

"Owen," Jack turned his attention towards the doctor. "Everyone has already left, why don't you go too?"

"So you can shag the tea-boy?" he asked smirking, "Of course, Captain, just don't tie him up." He picked up his jacket and threw one last glance towards Ianto before leaving the Hub.

Jack waited until the sound of the cog door ended before walking over to Ianto and putting his arms around the man's waist. "What did he want?" he asked in the Welshman's ear before biting it lightly.

Ianto stepped out of the embrace and turned around to look at him. "Did you tell him to keep a close eye on me?"

"He's a doctor, Ianto, he just wants to make sure you're ok."

The young man sighed and once again resumed his cleaning. "He said I'm acting strangely and wanted to know what was up with me."

"Yeah, I wanted to ask you the same thing."

"I'm ok Jack, I just need to get back into my working routine." He stopped with an empty mug still in his hand and looked at the Captain. "Being away for two months kind of made me feel as if there's some sort of normal life out there. Add to that that on my first day back Owen won't leave me alone and you come back with the alien you left us for…" he trailed off and frowned. Thinking about the Doctor wasn't exactly what he wanted to do. "Anyway…"

Jack nodded and stepped closer again taking the mug out of Ianto's hand and putting it back down on Gwen's desk. "What do you say I help you relax?"

Ianto smiled and kissed the lips of the other man for a moment before pulling back and glancing around. "Where's the Doctor?" he asked, "I didn't see him coming up all day."

"Still down in the archives," the Immortal rolled his eyes. "I swear you two are so similar. He's just a bit crazier."

Ianto saw the fond smile on his lover's face and felt his gut twisting. 'I know that I'll have to tell him the truth and this is going to be worst than Lisa,' he thought.

"Did he tell you what is he doing back?"

"No, just that he wanted to meet you all and that was it."

Ianto nodded before taking hold of the Captain's braces and use them to pull him closer.

"What do you say you come over for once?" he murmured against his lover lips before taking the lower lip between his teeth and biting gently. He felt Jack shudder and took a step back.

"You never ask me to come over," the Captain sounded as much surprised as elated at the thought of spending the whole night at Ianto's.

"I just thought we could use a bed that's big enough for the both of us for a change since this will be the first time we're together in two months."

"Oh, I knew you were clever Ianto Jones," he replied before taking hold of Ianto's jacket and drag him towards the door. "We'll leave a note for the Doctor in case he comes up from the archives before tomorrow," he said stopping briefly at Tosh's desk and writing on a post it that Ianto and he were going out for the night and would be back sometime tomorrow and then the two left the Hub with the SUV.

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At first it was a distant sound that seemed part of his dream but then Ianto heard someone moving around and then Jack's soft voice saying, "What's happening?"

So Ianto cracked one eye open and turned around finding Jack with his cell phone pressed to his ear and for a moment he let his eyes follow the curve of the older man's back enlightened by the moonlight. He grinned noticing that the Captain was moving around naked.

Ianto stretched lazily under the cover and the movement caught Jack's eyes. Smiling, the Immortal sat down on the edge of the bed and holding the phone in his other hand, let the right one caress the man's cheek, then down his neck until he reached his chest.

Jack sighed and said, "Ok. Owen, I got it the first time you said it. We'll be there in a few minutes," his fingers moved back up over Ianto's lips that parted when a quite moan escaped from them. But then the moment was ruined by the Captain's huff. "Yes, minutes Owen," a pause, "yes, I have my hands on Ianto," the way in which the Immortal emphasized his name, made Ianto sure that the doctor had just called him "tea-boy".

Finally, the phone was shut and tossed somewhere between the nightstand and the bed.

"Don't start something you can't finish," Ianto protested grabbing Jack's wrist and pulling the older man down onto him.

The Captain leaned his head on the Welshman's shoulder and took a deep breath, inhaling Ianto's scent and the smell of sex still lingering on his skin.

"We have to go," a brief kiss was left on the shoulder and this time it was the younger man who sighed. "Owen said that Andy called Gwen because someone reported a strange creature disappearing into the sewers." Pulling himself up on his elbows, Jack looked down into Ianto's eyes and let his fingers sunk into his disheveled hair. "Maybe it's just some drunk, but…"

"We still have to check." Ianto let out a sigh and for a moment his eyes remained fixed on the ceiling before Jack's voice brought him back into the moment.

"When Tosh went home she took some sleep tablets because she really needed to rest so you will have to come with us."

"Oh, Owen is going to love this." The young man chuckled bending his neck to kiss the Captain's shoulder. "He still has to give me the all clear."

"Sometimes you two act like children." Jack smiled down at him and left the briefest of kiss on his lips before getting out of bed and dragging the reluctant Welshman with him. "C'mon, we don't even have time to shower."

Ianto rolled his eyes. "You just want to go there smelling like sex so Owen will know what we were up to and he will bitch and moan about it for hours."

Jack's only answer was a devilish grin.

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The sound of footsteps echoed on the wall of the dark alley mixing with the sound of the pouring rain.

Tapping his earpiece, Ianto sighed. "I can't find it. It must have slip back into the sewers."

"Ok, come back to the SUV then, Owen and I will be there in a minute."

Ianto clicked his earpiece again and started to walk back. It was past two in the morning and they still had to catch the alien. He was with Gwen when he saw something in the shadows and started to run after it leaving the woman behind.

Suddenly, Ianto heard a scream and started to run in that direction finding Gwen in front of the alien; its long tentacles sliding dangerously on the concrete of the street.

"Gwen! Move!" Ianto's yell caught the woman by surprised making her quickly get out of his way.

Ianto aimed his gun at the alien's head but before he could shoot, one of its tentacles sprang towards him passing right through his left shoulder. The pain was worse than a gunshot wound and Ianto crumpled to the ground barely registering the gun fire that took down the alien.

He heard Gwen shouting, "Hurry up he's bleeding!" and then he felt as if time had started moving slowly. His shoulder was hurting and he was starting to feel too tired to keep breathing.

Before he could slip into unconsciousness, he heard footsteps getting closer and then someone kneeling beside him. Cracking one eye open and trying to focus, he found Owen hovering above him pressing down on his shoulder.

"Shit! Ianto?" he sounded so very scared to Ianto that if it wasn't for the fact that he was probably bleeding to death, he could have laughed. "Hey mate, it looks worst than it is," the doctor said trying to find a more controlled voice.

The young Welshman wanted to laugh but found himself coughing instead. "You… you sound… s… scared," he finally managed to say. His eyes fixed up towards the sky feeling the raindrops falling heavily on his face, making his eyes sting.

He felt a cold hand on his cheek and focused back on the doctor. "I'm never scared and this is barely a scratch. Where the hell is Jack with the bloody SUV" the Londoner asked more to himself than to anyone in particular.

Ianto wanted to ask if it was just a scratch, then why was he pressing down so hard on the wound? But he was starting to feel more and more tired by the second and keeping focus of what was happening around him was getting harder.

"Hurry up, Harkness!" Owen hissed while increasing the pressure on his friend's wound.

"Owen, is he going to be ok?"

Gwen's panicked voice made the doctor snap. "I don't know Gwen. I don't fucking know!"

"The… the tentacle of the alien pierced through his shoulder. God it happened so fast. I was scared because I didn't see the alien coming and then Ianto arrived and he saved me but…" she trailed off crying.

The screeching of the brakes of the SUV made them both look up. The SUV rounded the corner and came to a halt in front of them; Jack was out in a second.

"What happened?"

"We have to take him away from under the rain," Owen said quickly without answering the Captain's question. "Jack, help me pick him up, we have to take him back to the Hub. Gwen," he said turning around to face the woman. "You will drive. C'mon!"

The doctor picked up Ianto from under his arms while Jack grabbed his feet. Gwen opened the door to the backseat of the SUV for them and as soon as Ianto was laid down, she got in behind the wheel.

"Drive as fast as you can," Owen said before glancing down at Ianto and feeling the panic surge inside him again. "He's lost consciousness."

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At the same time Jack wanted to move to Ianto and to keep away, as if seeing the pale body laid on the autopsy bay just from afar wouldn't make everything real, as if stepping closer and touching the hot skin will meant that Ianto was really dying.

He sighed and took a step forwards and then another until he was standing right beside him. He grabbed Owen's stool and dragged it next to the table. It had been half an hour since they had got back and Owen was still trying to find something that would tell them how to stop the fever from getting higher or the poison from spreading through his body.

It felt absurd to the Immortal, thinking that just a couple of hours before they were in Ianto's bedroom having hot sex and kissing languidly.

"What happened to him?"

Jack looked up from Ianto's white face startled. "I was wondering where you had disappeared to."

"I heard you coming back but I could feel that something was wrong and didn't want to be in your way." The Doctor sighed and took a step forward. "What happened to him?" he asked again.

Jack diverted his eyes from the Time Lord and ran his fingers through Ianto's hair. "Gwen was being attacked by an alien and Ianto saved her. Its tentacle stabbed him in the shoulder and we don't know what to do now. Owen managed to stop the hemorrhage, but it looks like there was some sort of virus on the tentacle that is now spreading throughout his body," he sighed again and looked up. "We're trying to find an antidote."

"He should have been safer," the Doctor quietly said, the 'than with me' was left unsaid.

Jack frowned, "What do…" he trailed off when the hand he was holding tightened his grip around his. He looked down. "Ianto?"

"Happened again..." the young man whispered. The Doctor stepped closer and took Ianto's other hand.

The Captain was confused at the 'again'.

"What happened again?" The Time Lord asked quietly ignoring the way in which Jack was looking at the unusual display of affection that he was showing towards Ianto.

"I got ill," Ianto murmured. "No Barcelona."

Jack's eyes widened seeing the little smile that curved the thin lips of the Doctor and hearing his quiet reply.

"Don't worry, sooner or later the TARDIS will find the right way and we will get there."

"Promise?"

"Sure," the Doctor sighed and made to drop the hand he was holding but Ianto tightened his grip. "You're sick now and should rest."

"My Doctor," the Welshman breathed out softly before going back to sleep.

"He… he was hallucinating," the Time Lord said glancing at Jack and reading anger on his face. "He…"

"He knew who you were, Doctor," he hissed. "He may be hallucinating because of his fever, but he thought he was with you."

"Ja…"

"Exactly what are you doing back here in Cardiff?"

"I can explain, Jack, if you'd just let me explain."

"Step away from him," the Captain said angrily. "Step away right now!" he hissed when the Doctor made no move to let Ianto's hand down. "And start talking!" he finally demanded.