A/N : Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate :) hope it's a good one
It started to become a regular thing. The five old friends would meet at a quiet, old-fashioned looking pub every Friday night so they could all catch up. At first Owen wasn't really up for the idea, but Toshiko managed to persuade him that now more than ever he needed his friends around him. On a few occasions Rhys had either joined them or taken Gwen home early. On this particular night Jack and Ianto were late.
"They're arguing, or shagging," Owen said rather loudly, luckily the pub was rather empty, "Bet you anything that's what they are doing right now."
"Thanks for that Owen."
"Ianto told me they've agreed to be just friends, and they're actually going to stick to it this time."
"Oh come on Tosh, do you really believe they can be just friends without arguing or shagging?" Just as the words left Owen's mouth the two men in question strolled through the door, Jack was grinning while Ianto had his usual cool smile. The two made their way over to the table that the other three were occupying and sat down silently on the two free chairs between Owen and Gwen. Jack slid his seat a little closer to Ianto's and consequently moving further from Gwen.
"What?" The two men asked at the same time after noticing the other three staring at them.
"Why are you half hour late?" Gwen sounded as if she was interrogating a murder suspect.
"Someone's just moved into our building, she was trying to carry some stuff up the stairs. She looked like she needed some help," Ianto said smoothly despite Jack running a hand across his thigh.
"Couldn't she use the lift?" Owen added sounding suspicious.
"Broken again," Jack added, knowing that the position of his hand on Ianto may not allow the man to talk without giving them away. In fact the two men weren't making all this up; there was a woman carrying her bags up the stairs when they left, they just left out the part that the lift wasn't broken... just occupied.
With the subject of Jack and Ianto's lateness dropped the friends continued with their normal chatter, and Jack continued work on Ianto under the table. When it reached around 10pm Toshiko left saying that she needed to be up early for work the next day, Owen offered her a lift but she declined. Gwen was the next to leave as Rhys came to pick her up so they could have an "early night". Owen then decided it was time for him to leave, he did what he normally would; say he's going home but then head out to the various bars and clubs in the area and then go home with however he picked up on the way.
"Back to mine?" Ianto asked as he finished off his pint and both men exited the pub, "You spend so much time at mine you might as well move in." Both men froze once the relised what the Welshman had said.
"Do you mean that?" Jack asked casually, "That I might as well move in?"
The man thought for a moment and smiled, "If you think you can handle living with me, yes."
Jack spun them and pushed Ianto back against the brick wall of the pub, "I think I can handle you just fine," Jack took Ianto's lower lip between his teeth and bit down causing him to gasp. The strong American grabbed the other mans wrists and pinned them either side of his head, "but can you Ianto Jones handle me," Jack breathed as he pushed himself closer to the man against the wall. Jack began kissing up Ianto's neck stopping at one point to suck and bite at the skin until he was satisified with the mark it would leave, he eventually reached the man's lips and they met with a clash of teeth and tounge. When Jack pulled back from him and released his grip on his wrists after a few minutes Ianto noticed two teenage looking girls stood across the road staring at them.
"Maybe we should go home," Ianto said signalling over to the girls. Jack turned around and grinned.
"I don't know, they seem to be enjoying the show," the scowl he got from his lover was not encouraging, "Okay, home it is," Jack said before taking Ianto's hand in his own, leaving the two girls to stare at the wall where the men had previously been.