Gwen and Tosh were still suffering from shock and worry when Ianto and Jack walked back out of the office. They noticed the soft smile on the Welshman's face fall as he looked between them. Ianto could feel there concern, and it rolled in his stomach.
"What happened, what's wrong?" The Welshman said, rushing down the stairs. He followed everyone's gazes up to Jack, and saw again the fading bruise in his jaw
"Shit Tea-boy? What did you do? Hit him with a chair?" Ianto blushed and cast his eyes down. He felt horrible fir having hot Jack, it didn't make it any better that Owen thought it was bad.
"No, just his fist. Got a hell of a right hook, my Ianto." The Welshman blushed deeper at Jack referring to him as such. Gwen was chewing her lip and Tosh kept grazing his eyes over Jack, as if trying to scan him for something. Owen just nodded. The dead man knew that if the captain had actually been pregnant, Ianto wouldn't have laid a hand on him. This wasn't shock, this was anger.
"Get anything out of UNIT captain?" Jack shrugged, stepping behind Ianto and placing a reassuring hand on his shoulder.
"Not a word, however, Ianto here asked his good friend Simon, who has graciously agreed to let Yan check on both Glib and Fall , who are being moved to a "Safe" location to protect them from danger." Tosh looked quizzically at the pink cheeked Welshman.
"Danger?" Ianto shrugged.
"I may have hinted that we knew of a danger to the two in an attempt to have them transferred here, if they weren't in on Ulrich's workings, they would have agreed to it. Instead they negotiated to have me look in on them in a totally new setting, alone, in about an hour." Gwen looked mortified.
"That screams trap. Like obvious trap. You aren't actually going to go in, are you Ianto?" The Welshman shrugged once more.
"I really don't have a choice. Tosh, here is the address, can you pull up the CCTV and satellite images from that location for me?" The Welshman continued, as if unbothered by the obvious danger he faced.
"What I want to know is when Tea—Boy got on first name terms with a UNIT commander, and why he decided to jack Jack's jaw?" The Welshman took a deep breath, steadying himself.
"I knew Simon from Torchwood London. He was leaving for UNIT when I was starting. He trained me, and we hit it off. Went to the pub a few times, he and Harriett, Me and Lisa. After Canary Warf he offered me a job at UNIT, but told him no. You know the rest of that story." Ianto said, the slightest twinge of sympathy coming from each team member.
"As for clocking me, well I overstepped my boundaries a bit. Did something I shouldn't have, and stepped pretty hard on his toes." The immortal blushed, but the Welshman felt something else, a word hovering amidst all of the people. Pregnant. His eyes widened in horror as he but the word into the context of the emotions around him.
'They think that you're pregnant." Ianto passed urgently, and the captain's smile fell slightly.
"I'M NOT Yan, don't worry. I've been relying on more than the rain for it too, so don't go getting any ideas." The Welshman smiled inwardly, resolving to clarify the situation amongst his co-workers.
"What Jack meant to say, is that he called my mam, about asking to meet my father." Owen looked fearful, and Tosh clutched a hand to her throat subconsciously. Both had guessed that the Archivist had been abused as a child, and both knew that it was a sore spot of conversation for the Welshman. Gwen, however, didn't seem to see these points.
"You decked your boyfriend for talking to your mother?" Jack bristled, not liking the hostile tone of the Welshwoman.
"That isn't the reason Coo-Williams." Jack corrected, still not used to her being wed.
"oh? Then tell me what excuse does the Tea-boy have?" Ianto swallowed his emotions, turning once more his cold glare upon the Welshwoman.
"He asked her about a very sore spot from my childhood. One that I am about to have to confront once more. My tad doesn't know that I'm-about Jack." The immortal wrapped an arm around the Welshman lightly. "And he is the biggest Homophobe in Cardiff." Gwen curled back slightly.
"Ianto and I are going to deal with him later, right now we need to get ourselves ready for UNIT. I don't want them to hurt fall or Ianto." Everyone nodded, shaking themselves from their thoughts.
"Oh, and for those of you wondering, Jack is not pregnant. Thank you Owen, for freaking the girls out about that one." Everyone turned on the Welshman, shocked that their thoughts had been said aloud. The Archivist grinned sheepishly, not liking the rapt attention that he was receiving.
"Oh what. You heard me yell. Owen always like to make a big fuss over Jack's ability to produce offspring, and You were all staring at him like he was some sort of lab experiment. It wasn't THAT hard to figure out." The explanation seemed to placate Gwen, and even Tosh to some extent, but Owen was still eyening the Welshman suspiciously. A series of beeps issued from Tosh's computer, and the technician turned to her keyboard, fingers moving gracefully over the keys. The image of UNIT vehicles arriving at the pier filled the screens, and the team gathered around. CCTV footage of the areas showed one white van ,without any markings or identification, pull into the compound.
"That's them. Can you run a search on those tags and see where it's been?" Jack asked the technician, who obliged. Ianto slipped away from the group, anxious to get himself ready to meet UNIT. Jack noticed his lover slip away, and moved to follow, but Owen was already there. This fact concerned the immortal, but he let it slide. Obviously the dead man had something private he wanted to discuss with the Archivist, and if Ianto wanted to share, he would do so later.