We all hate Gwen... right? Special thanks to the anonymous reviewer from Chapter 7 I think it was. I really wanted you to have an account so I could reply to your kind words.
Chapter 9: Don't Wanna She's Crazy
Jack's consciousness slowly returned and he wrapped his arms weakly around his Welshman. Somehow they'd collapsed into his desk chair, Ianto on top of him. He was still buried in his lover and he felt himself twitch at the thought. "Yan?" He whispered hoarsely, shaking him a little. "Yan? You alright?" The last thing he could remember was mind-blowing pleasure and then... nothing.
Ianto mumbled and came too. They'd only been out for about 5 minutes. He found himself wrapped in Jack's arms and smiled. "Yeah... I'm great." He said, his voice hoarse too from his screaming. He let out a small moan as he felt Jack twitch inside him. He cleared his throat. "You?"
"Wonderful." He croaked back. "Best sex of my life." Who knew that a soul bond would cause... that sort of intensity. "You're amazing." He kissed Ianto with as much strength as he could muster at that moment. "God I love you Jones, Ianto Jones."
Ianto rested against Jack, and kissed him back, hissing a little as any movement caused Jack to move inside him where he was still buried. "Hmm, glad I could deliver." he said. Wasn't quite what he wanted to say, but words escaped even him at the moment. "We're going to have to be careful when having sex in the future then."
Jack groaned as Ianto shifted against him, causing him to move inside him. "Oh God Yan..." Jack nodded fervently. "Never knew... could be so good..."
Ianto shuddered slightly as he felt Jack getting slightly aroused again. "Me neither... I love you Jack, so very much."
Jack kissed him tenderly, straining his neck to kiss him tenderly on the lips. "I love you too Jones, Ianto Jones." He shifted again, this time uncomfortably. "I really hate to ask but Yan, can you shift? I gotta pee."
Ianto chuckled and got up carefully, whimpering as Jack slipped out. His legs could barely hold him up. "Hmm. Shall we move to the bolt hole then?" he asked.
Jack staggered to his feet, legs trembling. "Woah-God." He mumbled, looking delighted at the fact that he almost couldn't walk. "I haven't been this thoroughly shagged for so long..." His eyes glazed over as he glanced back over his shoulder at Ianto. "Bolt hole sounds amazing..." He grinned at his lover, love shining clearly in his eyes and welling up through his soul. "God I love you Ianto Jones." He whispered again before moving slowly over to the hole in the floor, clinging to the desk to stay upright. "Gah... ladder..."
Ianto was leaning on the desk and he smiled back a Jack, his eyes shining with the same love, his soul singing with it. He staggered over to help Jack get down so he could use the loo down there, then somehow got down himself and flopped onto the bed.
Jack relieved himself and moved back to the bed, grinning at the sight that met his eyes. "Excellent... naked Ianto, my favourite kind." His grin widened as he climbed up beside his now immortal lover and wrapped around him like on octopus. The Captain barely smothered a wide yawn.
Ianto chuckled and snuggled into Jack when he wrapped himself around him. Seeing Jack yawn, made him yawn too. "Hmm, not been this exhausted in a while, but at least it's for a good reason this time." He murmured, nuzzling Jack's neck. To think that he'd be with Jack for... eternity. Just them. It was a daunting prospect. What happened if they fell out with each other...
The Captain felt the worry almost before it formed and drew Ianto deeper into his mind. He let the younger immortal see everything he felt for him. Jack's feelings ran deep... deeper than he'd ever let himself acknowledge even, because he was petrified of losing the Welshman but now... Now he could express them freely. "I'll never stop loving you Jones, Ianto Jones." Jack whispered, pressing an achingly sweet kiss to his lips. "You're stuck with me forever..."
Ianto returned the kiss, just as sweetly, drawing it out until they needed to breathe. "I love you Jack." he whispered back. Was he scared about never dying... of course. But at least he didn't have to go through his life alone. Jack had... for a couple of thousand years, but now he had someone who would always be with him, and he would. He kissed Jack again, holding him close.
Jack tightened his grip on his Welshman and smothered another yawn. "Sleep Yan?" He asked quietly, exhausted from their previous activities. He curled around the younger man protectively and touched a button on his wrist strap, turning the rest of the lights off in the Hub and in his bunker. The only light now came from the low, emergency lighting. It was enough that he could just make out Ianto's face in the darkness, but that might have been because they were so close.
Ianto yawned again and nodded. "Hmm, sounds wonderful." He really couldn't be happier than he was right now... there wasn't a thing wrong in the whole world. He cuddled closer, tucking his head under Jack's chin, content to be in his arms, the feel of Jack's heartbeat beneath his hand soothing.
With a soft smile on his face and his arms wrapped tightly around the man he loved and would no never lose, Jack Harkness slipped softly into the deepest, the best sleep he'd ever had.
Ianto too fell into a deep sleep. They didn't even rouse when Gwen came in that morning. It was strange her being the first one in. She went up to Jack's office, expecting to find him working, instead she was greeted with paperwork spread across the floor, clothes abandoned in heaps and a sticky mess all over the desk and even on the floor in front of it.
Gwen went from shocked to horrified in nought point two seconds. This was too far! With a shrill scream, she kicked the desk in fury. How dare Ianto sleep with her Jack! The Welshman was going to pay... Eyes narrowed dangerously, the Welshwoman turned and left the room, heading down to her work station to begin plotting.
To say Tosh and Owen were surprised, when they came in later that morning, hand in hand and grinning like idiots, to see Gwen already there and, the ultimate shock, working, was an understatement. Tosh actually blurted out a confused, "What're you doing here?" As if she'd never seen Gwen before. Gwen didn't even look up at the question, merely waved a hand in a 'don't bother me I'm busy' motion, eyes glued to her computer screen.
Ianto had woken at the scream and shook Jack to wake him. He grabbed his spare suit he kept down in the bolt hole, got dressed and cautiously stuck his head out of the hole. Seeing Gwen gone, he clambered out and looked at the mess. With a sigh, he cleaned it up quickly to make drinks as he saw Tosh and Owen come in, hand in hand.
Jack had mumbled a little when he was shaken but had pretty quickly gone back to sleep. He vaguely heard Ianto puttering around upstairs before his doze deepened back into true sleep and he was soon dreaming with a soft, contented smile on his face.
Tosh waved up at Ianto and when he came down to make them drinks she smiled at him gratefully and gave him a hug. "Thanks Ianto. You're a lifesaver."
Ianto made the usual rounds and hugged Tosh back. "Morning Tosh, you're welcome. How was your night?" Tosh smiled and told him how wonderful it had been, and then asked Ianto how his had been. Ianto grinned. "I wouldn't want to make you blush." He said, which of course did make her blush. "I better go and try and wake Jack up again, I think I wore him out last night." He said with a wink and a chuckle, then took Jack his coffee.
Owen grabbed his arm on the way past. "Oi Tea Boy! I need a word." He said loudly, for Gwen's benefit. He'd managed to get a glance at her computer screen before she'd noticed him looking and what he'd seen had worried him. "There are a few more tests I need to run..." Still talking he tugged his... friend, away from the other two, shooting a look at Tosh. Thankfully the computer genius happened to be glancing their way and caught the look. She got up and followed them. "I'll give you a hand Owen." She smiled at the medic. Owen got briefly distracted by thoughts of how she had... "given him a hand", the previous night. God. He was turning into Jack. The medic shuddered at the thought. That was all he needed.
Arriving down in the autopsy bay, Owen turned to the other two. "This is serious." He started before glancing about, making sure Gwen hadn't decided to followed them. Seeing the coast was clear, Owen kept talking, outlining what he'd see. The brief glimpse he'd gotten of Gwen's "plans" had him seriously concerned for her sanity. "It's Cooper. She's deluded herself into thinking Jack's... in love... with her... and that you..." Here he gestured to Ianto, with an apologetic look on his face, "are in her way... she got rather... creative with what she wanted to do to you." Owen shivered. It wasn't a pleasant thought. From what he'd seen...
Ianto frowned but followed Owen, not that he had much choice. He was about to ask what was going on when he noticed Owen checking that Gwen wasn't around. What had that bloody woman done now? He listened to Owen and sighed. "What is she planning to do with me?" He also wondered how she overcame what Jack had done to her, but then again, she'd overcome the Retcon as well. There wasn't much she could do to him now that he was immortal like Jack, yet she didn't know that.
Owen simply shook his head. He didn't want to repeat what little he'd seen. Instead he said, "Some very, very... nasty things." Tosh gasped and covered her mouth with one hand. She'd know her female co-worker had an unhealthy obsession with their Captain, but this... This was madness. "Has she gone crazy?" Tosh asked quietly, looking horrified. If whatever he'd seen had shaken the normally unflappable Doctor Owen Harper then... It must be pretty terrible.
Ianto sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Thanks for the heads up, I better let Jack know." He didn't know what he was going to do with Gwen, or what Jack was going to do. They couldn't just erase her memory, that was twice now it hadn't worked. He nodded to Owen and Tosh and left, heading up to Jack, picking Jack's coffee up from where he had left it on Tosh's desk and ignored Gwen as he walked past her. he quickly slipped into the bolt hole. "Jack... Jack wake up. We have a problem."
Jack rolled over with a moan, swatting at Ianto's hand. "No... 'm sleepy... world can end... 'm tired..." His eyes which had opened blearily to the barest slit closed again. Why was Ianto still shaking him? Jack mumbled something not very nice and started to snore. Loudly.
Ianto rolled his eyes, yanked the covers off and wafted the coffee under Jack's nose, then put it to one side and pinched his nipple. "Jack, for god sake's wake up. Gwen's planning on torturing and killing me." Jack rarely needed sleep, but sometimes when he did sleep it was a nightmare to wake him up.
Jack yelped, at either the smell of coffee, the pinch to his nipple or Ianto's words and sat bolt upright so fast, he hit his head on Ianto's chin. "Ow! God-damnit!" He cursed, rubbing the top of his head. He took the mug with a murmured thanks and downed it almost in one go. Luckily it had cooled enough for him to be able to do so without burning his tongue and throat. "What did you say?" He rapped out, eyes flashing dangerously.
Ianto fell back on the bed, somehow managing not to spill the coffee and rubbed his sore jaw. "I said, Gwen's gone psychotic. Owen saw her writing down ways to torture and kill me." He wriggled his jaw checking it wasn't broken or bruised.
Jack glanced at the Welshman's jaw and placed an apologetic kiss to it. "Sorry. She what!" Jack's tone was one of stunned incredulity.
Ianto nodded. "I'm not sure exactly what was on it, but it shocked Owen and you know how hard it is to do that." He sighed. "We need proof before we can confront her though."
Jack went from slightly concerned to really concerned. "It shocked Owen?" It could only be bad. "What're we going to do?" He looked wildly at Ianto hoping he had the answers. Jack was a bit... less than put together when he first woke up and the caffeine hadn't kicked in yet.
Ianto wrapped his arms around Jack to calm him. "Well apparently she's been writing it on her computer, so I can pull it up on another computer. She doesn't know all the back doors." he kissed Jack. "It's ok cariad, she has no idea I'm like you now." He didn't want to get tortured and stuff, but at least it wouldn't stick this time. Only he hated Jack going through stuff like that, even knowing it wouldn't hurt him permanently.
Jack stared at him. "You think that makes it better? Yan, just because you can't die, doesn't mean it won't kill me to see you in pain..." Ianto wasn't getting it. Sure, he couldn't die but if he did... "Do you know how much it hurts to be dragged back to life? I'm fairly sure the shock of it killed me again the first several times... and even now after so many years of my body getting used to it, it's still excruciating! Seeing you having to go through that Yan... I don't want that to happen to you..." Jack's voice was rising and he sounded on the edge of hysteria.
Ianto hushed him. "I know cariad, I know. Now you know how I feel every time I see it happen to you." He kissed him sweetly. "Shh, we'll sort something out, we always do." What's more with the bond between them now, they'd feel the others pain too.
Jack buried his face in the younger man's neck, clinging to him almost desperately. "I love you." He whispered into the Welshman's skin, breathing in the scent that was uniquely Ianto Jones. "I will never let anything happen to you." He promised, kissing Ianto's shoulder. "Not ever."
Ianto hugged him back, rubbing his back and calming him. He then heard Gwen yell for Jack and sighed. "Guess you better get up and dressed." He said softly.
"Don't wanna," he mumbled, winding himself around his lover. "She's crazy."
Ianto didn't want to go back up either, he was quite happy here with Jack. "I know, but she may just come down to find us if we're not careful."
He sighed and slowly unwound himself from around the younger man and got up, picking up his clothes from the chair they'd been set down on, with a nod of thanks. He kissed Ianto softly, before tugging on his shirt and trousers and headed up the ladder to face Gwen.