6

Ianto left some clothes inside the corridor by the door and watched his son sip his hot chocolate as he waited for Jack to come into the main hub grinning sheepishly. Not only had Jack said the wee man could come down to the Hub, he seemed excited to see him and Ianto watched Jack's face light up as he saw him on the old sofa.

"And the clothes?" Ianto asked softly.

"It spits" Jack said as he reached for his mug and sat next to Flynn, "Hey buddy. That looks good too."

"Yep" he popped the P and Jack grinned at him.

"It spits?"

"Yeah, sticky and gooey. Like boogers" Jack grimaced, "I fed my clothes to Ferdinand and figured I would just shower after I got it."

"Right" Ianto frowned at his son, then pulled an antique watch from his waistcoat pocket to check the time, Jack's eyes following the movement with a raised eyebrow. "Tosh is due in about ten minutes. Owen not another hour and Gwen of course whenever the hell she likes."

Although Ianto was muttering Jack caught the last part and considered it, realizing Ianto was right. Gwen didn't have an official start time. Maybe she should.

"When Tosh gets here and starts that program she was finishing last night she will be at least two hours compiling the data from the results, she can easily watch the Flynn-inator here. You and I can go explore. I would rather catch that thing before it finds a way out or worse still, it may have eggs" Ianto shivered uncontrollably at the thought and made a noise that had Jack smiling softly.

Tosh arrived promptly as always and Ianto explained as quietly as possible but it was clear from his grimaces that Flynn was not the only one with a spider problem. She nodded and settled at her workstation as Ianto took a deep breath then hesitated before disappearing.

"Where did he go?" Jack asked with confusion, then he started to snort with mirth as Ianto retuned with bicycle clips on his trouser legs. Ianto silently lifted his hand to show two more dangling from his finger and Jack sheepishly snatched them and bent to slip them on as Ianto got a front row seat to the Jack's Bum Show.

Tosh looked up in time to see Ianto's face as he looked at Jacks' arse, the shock… surprise… confusion… interest… delight… embarrassment… shame…back to interest. She had never seen it before but the attraction was so obvious it was louder than the klaxons announcing Owen's early arrival.

Jack swung to look at him as he walked in, his eyes having taken in Ianto's view, face and Jack's look of surprise and…annoyance. Well, well, well. Someone knew what they were doing and didn't appreciate the interruption. Like some sort or mating ritual perhaps?

Owen grinned as he passed and Jack couldn't help it, "Why did you have to come in now!"

"Left some samples overnight, wanted to check them Mister Prissy Pants" Owen chortled as he skipped past and glanced back, finally seeing Flynn on the sofa. "Hey!"

Owen changed direction and shot to the sofa, "Flynn, right? Come with me, you can help."

Flynn's face lit up as he slid off the sofa and followed the funny man, Ianto hesitating now at the thought of entrusting his child to the medical maniac.

"Come on Ianto" Jack said excitedly, skipping through the door and Ianto sighed as he followed, a crouched stalk that had Jack looking back and sniggering, "It's not going to be this close to us, it was way down there remember?"

"Ah, but was it?" Ianto replied, "Or did it follow you back up?"

Jack paused, his face changing to show he hadn't considered that and now he crouched as well, the 'fight or flight' impulse there and both men stalked along the corridor like extras on a Benny Hill show.

So…the size included the legs right?" Ianto hissed and Jack hummed.

Shit. No?

Ianto was now shining a flashlight at corners even though they were in full lit corridors and Jack was about to chastise him when Ianto froze and made a small noise in his throat. Jack followed the torch beam and the spider web was visible in the bluish torch light.

"Shit, I was about to walk into that" Jack said with wonder as he looked at the huge net-like web covering the doorway to one of the rooms.

"So…is he in there or waiting around the corner" Ianto muttered as he frowned and then removed a latex glove from his pocket and gingerly wobbled it around in the web, then leapt back with his taser gun out.

"Nope" Jack sighed, "Bastard. He could be…BEERRRRRRKKKK"

Ianto turned to find the spider thing had leapt from the light fitting and landed on Jack's head, Jack was currently dancing around throwing himself against the walls, slamming his head about trying to get it off. The containment box he had been carrying now stuck on a foot…sideways.

Ianto didn't think twice, firing and watching both Jack and the spider crash to the floor as the volts zapped them both.

Then Ianto grabbed the spider thing and ran (making unmanly squealing noises) up through the hub to Owen who stood with his mouth open as Ianto kicked the containment box over that sat by Owen's desk for a trash can and he dropped the convulsing alien in then slammed the lid on.

He then did a yucky dance that was so un-Ianto that Owen was still gaping as Jack roared into the hub screaming Ianto's name.

Ianto straightened, shot his cuffed and cleared his throat, "All done Sir."

"Good, good" Jack said calmly before collapsing to the floor.

Ianto checked the taser's setting with concern as Owen rolled his eyes.

God, how much drama can a man have before his bloody morning coffee, I ask you.