Beginning Notes: badly-knitted with the paperwork situation I feel that when Gwen had a nice little "welcome to Torchwood" hazing. Everyone completed their paperwork on time (Tosh wasn't in on it and Owen was all for giving the new girl [Suzie's replacement] a hard time) but she wasn't told about the paperwork. So after a week or so Ianto was giving her step-by-step instructions (he was very polite, but was being patronising, no one messes with his paperwork [he also wasn't in on it]) all while Owen was in the background loudly making jokes about the literacy of the police (and perhaps making not so nice comments about how Gwen might have gotten out of paperwork while working for the police), and Jack was making noises that since all the paperwork that was required from her had to do with field missions he might restrict her to the hub until she knew how to do the paperwork. As a result Gwen now makes sure that all of her paperwork it done as soon as it hits her desk (she does only the bare minimum much to the annoyance of Ianto and the future Torchwood teams that rely on her information).

And before Jack left with the Doctor, Ianto wasn't so nice when getting Owen to do his paperwork. Like leaving pictures of victims that looked like Katie around his work area, or perhaps commenting on how since they had information from previous teams that [insert female almost victim here] would go home to her fiancé. Owen could be a bastard but Ianto was determined to be a bigger bastard. But after Jack left Ianto was just leave instruction on his computer screen on how to get to the nearest coffee shop, what he should order and how much that order would be (being treated as if he couldn't be trusted to order his own coffee would have grated on him immensely).

Title: A Problem Like Ianto

Author: Daashi

Fandom: Torchwood

Characters: Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones

Pairings: n/a

Rating: 13+

Genre: Drabble, Drama

Warnings: n/a

How do you solve a problem like Ianto?

Okay maybe he needed to cut back on the musicals. But he needed something to take his mind off the problem of Ianto Jones.

Ever since the Cyberwoman incident Ianto Jones was even more of a ghost than before. Arriving a good couple of hours before everyone else (bar Jack) and quickly disappearing into the archives, not even going near the little kitchenette or the coffee machine, and staying there for the entire day. Ianto probably has a coffee machine in the archivist office, which in Jack's opinion is so unfair. Ianto leaves via the garage entrance to the archives, making sure that no one sees him.

They now have to get their own coffee, their own food and clean up their own "shit". The situation at the hub had gotten so bad that Owen had confronted him about Ianto's "suspension" and wanted to know when he was coming back to work.

Ianto was sending the necessary information and relevant reports to Tosh's computer, handling the paperwork and maintaining the archives. Ianto was essentially doing nothing more than his official duties. A very interesting and poignant protest.

Maybe he needs to stop thinking of Ianto as a problem, what he need to do is start thinking of the solvability of Ianto Jones.

~End

Word: Solvability

solv - a - bil - i - ty (noun)

Solvable; solv - a - ble (adjective) : capable of being solved as a problem

End Notes: As much I like to think that Jack would have given Ianto a suspension as some sort of disguised bereavement leave, I think that Jack would have been too paranoid to leave Ianto alone for an extended period of time and perhaps concerned about possibility of suicide.