A/N: Ianto's on, feel free to leave me a note. Enjoy.
Spoilers: Kiss, kiss, bang, bang
Beta-ed: TattoedLibrarian
Ianto packed their gear; he stopped, looked at his watch, and then looked up to the sky. He frowned; it was like he expected something to be there, like something wasn't showing up. It was a flicker in back of his mind, something flying.
"Will you get moving" Owen shouted "so we can bugger off from here? Gwen stop playing with that phone, Rhys can wait until we get to somewhere civilized."
"That's thousands of miles away" murmured Tosh.
Ianto looked at them and suddenly felt relieved that they were all there, cynical, grumpy, and startled. They weren't a perfect bunch of people but they were there and in last three months without Jack he started to feel like part of a group, they made an effort to pull him in, and he let them. He made effort to fulfil his new role as a field agent and it seemed to work. He got used to violence, and gave his tool of action. He might say he even like it, not the violence, but his own ability to act upon it and not crumble down.
"I'll kill that Saxon guy when we get back" Owen kept talking as they started to walk downwards to their ride, an ancient, run down car it was called Lada and it looked like it shouldn't even start, but it was capable of overcoming any kind of bad terrain, Ianto suspected it would come to full stop on solid and flat ground, it just defied logic.
"You can't just go around and say things like that, he's the Prime Minister for God sake" said Gwen with a smile "You'll get locked away if anyone hears you say it."
"We're in the freaking Himalayas, I don't think they have CCTV out here" he looked around. "I bet he manufactured those files just to prank with us. I have funny feeling about him, like he's just joking around with everybody."
Ianto inwardly agreed, he remembered that he voted for the guy but now was unable to say why; it seemed like odd choice for him to do, especially when his opponent was a transparent man with a solid vision. Ianto couldn't remember what Saxon was offering.
"If it's any consolation to you Owen" Tosh murmured watching on her GPS device "I have a desire to kill him too."
"Oh, Tosh" Gwen laughed "it isn't that bad to lose power on your laptop, we'll be in reach of power socket in no time."
"No" she lifted her head looking at them apologetically through her hair "it's not that, I just have an urge to kill him, I feel so angry when I think of him."
Gwen went silent.
"When you say it like that" she laughed nervously "I'm not too fond of him either."
"So agreed then" Owen said cheerfully "we'll make a power turn when we get back and make our own puppet Prime Minister" they all laughed but Ianto started to think how it could be done. It seemed like something he should do.
"Owen" Tosh called out when they gather up in the lobby before they went to the airport "It looks like there will be no need for a power struggle when we get back, it seems Saxon has disappeared, and it seems like he killed the President of United states, but facts are still unclear."
They all looked at the screen.
"Told you" Owen smiled "funny business. Good riddance I say" Ianto silently agreed. They all seemed to be in a much better mood as they walked towards the airport.
As they sat in the airplane, Ianto took out his mobile to turn it off. He had forgotten he had it with him the last couple of days; they were always out of service. Missed calls, it said. "Sir" it wrote on his phone, he held his breath, it was three days ago. Jack came and went while they were away. He pushed the button anyway. "The number you have dialed does not exist" the voice on the line said. Of course, thought Ianto and turned off his phone. He smiled sadly, he gotten over all that Jack business in last three months, he wouldn't start pinning now, but still, it was nice he tried to call. He turned and looked at Gwen and Owen who were arguing over their findings, or the lack of any. Tosh had disappeared in her laptop with her earphones on her ears.
"What are you staring at Tea boy?" snorted Owen.
"Just tired" he answered quietly deciding against telling them about Jack's call; it would only bring their hopes up.
"Who left the lights on" shouted Owen as they entered the Hub the morning after they landed.
"I was the last to leave" said Gwen "but I could have sworn I flipped the switch."
"Don't worry Gwen, it wasn't you, we've had a breach, someone messed with our data stream" said Tosh seriously throwing herself on the job.
Ianto went to kitchen and started the coffee, there was a small light on in Jack's office, but there were no footsteps on the stairs. It was just like Jack to be messy and leave the lights on. Ianto climbed the stairs with a mug in his hands, his own mug, not the one for Jack. He could see small signs, moved files, lack of dust on the lid for Flat Holm files. He expected a note, there wasn't one. He turned off the lamp and went down.
"All our personal files were browsed through, pictures, personnel files" Tosh explained "especially Jack's files, like someone had been searching for him. He left an awful lot of traces, like he wants to be found."
Ianto frowned, that didn't sound like Jack. Lights turned on, and moved files in a discreet way, but buzzing around the virtual files, he could do that without a trace, he had all the clearances he could have, they were unable to cast him out, his wrist strap was in the base of everything. Ianto moved to his station, if someone was trying to get their attention he wouldn't be hidden in the crowd, he would stand out. He found him almost immediately.
"Guys" he called out.
"I don't freaking believe this" shouted Owen "of all the things we've seen, this is the freakiest one, he's literally pissing on our door step."
And that was a correct description, a red blow fish, there wasn't other way to describe it, and was taking a piss on the door step of tourist office entrance.
"No way in hell we'll let that one pass." Owen jumped and they've spend rest of the day scooping him out. It wasn't easiest task.
"Bloody bugger just can't stop for a moment" Owen grumbled.
As soon as they would receive police tip off the fish would be already on other part of town, like he just appeared and disappeared.
"Come on guys" Gwen took her jacket "There isn't other way, in the car all of you, we just have to chase him down, he won't stop, he's waiting for us to go out and play."
"I can..." Ianto tried but Gwen cut him off.
"No, cleaning and tiding can wait, this one could easily have three heads and six arms how fast is he moving. Take a weapon; I don't think this one will come down peacefully." The rest of them followed her and Ianto thought that it was the case more often lately, she had natural police authority and they complied. That wasn't bad, Ianto thought to himself, they needed a leader, and it suited her better than just staring at nothing, like she did when Rhys died. Ianto wondered why was that image so permanently glued to his eyelids, like he'd seen it for a long time and not for just few minutes.
