A/N: We get to the movies and some food discussion

No spoilers

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Jack changed quickly and then he hurried down to help Ianto but he was almost done when he got there.

"How did you do that?" he was bewildered. "Have you got some hidden time machine I'll have to confiscate?"

"I bet you'd just to use it yourself" Ianto grumbled. "No, I just took the quiet one first and the others just crouched down and started to whine, I do believe Owen is right, they are transmitting some kind of thoughts, or at least emotions. So I let them follow us and they did, they practically went to the cages themselves."

"Hm" Jack mused for a second then he remembered the time, he doesn't have time travel machine anymore. "That's great, but we have to get moving and step on it."

Ianto raised his eyebrows not moving so Jack grabbed him by his arm and pulled, starting to run towards the exit.

"You're really in a rush" Ianto commented as they reached the SUV "didn't expect you to be so anxious to see a movie."

"I just don't want to miss it and get stuck watching Twilight" Jack stepped on it and pulled out.

"I wouldn't think you were afraid of some teen vampires that don't even feed on people, or die in sunlight." Ianto teased.

"No, I just don't want to work anymore tonight. That movie is only alien propaganda; I just don't want to get into it." Jack shrugged it off; he just didn't like species that would push themselves on playing with emotions and superficial similarity taking the edge off their nature which was incompatible with humans.

"Really? Will it work?" Ianto frowned concerned and Jack decided he wouldn't like it if Ianto decided to make him to watch it tonight and explain everything, so he decided against all reasoning to share some future knowledge with him, he probably wasn't a part of those events, none of them were, and Jack like it that way.

"No, it will be a great hit with various sequels and mass hysteria, but it will be overkill. After the last film is released the hooked crowd will re-watch it so many times until they wake up from hypnosis and get horrified with the whole concept of cold blooded superior clans that hide beside us making young girls crazy submissive. That and the rage that the movies will invoke in the unaffected population will result in their withdrawal, because they are woundable and pretty easy to kill." Jack finished his fast summary. Hoping that would be enough for Ianto to drop it, he didn't seem reassured so he added "and it's Unit's case not ours anyway, they are doing their job already."

"So what are we watching then?" Ianto cheered up knowing that someone was taking care of it. "I bet it's Iron Man. I can see you enjoying that kind of action and they both are cute." Ianto tried to guess and Jack smiled.

"They are, but I thought that it would be insensitive of me to pick a movie about the beginnings of the Cybermen" Jack glanced at him, Ianto blanked out.

"I never thought about it that way." He said disconcerted. "Is there any movie that isn't about aliens or the future?"

"I haven't even noticed it; there are many movies with aliens this year, wonder if that means something?" He paused but then he remembered that he won't go there tonight. "There is one; I was nicely surprised that was currently playing. Ip Man, it's about a human, I never met him, but Bruce spoke highly of him, so it must be interesting."

"Never heard of it" Ianto said thoughtfully "let's try, I love surprises."

"Do you really" Jack growled but they were there and there wasn't time to continue on that thought. They managed to get the tickets and get in as the last commercial ended. Ianto placed a bag of popcorn between them and Jack thought that it would get in the way of his moves but then the movie began and he forgot about it.

They both did, they were consumed by the movie.

"How can something so slow can be so catching, I don't even remember when we ate the popcorn" Jack said when they got up and he looked at Ianto's face that had a sad smile.

"You ate all the popcorn" Ianto deadpanned straightening himself up. "I think we were trying to decipher their thoughts in a lack of conversation, we all talk too much."

"Maybe, but I like to talk" Jack said looking around smiling at passing crowd, it was nice to be surrounded by so many people talking, smiling, wiping tears, so many emotions and words. "Do you think that we could eat that dessert in the car?"

"No" Ianto answered firmly and Jack looked at him with surprise "it's sticky, greasy and could drop on the seats, do you know how hard is to clean that car's leather seats to a shiny polish, everything is visible on that deep black."

"It's just Palatschinken " Jack tried to argue weakly.

"Exactly, with chocolate and cream. No" he was determined but then he threw a glance at him "but if you insist you're still hungry after that dinner and that popcorn we could go to my place and eat it there, I have some cutlery and dishes."

"Really, that sounds delicious" Jack moved in closer lowering his voice.

"That was an invitation to eat dessert" Ianto sighed as they stopped by the SUV, Jack's face dropped. Ianto shoved hands in his pockets.

"I thought that the evening was going well" Jack said cautiously.

"It is" Ianto looked at the ground kicking some small pebble with his foot "going well. It's just that the last time everything went so fast... I just thought..." he left it hanging in the air.

Jack smiled gently and stepped forward grabbing the handle and opening the door for Ianto.

"Say no more" Jack said fondly and made gesture with his hand showing him in "if you would enter Mr. Jones, I will take you home."

Ianto smiled a bit and sat down.

"So" Ianto spoke up when they were on the road "I presume that Bruce would be Bruce Lee then."

Jack smiled widely.

"Yeah, how many people can say that" he winked at him.

"Some really old people" Ianto poked and get growl in return. "How did that happen, did you just go there and learned Kung fu, I never seen you fly around."

"No, there weren't time for that, and I'm more of athletic Hector kind of guy, I wouldn't fly around so easily." He sighed.

"Hector... no, you won't get me sidetracked" Ianto growled "Bruce Lee, why wasn't there any time? You've mentioned it, so it's a fair question" Ianto argued further "and you can't hide behind your usual vague I'm-the-boss-that's-all-you-need-to-know. This is a date and you're not the boss right now."

"You are tough" Jack smiled satisfied; he never got to tell that story to somebody "I thought that you weren't interested in my long boring story."

"I'm not interested in a short summary, that in your case would surely be long summary, but full events are interesting, and Bruce Lee is involved. And I am a boy, I did watch his movies." He engaged in some serious arguing.

"You're the boss" Jack said. "It's not a very long story. They sent me there to help because my extensive knowledge on how to die, he needed help in dying convincingly."

"Hm" Ianto snorted "you weren't very helpful, his death was everything but convincing."

"That's because he really died" Jack said sadly. "Everything was set, it would even be recorded on camera so there would be no need for a doctor, although we could have provided one, he would be questioned a lot, but Bruce wanted to finish his movie, and it took too long."

"Why did he need to die?" Ianto asked quietly. "Was he an alien?"

"No, he wasn't, he wouldn't have been so famous if he was, they wouldn't have let him. He just had an encounter with aliens and fought them as he learned to fight. With his fists, not guns, from up-close, and as he hit the creature he got infected with an alien virus. It made him quicker, stronger and more aware, but it was too much for his physiology, he was about to die from brain decomposition. The doctors determined that he'd just start to dissolve from the inside out when he reached thirty three. It would take a while, and he didn't want to put his family through all that, he wanted to give them closure, a chance to move on. Unit even planned to try to put him in stasis so he could be cured in the future, but that medicine made his brain burst just few days before our schedule." Jack finished and sighed, he wished at that moment that the story was more uplifting, something with hope in it.

"That plot with onscreen dying sounds familiar, didn't his son died that way?" Ianto frowned.

"You know your heroes" he smiled. "He did, it was just a shame to let a good plan to waste so they used it on Brandon; he inherited the disease, but he didn't wait until he was thirty to engage his plan. He's safely in stasis waiting for the future."

"So you managed to save the son, I bet that his father would like that" Ianto said thoughtfully as Jack parked in front of his building.

Neither of them moved, they sat in silence for few moments.

I've took some liberty with dates of movie releases for purposes of this chapter, all movies mentioned were out in 2008. but Ip Man reached UK in 2009. And if any of Twilight fans is roaming this way, hopefully he'll find usage of it charming. This was dedicated to my sister former Twilight fan :)