A/N: small intermezzo between adventures

Spoiler alert: Something in the Water (if you didn't read it just skip through first paragraph and you'll be on the safe side)

Beta-ed: TattoedLibrarian

By the end of the day everything seemed less important to Ianto. Especially after it seemed like Jack spoke as a prophet when he told him they all could die horribly by tomorrow. It started as an ordinary inquiry but it ended with water hags penetrating the Hub, Jack pulling a disappearing act, and all of them, the men had been impregnated in their throats by the awful creatures. Worse than all that was that Ianto ended up in his undershirt almost collapsed with the strain of coughing, shooting at water hags that seemed everywhere. But Jack managed to perform his Harkness magic and they all pulled through. When everything was sorted Ianto went home without a goodbye to trash his crumpled suit, take a long shower and to sleep for hours. This time he did turned off his mobile, unplugged the landline from the wall, lowered his shades and crawled naked into his bed not willing to be woken up for anything less than the end of the world, and maybe not even for that. As he fell asleep he thought how he couldn't make that 'Die Hard' look a habit and how he'd go tomorrow to buy a whole new edition of James Bond to make up for the damage done by this day.

He was woken at some time, it seemed too soon, but it was already dark outside. He was disoriented for a moment but then he spotted Jack's shape sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Sorry" he said with a whisper when he realized Ianto had woken up "when I finally sorted everything out I realized you were gone already so I panicked a bit. Everything alright?"

With that he reached out and put his hand to Ianto's still sore throat. Ianto made confirmative noise not really awake wondering why Jack wasn't naked.

"Things got a bit crazy yesterday, maybe I was again too... bossy?" there was a dose of uncertainty in Jack's voice and Ianto's mind finally came to clarity. He was mad about something before.

"No" Ianto said with a growl through his throat, he noticed with a small spike of envy that Jack was all repaired and flawless again "it was good, you listened to my suggestion in the end, and did stop to check on me. That was more than expected on a day like this. Will you lay down and let me sleep or are you just going sit there staring? It's disturbing to sleep like that." He moved to make some room in his bed.

Jack thought about it for a second and then got out of his coat and clothes. Soon he was under the sheets, all warm and there. When he reached downwards Ianto growled.

"Oh just sleep" he said as he let himself drift off again leaning against Jack's chest "maybe in the morning if you don't disappear again."

To his surprise, in the morning Jack was still there and he was sleeping. Ianto smiled feeling silly to be satisfied with that. It earned Jack a good round of sex, and he stayed for breakfast. As they ate Jack started to look restless, like he'd get up and run. Ianto didn't force conversation during the morning and now he was reluctant to break their comfortable silence, but if he didn't Jack would nod in a few seconds and be out the door.

"It's Sunday" Ianto said clearing his throat, it was better this morning.

"Yes I believe it is" Jack lifted his head leaning it to the side slightly cautious, like he was expecting a trap "what, you have to go off to church?"

At that Ianto threw his head backwards and laughed out loud. It made his throat sore again so he ended it with a cough.

"Glad to entertain you" Jack said now more relaxed in his chair gripping his cup of coffee more firmly. "Then what about Sunday?"

"You always say that anything interesting happens on Sundays" said Ianto with a smile, thinking how strange the desire was just to reach out and caress his face. Surely the sun was to blame; it made it through the curtains and set a line on Jack's face.

"Yeah, even the Doctor avoids them, he can afford to skip them" Jack snorted lightly, there wasn't anything bitter in the statement, only a fond memory.

"Well, then we could do what people normally do" said Ianto feeling like he was stepping too close to a forbidden area.

"What do they do?" Jack's grin went wider and then, to Ianto's surprise he reached across the table and caressed Ianto's face with tip of his fingers.

"They watch TV" he said hiding surprise with a smile "that's why they don't think of new trouble."

Jack looked over at the turned off television screen and looked thoughtful.

"I could try that" he said "maybe it's time to get with the time, not to wait to TV-chips and dream-movies."

Ianto raised his eyebrows.

"Maybe, anyway it sounds disturbing. I like to have a remote to turn the damn thing off when it starts to get annoying." He collected the plates and went to the kitchen.

"Yes, a remote probably sounds comforting. Let's try that. Should we get naked?" He leaned against Ianto as he put his plate in the sink.

"No" said Ianto determined, pushing Jack away "clothes on, the point is watching, not just making background noise."

"I love background noise" said Jack with a grin, but he complied. After a small adjusting they settled on the sofa. After some more shuffling through the channels they found something they both could watch. Surprisingly it was a makeover reality show.

"It will be good to see how benign it looks now" Jack said and scooted closer. Ianto had no objections.

In the end they watched more TV shows and quizzes than Ianto could have expected and ended up lying on the sofa as Jack spooned him and lively commented on the clothes, style and some odd behaviours he found normal, they even found a bowl of cookies. Sure they ended up naked, but that was just a bonus. Jack even agreed that Bear looks hot, but he disagreed about grossness of his food choices.

"I've had much worse" he said unimpressed.

Finally Jack did turn away to check on some minor alert from his wrist strap, but when he left it was already dark.

"We should do this again" he said getting into his coat "it was fun." With that he placed a short kiss on Ianto's lips and was off with a slam of the door.

Ianto stood in the middle of his living room and felt his cheeks go warm. It was slightly embarrassing just how much he liked that afternoon and even more how he reacted on Jack's chaste goodbye kiss. He looked around. His flat could use some cleaning. He got out his gloves and cleaned up his apartment. When he was done, he was satisfied and ready to sleep some more.

* Bear is Bear Grylls from the survivor show, I've already made boys talk of him before, so this is aftermath

** watching television on Sundays is actually mentioned in the book In the Shadows so I had to implement it to make that stick, its not just indulging my fondness of domestication :)

***watching Bond movies is also mentioned later on in Trace Memory so it seemed like good spot to buy new blue-ray collection for that James Bondathon :)

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