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Three Homes, Two Jacks and a Ianto	By : BlackDawnRose Category: Stargate: SG-1 > Crossovers Views: 1098 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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The Holiday Part 2
"Ianto!" Tosh called out to try and stop him but the sound of hurried footsteps approaching the room drew their attention to the door and the invader who was about to run into it. Before he could set foot in the room Tosh lifted the gun and fired catching the man somewhere near the throat.
Knowing she was more than capable of keeping watch Ianto crawled toward Daniel who was still in a ball on the floor moaning in pain.
"Daniel," he called to the other man quietly as he struggled to reach him, each move of his arms bringing more pain and more black spots in his vision. He shook his head and forced himself to continue until he reached Daniel's side. "Daniel, Daniel!" he called shaking the other man slightly.
"I…Ianto," Daniel groaned opening his pain-filled blue eyes and squinting up at him.
"Are you okay?" Ianto asked.
"Shot…stomach," Daniel managed to groan in reply before clutching his stomach and breathing heavily. "Wha…bout…you?" he managed after a few moments
Ianto dropped down beside the archaeologist, his arms refusing to hold him any longer and reached out with shaking fingers to where Daniel was holding his stomach adding whatever pressure he could. Daniel cried out in pain and Ianto apologised even though he knew Daniel would understand what he was doing.
After taking several deep, shaky breaths he saw Daniel force his eyes open once more. He saw the archaeologist study him for several moments before alarm filled his lovely blue orbs. "You're…hurt," he gasped. "Should be…holding…your arm."
Ianto shook his head. "I'll be fine," he promised the archaeologist.
"Ianto-" Daniel tried to argue but Ianto cut him off.
"I'll be fine…please…don't fight me," Ianto pleaded feeling the pain weakening him with every word.
Daniel's eyes burnt into his and Ianto saw fear, not for Daniel himself but for Ianto. "Don't die," Daniel pleaded barely above a whisper and before Ianto could answer Tosh was beside him holding a sheet over his arm.
Ianto closed his eyes and bit his lip to keep in the moan that threatened to escape as the pain of having the wounds compressed shot through his injured limb. "It's over now," she told them in a whisper, "we've won. Jack's called for help and Janet will be in here in a minute. Just hold on okay."
Ianto could hear the worry in her voice and he wanted to say something reassuring but the ache in his arms was increasing with each passing moment and he knew if he opened his mouth he wouldn't be able to keep in the cry of pain that was currently threatening to escape him.
"Ianto," he heard Daniel's worried voice call to him and he forced his eyes open to look at the archaeologist. He could see the fear still present in Daniel's lovely eyes and he felt one of the other man's fingers slip up to hold his hand the only way he could. Ianto gripped Daniel's hand under his in return, his eyes never leaving the archaeologist's expressive blue orbs. For what felt like hours they just looked at each other, each watching the other for any signs that they were weakening, then out of nowhere Janet was there along with Jack, Sam and Paul and the pair were being pulled gently apart so Janet could assess their wounds.
They continued to watch each other as their wounds were appraised, each watching to make sure the other was all right. He heard Janet order Tosh to keep the pressure on Ianto's wounds before informing Jack that he and Daniel would need immediate, emergency surgery. Jack, who had a phone up to his ear, barked an order to whoever was on the other end and the pair had a few seconds to share a concerned glance before light filled Ianto's vision and he suddenly found himself in a medical bay surrounded by doctors and nurses. It took him a second to realize that Jack must have had them beamed up by the Prometheus. It was mere moments before he felt the tell-tale sting of a drip being inserted into his arm and his last thought before his world was overcome with darkness was of Daniel and whether the other man was okay.
XX
Consciousness returned slowly with annoying beeping noises and far too bright lights. He could hear voices talking quietly beside him and he opened his eyes just enough to see Tosh and Paul sitting beside his bed talking quietly to Janet. He must have made a noise of some kind without realizing because their attention was suddenly drawn to him.
"Hey, you're awake, how are you feeling?" Janet asked moving to his side Tosh and Paul close behind.
"Like I've been shot," Ianto replied in a croak thanks to his dry throat.
Janet passed him a cup of water and he took it with a grateful "Thanks."
He took a slow sip knowing too much would just make him choke and thought back to how he'd come to be in the medical bay. Suddenly he remembered what had happened to Daniel and a cold, sick feeling of fear filled him. "Daniel," he asked the doctor frantically and Janet rushed to calm him.
"Daniel's fine, Ianto," she assured him. "We rushed him straight into theatre and everything went well, he's going to make a full recovery."
Relief washed through him so quickly it made him dizzy and he closed his eyes for a moment to compose himself before thanking the doctor quietly. The room was silent for the next little while which he was thankful for and when at last his heart had stopped racing he turned his thoughts to the rest of his friends. He hadn't really seen them after he'd been shot, were they okay?
He opened his eyes and looked at the three who were currently in the room with him, they all looked fine but he wanted to make sure. "How're you guys, were you hurt at all?" he asked.
"We're fine," Tosh replied for them. "A few cuts and bruises, nothing we can't handle. Teal'c was shot in the leg a couple of times but he's recovering quickly as I'm told is normal for him and Jack just missed being shot in the shoulder so he has a nasty graze, but other than that everyone's good," she assured him.
Ianto nodded, glad to hear everyone was okay. "Do we know who invaded our holiday?" he asked.
"Jack's finding out now, a few of our "friends" survived," Tosh replied. "So far we know they're from UNIT but that's it. Mind you I don't think it'll take long for Jack to find out more."
"And I'm going to guess he's enjoying that more than he should be," Paul said with a grin causing the others to chuckle quietly including Ianto despite the burning anger he could feel building inside him. It was one thing for UNIT to go after him, he could brush that aside and forget it. It was another thing entirely for them to go after his friends. There was no way he'd be letting this go without a fight.
"So when am I going to be up and about, Janet?" he asked the doctor keeping his tone calm so she wouldn't know how angry he was.
"I'd like to keep you in another day for observation, after that you should be fine to go home," Janet replied with a smile.
Ianto managed a sincere smile in return. "Thank you, Janet."
"You're welcome," she replied. "I'm going to check on Daniel and Teal'c, I'll see you a little later."
"Okay, thanks," Ianto replied and Janet slipped out of the curtained area. As soon as Ianto heard her footsteps fade he turned to Tosh his anger no longer contained. "UNIT did this?" he snarled.
He saw her face take on the same expression he imagined was on his and she nodded. "We don't know why yet but it was definitely them."
Ianto looked away doing his best to leash the anger currently pulsing through him. "Something has to be done about them," he snarled quietly. "They get away with far too much."
"I know," Tosh replied simply. "Don't worry; I already have something planned for our friends at UNIT."
The deviousness in her tone surprised Ianto and he looked up to find an expression on her face that was downright scary.
"What exactly do you have in mind?" Paul asked her sounding as worried as Ianto felt.
Tosh gave the Major a frightening smile. "Revenge," she replied, "my way. Are you in?" she asked.
"Right now I think I'm too afraid to not be," Paul replied.
"To not be what?" The group looked up as Sam entered the room her face a mask of curiosity.
Tosh turned that frightening smile on the blonde who stopped mid step and studied the Torchwood computer genius cautiously.
"Why do I get the feeling I'm not going to like what you're talking about?" she asked Tosh whose smile simply widened.
XX
Captain Jack Harkness parked the SUV in the hub's parking area and headed inside, the others trailing along behind him. It had been an exceptionally long day and he wanted nothing more than to climb into bed and pretend to sleep. He opened the door expecting to be greeted by a hungry Myfanwy and an empty hub; he was shocked beyond all belief when instead he was greeted by a small group of people; Tosh and Ianto among them.
"Um...what the hell is going on here?" he asked making his way over to the work station where Ianto was currently typing away furiously. Tosh was sitting in another beside him typing just as furiously while a blonde lady stood on the other side of her doing the same. A young man with dark hair and blue eyes stood back a little from the action holding what looked like a data disk in his hand.
Ianto looked over as he approached and Jack saw the assessing way the other man appraised him before he turned back to the computer he'd been typing on previously. "Hi, Jack, sorry to drop in on you like this but we won't be long. Don't worry, we're not hurting anything Torchwood related; we just needed to borrow Tosh's hacking program for a minute or two," he explained. "Oh, this is Sam and Paul, they're from the SGC and as far as they're concerned they were never here."
The blonde woman and the young man with the dark hair looked up at him and waved before turning their attention back to the station the young woman was working at.
"You should pull up a chair, Jack," Tosh spoke this time, "You're going to love this," she finished with a glint in her eye that was downright scary, her attention never leaving the computer she was furiously typing at.
Ianto seemed to finish the task he'd been set because he left the terminal to Paul who took over and began typing at a much more sedate pace but just as intently.
"Want a coffee while I'm here?" Ianto asked heading down to where the coffee machine was located.
Jack followed behind him completely confused by the whole situation and dying to know what was going on. He should have been angry at the invasion of his base but he trusted Ianto and Tosh and he knew neither of them would let anyone in the hub who couldn't be trusted. He was also very interested to find out exactly why Tosh was with Ianto since as far as Jack knew she was on holidays not to mention how much he just wanted to be near Ianto and having the delectable Welshman make him one of his orgasmic cups of coffee was just the cherry on top.
"I'm assuming your coffee preferences haven't changed?" Ianto asked as he set to work on brewing some of his coffee magic.
"No, they're the same as always," Jack replied and if he and Ianto hadn't been on such unfriendly terms Jack would have made a suggestive comment.
Ianto just nodded and began pulling mugs out.
"Okay, as much as I trust you and Tosh not to bring dangerous people into the hub I have to ask, what in the world is going on and why are they here? Why is Tosh with you I thought she was on holidays," Jack asked.
"Tosh was on holidays and she still is officially although they were rudely interrupted. As to why she's with me it goes a little like this. General O'Neill, my current boss, has a cabin in the woods next to a lovely big lake and he likes to go there whenever he has a spare second. It's been an exceptionally long time since anyone at the SGC has had a holiday so when General O'Neill walked out of his office and told us he was heading up to his cabin for a fortnight and asked us if we'd like to come along we all jumped at the chance to have a well-deserved holiday. I mentioned the holiday to Tosh and when she told me it sounded great and she wished she could come along with me I asked General O'Neill if he'd mind her joining us and he said no." Ianto paused then to play with a few dials on the coffee machine before continuing.
"So Tosh got the time off and headed over to join us on our holiday. Everything was going swell and we were all having a ball until a few nights into our little get away we woke up to find a group of UNIT operatives in the General's cabin. Needless to say we won the fight that followed but it wasn't an easy victory and once we'd been treated by the doctors this little group and myself made our way here to use Tosh's hacking program for a little mission we've decided to undertake," Ianto finished.
"And what might that mission be?" Jack asked curious.
"Revenge," Ianto replied matter-of-factly before handing Jack a cup of liquid gold. "Owen, Gwen, Mickey, Martha do you want a coffee? If so come over here and get it my arm isn't quite up to carrying a tray at the moment," he called out.
The group made their way over to the coffee station. "You can't carry a tray, tea boy? What happened, did you break a nail?" Owen snarked as he stopped in front of Ianto.
"Wow, you are an asshole," Paul said before Ianto could answer making his way over from the station he'd been working at to join them. He stood beside Owen and studied the man for a moment before asking. "Tell me, do you make fun of Ianto because he's better looking than you or...?" he left the question open.
Jack heard Tosh, Sam, Mickey and Martha giggling behind their hands while Gwen just looked mortified and Owen glared at the young man.
"You do know you're a guest in this hub?" Gwen asked angrily.
"And since Ianto no longer works here so is he. Is this how you treat all of your guests?" Paul asked in return.
Gwen opened her mouth to reply before closing it again obviously realizing she didn't have anything to say back to that.
"For your information Ianto's nursing two bullet wounds in one arm and one in the other as well as a fourth in his shoulder all sustained in the act of protecting Toshiko from harm at the hands of UNIT, now tell me, Dr Harper is it? Is it really such a hardship to pick up your own coffee cup? Or is it the status of your nails we should be enquiring about?" Paul asked his lovely blue eyes narrowed on the Doctor.
"You were shot that many times?" Martha asked Ianto before Owen could reply.
"Oh yes," Ianto replied handing her a cup of coffee. "And do you know what? It doesn't matter how many times it happens it doesn't hurt any less," he said with a smile before handing a cup to Mickey.
"You should be sitting down," Martha replied concerned.
"Oh no, I'm fine, I'm quite used to this by now and Doctor Fraser dosed me up pretty good before I woke up after the surgery. However, I'm certainly not going to object to another shot of pain killer if you're offering," he told the young doctor.
She moved to comply but Owen stopped her and headed down himself to retrieve it. Ianto handed Sam and Tosh's drinks to Paul who took them over to the girls before returning to the coffee station. Jack watched as Ianto handed Paul his coffee before leaning in close to the other man.
"I appreciate you standing up for me but you really don't need to, it doesn't bother me," he said softly. "Owen is Owen, he has a prickly nature at the best of times and I think my leaving so suddenly has only compounded things. He doesn't know that happened, he doesn't understand and I haven't spoken to him since to explain why I left. I never thought it possible but I think he might be upset about the whole thing. I could be wrong but... just don't judge him too harshly, okay."
"If you say so," Paul replied just as quietly. "Although if I were him I'd be thankful it was me defending you and not Teal'c."
"Or the General," Ianto agreed causing Paul to chuckle slightly. "Just give me a minute, I want to talk to Owen alone," he said.
"All right, Tosh told me to tell you it'll be about 20 minutes before we're ready to begin the final stage," Paul informed him. Ianto nodded and Paul headed back over to the girls his coffee in hand.
Ianto picked up his and Owen's coffee. "Excuse me," he said quietly to Jack and the others before heading down to the medical bay where Owen was preparing a tray with medical implements.
Jack followed him stopping just behind the concrete wall at the edge of the bay so he could watch the exchange between his current and former staff member without being seen. He'd known the rest of his staff would be concerned by Ianto's sudden disappearance, but he'd never stopped to consider just how much it might affect Owen and Tosh. He'd known that Ianto and Tosh were friends but he'd never taken the time to notice just how close they really were and as far as he knew Owen and Ianto barely tolerated each other. He'd never considered that Owen might be hurt by Ianto's absence and he berated himself mentally for not thinking of that.
Owen looked up as Ianto approached, "Oh good, you're down here, saves me calling you. On the bed, shirt off," the doctor directed moving the trolley with the medical implements on it over to the bedside.
"I'm fine, Owen, Janet did a very good job of stitching me up," Ianto told him placing Owen's coffee cup on an available spot of bench near the stairs.
"Then you won't mind me taking a look for myself will you," Owen challenged motioning to the bed.
Ianto studied the doctor for a moment before obviously coming to the conclusion that he wouldn't win this argument and moving to comply. Jack knew he should walk away but his feet were glued to the floor and try as he might he couldn't keep his eyes from watching as Ianto stripped off his jacket and shirt or appraising the gorgeous body that lay beneath. Ianto's figure hadn't changed much since his departure; he was still as sublime as ever, although the sight of several white bandages covering part of his left arm, part of his right arm and his right shoulder caused Jack to wince in sympathy. What happened to Ianto being safer at the SGC?
Jack watched as Owen carefully stripped the bandages off Ianto's wounds and studied them closely, appraising the other doctor's skills. He moved Ianto's arms around a bit and studied the wounds some more before obviously deciding he was happy with what he was seeing and heading over to one of his drawers to retrieve more bandages. He made his way back to Ianto and as he started re-wrapping Ianto's injuries the young Welshman spoke.
"I'm sorry," he said softly. "I know I left suddenly, I know I didn't say goodbye, I wish it hadn't happened that way."
"Why did it?" Owen asked his eyes never leaving the area he was bandaging.
"I...it's complicated," Ianto replied softly looking down.
Owen finished bandaging Ianto's left arm and secured the bandage before leaning up and looking the Welshman in the eyes. "What did he do?" he asked simply.
"Armond," Ianto replied just as simply.
"Yeah, I thought as much," Owen replied turning his attention to Ianto's other arm. "You could have called you know, I honestly thought Jack was lying and you were dead," he said softly.
"I honestly didn't think you'd care," Ianto replied.
Owen paused in his bandaging and looked up at the Welshman once more. "Of course I care," the doctor said softly. "We might not have always gotten along, Ianto, but we were a team, we were...we were family. At least I thought we were"
"Well forgive me, but you didn't exactly act like you felt that way," Ianto replied quietly.
"Maybe not, but I thought you knew anyway. You know I'm not the touchy, feely sort, I don't do relationships particularly well, even the non-romantic sort," Owen argued softly.
"I know you don't do touchy, feely, Owen, believe me I was just fine with that, and I know relationships of any sort aren't your thing, but would it have been so much to ask for at least common courtesy?" Ianto asked quietly. "You were awful to me, Owen, all the time, was that really necessary?"
"I knew he would hurt you one day," Owen's outburst surprised Jack even though it was spoken quietly. "I knew he would and it made me so angry that you wouldn't listen to me when I warned you. You knew what he was like, I knew you did, you knew I was right. Even when you were arguing with me and trying to tell me that I wasn't I knew you didn't really believe it, I could see it in your eyes. But it didn't matter, you wouldn't listen to me, you wouldn't leave him, and I didn't want to be angry at you because of it I just couldn't help it. I..." Owen trailed off taking several deep breaths to calm down before he spoke again.
"I know you loved him and I know you wanted it to be different between you two, but you have no idea how happy I am that you finally had the guts to walk away. We are family, for better or worse, and you deserve so much more than that, you deserved more than any of this and I knew you could be more than you were I just wanted you to see it too. I'm sorry I couldn't find a better way to get that across to you, I'm sorry I hurt your feelings, but you were the only one of us that had any hope of anything outside of Torchwood, I had to make you see that, even if it meant being an ass," Owen finished.
Owen turned his attention back to Ianto's bandages then obviously uncomfortable with where the conversation had headed. The medical bay was silent as Owen fastened off the bandage, as soon as he was done however Ianto reached out and pulled the doctor into a hug. Owen held himself rigidly in Ianto's arms for a moment before Jack saw him accept the embrace and hold Ianto back. It lasted longer than Jack would have expected it to and when the pair parted Ianto smiled at the snarky doctor.
"How are you anyway?" he asked.
"Fine, how are you? How's the new job?" Owen asked in return.
"It's good, I'm good…I'm actually really happy," Ianto replied his smile widening.
Owen smiled back, "Good, I'm glad to hear it."
The pair shared a smile for another few moments before Tosh's voice drew their attention up stairs.
"It's ready!" she called sounding just a little too excited for Jack's liking.
Jack moved over to where his computer genius was sitting and waited to see what was going to happen next.
"Everyone to the conference room!" she called standing up from where she'd been working and leading the way further into the hub, Sam, Paul and most of the Torchwood staff close behind. Jack waited for a few moments until he saw Owen and Ianto ascending the stairs from the medical bay before following the group curious to see what exactly Tosh was going to do.
The massive screen at the end of the conference room was already active when Jack entered the room and as soon as everyone was seated Tosh brought up what appeared to be a computer screen with the UNIT symbol in the centre. Jack frowned in confusion and turned to Tosh who smiled evilly as she pressed a few buttons on her palm pilot. "Ready and go!" she announced pressing one final button and turning her attention to the screen.
The screen turned dark purple and a grinning weevil appeared in the middle of it. The weevil let out an evil laugh and turned to face the files currently sitting on the computer screen. With another gleeful and all together evil laugh he walked over to the closest file, grabbed it in his large hands and threw it in his mouth. A loud crunching sound followed as the weevil chewed up the file before a loud swallow was accompanied by a backwards tilt of his head and a large lump made its way down his throat before ending in his stomach with a bump, much like it often did when someone ate something in one of those children's cartoons.
The weevil seemed to think about something for a moment before a gleeful expression crossed his face and he turned to the other side of the screen and started making a 'come on' motion with his hands. Jack watched puzzled as the screen was suddenly overrun by weevils who began diving on every file they could find and gobbling them up.
It took a moment for Jack to figure out what was happening and when at last it came to him he couldn't help the grin that spread across his face. Tosh had made a computer virus to destroy all of UNIT's files but rather than making it just happen all at once she was making it happen a bit at a time and using the weevils as a way to mock the UNIT staff who were no doubt watching what was taking place and trying frantically to stop it. Of course they wouldn't be able to; no one stopped Tosh once she put her brilliant mind to something.
The weevils finished what was on the screen in front of them and started looking around for more files to feed on. As one they turned to the background and started chewing through it until they reached what looked like a circuit board and started consuming that as well. Jack would have given anything to see what was happening at the UNIT base right now.
"Hey, Tosh, is there any way you could hack into UNIT's surveillance system so we can see what's happening at their base at the moment?" Owen asked, as if he'd read the captain's mind.
"As a matter of fact there is," Tosh replied hitting a couple of buttons on her palm pilot.
The screen shrank and another one appeared beside it showing the UNIT base and everyone running around like crazy people, tripping over each other as the lights flashed on and off and alarms blared around them. Tosh grinned at the sight before hitting another few buttons on her palm pilot. The alarms shut off to be replace only seconds later by the most annoying song in the world. The Damned crazy frog!
The whole sight was so damn amusing that very soon the entire group were laughing hysterically. The laughter increased all the more when the weevils found a link up to UNIT in America and half of them headed there while the others remained to finish the UK branch. Soon the weevils had found their way to every UNIT base there was and were systematically destroying every computer system, every file, every piece of technology UNIT had ever built or acquired. With each new base the system opened a screen to show the technology being eaten and another to show how the staff was responding. The entire conference room screen was soon alive with movement and the group were laughing so hard they didn't notice Lois enter the room, having started her shift that morning, with General O'Neill following after her.
"So this is what you lot have been up to!" he announced loudly enough to draw the group's attention to him.
"General!" the group from the SGC including Ianto stated in shocked surprise before moving to stand up as was military protocol.
"At ease," the General ordered before they got far and moved to stand at the back of the table to get a better view of what was happening. "Is this UNIT?" he asked.
"Yes, Sir," Davis replied in a slightly sheepish tone looking for all the world like a kid who'd just been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
General O'Neill just smirked. "Ha, serves the cocky bastards right," he said before turning to look at Tosh. "Is this your doing, Toshiko?" he asked.
"It's part mine, part Sam's with a little Paul and Ianto thrown in for fun," Tosh replied grinning up at the General.
O'Neill chuckled, "Nice, very nice," he praised before turning his attention to Ianto. "I'm sorry to interrupt your fun, you're more than deserving of it after what's gone on" –somehow the look on the General's face told Captain Jack that he wasn't just talking about Ianto's current injuries- "but the Napoleonic power monger wants you back in the infirmary…now." he stressed the last word just a little and Captain Jack saw Ianto sigh his face taking on a look that Jack had never seen before.
"Do I have to?" he asked in a tone that would have done a sulky teenager proud.
"I'd like to say no, but unfortunately, yes," the General replied the look on his face showing just how much he sympathised with Ianto's current predicament.
"But she's scary," Ianto barely whispered and O'Neill suddenly laughed.
"Just how much pain relief have you had, Ianto?" he asked sounding truly amused.
Ianto seemed to think about it for a moment before replying, "A bit," with a nod of his head.
The General narrowed his eyes for a moment before turning to the rest of the group and asking. "Okay, who gave him what?" he asked.
Owen piped up and replied, "I gave him some morphine, why?"
The General suddenly looked like he was fighting not to laugh and he turned to look at the rest of the SGC personnel. "Doc Fraser…gave him some of that concoction she made for Teal'c," he said.
Sam's eyes went wide and she looked from Ianto to the General; alarm showing clearly in her eyes.
"You mean the one that made him giggle all day after one of the nurses accidentally gave him morphine?" Paul asked.
The General nodded slowly his eyes showing just how much he was fighting not to laugh.
Sam turned her attention back to Ianto, amusement showing clearly in her eyes. "Feel like giggling yet?" she asked.
"What do you mean yet? I've been laughing at UNIT for quite a while now," Ianto replied before a quiet giggle emerged from his throat. "You mean to tell me I'm going to spend a whole day giggling?" he asked the blonde.
Sam nodded slowly.
"You know what? I think I could use a day like that," he replied before covering his mouth as another giggle started to break through.
"Okay, I think we should get you back to the base," O'Neill declared moving over to Ianto's seat and pulling him up to his feet with Paul's help. Paul threw one of Ianto's arms over his shoulder while Sam grabbed Ianto's other arm and they helped him move toward the door.
The General turned his attention to Tosh then. "Coming with us?" he asked. "We have a holiday to finish."
Tosh smiled and jumped up from her chair to follow the others. "See you all when I get back," she called heading for the door.
"Bye, Owen," Ianto called on his way out of the room using his hand that was over Paul's shoulder to wave to the doctor. "I'll talk to you soon, take care."
Owen grinned, "Bye Ianto, enjoy your medication," he called back and Captain Jack was surprised to see an almost serene smile on the Doctor's face.
"Head back up top I'll see you up there in a second," the General called and the group headed out of the room. As soon as the rest of his personal were out of sight the General turned his attention to Jack.
"Might I have a word, Captain?" he asked pleasantly enough although Jack could tell it wasn't at all a question and the man was not at all happy.
Jack stood and led the man out into the corridor before hitting the buttons on his wrist strap to close the conference room door so the rest of the Torchwood staff couldn't hear them. He then turned back to face the General not at all surprised to see a dark look in his eyes.
"I interrogated the UNIT soldiers who survived the attack on my holiday home, took a while but I eventually found out what they were doing there." Here the man paused and Jack had a pretty good idea he was trying to settle the anger that was obviously building in him before he continued. "You know you have quite a reputation, Captain," O'Neill snarled. "Apparently you will play with anyone regardless of who they are, what they are or how badly you might ruin them when you eventually turn tail and run away like the coward I think you are. None of this has ever interested me before and I'd like it to never have to again, is there anything you're not following so far?" he asked Jack who shook his head. He had no idea where this was going but he knew saying so would only anger the man and he wanted to know what the General was going to say about UNIT.
"Like I said none of your reputation interested me, until a man from UNIT turned up at my base one day, Major Smith, I believe you two are acquainted." –Jack felt cold dread fill his stomach at the sound of that name- "He strode in with a group of his UNIT associates and started going on and on about how Ianto couldn't be trusted, how he was a spy for Torchwood and how he'd never betray you. No I'm not done!" O'Neill snapped when Jack opened his mouth to protest Ianto's innocence. "I know Ianto's not a spy, but I did not appreciate having someone I'd never met stroll into my base and start question the loyalty of one of my team, especially my AA. I asked Ianto about the incident and he told me about his run in with Major Smith over that alien and how the man most likely wanted revenge, and that may have been part of it, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you used that man and screwed him over just like you do everyone else, am I right?"
Jack didn't say anything; he wasn't sure what he would say if he could. He was so angry and upset right now that the words just would come to him. That damn Major Smith, he was going to make the man pay for this!
The General continued anyway. "I gave UNIT a serve and threatened to make their lives very hard if they ever allowed a stunt like that to be pulled again and if it had ended there then fine, but it didn't. Your Major Smith found out about the holiday plans I made with my team, he had men stalk us and when we reached the holiday house and they found out Tosh was with us as well as Ianto he ordered men to invade my house and capture Ianto and Tosh with whatever force was necessary, even if that meant killing the rest of us. They were to be held and interrogated at a UNIT base for information about Torchwood and its leader. Now the men may have said it was a UNIT operation to gain intelligence, but if that was the case they would have come after all of us because UNIT wants information about the SGC just as much as it wants information about Torchwood which is how I know this wasn't reconnaissance, it was personal, and in all likelihood it was Major Smith trying to get back at you." Here O'Neill paused and took a deep breath likely giving Captain Jack time to absorb what he'd said. After another few moments he continued.
"Now I don't know what you did to Major Smith and I really don't care, but I will tell you right now, if I ever find a member of my team in another situation that has come about because you couldn't keep it in your pants…well…I know you apparently can't die, but I have a lovely weapon that can vaporise you and I'd really like to see you come back from that! Are we clear, Captain?" General O'Neill snapped
Jack nodded, mentally fuming over Major Smith coming after Ianto and Tosh. Oh yes, that man was definitely going to pay for this, more than Tosh had made UNIT pay already.
General O'Neill turned to leave but suddenly stopped and turned back to look at Captain Jack. "I don't know what happened between you and Ianto, he's told me something but I know it's not all of it. Either way it doesn't matter; just understand that that kid is never coming back here. He is a member of my team now and I will make sure you never have the chance to ruin him the way you've done so many before, no matter what it takes. Is that understood?"
The look in the General's eyes told Jack he meant every word and he managed to clear his head enough to finally say something back. "Keep him safe, that's all I want for him," he told the other man allowing his sincerity and feeling to show though his eyes.
For a moment the General just watched him, then his expression changed as if he'd suddenly realised something and he gave Jack the barest of nods before turning and walking away without a backwards glance.
Jack hit the buttons on his wrist strap to open the conference room doors before heading back in and addressing his team. "I want all of you to go to your stations and get me every shred of information you can find about Major Smith," he ordered.
"The UNIT guy?" Owen asked.
"Yes," Jack replied his expression obviously fierce enough to keep Owen from questioning further as he and the group all stood from the table without a word and headed back into the hub to do as they were told.
As soon as they were out of the room Jack shut the door and used his wrist strap to remove UNIT from the screen and switch to the CCTV camera outside on the Plass. He watched as General O'Neill reached the surface and joined the group who currently appeared to be laughing along with a giggling Ianto. He zoomed the camera in as much as he could on the young Welshman and sat back to watch him interact with the group. Despite Ianto being drugged Jack could see that he belonged with these people, that he was relaxed and comfortable around them, more so than he'd ever been at Torchwood.
A sad smile crossed his face and he felt tears building in his eyes. Ianto was going to be okay, they'd make sure of it, General O'Neill would make sure of it, and Jack had no doubt the man could. He followed the group until they found a spot away from prying eyes and disappeared in a flash of white light.
"Goodbye, Ianto," Jack whispered to himself knowing it would most likely be the last time he ever said those words.
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So what did we think? A bit angsty I know but meh, I like the angst sometimes!
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