THOUGHTS OF....
Title: Thoughts of....
Author: Iantosdreamer46
Rating: R, adult themes, occasional language,
Pairings/Characters: Jack/Ianto, Gwen, Tosh, Owen
Spoilers: None that I know of
Summary: Ianto and Owen have a problem with an alien.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters, they belong to RTD and the BBC. I am just experimenting with them....
Written for the longliveianto bingo: Psychic Links. This completes my first line.
Masterlist iantosdreamer46.livejournal.com/3003.html
A/N Apologies for anyone getting this numerous times.
They had been sat in the conference room when Tosh’s PDA had started bleeping. She looked at Jack and shrugged her shoulders. They had not had any rift activity for the last few days and were surprised to hear this now. Christmas always seemed to be a quiet time of the year, they couldn’t explain it but for the last two years nothing had come through the rift in the lead up to Christmas Day. Until now.
Jack looked at Tosh for some answers. “What’ve we got Tosh?”
“Not sure Jack, it seems to be coming from the Donald Gordon theatre in the Millennium Centre.”
“What! they’ve got Aladdin there this year, I’ve got tickets for it, Ianto and I are going next week, they can’t cancel on us not this close to opening night.”
“Look Jack, it may not be too bad, why don’t I go and see what it is. I’ll take Owen and Gwen with me, you and Tosh can monitor things here. If we think it’s going to be too hard for us to cope with then we’ll call and you can come running.”
“I’ll come anyway you want me to my love.” Grinned Jack, raising his eyebrows.
“Oi guys, please, if I’ve told you once about broadcasting your love life, I’ve told you a thousand times. Not when the children are around.”
“And I’ve told you Owen, you’re only jealous” laughed Jack as Owen grumbled his way out of the conference room to get his gear.
Giggling, Gwen and Tosh left the conference room leaving their two best friends together.
“I won’t be long cariad, we’ll see what it is and then we can bring it back here and entertain it in the cells. I somehow don’t think the entertainment of a pantomime will suffice a visitor, they wouldn’t understand it.”
“Ok my love, but don’t be too long, I’ve got a surprise for you tonight.”
“Mmm, sounds interesting, I’ll let Owen do the necessary in charge job, it’ll keep him happy. What’s with him anyway? Is he not getting enough. I thought he and Tosh were happy and enjoying each others company again.”
“Yeah, they’re back on, but I think they’re taking it one day at a time, he really did the dirty on her over the summer, she found him with an ex and he’s trying his best to make it up to her. She tells me she’s forgiven him, but she’s making him work for it. Whatever you do don’t let on to Owen that Tosh has forgiven him, I wouldn’t want either of us to be on the receiving end of her wrath.”
“Don’t worry, I’m not going to say anything. It’s nice to see Owen grovelling once in a while. Right we’ll go and see who’s come through this time. Do you remember the last time we were in the Donald Gordon theatre?”
“Oh yeah, I had you upside down”
“Yeah and you had me in the dressing room too.” Laughed Ianto as he left to get his equipment for the theatre visit.
Jack was still smiling to himself when he poked his head out of the conference room and told them to take care, they didn’t know yet what they were dealing with.
“Ianto” shouted Tosh, “I’ll let you know the minute I find out any more information. Ok?”
“Fine, don’t be too long.” Shouted back Ianto as they disappeared up the perception filter lift.
Jack made his way down to Tosh to see what she had found. “Anything new yet?”
“No Jack, sorry. It’s eluding the monitors and I can’t really get a fix on it at present, it’s moving too quickly. All I know is that it’s in the auditorium of the theatre somewhere. At least it’s not backstage in the dressing rooms, it’s a maze down there.”
“Mmmm….what….oh yeah….it is. Sorry, I was just thinking when Yan and I went to see Tap Dogs.”
“Do I really need to know or is it just another of your escapades?”
“What….oh yeah….sorry too much information”
They both laughed and as Tosh turned back to her screen she saw that the creature, or whatever it was had moved onto the stage. “Ianto, I’ve got a fix on the alien, it’s placed itself on the stage, so it shouldn’t be too hard to find.”
“Thanks Tosh, we’re at the Theatre now, just entering the auditorium. We’ll let you know when we spot it.”
Ianto clicked off his comms and went to see if he could find their visitor. He sent Owen and Gwen into the stalls just in case it tried to make its way down there. As he stepped onto the stage he saw what he could only describe as an electric blue lizard like creature.
“Hey, Owen, Gwen, up here, our friend is on the stage. Come give me a hand.”
Owen and Gwen made their way to the stage but as they started going up the stairs the lizard saw them, and disappeared.
“Oi Ianto, thought you said it was on stage?”
“Yeah, it was, what have you done with it Owen.”
“Erm, tea boy, I’ve not done anything, it just disappeared. Did it come past you?”
“No, Gwen, has it come past you?”
“No Ianto, it hasn’t.”
“So where has it disappeared to?” Owen tapped his comms, “Tosh what are your monitors saying. We seemed to have lost sight of it here, it just seemed to vanish.”
“No Owen it’s still there, on the stage with you three. It’s in the centre.”
The three of them looked at one another, looked to the centre of the stage and shrugged their shoulders, nowhere in the centre was the lizard.
Just then Owen caught movement out the corner of his eye. “Hey Gwen, Ianto, it went down there.” pointing to the stalls. “I’m gone, Ianto with me, we have a better chance of catching it if we split up. Gwen you stay there and if it comes back, I don’t know put something over it to catch it. It can’t be that difficult.”
Ianto went down the left side of the stage whilst Owen went down the right. They slowly made their way to the centre seating block of the stalls. Thankfully the cleaners had been in and there were no sweet wrappers or other rubbish for it to hide under. They decided that the best way to find the lizard would be to get down on their hands and knees and crawl between the seating, looking underneath the seats as they went.
Gwen stood on the stage laughing to herself, she hadn’t seen anything so funny for a long time. Here were her two best friends, arses in the air looking for a lizard that by all accounts could change colour to hide itself.
“Hey boys, I’ve got a good view of your arses and I can say that you’re looking good from where I’m standing.”
Owen lifted his head to rebuke Gwen but as he did so a seat dropped down onto his head. “Ouch!”
“You know what they say Owen? Where there’s no sense there’s no feeling!”
“Thanks for that Gwen, now we’ve lost it again. How’s about you coming down here to give us a hand?”
“No, Owen I’m fine where I am, I’ll let you know if I see it. Oh and Owen!”
“Yeah”
“Mind your head, we don’t want to damage the seating.”
Gwen and Ianto laughed, Owen just grumbled.
“Owen, I’ve found it, it’s here under this seat, quietly move towards me.” Ianto tapped his comms, “Gwen bring the box down here, it’ll fit in no problem, but be quiet I don’t want to have to crawl around the whole auditorium looking for it. It’s turned red now, it’s like a chameleon changing colour to protect itself.”
Ianto and Owen silently crawled towards the lizard. They wanted to get out of the theatre as quickly as possible before the actors arrived for their rehearsal.
“On the count of three, you grab hold of its head and I’ll get its tail. That way if it takes a chunk out of you, you’ll be alright. I’d rather not be a meal for our friend, not today.”
“Thanks Owen, nice to know you value me and my condition, even if it’s only to be a snack for our friend. Who’s to say if it did bite me I’d survive?”
“You know what you’re like, you’ll just have a hole in your hand for a while then it’ll grow back. Just like lover boy back at the hub.”
“Hey Owen!” exclaimed Jack “Don’t forget I can hear you and if anything happens to Ianto you’ll have me to deal with. Got that?”
“Yeah Jack, but you’ve got to admit, Ianto is a blessing in disguise now, we can send him in first and know that he’ll come out smelling of roses every time, even if it takes a while for him to come back.”
“You’ll be smelling of something other than roses if anything serious happens to Ianto.”
“Yeah….yeah.”
Owen looked at Ianto and smiled, secretly thinking that although nothing could hurt his friend anymore, he didn’t really want to see any harm come to him. But he’d be damned if he admitted it to any of the team.
Closing in on the lizard they looked at each other and Owen whispered “on the count of three we pounce.
Ianto nodded.
“One, two, three.”
Owen grabbed the tail and Ianto went for the head, but he was a second slower than Owen and the lizard shot out from under the seat bit Ianto’s hand causing him to fall forward and bang heads with Owen. He did manage to grab the neck just before it took another slice out of his hand. Looking down there was blood pouring from the wound. He wasn’t so bothered now about being injured, it still hurt like hell, but he knew that it would heal. What he was bothered about was clashing heads with Owen, he knew Owen would blame him for it and play on the fact that he’d have a bump there for a few hours.
Standing up they saw Gwen laughing at the end of the row with the containment box in her hands. Slowly not to anger the creature further they made their way to her and deposited it inside. Quickly closing the lid she looked at Ianto’s hand and gasped.
“Hell Ianto, look at your hand, are you ok?”
“Yeah Gwen I’m fine, it’ll sort itself out in a couple of hours. I’m getting used to this now. It hurts but I’ll be fine.”
“Erm, when you’ve finished worrying over Ianto’s hand, my head hurts. I’m feeling a bit dizzy, what’re you going to do about it?”
“Look Owen your head’ll be fine, it’s Ianto’s hand that’s worrying me have you seen it?”
“Yeah I’ve seen it. But he’ll be fine you just heard him say so.”
“Guys, guys, look I’m fine it’s starting to sort itself out now. Come on we need to get our friend back to the hub. Then maybe we can find out what it is, I’ve certainly not seen anything in the archives nor on the computer system to tell us what it is. Let’s hope Jack and Tosh can help us. Who knows it may even be poisonous and I’ll collapse and then Owen you’ll have to carry me back.”
“Not on your life, I’ll get Jack to come and get you. He’s picked you up several times no doubt.” He raised his eyebrows and smiled.
The three of them made their way back to the hub with their new visitor.
~~~~~*~~~~~
Jack was waiting for them as they got off the lift. He went straight to Ianto to check on his hand, which by this time was healing nicely.
“Hey Yan are you alright?”
“Yeah Jack, I’m fine, just do me a favour, ask Owen if his head is alright otherwise we’ll not hear the last of it.”
Jack kissed his lover on his forehead and went to find Owen.
Gwen, Tosh and Owen had made their way down into the medical bay and had carefully taken the lizard out of the box and placed it on the table. All three of them were wearing protective gloves, with Tosh and Gwen holding it down whilst Owen got a syringe full of sedative.
“I’m not examining this thing without it being asleep first. Hey Ianto, thanks to you I’ve got a killer of a headache.”
“Erm Owen, if you remember rightly it was you who grabbed the creature first causing it to bite me, so how can it be my fault?”
“Well you were the one who moved forward and bashed me.”
“Children, children, can we stop the squabbling and get on with trying to find out who or what our friend is?”
“Sorry Jack, just keep your tea boy away from me whilst I do the examination. I don’t want a chunk taking out of me, thank you very much.”
Jack and Ianto were stood looking over the railing down into the medical area. Jack put his arm around Ianto and leant in to kiss his neck.
Mmmm I really need more of that! Thought Ianto as he turned to respond to the kiss.
Owen who was just about to touch the lizard stopped, shook his head and looked up to his two colleagues. What was going on? Why was he hearing Ianto’sthoughts
Ianto looked down to Owen, both registering shock on their faces. What had happened to them, why was he hearing Owen’s thoughts?
“Hey Ianto if you don’t mind I’d rather do this examination without you interfering. Just go do what you do best, make us all a coffee.”
“Jack, can we go to your office, something has just happened which I can’t explain. I’d rather talk in private than have the others overhear.”
“Ok my love, but you’re worrying me now is there something you’re not telling me about your hand?”
“No, no cariad, that’s fine, it’s just….well something strange has happened. I’d rather not say here, I don’t want to disturb the others.”
He took Jack’s hand and led him to the office. Jack was really worried by the time they arrived. Sitting down he pulled Ianto down onto his lap and Ianto’s first reaction was to wish for more and imagine them being in bed.
Owen who was trying to examine the lizard heard Ianto’s thoughts and dropped the Bekeran Deep Tissue Scanner on to the floor. “Shit” he exclaimed loudly. I don’t really want to know what tea boy and his Captain are getting up to. He picked the scanner up and tried to carry on with the examination. All the while trying to shut out any more thoughts Ianto was having.
Ianto sprang up off Jack’s knee and went around the other side of the desk.
“Hey, Yan, what’s the matter, what have I done?”
“What….what, oh nothing Jack. Something’s not quite right since we got back from the theatre. I keep hearing Owen’s thoughts in my head and from what I can gather he’s hearing mine.”
“Mmmmm, could be interesting tonight then” grinned Jack.
“Jack! I’m serious, I don’t know what’s happened to us. But it’s not good.”
“Oh I don’t know, maybe Owen could learn a thing or two from us tonight that he can use on Tosh.”
“Jack!”
“Sorry Yan but you’ve got to see the funny side of things haven’t you.”
“No, not really, and I don’t think Owen will see the funny side either.”
Getting up and joining Ianto around the other side of the desk, Jack pulled his lover towards him and kissed him with mind numbing force. Ianto’s thoughts went straight to what he would like to do to Jack. Mmmm so good, I just wish the others weren’t here and we could use Owens autopsy table again. It was so erotic on there. The coldness of the table and the heat of our bodies. Mmmm want Jack now, here, this minute. Suddenly realising what he’d just thought of Ianto pulled away from Jack. Oh God how am I going to face Owen now?
Owen had been just about to put the lizard back in a glass tank when Ianto’s thoughts filtered into his mind. Shit Ianto, do you mind, firstly who gave you permission to use my table, secondly I hope you cleaned it afterwards and thirdly I do not, repeat do not want to know all about your sex life thank you very much.
Ianto began to smile. He should have known Owen would make some snarky comment. How are we going to sort this out then Dr Harper?
Ianto Jones, you are going to sort this out, not me, it’s all your fault.
Jack was looking at Ianto with a curious expression on his face. “Yan, what’s going on, why are you smirking and frowning and well….”
“You had better sit down, promise me you won’t be angry?”
“Come on, tell me, you’re really worrying me now.”
“Look, when you pulled me on to your knee my first reaction was to think about what we did on Owens autopsy table, and well….he now knows about our….our….need I say more. He wants to know if we cleaned it afterwards.”
Jack laughed. “How did he know we’d done anything in the first place, I didn’t tell him.”
“No, my thoughts just did. I was thinking about wanting to make love to you now and he can read my every thought. He said he doesn’t want to hear what we would like to get up to, he’s still trying to find out what the lizard is.”
“Aahh we have a problem then Mr Jones. The pair of you are going to have to keep your thoughts to yourselves, just until we can find a cure. If there is one.”
“Thanks for that Jack, you’ve just made my day. How can we keep our thoughts to ourselves, become celibate?”
“Now that’s going a bit too far, but we’re all going to have to make sure we think out loud not in our heads. It is just that isn’t it he can’t hear you when you’re talking to me?”
“No it’s just our thoughts. I don’t know what he’ll think to all this. We need to find a way of reversing it, and pretty quickly. Having him in my head as well as face to face is not a good place to be thank you very much.”
Jack went to his office door and shouted for the rest of them to join him and Ianto. They arrived with questioning looks on their faces. Ianto and Owen just glared at one another and sat on opposite sides of the room. Gwen and Tosh noticed an atmosphere between the two of them but daren’t say anything they’d both been on the receiving end of Owens wrath and didn’t want to go there again.
“Right kids, we seem to have a problem. Ianto and Owen can read each others’ thoughts. It could be fun, but from the looks on their faces, I don’t think they would agree.”
“Too right Jack, I can’t be doing with hearing what you two get up to at night thank you very much. I want privacy too.”
“Oh yeah! And what pray tell are you going to be getting up to tonight Dr Harper?” Jack asked with a wicked grin on his face, noticing Tosh blushing at the comment.
“Well….I….we….you know what I mean?”
“Not really Owen enlighten us.”
Tosh’s face took on the hue of an even deeper red and looked down at the floor as if something were crawling across it.
“Look Jack, how are we going to sort this out. We can’t go on like this it will drive each of us insane.”
“I’m sorry Owen, Ianto, I couldn’t resist winding you both up. You’ve got to admit it is funny isn’t it. Of all the people it should happen to it had to be you two. Why couldn’t it have been you and Tosh or me and Ianto that way we would know what each other wanted before we asked. Mmmmm interesting.” Jack’s gaze went to his lover and smiled.
Tosh regained her composure “Why don’t I take a look at the information we have in archives, then if I don’t find anything I’ll widen my search. That’s the best I can say at present. Until we know what we’re dealing with we need to monitor the pair of you and make sure it doesn’t develop into anything more serious.”
“You think this isn’t serious. Me hearing tea boys fantasies all the time.”
“Come on Owen, I’m not that bad. It’s you I’m worried about. What are you going to be up to tonight and in the future. We don’t know how long this is going to last.”
“Great!”
Jack started laughing then Gwen and Tosh joined in. Ianto and Owen looked at their friends, looked at one another and joined in the laughter. Ok it was serious but they could see the funny side also.
“Right kids. We’ve had a long day, I think you should all go home and get some rest. We can begin looking at this with fresh eyes tomorrow. Oh and Owen….don’t do anything we wouldn’t do tonight will you?”
Owen glared at Jack who winked and smiled in return.
~~~~~*~~~~~
The others had gone home, Tosh agreeing to go with Owen to his house. She admitted to him that she’d forgiven him and she would like to stay with him tonight. Jack and Ianto had gone down to their quarters, still smiling.
“How did this happen Yan? Do you think it’s something to do with your bite on your hand. How is it healing?”
“Not sure how it happened, but the bite, it’s closing up nicely. It hurts still but I know it’ll be fine in a couple of hours. How have you lived with this for so many years? I’m still trying to get my head around it. Some day’s I’m fine with it and pleased that we have the opportunity to be together for a long time. Another day, it still scares me to death, I think it’s not knowing whether it’s going to be permanent or by some strange quirk in nature, it’s only going to last a few months. We’ve been lucky so far and nothing too serious has happened. I’m just frightened that an alien will come along and it will be the end of me.”
“Hey, come on. Let’s just live one day at a time. If you think too much about what might happen then you are not going to be much use to the team or to me. And Ianto, I am not going to lose you, not now. I love you too much, plus I’m not going to go anywhere so you’re stuck with me.”
Ianto leaned in to kiss Jack, and pulling him closer stroked his back causing him to shudder and moan into the kiss. I love you so much Jack Harkness, you are never going to lose me, I have never wanted anyone as much as you cariad. Realising what he’d just done he sent another thought Sorry Owen, wasn’t thinking.
He hoped that Owen would forgive him otherwise he’d get it in the neck in the morning.
Owen was making dinner for Tosh when the image of Ianto and Jack flashed through his mind. Oi tea boy, do you mind, I’m just going to have my dinner here and spend a quiet night with my girlfriend, I don’t want those images flashing through my mind thank you very much.
It was going to be a very long night!
~~~~~*~~~~~
Tosh and Owen were first to arrive the next day. Tosh had not had the night with her man she thought she was going to have, whether it was because of the images she thought Owen would send to Ianto or vice versa, plus she wanted to get started on her research as early as possible. She couldn’t go through another day with Owen being his old snarky self. She’d finally managed to mellow him, well just a little, and he’d been great to work and live with. She couldn’t allow him, or wish it on the rest of the team, for him to go back to his old self.
Ianto and Jack had not had a good night either. Every time they kissed, held each other or went to explore each others’ bodies, Ianto stopped. He’d said it wasn’t because he didn’t want to, he wanted it more than anything, it was because he knew what remarks he would get from Owen, either in his head or at work the following day. So they had sat up for most of the night, talking about Ianto’s childhood and Jack’s travels with the Doctor. Ianto had even admitted to Jack that he’d been jealous of the Doctor, that was until he’d met him.
They heard the roller door open and made their way to the hub to see who was first in. Seeing Tosh they smiled, well until Owen walked in. The look on his face told them he wasn’t a happy chap. Jack commented that he looked just like a bulldog chewing a wasp. Ianto laughed, and tried hard to keep the image from his mind, knowing that Owen would be seriously pissed if he found out. Looking down at his colleague Ianto was pleased that, that image hadn’t made it to Owen.
“Morning kids. And how are we this fine morning?”
“Hrmph, what fine morning, its ok for you Jack you haven’t got his thoughts going round in your head.”
“No, but I would imagine it’s a great place to be. Mmmm I would love to be in there.”
“Yeah maybe you would, but not the images I’ve had this last few hours.”
“Oh I don’t know, I can imagine that they would be interesting to say the least.”
“Jack, please can we just get this sorted out, I’m tired and need caffeine and want to get back to normal. Speaking of caffeine, tea boy have you got my coffee yet!”
Ianto looked at Jack, smiled, kissed him and went to get the coffee for everyone. It was going to be another long day.
~~~~~*~~~~~
Tosh had been trawling through the archives and the database for the last three hours when she screamed. The rest of the crew came running, worried in case something had happened to her.
“Tosh, hey Tosh what’s up?”
“I think I’ve found out what’s happened to Owen and Ianto. But you had better come and look at this. I’m not sure if you’re going to be thrilled about what they have to do to reverse the situation.”
“Tosh, love, I’ll do anything to reverse the situation if it means I can finally get tea boy’s thoughts about….about….well you know what they’re about, out of my head.”
By the time the team had reached Tosh she was grinning like a Cheshire Cat. Owen put his arms around her and kissed her neck.
“What’s making you smile? I’m hoping you’ve got good news for me, this situation is driving me mad.”
“Hey Owen, it’s not got much further to go then has it?”
“Thanks Jack, you’re so sympathetic.”
The team laughed and then so out of character for Tosh, she shouted “HEY, don’t you want to know how to sort this out? I’ve got a solution here, but I think we should go into the conference room and sit down, we need to talk this through.”
She closed her screen down and transferred it to the conference room. They all made their way, curiosity showing on their faces.
They sat down, Jack holding tightly onto Ianto’s hand wishing this could be over and done with quickly. He didn’t want his gorgeous lover to go through much more anguish he just wanted to hold him and love him.
“Right, I’ve been scouring the archives for the past few hours and I’ve finally found out what we’re dealing with. Erm….”
“For goodness sake Tosh get on with it. The quicker we get this over and done with the quicker I stop hearing tea boy’s thoughts.”
“Owen, for goodness sake will you just shut up!”
They all looked at Tosh, this was also out of character for her, but boy had it worked on Owen, he was sat looking at everyone, opening and closing his mouth like a goldfish. They tried not to laugh, but sniggers were heard from most of them.
“Can I continue” she looked across at Owen who just nodded his head. “Ok, well the lizard we have downstairs is called a Hoshi. It is a chameleon type creature that will change colour to suit its surroundings if it thinks it’s in danger. It is highly poisonous to other creatures, but not to humans. So Ianto, your hand should be alright and there won’t be any side effects….other than….”
“Other than what Tosh?”
She took a deep breath. “Other than if two people are touching the creature at the same time and they happen to make contact with each other, either by accident or deliberately, their thoughts are transferred to one another. Now my question to you is this, when you were chasing our friend here did you make contact with one another?”
Ianto and Owen looked at each other, looked at Jack, then looked back at Tosh and slowly nodded.
Gwen realised what had happened. “Hey guys didn’t you clash heads when you were crawling around, arses in the air looking for the Hoshi?”
“Mmmm your arse was in the air, why wasn’t I there to see it?”
Ianto turned to Jack and whispered “mmm later my love, and it’s all yours.”
Jack leaned over and kissed Ianto. “Right Tosh we’ve gathered that they made contact with each other and that their thoughts are being transferred over, which I might add has been very interesting.”
“Not to me thank you very much Jack, I’d rather not hear about your love life in my mind all the time.”
“Gents, gents please can we get on. The longer we leave this situation as it is the less chance we’ll get to reverse the effects.”
“Erm….why Tosh, what’ll happen if we leave this any longer?”
“Please don’t shout at the messenger Owen, but….but if it’s not reversed within 24 hours it’s….it’s….”
“Come on Tosh, it’s what!”
“It’s permanent.”
“WHAT!”
“I asked you not to shout. I’m getting to the part of how to reverse it. I’m sure Ianto wouldn’t want to listen to your thoughts all the time either. It’s not just you we have to worry about here. Remember?”
They all looked at Tosh, she took a deep breath and carried on. “Ok, here’s what we have to do. Owen and Ianto, for this to be reversed it has to happen within the next six hours otherwise….well. Anyway, what you each have to do is passionately kiss the other persons partner. The Hoshi are a passionate race and think that everyone should share their emotions and happiness. It doesn’t matter who they come into contact with they expect everyone to be as happy and in love and as passionate as they are. So guys the only way for this to be reversed is for Ianto to kiss me and Owen you’ve got to kiss Jack. And I don’t just mean a peck on the cheek or lips, it has to be a full on passionate kiss.”
Tosh looked across at Jack who was grinning his Hollywood smile, Ianto was grinning also but Owen was scowling. “What’s the matter Owen is something wrong.”
“Tosh if you think I’m going to kiss Jack, you’ve got another think coming. It’s ok for tea boy here he’s had the pleasure of women too so that won’t be too hard for him to accomplish. But please….me kiss Jack….erm I don’t think so.”
“Ok Owen if that’s how you want it to be the pair of you can stay as you are and share each others thoughts. I’m sure Ianto doesn’t want to hear what you get up to at night as much as you don’t want to hear about him and Jack. You have got six hours to decide. In fact we’ve wasted time so it’s down to five and a half hours. It’s make you mind up time, boys.
“Well I’m up for it Tosh, if it’s going to sort this out. I’m sure Jack wouldn’t mind me kissing you just this once.”
“Only if I can watch my love.” Grinned Jack. “Besides it could prove very erotic watching the pair of you, then just imagine what we could do tonight. Mmmmm”
Ianto began to imagine and was quickly stopped by Owen’s thoughts. Thanks tea boy that’s enough of that. I really haven’t got the stomach for that today.
“Come on Owen it’ll only be the once. I don’t bite! Well not unless you want me to that is.”
“Oh fuck, Jack, I’ve never kissed a man before.”
“No Owen we only want you to kiss Jack not…..”
“Hey too much information thanks!” shouted Owen “I’ll have to think about it. And don’t keep reminding me I’ve only got so many hours to think about it. I know.”
Jack, Gwen and Tosh left Owen and Ianto in the conference room to discuss what they had to do. In the meantime they went to see how the Hoshi was coping in its cage. Tosh had managed to predict the next time the rift would open up at the co-ordinates in which it came through. They had until the following day at noon to get it back to the Theatre and send it back home again.
The conference room door opened and out came the two boys. Ianto leaned over the barrier “Jack, Tosh we’ve made up our minds. Owen has agreed to kiss Jack but he doesn’t want an audience. Do we have to do it at the same time or can one of us kiss the other partner first?”
“No it has to be both at the same time. Why don’t you and I go to the kitchen and leave Owen and Jack in the conference room. Let’s leave the comms open and then we can co-ordinate that way. Otherwise I dread to think how we are going to cope if it doesn’t work.”
Owen reluctantly agreed. Tosh took Ianto off to the kitchen while Jack went into the conference room to a very disgruntled Dr Harper.
“Ok Tosh we’re ready, how about you?”
“Yep we’re ready too. On the count of three, one, two, three” She leant in for a passionate kiss from Ianto.
To wind Owen up he thought mmm this is nice, I could get used to this.
At the same time Jack pulled Owen in for his passionate kiss. Owen heard Ianto’s thoughts and shot back with his own oi tea boy leave off her she’s mine. But mmm this isn’t as bad as I thought it would be, Jack is one hot kisser.
Neither of them heard any more of their thoughts it seemed to have worked. Tosh and Ianto made their way to the conference room.
“Mmmm that was one hot kiss Dr Harper. I didn’t know you cared!”
Owen blushed “erm….what….oh, I don’t.” He was stunned at how nice it had been, he hadn’t really expected that.
“Erm Owen if you’re thinking of trying to take Jack off me then think again, he’s mine and no-one or nothing is going to take him away from me. Got that Doctor Harper?”
They all laughed and went to their respective partners.
“Right kids, the deed is done, let’s go and have some fun. You should all go home and enjoy the rest of the day. Ianto, I could do with some help down in my quarters, it needs tidying up and you’re the best person to do it.” He winked at Ianto who then also blushed.
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When the others had left Jack led Ianto down to their quarters. “I’m glad that’s all over with now my love. I don’t know what we would have done if we couldn’t have reversed it. I want you all to myself, not having you share our secrets with anyone else.”
“Mmmm I know what you mean Jack, I wouldn’t have enjoyed hearing Owen’s thoughts at all for certain things. If you know what I mean?”
They looked at each other and laughed. Falling into an embrace, Ianto kissed Jack passionately and very slowly undressed his gorgeous lover. Jack returned the compliment and then for the next few hours lost themselves in one another, before each drifted off into a love filled sleep.
End