He'd promised Jack. Promised Jack that he was going to wait in the clinic until Jack came for him. But that had been a day ago, almost twenty-four hours, and in that time, he'd come to a few decisions. If Jack thought he was selfish and thought only about himself, he'd keep his problems to himself. If Jack didn't want him to push, he just ( Read more... )

Despite the pain, or maybe because of it, Daniel almost felt home again. It had been a long time since he’d had a concussion and an even longer time since he’d had a broken bone. Still, by the time he’d gotten to the clinic, he’d already been able to give his own diagnosis. The concussion was easy. The headache, the nausea, the way he couldn’t ( Read more... )

He'd almost forgotten about laundry. He'd actually needed to do it, so when Jack had mentioned doing laundry, of course Daniel had agreed. And then they'd fought and Jack had left and not come back. He wasn't sure whether Jack wasn't going to be there. He definitely wasn't going to stay if Jack was there, but he did have to do the laundry ( Read more... )

For the longest time after Jack had dropped him off, he'd just stood there. It was Monday. Mimi was dead. Who knows what else had changed. And he'd missed it all. It'd been a long time since he'd let himself get absorbed in his work to the point that he'd lost all track of time. Resisting the odd urge to knock, he walked in, calling out Ianto ( Read more... )

He'd told Ianto that he wouldn't be gone more than a day. At the very worst he'd be gone the night. They'd had words about it and he really didn't want to remember the argument, so he lost himself in his work. And when a day turned into two and two turned into three and three turned into Monday, well, he didn't really notice. Especially not ( Read more... )

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Daniel sighed when he shut the door behind them. "That went well," he murmured. Except that it hadn't. Not really. It had just been a mess of thoughts and feelings made worse when Jack got drunk. He tightened the hand in Ianto's a little.

With everyone off doing other things, it had been Daniel's turn to bring Tosh the essentials. He grabbed lunch, trying to pick things he remembered from his very limited experience with the midwife were good for expecting mothers. He stopped at the bookshelf and grabbed a few books he knew Tosh might enjoy. He couldn't come up with anything else ( Read more... )

Jack knew he was coming, so Daniel just knocked softly on the door, called out for Jack, and waited. He was fairly sure he'd seen Greg today, though he didn't see long enough to sure. He hoped that meant that Greg was better and that Daniel would be able to bring someone to relieve Jack for a few hours. Or at least he hoped it had meant that ( Read more... )

Daniel was used to seeing Jack at least in passing every day. They usually saw each other in the morning, one of them heading into a shower, or at lunch, or just out wandering. So when Daniel hadn't seen Jack for two days, especially because of Christmas, Daniel went to him, bringing Jack's Christmas present along with him ( Read more... )

He knew the time was right when Ianto said he was going to be gone most of the day. He'd been debating on and off when he was going to do it and if he was going to do it, but events just worked themselves into place ( Read more... )