missthingsplace | Celebrations 9/? (Reply)

Title: Celebrations. Sequel to 'Mother's Day'.
Author: missthingsplace
Parings/characters: Jack/Ianto. Gwen Rhys Martha The Doctor (10th) Donna.
Diclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or any of the characters ... unfortunately.
Summary: Set after series 2. Ianto and Jack get to spend more time with Ianto's family, but all is not gonna go as planned!
Spoilers: None
Rating: PG 13 for language.

Gwen stared open mouthed as she watched Ianto run up to Jack's office, taking them two steps at a time.

'Oy, where's he going?' Donna yelled at her.

'Said he had an idea and ran off.' Gwen responded, not taking her eye's off Ianto as he barged into Jack's office without stopping. 'I wish I was in that fucking office.'

All three of them looked up as Ianto crashed through the door, he stopped to catch is breath.

'Ianto?' Jack looked at him worriedly. 'What is it, are they getting closer.'

'No.' Ianto gasped. 'Idea.'

The Doctor stood up and went over to him. 'Calm down, regulate your breathing.'

Ianto made himself breath more slowly and deeply, he felt his chest beginning to relax.

'Ianto, you feeling okay now?' Martha asked concerned.

'Yep. Thank you.'

'Ianto, what's your idea?' The Doctor asked, looking straight at him.

'Daleks, they work by some kind of electricity yes?'

'Yes.' The Doctor answered.

'Can they be short circuited or overloaded by a power surge?'

'That would work, but there are too many of them for us to be able to get close enough to them to do anything.' Jack interjected. 'But I like your thinking. Doctor?'

'We need to definitely be thinking along those lines. Excellent idea Ianto. We need to do something while they are trapped down below.'

Jack pulled out the chair next to him and indicated he should sit down. Ianto sank down into it gratefully, maybe now he could be useful.

'He's not come back. I'm going up there.' Donna stormed.

Gwen held her back. 'As much as I'd love to do the same we'll only end up pissing them off. Give them a little longer.'

Donna stropped off and sat on the sofa. Gwen moved back to her workstation, watching the Daleks, now at least half way through the second door. Gwen was never more glad that those doors were so thick.

'Right, should go down and see if the soldiers have any thoughts.' Martha said, getting to her feet. 'Back soon.'

'I'll come with you.' The Doctor sensed Jack wanted a moment alone with his employee. He followed Martha out the door, closing it behind him.

'I know how you feel about Daleks Ianto.' Jack said, taking Ianto's hand in his. 'I'm not fond of them myself, a bad experience that resulted in me not being able to die.'

'What happened?'

Jack shook his head. 'Not now, I'll tell you when we get out of this alive.'

Ianto felt some hope that Jack had said 'When' and not 'If', he was trying to to think of what would happen if those Daleks got up into the main hub. They couldn't let them get out into Cardiff, no matter what happened.

Jack raised Ianto's hand to his lips as kissed the palm as he twiddled the ring on his finger. 'We will defeat them Ianto.'

He leaned forward and kissed Ianto firmly on the lips. Ianto hesitated briefly before responding, losing himself and his thoughts in it. He never realised someone had entered the room till he heard a small cough, he looked at to see Martha looking at them, amused look on her face, eyebrows raised.

'There's a time and a place you know.' She joked.

'Yup, and this was it.' Jack responded un-phased as Ianto blushed pink.

'I mentioned your idea to the soldiers Ianto, they agreed it's a good one. We just need to work out how we can do it.' Martha had lost the smile and was serious again.

The Doctor walked back in at this moment, with Donna and Gwen.

'These two insisted they should be in on this, who am I to argue!' The Doctor had obviously been verbally pushed into submission by the two of them.

'Ianto, I could really do with some more coffee.' Jack looked at him pleadingly, knowing he wouldn't want to leave the room.

'Fine.' He did his best not to sound as pissed off as he felt, as he stood and went to make drinks for everyone again.

As he left the room Donna leaned over to Gwen and whispered in her ear. 'Oh mate, he and Jack are so cute, shame. Well not for them obviously, but for the female population.' She finished with a sigh.

'They're not gay you know, just ...' Gwen shrugged '... in love.'

'Really? Love?'

'Yes, I believe so,'

'Ahem.' Jack said very loudly.

Gwen and Donna both sat up straight, faces a picture of innocence.

'So.' Said Jack. 'We need ideas.' He filled them in on what Ianto had come up with.

Ianto came back with the drinks and handed them out. 'The soldiers say the Daleks have just got through the second door. Only one more and they will be able to get up another level.'

He took his place at the table and listened to the ideas being bounced around the table. There was something in the back of his mind, he knew there was something he knew about one of the rooms the Daleks would have to go through that might just work, but there was something niggling him, how to get them in there with it completely sealed.

'Jack, the next level up from where they are, one of the rooms has a main water pipe going through it. When the doors are sealed it makes the room water tight, if we had some way of getting them in it without them damaging the doors we could flood it.' Ianto looked across the table, unsure of himself.

'Yes, yes.' The Doctor shouted. 'You're brilliant. Jack, can the doors be opened separately?'

'Yep. But how would we get the pipe to burst?'

'No idea! But I'm sure I'll come up with something, I'm brilliant too.' The Doctor shouted, getting excited.

TBC