Reoccuring Visions

Chapter 2

The week after it happened, Jack wonders if he did the right thing

Ianto woke up on Tuesday morning, he felt really groggy, and Jack was standing beside him with a traditional English breakfast.
“Did I drink yesterday Jack?” Ianto asked as he sat up and Jack placed the breakfast in front of him.
“Yes, yes you did, we were having a celebration Monday at the hub, to tell everyone that we got married on our trip.” Jack said cautiously, rubbing Ianto’s thigh.
“We did didn’t we…did I buy a house yesterday?”
“Yes, they will call you when you need to sign paper work.”
“Ok…remind me never to drink that much again…ever…”
“Ok, Ianto.” He smiled and watched Ianto eat; he put the sausages aside along with the bacon. Jack thought it was weird that he did that. “Ianto…why are you taking all of your meat off the plate, it’s going to help you with your hang over.”
“I told you, I don’t eat meat, I have to take pills to get nutrition that I need.” He said smiling, taking a bite of potatoes.
“Damn, I forgot, I am so sorry Ianto, where are your vitamins?” Jack said looking around. Ianto had them in his hand and took it with his grapefruit juice.
“Jack you can stop looking, I just took them.” Ianto said, holding up a baggie. “I left some here incase I forget to take them in the morning.”
“What would I do with out you Ianto?”
“Be very caffeine deficient, have a lot of mess around the hub, and probably would be living on pizza and Chinese since they deliver.” Ianto said looking him in the eye, boring into his soul.
“And I wouldn’t have you Ianto…My dear Ianto…” Jack said, running his fingers through his hair. “So what do you want to do today?”
“Sleep, I don’t feel all that well.”
“Ok, well if you feel better, we can go shopping.” Jack said, kissing Ianto. Ianto fell into a dreamless sleep, not waking up until Wednesday morning. Jack came in and handed him a bowl of cereal.
“How are you feeling today?” Jack asked.
“Feeling much better. I think I will actually get out today.”
“What are you planning on doing?”
“I think I will go look at paints, call Bronwyn and see if I can go a head and do all the interior decorating the place before I get things delivered.” He finished his breakfast quickly. Ianto got up and looked around for his clothing.
“Jack…where are my clothes…I need my black pinstripe suit, a white shirt and black tie, it can have things on it or not.” Jack pulled it out of his closet and handed Ianto his suit.
“Thank you Jack…why are my clothes here?”
“You bought the house and torchwood put your things into storage, so you are staying with me until you sign the deed, and your stuff will stay in storage but you can get out things that you need.”
“Oh ok…wow I drank a lot…” Ianto said getting dressed slowly, watching Jack lick his lips. Ianto finished dressing and Jack was ready to undress him and make love to him. “When I get back we will see but tonight defiantly.” He said, pulling out his com piece and his phone, calling Bronwyn.
“Hello Mrs. Webber? I am doing well today, this is Mr. Jones, I was wondering if I could go a head and do my interior decorating before I get my furniture delivered? I can, thank you Mrs. Webber, I’ll talk to you later.” Ianto turned around and smiled at Jack. “I am going to pick out paint, and curtains.”
“Do you want me to come with you?” Jack asked, getting dressed.
“No, I’ll be fine, besides I have this.” He pointed to his com piece on his ear. Jack pulled him to him and kissed him passionately, falling on the bed, hands roaming every where.
“Jack, you are going to be late…besides I need to make coffee and tea so the lot of you are functional.” He said smiling and getting off of Jack. It made him smile seeing Jack all hot and heavy and there was nothing he could do about it. No one was at the office when he came back up. Ianto cleaned out the coffee and tea maker and put a new brew in to each. Jack came out and looked at Ianto, guilt building in his gut. Ianto had asked for the retcon, but Jack felt bad that he had given it to him.
“Ianto,” Jack said coming up behind him, “Take your gun with you, here are all the permits you need to carry it, just do as I ask.” Jack stuffed the permits into Ianto’s jacket pocket.
“Ok Jack…I don’t see the need of it but I guess I can fight off nasty sales people with it.” Ianto said chuckling. He walked over to the weapon’s safe and pulled out his gun and holster, wrapped it around his waist and put the gun into it. Ianto straightened his jacket and smiled at Jack. “I will have everything on me, so if you need anything just call me.” Ianto said kissing Jack softly. Jack kissed back and watched him walk out of the door. The design district was close to where Ianto was raped but he figured that he wouldn’t go that far…or he would go buy more suits…Jack shuttered at the thought of that. He poured himself a cup of coffee and went into his office. Gwen, Tosh and Owen came in and began to work on erasing everything. Jack came down to see how it was going.
“Owen, so far so good, thanks…” Jack said, the guilt in his stomach grew, he felt tears coming up and he pushed them down.
“Hey Jack, where is Ianto, I was wondering if you wanted to have some one with him?” Gwen asked. Jack thought about it for a moment, and then taped his com.
“Ianto, where are you?”
“Out by the lift, watching people for some reason.”
“As long as you are ok…I am sending Gwen up to you in case you need anything.”
“Yes sir, you sure she won’t be needed at the Hub?”
“No, she is coming up right now.”
“All right sir.”
“Ianto, cut the sir, just call me Jack.”
“Ok, Jack.”
“I love you Ianto.”
“I love you too Jack, Ianto out.” Gwen ran to the lift with her handbag and headed up. Ianto was there to greet her; they walked to his car and drove to the first shop.
“How are you doing Ianto?” Gwen asked.
“I am fine, bit fuzzy about what happened earlier this week though.” Ianto answered.
“You did have a lot to drink.”
“So I have heard.” They passed by the Men’s Boutique, Gwen looked at Ianto as his hands suddenly gripped the steering wheel tighter.
“Ianto, are you ok? You are white knuckling the steering wheel.”
“Something happened there…in that ally, I can feel it.” Ianto said relaxing his grip.
“It’s probably nothing Ianto, ok? Just forget about it.” Gwen said, smiling. Ianto nodded and continued driving. They arrived at this up scale interior design studio, Ianto parked the car and they got out and walked inside. Ianto was greeted by a woman at the front desk.
“Hello, how can I help you?”
“Hello I am Mr. Jones, I have an appointment with…” Ianto was cut off by the lady.
“Oh yes Mr. Jones we have been expecting you!” She picked up the phone and started talking to some one. “Yes, he’s here, don’t ask who he is you should know…it’s Mr. Jones. He had an appointment with you so don’t keep him waiting.” She hung up the phone, “Mr. Jones, Mr. Clarke will be with you shortly. Please have a seat, sir.” Ianto nodded and sat down, Gwen followed after him.
“So, why are you such a big shot around here?
“I did a lot of things in this area, I would help people shop for things, so my name got around. Oh, by the way if you need some help redecorating your house when you get one or your flat, I can help.” Ianto said. A tall, well build man came up to them, he had sandy blonde hair and green eyes.
“I have heard so much about you, Mr. Jones. My name is Silis Clarke, and this must be your lovely wife Mrs. Jones.”
“Um…I am not his wife…” Gwen said smiling.
“Oh I’m sorry, where is your wife Mr. Jones?”
“HE, is at work.” Ianto said.
“Oh, well then,” Silis said, smiling, “Congratulations, shall we go and look and paint and things?” He asked.
“Sure, would love to.” Ianto said, standing up, Gwen followed them into a room.
“So what colors are you looking at?” Silis asked.
“Deep rich reds mainly, the hard wood flooring needs to be darker and replaced through out the house, the kitchen I want in dark wood, clear windows and all matching stainless steel, I will need two extra freezers, wood molding at the top.” Silis was jotting all this down. “Black leather furniture, dark wood furniture, the master bedroom, romantic, deep reds and purples, four poster canopy bed, make sure the head board had slots in it, and the master bath I need a jet bath tub large enough for 6 people comfortably, done up in deep purple and deep orange and gold, I want a really romantic feel.” Ianto said.
“Tiles or hard wood?”
“Tiles, heated.”
“Spare bed rooms?”
“Something soft, but also manly, never know who will be staying.” Ianto replied.
“Spare bathrooms?”
“In the bed rooms, match the bedroom coloring, out of the bed rooms hm…Red with carpet, a deep rich soft carpet.” Ianto said.
“Anything else Mr. Jones?”
“Oh, the curtains I need to be deep rich thick curtains, the ones that go to the floor, I will also need to get them on the bed canopy as well.”
“Ok, well I will get this in order for you Mr. Jones.”
“I need the painting done this week, the furniture; I want to approve of it first.”
“Yes Sir, where are we doing all this at?”
“The house on the hill overlooking the bay.”
“I’ll put my whole team on it then.”
“Good, how would you like me to pay you?”
“Pay me at the end Mr. Jones.”
“Thank you sir…I shall take my leave, please call me if you have any other questions, Mr. Clarke.”
“No problem, please call me if something comes up.” He said, shaking their hands. Ianto and Gwen turned around and left. Gwen looked at her watch,
“When did we leave?”
“10:33 exactly.” Ianto replied.
“It’s two thirty.”
“Wow…” Ianto said pushing his com link, “Jack?”
“This is Jack, what’s up Ianto?”
“Has anyone had lunch?”
“Yes, pizza as a mater of fact.”
“Ok, then Gwen and I will get something on our way back then.”
“Ok, be safe, I love you Ianto.” He had to reassure himself that he had done the right thing.
“I love you too Jack, I think you are going to love the place once it’s done.”
“Can’t wait, don’t eat a whole lot tomorrow, I want to take you out to dinner, maybe a show…”
“I would love that sir, would you like for me to set it up?”
“No I will take care of it Ianto.”
“Ok Jack, well I’ll see you in a bit. Ianto out.”
“Jack out.” Jack slowly walked to his office and began typing on the computer and calling people.
“What do you want to eat?”
“Chinese.” Gwen replied.
“Sounds good to me.” They got into the car and drove off. Ianto went to the usual place. He walked in, and they asked if he wanted the usual for him.
“Yes please, what do you want Gwen?”
“I’ll have what ever I get normally.”
“One Gwen usual too.” Ianto shouted back to the kitchen. The manager came up to them, smile on his face.
“On the house today, ok?’
“Ok, thank you Satsu-san” he said bowing lowly. Ten minutes later they got their food.
“We made fresh just for you. Enjoy! Have a nice day!” The cashier said.
“Thank you again!” Ianto said walking out the door. They got back into the car and Ianto began to drive back to work.
“So this is what you do all day for us…you are the first one there to make coffee and tea and the last one to leave to clean up after us, you are very quiet, you don’t complain about any thing, you get us lunch and dinner some times and we hardly even know you, what’s behind that wall Ianto?”
“Things that I really wouldn’t like to talk about right now, maybe later ok…” He trailed off, the grip getting tighter on the wheel. Gwen looked around and saw they had passed the place, maybe there was something about his past she had hit on. They drove into the garage and parked the car. They got out of the car and silently walked back to the hub. The door slowly opened and they walked in, Gwen going to her station and Ianto went to Jack’s office.
“I’m back.” He said, walking in.
“Good, how was shopping?”
“I got everything accomplished that I wanted to. Jack, I was passing by the Men’s Boutique and my chest tightened up, I couldn’t breath, it felt like something happened there but I couldn’t tell what or why?”
“You go there a lot…it could be anything, it could be nerves after buying the house, getting married and what not. That’s why we are going out on a date tonight.” Jack said, smiling. Ianto opened his food and began to eat.
“So where are we going?” Ianto asked before taking a bite of tofu.
“It’s a secret, just wear a tux.”
“For dinner and a show?”
“It’s special, ok, just wear it.” Jack said, eying what he was eating. “I can’t believe you eat that stuff…do you ever crave meat?”
“No I don’t Jack, I was raised this way, then some things happened and I have always kept with it, along with running at least 5 miles a day and doing weights, which is why I look good naked.” He took a big bite of food, looking at Jack’s reaction. Jack was completely red and flushed and moved in his chair a bit not to show his growing erection. Ianto smiled and finished up his food, looking smugly at Jack. ‘Ianto had really come out of his shell since the trip they took, normally he was only this open after sex but now he is talking to me more, in the office…even in the hub…’ Jack thought looked at him sternly.
“Bedroom now!” Jack let his eyes sparkle, letting Ianto know it was ok as he passed by. Ianto opened the closet and walked down to the bedroom and stood there. Jack soon followed, closing the door behind him. He saw Ianto there, stiff as a board, hand behind his back. Jack started to get naked out of Ianto’s vision, then he walked over to Ianto and began to undress him. Ianto moaned softly as the clothing fell away from him. Ianto took off his socks and shoes as he stepped out of his clothing. Jack began to kiss him softly, running his hands over his chest, he then led Ianto to the bed and the two of them lay down. When Ianto began to kiss him more passionately, Jack gently pushed him away.
“I just want to lay here in bed with you, I just want us to hold each other, just relax.” Jack said, running his fingers through Ianto’s hair.
“Ok Jack, I have wanted that for a bit…” Ianto snuggled down and laid his head on Jack’s chest so he could hear his heart beat, Jack ran his fingers through his hair, convincing himself that he had done the right thing. Ianto was sleeping by this point, Jack just laid there until Ianto woke up in a terror, screaming, crying and calling out for help the next morning. Jack thought that he had remembered, he wrapped his arms around him, to try and calm him down.
“Ianto…it’s ok…tell me what happened…”
“We were trying to find an alien, but we went down a dark ally way instead, trying to cut him off, but it was a dead in. It was raining; I pushed you up against the wall and start kissing you passionately, from the rain, running and adrenaline. Then I step away from you, to look at you, something whizzes past my ear and right into your chest, right at the heart. You are bleeding everywhere, I can see bone splintering, jutting out of your chest. In the horror of it all, you fall and I don’t catch you, I am in to much shock, but I drop down and try to make you stay with me. I am so focused on you that I don’t hear anything behind me that they fillet me open down my back, following my spine. I don’t even feel the pain as a fall over. I grab you and start dragging you with me to the street, where hopefully we could get help from our team. Well the team drives around and sees us and they all get out, including me. I begin to scream at them to help me, that the other guy is an imposter, as I continue to drag you with me. Owen and Gwen take you from me as Tosh and I are pointing a gun at me. I yell at Tosh to check and make sure it was me after the imposter said he was me. She couldn’t find the wedding ring or the tattoo, all the time I was starting to feel the pain and light headedness as darkness was creeping over me. I pulled out my gun and shot him in the head, a clean shot. Owen then realizing who I was ran over to me and saw my injury. Everything was turning black and cold. Owen did a couple of stitches as they held me down to put some fluid in me. All I could do was half scream half cry for help and for Jack. Then I woke up.” Jack wiped away Ianto’s tears. Ianto in turn kissed Jack, pushed him flat on the bed, and climbed on top of him, letting his hands roam around.
“Ianto, I will always be right here.” Jack said, placing his hand over Ianto’s heart. “You will always be right here to me.” He took Ianto’s hand and placed it on his heart. “Don’t ever forget that.” Jack looked at the clock, “Shit, as much as I would love to make love to you, we need to get to work.” Ianto groaned as Jack said this, he needed him, he needed him so bad. The rest of the day was hard on him, they had to go out into the field leaving him behind. Ianto took this time to clean up and make some more coffee, just as he was finishing up they came back covered in blood.
“What happened, where is Jack?” Ianto said franticly.
“He is taking the long way in, thought you would be at the front.” Just as that left Tosh’s mouth, Jack walked in, clean and new. Ianto ran over to him and kissed him softly. Jack told everyone to clean up, as he and Ianto made their way to their living space. Jack started a shower to clean up and was joined by Ianto a moment later. They cleaned up quickly, as Jack began to give Ianto a blow job. Ianto came quickly to his talented tongue. The Jack piped up “We have dinner to go to.” Ianto got out of the shower and walked to the closet, he pulled out he’s traditional coat tails tux and began to get dressed. Jack actually got into a tux, but as Ianto was putting on his shoes, he heard Jack start cussing. He turned and saw Jack trying to get his bow tie on. Ianto stood up and walked over to him.
“Let me get your bow tie, Jack.” Ianto said, starting to tie his tie.
“Thank you Ianto.” Jack said as Ianto finished the tie and went back to tying his other shoe. Jack did the same, while Ianto fixed his hair. Ianto came out of the bathroom and smiled softly. Jack looked up and looked at Ianto in the eyes; they looked hurt, scared, angry, vengeful and some where in there he also saw love.
“You ok Jack? You have been acting a bit differently this week. You seem distracted; your mind is somewhere else…”
“I’m sorry Ianto…I am so sorry…please forgive me for what I am about to tell you…”
“Jack, what’s wrong…” Ianto said, a slight quiver in his voice.
“You did drink a whole lot earlier this week, but that is not why you have been feeling fuzzy. Something happened to you on Monday while you were getting everything ready for the party.” Jack said looking at Ianto. Ianto looked at him, then the floor, his eyes scanning back and forth.
“There were three men…they were following me…” Ianto said, head still down, looking at the floor.
“Yes…” Jack said, waiting for Ianto to speak again.
“I came out of the clothing store, put the things in my car, when I heard some one yelling…I turned around, I was grabbed and thrown into a dark ally…my com was ripped off…” Ianto began shaking, Jack stood up in front of him.
“And then what happened Ianto?” He said softly.
“They…they ripped my clothing off…and they raped me…” Ianto continued to shake, but it wasn’t a crying shake it was an angry shake.
“And you came back here, took a shower with me, and asked for a retcon to forget.” Ianto punched Jack in the jaw.
“WHY DIDN’T YOU LET ME JUST FORGET JACK! NOW I HAVE TO RELIVE EVERYTHING!” Ianto screamed, punching Jack over and over, only seeing red, his hands went to Jack’s neck as he squeezed the life from him. Jack didn’t struggle, he did what he thought was best. Ianto continued to scream, no words, just guttural, primalistic screams as the life left Jack’s body. Ianto got off of him, he vision cleared and he saw Jack lying on the floor life less. Ianto realized what he had done; he picked up Jack and laid him on the bed, Ianto holding him protectively against his beating heart. Ianto rocked him back and forth, until he heard Jack gasp back to life. Ianto pulled away, his lower lip trembling.
“I am sorry Jack…I shouldn’t have done that…” Ianto said, tears falling down his face.
“No, I’m sorry Ianto, I shouldn’t have made you relive what you wanted to forget, I was worried that you would remember and lash out at some innocent person, some one who would die and not come back.” Jack said, looking into Ianto’s eyes.
“I want to find them…I want to find out why they did that to me.” Ianto said.
“While you were sleeping Monday, we went out and found them, brought them back here.”
“So they are here, let me talk to them.” Ianto said, starting to get out of bed.
“No Ianto, you can’t talk to them, let me finish…” Jack said, placing a hand on Ianto’s shoulder. Ianto turned and looked at Jack.
“We put them in cells, I sat down in front of them and asked why they did it, rage boiling in me. They did it because they wanted to knock you off your high horse, thought you were uppity, I know you aren’t like that…you have to deal with us everyday…” Jack smiled; Ianto lifted the corner of his mouth. “They also thought that you were an abomination because you had married a man and wanted to teach you a lesson…” Jack’s grip was tighter on his shoulder now. “I exploded Ianto…I am so sorry…I opened up their cells and killed them all…I couldn’t stop myself…I had to protect you…” A tear streamed down his face.
“Jack…” Ianto said, turning to face him, he wrapped his arms around him. “Thank you.” He whispered into Jack’s ear. Jack got up and took Ianto’s hand.
“Come on then…we have dinner to go to!”
“Yes we do…Jack.” Ianto said smiling. When they got to Jack’s office, Jack saw a note saying that they would be at the pub at 9, hope to see you and Ianto there. Jack picked up the note and put it in his pocket. The two of them walked out to an empty hub, everyone had gone home.
“Just leave it…we can deal with it later.” Jack said pulling Ianto along. The two men walked out to a limo waiting for them. Ianto could see on the side faintly that is was a Torchwood limo, he sighed and got in, champagne was waiting for them as they drove off.