Title: Silence

Pairings/Characters: Jack/Ianto, Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato, Gwen Cooper

Warnings: Angst to begin with but eventually I'm hoping for Fluff

Summary: Jack loses his voice.

Author Notes: Yay for Sushi Chi's Challenges, they're keeping me rather busy. It was a toss up between Jack and Ianto having the problem in this one. I felt 1. Ianto has been through enough in my stories and 2. Jack needs the wake up call more.

Disclaimer: If the things that happened in my stories were true, a gorgeous Welsh man would have the worst possible luck with alien gadgets messing him up but he'd go home to a hunky American, so it isn't all bad…but I don't own them

Epilogue

"Where are you taking me?" Ianto reluctantly asked Jack as he drove.

"You know that posh french place by the memorial?" Jack grinned cheekily, relieved that his voice was now clear.

"You're kidding, right?"

"No, why? What's wrong?" Jack asked worriedly.

"Jack! My sister and her friends go on and on about that place. It's highly likely that one of them will be there."

"...You have a sister?"

"I did tell you that. Although in your defence, you'd just gotten back from weevil hunting and I think the blood loss was getting to you." Ianto mused.

"Damn weevils, no sense of timing." Jack sighed, "But I still don't see the problem."

"Either my sister will be there which I admit is the most unlikely because that's just not what Johnny would do, or her friends will be and they'll see us."

"Again, I see no problem here." Jack said, parking the car out the front of the restaurant.

"They'll tell my sister and I don't want to have to explain this to her because she'll go on and on about it." Ianto put his head in his hands.

"Since when do you care what they think? Are you really that embarrassed about us?" He turned to face Ianto properly.

"Are you admitting there is an 'us'?"

"Of course. Seriously though, are you embarrassed?"

"No, how could I be? I just...it's hard getting used to us, let alone explaining it to anyone else."

"We don't have to go in. I mean, if you're not comfortable."

"No. You went to all this trouble."

"I just want to look after you Yan."

Ianto smiled, pulled Jack closer by his collar and kissed him gently, "I know."

"Mmm or we could stay here and do this." Jack chuckled, kissing Ianto again.

"You'd like that huh?"

"Oh, you have no idea."

"Come on, let's go."

"Okay but," Jack murmured between kisses, "Remember where we were."

- - - - - - - - - X x X - - - - - - - - -

"So," Jack grinned as the waiter left after getting their orders, "I'm sorry we didn't do this sooner. I know I said we'd do this after I got back but..."

"It's okay, I know. Torchwood doesn't give you much time."

"You forgive me way too easily."

"It's the puppy dog eyes." Ianto shrugged, unable to supress a smirk.

"I'll have to remember that. Come on, tell me something I don't know about you."

"...Like what?"

"I don't know. What did you think when you first met me?"

Ianto raised an eyebrow curiously, "I believe that's about you."

"No, it's what you were thinking." Jack moved closer, like he was being told the biggest possible secret.

"I don't know. I guess, I was more thinking about getting you to hire me. When I saw you I was more concentrating on the weevil that was attacking you. When I finally got a chance to focus on you...I don't know what thoughts were going through my head. I just loved that coat." Jack chuckled at that, "What about you? What were you thinking?"

Jack smiled sincerely, "First I thought I was going to have to make you disappear, what with the whole weevil thing and then I thought that you were going to be the death of me. You just...you had that look, I can't really explain it."

"I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing."

Jack gripped Ianto's hand in his across the table, "Good, definitely good." He reassured.

"Well then, thank you."

- - - - - - - - - X x X - - - - - - - - -

"Jack!" Ianto chuckled, "Get off!"

Jack grinned, holding Ianto firmly against the car, "No, you're enjoying yourself, don't say you're not." Jack ran his hands up beneath Ianto's shirt, running them along areas he knew were sensitive.

"Stop it!" Jack kissed his neck and nibbled teasingly on his ear, "Seriously Jack, not here."

"Come on, admit it, you're enjoying yourself."

Jack kissed the younger man passionately, reveling in the closeness. Ianto sighed and kissed back, feeling so safe in the older man's arms, his gorgeous scent surrounding him.

"Okay," Ianto breathed, "I'm enjoying myself."

"See, was that really so hard to admit?" Jack replied smugly.

"Jack?"

"Yes?"

"Take me home?"

"With pleasure."

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Ianto pulled Jack through the door, pinning him to a nearby wall.

"What did I do to deserve this?" Jack chuckled.

"You do so much for me, you know that? Do I ever get to look after you? Do I ever get to show you a good time?"

"Of course you do."

Ianto kissed Jack gently, tenderly, "Next time, I'm taking you out."

"I don't care, as long as there is a next time." Jack held Ianto close.

Ianto smirked lasciviously, possibly the first time Jack had ever seen it on the Welshman, "Trust me, there will be a next time."

Oh My God I'm SO sick of computers!!! I had a brillo beginning for this and it deleted it!! So the beginning you now have isn't as good because I had to try to remember it. Anyway, I'm SOO sorry I didn't write this sooner, I lost track of time but hey, here it is! Please review? Writers block made this short, sorry guys.

Cheers,
Gabz
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