Slow Dancing in a Burning Room

Summary- What lengths will you go to in order to bring the one you love back to you? Jack Harkness will do anything because he knows now just how much Ianto meant to him... Janto...

A/N- I know another one *sigh* I know I should get a life but meh this is my life now, ok well this was niggling at my brain since the first two minutes of day five then I spent a good portion of the night writing it out in my head and itching for my laptop like you wouldn't believe, I hope you like it,

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He spends most of his time travelling, counting the stars as he goes; he loses himself somewhere between Neptune and wherever he is now, he wanders through towns, searching, desperation ways down on him and even now the aim is to bring him back, to hold him in his arms, kiss his lips so tenderly it leaves him craving more and then pour all of his passion into the younger male, bruise the soft lips. He feels the chill to them even now; he knows he would cry if he hadn't shed all of his tears already. He walks thousands of planets, finds no solace in the sands or the rocks or the water that grace their faces.

He stands at the top of the highest mountain in some galaxy a stone's throw away from the one he can't stand to look at, stares up the stars that are all twisted meaningless constellations to him. He catches the eye of a young girl in the next world, she just seems to point out the obvious, nothing can live up to what he lost. She's disheartened when he ignores her advances, asks him who it is that he is mourning for, he tells her that for the briefest moment in time he had the most amazing person at arm's length, tells her that he could light up the darkest of rooms, that he made him remember what love was like.

He whispers the story's like he's speaking versus from the bible, he explains how he died in his arms how the words that his lover probably most needed to hear got stuck in his throat. Tears shimmer in her eyes as he stands to leave but it offers him little solace, he's a fixed point in time, or so the Doctor says but he's never felt more like it than now, watching as everything passes him by. He had wasted so much time worrying that getting close to Ianto would break his heart; it was his hesitation that had been the cause of that in the end.

He passes from place to place, a ghost of his former self, he's searching now, searching for a way to return his beloved to him, he has no time for new faces, for anything other than the ghosts that dance in his mind. He spends two years travelling further and further from Earth hoping that he'll find answers the deeper into the universe he goes. He thinks he's just getting more lost and no one seems able to offer him any help. He thinks he loses the ability to feel when he stops recognising the places he finds himself in.

He's at what he thinks humans would liken to a bar, one dark particularly solemn night, he sits alone in the back not really in the mood to talk, a drink is placed in front of him, some horrible alien equivalent to liquor. Feels like he's drinking nails mixed with fire and looks like absinth,

"You look terrible," the familiar voice pipes up as he pulls up a seat next to the Captain, "strange you being this far away from Earth, haven't you got a tiny country to protect." The look Jack shoots him makes him think he should shut up, "what happened?"

"I needed to get away, needed time to think, that ok with you?" The other raises his hands in his defence, it seems to suddenly dawn on him, his expression changes to a more serious one, Jack doesn't want his sympathy, doesn't need it.

"What happened to eye candy?" Jack's heart breaks a little just remembering, "Did he get eaten?" Jack thinks he might kill him.

"Shut up John, just go will you, I can't deal with you right now," the other rolls his eyes and stays exactly where he was, he apologises for the comment, Jack doesn't say anything in return.

"So how did it happen?" It replays in Jack's head as if it had only happened yesterday; he feels the weight of him in his arms, the warmth of his skin, see's the red of the body bag, feels the pain burn in his chest.

"He was poisoned, when I refused to give a bunch of insane aliens 10% of Earths children," John merely shrugs,

"Should have handed over the kids, that little rock is far too overpopulated for its own good," Jack falls silent this time and John just takes a swig of his drink, he cringes immediately afterwards. "What the hell is this stuff? If you wanted to drown your sorrows Jack you should have stayed on Earth, much better liquor,"

"Couldn't stay there, no reason for me too,"

"Eye candy really got to you then, who would have guessed seemed one sided when I looked in." He says with a smile, Jack knows he's going to kill him,

"You don't know anything about it, so I suggest you shut up," Jack catches sight of the wrist strap belonging to John, his own disabled by the Doctor but John's still works. The idea burns his mind almost instantly and he's not sure exactly what he's doing but he knocks John out before the other man can ask what he's looking at, smashing his head down against the table and quickly removing the wrist strap, swapping it for his own he disappears before anyone notices Captain John Hart lying unconscious on the floor, he hopes they'll think it was the drink.

He runs then, runs as fast as he can whilst buckling the wrist strap to his arm, his heart pounds in his chest and he's got a smile on his face that means he's got a plan, a plan the Doctor may berate him for at a later date but right now Jack Harkness doesn't care about repercussions, about angry Doctors and John Hart hunting him down. Right this minute Jack Harkness only cares about Ianto Jones about saving the one he loves and having another chance at something he so carelessly let slip away, Captain Jack Harkness would make things right.

He smirks his trademark smirk as he sets the date and presses the button disappearing in a stream of light...

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Hope you all enjoyed next chapter will but up ASAP, I'm sending coffee to BBC Wales in protest to Ianto's death, don't give me strange looks, we're fighting the system !!!

Anyway hope you enjoyed the first chapter, next time onto the bigger and better part of the fic so keep an eye out.

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