Everybody started yelling and Jack decided he had to take control again of the meeting, especially
before there was bloodshed between Ianto and Gwen.
"Look you all made assumptions about me and Yan and Gwen found out things lie a little bit different and it pissed her of O.K.
"That isn't what I'm angry about, you lied to us Jack and you let me on."
"How did I let you on Gwen I flirt with everyone and hello you're engaged, remember Rhys. Look Gwen." Jack sighed."Just give us a change to tell our story from the beginning, all right."
"Fine." Gwen sat back in her chair arms crossed and a face like thunder.
"O.K. Here goes nothing."
Ianto knew his husband had trouble talking about this, so he took Jack's hand and laced there fingers together. Jack gave him a grateful smile, Gwen looked even more angry and Owen and Tosh jaws practically hit the table.
Tosh looked between them and wondered how she missed this,they looked at each other with so much love. She suddenly felt very ashamed of how she treated Ianto early er today or well yesterday now. She was supposed to be his friend and he hadn't felt comfortable enough to tell her these things. Jack was right this team was falling apart ans she would do everything to help make it a family again.
Jack voice took her out of her thoughts. "I guess this story start before I left and after Lisa."
He gave Ianto's hand a squeeze and an apologetic smile, Ianto smiled back and gave him a knot to continue.
"When Yan was on his suspension I Started visiting him. Fist to make sure he hadn't run away, but after a while we started talking and became closer, friends even."
Ianto took over. "I wasn't doing very well, not eating, not leaving the flat, hell I didn't even shower any more. Jack helped me trough the rough patches mostly just by listening, but he also gave me a firm kick in the ass when I needed it. He even got me to go outside again and made me feel like I mattered.
Thank you cariad."
They looked into each others eyes forgetting the rest of the world, until Owen coughed.
"Sorry." Jack continued. "Anyway after a while we became best friends and I started telling him things I never tolled anyone before and Yan did the same.
Than Abaddon happened and when I was about to face him and knew I might die for good. All I could think about was that I never tolled Yan how I felt about him.
So when I woke up the first thing I did when I saw him was hugging and kissing him and thank god he kissed me back.
We talked for a while before you went to get the coffee and became official I guess."
Ianto gave him an encouraging smile, he knew Jack still felt guilty for leaving at such a difficult time, but he knew Jack hadn't had a choice. He had waited so long.
"So then I left, I didn't have a choice I needed answers only the Doctor could give me. But I regretted leaving almost the moment the Tardis left.
In you're time line I was gone for a few month's to me it was a year and not a good one. I will not go into specifics but I was held prisoner for most of that time and not by a nice guy.
When I came back I just wanted my life back and I tried to act like you guys expected of me. I even thought I could fool my self into believing everything was over and I was O.K.
There was one person who wasn't fooled though and he kept an close eye on me. So when the nightmares and the panic attacks came he was right there to catch me."
"Why didn't you talk to me Jack, I'm you're doctor I would of helped you." Owen said in a hurt voice.
Jack smiled at him. "I know Owen, but I wanted to be strong in front of you guys, I guess I didn't want to be seen as weak, I needed some part of my life to stay the same as before, normal I guess."
"He made me promise not to talk to you Owen, but looking back that was a mistake, I let it go on to long, sorry. " Ianto said in a soft voice.
"No Yan, I'm sorry, I never should have made you promise that."
They where all quiet for a moment thinking about what had been said. They had never considered that Jack had that much of a rough time while he was away and they felt sorry for him, but they where also sad and a little mad that he hadn't felt comfortable enough to talk to them. Ianto cleared his throat and everybody looked at him.
"Jack went from bad to worse, at first I just took over most of his tasks so he could rest more, but the nightmares became so bad that I started having trouble snapping him out of them, he would wake up thinking he was still in that place and well lets say it wasn't pretty.
I didn't know how to help him any more so I called a friend of him that was also there during that time and asked her for help."
"She got in touch with the Doctor and he came and wanted to help me, but he knew it would take a while so he asked me to come with him. I refused at first but Yan convinced me to go and he promised to go with me.
The doctor promised that if I was better he would put us back in the same time, so it was as if we never left."
"how long where you gone for in you're time ?" Tosh asked.
Ianto and Jack looked at each other before answering
"About a year and a half." Ianto said quietly.
"that long and we didn't noticed. " Gwen practically whispered. "You're right were falling apart. We didn't see, god I'm sorry Jack.
"No it's our fault to, we should have been honest when we came back and we didn't sorry."Jack said.
"Anyway that's not the end of this story, while we where away, we also kind of got married." Jack said quietly.
They both looked at the table waiting for the big explosion, but it remained quiet. When they looked up they saw 3 gob smacked expression.
Tosh was the first to find her voice again and it was loud
"Ianto Jones you got married and didn't tell me, I could just smack you.
They all looked at Tosh like they never seen her before, how could that voice come out of such a quiet girl. And then they started laughing all of them and it was like old times,like before Abaddon.
When they stopped Gwen was the first to speak.
"I know sorry isn't enough for the way I was acting but I do mean it. I was so self absorbed that I missed how much you suffered, both of you. I behaved like a total bitch. I feel like I don't know you guy's and while that is partly you're fault, most of the blame lies with us. We never asked you guys to go with us to the pub after work, to get to know you. Maybe if we did it would have been easier to talk to us."
Tosh and Owen nodded at her words.
"Well lets not do that any more, our lives depend on each other so lets not let it get this far any more all right. I'm not a fan of this emotion stuff, but we do need to keep talking to each other." Owen said.
"How about ones a week we al have dinner together and talk about the week."Tosh said.
They all looked at each other and nodded, that was a good idea.
"O.K. Kids lets make this work, I know we have a long way to go but I think we can do it, but first let's all get some sleep before we al fall over on the table. Don't come in till tomorrow afternoon all right."
Everybody got up and they all went to get there thing and for the first time in a long while the team all left together, hey had a long road ahead of them but they would get there.
The end
Sorry for the long wait, but my health still fails me from time to time and my concentration sucks.
Thanks to everyone who reviewed, story alerted me and so on. I really means a lot to me.
This is the end of this story but I plan to write more in this universe.
Right now I'm working on a Supernatural- Criminal minds cross-over, hope you guys will like it.