Slashthedrabble Challenge 531 - It's complicated

[m_findlow]

Title: It's complicated
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto, Jack, Gwen
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 500 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for Challenge 531 - Shame/No shame at slashthedrabble
Summary: Gwen assumed Jack and Ianto were in a committed relationship, but their behaviour seems to indicate otherwise.

Jack handed his card over to the young man, giving him one of his most charming smiles. 'Feel free to call me anytime. If you think of anything that might help, or even just to have a chat. I'd love to hear from you.'

The man blushed and slipped the card in his top pocket. 'If anything comes to mind, I'll definitely be in touch,' he promised, giving a coy smile before returning to his mates.

Gwen scowled and turned her attention away from the dead body. 'Seriously, Jack. Do you have any shame at all, whatsoever?'

'What?'

'You're with Ianto!' she hissed. 'And here you are standing there flirting and handing out phone numbers, right in the middle of a crime scene!'

'What do you think, Ianto?' Jack called out over his shoulder.

'What do I think of what?' he asked, coming to stand beside his lover.

'Second from the left over there. Brunette with the denim jacket.'

'Hmm, somewhere between a seven and a half and an eight. Probably closer to an eight.'

Jack beamed. 'I gave him my number. You think he'll call?'

Ianto shrugged. 'Dunno. Guess we'll wait and see,' he said, before returning to his duties, helping to zip up the body bag as Gwen grabbed the opposite two corners.

Gwen waited until Jack was out of earshot. 'I'm honestly shocked,' she confessed. 'I didn't think you'd be anything other than totally monogamous. Jack, yes, but not you.'

'Oh, you mean that little tete a tete?' He grinned. 'That's just a little game Jack likes to play. He makes a show of flirting with other people and then asking me if I'd go a threesome with them. He thinks it'll make me jealous and give him just that little bit of extra attention. An extra biscuit with his coffee in the afternoon, let him rest his hand on my leg in the car, that sort of thing. It's a bit like playing hard to get, only Jack plays it more like easy to lose.'

'And you let him get away with it?'

'He doesn't get anything I wouldn't already let him have. He just thinks he's getting something. Besides, asking Jack not to flirt would be like asking a shark to stop swimming. It'd die.'

Gwen hefted the body bag through the narrow doorway of the pub towards the SUV. 'Does it work both ways, this little game of yours?'

'Dear God, no!' Ianto replied. 'This guy started taking an interest one day, totally unsolicited of course, and you should have seen the look on Jack's face. I thought was going to come over and break both his kneecaps and then retcon him all the way back to 1996. That's why I don't worry about Jack flirting. One thing he doesn't like is sharing.'

'It all sounds very complicated,' Gwen replied. 'Makes me glad to have someone as normal as Rhys.'

Ianto smiled back at her. 'Jack is definitely a complication, but a good one.'

Comments

[bk_forever]

Yep, thee's no way Gwen could handle Jack, but Ianto has his number and knows all the buttons to push. He gets an A* in Jack.