Challenge 591 - Distracted by work

[m_findlow]

Title: Distracted by work
Author: m_findlow
Characters: Ianto
Rating: PG
Challenge: 591 - Refuge at tw100
Notes: Ianto's life feels less complicated when he's working. A double drabble.

Ianto felt the tension in his shoulders ease as he stepped inside The Ferret. It was funny and a little ironic, he thought. People around here were going missing - alien intervention he was sure, and this pub at the centre of it - yet he felt safe in here. He supposed this was what it was like for normal people. Going to the pub after work was a way of seeking refuge from all the things that plagued their day. Their problems slowly disappeared just like the ale in their glasses.

Technically he hadn’t stopped work. He was still on the clock, albeit off the books. Not a bad job, drinking all night and calling it work. Owen would have loved this. Then again, Owen wouldn’t have been able to do what he was doing, talking away his troubles, pretending to appear downtrodden and hopeless. Well, sort of. The more he talked the more he felt he really could open up. Why make up a fake life when his real one had enough depressing material to keep any dodgy barmaid hooked. It was a shame he was going to have to stop her. She’d actually given him some half decent advice.

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[bk_forever]

That really was the shame of it for Ianto. It was like he'd found a friend outside work, someone he could almost be honest with, but he still had to stop what she was doing.