m_findlow

Title: Threesomes and moresomes
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Ianto, Myfanwy
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 500 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for Challenge 574 - Top 10 Foreigner Songs (#10 - Double Vision) at slashthedrabble
Summary: It wasn't quite the threesome Jack had pictured in his mind.

In hindsight, Jack realised that having a pterodactyl as a pet was probably not the best idea. Particularly when one tried to keep such a beast in an underground compound that hadn't been modified much since 1901. It wasn't ambulant friendly, as injured members of his team constantly reminded him, and technically speaking, would not have passed an OH and S audit but for the use of a lot of retcon and heavily doctored inspection reports.

It was made worse by having said creature suffering from what Owen described as a mild cold. If this was a cold, Jack hated to see what happened when cretaceous influenza struck. Myfanwy had been nothing but a pain in everyone's proverbial backside, bad tempered and impossible to settle. 'You try getting a decent night's sleep with a blocked nose and congested lungs,' Ianto lectured. 'You'd be grumpy the next day as well.'

Myfanwy had been a nuisance all morning. Her usual graceful flight around the water tower was wobbly at best. Jack only noticed just how badly her internal compass was off mere seconds before she came hurtling at speed, set on a collision course with the only person who had offered her any sympathy.

'Ianto, look out!' Jack cried, but he was too late. Myf went through the back of him, knocking him to the ground, but not before whacking his head on the guardrail. Jack was there in an instant, kneeling at his side. 'Ianto?'

Ianto's head lolled to where Myfanwy was shaking off her crash landing. 'When did we get a second dinosaur? he asked. I'm not sure we've got enough room for two.'

'Ianto?' Jack waved a hand in front of his face to bring him back.

Ianto blinked a couple of times. 'Oh, hello.'

Jack smiled. 'Hello to you, too. You okay?'

He frowned. 'Is he Jack, too?'

It was Jack's turn to frown. 'Who?'

'Your friend right there,' he replied, absently pointing just off to Jack's left. 'Two of you. Why don't you look excited? You always said that you had a fantasy about a threesome with you and me and you from another time. Although...' Ianto paused and gingerly felt the back of his head. 'I don't know if I'm quite up for it just at the moment. Feel a bit... discombobulated.'

Jack almost laughed. If not for the fact that he realised Ianto's knock to the head had him seeing double, thinking they were up for the night of Jack's dreams, then for being so completely out of it but still having the wherewithal to use the word discombobulate.

'Other me is just passing through,' Jack assured him, as he helped Ianto to his feet. 'But he thinks you should go and see Owen to make sure you're okay after a dinosaur with an inner ear imbalance nearly took you out for the count.'

Ianto seemed to accept Jack's explanation without question. 'Oh, okay. He doesn't want to stay for coffee?'

'He'll take a raincheck.'