First Days [ Torchwood FanFic ]

Good Beginnings

Ianto's Pov:

I enter the small flat Lisa and I have been living in for the past few weeks. It's not particularly nice but we're just about managing. I enter the small room i've set up for her and tell her the news. "I got the job. I've bloody got the job." "Thats brilliant! I'm so so so proud of you sweetheart" Lisa replied with a smile, although i could tell her smile was particularly an attempt to cover the pain from the failed cyber conversion. "In no time we'll have you back to normal. You'll be human again." I added. She paused before speaking "..Thank you, for coming back for me. You should've left me there, get yourself to safety. Thank you... for coming to save me, Ianto" Lisa responded with a soft smile with an almost sadness in her eyes. I could tell this was genuine. "I could never leave you. If only i'd gotten there sooner I could've-". She cuts me off, "Ianto, don't say 'if only' bla bla bla. I am so so grateful for what you did. I couldn't've wished for more." She's told me this before. Although I can't stop from feeling at least a little guilty. I should've been able to stop this happening. She went through so much pain, she is still going through so much pain. I should've been able to stop it. But i am so thankful i found her in the first place. Thank god the power was cut when it was, i could've lost her that day. Just like everyone else i lost that day. Thank god i still have her.

I give her a quick kiss before i start talking again. "He asked me to start tomorrow. So i'll head in tomorrow, and work out how we'll get you in and i'll get you in as soon as possible". "Couldn't you just tell them? I'm sure they'd be happy to bring me in." Lisa questioned. "I could, but I don't trust that Harkness. Maybe it'd be fine, but i'd much rather be safe then sorry. If he's anything like Yvonne, i'm sure he would not help, well, not in any good way anyway. I don't want anything bad to happen to you, because of him" i respond almost stumbling over my words a little near the end of my sentence. I can't even imagine what i'd do without her. Harkness seems nice enough, but i am not putting her live in the hands of some people i don't know. "Okay, just be safe and don't do anything stupid. I love you" "i love you, too". Little does she know, i would do anything to keep her safe. I would die for her.

I wake up at 5:30am. Been a while since I've done that. I put on a clean pressed suit. Last time i wore it was the Monday before the fall. I remember Yvonne saying how she liked the colour of the tie and how it matched my skin-tone nicely. Strange how things change. I'm not sure what Harkness will expect me to do, but as long as i'm inside torchwood, i can help Lisa. That's all that matters. My time in torchwood one means i know alot about torchwood three, but i know i still have a lot to learn. I grab myself a coffee to help prepare me to work again. Aside from the past few days, I haven't been to cardiff bay since i was a kid. My  primary school went on trips down to the bay pretty often to learn about the coal trade and all that. Weird going back there. Almost like deja-vu. I go to say goodbye to Lisa before i leave the flat then I get into my car and make my way to the bay.

When i reach the bay, i park my car and head over to the water tower. When i get there i am met with Captain Harkness. "Good Morning, Ianto. Nice to see you've made it. Nice suit, by the way" He says it in a eerily professional way. "Morning, sir. And Thank you". Harkness steps onto a certain bit of rock next to the water tower. "Join me here and i'll tell you everything you need to know". I do as he says and step onto the platform. Suddenly the platform starts to descend into what I assume is the base of torchwood three. I make sure to keep my balance as we descend. It's pretty bright inside of there, especially compared to the musky colour of the bay in the morning. Very very bright. As we decend, i notice who i can only assume are the other employees are watching us. Once the platform reaches the ground, we both step off and it starts to ascend back up. "This is Ianto Jones, he'll be joining us from now on and working around the hub, he'll be doing archiving and also be helping with maintanace and clean-up. I'm sure you'll all give him a warm welcome" Jack explains. They all give me a quick smile. Okay. So that's what i'm doing here. That's pretty good. Although, i have no idea what 'clean-up' means. But working around the hub means i'll have plenty of time to at least check in on Lisa once i bring her here. That's good. Harkness points at each member of the team and starts to tell me about them. "Here we have Toshiko Sato, she is our technisian and a very fine one too. Suzie Costello, she is our second-in-command. Dr Owen Harper, he of course is our doctor. And that's the team. You'll be our archivist, but you'll also be back-up if someone out on the field needs help and everyone else is busy. We'll also have you deal out retcon and help with clean-up after missions. Most of the time you'll be working in the hub though. You also said you could deal with food and drink so that'll become your responcibility too. I know it sounds like a lot listed out like that, but you'll be alright." Okay. That's alot of information to prosess. But i can do that. Pretty simular to what i did back in london. Although, there were thousands of emploees in london, only 4 here? That is insane. Well, i suppose it's 5 now.

Harkness leads me towards his office. We both take a seat inside his office as he starts to explain. "Alright, Ianto. We have alot of old documents going all the way back to the 1900s that need to be digitized. They're all in the lower basement in boxes. I've been meaning to do it myself but never gotten the time to do it. If you could do that that'd be brilliant. I'm sure you already know how to use the torchwood computer systems. If you could get started with that now. The rest of the team and i may all leave suddenly or unannounced at times if we need to get to somewhere quickly, so do not be surprised if that happens. Alright. Lets get to work" he finishes. Digitization is easy. Can take a while but still pretty simple. Also, if they all just leave, that gives me a perfect chance to bring Lisa in. And go check on her. This is risky, i know, but I cannot lose her. I cannot lose someone else.