Tosh and Owen headed straight to the pub once they got back from Brecon Beacons, so much had happened, and Owen was gasping for a pint to properly forget about everything. Tosh on the other hand her mind was spinning, she had so many unanswered questions about Ianto that she wanted answers to but... she didn't want to push Ianto into answering them. She rather have his friendship instead of answers but that didn't stop the need to know. There was more to this fae situation then Ianto first let on, he only confirmed that he was the fae's chosen one once but refused to talk about it any further no matter how much Gwen kept pestering him on the way back, he stayed quiet, lost in thought.
"Are you thinking about Ianto" Owen asked pulling Tosh out of her thoughts, she hadn't noticed he had gotten back to their table with two drinks showing how lost in her thoughts Tosh had been. She nodded, not quite sure whether she could vocalise her concerns. She loved Owen, there was no doubt about that but, he wasn't exactly someone she could confide in about these issues. That person was normally Ianto and she couldn't exactly go to him.
"Thought so, I dunno about you but I've been thinking about this and him not going with the fae when he was a child seemed to good to be true and there an issue with his file" Owen said taking a big gulp of his drink. Tosh frowned; she hadn't expected for Owen to come to a simple conclusion to her.
"His file?" She asked.
"When he first came to Torchwood, it was my duty to give him a full medical check you know since I'm the resident doctor. I wanted to cut down the amount of work I had to do, so I looked up his torchwood one file. It was weird, his file was extremely vague of his background from the age of seven to twenty-three. There was also no medical history at all. I first assumed like you do that torchwood one doctors were prats and couldn't do their job probably but now, I'm thinking that maybe his file is either fake or Ianto left with the fae when he was seven which is why his background was so vague" Owen explained and Tosh froze in shock, she had read through Ianto's file when Jack asked her to pull it up when Ianto first started bugging them i.e. Jack when he was looking for a job. However, she didn't really pay attention to whether something could have been wrong with it.
"So, you think Ianto isn't human anymore. But we've seen what the fae look like and Ianto looks nothing like them... unless, after a while they can shift back into their human form. But why would Ianto return to the human world" Tosh pondered more to herself then Owen, it didn't make any sense. Why would Ianto leave the people who protected him after all, the events of today showed that they were still willing to help him when he needed them.
"I dunno, maybe being with the fae is actually shit. I think we need to confront tea boy about this, find out whether we are right" Owen said but Tosh shook her, she didn't feel like confronting Ianto would help. Instead he probably close himself off even more and then would never find out whether their suspicions were right.
"But what makes you think that Ianto would tell us, he's kept it a secret this long" Tosh stated. Owen froze from a moment seemingly running different ways he could response through his head before settling down on one.
"I dunno what tea boy will do, I'm just worried and don't you dare tell him this. I'm worried that if something happens on a mission to Ianto and I don't know what medication that might be poisonous to fae and give it him and it kills him. I'd never forgive myself. I can't understand why Ianto never told us, torchwood one I can they were a bunch of prats, but I believe we less pratty".
"I can see where you're coming from it's just, I don't want to lose Ianto's friendship. Yes, it's driving me insane not knowing but, there must be a good reason to why Ianto never said. After all, if he is a fae then he might have known Jack and Jack didn't exactly have a glowing report of them" Tosh said, she hadn't thought about it but if Ianto was a fae then it was more than likely he was much older than he looked and probably had come into some sort of contact with Jack at some point in their lives.
"How about we leave it for now, maybe watch Ianto carefully see if he slips up now people know he was a chosen one. He might take risks and when he does we could gently slip it into the conversation. We won't tell Harkness or Cooper about this; it would just be between the three of us. He needs people to be on his side just in case the other ever find out" Owen said, Tosh thought over Owen's words, he did have a point. The last thing Ianto needed was for everyone to find out and turn against him, he needed people he could rely on.
"Okay, we will leave it for now. The last thing Ianto needs is us throwing are opinions at him" Tosh agreed before turning back to her drink and gulping in down in one. Damn she needed that; Owen shared a look with her before heading to the bar to get another.
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The Chosen One
Fanfiction'Come away a human child, come away' voices echoed through the trees. A young boy laughed as he chased after his friends. He would play for hours until dark. His friends will always protect him, it was their promise.
