Wedding Fairy & Captain Flash Bastard
Ianto didn’t give it a second thought; he crossed the distance between them and stepped in. Not that he was jealous. He wasn’t before Jack; it would have been ridiculous to turn jealous now. Even more so knowing perfectly well Jack was more about flirting and showing off than anything else.
But this was different. It was Gwen’s wedding. Enough damage had been done and he was already working on retconning all the party. Of course, he could have retconned Rhys too and stolen him his wedding. But no. No way. He was not going let this happen.
The intimacy between the two dancers had dragged the eyes of some of the guests and to Ianto’s concern Rhys’ annoyed ones. It was justified; the young bride and his boyfriend were making quite a display. It was getting dangerously hot between them.
His intrusion got the couple back down to earth. The landing was a bit awkward. Jack looked somewhat uncomfortable; not much like him, would you say? That because you don’t know Jack as Ianto does. As for Gwen, it took her a second to realise Ianto was not interested in dancing with her. She even looked surprised when he went on asking Jack. Why would she?
All the team knew about them. At work Ianto and Jack were doing their best to keep it discrete; at least Ianto did. But that was only out of co-worker policy, nothing else. Here they were not working anymore. Sort of. It was a wedding and they were celebrating.
He was dancing with Jack in front of the whole party. Of course most of them were not going to be able to tell tomorrow morning. That’s a shame he though nearly feeling sorry. If he wasn’t the professional he was. A least they were both going to remember, and it was the most important in the end.
He was in fact very comfortable dancing with Jack here in front of these people. It was now completely natural to him, not even really caring about Rhys abashed glance. Poor Rhys, he would not have anticipated his rival dancing with a man, but the groom was more than likely relieved to see the petulant Captain in his arms. Probably hoping the guests would disregard the way Jack and Gwen had looked at each other. Narrow minds. Jack would have said. Not that it was making any difference about the undecided attraction going between Jack and Gwen.
Ianto realised he could do it; posing as a couple in plain sights. But that wasn’t really new. He and Jack were going out on dates as often as they could, and Jack was always obvious about their relationship. Ianto was okay with that, just afraid their date could end up in some homophobic row.
Jack didn’t care. If Ianto didn’t know better he would even say Jack wasn’t noticing.
Ianto was too good at observing not to have noticed the little changes in behaviour among the people who knew about them. It wasn’t always hostile, it was just the fact that it shouldn’t be different at all. Even Gwen had changed the way she looked at them, or at least at him.
As for Jack, Gwen could be so fickle. One day he was a bastard of all bastards and the next he was a damned hero. Just like today, this morning he was a bastard, tonight he was the dashing hero. And if Ianto hadn’t interrupted, Jack would have ended the night as the bastard of all bastards once again.
Ianto glanced at the happy couple dancing not that far from them. They were married. They were in love. They looked happy.
“Where are you?” Jack asked.
“I was thinking what a nice couple they make.” Ianto replied.
Jack glanced at Gwen and Rhys.
“So do we. Don’t you think so?”