Title: Loose Ends
Author: Stolendreams
Pairing: gen
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine. Sadly. I'm a broke student. All I own is this computer I'm writing on and over half of that was paid for by the university.
Spoilers: Cyberwoman & Fragments.
A/N: Written for the writerinadrawer prompt 'physical powers'
Summary: After the destruction of Torchwood One, Ianto needs to blend in. Slightly AU. Spoilers up to Fragments.

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While the team from Wales are searching one part of the building, Ianto is in another, looking for one last thing before he leaves. A simple accident with alien tech had left him with the ability to become invisible when he wished and he had never ever thought he could be so grateful. Of course it had been fun at first, sneaking up on co-workers and friends, getting into places he wouldn't normally have been allowed. But now it had saved his own life and, hopefully, Lisa's. Without it he'd never have made it to her in time.

Only ten minutes after he'd dragged her from there, UNIT had arrived and dealt with the others still in those conversion units. He wishes he could have saved them too, but it took all his strength to get Lisa out of there and hidden safely away.

Ianto knows that Torchwood Three are going to be his only hope of keeping Lisa alive. He's heard about them; heard about the size of their underground base; about the Captain who will flirt with anyone or anything; about the way they stumble from one near disaster to the next and refuse to play by the rules. It's the perfect place. First though he needs to get on that team, and to do that he needs to hide his abilities. If they know they'll be paying more attention to him, he has to be normal. So normal that nobody even looks twice. He's already deleted every reference to it in his personnel file; there's only one loose end left to tie up.

In the end Ianto finds it under his desk. He pulls the book out and carefully dusts it off a little before tucking it inside his jacket. With his diary found and his records gone there is nothing left to link Ianto Jones with any kind of special ability beyond his coffee making skills. As he leaves the room the two people from Torchwood Three pass him, he has to jump out of the way to avoid the woman walking straight into him. A part of Ianto wants to follow them, to learn more about them in preparation, but he turns away and heads back out into the London streets. There will be plenty of time for that once he returns to Cardiff. For now he has Lisa to care for.

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