Title: Seven Days in the Himalayas
By: Universically
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: AO
Warning: WiP
Summary: The Torchwood team are sent off to the Himalaya's on a top secret mission yet who are they working for and will they come back alive?

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Date: 23rd March

Day: Sunday

Location: Beijing Airport

Mood: exhausted and travel stained

Here we are at Beijing airport. The flight to Nepal has been further delayed due to weather (or incompetence, you never know when you are flying with Air Cheapo).

You would think that if the Head of Defence is sending Torchwood off to a top secret job in the Himalayas, then he would provide confidential transport. Even a non-descript government transport. Instead what we got was economy. For 26 hours.

(Note to self, Saxon is quite hot. Wonder if we will have much contact with him if he wins the election. Must keep a tight rein on the phones if he does)

Jack always said that no-one in government was supposed to know about Torchwood, with the exception of Harriet Jones, and he never knew how she found out about us either. I don't think she would've suggested us after that Christmas… unpleasantness as she doesn't seem to get along with Saxon that well. Regardless, Saxon contacted us, and here we are.

As it was I was stuck in economy next to Owen. Normally I wouldn't mind that much but he is positively depressive right now. The man explodes at the drop of a hat.

Everything from the seats, the food, the movie, my incessant typing (apparently!) sets him off.

Look, even now in the waiting area he is glaring at me and I'm sitting four seats away! I'm not even typing, just scribbling in you, dear diary.

I also made the most grievous mistake of bringing up Jack in front of Owen while trying to distract him from Music and Lyrics (He really has an anti Hugh Grant thing going on, believe me, it's not worth getting him started on it).

I really don't understand Owen. First he gets fired, then he comes back and shoots Jack, then unleashes hell, Jack dies, again, and then comes back to life and then disappears. In the meantime, Owen hates him, loves him, feels guilty that he is dead, is happy when he is not and then is extremely pissed off when he disappears and HE ISN'T EVEN SLEEPING WITH JACK!

Owen then spent half the flight moaning about Jack, saying how crap he was for pissing off and not even a call or email. Only the image of Owen swinging in a noose on a gentle breeze and my trusty iPod kept me from acting out my homicidal tendencies. He shouldn't forget who hides the bodies at work (or that the rest of us are suffering from a lack of Jack as much as he is).

Although when Feeling Good came on my iPod, it was horrible. I really miss Jack singing that in bed after a good shag.

I really miss him. Not just the sex, but how close we were getting. Why hasn't he called? Why didn't he let me know where he was going? I know I've told you my theories before but I really suspect it's got something to do with this Doctor he mentions. I know he hasn't mentioned him much, but when he does…..the look in Jack's eyes. Something is going on there.

Ah, here comes Gwen looking very happy with herself. She must have finally got us a flight that was leaving sooner. That woman is positively scary when it comes to airline travel. Remind me not to make her queue.

I wonder what we are doing in Nepal anyway. The most I could find out was something to do with banana but that has to be a smokescreen. For me not to be able to find out something is quite annoying. Saxon wasn't that forthcoming in the briefing but he kept smiling a lot. I really like that man. He just seems so trustworthy.

We are on the move; I think I might ask Tosh to swap sets if I am next to Owen again. She can do moon eyes more effectively by his side anyway. Next stop, Nepal!

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