Title: Fanfic
Author: Jigot
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Summary: Tosh is summoned to Jack's office.

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"Shut the door and sit down."

Tosh did as she was asked and waited for Jack to go on. For a few moments there was silence. Then Jack looked up from the papers on his desk. Tosh was surprised to see that he looked a little, well, nervous.

"I've been doing some reading overnight, on the internet. I thought I'd see how much chatter we've been generating lately." He paused and ran his hand through his hair. Now Tosh was getting nervous.

"Did you find much?"

Jack stood up and walked around the desk, holding a handful of papers.

"Yeah, I found loads. Including a whole lot of 'fanfic', which I have to admit had completely passed me by. I didn't realise we were so popular. Most of it is complete nonsense, but some of it comes a bit too close to the truth for comfort."

He handed Tosh the bundle of papers. "Any of this look familiar?"

Tosh blushed. She recognised the top sheet as a printout from her LiveJournal. She'd never expected Jack to even think of looking for one, let alone find it. She flicked through the sheets, trying to give herself time to think. Squirming a little in her seat, she was almost grateful when Jack continued.

"Now I can understand the need to write some of this stuff down, to get it out of your system. But you've overstepped the mark with the bits about me and Ianto. What is it with women and slash fic? Ianto would be mortified if he read any of this!" Jack walked back around his desk and sank down into his seat, holding his head in his hands.

"Ah."

Jack looked up. "What do you mean, 'ah'?"

Tosh took a deep breath. She didn't think Ianto was going to be best pleased with her, but Jack was bound to find out sooner or later. Wasn't he?

"Well I needed a bit of help with some of the, um, details." She felt herself blushing again, but steeled herself to continue. "So I asked Ianto. I thought he could maybe steer me in the right direction, but he was surprisingly forthcoming with suggestions. Some of them very specific! I assumed that you and he..." Her voice trailed off as she saw Jack shaking his head. "Oh."

Tosh stared at the papers in her hand. Ianto was going to kill her. Then Jack seemed to come to a decision, one that he was obviously very pleased with.

"OK Tosh, you can keep doing the fanfic, but be careful not to give away too much. There's a lot to be said for hiding the truth in plain sight, but you can take it too far."

Jack's eyes gleemed as he stood and once more came around his desk, ushering Tosh to her feet and towards the door. "Now why don't you grab Gwen and Owen and go and check out some Weevil sightings somewhere for a while. I'm sure you can rustle some up. But before you go, tell Ianto I'd like a word." He flashed his biggest grin at her as he held open the door.

Tosh didn't wait to be told twice. Maybe Ianto wouldn't kill her after all...

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