Title: Paper Clips
By: Potterfan89
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: i own nothing...
A/N: I wrote this because I was bored so I asked my friend to give me three prompt words - they were paper clips, sugar and tea.
Summary: Ianto is filling out his monthly stationery order and finds something odd in Jacks drawer...

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Ianto was very confused. The team was on a mission catching some alien that wanted to take over Cardiff, (Ianto could never work out why they wanted Cardiff of all places), and Ianto was trying to fill out his stationery order for the month. He had his checklist made for Owen, Gwen and Toshiko leaving just Jack.

He made his way into the other man's office to see which items he still needed and when he opened the bottom drawer, he saw something he really wasn't expecting. The whole drawer was filled with paper clips. If Ianto had to venture a guess he would say there would be a couple of hundred just sitting there. This was confusing because whenever Ianto asked Jack what stationery he needed he always said paper clips. Ianto knew Jack had fetishes but paperclips?

Ianto spent the rest of the afternoon trying to figure out why exactly Jack would want so many paper clips. He was so distracted that he ended up spilling the entire jar of sugar that he kept next to the coffee machine all over the floor, and had to spend ten minutes cleaning it all up.

Three hours later Ianto walked through the heavy cog door, he was carrying everyone's favourite afternoon snack. Starbucks coffee and a jam donut, he had also decided to buy himself an ice tea. He handed everyone their snack's and was just about to walk back up to the Tourist Information Centre when Jack called back out to him.

"Ianto?"

He turned around. "Yes sir?"

"Don't you usually make your stationery order around this time of the month?"

"Yes sir." Ianto decided not to mention the fact that he had already done it. "I'll just go get my lists." He was curious, he was going to look for any clues which may account to why Jack needed so many paper clips.

When he came back he walked into Jack's office and sat in the chair opposite his desk. "What do you need this month?"

"Um… I'm not really sure. You're better at knowing what I need better than me."

Ianto sighed, stood up and started rummaging around Jack's office. Half way through he realised that Jack always does this, he always gets Ianto to look around his office while he stays in his seat.

"Anything else?" Ianto gave him the list he had created, one that was exactly like the one he made mere hours ago.

"Yeah… paper clips."

"Right…" Ianto moved to a cupboard behind Jack's desk and bent over to search through the bottom drawer. "Yeah, you have none I guess I'll order more… how do you go through so many?"

"I'm a busy man and my job requires me to complete a lot of paper work."

Ianto gave him a quizzical look but nodded anyway and left the office to place the order.

Jack POV

'A draw full of paper clips is a small price to pay to see Ianto bending over in front of me.' 

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