Title: Ianto Jones Is Too Proud For Pride
By: Aearlor
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: PG
Summary: Jack has a good Idea. Ianto does not agree. Owen offers his thoughts on Ianto's hetrosexuality or lack thereof And Gwen really needs to learn to be quiet.

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"You have got to be joking." Ianto Jones really did not look impressed. In the slightest. He had his hands on hips and was staring at Jack eyebrows raised.

"Nope, I'm a 100% serious. It's a genius idea." Jack's smiling, no grinning, this does nothing to reassure Ianto. In fact it does the exact opposite.

"No really, Jack, it's not. It's a ridiculous idea." Ianto's getting a bit hysterical at this point, he cannot believe he's arguing about this with Jack and in front of the others as well.

"Don't get angry Ianto, it's not Jack's fault you fail at being straight." Says Owen who is also grinning.

"Fails at being straight?" asks Gwen giggling through the sentence.
"Yep, even if Ianto didn't take it up the—" Before Owen finishes the sentence, Ianto places his hand over his holster and looks pointedly at Owen's shoulder, "Even if Ianto didn't like men, he'd still fail at being straight."
"How exactly?" Ianto wishes Gwen would learn shut up most some of the time.
"The mans wearing a pink shirt and he smells far too nice." Owen answers as if this is proof of Ianto's shortcomings when it comes to heterosexuality.

"He does smell good doesn't he?" Jack adds. It's moments like this Ianto wished he'd kept something other than the cyberwoman in the basement, something he could break out to distract him and his team when he felt like shooting them. Unfortunately, he doesn't. So he goes for the second best option: shouting.
"I don't care how nice I smell! I'm not going to a Gay Pride rally!"
"Oh, but why not?" asks Jack with an audible pout.
"Because quite honestly I don't think it's anything to be proud of, nothing to be ashamed of by any means, but nothing to celebrate either. I'm bi; whatever, it's a fact of life. I wouldn't go round celebrating the fact I had brown hair or that I'm Welsh."
"Yeah, but Ianto mate, I don't think anyone would ever celebrate being Welsh." Owen jokes and Gwen twats him on the back of the head. Ianto knows that everyone has completely ignored the point of his little speech and decides upon what he feels is the best course of action.

"I'm going to go now. I'm not sure where, just not here." He grabs his coat and walks off, muttering under his breath in Welsh.

"Ooo Ianto's a bit touchy isn't he?" asks Gwen watching Ianto's back as he walks through the cog door.
"I think Ianto's just too proud for a Pride rally." Replies Owen.

They all groan in unison.

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