Ianto's Secret

[donutsweeper]

Title: Ianto's Secret
Pairing/Warning/Rating: No pairings or warnings, rated G
Word Count: 258
Summary:  Owen leans a secret Ianto had been trying to keep hidden.
Author's Note:  Written for rustydog's prompt from my recent writing meme.
Author's Note#2: Now with a remix! Good Company (The Greenhouse remix) by lilfluffykitten 

Of course, it would have to be Owen who’d finally overheard him.  Tosh would have smiled one of those smiles where her eyes glimmered and crinkled just a bit, but then sworn herself to secrecy.  Gwen might have giggled a bit and then teased him about it, in that gentle way of hers, for a week or two. Jack, well Ianto wasn’t really sure what Jack would have done, but it had to be better than this.

“You actually talk to them?”  Owen stood in the doorway, laughing.

“Owen,” Ianto started, quietly, but trailed off when he realized had nothing else to add.   Like most things, it has started innocently enough, but before he realized what was really happening he was in there four, five times a day and it was getting harder and harder to leave each time.

“You talk to them.  Don’t tell me you’ve named them, too?”  The look on Ianto’s face answered his question and then he’d had to grab onto the doorframe to prevent himself from pitching over from laughing so hard.

“They’re lonely.”

“You’re lonely.  They’re plants.” 

“Studies have proven that-”

Owen stood up straight, reached into the hot house and grabbed Ianto.  “Studies have proven that when blokes are lonely enough to talk to plants they need their mates to take them out for a night of drinking.” 

“But...”

“No buts.  Say goodnight to your little friends.”  Owen manhandled Ianto out of the room.  “You and me are hitting the pub.  You can tell them all about it in the morning.”

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

It should! Heck, IJ should, because it's only one letter off, and we might turn our attention there when we're done our evil worst to LJ.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Today the internet, tomorrow the WORLD!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Muahahaha!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

We've already worked our evilness quite well- how many people out there will never look at a donut the same way again?

There would have been one, just one little alien donut drabble without you!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Aww, that's sweet. But you wrote 'em! Most of them. What was the first one, anyway?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I wrote Powdered Sugar Tornado (http://donutsweeper.livejournal.com/23366.html)but then then the same day, posted that it'd be a truly bad idea if the alien donuts were to travel to the Pegasus galaxy and you jumped right in and said "If there was ever a galaxy screaming for alien donuts, it's Pegasus."

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

LOL! You know, that sounds like something I'd say, all right. And I was right!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Yes you were! Btw- you deemed it psychedelic crackfic... and in the same thread mad_jaks officially joined the evil club for inspiring the alien donut idea (along with rustydog) in the first place.

things you learn when you skim back over your own journal!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Wow, the origins of the evil club...it seems like only yesterday... *sniff*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

to think of how you've embraced the title since then!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

I know! It's a sad oversight that I don't have one of the icons. I can't decide between the one you just used and "resistance is useless."

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I have both! *g* Although there are also a few others, if I remember correctly

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Oh, excellent, I can just steal them from you. *g* With credit to mad_jaks, of course.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Yep! there's also a cross-over one, and maybe even another...

And this one of course. Which I have to use way TOO often with you guys

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

That one is very you. *nods*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

but you wouldn't have it any other way!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Of course not!