Bute Park, Cardiff

[likesthecoat]

It's chilly but clear out--though it will rain by nightfall, from the look of the clouds in the distance--and Ianto spreads a blanket on the grass near other picnickers and kneels down to unpack the basket. "Cheese and crackers for starter?"

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[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

Martha takes the orange slice from Ianto and places a kiss on his forehead. "I've found I'm not so great at giving advice at this stuff, but my original question remains the same, will you be able to be with E? Other than online?"

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

He smiles faintly at the kiss. "I don't know. The situation is so fucking complicated--and not just because I'm, you know, torn between two lovers," he says and rolls his eyes at his own melodrama. "He's . . . he's a long way away."

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

Martha pauses, finishes off her orange and nods, "Yeah, I know how that is." She pauses as she fishes for a few grapes and hands some over to Ianto.

"I will admit to well, wanting to know who it is," Martha blushed and looked down at her feet. "Because of us being online and all... but, I didn't want to push or anything."

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Ianto pauses. Lorne's told Sheppard . . . that was the only worry Ianto had, really.

"It's Lorne," he says and eats some grapes. "But, you know, kind of keep it under your hat, please? I'm not ready for it to be common knowledge yet."

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

Martha blinks for a moment and then has to cover her mouth so that she doesn't giggle too loud. "I'm sorry but the two of you, are incredibly cute."

Martha smiles brightly at Ianto and begins to swipe a bit of cheese from him before she pauses, "Oh... Oh crap..."

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

He rolls his eyes again at the "incredibly cute," and then frowns. "Oh crap, what?"

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

Martha pauses and looks back up at Ianto, "That was why you wanted to know where they were..."

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

"Yes," Ianto says slowly. "And you know, don't you."

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

Martha pulls back, "Yeah I do, John told me."

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Ianto nods, focusing on the orange. "It's been hard to figure out . . . someplace on the ocean where the natives grow strawberries . . . I've thought sometimes the base was off Ireland somewhere."

he looks at her. "So were are they?"

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

Martha blinks, feeling herself being torn in two different loyalties.

She looks down at her grapes before looking back at Ianto and finally whispering, "Pegasus galaxy."

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Ianto stares at her.

"Outer space," he says flatly.

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Martha breathed softly. "I looked it up the other day. Around 2.7 million light years away..."

Martha moves forward and hugs Ianto close, "Oh Ianto..." she sighs.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

He leans into her. "Suddenly a great many things make sense," he says quietly. "2.7 million light years away . . . I'm never going to meet him."

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

Martha wraps her arms around Ianto and presses her lips to Ianto's temple. "Don't say that love, John says it only takes ten days for them to get here. I'm sure Lorne will do everything he can to get here."

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Ianto shakes his head. "It's the military, Martha. He can't just up and go whenever he feels like it."

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

Martha sighs because she understands, "Well, maybe we can take you to him? Or I'll go get him and then return him before he's missed... I don't know..."

Martha sighs and hugs Ianto harder.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

He closes his eyes. She's trying to make it better, he knows this, but he's a man accustomed to dealing with logic. "If I just showed up they'd arrest me, at the very least. If it's so classified Lorne couldn't even tell me--well, anything, really, us just showing up would probably get us killed."

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

Martha sighs and relaxes back away from Ianto, thinking that maybe he needed some time on his own.

"John said they get leave, he just has never taken his... Maybe, maybe Lorne will be able to use his."

[ooc: omg, did we break him?

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

"Then what's it going to take?" Ianto says quietly. "What's he waiting for?"


[ooc: . . . maybe just a bit.]

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

Martha picked at the edge of the blanket, pulling at a loose thread.

"John said they were in the middle of a war, maybe he needs to wait until there is a lull and he can get out?"

[ooc: oh, poor woobie]

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

He leans his head on his hands. "God, Martha, what am I doing?"

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

"You didn't know, it's not like we can always control who we're attracted to."

Martha sighs and begins to wish maybe she had lied and said something else, to at least keep Ianto's spirit up if nothing else.

"... I think we may definitely need that ice cream tonight love," she says softly.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

He chuckles dryly. "I promised you ice cream and chick flicks, yeah? And it'll get my mind off the fact that my boyfriend is 2.7 million light years away."

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

Martha sighed and pulled Ianto in for another chaste kiss to his temple, smiling sadly.

"I understand love. I'm sorry about this..." she sighs and hugs him again because she's at a loss for anything else to do.

"it does make you feel a bit powerless when you realie how far away they are doesn't it?"