Captain Jack and Captain Jack [for slayers_desire]

[fractured_agent]

It's been a few months since the team got their first lessons in psychic shielding, and once again, the Hub is open to April's expertise. Though he knows they're having guests, Jack doesn't push anyone to clean up the clutter so it looks better. The Hub is still a work space, and a chaotically changing one at that. They're all used to it by now, and Jack knows April won't mind.

Ianto is manning the tourist information office upstairs, as usual, and he knows that April is coming.

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[slayers_desire]

No matter how hard you try to blend in... sometimes something happens that reveals your true self. We both discovered that today

[fractured_agent]

Yeah... He looks at Captain Harkness next to him. In another time, another life, perhaps the two of them could have shared something more than just this moment in time. Jack wants to make this night the best night of Harkness' life... but here, now, how to do that?

[slayers_desire]

He is looking for acceptance too. Hiding a part of himself from the rest of the world.

[fractured_agent]

And he won't get it. Not in this time. That's one of the greatest tragedies about life in this era, to Jack. Nothing should stop you from being with who you love, no matter what sex or species.

[slayers_desire]

You could give him acceptance. Just a moment...

[fractured_agent]

If I can get the chance...

The siren sounds again, signaling all-clear. Though nothing is exactly audible, there's a distinct release of tension in the room as everyone heads back up into the dance hall.

[slayers_desire]

April hangs back as the room starts to clear. She figures she can show Tosh where to place to coordinates, once everyone returns upstairs.

[fractured_agent]

Jack guesses what she's waiting for, and goes upstairs with the captain and the others, to keep attention off the stragglers. Tosh waits behind with April, and once almost everyone is gone, she digs in her laptop bag for something to put the papers in, coming up with a ziplock baggie. "It's got to be airtight, the ink is going to fade as it is," she explains.

[slayers_desire]

"I sensed that an electrical box outside would be the safest place to leave the equation."

[fractured_agent]

"Good thing I've got something to protect it from the elements then... a lot could happen to it in sixty-six years," Tosh says, with a nervous smile. "Lead on."

[slayers_desire]

April tunes to her voices, then leads Tosh to where she sensed the electrical box. "Do you have everything you need?"

[fractured_agent]

"I think so." Tosh carefully folds the papers with the equations on them, and slips them into the bag, sealing it shut.

[slayers_desire]

"Good." April hopes they can leave these equations in the right place. Her voices have proven true again, since that brief lapse... but she still worries. A little.

[fractured_agent]

Tosh finds a good spot in the electrical box where the papers will be safe, mostly out of sight and protected, but obvious enough that hopefully Gwen or one of the boys will spot it. "Now what?"

[slayers_desire]

"Now we wait for the others to open the portal."

[fractured_agent]

"That could be in a few minutes, or a few hours," Tosh says. It's out of her hands now, and she's conflicted on how to feel about that. Relieved that some of the pressure is off her, but also slightly frustrated that there's nothing else she can do.

[slayers_desire]

"Unfortunately, we don't know how long the others will piece things together."

[fractured_agent]

"I guess we should head back inside. That's where the Rift took us through, and that's where the coordinates should be."

Inside the dance hall, it didn't take long for the party to get back in full swing. The air raid is all but forgotten already, as the men and women get back to drinking and dancing.

The two captains are staying off the dance floor, hanging out in one of the rooms next to the main dance floor.

[slayers_desire]

"Our Jack and the other Captain are close by," April softly informs Tosh.

[fractured_agent]

"Should we intrude?" Having spent a few years around Jack, Tosh knows well his tendency to flirt with absolutely everyone, and while nothing has been so overt here, she can see the spark between them.

[slayers_desire]

"They have a connection. Give them the time they need... to say goodbye."

[fractured_agent]

Though he's trying not to show it, Captain Harkness has been thinking about what April asked him. About what he would do if he knew it was his last night alive. He's not sure that his fellow captain feels the same way, but he wants to know all he can about him. Especially since they seem so similar, the more they talk... this other man who's seen the same horrors of war, who knows what it means to be a leader of men who are little more than boys, who has that same haunted look in his eyes that Harkness sees in the mirror every day. He'd never really believed in kindred souls before. And this could be his only chance to find out if there could ever be something more for him.

Tosh nods a little bit at April's response. "I wish there was something we could do to make it easier for either of them."

[slayers_desire]

"The Captain just needs a little push... but it would only be right if he did it for himself." April at least concentrates, projecting the music into the room where the two Captains are alone.

[fractured_agent]

Under normal circumstances, Jack would notice April's subtle attempt to play matchmaker. But he's sufficiently distracted tonight that it doesn't strike him as unusual.

Captain Harkness, too, does not notice a sudden increase in music in the room. It seems natural and expected, even. And it's appropriate that April has chosen to do this during a song for slow-dancing between couples.

"I might have to leave before the night is over," Jack says, half-hoping that it takes a little longer for his team to open the Rift, and knowing that it won't be.

Captain Harkness calls on all his courage, feeling like he's doing something even more brave than flying sorties against the Germans. He takes a breath, and reaches over to hold Jack's hand. "Then make the most of now."

((bedtime))

[slayers_desire]

"They are having one last dance..." April whispers to Tosh.