A/N: My little Jantoverse takes place after Series 2, some minor canon conversations from COE referred to. This is my first so I'm not sure what I'm doing.
SLASH/graphic sex: This will be published in separate chapters from the main story. All adult themed chapter will have an "A" in the Chapter # so you have been warned.
CHAPTER 1 – Prologue
It had been about a year and a half since they had lost Tosh and Owen. The first few months were the most difficult, just kind of going through the motions with little feeling or enthusiasm for the job that had previously fuelled their lives. It had taken awhile for them to again hit their stride, but the aliens never stopped coming and the rift never stopped spitting out the jetsam and flotsam so Jack, Ianto and Gwen had picked things back up.
While a lot of things remained the same, there had been quite a few changes for Torchwood Three. One of the biggest had to be that Gwen and Rhys had welcomed a baby boy. Dylan was about six months old and Gwen's pride and joy. During her pregnancy she had spent a great deal of time in the hub to avoid the dangers of field work. She put a lot of effort into learning some of the computer programs Tosh had created to make their job easier. Her biggest project centred on the weevils. After spending day after day keeping after Janet and the other resident weevils she had decided that there had to be a better way of dealing with them. They still had no way of communicating with them or understanding why they did what they did. Gwen couldn't see any benefit to just keeping them locked up if they were able to survive in the sewers without interfering with the humans. What her plan entailed was tagging any weevils that made their way to the surface with an electronic tracking devise like they do animals in the wild. After they had been tagged they were returned to the sewers and monitored. The thought was that they might be able to do some behaviour modification, encouraging them to stay underground. She developed a program to analyse the data from the tracking devices so they could study where the weevils tended to come up, when it occurred and collect other data that may help them understand how to deal with them. The only exception to tagging a weevil was when it had killed a human. Those cases were dealt with differently. So far, the program seemed to have merit.
Gwen had been back full time for about three months. Although Rhys knew about Torchwood, he had remained with his job for the hauling company. They had decided that putting both of their lives at risk constantly was out of the question now that Dylan was around. Besides, Rhys was fine with letting his wife be the hero. He had seen that she was more than capable of handling herself in serious situations. He was amazed by the woman that he loved and proud of her ability to deal with the chaotic world of aliens.
Another result of Gwen's pregnancy was their new team member. Jack and Ianto and been doing the best they could but knew they would be much more effective if they had someone else to share the load. They had convinced Martha Jones to come up and help them on a couple of occasions, but she and Tom were happy with what they were doing in London and she couldn't be convinced to join them permanently. She had however made a recommendation for someone she knew working at UNIT. It only took Jack, Ianto and Gwen meeting him once for them to invite him to join the team.
Theo James was an enigma. If you came on him in a dark alley, you would definitely quietly back away and then run. But if you actually met the guy, you would swear that there wasn't a kinder, gentler man around. He had the brawn, but he also had the brains. He was five feet ten inches tall and weighed in at two hundred ten pounds of solid muscle. His physique was very similar to a boxer like Mike Tyson. He had dark chocolate skin and kept his head shaven and had a well trimmed goatee. The ladies flocked to him. He could easily handle himself in a fight and he was a brilliant electrical engineer. UNIT had recruited him directly from University, seeing his promise. He had become somewhat frustrated with the job at UNIT because they strictly controlled what they wanted him to do. Part of his brilliance was his strong curiosity to figure things out and he wanted to research and explore all of the amazing alien technology they had. Martha Jones had met him when they were trying to figure out a piece of technology that they thought had medical applications. Theo and sussed out what it did and how it worked in less than a day (the other researchers had been working on it for two weeks). So the next time Jack called her for help, she had suggested he talk with Theo.
He came to the hub to meet the team and see if he was Torchwood material. Jack immediately laid on the Harkness charm to which Theo matched. He had command presence because of his size, but he also had the charm and charisma. He wore a smile all of the time and just seemed to radiated happy, positive energy. Things just seemed to be better somehow in his presence. Jack was charismatic and enigmatic, but Jack could also be a little over the top and off putting. Theo just almost seemed perfect. The team was taken by him right away. A few hours later they were all laughing and chatting it up in the boardroom like they were lifelong friends. The team didn't hesitate to invite him to join them. He was like a kid in a candy store at the prospect of being able to work uninhibited with the alien technology. He moved up to Cardiff two weeks later.
There weren't many other major changes. Ianto had written a brilliant justification for getting a second SUV which had been approved by UNIT. It had made things a lot more convenient, especially when there was something happening after hours. They took turns being on call and taking one of the SUV's home so they could go straight to the incident without having to go by the hub.
Ianto and Jack had continued going on dates as well as their "dabbling" activities. Most nights were spent together, whether at the hub or at Ianto's flat. The nights they didn't spend together were usually because Jack was elsewhere. The younger man never questioned the immortal about his activities or whereabouts, not that he didn't want to know, he just didn't want Jack pulling away. Gwen had commented about them being a couple once and when Ianto mentioned it later the older man conceded that they were together but he hated the word "couple." So they continued on, not talking about their emotions or what their relationship was. It was the giant pink elephant that was constantly present.
