- oOo - Welcome everyone! - oOo -

This is my first Torchwood story, though not my first story. For this, would love input and ideas. It's not beta'ed and as usual, I'm flying by the seat of my pants!

This story also ties in with my Trilogy story - Draconic Ruby, Sapphire and Diamond - which is incomplete. I am going to try to not make it necessary to have to read them but they are fairly large stories and if I miss anything in explanation PLEASE let me know. My plan is to incorporate my three characters Johfrit, Chisato and Setima which are my original characters. The Draconic is a Yugioh story, but I do not intend to be following them, only mentioning them.

This story does have m-preg which will be explained and it isn't our main boys.

The story itself while it transports to 2010, is in the middle of season two in between Meat and Adam and from there everything is AU. If I mess up anything with them feel free to tell me.

So welcome to the madness and let the fur fly!

Prologue.

The day had started good. It had. Day had been shining and the rift had been quiet for the last few days, giving everyone on the team a chance to catch up on their own pet projects. Toshiko had started up a new algorithm to mark rift activity, trying to make it more sensitive to changes and in doing so, making it more predictable. Owen had also wanted to take a better opportunity to review some of the data on the previous occupants of his table and see if he could find any patterns in their dna. Gwen was still reviewing some of the cold cases that she still had access to, or rather that Toshiko had procured for her looking at her pet project of the negative rift spikes, while also planning her wedding which was still a few months away. Ianto's project was more of a two parter. One, he wanted to re-record all the data into the mainframe since there had not been an archivist, let alone a good one for better part of 50 years and after 3 years of being with Torchwood three, he was still on only D. The other was more of a personal nature and being on the letter D was very helpful indeed.

Jack himself unfortunately didn't have a project of his own making, more of his lover's making, which was to catch up on all the filing and paperwork that he had been putting off for weeks now. So he sat at his lovely mahogany desk and watched his crew - no his family - work hard and be happy.

Unfortunately, things were not meant to be good - or easy - or any other adjective that could be created.

At least that is what Jack remembered, days later when things had begun to quiet down. That is what he at least told himself, but by then he had his own issues - Blond and Celtic to be precise.

- oOo -

Two weeks previously

"Hálainn grá * you need to get up here." the man said from the top of the stairs.

"Cheri **, I will be up there in a minute. But first I need to finish this page." the other man said to his partner of over a year now.

"What does Seto have you working on now?" the man called Johfrit said to his husband Chisato

"Something for a group called Torchwood. Very strange name but his cousin sent him some artifact that she thinks has been around for ages so he wanted me to do the research on it." Chisato said not looking at his husband though he was getting rounder by the day with their triplets. If it had been any of the others, they would not have been so robust, but it was his beautiful Irish Celt and his inner strength was making him glow with anticipation. For their children had been waiting a long time to be born and his stubborn Celt wasn't going to let being six months pregnant get in the way of anything.

" I remember the reports on that - Seto did some work for them didn't he?" Johfrit said as he started down the stairs to join his husband at the desk that was just off the main staircase.

"Yes, there was an incident apparently about 4 years ago, something about metal men or such nonsense and his cousin needed his hacking skills to acquire some information from a mainframe, or something like that. His cousin's boss has occasionally ever since used Kaiba Corp's mainframe for extra storage since his access to it is kept off all official records." Chisato said remembering what his soul incarnate had told him from his time when he was merged with Seto.

Just thinking back about this last years events with the birth of their new prince and Yuki and Shuichi into the family had made Seto think about reconnecting with his cousin from Britain. She was their only living and breathing member of their original family, the Sato's but had been unable to do anything about raising the two boys, hence why they had gone to an orphanage instead of moving to Britain.

"So he uses us as subterfuge?" Johfrit said his voice slightly darkening in anger. Johfrit was a rather open person and anything used for deceit or anything of that nature did not sit will with the Celt.

"Somewhat, but Seto is okay with it, so stand down Cheri." Chisato said, placing a hand on his husband's currently clenched fist.

"I still don't like it. Things should be open." Johfrit said but noticeably calmed down, making the father of the babies relax as well. Powers are all good but not with his three hellions, still waiting to be born.

"Dearest how long have we been living in this era? This isn't Camelot anymore - the world doesn't accept things like secret organization or better still men being pregnant." Chisato said putting his pen down and standing up to his husband. He liked the fact that his husband hadn't grown much since becoming real and he was still 6'1 to his 6'7. It made it much easier for him to tuck his lovely husband into the crook of his neck and soothe him. While normally his very pregnant husband wore the pants in their relationship, currently his hormones were all over the place and that role reversal had occurred. Much to the merriment of the rest of the house. Though most of them we doing their own things. Jorrin and Asetha were currently in Greece with their father along with Jono, their elder brother. Joey was still in the middle of training some new staff and Jorma was in Tokyo with their cousin in law Shuichi Shindou and his husband Yuki Eiri. Jorma's wife Setima had been asked to go with them until she used the patented Kaiba glare and told them to drop dead.

Jorma Plus Shuichi equalled a very ticked off Valkyrie - one no one in the house wanted to deal with. Chisato knew that she loved her husband very dearly - but she could also cheerfully throttle him on occasion. Their story was far more complicated. For now though he was fascinated by this current trinket.

"You like me pregnant Acushla ***" Johfrit said basking in his husband's pheromones.

"Yes I do, you are more amiable - however with what I have found with this trinket that Ms. Sato found I think it might be good for us as well." Chisato said taking off the rubber gloves that he had been using to avoid touch contact with the item that looked like a music box but was definitely not. It almost looked Greek in origin but for the use of crystals or at least what appeared to be using crystals for a power source - which would make the item NOT Greek.

"So what is it?" Johfrit said coming over to the edge of the disk and leaning against it. His husband came around the desk and encircled his arms around him, engulfing himself with his husband's chocolate pheromones.

"Not entirely certain Cheri, but I have a feeling that we are going to need to go to Cardiff." Chisato said looking at the item.

"Why love?" the blond said, wrapping his own arms around his red-headed husband.

"The artifact looks like a music box, but I have never seen a box that requires a slot for activation. And if I am not mistaken, it takes crystals. And no artifact in the past would have required crystals." Chisato said, his eyebrows furrowing in thought.

"What about Atlantis?" Johfrit asked.

"That is possible, but Atlantians were aliens who had landed before even Jono's time. Your father or mother might know more." Chisato said, letting go of the pregnant blond and came back over to the music box. Using the special tongs that had been sent to him for use, he picked back up the box and put it into the specially designed storage box and closed the lid on it, thus protecting others from touching the item.

"Most likely Mother. Many of the Atlantians came to Eire and Wales when the volcano erupted." Johfrit said, remembering some of the stories his mother had told him as a child. At that time, it had been over 8,000 years since it fell.

"Where was Atlantis Cheri?" Chisato asked, remembering what he had learned about Plato's works and the first introduction of the mention of the elusive group.

"Mother had said that it was half way between the New world and Eire but further south, almost tucked into the Celtic sea." Johfrit said, almost in passing.

"I see. Well I need to get this messaged back to Ms. Sato before her boss finds out that she sent it to us." Chisato said and at that pressed a button that brought one of their trusted servants, Isono to the office that was just on the edge of the new house that had been created for the Polo household.

"Isono can you send this via messaging to Cardiff, addressed to a Ms. Toshiko Sato." Chisato said, handing the artifact over to him.

"Is that not Master Seto's cousin?" Isono said as he accepted the package.

"Yes, she's about fifteen years older then him. Too young to have taken him and Mokuba, but she has kept in touch with them." Chisato said remembering the conversation that he had with the British woman.

"I see, well I will see that this is done. Is there anything else?" Isono said.

"Yes, can lovely Hanna make me some Bailey's ice cream and pickles?" Johfrit said and smiled when the two men grimaced at the thought of the combination.

"Of course sir. I will have her deliver it to you shortly." Isono said and at that turned out of the wing that was Chisato's and Johfrit's quarters. Their new home had just been finished a few months earlier and now as Joh's father had planned, a wing had been created for all the brothers and their families which after a year of life, Johfrit was the first to get pregnant, just after Beltane. As their father had said, the hellions were just a tad impatient.

"Perfect. Thank you Isono" Chisato said and waved him away. Of which Johfrit frowned at him. While he understood that his husband was a former King, and well Seto was a bit impervious, it was still rude.

"Do not do that. This isn't Constantiople." Johfrit said still frowning at him.

"It's now Istanbul and Isono expects it now. He gets nervous when I behave any differently." Chisato said, harkening back to his first few weeks of arrival and his pure and innocent nature. Now, two years alive, he was much more closer to his other brothers and his sister then he ever was. Which included his behaviour as a former King of Gannes.

"I do not like it. It is disrespectful." Johfrit said of which made his husband smile, trying not to snort in laughter

"Have you been acquainted with the term Pot and Kettle and the colour black?" Chisato said about his husband that only showed any kind of respect to his mother and Seto. Everyone else got to see the side of his arse as he usually did whatever he wanted and damn everyone else.

"I may still stick it to the priests but seriously, how many times have we told them. Sunrise equals sky-clad." Johfrit said his own semi-smile in place at the complete lack of shame when it came to how defiant he was to everyone. He just loved pissing people off.

"I am not going to have this conversation with you. Go take your nap and we will talk later." Chisato said, and made the move of taking the hand of his husband and leading him up the small stairs that led to their wing.

"So bossy...I love it!" Johfrit said as a woman entered with a tray of ice cream and pickles, her own child Corann, on her back in a wrap.

"My lord, I brought your snack." she said as the baby on her back gurgled.

"Thank you Hanna, Chisato has suggested I go nap as well." he said to his Lady Priestess. Just after the birth of her son, Jono and him had made her Priestess of Osiris and she now ran their temple, the Temple of Light - one of the first temples to Osiris in nearly three thousand years. It now also was used for service to their shared father, Apollo and Johfrit's mother, the Lady Morrigan.

"That would be good. You do not rest as much as you should." she said and followed her High Priest and Lord Druid to his chambers. She pulled back the blankets and allowed him into the bed. When he was settled, then the placed the tray of food onto his lap and exited the room.

As she left she could hear the two spouses talking and smiled.

- oOo -

Jack Harkness was bored. As in completely bored.

He was missing his favourite person who was up north visiting someone in Elan Valley. He knew no one there but Ianto had left the day before and had told him he would be gone for a few days more. Right now they were in the middle of the yearly dry spell where the rift was quiet with nary a blip. His team had taken advantage of this time and had booked some time off so he was left alone at the Hub. Ianto had told him that he could spend his nights at his flat, but Jack never could sit idle. So he sat at his desk, resisting the urge to track down Ianto and see what he was up to. If there was CCTV up there or not. He had already tracked the area and found that it was a very remote area with an unmarked forest with a lake in the middle of it. Which made him all the curiouser as to why he was there.

Giving up and giving into his desires, he tapped onto his bluetooth device and called Ianto:

"Yan...when are you coming hoooommmmeeee" Jack whined into the device.

"Hello there...who is this?" a woman's voice said on the other end which made Jack freeze in shock.

"Who is this! Where is Ianto!" Jack shouted into the comm, and heard a shuffle in the background and what he thought was 'My lady'. He heard then a giggle of a woman's voice and then his beautiful Welsh vowels began talking

"Jack, I'm a bit busy here - everything okay at the Hub?" Ianto said and got a right furious Captain screaming in his ear.

"Ianto who the hell is there - are you stepping out on me?" Jack said, furious but his perceptive lover could detect the more hidden message.

"Jack, just because there is a woman here does not mean that I am stepping out on you. Besides we did not promise monogamy. Now Jack, I will be back tomorrow. Can you handle things until tomorrow?" Ianto said.

"Who is she? And what do you mean we didn't promise monogamy? I have been faithful! Does this mean you aren't Yan? Are you seeing anyone else? Am I not good enough?" Jack started whining and with a touch of sorrow in his voice.

"Jack..." Ianto said, his voice ending in a sigh. He was getting the starting of a headache and having a petulant Captain on his hands was not how he wanted his night to start. Then he heard it...the start of a sniffle.

Now he had made his Captain cry and if it was one thing that made Ianto weak - it was the sight of his Captain feeling any sorrow. With such a life as his, sorrow was one thing that he couldn't abide and Ianto had already vowed to himself to make every day happy for his Captain.

"Jack I am too far away to be there by tonight. Can it wait until tomorrow?" Ianto said, though hearing the sniffles getting worse.

"Yan, are you faithful?" Jack said and heard the sigh again of his young lover.

"Yes Jack, until the day I have to leave you." Ianto said. Turning towards his companion he looked at the woman with him and with a wave of her hand, he was now standing beside his immortal lover.

"Yan? How did - " Jack started but then stared in awe as a woman appeared beside Ianto, setting off the intruder alarms.

"Child of Time, it is not nice to pout. There are much better ways to get what you want." she said with a lilt in her voice and a laugh on her face.

So there is the first chapter/prologue of the story. Have no idea where this is going but chances are good that my boys will hijack it.

They are good at that...

Translations are at the bottom

Ta ta for now - Tatiana

* - Means Beautiful Love in Gaelic

** - Love in French

*** - means Beloved in Gaelic