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A huge thank you to my beta shinee1234 for her work. so here is the sequel.
It was an year since Ianto and Gwen had left Torchwood on maternity leave and even if gwen didn't leave to big a gap that needed to be filled iantos absence did. They were two people down and needed to recruit more so despite Jack reluctance he had recruited Andy Davidson, ex PC and Gwen's old partner in the police, to fill in for gwen as field agent and police liaison. John Hart stopped once in a while for the last couple of months, Jack had to call him and the Doctor a few times and in the end John decided that if Jack wanted him on the team he will stay permanently. Or semi permanently as it turned out because from time to time the Doctor came and swiped him away. Jack knew that there was time when he would have been hurt and jealous that the Doctor never did this for him, but now he had a family to take care of and a Welshman to marry. Admittedly they still haven't started planning the wedding properly. Ianto seemed a bit depressed and Jack was worried. People told him that it was normal for a newly given birth person to have a post natal depression but it should have passed in a few weeks or at worst a couple of months, but it didn't. Ianto was still moving as if through fog, not really paying attention to Jack, not wanting intimacy and being constantly tired. The only thing he didn't slack on was taking care of the twins. There at least Ianto was as careful as he had ever been. Jack was still worried thought.
Maybe Ianto wasn't made for staying at home with the kids, maybe he needed to work, be useful and save the world. That is why in the end Jack agreed to Ianto coming back to work soon, despite not being very convinced that Ianto was 100% ready yet. But Gwen was coming back and Jack knew how it will affect ianto if he knew that but was refused a chance to get back to work himself and be shut taking care of children for much longer. So now they were looking at nurseries and childminder groups for the twins and Ianto was going to be back to work in no longer than two months.
Jack missed him around the Hub anyway, so he was a bit exited to have his lover back, he just didn't know how he will be able to wait for another two month. The Hub had sank in its pre Ianto state with some litter around and unfiled papers. To Andy's credit he did try to maintain it relatively clean and file his reports correctly, but he just wasn't Ianto despite looking positively delicious in this jeans and leather Jacket. He really didn't know how Gwen could have chosen Rhys when Andy was interested in her.
Owen and Tosh had finally gone on that date and a few weeks ago Tosh had moved to live with Owen and announced that she was two weeks pregnant. It was something to be celebrated in the Hub and things seemed to be going very well, but now they would have a tech vacancy in a few months. It seemed that for the first time in the Torchwood's history no agents were dying but they all were conceiving. If only Jack could do something to lift Ianto's mood.