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Time seemed to tick slowly then speed up like someone had turned the dial up.

Ianto stood with mild amusement as he stared at his naked self in the bathroom's full length mirror, the bump now obvious without the clothing Ianto was artfully choosing each day. Jack chose this moment to wander in and he froze as he saw Ianto in all his glory, his hands gently stroking the cub as his flaccid dick hung beneath the bump.

He looked so pretty.

Ianto's fur patch had always crept up to his belly button but now there was a definite inch of pale skin between the button and beginning of that soft thatch Jack loved to rub his face in.

"OK sweetling?"

"Yeah" Ianto sighed, "She's being an active cubbie today."

"Yeah?" Jack rushed over to kneel and place his face against the bump, rewarded with a kick and he laughed gently as he kissed his unborn. Teddykin know. Don't ask me how but they know if it is a boy or girl. They are very secretive about it but it is said that they 'hear' their cub in their dreams.

"My shirts don't fit" Ianto said after a while, his hand absently stroking Jack's hair, his beloved totally lost in their child's attentions.

"I'll get some more, I will get several sizes up sweetheart" Jack promised, "Anything else you need?"

"To go out" Ianto pouted, then sighed. "Sorry. I am just going stir crazy."

"I'll see what I can do" Jack promised, "I'll take to your GrandTad, yeah? We will sort something, I promise."

"I love you" Ianto said dreamily as Jack kissed him, his hands rubbing both bump and wonderland beneath.

"Gods, I want you" Jack sighed making Ianto feel as pretty as he truly was.

"You will be late for the meeting, go on" Ianto whispered, "Being me home gifts."

Jack grinned, stole another kiss and was gone.

Ianto dressed in the large robe that was comfy, warm and a lovely dark shade of red. He wandered to the bed Jack had carefully made before leaving as he knew Ianto would otherwise and settled for a wee snooze.

Voices woke him and he stretched wondering if Jack had forgotten something. He rose and went to pad into the main room when he realised it was a woman's voice. Someone unknown to him and he backed away with surprise. Jack hadn't told him there would be a visitor and he knew he hated surprises like that.

Since the cub had started to show Ianto had become quite reclusive, as is their way.

Nesting.

Ianto dressed, choosing the black PJ style clothing that hid the bump Jack called his Ninja Gear and returned to the main room where a woman sat swinging on a stool by the counter talking to Francine.

"Darling!" Mama Francine lit up as Ianto shuffled in, "Smoothie?"

"Yes please Mama" he said softly as he looked at the woman who was swinging to look at him with open interest, her long hair dark and shiny. Her bosom ample and obviously not shy, her hips comely and her smile wide. A gap. Huh. It was her eyes that held him, their gaze both calculating and strangely full of amusement.

"Well now" she turned to face him fully, "Look at you. Where the hell did he find another one, tell me you are not a clone."

"You knew Jack's husband?" Ianto asked as he sat in his chair, settling and adjusting the clothing until Francine rushed over to lay a blanket around him, fussing softly.

"I knew him well, we went to school together. You could say I introduced them. Back in my crazy uni days" she laughed, "God, it was so long ago."

"Time is relative" Ianto shrugged, "Some things seem yesterday, others already faded."

"My god, you even sound like him" she snorted, "That's the sort of thing he would say."

"I'm Ianto" he said after a moment, "And you?"

"Oh. Gwen" she said gaily, "Gwen Cooper. Hi."

"Well, hello Gwen. Did Jack know you were calling?" Ianto asked as he accepted the smoothie Francine was handing him, "He didn't say."

Well I am sure he doesn't tell you everything" she snorted, "Jack plays things close to his chest and I know he doesn't do pillow talk."

Ianto's smoothie froze, his mouth open to take the straw as he looked at her and he lowered it gracefully, leaning back to regard her. She didn't know who he was.

Ianto smiled softly as he wondered exactly how well she knew Jack, his inner bear warning him she might be a problem.

"You sound like you know him well enough" Ianto prompted.

"Yes, should do" she laughed and then confirmed Ianto's concern, "We had a thing. How do you think he met my roommate and fell for him?"

Ianto swallowed thickly as his bear growled softly.

He was right.

She was a threat.