Title: Rule of Three
Spoilers: Post-Cyberwoman, so spoilers for that.
Prompt: MPreg
Copyright: I do not own Torchwood, Captain Jack Harkness or Ianto Jones, if I did there'd be millions of Jack and Ianto's running around everywhere.

"About bloody time!" Owen groaned, taking the cup of coffee from Ianto, after removing his blood covered gloves, and pulling the sleeves of his lab coat up to his elbows.

Owen was just finishing with the autopsy on the creature when Ianto brought him his coffee, it was a quick dissection, but the Doctor wanted to double check all his findings. He knew, unfortunately due to experience, that wrong information on a file meant serious damage to not only the reputation of the Doctor, but also the Torchwood Three Institute, and a very lengthy court case and lecture on the reliability and validity of files. Owen had made one mistake on a medical file, during a difficult time in his life when he wasn't sleeping, and it almost lost him his job. He definitely did not want a repeat of that. As much as he hated doing the stacks of paperwork for UNIT that came with the job, he more than anyone knew the importance of it being thorough.

"Did you know Tosh was looking for your earlier?" Ianto enquired, as Owen gulped down his mouthful of coffee so hard Ianto could hear it. The young Doctor winced, and gently rubbed his throat with a frown.

"What did she say?" this, for Ianto was a new, strange situation he had never before been in. Owen, Dr Owen Harper of Torchwood, was actually engaging in conversation with him, and he wasn't mocking him.

"She asked if I'd seen you this morning, just as she was leaving for the clean up with Gwen." Ianto informed him, looking around the small autopsy bay littered with used rubber gloves, empty coffee mugs and just general rubbish. How it managed to get into such a state Ianto did not know, he could have sworn he had only cleaned this place last week.

"What did you tell her? Did you say you'd seen me?" Owen demanded, placing the coffee down onto the autopsy bed, next to the head of the creature. Ianto frowned, his eyebrows furrowing at the thought of Owen drinking the coffee that had been next to a dead alien.

"I told her that we'd gone on that Alert together." Ianto's eyes were not taken off of the coffee mug as he told Owen this.

"Bollocks Ianto, why couldn't you have said you hadn't seen me?"

"Because that would be lying Owen…" Ianto finally looked up from the coffee mug and narrowed his eyes at the Doctor, "Owen, did you do something to Tosh?"

Toshiko was Ianto's best friend within the Torchwood Hub, he was very protective over her, like she was his sister, and he loved her dearly. He had never had romantic thoughts towards the young woman, and he knew that neither had she, which was what made their friendship even more strong. Tosh knew Ianto's feelings for Jack, and Ianto was fully aware of Tosh's feelings for Owen.

"Look, I didn't do anything. It's just a misunderstanding. I was drunk, and she was well, just there."

"Owen, what did you do?"

"If I tell you, then seriously Ianto you can't tell anyone else. I do not want this to become the focal point of office gossip, not even Tosh can know I told you."

Ianto, rather bewildered and surprised that Owen was actually about to tell him something personal, nodded his head in agreement to Owens terms. He himself knew exactly what it was like to be the reason for the Hub gossip, and that was definitely not a nice place to be in.

"She's just as embarrassed as I am about all this. Last night we both got really drunk after you guys left the pub, and I made a pass at Tosh."

"Did anything happen?" Ianto enquired, raising an eyebrow at the torn looking Doctor.

"No, she told me that nothing could happen between us if I didn't like her in the way she likes me. She didn't want false hope."

"Ahh..." Ianto was at a loss for words. Tosh had obviously done the right thing, if she and Owen had engaged in a sexual activity then it would be harder for her to keep her distance from him. He knew that from experience, unfortunately.

"I don't even know why I just told you that," Owen sighed in frustration, "You're just going to go back and tell Jack. Then I'll become the bloody laughing stock of the Hub, and Tosh will hate me even more."

"I won't tell Jack."

"You tell him everything Ianto, so stop acting like you don't."

"I can keep a secret Owen."

"Yeah, you kept that cyber girlfriend of yours a secret didn't you?"

Ianto didn't respond to Owens remark, just inhaled a sharp breath of air, straightened out his suit, and made his way to leave. He would not stoop to the others mans level by making a remark back, or starting an argument.

"Shit! Ianto I'm sorry-" Owen apologised, attempting to catch up with the Welshman, "Ow! Bollocks- Ianto!" The Doctor swore repeatedly as he bashed into the metal trolley, scalpels and his numerous other dissecting tools falling to the floor.

"Something wrong Ianto?" Jack asked, as Ianto made his way through the main body of the Hub, where Jack was stood at Ianto's desk looking over a UNIT file.

"No Sir, everything's fine." Ianto replied with a broad, and utterly fake smile, swallowing down the lump that was slowly forming in his throat.

"Good, would you come and have a look at this? It's the field report for this morning. Just to double check everything, you know what UNIT are like."

~tw~

"Alright kids!" Jack clapped his hands together, addressing the entirety of his team from the stairs to his office, "Time to go home."

The rest of the day, unlike most usual days at the Torchwood Hub, had gone by quietly. There were no other rift activities, only the alien from this morning had disrupted their perfect day. Jack had managed to complete the large pile of UNIT files that had been building up on his desk for the past couple of weeks. He definitely didn't enjoy doing this, and had wished that something, anything at all, would fall through the rift so he could leave his desk and just do something exciting. However, he knew that this had to be done. He was already late, beyond late in fact, with his paperwork, and UNIT were beginning to get antsy. He was already in their bad books enough when it came to paperwork, and even more late reports would definitely make that worse.

Ianto had completely cleaned the Hub from top to bottom, something that he had said he would do for god knows how long, and just had never gotten round to it. The Hub was a mess, and Ianto did not like it that way, but with the unpredictable rift, Jack's distractions, and the Archives he had no time at all to do it. He rather enjoyed doing it, the cleanliness, not that it would stay that way for long, made Ianto happy. And of course Jack enjoyed watching Ianto clean the Hub, his young lover frustrated, dishevelled and sweaty. The sleeves of his white dress shirt rolled up to his elbows, his suit jacket discarded somewhere in the Hub, his tie loosened, and two of the buttons undone on his shirt, revealing that tempting chest to his Captain.

Tosh was playing with the new translation software that she had yet to perfect, whist Gwen was writing up the report from this morning, adding in details from the witnesses to Jack's original report.

Owen was down in the autopsy bay, avoiding Toshiko at all costs, and managing perfectly well in doing so. The young man had plenty of practice at this sort of thing, avoiding ex-girlfriends, one night stands and the many girls he had insulted. He had eaten his lunch down in the autopsy bay, unlike the rest of the team who had opted for dining out in a small café not that far from the Hub. His excuse was that he had a lot of paperwork to complete, and that he didn't want a repeat of the last time he messed up a report, so he'd continue over lunch. Tosh and Ianto knew the real reason why he was staying behind, not that they would tell the rest of the team. It was his choice to avoid the situation, and he who was missing out on the gorgeous cream tea's at the café.

In short, all the members of the team were using this free day to their advantage.

"Except you Ianto," Jack smirked, pointing at the younger man. The rest of the team had grabbed their coats and were making their way to the cog door, "You're with me."

Ianto nodded his head to the Captain, saying his goodbye to the other members of the team, before making his way up to the office which Jack entered into, a smile on his face.

"So, I'm thinking quickie on the desk, then back to yours for a curry then bed." Jack smirked, taking a seat on the office desk now cleared from clutter.

"I thought you were really tired Sir?" Ianto enquired, raising an eyebrow at the suggestive Captain.

"I have a little bit of energy left." The Captain shrugged, before grabbing the lapels of his lover's jacket, pulling him roughly towards him and slamming his lips down onto the Welshman's.

~to be continued~