Title: Unexpected.
Fandom: Torchwood.
Summary: When Jack finds out finds out he is pregnant how will Team Torchwood cope?
Warnings: slash, scenes of a sexual nature, MPreg, swearing, angst
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Tosh/OMC,
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Unexpected.
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Jack woke up in Ianto's bed, he could hear Ianto moving around in the living room and so climbed out of the bed and headed through there. "Hey." Ianto smiled when he noticed Jack, "How you feeling now?"
"Less tired." Jack said, "Thanks." He added.
"Cup of tea?" Ianto asked, Jack nodded and followed him into the kitchen, watching as the younger man boiled the kettle. "You were calling out in your sleep..." Ianto said quietly, not looking at Jack. Jack tensed, watching Ianto. "Not proper words just a lot of begging someone to stop... saying it hurt... You said Master once or twice too." Ianto said carefully, he glanced up then and was surprised to find Jack shaking, "Jack?"
"I... I... I can't." Jack whispered, trying to get his breathing under control, "Hurts too much."
"Okay, okay." Ianto said, moving closer and hugging Jack tight, "It's okay, you don't have to talk about it." He murmured softly, stroking the man's hair.
"No." Jack said suddenly, pulling away and surprising both himself and Ianto, "No, I do have to. You deserve to know and... Well if we're having a child together then there should be no more secrets."
"Jack, it's okay, I don't need you to tell me..." Ianto said softly.
Jack nodded, "But I need to tell you."
Ianto let out a breathe, "Okay, you go into the living room, I'll be there now." Jack nodded again and headed into the living room, wringing his hands, true to his word Ianto came through a few minutes later carrying two mugs of hot chocolate, a packet of biscuits and a tee-shirt. He threw the shirt at Jack, since the man was only wearing pyjama pants, "Don't want you catching a cold."
"Thanks." Jack mumbled, pulling the tee-shirt on and taking one of the mugs as Ianto sat down next to him. "I... God I don't know where to start... Umm... Okay, I travelled with this man once, he was called The Doctor..." Jack started, before going on to explain how he'd been killed by the daleks and woken up to find the Doctor gone, he told Ianto how he'd ended up in Cardiff, how he'd hung around waiting for the Doctor until, finally, he'd turned up. "I really never meant to be gone for long, I just wanted answers..." Jack murmured.
"Well I can understand that." Ianto smiled.
"He was leaving when I reached the TARDIS, that's his ship, I grabbed hold of it and it tried to shake me off..." Slowly, with several pauses, Jack told Ianto everything, all about the Master and the torture he'd endured at the time lord's hands. By the time he had finished Jack was shaking and looked close to vomiting, Ianto could only stare at him, "Oh god... I am so, so sorry." He whispered, "And we were so horrible to you about leaving!"
"You weren't to know... Besides, I still left in the first place." Jack shrugged.
"But..." Ianto trailed off and hugged Jack tightly, hating how much Jack was shaking at the memories he'd had to talk about. "I'm sorry I made you tell me..."
"You didn't make me, I chose to... We're having a baby together remember? No more secrets... Is it okay if I grab a shower?" Jack asked, he always felt dirty when thinking about the Master.
"Sure." Ianto said and released Jack, watching him walk away. Once Jack was out of sight Ianto grabbed a pillow and pulled it to his chest, taking a deep breathe as he struggled to take in everything Jack had told him. He looked up as he heard the shower turn on and gave a small smirk, he may not have been able to help Jack during the year that never was but he could help him now, and stop him brooding. Ianto stood up and headed into the bathroom, knocking on the shower door, "Want company." He wasn't surprised when the door opened and Jack grinned at him...
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"What do you think about Caitlin?"
"Huh?"
"As a name."
Ianto frowned, "I dunno... It's nice but..." He trailed off and gave a shrug.
"But..." Jack prompted.
"I kind of wanted a welsh name." Ianto said quietly, "If that's okay with you."
Jack smiled, "Sure it is. I'll just have to learn how to pronounce it!" He said with a laugh making Ianto grin. Then the Welshman frowned, "What?" Jack asked, leaning over to pick up his glass of water off the bedside table.
"Will she be like you?" Ianto asked quietly. "I mean... you know... Immortal."
"I have no idea." Jack said, "Alice isn't but I didn't carry her for ten months so... I don't know." He muttered, Ianto nodded, part of him wanted their daughter to be like Jack so that the man wasn't left alone, the rest of him didn't want their her to have to go through the pain of watching everyone she cared about die. He gave a small shiver at the thought and Jack looked at him in surprise, "You cold?" The man asked, dragging the duvet over their naked bodies.
"What are we Jack?" Ianto asked quietly, snuggling closer to the man and wrapping his arm around Jack's waist as Jack put his glass back down,
"Huh?"
"Us... What are we?"
"Do we need a definition?" Jack asked gently.
Ianto sighed, "Well I'd rather know for sure than sit around wondering..." He muttered. "I know you've slept with other people, and I'm not complaining or commenting or whatever, but I'd like to know where I stand."
Jack nodded, "Okay, I care about you, a lot, but one day you're going to die... And sometimes that gets to me, scares me and I feel the need to distance myself... So I go off and find some meaningless fuck. It makes it easier for a bit... I'm sorry."
"Don't be." Ianto said quietly, running his hand across Jack's stomach, "It's just part of who you are..." He paused as he stroked Jack's stomach, "Are you sure -"
"I haven't slept with anyone else since I got back." Jack interrupted, guessing Ianto's question.
Ianto nodded, "Right, sorry."
"It was a valid question." Jack shrugged, kissing the top of Ianto's head.
Ianto smiled slightly, "Look, I'm not going to ask you not to fuck other people, I don't like it but I understand that sometimes you need it... However we're moving in together Jack, and having a child, so far I've managed to convince myself that what we have is purely physical but -"
"It was never purely physical, let's face it. I really care about you, I... Well I care about you." Jack said quickly, "And the only reason I've been so against calling us a couple is because I knew I was going to lose you someday and I was trying to stop it hurting so much... But now that we're having the baby... Well it's made me realise that maybe I should just make the most of the time we have... Or something soppy like that." Jack shrugged making Ianto laugh.
"Well... I was going to tell my sister that you and I were dating... Not sure how she'll react but..." Ianto shrugged.
"She's your sister, I bet she'll love you no matter what you tell her, even if you tell her the whole truth..." Jack said carefully. Ianto looked up at him in shock and Jack smiled, "We can always retcon her if it goes wrong." He grinned.
Ianto nodded, "I'll think about it." He muttered before resting his head against Jack's chest and closing his eyes.
"Tired?"
"Hmmm...."
Jack smiled, "You sleep then." He said, "We can talk more tomorrow."
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Jack paced around his office before flopping into the chair and scowling at his door, the others had gone out to catch a rogue Weevil over an hour ago and still weren't back, he was beginning to get worried. He was just about to call them through the comms when his phone rang, "Hello." Jack said quickly, hoping it was one of the team.
"Jack! Oh it's good to hear your voice, How are you?"
"Martha." Jack sighed.
"Miss you too." The woman said sarcastically having picked up on his tone of voice.
Jack sighed, "Sorry, The team are out on a job and they should be back by now..."
"Why aren't you with them?"
"It's... Complicated. Hey, you know when you said you gave the Doctor your old phone? Could I have that number? There's some information I need from the future and only he can pick it up."
"Sure." Martha smiled and relayed the number down the phone.
"Thanks honey." Jack smiled, they had a brief conversation about work, Jack asked how Martha's family were doing and so on but Martha could tell that Jack was tense and so said goodbye and hung up fairly soon. Jack paced around his office a bit more before finally he had enough and used the comms to contact Tosh. "Where are you? You should be back by now."
"Jack! Shit sorry, we totally forgot to call you! The stupid spray didn't work, Gwen got hurt so we took her to the hospital to get stitches. She's fine, we've just dropped her off, we'll be about ten minutes." Tosh said.
"Right." Was all Jack could manage to say in reply, he hated feeling so worthless!
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