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Chapter 3

Ianto woke up with a sore neck. He hadn't slept in the best position and he knew during the rest of the day he would be paying for it. He sat up and stretched. For a split moment he let his mind convince him that all that had happened last night was that he had fallen asleep in front of the television and that was the reason why he was asleep on the sofa. But just as he was starting to believe that he heard foot steps on the stairs and the pain in his heart brought him back to reality.

He got up reluctantly. Looking at the clock he noted that he had just over an hour to get his son ready for nursery and then he'd head to work. He walked towards the nursery and looked over to the stairs where Jack was standing.

"You didn't come to bed." Jack said watching him closely. Ianto noted that he had pulled on an old pair of sweat pants and a plain tee. Ianto hadn't thrown any of Jack's stuff away, deep down he always believed that Jack would come back to him, he'd just hoped that he would come back and everything would go back to normal, back to how they were before he went away. Ianto always knew his expectations were too high.

"No." Ianto says simply.

"Why?" Jack asks staring at him confused. "Thought we'd have a lot to catch up on." Ianto stares at him in disbelief. "I'm joking. I just thought it would be nice to you know, lye next to you."

Ianto, for a minute, feels as though nothings changed. Jack had started to talk like that more and more before he left. Slowly changing their sexual relationship to a couple and Ianto had fallen for it then, he didn't want to fall for it again; not now anyway, not when his neck still ached from where Jack had gripped him tight last night. Instead of saying anything, Ianto moved towards the nursery, he put the light on and walked over to the cot and smiled. He gently woke up his son watching as he turned away wanting to go back to sleep.

"Ianto, what's...What's his name?" Jack asked, standing at the door watching them.

Ianto looked back at him. "Jack." He whispers. "His name's Jack."

Feeling his heart swell, Jack looked at him, a small smile made it's way on his lips and he let it settle there, he hadn't smiled in a long time, it felt weird to smile now. "Jack." He smiled.

"I needed one Jack in my life." Ianto says softly, he picks up his son and starts talk to him, gently encouraging him out of his sleepy state. "Come on baby, gotta get you up and dressed for nursery."

"What nursery does he go to?" Jack asked, feeling as though he needed to take an interest in his sons life, even though he still couldn't quite believe that he had fathered such a beautiful baby boy.

"Leap frog." Ianto smiles. "He just started there properly." He adds. Jack nods and watches as Ianto gets him ready for school. Before he left Jack had never even thought of Ianto as good with children; they had never mentioned it before.

Jack bit his lip as he watched how cute his son was. He was currently playing with Ianto's shirt as he got him dressed, talking nonsense as he did so. Ianto was a natural, talking back in the same baby language, pretending to have a conversation with his son making him giggle excitedly.

"Do...Do you think I could come with you to the nursery?" Jack asks.

Ianto stops and looks at Jack, he was confused to why all of a sudden Jack was interested, a part of him wanted to scream at him that he couldn't be hot one minute and cold the next, but the bigger part of him felt proud and relieved. He'd missed Jack for the two years he had gone and now all he wanted was for Jack to have a part in his life. "Of course." Ianto finds himself smiling.

Jack smiles back, "Maybe after we could get a coffee? Talk?" When Ianto nodded Jack suddenly felt his stomach turn, was he ready to talk about what had happened? No. But he knew that they both had a lot to talk about.