9

"How were the gods assigned planets?" Toshiko settled back on the bed as she became more comfortable with this young man.

Jack's statue was still unnoticed as he tried to swallow down his confusion.

"Well, Toshi died to protect, it is said her death brought tears like rainfall." Ianto smiled, "So the water planet claimed her."

"Stephen died to protect the earth, hence, the earth god."

So he became the planet with food and fertile land!" Tosh said and was rewarded with a smile.

"Rosa, well, she is said to be of fiery stuff, able to bend …"

"Ianto?" Toshiko asked as he seemed to stall out and become upset.

"I should not be speaking of such things." Ianto reached for the baby that was sleeping on his lap, pulling him to his chest and shuffling back into the pillows.

"That's only three" Theodore-Ianto said, entering the room, "You said four. There is another god."

Ianto stared up at him and shook his head, unable to go any further for fear of angering the gods who may be already listening.

"Air!" Owen said after he had thought about it, "There has to be air!"

Ianto smiled up at the acidic man and decided to like him. "The most elusive god of all. Most do not believe he exists, for he is very selective with his favour."

Owen turned to Jack, waiting for some lude comment and finally noticed his face.

"Jack" Owen leaned into his face, "You in there?"

"Sorry" Jack rose and looked at Ianto and the baby as things started forming in his brain.

He knew why the Goddess of Fire was Rose. He also knew what she could bend, the some reason this other-Ianto had managed to jump through time without a VM.

The Fire Goddess was the Heart of the Tardis and she moved Time and Space.

He had a lot to think about as he also saw Tosh and Stephen involved. How did this involve him and Yan though?

After they had all left, Tosh slid closer and was rewarded with the offer of a cuddle with the baby.

"He's so tiny" she whispered as she looked down at the imp.

"Tosh" Ianto said quietly, "This may sound silly, but do you believe in dragons?"

"Oh!" she blinked and then smiled, "Yes. In my culture, the dragon is highly regarded. They are usually water or fire."

"Water?" Ianto raised an eyebrow in such a familiar way that she felt warmer towards him.

"Yes" she confirmed.

After she had left, Jack re-entered and closed the door, choosing to sit where she had on the edge of the bed instead of in the chair.

"I don't know how to get back" Ianto stated, as if he knew the question forming. "I do know that you can help me though."

"What didn't you tell them?" Jack asked softly.

"Tosh is Toshi. Rose... well, she is the one that stung you. You know that she wields time, right?"

"Of course Stephen got a reaction as well." Ianto leaned back and stared at his husband's double. "The one I stopped short of was the elusive air. I'm saying too much now, altering timelines. You have to be careful with wibbley-wobbley timey-wimey stuff like that."

Jack blinked.

"So, that means something as well"? Ianto huffed, "My father-in-law is the reincarnation of the On-Coming Storm."

"So your husband …"

"Husbands. Plural." Ianto took delight in the look of glee, "My beloved Jack is my bond mate. John Hart if my second husband, to form the triad needed to keep the treaty intact."

"So you are all considered reincarnations?" Jack asked as he worked it out, "You and your husband, Jack, are me and my Ianto?"

"The one true king is said to have been born of two immortals" Ianto decided to go for broke. If this man was who he thought he was, it was the only way to get home, "Jack and I are in their image. You! You are my Jack, as I am Ianto. He is the other immortal that came with you to that solar system and had a child. The one true king."

"And, the one true king … he rules everything?" Jack asked with a soft smile.

"Yes, the one true king has not only the image of one of the immortals, but their power as well." Ianto nodded, "That is how I jumped through time. I can use the power of the gods."

"Air" Jack said softly.

"Owen" Ianto supplied and Jack sighed.

"He will die too"

"They must, their deaths must be for the greater good or the other Gods of the cosmos will not raise them up to the heavens and assign them their powers." Ianto agreed.

"I know a John Hart, he is involved too?" Jack was getting into murky waters but had to know.

"Not more than a reincarnation, I don't think. Not immortal, he was said to follow them though, the original." Ianto smiled. "Lisa, she was my first … almost love."

Jack nodded, "Here too."

"Gwen … she, well. She is here also." Ianto pointed out, "all that's missing is Myfanwy."

Jack cleared his throat and Ianto laughed as he recalled the flapping of wings.

"So I need John to get you home and start the chain of events that leads to your timeline" Jack said as he rose.

"But it is too late" Ianto sighed as he laid back in the pillows, "I have told you. I have changed it."

"We have a way to forget" Jack assured him. "We can send you back and forget."

Ianto nodded gloomily as he thought of home.

Could his husband's ancestor help?