A/N: Okay, so someone told me how to check my traffic for my stories and stuff and i was just completly blown away by how many people actually read this. As of 2/10/2010, 16,626 people have clicked on this link but only 57 people have bothered to review. If you know you're one of those people who haven't reviewed, please don't be afraid to drop me line, even if its just 'i liked it'. Because as far i as i know, 16,569 people read this and hated it.

We're on the home-stretch now, everyone hold tight!

Ianto was sleeping. Jack propped himself up on one elbow to watch the gentle rise and fall of his lover's chest. Ianto hadn't been sleeping well the past few months. His bump was getting bigger and it made sleeping uncomfortable; Ianto was currently going to bed with five pillows to prop up his head, legs and back. Now though, Ianto was snoring softly and Jack tried not to wake him, he knew how important it was for Ianto to get some sleep and how hard he found it sometimes. Jack smiled as he saw Ianto slept with his hands clenched protectively around his bump. Jack glanced at his watch; it read 3:40AM. Ianto would be due in about a week or so but Owen had said to get prepared from 35 weeks onwards in case the baby was a little early. Jack could see Ianto was suffering in the late stages of his pregnancy, the baby was pressing into his ribcage and this meant he was always short of breath. Frequent trips to the bathroom also meant that he and Ianto couldn't really do anything that was too far from the bathroom. Car journeys meant swollen feet and ankles and sometimes Ianto wished that he would go back to the early morning sickness stage at least that wore off by lunchtime. Why pregnancy couldn't be more like the films, he wondered. Angelina Jolie had had six children and yet she was never pictured panting, desperate for the loo with swollen ankles. Jack had just chuckled when Ianto had complained about this unfortunate fact of life with him. He had reassured Ianto that he didn't need Angelina and her perfect looking pregnancies to make him happy, he had all he needed right here.

Jack looked back over to Ianto; a small frown had appeared on his lover's sleeping visage. Jack reached out and gently rubbed it away with a finger.

He was just beginning to drift back to sleep when he felt a hand on his arm.

"Jack, wake up!" Ianto's hands clambered on Jack's arms tighter. "I've got pain. Owwww!"

Jack snapped up, "Okay Yan, It's going to be alright. Just take some deep breaths; I'm going to call Owen." Jack made to move from the bed but Ianto gripped onto Jack tighter.

"No, don't go. It hurts too much!" Jack watched as Ianto's beautiful face contorted in pain, it broke his heart.

"Shush, it'll pass. I know, it feels likes waves, doesn't it?" Jack spoke softly.

"It's the baby, I know it is. Ahhhhh!" Ianto cried out.

Jack cupped his lover's face in his hands and stroked away the tears that were spilling down Ianto's cheeks. "Ianto, listen to me. We need to get you into the hub. I need to call Owen and get him to come over. Hey, hey!" Jack kissed the top of Ianto's head. "Just think when all this is over, you'll be holding a beautiful baby, our child. I love you, you're being so brave but we need to get moving. Do you feel better?" Jack looked down at Ianto, lines of pain were drawn across his face and he was rubbing circles on his bump.

"It's gone away now, it keeps coming and going." Ianto panted with the effort of speaking.

Jack attempted to sit them both up, "Okay, let's get dressed before the pain comes back, I'll grab the baby bag and we'll phone Owen on the way, yeah?"

Ianto nodded and Jack helped him to stand up.

When they arrived at the hub, Ianto had to double-up over the desk in the Tourist Office as another contraction hit him. Jack pelted through the hub shouting for Owen. Owen came rushing through the hub's medical bay to tend to Ianto. Between them, they managed to get Ianto lying on the metal table as Owen prodded and felt his stomach.

Jack winced as Ianto let out another cry of pain.

"Can't you just hurry up? He's in pain, do something!" Jack was trying to comfort a scared Ianto.

Owen pulled back to look up at the couple, "I can't Jack!"

"What?"

"Ianto, your contractions have started but your waters haven't broken yet." Owen looked at Jack, "I can't start cutting him up until he's gone into the second stage of labour, and he's still in the first."

Ianto wailed from the bed, "Please, it hurts, can't you give me something?"

Owen fumbled around the medical supplies trolley and pulled out a syringe. "Okay, this is called a pethidine injection. It won't stop the pain but it should help ease it a bit."

Jack held onto Ianto as the syringe went in, whispering encouragement, "Good boy, that's it. It's going to be fine."

Owen finished with the syringe and went to prepare the surgical tools, "He can't stay there, he needs to walk about a bit."

Jack stared at Owen incredulously, "What?"

"It'll speed everything up if he gets more active, he might be like this for hours yet."

"This is all your fault!" Both Owen and Jack turned to look at Ianto. "Bloody Torchwood, you did this to me! I never wanted to get pregnant!" Ianto was yelling accusations at everything as he struggled off the table.

Owen looked up at Jack, "He doesn't mean it, don't listen to anything he says. It's just the pain talking."

Owen and Jack were sat waiting for another two hours before Ianto's waters finally broke. Jack was trying to get Ianto to sit down and read a book to take his mind off it.

"I don't want to read a fucking book Jack! I want to have a baby, don't touch me!"

Minutes later, Ianto's ranting was interrupted by water seeping through his trousers and onto floor.

"Jack! My waters, I think they just broke."

Ianto was rushed back over to the able for more prodding and poking as Owen prepared a screen to cover Ianto's stomach, so he didn't have to watch Owen cut into him.

"Jack, I can't do this!" Ianto was holding onto Jack's hand in a bone-crushing grip.

Jack attempted to soothe his scared and pained lover. "Yes you can. You're nearly there; you've done the hard bit. Now you get to have a baby. Come on Yan, you're going be alright". He stroked Ianto's hair and kissed him then had to move aside temporarily as Owen gave Ianto another injection. This one would numb him completely from the waist down so that the caesarean could begin.

As Ianto's lower half began to numb, his contractions also began to ease so he was able to concentrate more on what Owen was doing.

From behind the screen, Owen began to cut into Ianto's flesh. Jack alternated from stroking Ianto's hair and whispering to him about their baby, to walking around the screen to check on what Owen was doing.

"Okay, I can see the foetus now, it's coming out." Owen was busy behind the screen and Ianto gripped onto Jack's hand tighter.

"It looks fine." Owen called through the screen. Both Jack and Ianto breathed sighs of relief.

"It's got a working placenta and everything. Jack, do want to come and cut the cord?"

Ianto let go of Jack's hand as Jack rushed around the screen to see the baby that Owen was holding.

Jack's face shone with happiness as he first clasped eyes on his and Ianto's first child together.

"Ianto, you did it! It's a little girl!" he called out.

Ianto collapsed back onto the bed, "A girl!" he thought.

Jack cut the cord where Owen had indicated and the hub filled with the sound of a healthy cry.

Owen rushed around the screen and plonked the baby girl onto Ianto's bare chest, where she snuggled closer to his warmth.

"I'm going to stitch you back up now." he said but Ianto wasn't listening. He was too busy marvelling at how beautiful his little daughter was.

"She's so tiny!" he looked up at Jack ho was beaming down at him.

"Yeah, but not for long!"

Ianto reached out to gently stroke the little girl's cheeks, "Her skin's so soft."

"Yep, she's brand new, straight out of the box. If you'll excuse the pun."

Ianto laughed, "That was just bad!"

"Hey! If you reach out and put your hands over her face, she'll open her eyes."

"Really?"

"Yeah, where she's just been, it's all nice and dark. In here with all the lights going, it's too bright for her. Watch!"

Ianto watched as Jack placed his hands just above the baby's face. Big blue eyes blinked open and focused on him.

"She's perfect." Ianto breathed.

"With our genes, what else would you expect?"

"Hey, baby," Ianto spoke to his little daughter. He gasped, "She doesn't have a name!"

"Well, what do you want to call her?" Jack bent down to coo over his and Ianto's new baby.

"Lowri."

"Lowri, that's a beautiful name. Hey, Lowri!" As Jack waggled his fingers in front of the baby's face, Lowri began to gurgle and kick her feet.

"Ha ha, see, you can't kick me now! I'm not falling for the same trick twice." Jack laughed.

"Lowri Caniad Harkness-Jones."

Owen came from around the screen. "I've stitched you all back up now but you'll still be numb from the anaesthetic. So don't try and get up 'cause you'll fall flat on your face. If you start feeling sore, you can have painkillers and you won't be able to have sex for a least a week to give the stitches a chance to heal."

Ianto looked up, "Thanks Owen. I don't know what we would have done without you."

Jack walked over to Owen and shook his hand, "Yeah, I owe you a drink at least."

Owen shrugged it off, "Nah, I mean I'd have expected you to, if y'know… Anyway shall we clean this one up a bit? Make you more presentable for the photos 'cause y'know the girls'll be all over you once they hear."

Ianto let Jack take Lowri from him and watched as his partner held their daughter for the first time.

Jack washed his little baby carefully and dressed her in a cute white baby-gro with bunny-rabbit ears on a hood that Gwen had bought before anyone could stop her. Jack handed Lowri back to Ianto and put an arm around his lover as Owen took some photos on his phone to send to Gwen and Tosh. He texted them:

Lowri Caniad Harkness- Jones

7Ib 8oz

He attached the pictures, then left to give Jack and Ianto some privacy with their new baby.

Ianto looked back down at his little Lowri and then at Jack. "I love you both, so much." he said.

Jack bent down to claim Ianto's mouth, "I love you too, and our daughter."

Lowri snuggled closer to Ianto's chest and snoozed gently.

A/N: Right! The baby has finally arrived and it's a little girl called Lowri Caniad Harkness-Jones. One more chapter to go, a little prologue in which Gwen and Tosh meet Lowri and then the story will be continued in the sequel!