Title: Keeping Up with the Harkness-Joneses
Fandoms: Torchwood/Glee
Pairings: Mostly Jack/Ianto and Quinn/Finn, with grautitious mentions of many Doctor Who, Torchwood and Glee ships.
Rating: PG-13, and a sound PG-13 at that
Warning: Lots of fluff, lots of sad chapters, implications and mentions of domestic abuse, occasional violent chapters and Jack and Ianto like to kiss...a lot.
Beta:I don't have one at the moment, but if you'd like to, I'd be more than appreciative!
Summary:After discovering that Ianto is immortal, Jack is able to rebuild his life with the other man. They become Ianto and Jack Harkness-Jones, and are dropped off in Lima, Ohio by the Doctor. Why Lima? The Rift is like a window, with Cardiff on one side, and Lima on the other side. They expect the craziness that comes with the Rift. What they don't expect? Needing to adopt a six year old: Quinn Fabray. And they discover that life doesn't always turn out like they planned.
Notes: No triggers this chapter either! This is a nice, fluffy chapter and Donna's in it! As well as Ten! Yaaaaaaaaaay! And I'm on spring break, which makes everything better!
carnation12 (Chapter 10 review): In Glee's canon, I think Santana's parents are still together but it's never quiet established, and I wrote that chapter back in like...November, maybe? Something like that.
"Dad! The Doctor's here!" Quinn hollers from upstairs, as the blue box materializes on their front lawn. She's got her yellow favorite sundress on, and underneath the sundress is a blue bikini. "Dad! Both of you: come on! The Doctor said he'd only take us to planet Barcelona just this once because this is the last time it's going to be like this for the next four billion years and you never take me to the beach and this is the only time I don't have rehearsal or a recital on a Saturday!"
"Quinn, you need to put on sunscreen before we go!" Jack says, coming in with SPF 100. Ianto had insisted that anything over 30 was all the same, just more expensive, but Jack didn't want to run the risk of Quinn getting sunburned, especially on a foreign planet. He's never been there, but if the Doctor was willing to bring Rose there, Jack knew that it was safe. But there was still always the element of danger with the Doctor, so he was playing it extremely safe. "Put on your sunscreen and then we can go!"
"Daddy Jack, I can put my sunscreen on when we get on the TARDIS!" Quinn whines, squirming out of her dad's grasp. But then he starts tickling her and she laughs, hugging her daddy tightly. "I love you, Daddy Jack," she says, kissing her dad's cheek. "I can't wait to spend the day with you and Daddy Ianto. I'm super excited! I've been looking forward to it all week!" She kisses Jack's cheek again. "But I still don't want to put on sunscreen."
"I love you too, baby girl," he says, kissing her forehead and hugging her close to him for a moment. She absolutely has him wrapped around her finger, and he loves her and Ianto with all his heart. Well, he loves Quinn's friends too, and he loves being a foster dad to all of them, but Quinn has the center of his heart. They are a happy family, and Jack hopes it will stay that way for a long time. But now is now, and he says to her fondly, "But you still need to put on sunscreen." She opens her mouth to protest and he says, "Put it on, and then we can go. I'm sure the Doctor can't wait to see you. But you need to put your sunscreen on so you don't get sunburned."
"Fine," Quinn grumbles, taking the sunscreen away from her dad, and quickly applying it to her legs, arms and stomach. "Daddy, it's cold and it tickles," she giggles. Jack makes sure that her back and face are well-taken care of before he stops applying the sun screen. "Now, can we go, Daddy?" she demands, stamping her foot. He nods and she takes off down the stairs.
He follows her slowly, pausing to admire Ianto double-checking some things. The man was wearing a fitted shirt and lovely bathing suit. They have known each other for roughly twelve years—time was so complicated—and still Ianto looks absolutely stunning to him every day. "Didn't realize that when I said you looked good in a suit, you looked good in all suits," he says, walking over to Ianto and wrapping his arm around Ianto's waist. He kisses Ianto's cheek gently, and noses his ear gently. "The things I would do to you if we were on a beach alone…"
"Careful, sir, that's harassment," Ianto says as neutrally as possible, lifting an eyebrow at Jack and smirking. But Ianto presses his forehead against Jack's and they kiss tenderly. They stand like that for a moment and Ianto smiles against Jack, his Jack, murmuring, "I love you so much." They stand there kissing for a few minutes more, until they hear the stomp of feet coming up the stairs and their door swings wide open. They both turn to look at Quinn, who simply raises an eyebrow and shakes her head at the pair of them. "All right, annwyl, we're coming," Ianto says, slinging the beach bag over his shoulder and walking downstairs.
The TARDIS door opens to reveal the Doctor, and Quinn squeals delightedly, "Doctor!" But it's Jack and Ianto who smile brightly when a red-headed woman pops up from behind the Doctor. Ianto has never officially met Donna Noble, but they all remember the last time they saw each other: the Dalek invasion. Jack had informed him of the tragic fate of the woman who had been so beneficial in getting Jack back to him. He was pleased to meet her in person.
"Dad, who is that?" Quinn takes a step back to hide behind her Daddy Ianto's leg, clutching at his hip. Ianto winces a little bit; she's stronger than she used to be and she's stopped biting her fingernails down to the nub. She looks up at her daddies, and it's clear she doesn't trust the woman in the TARDIS. Quinn, after all this time, still has a hard time trusting new adults. Jack squeezes her shoulder gently, and she looks up at him with eyes full of fear.
"It's all right, Quinn," the Doctor says gently. "Do you think the TARDIS would let Donna stay if she wasn't a nice woman?" Donna looks at the Doctor and opens her mouth but the Doctor shakes his head. "Quinn needs to trust you on her own merit," he whispers to her. "She will by the time we get there, but you can't force it. She trusts quickly and loves a lot. It's just the initial meeting that's hard. But Quinn trusts Jack and Ianto and they know you. It'll be fine."
"Hey, Q-Bear? Look at me, honey," Jack kneels down so he can look his daughter in the eye. "Donna is a friend. To me, to Daddy Ianto, to the Doctor and to the TARDIS. She's not going to hurt you," he murmurs, bringing his daughter a little closer. He kisses her forehead and she throws her arms around his neck.
"Daddy, I'm scared," she whispers. "I don't this know lady."
"I know, honey," Jack whispers, putting hand to the back of her blond head. He squeezes her reassuringly and Ianto pets the top of her head gently. "But I do. And so does your Daddy Ianto. You trust me, right? You trust your Daddy Ianto, right?" Quinn nods. "Okay then. Let's go meet Donna." Jack takes one of her hands, and Quinn grabs Ianto's hand with her other hand and they walk over to the TARDIS. It hums warmly as Quinn steps on board, and Quinn smiles a little bit. "Right, sorry about that," Jack says with a smile. He looks quizzically from Donna to the Doctor and asks the Doctor lowly, "Is this before or after…?"
"You can ask me, thank you very much, Jack Harkness," Donna says, rolling her eyes at Jack and Quinn lets out a small giggle. Donna smiles back at her. Quinn edges a little bit farther away from her dads and closer to Donna. "And it's after, in case you wanted to know. My Doctor is eccentric, but he is brilliant. He found a way to keep my memories stable without overwhelming me." She looks him up and down appraisingly and says, "Glad to see you haven't changed a bit." They hug quickly and Donna places a quick kiss to Jack's cheek.
"Actually," Jack says, curling his arm around Ianto's waist and kissing his husband gently. "It's Jack Harkness-Jones now. And this is my daughter, Quinn Harkness-Jones." With a smirk, he adds to an open-mouthed Donna, "Thank you very much."
"I swear, wherever we go, we run into someone you know who wants to snog your brains out," Ianto grumbles good-naturedly.
"Ah, but you're the only one who gets to," Jack says, kissing Ianto to prove his point. "Besides, where would I be without my loving Ianto?"
"Hopelessly and forever sexually frustrated," Ianto growls lowly into Jack's ear so Quinn can't hear him. Jack chuckles and pecks Ianto's lips lightly. "I love you."
"Pay up!" the Doctor cries gleefully. When three pairs of confused gazes turn on him, the Doctor explains, "Donna bet me five quid that Jack would never settle down into domestic life. I told you, Donna: he's married and they have a daughter. Now pay up!"
"Dad, what's a quid?" Quinn asks curiously. Then she sees Donna pull the currency out of her purse, and lays her palm out flat for Quinn to see. Quinn picks up the money in her hand and examines it. "She's not American, is she, Dad?" She looks back at her dads, and they smile back at her, both beaming with pride.
"How do you know which one of you she's talking to?" Donna asks curiously when Quinn tries to hand the coin back. "No love, go give to the Doctor then, 'ey? I'm sure he's about to burst because he loves when I'm wrong and he's right." In a lower voice, she adds to Quinn, "Bloody men. Always want to be right. When are they gonna learn that we only let them win certain battles?"
"Oi!" Ianto exclaims indignantly. "No cursing in front of our daughter." He adds, wanting to answer Donna's question, "And whenever she's addressing us in the plural it's 'Dad' or 'Daddy'. When she wants one of us specifically it's 'Daddy Ianto' or 'Daddy Jack'."
"Daddy Ianto, 'bloody' isn't a swear word. It's an adjective. Duh," Quinn says, looking pointedly at her father. "We learned that last week at school." This sends Donna and Jack into a chorus of laughter and Quinn just shakes her head because she knows that when she's older she'll understand why all of this is so funny. She places the coin in the Doctor's palm and then she goes to sit next to Donna and whispers into the older woman's ear, "My dads can be very silly sometimes."
"My girls are ganging up on me now?" Jack asks playfully, pretending to be offended. Ianto gives him a raised eyebrow and Jack wraps his arms around the Welshman and says, "Oh, don't give me that look, Ianto. You know I'm yours." He whispers gently into Ianto's ear, "I'm forever yours." Ianto smiles at Jack and kisses him softly. The Doctor goes back to controlling the TARDIS.
"Do they do this often, then?" Donna asks Quinn as Jack and Ianto are quickly lost in their own little world.
"You have no idea," Quinn says dryly, lifting her eyebrows at the other woman. "Sometimes when Daddy Jack gets home from work the first thing he does is go straight to Daddy Ianto's arms and he doesn't come out and they kiss over and over and over again." She rolls her head a little bit on each 'over' to emphasize her point.
Quinn adds softly, contemplatively, and almost sadly, "It's not so bad though. They both like it, and they smile. And I like when my dads are happy. My first mom and dad were never happy. But it's okay because Daddy Jack and Daddy Ianto are almost never sad. But one time, they were standing in the kitchen for a whole hour together, just hugging each other. There weren't any smiles there. I think Daddy Jack had a very bad day at work that day."
"Blimey," Donna says, looking from Quinn to the married Harkness-Jones couple. She can't help but smile, though: it's clear that Jack and Ianto even each other out, and the little girl was just an added bonus. She has so many questions floating through her head about the hows and whys of what makes this relationship work, but she doesn't want to disturb Jack and Ianto. She'd only known Jack for a short time, but she can tell it was easy for him to find comfort and peace in Ianto's arms. "Well, it's a good thing I'm here then, 'ey? It's nice to have another girl around."
"Yup!" Quinn says cheerfully. "My dads don't know how to braid hair. Santana taught me how to do one and now I'm better than her. I'm better than Rachel's dads too! All my friends at school say so!"
"Blimey, boys, and you call yourselves dads! You don't even know how to braid hair!" Donna scoffs and shakes her head. Quinn giggles and sits in front of Donna, pushing her hair back to the other woman. "All right, let me see if I've got this. It's been awhile."
By the time they to get to the planet Barcelona, Quinn's hair has been braided intricately and Quinn is absolutely buzzing with affection for her 'Aunt Donna'. The Doctor opens the TARDIS door, to reveal a sterling beach where a few different breeds of aliens and some humans are lounging about in the sun. "Now, Quinn," Ianto says sternly, making sure his daughter pays attention before he loses her to the beach. "What are the rules for visiting a foreign planet?"
"Don't stare, don't go off on my own, let you or Daddy Jack know where I'm going, and scream at the top of my lungs if I'm in trouble," Quinn recites dully.
"And what do you scream?"
"Fy helpu i." Quinn's Welsh pronunciation is nearly as smooth as Ianto's now. "Daddy Ianto! Let's go! I've been waiting all week for this!" Ianto nods and they go onto the beach. A few hours are spent frolicking in the water with Quinn and Jack before Ianto decides he absolutely needs a nap and goes to doze in a beach chair.
Jack and Quinn are building a sand castle on the shore line, structuring the thing. Jack thinks it's the best damn sand castle he's ever seen and he hopes that the sand creatures that live on this planet will love living in it. Quinn waits until her Daddy Ianto is soundly asleep before she says to her Daddy Jack, eyes alight with mischief, "We could pour a bucket of water on him right now, Daddy."
"Yeah?" Jack asks, grinning at his little girl. He notes that she's picked up on his mischievous little grin. "Go clean out the bucket, Quinnie. We don't want to get sand in your Daddy Ianto's eyes." She nods and heads for the water. Jack has his eye on her the whole time, and barely blinks out of fear of losing her for a nanosecond.
"See?" the Doctor says to Donna as they're sprawled out on a towel, looking up at the orange and pink sky. "I told you she's both of them in one person. She's not too much like Ianto, and she's not too much like Jack."
"Thank goodness she's not too much like Jack," Donna quips, looking up at the scheming father and daughter. "I think one Jack is enough for Ianto."
"I'll have you know that my husband loves me very much, exactly the way I am," Jack says cheekily, calling over to the red-head. Quinn returns with a sloshing bucket of water. He and Quinn creep up in front of Ianto, whose chin is against his chest. Jack mouths, "1…2…"
"Jack, if a drop of water from that bucket gets anywhere on me, you're getting decaf for a month," Ianto says, not even opening his eyes. "And I mean it this time." He opens one eye to look at his husband and their daughter, who have similar, shocked expressions on their faces. "I always know," he says, grinning at them.
"That you do," Jack says, leaning into kiss him. And suddenly, they are both sopping wet. Jack looks up sputtering at his daughter, who smiles innocently at them, hiding the red bucket behind her back. "We're going to get you for that," he says to his daughter, lifting his eyebrows and shaking the water out of his hair.
"You'll have to catch me first," Quinn says, taking off. Jack and Ianto immediately take off after her, partially for the fun of the game, and partially out of fear that she is going to get hurt by one of the aliens on the beach. Thankfully, Ianto catches her first and begins tickling her all over. Jack joins her until she laughs out, "Dad! Stop! I can't breathe!" So they take a step back and she regains control of her laughter.
It's then that the Doctor announces that the Harkness-Jones family needs to go back to their own time. Quinn lets out a whine of protest, but she gladly accompanies her family back to the TARDIS, who she swears has turned a darker shade of blue over the course of the day. "Tired, pumpkin?" Ianto asks her.
"No," she yawns and crawls into her Daddy Jack's lap. "Not tired…love you, Daddy Jack. Daddy Ianto." Soon after, she's asleep in his arms, and Jack and Ianto are watching their daughter sleep. Their heads are pressed together, and Ianto is humming a Welsh lullaby under his breath. The Doctor has known Jack for a while now, and he has never seen Jack look at anything with that fond reverence, with the exception of Ianto. And he's glad that after years of being tormented and lost that Jack has something to anchor him.
So, yeah, I hope you enjoyed that. Spring is just around the corner, guys! I don't know what that means for you, but for me it means shorts! And also warmer weather!
-LBP