11
"Do you think they made it?" Ianto asked softly from the doorway and Jack looked up from the bottle of retcon he was counting pills from.
"Yeah" he smiled reassuringly, "I do."
Ianto slid onto the desk and looked at him with his hands clasped between his thighs, a look Jack loved.
Jack knew without a doubt that he loved this man.
"Ianto …"
"No. We shouldn't even talk about it. The retcon needs to stick" Ianto said as he reached out and stroked Jack's cheek.
Jack stood and took Ianto into his arms, Ianto's face against his stomach and his arms around his waist.
"I love you" Jack said softly, "I always have."
"Sure, tell me when I'm about to forget!" Ianto sighed as he rolled his eyes.
Jack leaned down and kissed him, taking his face in his hands and enjoying and way Ianto canted his head for more.
Jack pushed him back onto the desk and stroked his sides as they kissed some more.
"When you two are finished ya tonsil hockey, we're ready to go" Owen huffed from the doorway.
"The tech?" Jack asked as he slowly crawled of the panting Welshman.
"The broken tech is in the middle of the table like one of us dropped it, yeah" Owen rolled his eyes in a pretty good parody of Ianto.
"So when we wake, we'll think it was because of that we did the retcon thing" Jack confirmed as they prepared to forget the last six hours.
As Ianto slid past a leering Owen Jack reached back and snagged a sheet of paper, folding it and sliding it into his pocket.
He knew he would check his pockets in the safety of the bunker later, any retcon willingly taken would have such a note.
He also knew the others would never know he had this failsafe method of double checking himself and the retcon usage within staff.
The message would be read.
He would understand it and take the measures asked.
By this time tomorrow they would have forgotten about the 'other-Ianto' but Jack would still remove the birth control device he had under his VM.
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Ianto was huddled in Jack's arms as he watched the palace come to life with angry shouts and running guards.
"I'm tired" he sighed as he laid his head on Jacks shoulder.
"Oh Gods, I almost lost you" Jack said with such sorrow that Ianto hummed.
Young King John approached and knelt by the throne, not at all perturbed by the sight of Ianto in Jack's lap.
"We have searched his room, found some leads" he reported, reaching out to soothe Ianto with a pat to his hands.
"Johnny" Ianto smiled, reaching out and cupping his cheek, "I'm OK."
"Good!" he growled, "Because I will set the world afire to protect you, my husband!"
Em hovered nearby and Ianto flicked his eyes in her direction, "And her?"
John smiled and the swagger bled away as he looked shyly at her, "For her? Gods, Ianto. For her I would capture the suns and make a necklace if it pleased her so."
"Good" Ianto smiled, feeling the weight of the jump.
"Sire!" a man stood with the Torchwood insignia on his uniform and Ianto slid from his husbands and stood, proudly accepting the salute.
"We have tracked it back, this man is in fact a Hallett house spy" he informed his king, "We have been able to track his movements and found a cell in all the houses. Seems they tried to attack each house and we luckily stopped any bloodshed by contacting security for each house before the sunrise and subsequent plan was set in action."
"So, had I not taken an impromptu midnight wander I would have been assassinated this morn?" Ianto blanched.
"Young King John's small sister was the target of his house" the man said and John rushed from the room to contact his family, the horror thrumming through the bonds.
"And mine?" Jack said softly, "It was Ianto?"
"Sire." The man turned and sighed.
"Who?"
"Wee Princess Athena, her wet-nurse" he said as he watched Ianto pale.
"Oh my gods" Ianto breathed with shock, "They hated the bonding so much?"
"No my good Sire" the man bowed, "They just wanted the war."
"Do we have them all?" Good King John entered with Queen River on his heels. She ran straight to the throne and gathered the two men into her arms.
"Oh my sweeties" she cried.
"Yes Sire" the Torchwood Security man turned and bowed.
"I want a word with them before we remove their bloody heads!" Good King John snarled and Ianto sighed into River's breasts.
Those poor fools had no idea the storm that was about to break over their pitiful heads as Jack's father spoke with fire and brimstone in his eyes.