Lycan Ianto

Disclaimer: I don't own anything Torchwood, just borrowing the characters.

Chapter 14

A/N: Sorry it's been a while since I updated but after receiving so few reviews I was disillusioned and just didn't feel like writing, it's hard to write when you don't think you are reaching people. But I like this story so I will continue but reviews will make it reach your alerts faster.

Friday

Over the next couple of days Ianto put on a professional front, his business as usual, ensuring the team got to where they needed on time with all the right equipment, weevils and Myfanwy fed, the Hub clean and tidied, the files completed and filed away and the occasional field work but his thoughts were with Lisa and his new state of being, that of being a werewolf, knowing that Torchwood would hunt him down, imprison him, maybe even experiment on him, maybe even bring in Lisa and experiment on her. He wouldn't let that happen.

For the time being he will keep his secret, keep it from Jack, keep it from Torchwood. He knew it was wrong, essentially, but his instincts was preservation for his life as he couldn't guarantee that Torchwood, that Jack, wouldn't take the opportunity of having a werewolf in the cells. Even if it was his lover, he thought that Jack would think that all bets were off, he would see Ianto as a threat.

Each night he went into the Blackweir Woods in the hope that he would see Lisa, he had felt she understood him, well, she was like him, he wanted to ask her more questions, he wanted to know was there a cure, could this be reversed. As much as he enjoyed Lisa's company and the hunt together he didn't think that he could do this forever, he didn't think that Jack would accept Ianto as a werewolf.

Friday night and Jack was on rift duty, although he asked Ianto to stay the night, Ianto lied, yes it was killing him to lie to Jack, but just for the time being, he kept on telling himself, and said to Jack that he was going over his sisters to help her out.

He knew that he had to eat some meat as he remembered Lisa saying that she transforms about once every one or two weeks, mentally kicking himself that he didn't make a definite time and day to meet to hunt together he would just have to fluke it to meet up with her but in the meantime he knew that he would have to eat some sort of meat to stop the transformation happening too soon.

He didn't want to experiment with eating meat with Jack; he thought it best to do this on his own. It had been a while, so he thought it was best to trial what meats would sustain him for as long as possible and which ones he could stomach.

Ianto didn't have a problem with placing the thick juicy steak into the sizzling pan, he was used to cooking for others, and most others ate meat, so this wasn't difficult for him. What was difficult was eating it himself.

He sat at the table, the steak sitting on his plate, the steam wafting above it, the aroma assailing his nostrils as he held the knife and fork in both hands trying to gain the nerve to cut a piece to put in his mouth. Taking a deep breath he stabbed at the steak with his fork and then with the knife he sliced off a bite sized piece. Gulping he quickly placed the cut meat piece into his mouth, the heat from the steak still evident as he could feel the warmth from the cooked steak. 'Chew, chew' he admonished himself much like a mother would a child when introducing a new food and they were reluctant to chew the newly presented food. Swallowing, Ianto tried desperately not to throw up, gulping again and again to prevent the gag reflex, learning to suck cock was easier, he thought randomly, the gag reflex was not as evident, and considering the size of Jack that was a feat. Well that was one bite, now to continue cutting another piece, Ianto started the process again, of putting it in his mouth, chewing and swallowing all the while supressing the urge to regurgitate the unwelcome necessary sustenance. Thankfully eating the whole steak was enough to delay the transformation for another day, he was sure that if he kept on eating a small amount of meat each night or day he could the delay what was surely going to happen.

Once he was certain that he had delayed the transformation for the night Ianto did join Jack at the Hub, citing that he had missed him, which wasn't too much from the truth, he did miss the sex and the comfort that Jack afforded him. His new werewolf state also heightened his sexual appetite and he couldn't get enough of Jack. Not that Jack was complaining, well not too much, but after the fourth time in the one night Jack said maybe they should get some sleep.

Saturday

Returning home after spending the rest of Friday night and most of the Saturday with Jack, tiring him out, Ianto chanced going to the woods near his apartment in the hope that he would see Lisa, and he was lucky.

"Hey Lisa" he called out.

The dark skinned girl turned to see Ianto waving at her from a distance, "Hey yourself"

"Are you needing to transform?"

"No but I thought you might, seeing as you are a vego, and not having meat every day you would need to transform before I did so I came out here on the off-chance that you would be here"

Smiling shyly Ianto replied, "Nar, I'm eating some meat now to delay the transformation"

"Mmm I'm impressed" Lisa said with a genuine smile nodding her head in approval.

"Thank you but oh …it was difficult I almost threw up the first time, it's a struggle but I'm getting used to it" Ianto said.

"Haha you're funny Ianto"

"I'm glad I'm a source of amusement for you" Ianto said smiling.

They stood there in companionable silence for a few minutes, "So Ianto other than eating meat, how are you feeling….you know, now that you know that you are a werewolf"

"Yeah you know, shit happens" Ianto said shrugging his shoulders.

"Well you're taking it a lot better than some who have turned, I've seen born werewolves who don't adjust to human form"

"What? Born werewolves?"

"Yeah not all of us are turned werewolves"

"How so?"

"Well there are turned werewolves like you …and me" Lisa explained, " and then there's the werewolves who were born that way"

"No way…really they are born as werewolves and what…they turn into human?" Ianto queried.

"Yeah, the werewolf clan has been around for some time, they have children just like us, only they are born like wolf cubs and they need to learn to transform into human in their early teens"

"Wow, interesting, so they are wolves most of the time?"

"Yeah" Lisa said laughing, "there have been many who don't like to turn human and stay as wolves all their lives"

"But why?"

"I suppose that their true form is easier for them and I suppose when you think of the limitations of being a human…" Lisa said shrugging her shoulders.

"So there are more born werewolves than …what you call us…turned werewolves?"

"Yeah turned werewolves like us, are bitten by another werewolf, now that is not usual, it was probably a rogue werewolf that turned you"

"A rogue werewolf?' Ianto asked quizzically.

"Yeah rogue werewolves are werewolves who have been banished out of the clan"

"Okay…trying to keep up here, so a rogue werewolf bit me?"

"I'm assuming, I have heard that there is one here, haven't you seen the bodies in the park?"

"Yeah…oh?...oh!" Ianto understanding all the mutilated bodies that Torchwood had been investigating.

"Well a rogue werewolf is either thrown out of the clan or a male werewolf has tried to develop his own clan. These rouge werewolves are rare and nomadic, they tend to be skinnier, their coats are less shiny, as they don't feed well, mainly because they aren't hunting together"

"You sound like an encyclopaedia"

"Sorry but that's the facts, rogue werewolves aren't accepted in the clan, the clan doesn't approve or support their ways"

"What's this clan?"

"Oh that's right, I forget that you're a newbie. You'll see soon enough"

"Well that's cryptic" Ianto said then turning serious, "what's this clan?"

Sighing heavily, Lisa continued explaining, "The clan is a group of werewolves that gather together about once a month, you will feel the call to go soon enough"

"Huh? What?"

"Look….on the full moon, I know cliché, whether you have transformed recently or not you will feel the need to go somewhere where a clan gathers. It strengthens the binds between all werewolves"

"I'm sorry I don't understand" Ianto said shaking his head, understanding and yet not understanding.

"We gather on a full moon, not to hunt and kill as the movies have you believe but to strengthen the family unit"

"Huh?"

"Like I said before not all werewolves are made, some, actually most, are born that way, some live normal human lives, some hunt together in small groups but we all gather together on the full moon"

Ianto sat there taking in this new information, his eyes telling her to tell him more, Lisa continued, "Sometimes they meet in crypts or caves, here the meeting place is in Blackweir Woods, have been for more than four centuries"

"What? Here in Cardiff?"

"Yeah" Lisa said trying to suppress her laughter as Ianto expressed astonishment that something for so long could be hidden from society and Torchwood for so long.

Sighing deeply Ianto asked, "So come the full moon I'm going to…to meet the clan? Will I know where to go?"

"Your body will just naturally find where we gather" Lisa said, "the urge is strong, you will not be able to resist it, only problem is …um.."

"Yes?"

"You will need to resist the urge to join with the rogue werewolf that bit you"

"Oh?"

"He will try to build his clan, you don't want that"

"I don't?'

"Definitely not, the clan will keep you safe; the clan here has been established for centuries like I said, that is the clan you want"

"Oh okay"

"Look the full moon will be here in about four nights, we meet that night, we'll go to the clan together, okay?"

"Okay"

"So Ianto you want to do lunch?"

"Oh um….yeah why not, I suppose we are not going to the vegetarian café"

"No, let's go there, it will be amusing. And anyway I'm just happy to transform sooner so we can hunt together" Lisa said shyly.

"Oh ….oh okay. So when do you want to hunt?"

"How about we say Monday night?"

"Okay it's a da…yeah okay"

"Okay now show me this vego café you go too, I'll try anything once" Lisa said smirking.

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"So how's your sister doing?" Jack asked when Ianto returned to the Hub late Saturday afternoon after the leisurely lunch with Lisa who tried to not make fun of the all the tofu and lentils, it said a lot about their connection that Ianto did not find it annoying just endearing.

"Huh…oh yeah she's …she's progressing but she still needs me on occasion" Ianto felt a pang of guilt at the lie.

"Take whatever time you need. Family is important Ianto, remember that" Jack said wrapping his arms around the Welshman's waist, "now what about some quality time with me?"

Jack's pheromones wafted around him like a shield that Ianto soon had Jack pressed up against the wall assaulting his mouth with his own, pushing his groin into Jack's growing groin.

Thankfully the others weren't around as Ianto had Jack on the stairs and Jack had Ianto on the landing near the door of the hot house.

Laying in each other's arms on the floor of the hothouse Ianto casually asked, "So what's happening with the investigation into the mutilated bodies in the park Jack?"

"Hmmm huh…stopped…" Jack said sleepily, "no need to investigate no more bodies and like you said before it happened previously in the 40s and it stopped, no reason, there's really nothing to investigate"

"Oh okay just wondering"

A/N: Please take a moment of your time, would love some feedback. Sorry but it is very soul destroying to spend some much time writing to get very little feedback, a friend said to me "remember we do this for fun" and yes cora-stacy I'm trying to remember that but gee it's nice to get a little review….please.