Gwen sobbed and Jack frowned at her. He understood she was upset but he could do without another tearful episode now. He rolled his eyes and sighed, stuffing his hands in his pockets.

"Look I know you're upset, but-"

"Jack!" Gwen screwed up her face in pain. "I'm having contractions!"

Jack paled and was by her side in an instant. He took her hand in his and ran his free hand through his hair.

"It's probably just a false labour due to the stress, don't panic ok?" Jack said carefully. "We're going to get you to the SUV and take you to the hospital."

Gwen nodded and as Jack stood up, Tosh took over the hand holding. Jack climbed quickly down the ladder to the back room and found Ianto pacing about looking worried.

"Gwen's gone into labour," he said quickly. Ianto stopped and looked up.

"But she can't…" He ran a hand through his hair. "I can't be responsible for a third death Jack."

"You're not responsible for the first two and this baby isn't going to die, ok?" Jack promised giving Ianto a quick kiss. "We'll be back in a bit, promise. See you later."

Ianto nodded looking worse than Gwen. Jack was really starting to worry about the team now. They'd faced many alien threats together, but this looked set to tear them apart.

Jack went back upstairs and ran ahead of Gwen and Tosh to prepare the SUV. The contractions were getting worse and by the time Tosh had managed to get her safely into the SUV Gwen said they were mere minutes apart.

They rushed to the hospital and Gwen was taken straight in. Jack and Tosh were made to wait in the reception area, something which frustrated the Captain. He was not used to being kept out of something.

Tosh too was reluctant to remain outside. She wanted to be there with Gwen. After all they were close friends and Gwen would be scared. Hell Tosh was scared stood out here. Who knew what Gwen was going through?

Gwen was panicking. The Doctors didn't seem to be able to stop the labour and thought that the best thing for both mother and child was to allow it to continue. Gwen protested, but in her weak state there was little she could do.

Despite the closeness of the contractions, it was still over an hour before she was taken to the delivery room. On the way she could've sworn she glimpsed Owen and Holly out of the corner of her eye.

When she turned her head and realised it was a different father and daughter she felt even worse. She prayed that their son survived. She didn't know what she'd do if she lost another family member.

Jack and Tosh paced about in the waiting room. Jack had made a call to Ianto saying that they might be a while and then returned with some coffee. Neither had drunk it though, it tasted horrible compared to the usual heavenly brew they got from the Welshman.

It felt like years before a nurse finally came out to tell them Gwen had had a little boy and would they like to go and see her. They wandered into the room where Gwen was supposed to be resting, but from the look on her face, she wanted to be able to crawl home and not go out for days.

"Hey," Tosh said gently sitting one side of the bed whilst Jack sat the other. "How are you?"

"Great," Gwen said bitterly. "Physically."

"It'll be alright Gwen," Jack said gently.

"Really? So you know what it's like to lose your entire family in one go?" She asked.

"Yeah, I do actually," Jack didn't meet her gaze. "But look at the positive side. You've got a new baby boy."

"Yeah a new baby boy struggling to hold onto life whilst I have to think about planning a funeral for my husband and daughter and I can't even bury them properly," Gwen's voice cracked and tears began to roll down her cheeks again.

"Look, we'll help you ok?" Tosh squeezed her hand gently. "You don't have to do this alone."

"Course not," Jack agreed.

Tosh told Jack that she was going to stay with Gwen and gave him the chance to escape back to Ianto, make sure he was ok. The Hub was quite when he got back but there was the faint smell of freshly brewed coffee in the air.

It got stronger as Jack got closer to the backroom and when he made it down the ladder he found Ianto waiting with a tray of coffee and food. Jack smiled.

"What's all this?" He asked.

"I haven't eaten all day," Ianto shrugged. "And I don't really feel like anything. But I thought you could do with some. I'll eat something eventually for the baby's sake if not mine."

Jack walked over and enveloped Ianto in a hug. Ianto was slightly taken aback, but didn't pull away, wrapping his arms round Jack instead.

"You are a wonderful person, you know that?" Jack said after a moment.

"No I'm not," Ianto shook his head sadly. "But I might as well try and make up for things."

Jack felt his heart break as he watched Ianto wandering round like a lost soul.

"Gwen had a baby boy," he said finally as Ianto sat down on the bed.

"Oh… good," Ianto tried to smile but didn't quite manage it.

"I love you," Jack continued sitting beside Ianto and wrapping an arm round his waist. "Remember that."

"I do," Ianto said softly. "And I love you too."