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Unfortunately it was sooner rather than later that she reacted with her own sex-capade.

Unfortunately, not one with Rhys but an old vid of her with Jack, the horror now on the big screen as people got to see them rutting like animals as she wept in an interview, saying that he deflowered her and left her at the altar.

Ianto was quiet throughout and Jack was relieved that the bindings meant he couldn't not see the horrible spectacle of his arse flashing, then he remembered their own evening and apologised for being a fool.

"It's OK Cariad" Ianto sighed, "I forgot too. Besides, those noises you are making sound like you are in pain, or at least need her to stop bouncing on your bladder."

Jack snorted as he clapped a hand over his mouth and Ianto was not finished.

"This is before us," he pointed out, "You would not begrudge me Lisa, after all I have Lolly from it. I would never be jealous of an ex-lover of yours, although Hart might get a bloody pummelling. So what, you had sex with her. She sounds energetic, at least and given your stamina you probably wreaked her!"

Jack was overcome with love as he watched Ianto serenely smile like he didn't know the camera was doing a close up, the whirr of the lens turning clearly heard even by him.

"You know, at the meal she said she didn't love you, or want you as a partner." Ianto pointed out, "So why carry on now? Ratings? I think that is terrible. After all, I could have told everyone about the way you taste in the morning or about the time I met the king. I did ya know. Gods he was handsome. We were standing to attention as he walked the row sending us off to war."

Ianto then calmly had his mate and the quadrant entranced as he described the trouping of colour for their king, the sound of the flags in the breeze and the smell of the horses. Someone found some archive footage and played it as Ianto spoke over it and Jack knew it was Malcolm back at the studios working overtime for his family and as Ianto sighed and said how handsome the king was again, what a lovely couple he was with his sweet mate the lovely Queen the image cut to Ianto bowing before them.

"I will take that to my grave" he smiled, "He smelt like …like …freedom. Promise and all the goodness in the realm. Funny, I never thought of how someone smelt before I met him but since I seem to smell everyone. Of course, you are decadent like chocolate, coffee and naughtiness."

Jack leaned in for a kiss whispering that he was so lovely and Ianto's blush was genuine as he purred softly.

Gwen then had the horror of the previous three partners before Jack turning up for their own tell-alls, complete with pictures and one even had a recent love poem from her, so terrible that he couldn't read it out loud for laughing.

"She was a mad thing" he told the cameras, "Biting, scratching and every now and then throwing stuff while saying you raped her. Then the next day there would be tears coz you hadn't shagged yet. That Rhys is a poor bastard. I was well rid of her. And as for the baby thing, she can't have kids. She told me. She got fixed."

"Fixed?" Ianto asked with confusion, "What does that mean?"

"Oh Gods" Jack swallowed, "She …sterilized baby. She got her baby making bits taken away."

Ianto's face dropped as he thought about that, "But …that denies Rhys the chance to be a Taddy. Oh. They might adopt."

"No, she never wanted kids" Jack sighed as it was echoed in the screen by the ex.

"Oh, but he has such a lovely big heart" Ianto frowned, "A wonderful Taddy sized heart. Does he not want kids? Surely this was something taken into consideration at the choosing. Right? I mean, she must have disclosed that?"

Nope.

Of course she didn't.

The quadrant was in an uproar and it was almost unnoticed when Ianto changed into more comfortable clothes and went hand in hand with Jack to the clinic. Suddenly people realised what was happening and the planet stalled, watching as Ianto settled nervously into a chair as the doctor fussed about him.

It was time.

Jack couldn't wait to see those stormy grey eyes again.

He just hoped they could see him as well.