Like I promised, quick update D...for some reason that I can't quite remember, this chapter and its title is dedicated to X X Ringo X X. I think she thought of the chapter title, but it was so long ago, I've not got a clue. So...on with the story...R&R s'il vous plaît...and ignore my random French. XD

Unexpected Ending

Jack, Tosh and Owen had gone to investigate some strange disappearances, a few miles away from the Hub. As usual, Ianto was left behind, and at Jack's insistence, so was Gwen. She was in her seventh month now, and Jack had got extremely over-protective. That, and the fact the she just couldn't be arsed running around solving mysteries. She contented herself with paperwork- as boring as it was, she could stay sat down and just get on with it.

She had almost finished when she felt the baby kick, followed by a shooting pain in her side. She looked down and realised that the baby had kicked the spot where she had got shot whilst dealing with the cannibals in the Brecon Beacons. Owen's words flashed through her mind: one more inch to the left, and one of your vital organs might have been...

A noise from the autopsy room pulled her back to the present. She sighed. What was Ianto doing in the autopsy room? She wondered over to see what he was doing; she remembered the mess he'd left last time he'd been left in there alone.

He was stood by the table doing something with his gun. Gwen frowned. Gun? In the autopsy room?

She realised he was talking to someone. At first she thought he'd gone mad and was talking to himself, but then she saw his coms device on his ear. She hooked on her own headset and tuned into the conversation Ianto was having with whoever else it was.

It turned out to be Owen. She could hear Jack talking and Tosh laughing in the background.

"Hear that?" Owen was saying. "It's your lesbianated ex. Can't you ever pick anyone normal? First it was some mad, half-cybernised...monster, then you were hitting on Jack for a while, as if he'd be interested in you, and now your girlfriend's turned out to be in love with a woman!"

"Will you just shut the fuck up!!" yelled Ianto. "You treat me like shit, all of you, especially you Owen! You don't care about my feelings do you? It's like with Lisa-"

"Hmm, yes, just remembering that...crazy freak who tried to kill us all wasn't she?" Owen added.

"Shut up! It's like then, you proved you don't care about me at all! You always leave me here, depend on me for coffee when you are here, and you know what? I've had enough. I want out of this kinda life. Watching the man I love get his girlfriend pregnant, walking in on them snogging and shagging all over the place- even in the bloody car!"

From the background, Gwen heard Jack start laughing as Tosh leapt out of the back of the car where she'd been sitting looking at some information about one of the missing people shouting that sounded very much like "Couldn't you have told me that before I sat in there?? Ew ew ew, I need to throw these trousers out the second I get home!! Jack, that's disgusting!!!"

"Wait a minute," cut in the American accent of the team. "Did you just say you love me Ianto?"

"Why d'you think I wasn't happy about the baby?" Ianto demanded loudly. "Ever since I first met you, I've loved you, but I've had to hold it back, and then you go and get yourself a girlfriend and start playing happy families!"

"I'm not playing happy families" Jack snarled. "I'm not acting, I love her. Gwen, you there?"

"Yeah..."

"Well, get out of there, he's having some kind of crazy psychotic fit. Gwen?? Can you hear me? You still there?"

"Jack, I-" Gwen seemed to be having trouble with her breathing; it was heavier than usual and she sounded like she was in pain. Being a doctor, Owen was the first to realise.

"Gwen, what's the matter? Answer me! And fuck you Ianto for not helping!" Owen yelled.

"Why should I help her...?"

From Gwen's end of the line there was a sharp gasp.

"I've – it's not – too early – no – can't be happening – Jack!!" Gwen's voice sounded faint and punctuated with shallow breathing.

Owen suddenly realised what was happening, and it wasn't good.

"Shit!!" he cried. "Forget these disappearances, we gotta get back!" He started fumbling in his pockets for the SUV keys.

"Owen..." Jack sounded more scared than anyone had ever heard him. "What's going on? What's wrong with her?"

"She only gone into fucking labour, hasn't she? Premature fucking labour at that! And, she's alone in the Hub with the useless bloody teaboy!!" he replied. Having located the SUV keys, he shouted to the others to hurry up.

Tosh reluctantly returned to her seat in the back of the car, thinking that Gwen was more important than her and what she was sitting on. "How you feeling Gwen? And what's that pathetic piece of crap Ianto doing? God, I can't believe I slept with him..."

"Something with a – gun in – the autopsy room. Hurry – up...please," came the weak-sounding reply.

"A gun? In MY autopsy room? Get the hell out of there!!" Owen was saying to Ianto.

"I don't think I will...I've got a clear shot from here. I'm sorry Jack, it wasn't meant to be like this, I swear." Ianto's voice sounded so dark. "Got any last words for your girl Jack? Before I shoot her? Before I pull this trigger and watch the lights fade from her eyes?"

Over the coms came the sound of a gun being cocked.

The SUV screeched to a halt outside the tourist office and Jack jumped out and ran.

Through the door...down the corridor...no time for the lift...run down the stairs...through the cog door...look across the room...she's lying there, in pain...too many desks in the way...catch her eye...nothing you can do...

"Jack...I love you..."

A gunshot.

A scream.

"GWEN!!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!"

THE END

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So there we are...don't you love happy endings? ;)

Hope you all liked it!!

Lots of love

l-m-h

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