Poisoned-Thorns: Yeah that meeting is coming up... but what will happen?! How will people react? I'm going to be very mean with all this! So mean it'll almost be funny! Muahahaha!

seether79: Well that kinda had to happen. Tosh and Ianto become really good friends... anyone remember the prologue? Tosh, Jack and Gwen cheering for Ianto at his rugby game?

: Jack doesn't really need to make it up to Ianto, it was just a misunderstanding but if Jack made an effort in the making up area I'm sure we'd all forgive him! ;D

katwinchester: They make up but Ianto does something stupid before that happens!

TheWeddingFairy: Yeah Owen did kinda blunder in but he'll make up for it!

Miss_Sweeney: Thank you! This really cheered me up, such a really nice compliment!

hotflower901: Yeh, a serious case of them. But Owen is gonna save the day and get everything back on track!

Authors/Note: It's late, or really early which is worse. I'm listening to Dance Without Sleeping and it's sort of a soundtrack to the moment I'm writing this! A lot happens, Gwen surprises Jack near enough to give him a heartattack. Ianto screws up big time and Owen tries to make amends. I am really tired right now, I was tired when I wrote the tail end of this chapter so forgive me any mistakes. In the last 48 hours I've only had about 4 hours of solid sleep, it's 3:47 am and I'm going to get to bed soon; it wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't worried my sisters would do something to me in my sleep. I'm sick of waking up to their wonderful surprises like them putting tanning oil on the back of my hand turning it orange and all the bloody bite marks! Anyway... this shouldn't be that short, can't really see straight and am having trouble typing. It's taking even longer because I'm correcting my typing errors as I go :/ been a bit distracted lately because I've been catching up with Alles Was Zahlt (if you don't know what that is go look it up, especially Deniz and Roman) and playing Sims 3 (yes, yes I have made Janto sims... I even made Sims from the original version of Breaking 13!). Thanks for reading and for keeping on reading! Same old drill read it, review it tell me what you think and most of all just enjoy it!

Chapter Five

Gwen was chopping vegetables avoiding the twinging pains in her lower back when the phone rang, she put the knife down so she could answer expecting it to be her husband but was a little surprised to find it was Jack

"Hey Jack"

"Gwen I nearly slept with Ianto" he blurted, bloody drama queen scowled Gwen feeling suddenly glad she'd put the knife down. And that Jack wasn't here.

"God dammit Jack! I thought I told you to stay away from him!"

"I was staying away from him! He's the one who turned up on my doorstep telling me that he wanted to be with me and that him and Tosh where over"

"Oh Christ!" she rolled her eyes knowing that she'd have to call Toshiko to see if she was okay; she and Ianto had made a pretty cosy couple and Gwen wondered how much damage control she'd need to do. Then something suddenly dawned on her "Wait, what do you mean nearly? It's not like you to only manage a 'nearly'"

"Owen came round for the manuscript so far and Ianto thought he was my boyfriend and took off like the devil was after him"

"Do you know what happened? Between them? I'm going to need to call Tosh to see if she's alright" she explained to him

"Yeah you should do that" Jack told her quietly, his tone made her pause

"Jack?"

"Owen said I was shagging around again, I told him I wasn't and he made me realise that I'm falling for him" he sighed "I'm bloody falling for him!"

"Oh Jack" she apologised to him and he snorted

"Yeah I know. Typical me, falling for a guy I can't have. A straight guy at that! When did the world turn upside down?"

"Do you want to come round? I know Rhys won't mind"

"No that's okay. I think I'm gonna just get ready and have a night on the town, it'll do me good to get out for a bit. Been cooped up for days"

"Okay" she nodded to herself "Well if you still want to come round for dinner you're more than welcome"

"Thanks but no, you have a nice night in with Rhys and give him my love"

"I will do... and Jack? I love you"

"I love you too Gwen. Goodnight" he told her then hung up. She pressed the disconnect before staring at the receiver for a moment then dialled Toshiko's number

"Hey Tosh"

"Hey Gwen, I was just about to call you"

"You were? Is everything okay? Are you okay? I heard about Ianto"

"Huh? How did you find out?" the Japanese woman asked sounding surprised

"I'm a copper, I used my brilliant powers of deduction and detection" she joked trying to make Tosh laugh. If Ianto had finished with her then she'd need cheering up, it was never nice to be dumped

"Did Ianto call you? Is he okay?" she asked making Gwen confused; still worried about him even after what he did to her, she reasoned as she listened to her oriental friend

"No Ianto didn't call me, I haven't heard from him and that's a good thing. You shouldn't be worrying about him not when he dumped you"

"Dumped me?" gasped Tosh "Ianto didn't dump me. I dumped him"

"Huh? Whu?" it was Gwen's turn to be shocked; she nearly told Toshiko about Jack but quickly decided better of it.

"I'm not proud of it but I met an old friend from university, one thing led to another and well we're together now. Ianto walked in on us" she explained and Gwen was angry with Ianto for an entirely different reason. He'd discovered his girlfriend cheating on him so he ran to Jack's open arms like that would make everything better! To make matters worse Jack had gone and fallen for the stupid pig headed rugby player! "How did you find out Gwen?"

"It doesn't matter..."

"Did Ianto call you? I'm worried about him, I spoke to him earlier today and we decided to be friends. He was a little distracted and I don't want him to do anything silly"

"If you want, give me his address and I'll get Rhys to go round and check him when he gets in from work. He'll love that, spending time with a famous rugby player"

"Thanks Gwen you're brilliant"

"I am aren't... oh... ow" she gasped her free hand palming her swollen belly

"Gwen?"

"Tosh I think they baby's coming!" she winced as pain shot through her, she'd been feeling cramps and twinges all day but thought it was another bout of Braxton Hicks.

"Oh God! Well you need to hang up, call Rhys and call an ambulance!" she ordered her friend. Gwen nodded offering a quick 'bye' before hanging up and called Rhys, she couldn't get any answer so she called Jack

"Hello?"

"Jack! Thank god! The baby's coming! I called Rhys and I can't reach him!"

"Don't panic! I'll be right there. Have you called an ambulance?"

"No"

"Do it and I'll get there as soon as I can" he told her before hanging up. Gwen called for an ambulance then waddled to the couch and sat down trying to remember those breathing exercises.

It wasn't long before Jack got there, letting himself in with his spare key he raced up to find Gwen red-faced sitting on the couch with her pants around her knees screaming in pain "Oh God" he gasped as he dropped to his knees in front of and grabbed her hand.

She squeezed his fingers tightly as another contraction hit her making him wince in pain but he was smart enough to remain quiet

"It hurts" she groaned as she pushed

"What are you doing?! Wait for Rhys! Wait for the ambulance!"

"No God Damnit! This baby wants to come into the world and I'm going to BLOODY push Jack friggin Harkness! If Rhys shows his face I'm going to turn his balls into a fucking purse! Aah" her heard tipped back before she lifted it up, exhaustion showing on her face "Help the baby" she begged. Jack just nodded and moved to kneel between her legs, pulling her pants completely off and just did what his friend was asking.

There was blood. A lot of blood and he was close to female parts. Female Parts! He hadn't been near them in years! Well, Jack thought briefly, at least the female parts were somewhat familiar with him from when he'd dated Gwen all those years ago and it was only one set of female parts. What didn't help was something pushing out from her insides, Jack suddenly felt sick

"I think I'm gonna be sick" he moaned. Gwen fought the urge to kick him really hard in the hard, she'd kick him after the baby was out and the ambulance was here and she'd castrated Rhys.

"You throw up on me Jack Harkness and I'm going to make sure you never have sex again!" she roared, Jack clamped his mouth shut before ducking his head looking down at Gwen's... there was a head and all he had to do was catch right?

She was panting and pushing like mad, he almost past out when he saw eyes and a nose appearing. It didn't take long for the head to slide out and he was carefully cradling the baby's head, he had to hook a finger under the tiny armpit and then it was out. Gwen sank back in relief, sobbing tiredly

"It's a boy" he told her over her new son's loud wailing "He's got your lungs"

She held her hands out and he eased the new baby boy into her arms, he sat back leaning against the arm rest then ducked quickly when he saw her foot swinging at him. Gwen caught the top of his head as he tumbled to the floor away from her. Jack sat there startled but couldn't help but smile at the image of mother and son.

The buzzer distracted them both, Gwen smiled sleepily as she looked up at Jack who was slowly climbing to his feet

"Go see who that is" she told him, it was the ambulance crew. Jack let them in then went and called Rhys. He managed to get through to him by calling the company

"Hello, Harwoods. Rhys speaking" said Rhys

"Congratulations! Daddy!" crowed Jack

"Wha... Jack this better not be a joke" he snapped

"No joke. I just delivered your son! The ambulance crew is here and they're going to take mom and son to the hospital"

"I'm on my way!" he said then hung up. Jack just sank against the wall and watching the paramedics working in cleaning Gwen up. If he hadn't been gay before the shock of what just happened would have clearly sent him that way! Too bad it hadn't been Ianto who'd delivered Gwen's baby!

***

The club was loud and smoky which was strange because there wasn't anyone allowed to smoke in here anymore. He didn't really care about the whys or why nots, all he wanted to do was some serious drinking and find someone to take the edge off. Ianto felt ugly, unloved and unwanted and every other cold descriptive word that began with 'u'. He felt stupid and he hated it; he'd never been the most secure person and now everything had changed; Tosh had left him for another man, which must have meant that he wasn't performing like he should. Was it really a surprise he was questioning his sexuality? All people saw when they looked at him was a big lumbering rugby player with no brains.

Ianto wasn't stupid, he'd been to university studying maths, history and archaeology and left with the best grades imaginable. So what if he played rugby, that didn't mean he was some blundering neanderthal built like a brick shit house! He had feelings and emotions and oh god, he thought, I'm gay! It was a strange time to realise this new fact about himself; in a club surrounded by women. Drunk and horny women at that! He wasn't sure why but he still felt attraction to them but they weren't what he wanted. All he wanted was Jack.

"Hey, don't I know you?" someone dived up against him and her blue drink ended up sloshing over his white shirt "You play for the Blues, doncha. You're that pretty one with the nice arse"

"Ianto Jones and yeah I play for Cardiff" he tried to smile but it just came out tight, she batted her eyelids at him trying to look flirty but she just ended up blinking at him. Ianto couldn't help but laugh at her and she took that as a good sign "So, you have a name?"

"Jessica" she smiled sweetly "So, what's a sweet thing like you doing here? Shouldn't you be lounging in your mansion surrounded by your many girlfriends?"

"Nope. Not tonight..." he told her and she leaned closer pressing her palms against his chest, mostly for balance more than anything else

"That's good. That's really good" she purred as she leaned ever closer still "Want to take me home?"

Not really, he thought, but he couldn't tell her that. Not when she was doing her best to look attractive and remain upright! So he smiled, trying to make her think that he was interested

"Sure. Want to go now?" he asked her, he didn't really want to leave yet. The smoky atmosphere of the club was comforting and Ianto wasn't looking forward to her spending the night; oh the things we do to prove we're normal! He mentally cursed her as she bobbed her head.

Ianto carefully wrapped an arm around her, helping her walk out of the club and they went in search of a taxi.

*

Owen got out of the car and looked round the street, it was quiet given the early hour but despite the lack of people bustling about he could tell that this was a very popular and nice area of Cardiff. The place he was looking for was in a fancy apartment building, after a quick glance down at the paper in his hand he found the place.

It was a modern building that was aimed at young professional types and kids with too much money to know what to do with. He thought about pressing the buzzer but instead he waited for someone to open the door from the inside.

He went up to the fourth floor in the lift pretending that he was meant to be there and searched the corridor for the apartment he was searching for. Owen looked up and down the corridor before pulling out his custom made lock picks and let himself in. He was glad that he was friends with a copper!

Lights were off and it was all quiet inside which meant that the owner had to still be asleep. Owen looked at his watch and scowled, it was fairly early, not quite half seven. He could look round and see why Jack was so madly in love with this dumb piece of eye candy.

He'd expected something different than what was there, the kitchen was tidy with only a single man's dishes sitting in the sink to be washed, the counters were clear and food and plates neatly stacked in the cupboards. The bathroom was in a similar state of order which surprised him further; he hadn't really imagined someone who played rugby professional to be so well kept!

Finally he turned his eyes to the bedroom knowing that Ianto Jones was lying in there and now it was time to set things straight; Jack was mad for him and he knew how Jack got when he was distracted. Yeah this was completely for the sake of the book, Owen told himself he was fooling himself that he wasn't doing this because he cared about his friend.

The bedroom was less than tidy but that was to be expected, given that the bed had more than one occupant! Owen scowled then kicked the mattress sharply

"Wake Up!" he roared angrily, Ianto jerked awake lifting his head up groggily while the woman groaned pulling the blanket up over her head. He leaned down and tugged the blanket away from her "Put your knickers on and get out!"

"Who the hell are you?" she mumbled quietly as she cradled her head with one hand

"Just get dressed and get out" he repeated, she slid from the bed and pulled her clothes on. She the room quickly, she had enough sense to leave her number in his living room before she left completely

"How the hell did you get in my house? Who are you?" grumbled Ianto as he sat up

"Use that grey squishy thing between your ears and I'm sure it'll come to you" sneered Owen angrily

"You're Jack's..."

"I'm married" Owen interrupted him when Ianto remembered, the younger man's eyes widened almost comically

"I-I..."

"Shut up!" hissed the irritated editor "Jack is... god only knows why but he's taken a real shine to you and I thought I might as well come here and try and convince you that you and him being together would be a good thing. I never expected you to be with some tramp"

Ianto scowled staggering out of the bed doing his best to ignore his pounding headache, he pulled his pants on not caring that Owen had seen him naked

"Why would me and him being together be a good thing? Don't you give a damn about him? Or do you always do this? Offer him off to the most interested party?"

"I'm doing this because I do give a dann about him..." Owen sighed before pressing his lips tight "I've never seen him like this before"

"Then why don't you work it out? Instead of trying to push him on me?" snapped Ianto as he stalked from his room dressed only in the jeans he'd been wearing a few hours ago

"Work it out? What...?" Owen called as he trailed after the Welshman "Wait, you think that me and Jack... Heh, I'm married. To a woman... Jack's single"

"Jack's..." Ianto paused turning away from manhandling the bread into the toaster, suddenly he felt like the world had fallen out from beneath him "Oh, oh God"

Owen watched as Ianto's stomach heaved and then he was pushing the rugby played from the kitchen to the bathroom where he threw up.

He stood there watching him throw up and he wondered if Ianto had slept with that girl because he thought Jack was unattainable? Had he been trying to prove to himself that he was completely straight? No that can't have been it, he seemed pretty into being with Jack. So then why had he slept with some drunken tart?

Ianto sank back against the sink wrapping his arms around himself to ward off the chill from the porcelain

"Why did you sleep with her?"

"Why the hell do you want to know?" he growled sick of this stupid London invading his life and his home giving him nothing but bad news "So you can tell Jack how I broke his little heart? I'd bet you'd be happy with that! Make him believe I'm some stupid monster so he'll get over me quicker!"

"Look, I don't try and understand it. I could never give up women, especially not my woman, it's just something I'd never do. But... what I do get is that if two people love each other then they should at least give it a go"

"Has someone been dropping heavy romantic books on your head? Love? Jack doesn't love me! All he wanted was for me to fuck him!" he rolled his eyes feeling the tears bite "And I couldn't even do that! I'm not man enough for a girlfriend and I'm not man enough for a boyfriend!"

Owen came over crouching down in front of Ianto, tentatively resting his hands on the sobbing Welshman's knees

"He wants you. He wants you so much he bought potato products drenched in hydrogenated fat and chicken wings... for as long as I can remember Jack had never done that for anyone. Well, for Gwen but she doesn't count. Clean yourself up and let me take you round to his"

"What about that girl?"

"She's gone. I kicked her out and since you're not officially dating Jack yet I'm going to let it slide. You don't mention it and I won't, got a deal?" Ianto nodded so Owen stood up smiling with accomplishment "Good. Now, Ianto Jones... if you so much as break his heart, or affect his skills as a writer, I will hunt you down and make you sorry"

"You've been friends with him for a really long time haven't you?"

"Nearly eleven years, we've studying together, lived together... hell I even introduced Gwen to him! All he is to me now is my friend and I'm his editor, nothing more than that. I love Katie too much to fall off the fence"

"Thanks" Ianto stood up to wash his face then he realised something. Turning back to Owen with a questioning look on his face "How did you get in?" Owen just grinned.

TBC...