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"Hold on a minute!" Donna charged after Ianto as they walked down the rain soaked Cardiff street. He seemed to be determined to walk to Roath but she had no intention of walking through the back streets of the city. "You can't just say Torchwood ruined her life and yours and walk away."

"Donna, leave it." Jack called after her. He was heartbroken by Ianto's statement. He knew Gwen had no idea he was her father or that he was back on Earth after yet another slightly insane adventure with the Doctor and his newest sidekick Amy.

"No I wont bloody leave it!" Donna grabbed Ianto's arm and swung him to face her. "What did you mean?"

"Listen to Jack." Ianto nodded at his former lover, his eyes burning with tears.

"I am not listening to 'im." Donna jabbed her finger towards her friend. "I am asking you. Now come on Coffee Boy! Start talking."

"I died. In the invasion I bloody died!"

"Yeah I know. The one where all the kids started being weird." She nodded.

"Gwen and Rhys went into hiding. They had to, her friend Andy helped. Small cottage in the middle of no where. I know Andy wanted them to go further away. Really disappear but her Mam hasn't been too well. So she stayed near by."

"Her mother is ill?" Jack narrowed his eyes.

"Yeah." Ianto nodded. "Anyway, Gwen was pregnant, scared stiff and on her own. I had to stay dead or the powers that be would have really killed me. Seems only our perfect Captain here is supposed to be immortal."

"I saw you die." Jack's voice was quieter than either Donna or Ianto remembered."I held you and you died."

"The gas caused a type of stasis. I called Martha once I'd got my head around what happened. It seems growing up on the Rift protected me. She's fine by the way. Married to Mickey now. Still working for UNIT."

"Good." Jack smiled as he remembered the younger woman who had faced the Master with him.

"Anyway, she had no idea why I'm alive only that, like most people in Cardiff and the Valleys I seem to have Huon particles in my blood. That must have protected me."

"I had them!" Donna laughed "On my wedding day!"

"And being the only welsh man in that office I was protected. Only you never stayed around to find out." He looked at Jack as the Captain brushed a tear away.

"You died in my arms." Jack repeated.

"But I didn't die Jack. I didn't die."

"I held you." Jack closed his eyes as something in Ianto broke. Donna nodded sadly as she walked towards a black taxi that was parked outside the Italian resteraunt on the corner. She spoke quietly to the driver who had his back to the men behind her. Neither saw Jack hug Ianto as if his life depended on it. Donna smiled. She had a feeling the men behind her would make things up if given the chance. Now they just had to find Jack's daughter so that Torchwood could get back to work.

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Gwen picked Anwen up as the baby smiled gummily at her.

"Oh no you don't young lady." She smiled. "The butter wouldn't melt routine works with your Dad, not me."

Anwen gurgled happily as Gwen placed her back on the bed. Gwen couldn't help but smile.

"And Dad isn't here at the moment. He's off getting us some food. So, you missy can behave and let me change your bum." She smiled as the baby kicked. Nappies were the one part of parenting Rhys seemed to do his best to get out of. Anwen yawned as Gwen picked up the clean nappy. She froze for a moment as the doorbell rang. The doorbell never rang. She was instantly on alert as she hurridly fastened the baby grow and picked up the gun she had kept from the invasion. Every nerve in her body was on edge, only Andy knew where they were. A farmhouse in the countryside outside Llantrisant. No one else would think to look for them, but someone was ringing her doorbell.

"Be quiet." Gwen whispered to the baby as Anwen smiled. The little girl kept quiet as she watched her mother point the gun in front of her.

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Ianto stared out of the back window of the taxi as Donna and Jack chatted away. He couldn't quite believe Jack was back. He half thought Owen and Tosh would appear but he quickly shoved that thought to the back of his mind. That was another thing Torchwood had ruined. The lives of two of the brightest people he had ever met. Tosh was a genius and there wasn't anything Owen had run from. Even his brief spell as the walking dead, a zombie hadn't dampened his enthusiasm for long. Now he couldn't shake the feeling that they should be anywhere but at Gwen's doorstep. He got out of the taxi and paid the man driving as Donna and Jack bickered their way up the drive and rang the doorbell.

"Wow Gwen!" Jack flung his hands up in mock surrender as Gwen pointed the gun at his head.

"What the Hell are you doing here!"

"I." Jack floundered. It wasn't the welcome he had been expecting. Anwen waved at the strangers. She wasn't used to adults she didn't know visiting but seeing as she had inherited her father's tendancy to ignore anything bad unless it was happening in front of her she gave the strangers a gummy grin.

"Ianto?" Gwen looked past the man she now knew was her father. "Ianto Jones?"

"Hello Gwen." He smiled sadly. Something about his old friend was different. He had no idea what.

"How? Oh my God!" She flung herself into his arms as Ianto hugged her tightly. Anwen started to fidget in her mother's arms as Gwen pulled back. The gun now long forgotten as Ianto took Anwen from her arms. The baby girl seemed quite taken with him and he couldn't help but smile.

"I'm used to kids." He grinned as the little girl beamed at him.

"How?" She stared at him.

"Something to do with the TARDIS and being a Cardiff boy." Donna shrugged.

"Right." Gwen sighed. "Us Welsh are tougher than we look."

"Gwen." Jack stared at her as she turned to him.

"What? You bugger off for a year almost and turn up now? Why? Missing family? Oh by the way little Steven didn't die either. Sian was traumatised, ended up on pills and the poor kid spent about a month in the Children's Hospital. But he's alright now. I wouldn't go turning up on Sian's doorstep though."

"He's ok?" Jack almost collapsed with relief.

"Yeah, and so is your other grandchild." Gwen's face hardened.

"You know?" Jack was speechless as Donna and Ianto exchanged glances.

"That you disappeared when I was three weeks old? That it was you that chose my name? Gwen. You picked it. You had to have known me when I was trying to get into Torchwood."

"Why do you think I was trying to stop you?" Jack was incredulous. "The last thing I wanted was you, you of all people dragged into my world. You or Sian!"

"So you walked out on Sian's mam the same you walked out on mine!"

"NO!" Jack stared at her. "NO! I was thrown out. Sian's mother. Christine she didn't want to know. Had another boyfriend. It was the 1970s she didn't want to be trapped by me. And as for your mam I'd have married her if she wanted me. I vanished because I fell into the Rift. Ended up almost selling a bomb to the Doctor in a hospital in 1943! London in the Blitz. Not exactly the place I wanted to be. I got back to this time six years ago." Jack was on the verge of tears.

"But what gets me is I thought you were gay. I thought you loved Ianto."

"I do." He looked towards the younger man. "I have loved women before, you know that but Ianto."

"So you're bisexual." Donna clarified.

"I was born in the 51st Century. Things aren't so black and white there."

"Ok." Gwen took her daughter from Ianto as she heard Rhys' car approach. "None of that is important. Why are you here?"

"Torchwood is needed Gwen."

"No way." Gwen shook her head as Rhys slammed the car door.

"What's going on 'ere then?" He almost ran to his wife.

"That's what Jack is about to tell us." Gwen stared at the man she now knew was her father as Rhys ushered them all inside.

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