Ianto's eyes widened in shock and he was about to ask how this was even possible, until he saw that Jack was still in shock, eyes fearful and full of tears at the thought of doing this to Ianto, and so the Welsh took a deep breath and left his freak out for later.
"Owen, Tosh and Gwen, go ahead and find out more about our mystery meat and keep Jack updated on any findings, try to locate who distributes this and yes Gwen, we need Tosh to call Rhys and ask about the delivery." Ianto said and Gwen looked irritated but kept her comments to herself, seeing as how Jack was about to lose it.
The team all nodded and went to do their jobs, food forgotten, while Ianto walked carefully towards Jack and grabbed for the older man's hand.
"Come on cariad, let's go to your office." Ianto said gently holding Jack's hand in his and leading the shocked man to his office.
Once inside the office Jack lost it, grabbing everything he could find and throwing it across the room in a fit of rage, screaming at the injustice he was forcing on Ianto.
Ianto, for his part, kept quiet and watched Jack making a mess of his office. He should have been mad about the mess he'd have to clean up later, but Jack looked like he needed to get this out of his system and so Ianto had kept quiet and allowed the older man to vent his anger.
Jack finally stopped when he ran out of things to throw and break and with a huff he fell into his chair and sobbed. Something bigger was going on here than just an unplanned pregnancy and Ianto would get to the bottom of it if it was the last thing he did.
Ianto grabbed a chair and pulled it closer to Jack before grabbing for the older man's leg and resting it on his thigh.
"What are you doing?" Jack asked, looking up at Ianto with a shocked expression.
"Is this your first pregnancy?" Ianto asked, untying Jack's boots.
"What are you doing?" Jack asked again, wanting an answer.
"Tell me about your other pregnancy." Ianto said, taking Jack's evasive answer as a confirmation to his question.
Jack sighed and watched Ianto take his boot and sock off and start rubbing at his sore feet. Jack threw his head back and moaned in pleasure at having his feet rubbed. No one had done this for him in all the years he'd been alive.
"Go on!" Ianto prompted, continuing to massage his lovers feet.
"Alright." Jack sighed resigning himself to remembering a past he had been trying to leave behind.
"How old were you?" Ianto asked, knowing Jack needed more prompting.
"I was about nineteen with my first pregnancy. It wasn't a viable pregnancy so I miscarried when I was three months along. I'd been so happy I'd named her and everything." Jack said watching Ianto clean his toes.
"Second one?" Ianto asked, picking out a particularly persistent piece of sock fuzz from between Jack's toe nail.
"I was about twenty, non viable." Jack repeated, anger flaring as he remembered his failed attempts at having a family.
"Did any of your pregnancies carry to term?" Ianto asked and Jack shook his head.
"No!"
"Other foot." Ianto said and waited patiently until Jack gave up his other foot willingly. Taking the boot and sock off Ianto started rubbing and tending to the other foot as Jack wiped at his tear streaked face.
"How many?" Ianto asked, wanting to know how many times a family had been ripped from Jack's hands.
"Five...the last one I managed to carry until seven months, but even though he was healthy one day, the next he had no heart beat and I was done. I told myself I wouldn't do it again. I wouldn't put myself through that again knowing my kid would just die before it was born...and now I've screwed up and gotten pregnant."
"Jack, this wasn't your fault. I had just as much of a hand in it as you did." Ianto said, cleaning Jack's toes.
"You didn't know I could get pregnant. I did and I still didn't care...I've wanted a kid for so long Ianto...but I know it's not possible for me to have them and yet I go and get pregnant, forcing myself to go through all the horrid parts of the pregnancy for nothing..."
Ianto's heart shattered at hearing the pain in Jack's voice.
"Did the doctors tell you why your pregnancies were always faulty?" Ianto asked.
"Yeah. I was a premature baby and they said my reproductive organs weren't mature enough to handle the pregnancies and so my body just rejected them and that was a perfectly logical explanation until I carried to seven months. They said that would be impossible with my ill formed uterus...then they changed their story. They blamed bad sperm or the wrong blood type or this or that, but the truth was...they had no idea...even the 51st century doesn't have all the answers."
"We'll have Owen take a look at the both of you, make sure everything is okay. We'll do a scan daily if it'll ease your mind and I'll be damned if I let anything happen to either of you." Ianto swore with a smile. Shock of the situation aside, Ianto was going to be a father and the thought made him beam with pride and happiness.
"But what if even Owen can't tell me what's happening?" Jack sounded small and terrified at the concept of losing another child.
"If anyone can figure it out it's Owen." Ianto assured, putting Jack's socks and boots back on and standing to go wash his hands.
"I'm sorry about the room." Jack said and Ianto smiled.
"Doesn't matter, now let's go get you checked."
"Can we...get checked after the case?" Jack asked and Ianto raised an eyebrow.
"No Jack. No more field duty." Ianto said and Jack frowned, he hated feeling useless.
"I'd just give orders and drive the car." Jack complained and Ianto sighed.
"No Jack. I would be devastated if anything happened to this child and I'm sure you couldn't survive it if anything happened." Ianto said, worry gripping him. Jack was nothing if not stubborn.
"I know but I hate being useless." Jack said taking a deep breath before nodding. "Okay, let's go check us out."
Ianto and Jack walked from the office and once Ianto had properly washed his hands, made their way towards Owen's work station.
"Hey mate." Owen said looking up from his work.
"Where's Gwen?" Jack asked, looking around.
"Went to see if Rhys knows anything." Tosh answered, coming over with a cup of tea for Jack, who took the cup with a smile.
"Thank you Tosh."
"No problem Jack." Tosh answered.
"Hey Owen, want to take a look at Jack and make sure they're okay?" Ianto asked and Owen nodded. There was no sarcastic remark, no 'tea-boy' this and 'tea-boy' that he just nodded and gathered the necessary tools.
"Pop up onto the table Jack." Owen said, grabbing a blood pressure cuff and wrapping around Jack's arm.
The check up took about fifteen minutes and finally Owen looked at Jack while holding the result of his newest test.
"Your red blood count is a little low, nothing to worry about but I want you on iron supplements just in case but Jack your blood pressure is very high. It's pregnancy induced and we're going to need you on medication until the baby's born or there's a very high risk of miscarriage. You're a high risk pregnancy which means if there's a slight chance that baby is in danger, it's bed rest for MONTHS, understand?" Owen asked and Jack nodded.
"Good, I have some medication on hand that will lower your blood pressure but I'm writing you a prescription for prenatal, iron supplements and blood pressure medication. I want you to fill is as soon as you can." Owen continued, injecting Jack with his needed medicine.
"Thank you Owen." Jack said, looking over at Ianto with a happy smile.
"See cariad, everything's fine so far." Ianto said and Jack nodded, smiling happily.