Ianto was frantic as he kicked in the door and stunned the person on the other end. Without missing a beat he kicked the gun from the hand of the second man and held the tazer to his head, a look of panicked fury on his face.

"Pray they survive." He said, tazing the man and watching him fall to the floor.

He'd been frantic when he'd heard Jack's voice on the com telling them the creature was frantically trying to free itself and Jack was unable to escape lest he be crushed to death and if he were to die the child would die and Ianto's world would end.

Ianto wasn't even sure how he'd been convinced into letting Jack come along. One minute he was dead set against Jack making anymore field runs, and the next Jack was sitting in the car with a happy smile on his face. In retrospect it may have something to do with Gwen screaming if Rhys had to be involved then Jack had to be involved too and that no one should be getting special treatment and finally after a long ass argument, in which Gwen became progressively more irritating, Ianto had sighed and allowed his unborn child to come into harms way.

Now Ianto was frantic as he ran towards where Owen should be and found the doctor doing just about everything he could to make a sedative for the giant creature who was scared and in pain, and though that innocent creature wasn't at fault, Ianto wanted it dead for threatening his family, however unintentional.

"Got it." Owen yelled, grabbing a bucket full of liquid and a giant syringe before running from the room, a worried Ianto not far behind.

It took two injections before the creature closed its eyes and passed away, but everyone mourned the poor creature who had known nothing but suffering for it's rather short life.

"Goodbye my friend." Jack said, looking up at the creature, heartbroken at being unable to save it.

"Let's go home." Ianto said, reaching out to grab Jack's hand.

"Wha...yeah...okay." Jack said, seeming to be somewhere completely different.

"Are you okay?" Ianto asked, his worry still prominent.

"Yeah...sure, yeah I'm fine."

"Don't lie to me Jack." Ianto said, frowning.

"I'm just shocked anyone could do this to such a kind creature." Jack said, petting the dead creature.

"I'm sorry we couldn't save it."

"He was too far gone to be saved. He had stopped regenerating...he was going to die regardless of what we did to save him...they'd carved too much away."

"I wish we could have. Everyone deserves to be saved."

"Yeah...yeah they do."

"Let's go home. We'll have UNIT deal with cleanup."

"Yeah, like UNIT wants anything to do with this." Jack said, scoffing at the notion.

Ianto chuckled before pulling Jack away from the body and towards he SUV. He wasn't going to let Jack dwell on things he couldn't change.

"I love you." Jack said, stifling a yawn.

"I love you too Cariad. No more field work." Ianto said petting Jack's head as the Captain got comfortable in the SUV.

"I know." Jack said closing his eyes for a bit. It couldn't hurt.

"Good." Ianto said, but Jack didn't hear him, since he was fast asleep and snoring lightly.

Ianto chuckled and placed a light kiss on Jack's head. The captain was obviously tired and needed his sleep and so with his mind made up, he made his way to the driver seat and waited for Owen, Rhys and Gwen.

"I'm going to snag the SUV for the night. I don't want to move Jack more than once." Ianto said once the others had made their way into the SUV.

"No problem mate, just drop us off at the hub."

Ianto nodded and started driving, taking Owen, Rhys and Gwen to the hub before driving to his own flat. Jack needed to sleep in a proper bed and Ianto just so happened to have one.

It took 20 minutes and it was mid afternoon by the time Ianto had pulled into his parking spot and turned off the engine with a sigh. He wasn't looking forward to waking Jack, but he had to get the man to bed.

"Jack?" Ianto called, calmly shaking Jack out of his sleep.

"We at the hub?" Jack asked bleary eyed and exhausted.

"No, we're at my flat. Come on then." Ianto said, helping Jack out of the car and towards his flat. With a press of a code the door opened and Ianto maneuvered Jack to bed hoping the older man would get back to sleep.

"Thank you Ianto." Jack said, smiling brightly as his head hit the pillow.

"No problem Jack." Ianto said, kissing the Captain's head and working on taking off his boots.

"No one's treated me as kindly as you." Jack admitted with a yawn as his eyes drooped shut once more.

"They weren't worth your time then." Ianto said, covering Jack with a blanket and listening to his soft snoring. With a smile Ianto left to call Owen and make a snack for Jack.

"Hi Owen. I'm staying home with Jack." Ianto said, once Owen had answered.

"What do I tell Gwen? She won't be happy about this." Owen asked. He sounded annoyed.

"Who cares what you tell her, she won't care. It's about her, always has been. Have you given her the retcon to give Rhys?"

"Yeah, she looked pissy about it, but she took it."

"Okay, good. Jack and I will be back in about an hour or two...he's just so tired." Ianto sounded frightened.

"I get it, just let him sleep." Owen assured before hanging up.

Ianto looked in his fridge and sighed. He had no idea what pregnant Jack would like to eat so he took out a bit of everything and started making it.

By the time he was done there was an assortment of fruit, vegetables, meats, cheese, and bread made up that would tame even the pickiest pallet, hopefully Jack enjoyed some of what he saw.

Ianto was working on making some tea when Jack made his way towards the kitchen.

"Hello Ianto." Jack said with a happy smile and sleep hair.

"Hello. Would you like some tea?" Ianto asked, handing Jack a tea and watching Jack take a sip.

"Holy hell...this...this is...my god this is good...no wonder your sister said what she did."

"And what did she say?" Ianto asked, a little miffed.

"Well I told her she was as good at making tea as you were making coffee and she looked a bit insulted before taking what I had said as a compliment...compared to your tea brewing...you're crap at coffee."

"I've had more time to perfect my tea. I'm still working on bettering my coffee." Ianto admitted with a smile.

"I still think your coffee is liquid gold, Ianto...I just wish I could drink it." Jack looked so annoyed at himself.

"You will soon, now drink your tea, I have a platter of food for you to choose from." Ianto said pointing towards the food on the counter behind him.

"You cooked your kitchen." Jack noted and laughed.

"Well, I've no clue what you'd eat now." Ianto admitted. "And what you don't eat the others will devour."

"True. Grab the platter and let's go, we can eat at the hub."

Ianto shook his head fondly before packaging up the food and making his way to the SUV. Leave it to Jack to always worry about his bloody job.

The trip to the hub was made in companionable silence, Jack driving and Ianto trying not to have a heart attack at the erratic way his lover chose to drive. Jack was a grown man and if he wanted to drive like a lunatic then he was more than welcome to.

They parked the SUV and walked to the hub.

"Batman." Jack said and Ianto rolled his eyes.

"No!" Ianto said, a definitive edge to his voice.

"Totally."

"NO!"

"Yup."

"We are not naming our son Batman."

"For the middle name it would be awesome." Jack was all smiles.

"I said no." Ianto said, putting his foot down on the subject. He sounded intimidating enough but the look was all wrong. There was Ianto, in a suit and tie, holding a tray of food. That was far from intimidating.

"Awww...you're no fun." Jack pouted as they made their way towards Tosh and Owen.

"He's right mate. Batman would be a super cool name." Owen said, causing Ianto to frown.

"Owen, you're not helping." Tosh said glaring daggers at the medic.

"That's not my job Tosh." Owen reminded, patting the metal autopsy table.

"We brought food." Jack said, changing the subject before sitting on the table.

"Sleeve up Jack." Owen instructed and watched as Jack complied.

The exam took about fifteen minutes and Owen frowned while looking at the latest result.

"Your blood count is dropping and because of it your blood pressure is rising. Have you been taking your iron supplements?" Owen asked, annoyed at the situation.

"Yes...I've been taking them." Jack assured, panic rising at the thought of the inevitable. He wasn't stupid, he knew how bad high blood pressure was for the baby.

"He has been. I've been giving him his medication." Ianto assured. Though it'd been two days since the last check up, it was needed, what with the field mission Jack wasn't supposed to have been on.

"That's it. I'm giving you another injection, and you're on strict bed rest until I find out the reason for this spike. I'll come to you for your check ups daily. I want you to keep taking your mediation and eat low sodium foods. I'd like it if you refrained from salt all together if you could, but low sodium is acceptable."

Jack nodded and looked at Ianto, who's face was tight with worry. Ianto may not have signed up for this but he was invested 100% and it killed Jack to know that Ianto would never know this kid.