AN- I have never been to Jubilee Gardens, nor have I been to any of these parts of London, so I'm just guessing XD

Also, for reference, Gwen is about 5 months pregnant at this point.

I don't own any lyrics, nor do I own Torchwood.

There is a reason this chapter is going up earlier than planned as Rietta and I have decided to put faces to names, and venture from our abodes and meet up, so you can thank Rietta for the early posting.

Thank you for all your lovely reviews, BlacnkbuntyL0V3, Rietta, Ravenja70, Evilpinkbutterfly101, TeamBarrowman, Pinkfairy727, Specialfrancine, Christiaan, milady dragon, darkdranzer, pooky1234 and DoctorwhoXTorchwood. If i've missed you, I apologise, this chapter is dedicated to you all! Especially Rietta, for all the hard work she's done...this chapter got beta'd twice! lol.

Now, Rietta and I have a little game going on, we've been giving each other dares and working them into the story. If you think you noticed one, let us know...there's normally a story behind said dare. I don't have one in this chapter, but I know, Rietta had one in her last one for Models & Musicians I: Matchmaking...who noticed the line? xD (Rietta has authorised this note)

Special thanks to Rietta, for the Evil Sentient sugar puffs, the Warhammer Saturdays and Meatloaf! .

Saturday 12th June 1999

Chapter 3- First Dates.

Ianto Jones was normally a very sane man, but at this moment in time, dancing around his hotel room with a heavily pregnant Gwen, he couldn't care less. He was half dressed, pants and shirt on, the shirt open at the collar and socks and fuck me shoes on.

He held up Gwen's hair straighteners and used them as a fake microphone as he jumped onto the bed and belted out in time with the radio "I pick all my skirts to be a little too sexy, Just like all of my thoughts they always get a bit naughty, When I'm out with my girls I always play a bit bitchy, Can't change the way I am sexy naughty bitchy me..."

Gwen laughed and grabbed a nearby hairbrush, standing carefully on the bed with Ianto and belting out " I'm the kind of girl that girls don't like, I'm the kind that boys fantasize,
I'm the kind that your momma and your daddy were afraid you'd turn out to be like, I may seem unapproachable but that's only to the boys who don't have the, Right approach or ride that makes a girl like me wanna hop in and roll."

Ianto and Gwen continued to dance around the hotel room, singing loudly; so loudly they missed the hotel door opening and missed the stunned looks of the two people who had entered the room.

Ianto smiled and belted out "I like all of my shorts to be a little too shortly, Unlike all of my guys I like them tall with money, I love all of my nights to end a little bit nasty, Can't change the way I am sexy naughty bitchy me"

Ianto was expecting Gwen's feminine out-of-tune voice to join him for the chorus, so when he heard the familiar American accent join him he felt his heart stop and spun to face the door, his face colouring immediately as he finished with Jack "I pick my skirts to be sexy, Just like my thoughts a bit naughty, When I'm out with my girls ...bitchy, Can't change I am, Sexy naughty bitchy me."

When the music stopped, Ianto hurriedly dropped the straighteners onto the table and glanced over at Gwen who had her head ducked down and was sat on the edge of the bed.

Jack, who had walked in with Rhys, turned to look at his friend. "Erm...Didn't tell me Ianto was here."

"Yea, but you knew that... he's coming out with you on a date tonight afterall."

Jack nodded and coloured slightly before turning back to Ianto. "I hope you're not after me for my money, I haven't had my first pay cheque yet."

Ianto looked at Jack and shook his head hurriedly. "No, honestly!"

Jack raised his eyebrows. "I'm not going to eat you alive you know."

Ianto glanced at Jack and smiled coyly "And here I was hoping you would."

Jack burst out laughing. "There's the Ianto I know!"

"The bad singing and dancing comes as part of the package I'm afraid."

Jack grinned. "All the better."

Rhys and Gwen just watched the banter and then Gwen made her way over to Rhys and hugged him. "He's so different from primary school!"

"I know- he has a new favourite show now."

"Oh? It's not 'Strawberry Shortcake' anymore?"

Rhys burst out laughing, causing Jack and Ianto to turn and face him with identical looks of confusion.

"What?" Jack asked.

"'Strawberry Shortcake'!" they both managed to choke out, before continuing to laugh as Jack coloured a worrying shade of plum.

"Breathe, Jack," Ianto reminded him when he noticed Jack was getting a little too red.

Jack exhaled and shook his head slowly. "I was six," he said at last.

Gwen smiled and shook her head. "I can hardly talk, I liked it as well."

"You're a girl though, you were meant to like it."

Gwen laughed. "And you are gay...aren't you meant to like it too?"

Jack shook his head and turned back to Ianto. "I'll pick you up around quarter to seven, while I know where you are, is that okay?" Jack felt suddenly nervous.

"You still want me to come after that performance?" Ianto asked shyly.

Jack smiled. "Oh I want you to come alright...but maybe not over dinner." He shot a wink and turned to the door, heading out and shaking his head at Rhys. "Cya all soon."

****

Lisa Hallet smiled as she and her boyfriend Tommy sat in the restaurant awaiting the arrival of Jack and the mysterious Ianto Jones.

"What do you reckon?" Lisa asked.

"Oh I dunno, I'm betting Ianto's a girl."

Lisa raised her eyebrows. "Why?"

"Well c'mon, I don't think Jack's really gay..."

"Why?"

"Because, I mean, it's Jack...he's so forward, and masculine…"

Lisa raised her eyebrows again and replied sarcastically "Yes, because he watches sport."

"He comes to the pub with us."

"Hmm," Lisa raised her eyebrows at Tommy. "You can be gay and you can be butch you know."

Tommy shrugged his shoulders and nodded at the door. "We have company."

Lisa smiled and stood to great Jack and Ianto as they made their way over to the table. "Ianto's a guy," she smiled triumphantly.

"I see that."

Jack and Ianto reached the table and Lisa grabbed Jack into a hug as Tommy shook Ianto's hand; they then swapped partners and continued greetings, "Jack, Ianto, how are you both?"

"Starving," Jack responded, winking at Ianto. "And have you seen my date? Lisa, I couldn't be better."

Ianto ducked his head down and blushed, murmuring: "I'm fine thank you, and yourself?"

Lisa grinned and hugged Ianto. "We're good, no need to be shy."

Ianto looked at her and smiled. "Nervous more like."

She laughed. "With Jack as a date, I'm not surprised. Has he kept his hands to himself?"

Ianto smiled. "Yes, been very well behaved, compared to all the stories I've been told."

"And told by...?" Jack raised his eyebrow in question.

"I spoke to a few of the people who worked with you in Phantom."

Jack smiled and nodded his head. "Oh that reminds me, it's the final performance in November, that's when I'll be looking for more work."

Ianto laughed. "I'll have to come and visit you then."

Jack smiled and leaned over, brushing a gentle hand over Ianto's cheek. "I'll come up to Cardiff when I can."

Ianto smiled. "See how this date goes before we make future plans eh?"

Jack grinned. "I think we get on well."

Ianto smiled back. Lisa and Tommy watched the exchange with interest as Lisa rested her head on Tommy's shoulder and smiled. Jack looked so content, so happy, so at peace, and she hadn't seen this look on his face for so long.

"He's happy," Tommy whispered.

"I know," Lisa smiled. "I just wish his mother could see him like this."

Tommy nodded sadly. Imogen Harkness' death had been all over the news. She had died in a car accident when Jack was fifteen: he had been the one to find the car, and to this day he still believed he should have died in his mother's place. But maybe this Ianto Jones could make him see otherwise...see and bring out the old Jack Harkness.

Over dinner they chatted idly about anything and everything, ranging from Jack's performance in Phantom to Lisa's chat show on Friday evenings. "So, is there a show you want to do Jack?"

"Erm...loads! This is my first one; I'd love to do Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, or The Sound of Music, or even Mack and Mabel."

Lisa grinned. "Only because you want to sing 'I Won't Send Roses'."

Jack smiled. "I love the song, who can blame me?"

Ianto smiled. "Maybe I'll respond in kind with "Who Needs Roses?'."

Jack's eyes widened. "Ianto Jones, you know the reprise?"

Ianto smiled. "I know everything."

"OH Jack, he's a keeper!"

Jack laughed and wrapped his arms tightly around Ianto and whispered: "Mine now."

Ianto smiled and turned to look at Jack. "You're confident."

Jack just smiled lazily and handed Lisa some cash. "It's getting late, and I wanted to spend sometime with Ianto alone tonight."

"Of course, it was nice meeting you Ianto." Lisa smiled and kissed his cheek. "And you..." she pointed at Jack, "should come and be a guest on my show."

Jack grinned and shrugged as he helped Ianto into his coat. "Maybe, maybe not."

****

Jack led Ianto out of the restaurant and they headed to a nearby car park, where Jack's driver had parked his car: he couldn't drink, not with singing most nights- there had been no evening show that night, for reasons Ianto didn't need to know. All he did know was walking with Jack and so the entire evening thus far.

Jack unlocked the car and smiled over at Ianto. "I hope you don't mind if we-" he indicated his driver, who had just come out of a café across the road "-don't take you back to your hotel straight away?"

Ianto smiled and shook his head. "Not at all."

Jack smiled back and cuddled up next to Ianto on the back seat as the driver proceeded to pull out of the car park, driving them to someplace in London. "Can I ask where you plan on taking me?"

"Jubilee Gardens," Jack smiled. "It's an amazing place to go this time of night; you can lie on your back and make shapes with the stars."

"You speak as if from experience."

Jack smiled across at Ianto. "My Dad took me; I wanted to share it with you."

"I'd be honoured," Ianto grinned back.

Not long after, Jack's driver pulled up into a hotel car park that was opposite the gardens. "Won't they mind?" Ianto asked.

"Nah, my dads staying here, it's convenient."

Ianto smiled and shook his head. "I might have known."

"Always be prepared."

Ianto laughed as Jack opened his car door for him and offered him a hand to help him out the car. "True gentleman are you?"

Jack just gave him a wink and shut the car door. Together they walked across the road and into the gardens. Jack glanced over at Ianto briefly and was rather pleased to see his stunned awe at the beauty of the place at night time in his face. "It's gorgeous isn't it?"

"Yes," Ianto gasped as he turned to Jack, stopping them both in their tracks.

"What?" Jack asked as he noticed Ianto looking at him. Ianto shook his head and smiled, leaning towards Jack and kissing his cheek.

"Thank you for brining me here."

"It's my pleasure," Jack smiled.

They continued to walk, this time hand in hand, through the gardens, until they reached an expanse of open space with a bandstand in the smiled and led Ianto up onto the bandstand, pulling him flush against his own body and wrapping his arms around Ianto's waist.

"In the daytime, there's music and dancing and all kinds, children laughing and playing games and couples sat down enjoying the atmosphere," Jack said.

"Sounds lovely."

Somewhere in the distance a big band number was playing out of one of the bars across the way. Jack started slowly swaying with Ianto, taking one of Ianto's hands in his and holding it between them, his other hand resting on Ianto's waist whilst Ianto's other hand came to rest on Jacks shoulder. Both of them closed their eyes and swayed in time with the music. Jack broke the silence. He didn't pull away; instead he took the dance one step further and started moving them around the bandstand in a quick foxtrot. Also, he started to sing quietly, but loud enough for both he and Ianto to hear.

"And all at once I lost my breath, And all at once was scared to death, And all at once I own the earth and sky, Now I met Miss Jones, And well keep on meeting till we die, Miss Jones and I, Miss Jones and I, Miss Jones and I…"

Ianto closed his eyes as Jack's voice carried over them. He allowed himself to rest his head on Jack's shoulder as Jack sang, and when he'd finished the last note Ianto pulled back and stared into Jack's eyes. He wanted to kiss him, but he was scared: he'd never kissed a man before. Of course, he'd never kissed anyone before. He was about to voice this, when he felt the first spatter of rain on his cheek before the heavens opened. He made to pull back when Jack pulled him closer.

"Jack!" he laughed as they continued to stand there in the pouring rain. Jack smiled and tilted Ianto's chin up just a little bit, before leaning in and pressing a fairly chaste kiss to Ianto's lips.

Jack pulled back, but Ianto stopped him and pulled him in for a deeper kiss, one that lasted a lot longer, to the point where, when they pulled back, the rain was coming down a lot harder. Jack grabbed Ianto's hand, and laughing and soaked wet through they ran through the park back to the car, where Jack opened the car doors and let Ianto climb in before he got in himself.

"No Brolly Jack?"

Jack laughed and reached down onto the floor behind the seat and pulling out an ideally large umbrella.

"One in the car, yes."

Ianto rolled his eyes and asked if the heaters could be turned up. Jack smiled and gave the name of Ianto's hotel to the driver. Once they got there, Jack moved around to the passenger side and opened the door. "Can I walk you up?" he asked.

Ianto smiled. "I'd like that."

Jack smiled and took Ianto's hand in his, walking them up to Ianto's hotel room. Once outside the door, Jack cupped Ianto's face in his hands and kissed him again. "Had fun?" he asked.

Ianto raised his eyebrows in a way Jack found incredibly sexy. "Had dinner with at least two famous people, got drenched in a park-."

Jack cut Ianto off by kissing him again and smiled when he felt Ianto return the kiss in kind.

"Try again," Jack smirked.

"I had fun Jack..." Ianto smiled back genuinely.

Jack smiled. "Maybe we should do it again some time."

Ianto smiled. "I'm free for breakfast tomorrow."

Jack grinned back. "Sounds wonderful."

Jack kissed Ianto hard for good measure before turning and calling out "I'll pick you up at nine then."

"Sure," Ianto responded. He opened the door and was about to vanish inside when he heard Jack call out.

"By the way- Love the suit."