Are you ready? Are you ready for our boys to reunite? I think there might be a lot of dialogue in this chappie, maybe a bit of flirting ;)

Everything in italics is thoughts, if it has a – in front its thought dialogue

-is Ianto

-is Siobhan

As usual I don't own Torchwood, just my OCs

Chapter 3- He's Alive

Eyes locked. It was like an intense staring match between two formidable foes. Neither was backing down; neither was breaking eye contact.

Ianto couldn't believe that after all these months of shifting training with Siobhan, he was finally stood in front of Jack. It wasn't meant to happen yet, he was meant to control the shifts, learn how to control his healing abilities (which to be honest were a bit hit and miss right now) and more importantly rehearse the whole I'm still alive speech.

Jack couldn't believe he was staring into Ianto's eyes. It should be impossible, as impossible as giant wolves standing in the middle of a field in the outskirts of Cardiff, which he'd been directed to be a ghost.

The large red one growled, teeth bared and pawed at the ground. The wolf with Ianto's eyes turned its head towards it and snarled back, and suddenly the two wolves were a bundle of yipping and snarling fur, moving sometimes too fast they were a blur.

Ianto was used to this, Siobhan's random challenges. It had become more like play fighting between brother and sister, and this time the growl with the accompanying let's see if you can beat me now we're in front of lover boy thought had spurred Ianto to tackle her even if he knew that it was pointless trying to beat the pack master. He was a beta; she was an alpha. But each time they fought it lasted longer before she pinned him.

The two wolves rolled, and the big red one came out on top, teeth bared, and then chortled like it was laughing and sprung off. The silver one snapped at its tail before yipping, and springing back to its feet- no paws. Suddenly the air shivered, and where the red one had been stood a young woman in strange tribal dress, scales woven throughout her ginger blonde hair.

She approached Jack and circled, is if she was inspecting him. Or assessing a threat. Suddenly she laughed, as if hearing another half of a conversation. The air shifted again, and there he was, naked as the day he was born, stood in the middle of the field.

-I'm naked again aren't I? Ianto panicked mentally at Siobhan, and sensed her mental laugh as she suppressed her aloud one this time, unlike her laugh at 'I'd forgotten how gorgeous he is' comment when it had slipped through. It wasn't like he could help it. It was JACK.

-Yep.

-I thought I had the clothes thing down now!

-probably just nerves. Chill.

-how am I supposed to chill! Its Jack!

-Jesus Ianto, breathe. You're acting like a twelve-year-old girl about to go on her first date.

-that's what I feel like! He make's me feel like that. Has from the first day I met him. I didn't realise what it was then. I was only there for Lisa, but now I realise Jack Harkness had me at hello. How cliche!

-Awwww aren't you two cute. However, perhaps we should start talking out loud. I think we're freaking him out.

She was right, Jack's eyes were bugging out of his skull as he stared at Ianto, taking in the muscles that had built on his already toned physique, and appreciating his nakedness quite a bit if he was honest

And Ianto's cock was programmed to Jack these days. He thought Siobhan was gorgeous, and during how to keep your clothes on demos he'd seen her naked a few times and he couldn't deny her body was everything most men dreamed of, but all he wanted these days was Jack.

"Oi! Focus!" Siobhan winked as she teased him, slapping Ianto playfully round the back of the head. "I'm gonna run for a bit. You boys catch up; you know how to get hold of me." She took off at a run, before disappearing back into the trees in a flash of red fur.

Ianto blushed, and looked at the floor, finally covering himself. "I was meant to shift back with my clothes on," he offered as an explanation, and nervously shifted from foot to foot.

Jack shrugged of his heavy great coat and stepped up to him, gently draping it around Ianto's shoulders. "Thanks," he bit his lip, and tugged the coat around himself like a security blanket.

"You're welcome." The words were loaded with questions, questions Jack really didn't know how to voice.

"When I woke up, I thought I was dead. My family left the clan when I was a teenager, our blood was supposedly too dilute for me to even have the healing abilities, let alone controlled shifting! Siobhan thinks it's proximity to the rift mixed with what she calls 'the strongest power' whatever that is that woke the genes up properly." Ianto garbled and rushed through the explanation so fast and quietly that Jack barely heard it, but 51st century senses meant his hearing was just acute enough.

He felt obliged to grab Ianto into a fierce hug, pulling him tight against him and feeling the warmth of his body, the beat of his heart made him feel so alive again. Ianto grabbed at him back, settling his head into the crook of Jack's neck, hot tears slowly meandering their way down his cheeks.

"I don't care. I've got you back Yan, that's what matters to me. Losing you… it burned my heart. I… I couldn't say it Yan. You were dying in my arms and I couldn't say it because it meant I was really losing you and admitting that hurt too much." Jack choked back a sob and clutched Ianto tighter, noticing the ghost Daniel had vanished for the first time.

"It doesn't need saying Jack. I'm back, and I'm not going anywhere, clan or Siobhan be damned. I love you, and that's enough for me. Being with you, alive, is enough for me. And if I can work this out, as long as something doesn't kill me, I can be around as long as you'll have me."

Jack pulled away at the statement. "you can live forever?" he exclaimed, staring deep into Ianto's eyes like he was trying to probe the answer from his very soul.

"Ke'anuri magic. I could stay this age for a thousand years, a millennia, if I work out how to use it. Siobhan has been teaching me, but its still a bit hit and miss. Hence the whole no clothes thing." Ianto laughed, and Jack just kept staring.

He'd found someone he could potentially have forever with.

And in the leather clad Doctor's words, that was FANTASTIC.

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