Be Careful What You Wish For 18/65
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missthingsplaceTitle: Be Careful What You Wish For - Sequel to Heaven And Hell
Author: missthingsplace
Parings/characters: Jack/Ianto. Gwen. new team members (Chloe and Damien)
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or any of the characters ... unfortunately.
Summary: Set after series two
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Mpreg
Rating: PG13 - NC17 For series.
A/N This extra chapter comes to you this evening curtesy of a bribe by [Unknown site tag]bassair
When Ianto's mum arrived at the hospital just over an hour later she thought Jack was asleep, his head was resting on the edge of Ianto's bed and his eyes were closed but as soon as her footsteps fell on the floor of the room Jack's eyes opened and he lifted his head.
'How is he?' She asked Jack quietly.
'No change since I got here. They said they're going to keep him sedated for at least twenty four hours to let his body have a chance to start the healing process.'
'But he's going to be okay?'
'So they tell me, but they said he was fine to go home yesterday.' Jack could feel the tears staring to form in his eyes again and brushed them away.
Ianto's mum walked over to Jack and kissed him on the forehead before wrapping her arms around him, Jack felt wetness on his cheek and realised she was crying which started him off again.
'It's okay to cry.' She told him. 'I've been doing plenty of that myself.'
Jack stood up from his chair so they could hug properly, they held each other close for a long while, neither of them saying a word, but both knowing exactly how the other was feeling. They didn't move till they were disturbed by a nurse coming in to check on the blood pressure machine and to check Ianto pulse and temperature.
'He's doing just fine.' She told them. 'Blood pressure is back to normal and his pulse and temperature are okay.'
'He still needs to stay under sedation?' Asked Ianto's mum.
'It's for the best, if he carries on like this they will let him wake tomorrow.'
'Okay, thanks.' Jack said as he pulled up another chair next to the bed for Ianto's mum.
Ianto's dad had gone back home the night before, thinking all was well as he needed to get back to work. Ianto's mum had called him soon after the hospital had called her and told him she would keep him up to speed on Ianto's condition and if anything changed, meaning for the worse she would tell him he was needed back at the hospital.
In between the nurses coming in to do their checks on Ianto and them being shooed off at lunch time to the visitors cafe they just talked. They even managed some smiles and laughs as Ianto's mum told Jack stories of when Ianto was small.
Jack had sent Ben a text during the time they were in the cafe, just telling him that Ianto wasn't going home to his parents just yet, that he'd suffered a relapse and then called Gwen.
'Jack, how's Ianto?' She asked as soon as she answered her mobile.
'Not good, he had a relapse, another operation and is under sedation till at least tomorrow morning.'
'I'm so sorry.'
'I just need to know you are all coping without me, us?'
'We're fine Jack, the rift is mostly behaving itself. We're feeding Janet, Myfanwy and the kitties and keeping them clean. Myfanwy played up a bit, you know how she is, prefers Ianto to feed her but we bribed her with some chocolate and now she's behaving.'
'I hope the rift stays that way, you know I'll come if you need me but I need to be here with Ianto.'
'Jack, we understand completely, if we need you we will call, but only of it's something we can't handle on our own.'
'Thanks Gwen.'
'You're welcome, not get back to that gorgeous husband of yours.'
'I will, bye.'
'Bye Jack.'
Jack closed his phone and finished his tea, they still hadn't braved the hospital coffee and waited for Ianto's mum to come back from the ladies loo. When they got back to Ianto's room they had to wait outside as the nurse was changing the dressing on Ianto's head.
As soon as she had left they were straight back into the room, Ianto Jack was happy to note was starting to get some colour back, his skin wasn't the same colour as the sheets on his bed anymore. Jack placed a soft kiss to Ianto's lips before he sat back down beside the bed, Ianto's mum next to him.
'Maybe he'll wake up with his memories.' Ianto's mum thought out loud.
'I'm not getting my hopes up.'
'I don't think they'll be letting him home anytime soon.'
Jack shook his head sadly. 'No.'
They sat in silence for a while, just thinking to themselves, Jack clutching Ianto's hand. At the moment Jack just wanted Ianto to be awake and alive and well, and then he could work on the problem with his amnesia again. If he had to make Ianto fall in love with him all over again he was prepared to do it, Ianto was at least still attracted to him, but he really wanted, needed his Ianto's back.
When the evening finally came and the nurses told them they had to leave Ianto's mum kissed her son on the forehead and hugged Jack goodbye before leaving. Jack kissed him on the lips and told him he'd be back in the morning and that he better be well enough for the doctors to let him wake up. He had no idea of Ianto could hear him, but he liked the think so.
Jack arrived home to find Gwen, Chloe and Damien waiting for him with what looked like half the contents of the local chinese takeaway in bags in their hands.
'Dinner.' Chloe told him.
'How did you know I had left the hospital?'
'We phoned them, they told us they'd kicked you out about ten minutes before, so we took the chance that you'd come straight home.' Damien replied.
'And I know you Jack, you're barely eating, aren't you?' Gwen asked, but both of them knew it wasn't really a question.
'Not really, no.' Jack replied honestly.
Jack let them all into the flat and they made him wait in the living room while they sorted out the food in the kitchen, then and only then was he allowed into the kitchen to choose what food he wanted. As the aromas hit his senses he suddenly realised that actually he was starving, he piled his plate high and took it back into the living room, sat on the sofa and dug in hungrily.
Someone put a CD in the stereo and they sat down with their food, Gwen next to Jack on the sofa, Chloe on the armchair and Damien sat on the floor, lent against the chair. They stayed till nearly midnight and it wasn't until they were about to leave that Jack realised what they had done, they had been there to give him a few hours where he didn't have to think about what he and Ianto were going through.
He had a feeling he had Gwen to thank for it, and when she held back after the other two had gone he knew he was right.
'Thanks Gwen.' He pulled her into a hug. 'I think I needed that.'
'I know.' She smiled. 'How was he when you left the hospital?'
'Still sedated, but they hope to let him wake tomorrow.'
'Had any of his memory come back?'
'No, not yet. But he is finding himself attracted to me, so maybe something will click sometime soon.'
'No one can resist that Harkness charm eh?' Gwen laughed.
'I need him back Gwen, the Ianto I love. The Ianto that loves me, the father of my babies.'
'He'll come back to you, I'm sure of it.'
'Someone's got to be positive.'
'Jack, you can't think like that, it won't help Ianto and it sure as hell won't help you or those babies, you can't let yourself get drawn into depression. I'll call Martha!'
'She's threatening to call the Doctor and tell him everything, I can't cope with that just now.'
'Okay, I won't call Martha if you stop feeling sorry for yourself and just concentrate on Ianto and what he needs and helping him, you hear me?'
Jack grinned, he always found it amusing when Gwen got tough with him.
'I can only try.'
'There is no try.' Gwen told him with her best Yoda impersonation.
Jack burst out laughing and hugged her again.
'Rhys is a very lucky man.'
'I know.' She grinned and wigged an eyebrow. 'And I better be getting back to him.'
'Thanks again Gwen, Bye.' He kissed her on the forehead.
'Bye Jack, give Ianto my love when he wakes up tomorrow.' With that she ran off down the road to her car.
Jack closed the door, lent against it and sighed. 'Only eight hours or so to get through before he could get back to the hospital. It couldn't see the point of going to bed, he knew he wouldn't sleep but he also knew he needed to rest. He had his shower and then wrapped himself in the duvet and put the TV on.
Jack flicked through the channels till he found an old war film then laid down on the sofa, that would keep his mind occupied for a few hours. It wasn't long before his eyelids began to droop and within half and hour he was asleep. This time his sleep was dreamless and uneventful and he awoke to the sun streaming through the window.
Maybe that was a good sign he thought as he glanced at his watched, sitting up with a start when he realised it was nearly eleven am. He'd slept for nearly ten hours straight and as much as he must have needed it he'd wanted to be back at the hospital bright and early. He downed a quick cup of coffee along with a few leftovers from the takeaway, dressed quickly and rushed out the house, into Ianto's car and sped to the hospital, just managing to stay in the speed limit.
When he arrived there was no sign of Ianto in intensive care, he went in search of a nurse who happily told him that Ianto had been moved back to the room he was in before. Jack rushed off to the other side of the hospital where it was located and found him looking more like himself, the drip and blood pressure cuff now both removed and a nurse taking his pulse.'
Jack waited impatiently till she had finished. 'How is he?'
'Much better, scan shows the bleeding was stopped completely, all his vitals are normal. They have removed the drip that was keeping him sedated, that was about an hour ago, so he should start to show signs of waking up in a couple of hours or so.' She told him smiling.
Ianto's mum wasn't there, but it wasn't a surprise as they had agreed at some point the night before that Jack would call her when Ianto was awake, there were some things she needed to do including calling his brothers and sister to let them know what was happening so far.
Jack took up his position of the last few days, in the chair by Ianto's bed and waited for him to open his eyes, for now that was all that mattered, anything could wait. Just under two hours later Ianto's eyes started to flutter open as he started to awake.
He looked about him still half asleep, what happened, my head hurts again?'
'You had to have another operation, but you're okay now.'
'Where are my parents?'
'Your dad had to go back to work, your mum will be here as soon as I phone her and tell her you're awake.'
'Have you been with me the whole time?'
For as much as they would let me.'
'You really do love me, don't you?'
'Yes.'
'I wish I could remember you.'
TBC
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Date: 2008-09-15 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-09-15 07:36 pm (UTC)That last line broke me just a little . . .
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Date: 2008-09-15 07:39 pm (UTC)Things will start to get better soon, i promise.
Thanks :D
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Date: 2008-09-15 07:37 pm (UTC)x
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Date: 2008-09-15 07:39 pm (UTC)sniffle
Date: 2008-09-15 07:51 pm (UTC)Re: sniffle
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Date: 2008-09-15 07:53 pm (UTC)'Yes.'
'I wish I could remember you.'
Oh my goodness *breaks*
Brilliant.
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:49 pm (UTC)Thank you :D
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:24 pm (UTC)By the way, I love that the team is taking care of Jack and the babies. I think Jack really needed them right then and I'm glad they were there for him.
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:50 pm (UTC)Thanks :D
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:29 pm (UTC)Not sure which I'm more sorry for atm!
Yay for the bribe working though!Yay!
And and and ... I *love* Ianto's mother. She's just so wonderful and believeable :)
I adore this fic :)
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-15 08:33 pm (UTC)I'm almost a puddle of tears, but I had to hold back as I am at work.
I still think you enjoy torturing me.
But I like this chapter.
yay for making Jack eat.
Nicole
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:51 pm (UTC)Thank you :D
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:37 pm (UTC)*sob*
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:51 pm (UTC)Thank you :D
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:38 pm (UTC)Really glad that the team is taking care of Jack and that Jack was able to get some good rest though. He's going to have to be careful if he doesn't want to lose those babies!
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Date: 2008-09-15 08:52 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-09-15 09:05 pm (UTC)Thankies :D
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Date: 2008-09-15 09:56 pm (UTC)But Ianto still can't remember!!
Grr..
Loving this!
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Date: 2008-09-15 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-15 09:58 pm (UTC)So well written as usual.
XXX
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Date: 2008-09-15 10:04 pm (UTC)Thank you :D
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Date: 2008-09-15 10:04 pm (UTC)Thank you :D
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Date: 2008-09-15 10:58 pm (UTC)That last bit?
meep!!! This story is getting to me like no other...
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Date: 2008-09-16 06:00 am (UTC)Loving the story
Date: 2008-09-16 12:41 am (UTC)Glad there was no post surgery nausea, though a definite sign that this is fiction. :-)
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Date: 2008-09-16 06:01 am (UTC)Not everyone has post surgery nausea, i never have ...
Thanks :)
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Date: 2008-09-16 02:16 am (UTC)Oh well. *cries* Oh yeah and Gwen is rocking all over this fandom atm I love it.
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Date: 2008-09-16 06:02 am (UTC)Thank you :D
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