missthingsplace | Unforeseen Complications 21/?

AU: When it all changes: Life, Love and Family in Torchwood.

Title: Unforeseen Complications (Series 11)
Author: missthingsplace
Parings/characters: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Andy, My OC's: Caden, Eloise, Claire, Chloe, Damien, Ianto's family.
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or any of the characters ... unfortunately, just borrowing them for a while.
Summary: After the hell of their daughter being kidnapped and their wonderful family holiday they return to Cardiff and Torchwood to tell their team mates of Jack's pregnancy, after a few weeks of relative normality they find themselves on the hunt for something that's slipped through the rift unseen ... with an added complication.
Spoilers: Probably not, but you never know ...
Warnings: Angst, slash, language, fluff ... the usual!
Rating: PG - NC17 for the series.

Previous series/chapters: http://missthingsplace.livejournal.com/165103.html#cutid1

Gwen stopped in front of them, hands on hips with a none to happy look on her face.

“That young girl, she says she's your daughter?” Gwen directed the question at Jack then glared at the both of them. “Didn't think to tell me?”

“We only knew about her yesterday Gwen, you had the day off and it was just a little bit of shock.” Jack replied.

“Understatement of the year!” Ianto added. “Gwen, honestly we barely had time for it to sink in ourselves and if you hadn't been in today we would have contacted you.”

“Everyone else knows about her.” Gwen pouted making both Jack and Ianto smile.

“Not everyone Gwen, not even Ianto's family.” Jack told her.

“Oh ...” She paused. “Why not?”

“Because we're not ready to let her into our personal lives yet.” Ianto replied, moving to the door and closing it quietly.

“But she is definitely your daughter?”

Jack nodded. “Chloe confirmed it, did you give anyone the chance to tell you anything or did you just come rushing up here?”

“I just came up here.” Gwen replied a little sheepishly.

“Right, well she came through the rift using a vortex manipulator she stole off John Hart ..”

“How does she know him?”

“Let me finish, okay?”

“Sorry Jack.”

“Her mother died, he knew her and she ... borrowed it from him without his permission.”

“So she came looking for you?” Gwen asked softly.

“Yeah, but as you can understand even though she is Jack's daughter we're a little wary of her, after what's happened in the past we just want to be sure there's no ulterior motive before we introduce her to the twins, or Ianto's family.” Jack replied.

“She knows nothing about Jack except that he's her father.” Ianto added.

“And I don't remember her mother, so it must have been during the two years I have no memory of.” Jack told her. “But I do know her mum never told me she was pregnant, she told Teyla that.”

“Does she know about the twins?”

“Yep, but for now she's staying with Chloe, she doesn't know Jack's pregnant either.” Ianto replied.

“Noted.” Gwen reassured them. “So what do you know about her?”

“Not much, just that she grew up on the Boshane Peninsular.”

“Where you're from Jack?”

“Her mum moved there when she was a baby, half hoping she would run into me again.”

“Did she say whether you were in a relationship or if it was just a one night stand?”

“Not really gone into that.” Ianto told her.

“Not that it really matters now.” Jack added. “I just want to know if we can trust my own daughter.”

“Only time will tell that Jack.” Gwen replied. “Anything I can do, just ask.”

“Thanks Gwen, we're hoping she'll open up to Chloe while she's staying with her.”

“She has your eyes.” Gwen said, suddenly changing the subject. “She's gorgeous.”

“She takes after her mum she says, I always did have good taste.” Jack grinned, looking at Ianto and winking.

“Jack!” Ianto groaned, knowing he was blushing a little, he still couldn't control it after all the years they had been together.

“Still beautiful.” Jack replied, reaching out to brush his fingers down Ianto's cheek and then tilting his face up to plant a soft, brief kiss on his lips. “Beautiful.” He repeated when he pulled back.

“You're daft, gorgeous and daft.” Ianto chuckled softly as he took Jack's hand in his, both of them totally oblivious to Gwen who was watching the exchange with a soppy look on her face.

“It's why you love me.” Jack replied, kissing him again, a little deeper, wrapping his free arm around Ianto's waist as they lost themselves in their embrace.

Gwen let out a discrete cough, followed by a second a little louder a few moments later and the pulled apart, Jack with a huge grin on his face and Ianto looking a little embarrassed that they had forgotten she was there.

“I need to go and get those cocoon's with Damien.” Ianto announced, untangling himself from Jack's embrace. “Back in a while.” He added, leaving the office and bounding down the steps to the main hub.

“You two are adorable, you know that?” Gwen told Jack, mile wide smile on her face.

“I blame love.” Jack told her, flopping happily down into his chair. “Did you enjoy your day off?”

“Yes, thank you, we really need to have a day to ourselves. We called the doctor and told him we were going to go private and he said that was okay as long as the results were passed onto him.”

“Chloe will provide all that for you.” Jack told her.

“You okay?” Gwen asked. “No more pains?”

“A little when we discovered Teyla but it seems to be caused my stress, so I'm doing my best to stay stress free.”

“Always good for pregnancies, but hard to avoid in this job.”

“Yeah, tell me about it.” Jack agreed. “You went near the medical bay, I hope the smell didn't make you sick?”

“Chloe's sprayed that air freshener of hers, smell was non existent.”

“Could have done with that in the early hours of this morning, I was hurling my stomach contents into the bay when we went to get it.”

“You're not meant to be out in the field Jack.” Gwen frowned.

“Andy said it wasn't life threatening.” Jack replied. “So we took the chance and it seems he was right.”

“If I'm confined to desk work then so are you!” She told him indignantly.

“Does that mean we still get sneaky pastries and proper coffee now and then when we're stuck here alone?”

“You better believe it!” Gwen exclaimed.

“Then I feel the need to send Chloe somewhere with Teyla but for now we shall just have to conform.” Jack moaned. “If there's no nasty smell in the medical bay we should go and see how they are getting on.”

“Lead the way.” Gwen told him, following Jack out the office and down the steps.

They stopped at the railings above the medical bay and looked down, there was no smell as Gwen had promised but the sight below wasn't a pretty sight and they looked at each other with identical looks of repulsion.

“Chloe, anything to report?”

“Nearly done with the preliminaries, want to come down?”

“Not really, come and find me when you're ready.”

“Sure Jack, about ten minutes maybe.” Chloe estimated.

“Okay.” He called down. “Lets get away from that!” Jack added to Gwen, leading her over to the old sofa and sitting down beside her. “So, you thought of any names yet?” Jack asked, trying to waste a little time.

TBC