New Horizons 20/21 + Epilogue
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missthingsplaceTitle: New Horizons
Author: missthingsplace
Parings/characters: Jack (Jack/Ianto Rhys/Gwen) OC's: Dafydd, Angela, Christopher, Charlie
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or any of the characters ... unfortunately, just borrowing them for a while.
Summary: After losing Ianto and Gwen in the same attack Jack accepts a request by the queen in Washington DC
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Angst, slash ... the usual.
Rating: NC17 for series. This chapter PG
Previous Chapters: http://missthingsplace.livejournal.com/2
A/N 1 The bunnies have finally spoken and i know how this will end!
A/N 2 Happy birthday to ![[info]](https://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
blucougar andseether_79
Jack moved slowly across the living room, one hand supporting his lower back, the other his bump and slumped down somewhat ungainly onto the sofa with a soft thud wondering how he was going to get through the next ten weeks without going mad.
Over the last few weeks his bump had blossomed from what looked like a bit of a beer belly, okay, a generous beer belly to looking like he was going to give birth any minute but according to Martha's last scan his pregnancy was still progressing normally and he was thirty one weeks pregnant.
Shifting his position on the sofa Jack reached the short distance to the coffee table next to him and opened his laptop, a sad smile crossing his face as the background picture of him and Ianto at their wedding came into focus.
“Good morning gorgeous.” Jack said softly, ghosting his fingertips down the image on the screen. “I love you.”
Opening the picture file that contained all the photo's from the wedding Jack set it to show them as a slide show, laying on his side on the sofa as he watched the pictures chance every few seconds on the screen until it reached the one someone had taken catching them off guard kissing as they danced at their reception and pressed pause.
Jack stared at the image for a while before closing his eyes, the moment still fresh in his mind as if it had been only yesterday, it had felt like there was no one else in the room at that time but the two of them, a small smile crossing his face as he remembered their whispered conversation.
“This as been the best day of my life.” Ianto told him, a huge grin on his face. “Nothing will ever beat it.”
“Nothing?” Jack replied.
“Well, maybe one thing, the day you tell me you're having my baby.” Ianto told him, brushing his lips against Jack's briefly.
“You really want kids don't you?” Jack asked.
“Only with you, I never even thought about it with ... but somehow I just know we're meant to be parents.” Ianto replied.
“Then one day your wish will come true.” Jack smiled. “We will have a beautiful baby.”
Ianto then kissed Jack fiercely in the middle of the dance floor, effectively bringing their slow dance to a complete standstill as he showed Jack just how much he loved him.
They had snuck away soon after, outside into the gardens and hiding among the trees and bushes as they kissed languorously, passionately, desperately and finally tenderly before heading back inside with bruised lips and a blush to even Jack face, obvious to everyone what they had been partaking in.
The reception had begun to wind down soon after, the guest knowing that the newly weds would never say they wanted them to go but knowing they wanted to be left alone to enjoy their wedding night. As soon as the last guest was out the door Jack grabbed Ianto's hand and dragged him to their room, both of them stripping off their clothes in a frenzy to be together skin to skin.
Jack reached over again and pressed play again as tears began to fall down his face, he knew he couldn't just blame the extra hormones flowing through his body for them, he still missed Ianto more than he was admitting to himself let alone his in-laws and Charlie.
As Jack set the photo slide show to run again he knew he was only putting off what he had actually opened the laptop to do, he knew there would be an email from Charlie waiting for him and the more they swapped emails the more Jack knew he wasn't anywhere near being ready for a new relationship.
But Charlie seemed to be seeing their correspondence as a slow build up to something more and Jack couldn't bring himself to tell him that for now he could only offer him friendship, scared that by doing so he would lose that as well.
Jack pressed the little 'x' at the top right of the screen and closed the slide show before clicking on the icon that opened his email, wiping away the tears on his face as he clicked on the anticipated email from Charlie and began to read.
Good morning Jack!
Well, I'm guessing it's morning as you open this as I wrote it late in the evening here. Spring is on the way, the trees are beginning to blossom as the first few flowers are poking their heads through the soil showing that new life is appearing once more and it makes me think of you and the baby.
I hope you are both doing well and she's not kicking you too black and blue on the inside? I can't wait to see her when she's born ... I was thinking, you can say no if you don't want me to, but I wondered if you'd like a visitor when you're due, just to help out a little?
By visitor I mean me of course, I haven't mentioned it before because I wasn't sure how you'd react but the time is getting close now, seemingly fast and if I don't ask now it could be too late by the time you reply.
Please don't feel obliged to say yes, I know you're still grieving for Ianto but it would just be as one friend helping out another in a time of need. Well, anyway, there's no harm in asking is there?
All is going good here with Torchwood Five, the rift still isn't very active and we're able to cope with what does slip through. You made a good choice, as I've said before in making Dafydd the leader, it's like he was born to the role.
Anyway, I should get back to work, things to do, archives to keep in order and all that! I hope to hear from you soon.
I miss you.
Charlie x x
Jack reread the email twice, he liked Charlie a lot, he did but if he came over it wouldn't help, it would just confuse him even more about his feelings where Charlie was concerned and he new he wouldn't be able to cope with that along with a new baby.
Deciding he needed to take a while to think about his response Jack closed the laptop again and heaved himself off the sofa, walking slowly to the kitchen he poured himself a large glass of water and downed it in one, almost instantly regretting it when the urge to pee hit him fast out of nowhere.
Jack made it up the stairs and into the bathroom just in time, stripping himself of his clothes as he ran a bath in the hope it would help his aching back. Adding lots of his sister in laws bubble bath knowing she wouldn't mind Jack slipped into the hot water, sinking beneath the bubbles as the heat set to work on his aching muscles.
By the time Jack got out again the water was almost cold and he felt much better than he had before he had got in but a little sleepy, drying himself quickly Jack dressed in fresh briefs and slid into the coolness of the linen on his bed.
Turning on his side Jack placed a pillow under his bump for support and closed his eyes, at first the realisation that he was needing more sleep was a little unsettling but now he found he was actually looking forward to his naps.
When he was asleep all his thoughts and problems vanished, sometimes he dreamed of Ianto and although he woke up sad he was happy in the knowledge that he wasn't forgetting him. His face, eyes, lips, mannerism ... everything that made him who he was was still there and for that he was grateful.
Jack woke a few hours later from a dreamless sleep feeling refreshed, hearing noises downstairs he dressed and went down, guessing it was Rhiannon home for lunch and found her in the kitchen making sandwiches.
“You're awake, how are you feeling?” Rhiannon asked him as she buttered the bread.
“A little more human than I did when I got up this morning, boy does this little one take it out of me.” Jack replied.
“You just wait till she's born, you won't know what's hit you.” Rhiannon chuckled.
“I'm trying hard not to think about the birth, let alone what's to follow!” Jack groaned. “Although I know it will all be worth it.”
“Just like anyone else who's pregnant I would imagine.” Rhiannon grinned. “Like me!”
It took a few moments for her words to sink in, Jack's eyes widening in excitement as the penny finally dropped.
“You're pregnant?” Jack asked.
“I found out this morning, Johnny knows and you're the only other person I've told so far.” She told him grinning like a Cheshire cat.
“How far gone?” Jack asked.
“Only about six weeks I think, I can't believe it.” Rhiannon squealed.
“My daughter will have a playmate.” Jack replied. “What could be more perfect?”
“Nothing I can think of.” Rhiannon agreed.
“And now I have to go pee, again!” Jack sighed.
“At least I know what I have to look forward to.” Rhiannon chuckled as Jack headed upstairs.
Rhiannon placed two mugs of decaffeinated coffee next to the plates of sandwiches she had finished as he heard Jack yell out followed by the unmistakable sound of something or someone falling down the stairs.
Running into the hall she rushed over to Jack's crumpled body lying at the foot of them, a gash on his head from where he must have hit it on the way down.
“Jack, Jack, talk to me, oh for gods sake talk to me.” Rhiannon said to his still, unconscious form. “Jack please, wake up and tell me you're okay.”
Rhiannon watched as the small gash healed before her eyes but Jack still didn't move, checking his pulse and respiration she knew he was still alive and breathing but didn't have a clue what to do next, she could hardly call an ambulance to come to the aid of a pregnant man.
“Jack, please wake up, I need you to wake up.”
TBC
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Date: 2009-06-28 02:46 am (UTC)I loved the description of their special day together and that Jack still watches the photo's
don't like the last little bit *peeks out from behind the cushion*
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Date: 2009-06-28 02:55 pm (UTC)Thank you :D
I love it when the bunnies talk to you
Date: 2009-06-28 02:48 am (UTC)Cheers!!
Re: I love it when the bunnies talk to you
Date: 2009-06-28 02:55 pm (UTC)Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-06-28 03:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-28 02:56 pm (UTC)Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-06-28 03:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-28 02:56 pm (UTC)More very soon!
Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-06-28 03:06 am (UTC)What a place to finish the chapter, though! I hope ferociously that there'll be a new chapter waiting when I come home from Queensland in 10 days'time....
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Date: 2009-06-28 02:56 pm (UTC)Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-06-28 03:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-28 02:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-28 03:15 am (UTC)Poor Jack having to suffer through being pregnant without Ianto there. But yay for Rhiannon being pregnant too!!!
Please please please let Jack and the baby be alright!
Fantastic update!!!
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Date: 2009-06-28 02:57 pm (UTC)Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-06-28 03:55 am (UTC)I'm happy Rhi's pregnant.
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Date: 2009-06-28 02:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-28 04:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-28 02:57 pm (UTC)More soon.
Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-06-28 08:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-28 02:58 pm (UTC)More in a while!
Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-06-28 10:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-28 02:58 pm (UTC)Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-06-28 10:08 am (UTC)Am sitting here with my mouth open in shock.
cant wait for more.
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Date: 2009-06-28 02:59 pm (UTC)More soon!
Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-06-28 11:17 am (UTC)Loved the description of their wedding.
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Date: 2009-06-28 02:59 pm (UTC)More soon.
Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-06-28 12:49 pm (UTC)Please let the baby be ok!!!
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Date: 2009-06-28 02:59 pm (UTC)Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-06-28 12:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-28 03:00 pm (UTC)Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-06-28 01:55 pm (UTC)I hope everything is alright with the baby.
I love Rhiannon being pregnant, the wedding memory and Charlie's mail but Jack is right, it is way too soon.
Next chapter soon please *puppy eyes*
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Date: 2009-06-28 03:00 pm (UTC)Next chapter in a few hours ...
Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-06-28 02:02 pm (UTC)Happy for Rhi...and then...oh no!!!
Please be okay, Jack!!
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Date: 2009-06-28 03:01 pm (UTC)Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-06-28 02:05 pm (UTC)Great update. I was missing this series.
Nicole
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Date: 2009-06-28 03:01 pm (UTC)Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-07-02 02:33 am (UTC)whimpering only a little. okay whimpering a lot...
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Date: 2009-07-02 05:56 am (UTC)Thank you :D
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Date: 2009-11-08 01:41 pm (UTC)DONT'T KILL THE BABY!
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Date: 2009-11-08 01:47 pm (UTC)Thank you :D