Dreamscapes And Nightmares 11/?

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AU: When it all changes: Life, Love and Family in Torchwood.  
Title: Dreamscapes And Nightmares (Series 12)
Author: missthingsplace
Parings/characters: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Andy, My OC's: Caden, Eloise, Dylan, Jenni, 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: Jack starts experiencing at first strange and confusing dreams which become interspursed with nightmares and he has no idea what is causing them or if they are connected ...
Spoilers: Probably not, but you never know ...
Warnings: Really? Do i have to?
Rating: NC17 for the series.

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

Chloe had barely entered the Captains office when Jack groaned loudly, eyes still closed as he lifted his hands to his head and yelped as he touched the area on his forehead that had hit his desk.

“Jack?” Ianto said softly.

Jack opened his eyes slowly and found himself being watched intently by both his husband and Chloe, both with worried looks on their faces.

“What happened?” Jack asked, wincing at the pain in his temple.

“You yelled out 'No' and then passed out.” Ianto replied. “What's the last thing you remember.”

As Jack remembered why he had shouted out horror crossed his face again, unable to stop the tear that rolled down his face.

“It ... I ... oh god.” Jack uttered.

“Jack, tell me.” Ianto asked, getting more and more worried about his partner.

“I'll leave you to it, just shout again if you need me.” Chloe told them, feeling like she was intruding on something.

Ianto nodded his thanks to her and then turned his attention back to Jack.

“This image, this horrible image just hit me out of nowhere as you were talking to me.” Jack told him, his voice barely above a whisper. “I think it was connected to the dreams.”

“Tell me.” Ianto urged again.

“The baby, the one from my dreams ... there was something in her room, I couldn't see what but it had these long blades ...” Jack stuttered, clearly disturbed by the memory. “It sliced them through her while she slept, oh god the scream, no baby should ever scream like that and the blood ...”

Jack broke down completely, sobbing into his lovers chest as Ianto wrapped his arms tightly around him and kissed the top of his head.

“It's okay cariad, it's okay.” Ianto said, trying to soothe his lover. “It's over now.”

“But it's not, is it?” Jack replied, not lifting his head from his husbands chest. “Now the nightmares are invading my head when I'm not even asleep surely it can only get worse?”

“You still have no idea who the woman and the baby are?” Ianto replied softly.

“Other than that they seem to have been part of my life at some point, no.” Jack told him, finally lifting his head and looking into Ianto's eyes with his own red rimmed ones. “I don't even know, remember their names or when it was or even what damn planet we were living on.”

“Maybe this is a good thing, maybe it means the memories will come back faster if it's happening when you're awake?” Ianto suggested.

“A good thing? I get something invading my head that's so horrific that it make me pass out and that's a good thing?” Jack sneered, obviously upset with him.

“That's not what I meant Jack and you know it.” Ianto snapped back. “I meant that it could mean you could resolve this faster than if it was still just happening randomly when you sleep.”

“If you had seen what I had there is no way you would say something like that.” Jack told him, pulling himself from his lovers arms and grabbing his coat.

“Where are you going?” Ianto asked, following Jack out the office and down the steps.

“No idea, I need some fresh air.” Jack replied, increasing his pace across the hub floor towards the cog door.

“I'll come with you.” Ianto suggested but the look Jack gave him told him he wasn't welcome.

Ianto stood rooted to the spot as Jack left, not moving until the cog door rolled back into place and then turned to find three sets of eyes on him. Ignoring them all Ianto quickly headed down to the archives, not wanting to explain anything to his team mates, friends.

Changing direction a little he found himself in the children's nursery come playroom and threw himself into the armchair, he could understand what Jack was saying, why he was angry but he just wanted this to all be over so they could put it behind them.

“Ianto, can I talk to you?”

Looking up he nodded to Chloe, he knew Jack didn't want anyone else to know about the dreams and nightmares but he needed to talk to someone other than Jack about them.

Chloe sat on the edge of the small bed in the room and waited for him to speak.

“For the last few months, maybe two months after Dylan was born Jack's been having dreams and nightmares.” Ianto explained. “It seems to be memories that he was forced to forget pushing their way back into his conciousness.”

“Are you going to tell me what happens in them?” Chloe asked.

“He seems to be married to, or at least living with a brunette woman and they have a baby ... and they are murdered by someone, something in the most horrific way.” Ianto told her. “He's been getting random dreams, some of them just happy family stuff and some ... nightmares. Today while we were talking he had a flashback, it was so ... the shock was what caused him to pass out. He saw the baby killed.”

“Oh my god, and he really thinks these are repressed memories?” Chloe asked.

Ianto nodded. “There is no other reason for them and they must be part of the two missing years he has from his memory.”

“Well, that part makes sense but I thought the Time Agency stole them from him?” Chloe replied.

“That's what he always thought and it could still be the case but now he's not so sure.” Ianto told her. “I made the mistake of telling him that maybe if the memories are coming back while he's awake it could be a good thing ...”

“And Jack thought you were being insensitive to his feelings over them?” Chloe finished for him.

“Yep, but I didn't mean ... oh hell ... and now he's pissed off with me.” Ianto groaned.

“He'll strop off somewhere, think about it and realise what you meant.” Chloe assured him. “He's not stupid, daft sometimes yes, but not stupid and he knows that you love him and he'll figure out that you just want this all over with.”

“It's all so frustrating for him, I get that.” Ianto replied. “I wish something would bring the memories flooding back ... it's would be horrible for him I know but at least then we can work through it.”

“Do you have any idea what triggered them in the first place?” Chloe asked.

“No, not a clue.” Ianto frowned. “Look, don't mention any of this to Jack or anyone else, he didn't want anyone to know.”

“You know I won't, why don't you go and find him?” Chloe suggested. “He's probably calmed down a little by now.”

“Any ideas on what I can do to try and help him?” Ianto asked.

“Just be there for him, when all this finally becomes clear he's going to need you more than ever.” Chloe replied.

“I just hope this doesn't rip us apart.” Ianto replied, admitting his fears to himself for the first time as well as to Chloe.

“Ianto, go and find him, talk to him.” Chloe urged.

“Yeah.” Ianto agreed, getting to his feet and walking back up to the main hub with his friend. “Thanks Chloe.”

“You're welcome, now get gone.” She said, pushing him towards the cog door.

“What's wrong?” Gwen asked once Ianto was out of the hub.

“They just had a tiff, nothing to worry about.” Chloe told her.

Something in Chloe's tone told Gwen not to push it any further but it just made her even more worried for her boss and his husband.

TBC

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