Amends 40/?

[missthingsplace]

Title: Amends
Author: missthingsplace
Parings/characters: Jack/Ianto, Gwen, Owen, Tosh
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or any of the characters ... unfortunately, just borrowing them for a while.
Summary: AU - What if after the way Jack reacted to Gwen refusing to retcon Rhys at the end of 'Meat' Ianto decided he didn't want to feel like he was second best anymore ...
Warnings: Slash, Angst, Violence, Rape, Mpreg.
Rating: NC17 for the series.

Previous chapters: http://missthingsplace.livejournal.com/276771.html#cutid1

“Jack, let go, I've got her.” Ianto told him. “Let go!”

Knowing that Ianto was just thinking of the best for him Jack let his lover take all of Rhiannon's weight, standing aside while Ianto lowered her slowly and carefully onto the makeshift bed and sitting beside her to keep her upright as she began to come around.

“I'm not dreaming this, am I?” Rhiannon asked, staring straight at Jack's swollen belly.

“Nope.” Ianto replied, unable to keep the small smile from twitching at the corner of his lips at the look on her face.

“Help me up.” She demanded, placing a hand on the mattress and finding it sinking straight into it.

Ianto lifted himself up and pulled her up by the hands, she moved over to Jack's desk and perched on the edge.

“Right, okay ... you're a man and you're pregnant ... fucking hell!” Rhiannon stated as if clarifying it for herself and crossing her arms. “Talk.”

“My descents came from earth and I am more human than not.” Jack began.

“Ianto said you were from the future?” Rhiannon replied.

“Yeah, the 51^st century, it's a long story but something happened to me and I got stranded here.” Jack explained. “In the 51^st century it's possible for men to have babies, as you can see quite evidently here.”

“And you didn't think to take precautions? What about STD's ... please don't tell me you were trying for a baby?” She asked, glaring at the both of them.

Jack sighed and realised he's have to tell her a little more than he'd planned.

“I've been on this planet a very long time, over one hundred years and I didn't think I was able to get pregnant again, thanks to the oestrogen in the rain.” Jack told her.

“Oestrogen in the rain? No, don't even bother, what do you mean you've lived here over one hundred years, you don't look a day over ... thirty five.” Rhiannon challenged him. “Or do people live very long lives where you come from?”

“Something happened to me, I died and then came back to life and ever since then my signs of ageing have slowed right down.” Jack replied, not wanting to go into the whole immortal thing.

“When did you find out you were pregnant? Was this what started the fight between you?” Rhiannon asked. “Ianto did you ...”

“No!” Ianto yelled at her for even thinking he would have fought with Jack so badly about him being pregnant it would have ended in the attack.

“The attacked was caused by a creature that got into the Tourist Office, we had no idea it was there until ... that happened.” Jack explained. “It was feeding on our emotions and exacerbating them, Ianto wasn't in control of himself that night. It was after that I found out I was already carrying his baby.”

“A creature? Are you talking about an alien?” Rhiannon asked.

“No, a creature from the past, like Myfanwy.” Ianto told her. “Remember the stories about the Boglam's we were told as kids?”

“They were real?” She gasped in surprise.

“Very! But it's gone now, Ianto and Toshiko killed it.” Jack replied.

“Toshiko?” Rhiannon asked.

“One of our team, she's the tech specialist along with Gwen who is an ex police officer and Owen our medic.” Jack told her.

“I think my head is going to explode soon!” Rhiannon groaned. “So you have your own doctor, keeping an eye on the pregnancy?”

“Yeah and all is fine, well it is now.” Ianto told her then groaned inwardly.

“What exactly do you mean by 'well it is now' Ianto?” She asked.

“A bit of a blood pressure issue but it's settled down.” Jack told her.

“You said you were around thirty four weeks but would be ready to deliver in three, wouldn't that make it three weeks early?” Rhiannon asked.

“No, male pregnancies develop in half the time.” Jack explained.

“Bloody typical, finally men get to go though childbirth and they get the gestation time reduced by half!” She exclaimed. “Do you know what it is?”

“A girl.” Ianto told her, unable to keep the smile off his face.

“And do I want to know just how one man can get another man pregnant?” She asked, cocking an eyebrow and looking so much like her brother at that moment.

“Basically the same way as you did but ...”

“That enough information thank you!” She told Jack cutting him off and added seriously. “Right, now I want to know if you two have worked out your issues?”

“We're getting there.” Jack told her, glancing nervously at Ianto.

“Getting there? And that means exactly?” She probed.

“We've stopped fighting and we're talking and we're trying to make this work.” Jack replied.

“For the babies sake or because you both want to?” She asked, watching them both closely.

“Because we want to.” Ianto told her. “We don't deny that we still have some issues to work through but we want this, to be together so much that we will make this work.”

“You seem very relaxed around each other but there's still some tension between you, it's there niggling at you, I can sense it.” Rhiannon told them. “I can't explain how, but I just know.”

Jack looked at Ianto and he gave him a small nod in reply, already feeling his blush creeping up his next as Jack explained their intimacy problem to his sister.

“The one time we ... tried to have sex it didn't go as planned, it was as far as you could get from making love.” Jack told her, feeling strangely awkward, something that rarely happened in his long life. “Once the baby is born we will go back to working on that.”

“Good luck with having any kinda sex life once that little one is born!” Rhiannon chuckled nervously. “Sorry, I know it must be hard to trust my brother again, after ... even if he wasn't in control of what happened.”

“He wasn't the only one who behaved violently that night.” Jack told her guiltily. “There are trust issues on both sides.”

Rhiannon nodded. “I won't make you go into details but I do want to help, if you need me to have the baby sometime you only have to ask.”

“You're not angry with us?” Ianto asked her.

“How can I be? The pregnancy being unplanned which isn't something I'm going to go into but you're both committed to working everything out and being a family.” Rhiannon told them. “I want to help you achieve it.”

“You have no idea just how relieved I am to hear you say that.” Ianto told him sister.

“Umm, just to clarify, I can't tell anyone any of this can I?” She asked.

“Not even Johnny.” Ianto grinned.

“He's the last person I'd tell.” She laughed. “Biggest gossip on the estate him.”

“Are you sure you're okay with knowing all this?” Jack asked her. “If you think it's all too much we have a way of removing the memory of everything that's been said this evening.”

“You can really do that?” Rhiannon asked.

“Yep.” Ianto replied. “Do you want it?”

“No, how can I let my niece be born not knowing where she really came from?” She smiled. “Now, I think I need a strong coffee for the shock and you can tell me more about this rift, that dinosaur and those aliens.”

“You're meant to drink tea for shock.” Ianto smirked.

“True.” She replied. “But I've had your coffee before.”

“The best in the universe.” Jack told her with a grin.

Rolling his eyes at the pair of them Ianto headed down to the kitchenette to make the coffees feeling more positive about the future of him and Jack's relationship than he had for a long time.

Jack moved around his desk and sank into his chair with a loud sigh at taking the weight off his feet, closing his eyes for a moment and then opening them when he sensed Rhiannon was watching him.

“Feeling like a beached whale?” She asked him with a small smirk.

Jack nodded and rubbed his hand over his belly.

“There is justice in this world.” She laughed, Jack couldn't help but laugh with her.

TBC

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