missthingsplace | Heaven And Hell 10/?

Title: Heaven And Hell - Sequel to One Week In Cardiff.
Author: missthingsplace
Parings/characters: Jack/Ianto. Gwen. new team members.
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or any of the characters ... unfortunately.
Summary: Set after series 2.
Spoilers: None.
Warnings: Please read A/N first.
Rating: 15

Note 1: A/N This chapter is full of angst and maybe upsetting. This and the next couple are going to be very emotional.
Note 2: This chapter is a continuation of the last one, it kind of got away from me.

Gwen was in the conference room with Damien and Chloe looking at her, she had no idea how this was going to go. She cleared her throat and took a deep breath.

'Right, you've been here a few months now and thats long enough to know that the universe is filled with the unexplained, the impossible and the unexpected.' She began.

Damien and Chloe both nodded.

'Okay, Jack isn't from around here, this place or this time.' She waited for a reaction.

'Did you say time?' Damien said unsure he had heard right.

'Yes. He's from the future, the 51st century to be exact.'

'You're kidding, right?' Chloe asked with an unsure smile.

'No.'

'Then how did he end up here? Why hasn't he gone home?' Damien wanted to know.

To tell you that i need to tell you some other things. I don't know all the details, but this is what I do know. In the future Jack used to work for something called the 'Time Agency' but he has never elaborated on what that was. At some point he met and travelled with the Doctor.'

'The Doctor? The one in the Torchwood archives? The Time Lord? He does exist?' Damien asked.

'Yes, to all those questions. On a place called Satellite Five he was killed, by Daleks, somehow he was brought back to life. Something to do with a woman called Rose and the TARDIS, i don't think he even knows exactly how it happened. Since then he hasn't been able to die. Actually that's not strictly true, he does die, bit comes back a little while later.'

'WOW!' Chloe exclaimed.

'He was abandoned on Satellite Five and used his that thing on his wrist, he calls it a Vortex Manipulator, to travel through time to try and find the Doctor. He miscalculated and ended up here in Cardiff more than a hundred years ago.'

'He's looking very good for his age.' Damien commented.

'The Vortex Manipulator burnt out and he was stranded here. As well as not dying he also heals fast, hence Jack insisting that Ianto took care of him whenever he got hurt. He heals faster when he dies, like his body resets itself.'

Damien and Chloe looked at her wide eyed.

'Anything else we should know?' Chloe asked.

Gwen smiled. 'Yes, he can get pregnant.'

A sudden realisation hit Chloe as her hand flew to her mouth in shock.

Jack was still asleep, moaning slightly as he did, the painkillers effect starting to wear off. Ianto had moved off the floor as his back had been complaining. He had got a chair and was sitting beside Jack, holding his hand and whispering to him, kissing him on the forehead now and then.

He was trying his best to keep his composture, he needed to be strong for Jack. No matter what was wrong he would be there for him. A tear rolled down his cheek, he brushed it away and took a deep breath. No, he couldn't give into his emotions, he mustn't.

Martha was studying the scan images she had saved to the computer, she couldn't believe she was seeing what she thought she was seeing. She would have to run more tests on Jack's blood to comfirm it, all the previous results had come back normal. She would never have even thought of doing these tests.

When the tests came up positive she checked them and double checked them. She was going through them for the third time when Chloe ran down into the medical bay.

'I think I know what's wrong with Jack.' She gasped. 'Something Gwen just told me, something impossible.'

'I think I've just come to the same conclusion. I can't believe it, you and your secrets Jack.'

'You're going to have to tell him.'

'Yes. And he's going to have to decide what he wants to do, there are only two options and neither of them are going to be pleasent.'

'Do you want the rest of us to make ourselves scarce?' Chloe asked.

Martha nodded. 'Yes, I think that would be for the best, please don't say anything to them yet, that's Jack and Ianto's call.'

'Of course.' Chloe went off to the conference room

Martha waited till the other three had left before making her way over to Jack and Ianto.

Ianto looked up when he heard Martha approach them.

'Martha, have you completed the tests, you know what's wrong?'

She touched his arm. He could see the look in her eyes and he didn't like it.

'I'll wake Jack, you go and get him some coffee.'

Ianto leaned over and kissed Jack softly on the lips before reluctantly letting go of Jack's hand and went to get the coffee. When he returned Jack was awake but a little groggy. He pushed himself into a sitting position and groaned, rubbing his abdomen. Martha gave him some pills and he swallowed them.

'How you feeling Jack.' Martha enquired.

'Pain isn't so bad now, but I think the painkillers have more than a little to do with that.' He answered.

Ianto sat down next to Jack and put an arm around his waist.

'Martha, you said you know what's wrong.' Ianto asked, fear in his voice.

'There's no easy way of saying this, I'm just going to have to say it.' She gulped back the tears that were threatening to fall. 'Jack, you were pregnant.'

'You said were?' Jack's voice full faulted slightly.

'The pain you are having, you are having a miscarriage, I'm so sorry.'

Ianto sat there wordlessly, he was having trouble taking in what was said, pregnancy, miscarriage? Martha glanced at him.

'Ianto, are you okay?'

'Fine.'

She knew he wasn't, but she had to finish dealing with Jack for now.

'How ... how long?' Jack stuttered.

'About seven or eight weeks from what I can tell from the scan.'

'Are you sure, is it ...' Jack let out a sob.

'I'm sorry Jack, there's no heartbeat.'

Silent tears fell down his face.

'Jack, I have to ask you something. You have two options, if we don't do anything then eventually the fetus will be absorbed back into your body, but I have no idea how long this will take or how long you will feel pain for. The other is that I operate and remove it.'

'Do I have to decide now?'

'No, no, you tell me when you are ready.'

Jack felt Ianto pulling him close, pulling Jack's head into his shoulder. Ianto let his own tears fall as they held each other tight. Martha watched them for a few minutes, this was going to be hard on both of them. She couldn't even imagine what was going through Ianto's young head.

She walked away from them, leaving them to their grief back to the medical bay. Once she was out of their sight she let her own tears come. She crouched down on the floor, against the wall hugging her knees as she cried. Seeing them like that was breaking her heart.

TBC