Heaven And Hell 77/?

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Title: Heaven And Hell - Sequel to One Week In Cardiff.
Author: missthingsplace
Parings/characters: Jack/Ianto. Gwen. new team members. 10th Doctor, Donna
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or any of the characters ... unfortunately.
Summary: Set after series 2. 
Spoilers: None.
Rating: pg13 

Fourth connected series, links for the three previous series can be found in my Fic Master List  with a complete list of all my fics and are in the following order:

Mother's Day
Celebrations
One Week In Cardiff

A/N Friday 6th Febuary, day before Civil Partnership. This series will end just after the CP, sequel to follow as mentioned in A/N of chapter 60. Very long chapter, i started writing this last night, but i wasn't happy with it, so i've rewritten most of it today and it's grown ...


Jack and Ianto had spent the day exploring the coastline, finding strange looking alien sea creatures in rock pools as they just enjoyed the scenery. They eventually turned around to make their way back when they realised they hadn't thought to bring anything to eat with them, although they had grabbed bottled water on their way out because of the heat. They had been talking all day about almost everything, from how well they thought Damien and Chloe fitted in at the hub to fantasizing about staying where they were forever and never going back and their forthcoming wedding.

Eventually the conversation turned to children after a particular difficult part of their talk about the bad things that had happened to them in the last few months. They had stopped and sat on some rock, both feeling it was something they needed to be to be discussing while not being distracted but they things they saw as they walked and therefore distracted.

'I thought I'd be pregnant by now, after the ... miscarriage I really thought it would be easy.'

'Maybe you are and we just don't know yet?'

Jack shook his head. 'I took a test a couple of weeks before you got sick and it came up negative.'

'I didn't realise you were still taking them, I thought it was something we were both going to be there for?'

'I didn't want to put you through the disappointment every time they came up negative.'

'I can understand that, but I wanted to be there, for you.'

'I know and I applicate it, I also had this silly notion that I would find out I was pregnant and would do the whole romantic surprise thing, you know dinner and the like.'

'You really can be so unexpectedly romantic at times.'

'It's why you love me.'

'Well one of them.' Ianto grinned, raised an eyebrow and felt himself blush a little even though he really didn't feel any embarrassment.

'True.' Jack grinned cheekily.

'Well it's nearly three weeks since since you last took a test, maybe you are now?'

'Have you noticed anything, am I sleeping longer?

'No, I don't think so'

'Okay, I think we need to just get on with our lives and not stress about it, as they say it will happen when it happens, just means we get to practice baby making as much as possible.'

'Yep, lets not even think about till after the wedding and even then not let it rule our lives.'

'Sounds like a plan, look I don't know about you but as much as I've loved being here with you I'm kind of hankering to get back home?'

'Me too, I didn't want to say anything, do you think the Doctor will think we are ungrateful?'

'Nah, he'll understand and hey, we did what he bought us here to do, that will be good enough for him.'

'Lets go find the Doctor.' Ianto said, getting to his feet at the same time as Jack.

They kissed softly before continuing their walk back along the beach to the TARDIS, when they entered it they went in search of the Doctor, Ianto wondered how they were ever going to find him in the labyrinth that was the TARDIS but Jack told him the TARDIS would guide them. The Doctor was in the library, totally engrossed in the third Harry Potter book as he sipped a cup of tea, glancing up as he heard their footsteps approaching.

'Something wrong?' He asked, a frown on his face.

'No, the opposite. ' Jack told him. 'We're very grateful to you for bringing us here, but we want to go home.'

'We wrote our vows.' Ianto added.

'Brilliant!' The Doctor exclaimed grinning madly. 'But why go home early?'

'We just feel like we should be there.' Jack shrugged.

'If that's what you want.' The Doctor replied. 'Shall we go now?'

'Food first, we're starving, come and eat with us?'

'Of course, lead the way.'

The Doctor walked with them to the TARDIS kitchen and they made dinner between them, then took it outside and ate on the beach. The Doctor took the dirty plates and cutlery back into the TARDIS and left them to say goodbye to the planet. Jack and Ianto watched the sun start to set over the sea in each others arms then made they way back to the TARDIS and home.

When they arrived home the TARDIS had landed on the Plass, near the tourist office entrance, judging by the activity going on around them it was maybe lunchtime, they couldn't really tell by the sun as the sky was black and it was tipping down with rain. Coats held over their heads they made a run for the tourist office door, laughing as Ianto dropped the key in his hurry to let them in.

As they walked through the cog door they were met by three anxious looking team members.

'Where the hell did you get too?'

'Is something wrong, did something happen?'

'What the fuck are you playing at worrying us like this?'

Jack, Ianto and the Doctor all looked at each other in confusion and then back at the other three.

'What are you talking about?' Jack asked.

'It's Friday, you were meant to be back two days ago.' Gwen raged.

'Friday?'

'Yes Friday!! The eve of your wedding, people are starting to arrive and we had no clue where you were, we had to lie to them.'

'But ...' Jack started and then turned to the Doctor wide eyed. 'I could kill you sometimes, it's your fault, well the TARDIS anyway.'

The Doctor cleared his throat. 'It could have been worse, she could have made us miss the wedding completely.'

Jack amazed them all when he burst out laughing. 'Why on earth did I ever believe that you would get us back when you said you would?'

'No idea.' The Doctor laughed, glancing at Ianto, relieved to see he wasn't angry with him but smiling.

'And this makes it better how?' Asked Chloe.

'Has anything bad happened while we were gone?' Jack asked, suddenly serious again, worried they had not been there to help with some major catastrophe.

'No, unless you count worried parents.' Damien replied, looking at Ianto. 'And your mate Ben wanted to take you out for a drink tonight, last night as a free man and all that.'

'Shit.' Ianto exclaimed. 'I better go and make some phone calls.'

Jack watched Ianto's retreating back and wished he had people trying to get hold of him for the same reasons, but the Doctor was already there and he knew Martha and Tom weren't arriving till later in the day. When he came back out of his thoughts he realised the Doctor was apologising for them being home late and insisting they didn't blame Jack and Ianto. Jack asked the others to fill him in on this missing days and the Doctor went to phone Donna, wondering if she was back yet.

Ianto called his parents and reassured them that he and Jack were fine and he'd see them tomorrow and the ceremony and then phoned Ben, who insisted that he had to go out with him that evening. Ianto told him he thought it was a great idea but he might not be alone and got told he wasn't allowed to bring Jack as it defeated the object.

By the time the evening came it was arranged that Ianto was meeting Ben and Damien, Gwen and Chloe were going with him as well. Jack was going out somewhere with the Doctor, Donna, Martha and Tom, who had now arrived. They didn't really want to spend the eve of their wedding apart but their friends insisted it was traditional and that they would meet at the flat when they managed to escape their wonderful friends.

They all met as one big group by the water tower at 8pm, after they had had time to go home and change and then the plan was to split up and have their separate 'stag' nights. It took them nearly fifteen minutes to finally start moving from the meeting place, Gwen and Chloe took Ianto's hands and started to pull him away from the group, Damien and Ben grinning as they followed. They didn't get very far before Jack ran over and grabbed his lover and kissed him hard till Martha appeared and dragged him off Ianto laughing.

'You'll have plenty of time for that tomorrow.' She told him, dragging him back towards the Doctor, Donna and Tom and they finally the two small groups in different directions.

Ianto's lot found them selves in their normal haunt, the pub by the Plass, they had no actual idea what they were going to do that evening and thought it would be a good starting point. Ben went to get the first round in with Damien going to give him a hand. The sofas they normally liked to sit in were occupied but they managed to get a booth and Ianto found himself sandwiched between Gwen and Chloe.

'Are you nervous sweetheart?' Asked Gwen. 'I know I was and that was before the Nostrovite got me pregnant.'

'Not about the ceremony, a little about being up there in front of everyone and about the rift spitting out something nasty and ruining the day though.' Ianto admitted to her.

'Once you're up there, with Jack we will cease to exist, it will all just be about the two of you.' Gwen told him.

Chloe was feeling a little bold, no one had ever mentioned how Jack and Ianto had come to get together in the first place and she wanted to know.

'Ianto, did you get the job before you started dating Jack or was that how you got the job?'

Ianto smiled. 'Not quite as simple as that, I needed the job, I had a reason and I flirted with Jack like mad and harassed him till he decided I'd be an asset, although I do think my coming on to him was probably a big factor in it.'

'Why did you need the job so badly?' She asked, then immediately regretted it when Gwen gave her a look that told her she shouldn't have mentioned it, Ianto spotted the look too.

'It's okay Gwen, my girlfriend Lisa at the time was, well very sick and I needed to get her treatment I couldn't do on my own.'

'So you had a sick girlfriend and you were flirting with a guy?' Chloe couldn't hide that she was a little shocked.

At this moment Ben and Damien came back with the drinks and noticing that they seemed to be interrupting something said they were going to play pool for a bit and went off to the other end of the pub.

Ianto sighed. 'She was already dead, I know that now, I knew when ... when they converted her really but I loved her and wanted to save her. I nearly caused everyone on the team to die because of my stupidity and I thought at the time Jack was going to kill me and when he didn't that he would at least retcon me.'

'Wow, he must have already cared for you?'

We, even before she tried to kill us all I knew I was getting feelings for Jack, I had slept with him and even though I tried to tell myself it was all for Lisa I knew I was lying to myself. I was also very confused as I had never had any feelings like that for a man before. I never thought he'd trust me again let alone that our relationship would be anywhere near like it had been. It was a while before we were even civil to each other let alone back how we were personally again.'

Gwen's eyes were wide with amazement. 'You mean the two of you really were sleeping together back then? We thought it was all just flirting and innuendo for a very long time.'

'We kept it our secret, by the time Jack kissed me in front of you all after Abbadon I knew you all had an inkling there was more than that between us, even if everyone seemed to think I was just Jack's part time fuck.'

'I never.' Gwen started but Ianto cut her off.

'You all did, but Owen was the only one to voice it. When Jack disappeared later that day I knew then that I loved him.'

'But all that time, when he was lying in the morgue and I was with him you never made any attempt to make me leave so you could be with him?'

'I wanted to, so badly but you're very stubborn you know.' Ianto paused as Gwen smiled softly. 'I would have broken down in front of you and I couldn't do that, so I stayed away from his side although it was killing me.'

'Oh Ianto, I'm so sorry love.' She wrapped her arm around his shoulders and hugged him.

'All in the past now Gwen, it doesn't matter any more.'

'And when he came back?' Chloe asked eager to know.

'I had missed him so badly, I had got to the point where I thought he was never going to come back to me and then he did. And he seemed so sorry for leaving me, asked me out on a real date.' Ianto smiled at the thought before continuing. 'We never actually dated before then, I made him wait, I was so angry with him for coming back and acting like he'd never been away but I forgave him and I'm so glad I did.'

'You really had no inkling that you liked men before you met Jack?' Chloe asked.

Ianto laughed. 'No and to tell the truth I think if we hadn't got back together I don't think there would have been any others, there's just something about Jack, like we are destined for each other.'

Gwen lent forward and whispered quietly. 'So, come on tell us, how is he in bed?'

Ianto lent against the back of the seat and smiled widely. 'Absolutely fucking brilliant.'

Both Gwen and Chloe let out gasps at what Ianto had just told them and giggled. Ben and Damien were back again, telling them it was time to move on, that they had decided it was time to go clubbing and they knew exactly where to go.

*

Meanwhile Jack and his group had found another pub as their starting point, they were all sat round one table with their drinks in front of them, Jack was drinking his usual water despite the protests of the others that it was his stag night and he should have something stronger. He told them he wanted a clear head for the next day and when they said they didn't imagine Ianto was sticking to water he retorted that he didn't think Ianto would be daft enough to get pissed, but if when he got home Ianto was a little tipsy that was okay by him, giving them a grin that left no doubt in his mind what he was thinking.

'So Jack, Ianto is obviously good for you, how did he tame you? I never saw you as the settling down type?' Martha wanted to know.

'I just fell in love, what's not to love? He gorgeous and clever and beautiful and funny and pretty and so wonderful, so fantastic in bed.'

The Doctor practially choked on his drink making the others all laugh out loud.

'Too much information Jack.' The Doctor told him grinning.

When the Doctor and Tom went to get more drinks and Donna excused herself and went to the ladies Martha asked Jack what she'd wanted to since they had arrived at the pub and he'd insisted on only drinking water.

'Jack is there something you're not telling me?' She eyed his glass.

It took a couple of seconds for it to click as to what she meant and he laughed softly.

'No, I'm not pregnant yet, not for want of trying though.' He grinned.

Martha gave him fake look of shock. 'Jack!' And slapped him lightly on the arm.

'I know how much you want a baby Jack, it will happen for you I'm sure, after the last time why wouldn't it, you just need to be patient and maybe not try so hard.'

'Martha Jones I get the feeling you're looking forward to this as much as Ianto and I am?'

'Well, maybe a little bit.'

'How do you think the Doctor would react if I told him we were trying to get pregnant on purpose now?'

'I wouldn't tell him, wait till it happens he was rather negative if you remember about it last time.'

Jack nodded. 'But I want him to be happy for us when it happens.'

'I'm sure he will, but you know how he is.'

'Yeah.'

'Hey, what's with all the gloomy faces?' Donna demanded as she got back to the table.

'Nothing.' They both smiled.

Tom and the Doctor both followed a moment later with the drinks, insisting that they were moving on somewhere else after those ones.

*

Ianto's group ended up outside the gay club he had been to with Jack not so long again, he wasn't sure he wanted to be there again without him but the others insisted it would be a great way to spend the evening. It wasn't long before they were all on the dancefloor having a whale of a time. They had only been there about an hour when Ianto could have sworn he'd seen Jack on the farside of the club, at first he thought he had imagined it, but then he spotted him again a few minutes later.

Telling the others he needed to use the loo he went off in the direction he had seen Jack but there was no sign of him again, but he could see the Doctor and the others sat at a table in a far corner. He did grin to himself when he wondered what the Doctor was thinking about being in a nightclub, he couldn't imagine it was something the Time Lord normally did.

Still no sign of Jack though, he made his way to the loo's, deciding he might as well while he was there and then he would go looking for Jack again. No need to wait he discovered, as he was walking down the badly lit corridor that led to them he found Jack coming the other way.

'Ah, so you got dragged in here too then?' Jack grinned.

'Yep.'

Jack closed the distance between them and pushed Ianto up against the wall and kissed him tenderly.

'I've been missing you all evening.' Jack told him.

'Think we can sneak out of here without them noticing?'

'We could, but should we just abandon them, I mean they're our friends?'

'They'll understand Jack, I'm sure.'

Ianto lent forward and kissed Jack, a little deeper than the one moments before making Jack moan into his mouth.

'Okay, come on lets go before they are looking for us.'

They made their way through the crowded club managing to stay unseen by their friends and when they got outside they lent against the wall of the club laughing softly for a few moments. Ianto got out his phone and sent two texts, one to Martha and one to Gwen that both said the same thing.

Have been rescued by my knight in shining armour. Thnks for a gr8 night out, c u all at the cp tomorrow, luv Ianto.

He pressed send and they started the walk home, hand in hand. Both Ianto and Jack's phones were beeping with text messages but they both ignored them. When they reached home they both headed straight for the bedroom, Ianto yawned as they both curled together and kissed tenderly.

'I think we should just sleep tonight, save ourselves for after the wedding?' Jack suggested.

'Yep, I agree, but only if we can keep kissing like that for a while?'

'Sure, sounds like a plan to me.' Jack replied as his mouth claimed Ianto's once more.

TBC

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