Rating: Adult Only
Fandom: Torchwood/Doctor Who
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Ianto/other.
Summary: Ianto has an historic stalker.
Warning: swearing, m/m kissing. Sex. A many of you have guess this in now an MPREG.
Just a reminder I do not own Torchwood, or Doctor some &%^@( jerk .... Well, just to let you know I make no money and only intend this for entertainment.
Spoliers from The House of the Dead and Children of Earth belong to BBC and others.
This story takes place shortly after Meat. I liked the episode but it left a few question for me at the end.
The feedback and comments have been great and feed the muse. Hope you enjoy it.
Chapter 23
The Doctor ran to the door, holding out his hand stopping all of his companions before they could go blundering about outside. He had been on enough of these rescue missions to know things always went wrong if you weren’t prepared. “Now, remember we are here to rescue Mr. Jones and get him back to Jack. You need to be careful, all of you.”
He looked at each one of his companions. “Leave most of the work to River and I. You two, try not to stick out too badly. We’re probably dealing with some dirty cutthroats who would love to get a hold of a mated pair of humans.”
Amy sighed and pushed past him. Rory shook his head as he followed his wife. “You really know how to piss her off don’t you?” Rory said as an aside to the Doctor.
“It’s a talent.”
“Looks like a nice place to be held prisoner in,” Rory said, pushing past the Doctor and walking out of the TARDIS. He turned around in a circle, arms outstretched. “The grass is so green and healthy. Bet you wouldn’t find a single weed.”
Amy was bent over a yellow rose bush, taking a deep breath in. “It is a lovely garden. Reminds me of my gran’s back in Aberdeen. Everything looks so lush and healthy. Someone really loves this place.”
“It is lovely, you’re right,” the Doctor said, looking up at the sun. There were many different kinds of trees and flowers. It looked like a fine British garden. He hadn’t seen it’s like since he was stuck back on Earth for those few years. “Perhaps we should have a picnic. I’m sure we could find a few sandwiches and a red checked blanket back in the TARDIS.”
“Ah, you seem to have forgotten why we’re here,” Rory said. “A prison is a prison no matter how nice the gilt of the cage might be.
The Doctor clapped him on the back. “Right you are, Rory. Let’s find young Mr. Jones and then we can travel on. Maybe we should stop by the sea and have a proper picnic.”
“Over my dead body,” Jack said, coming out from behind the hedges, the gun raised and his finger on the trigger ready to send them all to hell.
Amy screamed, “Oh my God, he’s naked.”
Rory jumped to cover his wife’s eyes. “Have you no decency?” he asked.
“Stop that,” Amy said, removing Rory’s hand from in front of her face. “I’ve seen worse at the cinema. We just saw you. Well, not that much of you, mind but we left you behind on Earth.”
“Jack, what the devil are you doing here?” The Doctor asked. “Put that thing down we aren’t here to invade.”
“What’s your problem? Amy asked Jack. “The TARDIS brought us here. Took her sweet time about it too. We were supposed to be getting this Ianto person at your request too, I might add. Maybe she still isn’t quite herself?”
“I don’t care if she’s got Heurivan measles I want you to get back in there and off my property. You will find no one around here is friendly towards you and your companions, Doctor,” Jack shouted.
“Doctor,” Amy asked. “How is it possible that he’s here? Where is here anyways? What year?”
“5109. You’re on Grai Cymru. I can’t die, I’m going to fucking live forever. Now that you have all your answers I suggest you get a move on. This is private property and you’re not welcomed.”
The Doctor raised his hands. “That’s quite the dampening field you have surrounding this planet. It took the TARDIS a bit of time to get through it and find you.”
“I doubt it was our little shield. Although I should have considered making something that was sensitive to time travel. We just want to be left alone here but there have been a few conflicts in a couple of the neighbouring systems, mostly over a lack of food a resources. We’ve even taken in a few refugees. I didn’t want anyone getting any ideas about us, thinking that we are an easy target, so I made a cloaking device. We might look like a nice rural community if you know where to look but we aren’t without our resources. The only people who can find us are those with the correct coordinates.”
“Who’s that?” Amy asked pointing at a young man coming down the walk.
The Doctor felt like he’d been hit between the eyes. “Jack, you’re the kidnapper? You have no idea how distraught you are back in Cardiff. You are making yourself sick wondering who has Ianto.”
“He deserved a hell of a lot worse than a little worry.”
“Jack, for God’s sakes put your pants on and introduce me to your friends.” Ianto tossed Jack a pair of blue trousers as he joined the group.
“I told you to stay behind. I’ll handle this,” Jack said pulling Ianto to his side.
“Naked?” Ianto asked.
“Believe me, that’s the least of our problems.”
“Not for me.”
“You’re Ianto Jones? We’re here to rescue you,” the Doctor said.
“I am and you’re all here to rescue me from what?”
Amy moved toward Ianto but Jack stepped in front of him. Amy’s eyes went wide before heading for the ground. “We are. My name is Amy Pond, that’s my husband Rory Williams, and River Song and you know the Doctor.”
“No, actually I don’t know him but I am well aware of what he’s done and why he’s here and he can go back where he came from. I won’t even talk about the whole bow tie debacle. Who wears bow ties now a day?”
The Doctor tried not to look hurt. “Bow ties are cool. But never mind that now, I came from Earth. I just left Jack. You were beside yourself with worry. You wanted my help in getting Mr. Jones here back.” The Doctor knew it was going to be easy getting Mr. Jones to return with them.
“It wasn’t me.” Jack slipped his trousers on, much to everyone’s relief.
“Could have fooled me,” Amy said.
“Obviously, he did,” Jack snapped. “Any idiot could see I’m older, and much better looking.”
“Jack, that’s enough.” Ianto warned.
The Doctor was shocked at the look of apology Jack gave Ianto. This was a different man than he knew.
“You’re right, it is, Ianto. Doctor, I want you and the rest of your little team can get back in that box and go away. I don’t care where you go or what you do but you won’t be doing it here, understand?” Jack brought up the rifle to make his point. “Ianto is staying here with me.”
“He can’t stay, you know that?” The Doctor said, putting his arms up when Jack brought the rifle up to bear on him.
“I don’t know any such thing. What I do know is when I needed you all those years ago you were nowhere to be found. When I lost everything I had to save the damn planet you weren’t around. Where you were, what you could have been doing that was more important than stopping those creatures? Or did you finally give up on the human race?”
The Doctor felt his anger flare, how dare this abomination risk the universe like this. So what, if Jack had to deal with a few loses? He had been responsible for the death of his entire race.
“I don’t have to explain myself to you. I have been saving the world for longer-”
“I’m over five thousand years old, Doctor; I would be very careful how you finish that sentence. I’m not some snot nose wet behind the ears kid you can impress with your fancy words and promises of great adventures in your spaceship. I grew up.”
Rory and Amy both shouted out their anger at Jack’s assessment of them.
He waved at the duo to be quiet. Once Jack got out his anger he would be a lot easier to deal with.
Jack said to Amy and Rory, “If you two knew the real him you would be back on your way to Earth as fast as the TARDIS would go and you would never look back. If he doesn’t get you killed, or in my case the opposite he’ll turn you into a weapon for his own gain. You’re the most dangerous man in the universe, not just to those unlucky enough to be your enemy but more so to the people you call your friends.”
Jack’s words felt like a direct to his solar plexus. “I...I didn’t realize,” the Doctor said, feeling like his knees were going to give out.
“No, Doctor you never have and you never will. You just drop in like an A-bomb and leave the rest of us to clean up the mess. Must be nice being on the fast track, you should try living every day, might make you a little more human.”
The Doctor ignored Jack’s dig. He had to keep focussed on the problem at hand. “You closed the rift. Do you know what kind of energy is building up behind the wall you threw up?”
“Ask me if I care?”
“How did you close it, Jack?” Ianto asked. The Doctor was grateful when Ianto pushed the rifle out of the way.
“It doesn’t matter. I had help. It was after you... There was this creature threatening to come through and I figured I could end my own existence, shut the rift and leave Gwen a quiet happy life.”
The Doctor knew the word Jack hadn’t mentioned was died. He really had no idea about Jack’s depths of feeling for Ianto. He thought he had seen Jack at his worst when the Master had been torturing and finding new ways to kill the immortal but he had never seen a truly grieving Jack Harkness.
“Sorry, to say the rift doesn’t work that way.”
“Yeah, why am I not surprised. You’re going to fix it?”
“I’ll give it a thought. When I take Ianto back I’ll say something to you about it. I think I know who you’re talking about.”
“You’ve really came all this way to bring me back to Cardiff, Doctor?” Ianto said, giving Jack’s hand a squeeze.
“Yes. I got a phone call from Martha. She told me to get to Cardiff as fast as possible.”
“Who? Ianto asked.
“Martha Jones, I told you about her,” Jack said. “She was the one who saved us all after it turned out Saxon was an insane Time Lord.”
“Oh yeah,” Ianto said. “You told me about him the other night. Not sure you came off looking so good in that one Doctor. If it hadn’t been for Jack distracting the Master, you nor Martha might have been able to pull of your little scheme. I won’t even mention the whole picking an insane Time Lord to care for over your friend”
“What insane Time Lord?” Rory asked. “I thought you were the only one left.”
“I am. It’s a long story best forgotten about.” He did not want to think about what happened on the Valiant or what he would have done to not be the only Time Lord again.
“And I thought Jack didn’t like to share his past or feelings,” Ianto muttered. “Look Doctor, I don’t want to start a domestic.” The Doctor ignored Jack’s snort of a laugh. “But you will be going back to Cardiff without me.”
“What? No, I can’t. You have to go. You have no idea what staying here will do.”
“I’m sure the world will get along without me.”
“The world might but I’m not sure Ja-” He stopped when Jack growled at him. “Captain Harkness will.”
“Yeah, I can see how concerned Captain Harkness is by his not accompanying you here,” Ianto said.
“He wanted to but I talked him out of it. I wasn’t sure where we would find you or in what shape.”
Amy stepped forward. “We were expecting the worst. He said you had been kidnapped. That doesn’t bode well for finding you in one piece.”
“I was but as you can see I’m safe and I want to stay here.”
The Doctor shook his head. “You can’t stay here, Ianto. Things have to happen to you, and they have to happen back on Earth. I’m sorry.” He couldn’t see any solution other than returning Ianto back to his past and letting him live out his life the way it was meant to be. Ianto Jones was going to die at the hands of the 456.
Ianto scrunched up his face in deep thought. “Jack, maybe I need-”
“No! Aren’t you happy here?”
“I am. I love it here and I’m grateful for all that you’ve did to get me here but won’t this change things? If I don’t go back there will here happen?”
“You being here with me now, that is all that matters, Ianto. I will always love you here or there. Whether in 2008 or 20,008, you were made for me. You are staying here. You belong here with me. I need you more than he does. Please, I love you, don’t leave me. You’ve left me so many times before this time I don’t think I could survive it.”
The emotion that Jack was showing was a shock to the Doctor; his old friend would rather have his hair ripped out before admitting he needed anyone. He looked around and saw how Jack’s words had affected his companions. They all looked like they were going to cry.
“I’m sorry, Doctor,” Ianto said. “I can’t go with you. With all due respect please leave our home, and don’t return. Tell Captain Harkness I’ll see him in the future.”
“Things aren’t that easy.”
Jack made sure to show everyone his rifle. “Yes, they are. Now all of you get back in your little blue box and leave.”
“Jack,” the Doctor protested when the rifle was shoved in his back. They started down the little path to where the TARDIS was waiting for them.
“You of all people should know what I’m capable of. You seem to think I haven’t thought this through. I won’t give him up again. I’ve lost him twice now, it won’t be a third. I have a chance here to give him and me the life we deserve.”
“And what happens when he dies here?” The Doctor flinched at how cruel he sounded.
“I’ll have memories, and things that will make me smile.”
The Doctor led the way back to the TARDIS. “Ianto, really think about what you’re doing. The changes that this could lead to. You are a member of Torchwood, you have a du-”
“Enough!” Jack said. “I will not have you questioning Ianto’s loyalty to Torchwood. He was at Canary Wharf, you remember what happened there, don’t you?”
“I’m sorry.”
“Not sure I believe you. Now, get in there and go away. If any of you come back I will happily shoot you, and in your case Doctor, I won’t stop until I’m sure you won’t regenerate again.”
“Come on, Doctor, leave them. They want to be together and from the little you’ve told me they deserve a bit of joy,” Amy said. “Not to mention this whole thing has been a great big pain in the ass. You can take us to that beach you were talking about before we got that phone call. I can’t say it’s been any kind of pleasure gentlemen.” The redhead turned on her heel and headed for the door of the ship but as she touched the ship, it disappeared from their sight.
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TBC