Life: Jack's Story - part four
Here it is the fourth installment!
if you missed it part three was here : http://miss-shine.livejournal.com/1311.html
Okay so I hope you all enjoy this as much as I enjoy writting it -
Life: Jack's story - part four
A month had pasted since the incident in the warehouse. Toshiko had a theory that the Krillitane and the Jagrafess had team up to enslave the human race and use the children to decode the skasis paradigm giving them power over the structure of reality. Leaving the adults to the Jagrafess who was to be installed in a board casting station and used to manipulate them via the media. As Tosh had explained this him Jack remembered Rose telling him something similar happening in the future. Jack had a feeling that the Krillitanes and Jagrafess were working for someone or something much bigger. But for now Jack felt at ease knowing that Owen was on his side and prepared to perform the c- section, even with his duff hand. Having done his DNA test and confirming that Ianto was indeed the father of Jack’s child.
In fact Owen found Jack fascinating. He amused himself doing his scans and little tests comparing Jack’s new blood samples with the ones he had already. Trying to discover the secret to evolution and being endlessly interested in cat scans of Jack’s insides which Tosh had taken using an alien device Torchwood recovered in the fifties. Tosh on the over hand was getting more and more frustrated. The perception filter was going according to plan, she had been working on it for months and every time they tried it out it either made Jack disappear altogether or made him look bigger.
Ianto and Gwen, Jack discovered had notice his weight gain. Having eves dropped on a conversation they were having via the CCTV Jack heard them comparing him to a small cow. Well to be fare Gwen had called him a cow, for which she got an extra big pile of paperwork and Ianto made a feeble attempt to defend him. Saying that if he were the size of a cow, it would be a very small cow for which he got the cold shoulder for two days and no sex…for three hours. These days, Owen put it down to his raging hormones; Jack found it very hard to make it through the day with out pinning Ianto up against a wall and doing…things to him. Things that always made Ianto moan in enjoyment.
Jack sat at his desk marking off the days in his diary; he was nearing the six-month mark. He rubbed his stomach which he had to admit was looking pretty big these days. Three months and one week and Jack would be a father again…well technically he’d be a mother but he just wouldn’t tell the baby that. Tosh came in grinning brightly and holding a small device, which Jack recognised as the perception filter. “I did it,” she said. “It actually works and I can programme it to make it look like your losing weight, so it two weeks time Gwen and Ianto will think you’ve lost a lot of weight.”
“I knew you’d figure it out” said Jack feeling it was a bit late now that he was so close to having the baby, but he thought on the other hand he hadn’t told Ianto yet so maybe it was a good idea after all. She clipped it to his belt and turned it on. They both left his office to join the others in the boardroom.
“Jack have you lost weight?” asked Gwen when he walked in.
“Yeah, I started going to the gym again, I heard someone say that I was starting to look like a small cow” he answered inwardly grinning at the fact he managed to make her go bright red. While Ianto looked sheepishly at his shoes.
Jack sat next to Ianto and waited for Owen to begin. Ianto put a hand on Jack’s thigh and squeezed as Owen stood up to begin. He gave his presentation on his theory about the weevil sudden expansion in numbers and willingness to come above ground more. He thought that their mating habits revolved around the full moon. And that the chemicals the water board used to clean the water that went through the sewers had something to do with the population increase. But he couldn’t understand why they were coming above ground, Ianto said it was the smell but no one was buying it.
Once Owen had finished Jack sent the team home, having already agreed that Owen and Tosh would double back to do an ultrasound. He got rid of Ianto by asking him out to dinner and insisting that they both get dressed up for it. Ianto had gone home to shower and change. Jack wheeled out the ultrasound unit and hopped up onto the autopsy table. He removed his shirt and t-shirt to make things easier and to speed things up. Tonight was going to be special; tonight he was going to tell Ianto about the baby. Jack waited ten minutes for Owen and Tosh to return.
“I thought you were going to watch the entrance,” said Jack annoyed that he had to wait so long for them.
“We did, we just wanted to make sure Ianto was well away before we came back” said Owen. Who in Jack’s opinion looked a little flushed for a dead man.
“Well we’re hear now,” said Tosh.
“Let’s get on with it, Yan said he’d be half an hour which means he’ll be twenty minutes at the most” snapped Jack. Owen mouthed ‘hormones’ at Tosh who rolled her eyes, when she did this Jack was never sure weather it was aimed at him or Owen.
“To shower and change?’ questioned Tosh.
“He’s not a woman, he doesn’t need to put on make-up or chose the best shoes for his outfit” teased Owen.
“It takes him five minutes to shower, two to brush his teeth and the man’s only got eighteen different outfits and ten of those are suits. I’ve got no idea how he can have so little clothing wise,” explained Jack.
“Says the man whose only got one outfit” Tosh bit back. Owen giggled and Jack grinned, Tosh could be funny when she wanted too.
“Right you know the drill Captain,” said Owen while snapping on his latex gloves. Jack lay down and Owen spread the gel on his stomach. Tosh held Jack’s hand while Owen slowly moved the transducer around Jack abdomen. Soon the familiar sound of the babies’ heartbeat filled the air. Jack loved that sound and could have listened to it for hours.
“Okay,” said Owen eyes glued to the screen. “Everything’s looking good, that’s a hand one, two, three, four and a thumb…” he often muttered to himself like this during Jack’s scans. Owen was such a perfectionist that he had to double check things he already knew at the beginning of every scan. Like counting and re-counting all of the babies fingers, thumbs and toes.
“She got a nice strong heartbeat and is…” Owen trailed off, his face dropped and he slowly turned to face a shocked Jack. “I’m so sorry” he blurted out.
“You said ‘she’” said Jack suddenly feeling kind of numb.
“I know, I’m sorry I just keep forgetting that you don’t want to know” Owen covered his mouth, as if hoping nothing else would escape.
“It’s a girl,” Jack asked stupidly.
“That’s right.” Said Tosh softly.
“Oh my god” exclaimed Ianto’s voice from behind them. They all turned to see Ianto standing at the top of the stairs to the autopsy room. Looking white as a ghost with his mouth hanging open. He must have parked in the garage and come through the doors in the weapons room, because none of them heard the cog door rolling back.
“Ianto, this isn’t what it looks like…” Jack started to explain.
“Oh really?” said Ianto in a shaky voice. “Because it looks like your pregnant, Jack”
“Okay so it is what it looks like” Jack sat up and pulled on his t-shirt.
Owen and Tosh exchanged looks of worry and shook but stayed quite. “How the fuck did this happen!” shouted Ianto. “What the fuck have you been shagging? You’ve been fucking cheating on me, with fucking aliens haven’t you” it wasn’t a question.
“No” said Jack in a hurt voice.
“He hasn’t, just let him explain” interrupted Owen.
“Oh shut the fuck up Owen, why don’t you be a good corpse and go and rot in a corner!”
Owen held up his hands, “fine, I’m outta here. Toshiko I think we would leave these two love birds to their domestic” Owen offered her his arm, which she took and they both left. Each giving Ianto a look of pure evil on the way out.
“Yan please just listen to me, I haven’t cheated on you I wouldn’t do that I love you” Jack slipped off the autopsy table and approached Ianto slowly.
“Then how the fuck do you explain this” Ianto gestured at Jack’s stomach.
“I’m from the future, mankind had developed a lot in between the twenty first and fifty first centuries. In my time males can bare children.” Jack climbed the steps to Ianto’s level. Ianto took a few steps backwards away from Jack.
“You’re a freak,” he whispered. The words cut through Jack like a knife and he winced at the pain.
“Ianto” Jack said his name softy and stepped towards him. His arms reached out to touch the Welshman.
“Get away from me,” screamed Ianto and he pushed Jack to the floor. “You’re a freak and I hate you for it” said Ianto softy and calmly, his eyes filling with tears. “Freak” he whispered that word one last time before turning and running from the hub. Leaving Jack alone with his tears.
if you missed it part three was here : http://miss-shine.livejournal.com/1311.html
Okay so I hope you all enjoy this as much as I enjoy writting it -
Life: Jack's story - part four
A month had pasted since the incident in the warehouse. Toshiko had a theory that the Krillitane and the Jagrafess had team up to enslave the human race and use the children to decode the skasis paradigm giving them power over the structure of reality. Leaving the adults to the Jagrafess who was to be installed in a board casting station and used to manipulate them via the media. As Tosh had explained this him Jack remembered Rose telling him something similar happening in the future. Jack had a feeling that the Krillitanes and Jagrafess were working for someone or something much bigger. But for now Jack felt at ease knowing that Owen was on his side and prepared to perform the c- section, even with his duff hand. Having done his DNA test and confirming that Ianto was indeed the father of Jack’s child.
In fact Owen found Jack fascinating. He amused himself doing his scans and little tests comparing Jack’s new blood samples with the ones he had already. Trying to discover the secret to evolution and being endlessly interested in cat scans of Jack’s insides which Tosh had taken using an alien device Torchwood recovered in the fifties. Tosh on the over hand was getting more and more frustrated. The perception filter was going according to plan, she had been working on it for months and every time they tried it out it either made Jack disappear altogether or made him look bigger.
Ianto and Gwen, Jack discovered had notice his weight gain. Having eves dropped on a conversation they were having via the CCTV Jack heard them comparing him to a small cow. Well to be fare Gwen had called him a cow, for which she got an extra big pile of paperwork and Ianto made a feeble attempt to defend him. Saying that if he were the size of a cow, it would be a very small cow for which he got the cold shoulder for two days and no sex…for three hours. These days, Owen put it down to his raging hormones; Jack found it very hard to make it through the day with out pinning Ianto up against a wall and doing…things to him. Things that always made Ianto moan in enjoyment.
Jack sat at his desk marking off the days in his diary; he was nearing the six-month mark. He rubbed his stomach which he had to admit was looking pretty big these days. Three months and one week and Jack would be a father again…well technically he’d be a mother but he just wouldn’t tell the baby that. Tosh came in grinning brightly and holding a small device, which Jack recognised as the perception filter. “I did it,” she said. “It actually works and I can programme it to make it look like your losing weight, so it two weeks time Gwen and Ianto will think you’ve lost a lot of weight.”
“I knew you’d figure it out” said Jack feeling it was a bit late now that he was so close to having the baby, but he thought on the other hand he hadn’t told Ianto yet so maybe it was a good idea after all. She clipped it to his belt and turned it on. They both left his office to join the others in the boardroom.
“Jack have you lost weight?” asked Gwen when he walked in.
“Yeah, I started going to the gym again, I heard someone say that I was starting to look like a small cow” he answered inwardly grinning at the fact he managed to make her go bright red. While Ianto looked sheepishly at his shoes.
Jack sat next to Ianto and waited for Owen to begin. Ianto put a hand on Jack’s thigh and squeezed as Owen stood up to begin. He gave his presentation on his theory about the weevil sudden expansion in numbers and willingness to come above ground more. He thought that their mating habits revolved around the full moon. And that the chemicals the water board used to clean the water that went through the sewers had something to do with the population increase. But he couldn’t understand why they were coming above ground, Ianto said it was the smell but no one was buying it.
Once Owen had finished Jack sent the team home, having already agreed that Owen and Tosh would double back to do an ultrasound. He got rid of Ianto by asking him out to dinner and insisting that they both get dressed up for it. Ianto had gone home to shower and change. Jack wheeled out the ultrasound unit and hopped up onto the autopsy table. He removed his shirt and t-shirt to make things easier and to speed things up. Tonight was going to be special; tonight he was going to tell Ianto about the baby. Jack waited ten minutes for Owen and Tosh to return.
“I thought you were going to watch the entrance,” said Jack annoyed that he had to wait so long for them.
“We did, we just wanted to make sure Ianto was well away before we came back” said Owen. Who in Jack’s opinion looked a little flushed for a dead man.
“Well we’re hear now,” said Tosh.
“Let’s get on with it, Yan said he’d be half an hour which means he’ll be twenty minutes at the most” snapped Jack. Owen mouthed ‘hormones’ at Tosh who rolled her eyes, when she did this Jack was never sure weather it was aimed at him or Owen.
“To shower and change?’ questioned Tosh.
“He’s not a woman, he doesn’t need to put on make-up or chose the best shoes for his outfit” teased Owen.
“It takes him five minutes to shower, two to brush his teeth and the man’s only got eighteen different outfits and ten of those are suits. I’ve got no idea how he can have so little clothing wise,” explained Jack.
“Says the man whose only got one outfit” Tosh bit back. Owen giggled and Jack grinned, Tosh could be funny when she wanted too.
“Right you know the drill Captain,” said Owen while snapping on his latex gloves. Jack lay down and Owen spread the gel on his stomach. Tosh held Jack’s hand while Owen slowly moved the transducer around Jack abdomen. Soon the familiar sound of the babies’ heartbeat filled the air. Jack loved that sound and could have listened to it for hours.
“Okay,” said Owen eyes glued to the screen. “Everything’s looking good, that’s a hand one, two, three, four and a thumb…” he often muttered to himself like this during Jack’s scans. Owen was such a perfectionist that he had to double check things he already knew at the beginning of every scan. Like counting and re-counting all of the babies fingers, thumbs and toes.
“She got a nice strong heartbeat and is…” Owen trailed off, his face dropped and he slowly turned to face a shocked Jack. “I’m so sorry” he blurted out.
“You said ‘she’” said Jack suddenly feeling kind of numb.
“I know, I’m sorry I just keep forgetting that you don’t want to know” Owen covered his mouth, as if hoping nothing else would escape.
“It’s a girl,” Jack asked stupidly.
“That’s right.” Said Tosh softly.
“Oh my god” exclaimed Ianto’s voice from behind them. They all turned to see Ianto standing at the top of the stairs to the autopsy room. Looking white as a ghost with his mouth hanging open. He must have parked in the garage and come through the doors in the weapons room, because none of them heard the cog door rolling back.
“Ianto, this isn’t what it looks like…” Jack started to explain.
“Oh really?” said Ianto in a shaky voice. “Because it looks like your pregnant, Jack”
“Okay so it is what it looks like” Jack sat up and pulled on his t-shirt.
Owen and Tosh exchanged looks of worry and shook but stayed quite. “How the fuck did this happen!” shouted Ianto. “What the fuck have you been shagging? You’ve been fucking cheating on me, with fucking aliens haven’t you” it wasn’t a question.
“No” said Jack in a hurt voice.
“He hasn’t, just let him explain” interrupted Owen.
“Oh shut the fuck up Owen, why don’t you be a good corpse and go and rot in a corner!”
Owen held up his hands, “fine, I’m outta here. Toshiko I think we would leave these two love birds to their domestic” Owen offered her his arm, which she took and they both left. Each giving Ianto a look of pure evil on the way out.
“Yan please just listen to me, I haven’t cheated on you I wouldn’t do that I love you” Jack slipped off the autopsy table and approached Ianto slowly.
“Then how the fuck do you explain this” Ianto gestured at Jack’s stomach.
“I’m from the future, mankind had developed a lot in between the twenty first and fifty first centuries. In my time males can bare children.” Jack climbed the steps to Ianto’s level. Ianto took a few steps backwards away from Jack.
“You’re a freak,” he whispered. The words cut through Jack like a knife and he winced at the pain.
“Ianto” Jack said his name softy and stepped towards him. His arms reached out to touch the Welshman.
“Get away from me,” screamed Ianto and he pushed Jack to the floor. “You’re a freak and I hate you for it” said Ianto softy and calmly, his eyes filling with tears. “Freak” he whispered that word one last time before turning and running from the hub. Leaving Jack alone with his tears.