COMING HOME - Chapter 14/17 + EPILOGUE
Title: Coming Home - Chapter 14
Author: iantosdreamer46
Genre: AU
Pairings/Characters: Ianto/Jack, Tosh/Owen, Gwen/Rhys, Rhiannon
Summary: Ianto has returned to Cardiff to pursue his chosen career as a Theatre Director. He then encounters the Torchwood team who are looking for an alien with a revenge. It's at this point he meets Jack.
Rating: NC-17 Overall
Wordcount: 27,000
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters, they belong to the BBC and RTD, I just like to experiment with them from time to time.
Artist:the_silver_sun
Beta:zazajb
A/N Thanks to the-silver-sun for an awesome design I love it. Also many thanks to zazajb for betaing my fic
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Back at the Hub Jack carried Ianto down into the medical bay.
“Where are we Jack? Where is this place?”
“It’s where we work. We’re underneath the water tower in the Millennium Square. Once Owen has fixed you up and you have rested I’ll give you a guided tour, if you’re up for it? And don’t worry, you’ll be at your opening night tomorrow. That I promise you. Now, I’m just going to leave you in the very capable hands of Dr Owen Harper. I’ll be back to see you when he gives me the nod. I don’t want to get on the wrong side of our Dr here, otherwise he’ll get grumpy.” Jack looked at Owen and smiled, but before he left he caressed the side of Ianto’s face, bent down and kissed him.
“Come on then Jack, let me at him. I’ll have him sorted soon. Go and figure a way to capture our alien friend.”
Ianto reached for Jack’s hand as he went “thank you Jack for everything.” Jack squeezed his hand and left Owen to fix his lover.
“Ok Jack, so, tell us, what was all that about and why bring him here to fix him, why not just call an ambulance? When all this is over you know what you’re going to have to do, right? Retcon him?”
“No Gwen I’m not going to Retcon him.” Jack sat in the conference room with his head in his hands and his mind drifted back to the previous night and their lovemaking. “He’s part of me now and he’s going to be around for a long time.”
“But you’ve brought him here, you never do that.”
“I told him all about us last night, what we do and why we do it.”
“Have you told him about you?”
Jack looked at the pair of them “No....no not yet, we....well....”
“Don’t you think you should, after all, he’s going to get old when you’re not.”
“Thanks for reminding me about that point Gwen. I really, really don’t want to think about that at present. I want to live for the now, not the future. And the now is getting that wonderful man through there well enough to attend the opening night. But first we have to get rid of the visitor.”
Gwen looked at Tosh for help but all she did was shake her head.
“Ok Jack how do we capture the visitor?”
“He’s after me for what I did all those years ago Tosh, I have an idea but I need to know how Ianto is before I go back to the theatre.”
“I’m with you, so whatever you want us to do, just say.”
“Thanks Tosh, you don’t know how much that means to me.”
“Yeah I do Jack and I can see how much Ianto means to you too.”
Jack smiled and was just about to tell them his plan when Owen walked through the door.
“Jack, Ianto’s asking for you.”
“How is he?”
“He’s going to be fine. He was extremely lucky, he must have had a guardian angel looking over him.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well that fall could have killed him, I think what you were doing made him relax, I don’t want you to go into details thank you, but maybe it just saved his life. He’s got a bump on his head which we should monitor in case of concussion and he’d dislocated his knee cap. I’ve popped it back and strapped him up so he should be ok in a few days. With help he’ll be able to attend the opening tomorrow night. I suggest he stays here tonight, so you can keep an eye on him. Is that alright by you Jack?”
Jack smiled “I’m sure I could look after him tonight, yeah.”
“I’d rather not know how you’re going to look after him, but I’m sure he’d feel better spending the night with you!”
Owen laughed and went over to Tosh and kissed her, “you ok sweetheart?”
“Yeah, I’m fine. Now we need to catch this....this thing. Jack go see Ianto first, then tell us what you want us to do. I’m sure Gwen,” she looked at her “is with us on this, aren’t you?”
Gwen nodded. “Yeah, I’m sorry Jack, I suppose I was jealous, will you forgive me?”
“Yes Gwen. Just remember I have needs too, and Ianto is what I’ve needed for a long time.”
Gwen nodded and smiled.
Jack left them then to go and see how his young lover was.
~~~~~*~~~~~
“Jack, what am I going to do?”
“About what sweetheart?”
Ianto noticed the term of endearment that Jack had just used and smiled. “About tomorrow night. I can’t postpone, everything is in place for the press and an after show party, which I may add, you and everyone here are invited to. I was going to tell you later, but...”
Jack leant down and kissed him. “Don’t worry Yan, everything will go ahead as planned. I’ll be there for you, I won’t let you go through this on your own.”
Ianto’s face clouded over.
“Yan, sweetheart, what’s the matter now?”
“This is all Rhiannon’s fault!”
“For starters no it’s not, it’s the alien who wants me, so it’s my fault. Secondly, why do you say that and thirdly, who’s Rhiannon?”
“Rhiannon is my sister, whom I haven’t seen or spoken to for ten years. She thought it would be nice for me to receive a good luck card and....”
“Saying good luck in the theatre is bad luck, right?”
Ianto nodded, “I threw the card away, I didn’t want to jinx the production, but I’ve done it anyway.”
“No, no, you haven’t. I told you it’s my fault. The alien is after me for what I did to him.”
“How could it have been you back in the war, you’re, you’re not old Jack!”
Jack took hold of Ianto’s hands, looked into the blue eyes of his lover “Ianto I have to tell you something. Something that might drive you away from me, and you may not want to see me again.”
“I thought we sorted that last night?”
“Only part of it. I need to tell you this before we go any further.”
“Jack you’re scaring me again. Whatever it is it’s not going to change how I feel about you, I’m sure.”
“Wait until you’ve heard what I have to say, then tell me you still want to be with me.”
Ianto nodded “ok, but can we go somewhere more comfortable, this table is rather cold and hard.”
Jack smiled and helped him up, then helped him to his office. For the next hour Jack told him everything about the Doctor, Rose and how she brought him back to life, how no matter what, he couldn’t die. He ages, but very slowly, and how he’s afraid to commit to relationships because he watches them grow old, but he doesn’t.
He looked into Ianto’s blue eyes, saw something, but was unsure what it was. They both realised they had tears in their eyes.
“You’re doing it again Yan, you’ve gone quiet. Say something, please. I’ll understand if you don’t want to carry on with what we have. I’ve scared you and....”
Ianto pressed his lips to Jack’s and was kissing him tenderly.
Pulling apart Ianto said “I’ll be honest, I’m scared about what’s happening. I’ve not had feelings like this for a long time. I’m scared of losing you. I couldn’t stop thinking about you today, then when this happened I was scared about my opening night. I will admit it’s going to take a bit of understanding, all this alien stuff and you not being able to die. But I don’t want to lose you now that I’ve found you. I don’t think I would cope very well. And if you’ll help me I’m sure I could get used to aliens and....”
Jack stopped him with a kiss and hugged him. “You’re an exceptional man Ianto Jones, and I wouldn’t be a good friend or lover, if I didn’t help you with anything. I’m here for as long as you want me.”
They kissed again, pulling apart as the rest of the team came through the door.
“Oh please! I know I said you could help him get better, but not when the kids are around.”
Ianto blushed, he felt as though he’d been caught by his parents with his first girlfriend.
“Thanks for that Owen, now this is what we are going to do. Ianto here is going to stay in my quarters tonight.” Jack looked at his lover and smiled. He felt Ianto squeeze his hand. “Whilst he’s resting we, and I mean all four of us” he said looking at Gwen, “are going back to the theatre to see to our friend the Tennos.”
“So that’s the species? I was wondering what it was called.”
“Yan, sweetheart you don’t need to worry your gorgeous head about what it was called, you just need to get well.” Jack kissed him again and Ianto’s face went even redder this time.
The sweetheart and gorgeous comments weren’t lost on the others. Tosh and Owen grinned whilst Gwen just smiled slightly.
“Ok, we know it’s after you for killing its mate and it wants you, but how’re we going to capture it?”
Jack went on to explain what they would do. “Ok kids let’s get what we need and go back.”
“Jack I’ve been thinking about what you said about accidentally killing its mate. It tried to kill me, don’t you think it’s trying to make you suffer by taking me away from you as you took his mate?”
“What’re you trying to say?”
“I’m saying, take me with you....as bait.”
“But you’re hurt and you won’t be able to move without help. I’m not putting you in that situation.”
“I trust you Jack.” He turned to the others “and I trust all of you to be there and help. Please Jack, let me come with you. I’d only worry about you, I wouldn’t rest until you got back.”
Jack looked at Ianto then across at Owen.
“Owen, what do you think?”
“I think he’s very stupid with an idea like that, but I also think he has a point. We’d all be there to look after him. I’m sorry Jack but I’m with Mr Jones here.”
“It’s Ianto. Mr Jones is too formal and after what you know about Jack and I, I think we can drop the formalities.”
Owen nodded “I agree and I just want to, on behalf of Tosh, Gwen and myself, thank you.”
“For what?”
“For giving us back the Jack Harkness of old. We’ve not seen him this happy for a long time.”
Jack nodded and smiled, then went and placed an arm around Ianto’s shoulders. “Ok, ok seeing as you’re all ganging up on me, and I can see your point, Yan can come with us. But, and it’s a big but, we don’t leave him alone for one second, got that?”
They all nodded.
Helping Ianto up and collecting all the equipment they needed, they headed for the SUV and back to the theatre.
tbc
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