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FIC: WHAT WILL BE.

Title: What Will Be.
Author: zorell
Chapter: 30/?
Rating: PG
Characters: Jack, Ianto, Tosh, Owen, Martha, Gwen.
Pairings: Jack/Ianto.
Summary: The team meet their visitors.
Disclaimer: Torchwood belongs to BBC and RTD.
A/N:  Sorry this chapter is alittle later than usual but haven’t really been able to get my head in a writing frame of mind this week, now the kids are back at school hopefully some sort of normal service will be resumed ! (well I can but hope !)
Usual apologies for mistakes, bad grammar, dodgy plot etc., also hoping the teams visitors aren’t too OOC, apologise if they are. Thanks for continuing to read and hope you enjoy.

Story starts here:
http://jackxianto.livejournal.com/5294840.html#cutid1 

previous chapter:
http://jackxianto.livejournal.com/5673986.html


  Chapter 30.

“ What the hell is that noise ?” Owen asked in his inimitable style, as he turned to look out over the Hub in the direction the noise was coming from.
 
 Knowing exactly what the noise was, Martha stayed looking in Jack’s direction and was surprised to see, along with the expected pleasure and excitement, that there was also fear and concern in his eyes. It was these latter emotions that she also saw for the briefest of moments on Ianto’s face, before the Welshman’s mask fell quickly into place. Though the tension radiating from the young man was more difficult to hide, and she wasn’t the only one to pick up on it if Jack’s body language was anything to go by.

“ We appear to have a guest Sir.” Ianto stated calmly, although he felt anything but. He may never have seen the TARDIS in person but he knew all about it and its distinctive sound, and where the TARDIS was so was the Doctor. Jack’s Doctor. The one the immortal had waited over a century to see. The one Jack had run after and left them for. The one who Ianto knew had a ‘hold’ on his lover. However sure Ianto was of what he and Jack felt for each other, he also knew that the Doctor was always going to be ‘there’. The Time Lord had a history and connection with the immortal that Ianto wasn’t, and never could be, party to. That scared the Welshman.
 
 Jack didn’t miss the change in Ianto as soon as the sound of the TARDIS began to resonate through the Hub. Of course his lover would recognise the sound thought Jack, even though he had never actually heard it before, and of course he would know that with the TARDIS would be the Doctor. The ‘man’ Jack had spoken to his lover about, unable to keep the hero worship and love from his voice. The ‘man’ he had left them all for without a backwards glance. The ‘man’ he had died over and over again for during that ‘year’, and the ‘man’ who’s call for help he would always be compelled to answer. But he was not the man who held his heart, he was not the one Jack wanted to share his life with. The immortal knew that with the Time Lord’s appearance he had to reassure his Welshman that whatever part of him the Doctor ‘held’, it was not the immortal’s heart, body, or soul as they belonged now and always would to Ianto, however Jack didn’t have the chance to ease any concerns before having to reply to his lovers comment.

“ So it seems.”

“ You know who or what it is ?” Owen asked as he started getting up to join Tosh and Gwen in the main area of the Hub, where what appeared to be a blue box was beginning to materialise.

“ Yes. It’s the Doctor’s ship, the TARDIS.” Jack replied as he rose from his seat and headed towards the door. “ And you won’t be needing that.” He informed Owen who had been drawing his gun as he began to leave the office.

“ Doctor ? As in the one you left with ?” Owen glanced at Ianto as he spoke, and Martha didn’t miss the moment of concern that flashed across her fellow medics face, nor did she miss that he also tensed at the mention of the Time Lord.

“ Yes...” Jack answered curtly, then shouted “...Stand down...” to Tosh and Gwen, who both had their guns trained on the now nearly solid box, “...it’s the Doctor’s TARDIS.”

‘ There’s that look again’, thought Martha as she saw the two Torchwood women exchange glances, before refocusing their attention on the space before them.

“ What’s it doing here ?” Tosh asked as she and Gwen reluctantly lowered their weapons alittle, although not totally.

“ That’s what I’d like to know.” Jack answered. As pleased as he was at the prospect of seeing the Doctor again, the timing had him concerned. After all, they had just found out that Ianto couldn’t die permanently, and Jack knew all too well the Time Lord’s opinion on that subject.

“ I think he’s here because of me.” Martha tentatively ventured, “ I...called him.”

“ You called him ?” Jack repeated questioningly, wondering when and why Martha had got in touch with the Time Lord.

“ Yes...it was when you were down in the morgue with...” Martha’s voice faltered as the image of Jack placing the ring on Ianto’s lifeless hand, and the immortal’s heartbreak came to the fore of her thoughts. Taking a steadying breath she continued, “...you were so‘broken’. So devastated...I called the Doctor, thought that maybe he could help in some way, but I caught him at a bad time, and we didn’t get a chance to talk other than for him to say he’d call later...I assumed he meant a phone call not a house call !” Martha explained, before turning her attention to where the group were now all watching, with varying emotions and degrees of anticipation, as the sound waned and what was now recognisable as a 1960’s Police Box became solid, its door opening and two passengers alighted from it.

“After that last place you promised me a holiday on a ‘sun kissed paradise planet’, and where do we end up...Cardiff ! and not just Cardiff, but some damp, underground ‘cave’ in Cardiff !...Doesn’t exactly fit the bill does it !” said the rather disgruntled red head who had followed a skinny man wearing a brown suit and converse trainers out of the TARDIS, almost walking into him as he stopped abruptly, taking in the group of people, some armed, that were standing around his ‘ship’.

“ Do you mind...” The Doctor motioned to the weapons, his expression clearly showing his displeasure at the open display of arms. Looking pointedly at Jack he continued, “...I thought your Torchwood was supposed to be different Captain.”

“ Good to see you too Doc ! ... and it is different.” Jack defended.

“ Looks like it !” The Time Lord glanced from the still drawn, though lowered weapons, back to the Captain.

“ Having an alien ship appear unexpectedly in the centre of our base tends to make the team alittle nervous !” The immortal stated.

“...Yes, well...I suppose I can see that it might...” The Doctor reluctantly accepted, “...Good to see you as well Jack...” The Time Lord’s tone lightened and a smile appeared on his face, which grew wider as he spotted Martha approaching, “ ...and you too Martha,” he added finding himself in a welcoming hug from the UNIT doctor.

“ Do I get one of those ?” Jack asked grinning at the Time Lord, pleased that the initial tension between them had quickly disappeared.

“ Well if he’s not interested, I am !” The red head said as she approached the immortal before he had a chance to get nearer to the Doctor. “ Donna Noble by the way, he’s terrible at introductions.” The woman nodded towards the Time Lord as she spoke, before wrapping her arms around a slightly nonplussed Captain.

“ Captain Jack Harkness, pleased to meet you.” Jack responded as he tried to extricate himself from Donna’s hug.

“ Jack, just don’t...” The Doctor gave his former companion a warning look, “...and Donna, put him down you don’t know where he’s been !” he said to his current companion, before turning to speak to Martha, who added to the Time Lords remark with...” And he’s already taken !”

“ Should have guessed...” Donna sighed. Reluctantly releasing the Captain, “...so which one of you is the lucky lady ?” she asked, looking  between the women, “ ...and how taken is ‘taken’?” she added, smiling cheekily.

“ Donna...” The Doctor’s voice had a weary warning tone.

“ Hey, just asking space boy...” Donna flashed the Time Lord a grin before continuing, “ Sooo...who is it ?”

“ That would be me, actually.” Ianto spoke up, blushing alittle, uncertain of the response he would get from the exuberant newcomer as he laid his claim.

“...and that would be very taken.” Jack added, giving his lover the kind of loving look that left the feelings between the two men not in doubt.

“ Should have guessed, it’s always the good looking ones !” Donna sighed as a grinning Tosh and Martha agreed with “ Isn’t it just !”

“ Hey...” Owen called indignantly, “ ...what am I invisible ! Straight, hot blooded male here !”

 Donna turned and gave the medic an appraising look before saying mischievously, “ Like I said...it’s always the good looking ones !”

“ Oy !” Owen spluttered, while the rest couldn’t help but laugh.

“ So this is your team ?” The Doctor asked Jack as the others laughter began to die down.

“ Yes it is, let me introduce you and Ms. Noble properly....This is Gwen Cooper, former PC and our liaison with the local police... Dr. Toshiko Sato, technical genius....”

“ We’ve meet briefly before...” Tosh interrupted, “...London...the space pig.”

“ Of course...different me, well same me... different face...nice to meet you properly this time.” The Doctor smiled at the tech, as Jack continued with the introductions.

“...That is Dr. Owen Harper, our medic who keeps everyone patched up, and Ianto Jones, our archivist and gets us everywhere on time. Of course you know Dr. Martha Jones, currently at UNIT but I’m working on that.” Jack said with a smile and a wink at Martha. “ Everyone, this is the Doctor and his travelling companion Donna Noble.”

 Jack watched the reactions of his team as he introduced each of them. Gwen seemed quite taken, although abit mystified by the Time Lord. Jack wondered if she had actually read the Torchwood charter yet and understood exactly who she had just been introduced to. Somehow he doubted it. Tosh looked slightly in awe, and Jack knew she was champing at the bit to talk tech with the Time Lord. Owen seemed rather defensive and weary of their guest, and Ianto, as Jack expected, had his stoic mask firmly in place. As the immortal introduced his lover he couldn’t help but notice there was something in the way the Doctor looked at the young Welshman. The feeling that the reason the Doctor had turned up in person, rather than just phone Martha, was to do with Ianto just wouldn’t go away and increased the growing concern within the immortal. Along with Jack’s own growing unease, the Captain sensed that Ianto too was conscious of the Time Lords scrutiny. Wanting to put some distance between his lover and the Doctor, Jack looked to Ianto, with an expression the archivist knew all too well, as he began to speak.

“ Ianto, could you...?”

“ Of course Sir.” Ianto replied without the sentence needing to be completed, and then moved up towards the kitchen, while Jack returned his attention to their visitor.

“ So Doc, not that it isn’t good to see you, but why the visit ? I know Martha called you, but she was expecting you to ring her not just turn up, and I take it from the lack of urgency on your part that the World isn’t ending... so ?” Jack hoped that the Doctor’s reply wouldn’t include mentions of a newly immortal Welshman.

 “ Can’t I just drop in for a visit ?” The Time Lord commented nonchalantly, not really wanting to admit to having no idea why they had materialised in the Torchwood base in Cardiff.

“ You can, but you don’t.  It’s not what you do Doc.” Jack replied knowing that the Time Lord didn’t visit former companions, in fact if anything he avoided them, that was unless he needed their help.

 The Doctor looked at his former companions, knowing that the Captain was right he never did just visit, not without reason, however this time he really had no idea what he was doing in Cardiff, although there was something about that young man Jack had introduced as Ianto Jones...

“ I was just about to phone Martha when the TARDIS had other ideas and here we are.” The Doctor replied, then began to ask “What was it you wanted to ...” but stopped mid sentence as the sound of beating wings and a loud squawk drew his and Donna’s attention upwards, where the majestic sight of Myfanwy circling and swooping down, left the visitors to the Hub stunned.
 
 “ Bloody hell !” Donna was as eloquent as ever.

“ It’s a Pteranodon !” An astonished Doctor informed the stunned red head, as he watched the surprising aerial grace of the ancient ‘beast’.

“ That’s Myfanwy.” Jack smiled at the visitor’s reaction to their ‘pet’.

“ You named an extra from Jurassic Park Myfanwy ?!” said an incredulous Donna, as the team couldn’t help but laugh at her reaction.
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 As Ianto began to prepare the required refreshments he became aware that he wasn’t alone.
 
 “ Can I help you Gwen ?” he asked, instinctively knowing it was the Welshwoman who was standing in the entrance to the kitchen area, even though he still had his back to her.

“ Thought you might need a hand.” Gwen replied casually.

“ Thank you but I’m fine.” Ianto answered as he continued with his task wondering what Gwen’s ulterior motive was. After all she didn’t volunteer help unless there was something in it for her.

“ So , that’s Jack’s Doctor then.” The former PC commented.

 ‘Here it comes’ thought Ianto, before saying as he carried on making the drinks, “ It would seem so.”

“ He’s not quite what I expected.” Gwen remarked.

“ No ? What did you expect ?” Ianto asked.

“ Not sure really. But he’s younger than I thought he’d be. Sexier too, and there’s something about him...something...I can’t quite put my finger on, but he’s got it. What do you think ?”

“ He’s alright I suppose, if you like that sort of thing.” Ianto replied.

“ From the way Jack reacted it’s pretty obvious that he definitely does ‘like that sort of thing’ !...I mean there was no mistaking that glint in his eye as soon as he saw the Doctor, and that smile of his when asking for a hug...” Gwen watched Ianto intently hoping for some sort of reaction as she spoke, “... I can certainly see why Jack would run off with him....Aren’t you worried Jack will do a disappearing act with him again ?”

“ Aren’t you ?” Ianto threw back at her, after all as far as Gwen was concerned she and Jack were supposed to be together, so surely she wouldn’t be any happier about the prospect of Jack leaving again than Ianto himself would be.

“ Why should I be ? After all I know he’ll come back to me, just as I know it’s me and not you he truly wants. I can give him what neither you, nor his Doctor can – a normal life... a family...” Gwen paused a moment allowing her words to register with her fellow countryman, “...If you’re sure there’s nothing I can do, I’ll leave you to it and see what the others are all laughing about down in the Hub.” Gwen smirked as she turned and left Ianto finishing making the drinks, with her words running through his mind, hoping they might just start to play on any insecurities regarding Jack and his Doctor that the young man may have, and if not, perhaps planting some new ones of her own.


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