Fidelity

Fidelity
By: Mistress Titania
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood or Doctor Who; just writing for fun not profit
Spoilers: Doctor Who- up to end of season 2(Rose is gone but "Runaway Bride" didn’t happen) and Torchwood-end of season 1
Rating: FRAO
Pairing: Jack Harkness/Doctor(10th)/Ianto Jones
Summary: The American Heritage Dictionary says Fidelity is Faithfulness to obligations, duties, or observances. My fix on the season finale of Torchwood and season 3 of Doctor Who
Note 1: The characters are going to be OOC for a bit, Ianto is going to be a little jumpier and fragile. While Jack and The Doctor will be more willing to show their emotions. This chapter and the next one will have WAFF and hurt/comfort. I do plan to explain the behavior changes as the story moves on. Also I making the Tardis have a mind of its own or a bit of personality.
Note 2: Not Beta’d but did run through spell/grammar check (still looking for a beta familiar with Doctor Who/Torchwood)
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I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music
And suppose I never met you
Suppose we never fell in love
Suppose I never ever let you kiss me so sweet and so soft
Suppose I never ever saw you
Suppose we never ever called
Suppose I kept on singing love songs just to break my own fall
Just to break my fall
Fidelity; Regina Spektor
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Chapter 2
Ianto slowly opened is eyes as he came out of a nice dream of Captain Jack. He wished it had been more than a dream. He blinked as he started to realize it wasn't his ceiling that was above his head. Ianto lifted up the sheet and started to get really worried when he discovered that he was without a stitch of clothing. He might have thought he had a one night stand except for the fact he'd given up one night stands the day Ianto met Captain Jack Harkness. Also as Ianto shifted side to side he didn't feel any twinges of pain associated with anal sex. At least he was fairly postive that rape hadn't happened to him while he was unconscious. Now if he could only remember how he came to be in this room naked. But then why would someone take him and how did they get past all of Torchwood's security systems. Ianto started to look around and plan what options he had for escape. At the same time Ianto tried to rack his brain to remember the techniques all Torchwood employees learn to withstand torture. As he climbed out of the bed Ianto turned the top sheet into a fashionable Toga. However before Ianto could try find the door it opened all by itself, still nobody entered. Ianto waited before very slowly starting toward the door.

Cautiously peeking his head out from the door way Ianto's mouth dropped open in shock when he saw that it appeared to be a space ship. Curiosity won out over safety and so Ianto walked down the small stairs to the main area of the ship. Afraid to touch anything that might send the ship hurtling to the ground Ianto just walked around in circles. He peered high and low taking in all the aspects of the machine he could see, even if it didn't all make sense to him. Ianto did wonder where the pilot for the ship was hiding and why they choose to take him aboard. A sound Ianto heard was laughter of human voices; he'd have to guess two of them both males. Ianto looked around for a place to hide but there really wasn't one so he just got down on his knees and hid behind the console.

The Doctor and Jack were walking back down from attic where the Doctor kept all his extra clothes and he was letting Jack bring down a few for Ianto to wear. Jack was laughing about to launch into another joke when the Doctor put his hand up to motion for silence and pointed in the direction where Ianto was hiding. Jack just nodded as the split up walking slowly until they had the person surrounded. The Doctor knelt down right in front of Ianto.

"Hello, welcome to my home the Tardis," chatted the Doctor happily. Ianto let out a scream and backed away quickly as he could but ran smack into Jack's chest. Ianto struggled to get free from Jack, clawing and twisting anything to escape.

“Ianto, calm down! Its okay, I’ve got you. It’s Captain Jack Harkness. We aren’t going to hurt you, I promise. This is a friend of mine, The Doctor and this is his ship, The Tardis(ask him to tell you what it means later).” Spinning Ianto around so he can look into Jack’s eyes.

“J-Jack?” reaching up to grip Jack’s forearms, hard enough that bruises will be left behind long after his hand is gone. “You are really here? I’m not dreaming again. Oh, please let it really be you Jack, I can not take another dream only to be woken up and your gone.” The whole time Ianto was speaking he was rubbing hands all over Jack’s arms and chest while tears started running down Ianto’s face. Slowly and with a shaking hand Ianto moved his hand to touch Jack’s cheek and felt real warm skin. “Jack, it’s really you!” Ianto’s knees gave out on but Jack anticipating that response was able to catch him.

“Jack, help him over here,” the Doctor was point on a new sofa that the Tardis had just added. The Doctor fought down his irrational jealousy over the fact that both Jack and the Tardis seemed to really like this new guy. While the boy was beautiful there had to be more to him than that. As shallow as Jack sometimes appeared it really did take more than a pretty face to KEEP his attention.

“Thanks Doc,” maneuvering a stunned Ianto over to the couch was pretty easy for Jack. After getting Ianto to lay down Jack knelt by his head.

“Jack, your muscles have gotten bigger,” blurted out Ianto before he blushed at what came out his mouth. “Oh dear, I’m sorry for that.”

“Don’t be,” laughed Jack. “And yes I have put on muscle because it was something to do keep busy in the downtimes. Plus, I can have the Doctor raise the gravity level in the gym which makes working-out that much harder. I got the idea from that Japanese cartoon with the fighters and weird hair. But it was awesome traveling with the Doc again. Going all over time and space. Ianto I saw things you can only dream of!”

This caused Ianto to frown and glance over at the other man in the room. The Doctor just shook his head before looking back at the Tardis muttering about dense human males. Tears that left began to return to Ianto’s eyes, who turned his head away from Jack to face the back of the couch. Ianto than pulled his knees to his chest and started sobbing. Jack frowned not sure what was going on but quickly scrambled on to the couch next to him and began rubbing Ianto’s back soothingly.

“Okay, I’m missing something. Ianto one minute you were happy to see me and now you’re sobbing like you have a broken heart. Please, Ianto what’s going on? What’s wrong? Did Owen hurt you while I was gone? I kill that bastard. Really, Ianto you can tell me anything.” Reaching out Jack turned Ianto’s face toward him and lifted his chin up so Ianto looked him in the eyes. Ianto’s eyes are so expressive and full of pain that is takes everything in Jack not to just kiss all the pain away.

“Jack, how can you really have no idea what’s wrong? You sitting here telling me about all these great adventures and things you saw. Meanwhile back on Earth we didn’t know if you were alive, dead, captured or what! Most every one else has given up on finding you! I still put in extra hours after every one left trying to find some clue as to where you were. Dammit Jack, you had just given me the most passionate kiss of my life,” Ianto paused for moment loosing eye contact with Jack, instead focusing his eyes to a spot on the floor. “And then poof you were gone. I had to wonder if my kiss was so horrible that leaving was the nicest way you could let me down. I’ve been in love with two people my entire life and it was appearing both left me. You don’t know how many times Jack I came to using your gun to end my life.” By the time Ianto was finished speaking the words had both the Doctor and Jack with tears in their eyes.

Jack had let go of Ianto and was sitting back on the couch completely shocked, he didn’t realize anyone would take his leaving that hard. In fact Jack absent touched the spot above his heart, Jack swore he was feeling actually pain there for all the pain he caused Ianto. This was something Jack hadn’t felt in longer than he can remember. It was with this realization that it finally clicked for Jack that he was in love. But oh no Captain Jack Harkness couldn’t do things simple. He realized he was in love with two people, the Doctor and Ianto. Now all Jack had to figure out was what to do next.

The Doctor had watched the interaction between the two human males with interest. The Doctor knew he could be thick sometimes but he didn’t realize that Jack was even denser that him. The Doctor could tell right away that this poor Ianto fellow was head over heels in love with Jack. It wasn’t so easy to tell what Jack felt back. As Ianto went on further both the Doctor’s hearts began to ache for the pain the young man felt. The Doctor had known ever since they picked him up that the only way Jack would say is if the Doctor could convince Ianto to stay. Upon seeing that Jack was at a loss of what to do and that Ianto was pulling further away the Doctor knew he had to act quickly. The Doctor decided to be more honest with Ianto than he’d ever been with anyone. Sitting down on the couch on the other side of Ianto the Doctor put his arm around Ianto’s shoulders.

“Don’t let Jack fool you, young man. There were some good times, that is true, but that was only a small part. In fact the main reason Jack worked out so much was to take his mind off of you. He had nightmares of watching you die and wake screaming your name. That’s not to say I didn’t walk in on a few dreams where he was screaming your name out in passion.” The Doctor paused to give both Ianto and himself a chance to look at Jack, who hearing the Doctor’s words turned bright red. “Now Ianto I want you to know that I didn’t take Jack to hurt you. In fact I tried to return to only a few seconds after I picked him up so you wouldn’t have missed him but for some unknown reason the Tardis did not let me do that. I am sorry that Torchwood and you had to suffer so much but I won’t apologize for taking Jack. You see I’m the last of my kind, a Time Lord, and it gets very lonely. What good is it seeing wonderful things across time and space if you have no one to share them with. The Tardis knew I had a strong connection with Jack; even strong than the one I had with my traveling companion Rose. So when Rose used the heart of the Tardis to save me, it also found that Jack had already been killed, the Tardis managed to bring Jack back to life but didn’t stop there, instead kept going until Jack was immortal. This way the Tardis believed I’d never be alone again. Now we were planning to come back to modern day Cardiff, you have to believe me, but it actually wasn’t our stop then, I think the Tardis must have sensed your distress.” Reaching out to take Ianto’s hand in his the Doctor laced their fingers together. “While you were a sleep I got to learn about you through the computer. You are amazing man Ianto, much more than a tea boy or garbage collector. I would be honored if you would give me a chance to really get to know you and show you the joys of traveling with the Tardis and me? The Tardis was correct in picking you for a new companion.” Lifting Ianto’s hand to kiss the back of it. “Please, I really would like you to stick around for a while. You are one of only a hand full people in my extremely long life that have made my heart feel something so deeply that it hurts to think of you leaving. What do you say, Ianto? Give Jack, The Tardis, and myself a chance to convince you to stay with us?”

“Yes, Ianto. Please stay! Please let me try to make-up for all the pain I’ve caused you.” Jack was sitting on the edge of the couch looking at them both eagerly. He was so happy that the Doctor wasn’t going to make him choose between them. The Doctor looked so human that sometimes Jack forgot he wasn’t and therefore had different beliefs when it came to relationships.

Ianto stood up and started pacing slowly in front of both men. He kept looking back and forth between the Doctor and Jack, trying to picture himself in the middle. Ianto flushed with surprise at how easy that image actually to picture. Ianto open his mouth to answer when an alarm sounded.

“WARNING! WARNING! THERE HAS BEEN A CODE MAUVE! WARNING! CODE MAUVE!”
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End Chapter Two