The Resurrection Casket

Thanks for the reviews! Most appreciated people ^_^ Glad you liked it. So here`s another chapter for you. I apologize if there´s any typos.











The planet Florana in good old 51st century. Jacks own time. The planet was the perfect place to settle down in and Captain Jack Harkness had found himself calling it home. He had been against it in the first place, but Alonso had fallen in love with the atmosphere. Together they decided to make it their home. Jack had aquired a small house in a gamble with some rogue aliens, it was awfuly nice despite that fact. Light silver edges and white bright colour. Two bedrooms, one bathroom, livingroom and a kitchen. Perfect.





Jack lay back on the couch he had flopped down on an hour ago, reading a paper about spacehoppers. Not an interesting subject but interesting enough to kill some time with. Besides, Alonso was out shopping groceries. The small apartment they rented were silent apart from the panting coming from their dog Galax who looked hot and bothered where he sat by the kitchen door. Jack had to remind the others that it was their responsibility of feeding and watering the animal as Jack had been against the idea of a dog in the first place.



" Dad!" Ringed a teenage voice through the door which flew open with a loud smash. " Did you touch my stereo?! "

A boy appeared in the livingroom, his dark hair too long for Jack`s taste. It was almost down past his shirt collar. The boy wore dark clothing with `death´ written in read letters on his shirt, a studded collar adoring around his neck. The boy´s eyes shone sparkling blue and his lips was a thinned line tight in an angry scowl.



Jack looked up feigning innocense. But he knew that the boy would see through his charade.

" I did not. stop blaming me for every little thing, Ianto. "

Jack couldn`t help but smile at the dark look Ianto was giving him, his hands on his hips, the old Ianto shining through in an old posture he`d used many times on Jack before all this.



" You did too! Everything you touch get`s wrecked!"



Jack flinched, his smile fading at the words from the angered teenager. stabbing his heart with unbelievable impact. He knew the boy hadn`t meant to hurt him, he wasn`t aware of Jack´s past life after all. Still, it hurt. Jack ´s brain registered more loud shouting from the younger as he was deep in thoughts not responding. Ianto scowled and flung his arms over his head in a defeated gesture when he couldn`t get any response from the older man. He turned on his heels and retreated back to his room shouting back to Jack:



" Soon as I turn 18, I`m out of here!" The door slamming shut behind him, loud rock music following up a couple seconds after. The computer was still up and running perfectly fine. With a little tampering that could be fixed as well.



With a sigh Jack put back the paper he was holding on top of the coffee table infront of him. He wondered if Ianto had been this much of a pain in the arse for his real parents the first time around. Or if by getting raised by Jack he had developed a whole new personality. He truly hoped not.

Jack stood and strode over to a small chest beside the livingrooms huge window wall. He knelt and opened it, reaching down into it with his right arm and holding up the lid with the other. Pulling out an album he shut the chest silently after him.



Jack studied the albums cover for a while, it reminded him of the diary Ianto had kept in the hub. Must have been why he bought it in the first place Jack thought. But inside, Jack opened it, tracing his thumb over the first page. Inside was pictures, pictures of Ianto smiling and laughing as a small child. From birthdays to christmases they`ve shared together. In one photo Jack was holding a five year old Ianto in his arms, with Alonso holding onto Jack`s waist beside him, smiling broadly at the camera. For anyone they looked like a happy family. But there were so many secrets and lies buried underneath the facade. And Jack didn`t kid himself. He knew that he had to come clean soon to both Alonso and Ianto. Alonso had already begun to suspect something was going on with Jack. Well, more than the usual odd mood swings he had that is. The thing was that Jack couldn`t help to stare at Ianto sometimes, just resting his gaze upon him while he sat and ate or watched tv. And Alonso had picked up on that, bringing it up one night when Alonso and Jack lay curled up against eachother under the covers. Alonso had asked him if he wasn`t enough for Jack anymore and if he wanted to break their engagement. Jack had said no. He wanted Alonso to stay for reasons he didn`t explain, but deep inside he was scared, scared of being left alone and being the one at fault if he screwed up again. He had hoped Alonso would be the one to help him mend. But Jack had been wrong. Alonso couldn`t help him. No one could. He should have ended it that night, instead of leading the poor boy on, sharing false feelings and using him.



Jack turned a page in the album and a tiny smile greeted him from a ten year old Ianto holding up a trophy he had won in a spelling bee. Ianto had always been the clever one. Pulling pranks on Jack and making him feel dumb at occasions like math homework. Their lifes had been easy until Ianto turned 15, giving Jack a hardtime, saying he hated him and how he wanted to leave. Jack had never taken his threats seriously though, just let him calm down in his own pace, making Alonso yell at Jack for being lighthearted on the kid. But the threats had come more increasing and now they faught almost every day.



The album was discarded on the floor with a loud thump as Jack let out an angry cry and clutched his head in despair. Why did everything he did go so terribly wrong? He just wanted Ianto to be happy, have a normal life for once. Jack didn`t notice when the music got to an abrupt end in the other room, nor did he notice when the young boy slipped out and pulled Jack into a tight embrace. Jack stiffened, his hand unconsciously flying to his hip were his webley once had been. Until he realised it was Ianto and relaxed into the hug.



" I`m sorry dad, please don`t cry anymore."



Confused Jack touched his face with his hand, Ianto was right, he was indeed crying, Jack hadn`t realised he had.

" We have to talk Ianto. " This had to be it. Jack had to tell him everything and if Ianto chose to hate him so be it. Jack had to pay the price of his crimes. Jack turned around, faced Ianto´s beautiful blue eyes and took a deep breath.



" I´m not who you think I am. And you`re not who you think you are."



Ianto stared back at the only father he had known since he was a baby in utter confusion.



" What are you talking about?"



" Let me tell you a story." And Jack began. Beginning from when he first met Ianto to the bitter end at the Thames house. But never would he tell Ianto about his grandson Steven. HIs Ianto would never forgive him for what Jack did. Neither would Jack.



About an hour or so later the neighbours on the planet Florana could hear Iantos shouts of anger and his profane language. Some words astonished even Jack who had never heard him use them before.

" You had no right hiding this from me!"

A fist connected with Jacks chest, an angry cry escaping Ianto. He sobbed, his knees giving out underneath him. Jack caught him just before he fell to the floor.

" I don`t know who I am anymore."



" You`re my Ianto. You`ll always be." Jack kissed his forehead, cradling him in his arms.



" I`m not. I.., HE died. " Ianto wailed, his head buried in Jacks blue shirt. " That person was your..lover. I`m your son."



" We`re not blood related."



Ianto shook his head. Obviously Jack knew what Ianto had meant. Their relationship was that of a father and son. It was what Jack had made him believe. What Jack had thought was best for him to believe. Petting Iantos hair deep in thought, Jack sighed closing his eyes. " I just wanted you to be happy."

Ianto sniffed, blinking away tears as he looked up at his caretaker. They were almost the same hight now.



" I am. " Ianto breached the gap between his and Jacks lips. The kiss shy and awkward. Surprised Jack opened his eyes, but hugged the boy closer to him. Deepening the kiss as he did so. Jack moaned, the feeling of Iantos tounge ghosting over his upper lip sending shivers of pleasure down his spine. It had been far too long. Even as much as Jack´s brain shouted that this was wrong, his heart had other ideas.



Jack pushed Ianto back, making the much lighter male go squaling backwards onto a couch. Iantos eyes wide like a deer caught in headlights. "Dad, I`m sorry!" Ianto sqeaked. Panicking, thinking that Jack was mad at him. In seconds Jack was upon him, straddling his hips as he devoured the boys mouth with his tounge. Jacks sure hands digging under the shirt to roam freely over Iantos chest. Jack left Iantos mouth for a second to whisper in his ear.



" Please don`t call me that anymore."



Iantos own hands came up behind Jacks back. Taking a firm hold of Jacks shirt, his fingers buried in the light material. A groan escaped him as Jack left Ianto´s mouth to suck on the nape of his neck. Then a gasp followed by a loud crash from the door evaded their privacy, both men coming to a complete stop, the younger shivering underneath the older. Alonso was home.



" Alonso, I.." Jack began, not having the decensy to pull away from Ianto. Alonso was the picture of anger and recentment.



" Save it! What the hell are you thinking!? That`s your son! " Alonso shouted. His eyes began to water with unshed tears.

"He`s not my son. "



Alonso snarled. His eyes fixed on Jack , penetrating like sharp needles into his skin. " You raised him, WE raised him, dammit! " Swearing under his breath he turned to lean a hand against the door. His other hand massaging his forehead.

" Fuck.. I love you Jack. I told myself I couldn`t fall in love, but I did."

Ianto wished he was anywhere but there as he wriggled under Jack and into freedom. The freedom caught short by Jack´s hand grabbing his.



" I told you from the beginning. I can`t love anyone. Not in my condition. "



Ianto struggled in Jack`s iron grip trying to wrench free to escape from the whole bizarre situation he had created for himself. This was all his fault.



" But you can sleep around and even bed a 17 year old boy? You look like a pedophile for gods sake!" The words came out so venomous you could feel the tension. Jack´s eyes glared daggers. He may have done such things in the past but not since Ianto.

" He`s not who you think he is. "



" He`s what then? A dog? Come on Jack, I`m not stupid."



" I never told you why I sat in that bar 17 years ago. I lost the only connection holding me on earth. My friend...my lover. My family. "



Alonso raised an eyebrow and moved his head to look back at Jack. " Bastard. " Ignoring him Jack continued.

" His name was Ianto Jones. "



Alonso suddenly felt very ill. " That`s sick. Naming your son after your lover!" His anger had turned to jelousy and rage, his fists curled to his sides. His whole body shaking.



" He`s not my son. He was..is..Ianto Jones."



Alonso stared at Jack. Now really thinking that Jack had lost his mind. "What the hell is that supposed to mean? How can he be the same man? You just told me you lost him, And our Ianto is just a human child!"

Jack rolled is eyes, trying to hold his anger to a reasonable level. " Yes he`s a human. And he is Ianto Jones. The Doctor saved him, broke quite a list of rules by doing so."



Alonso looked like he tried solve a puzzle inside his mind, tying strings together one by one. Alonso wanted to run, hide and never come back, but at the same time stay. The years he had spent with Jack had been happy ones. He had grown to love him. He just couldn`t bare to live without Jack now. But Jack would leave him surely. Why would he stay now that he had Ianto again? The boy seemed to have chosen as well what he wanted. No one could withstand the charm of Jack Harkness. If there was, Alonso had to give them a medal.



"What... are we gonna do?" Alonso was afraid of the answer. But he had to hear it. He couldn`t live with not knowing.

" I didn`t mean to lead you on. I was afraid and didn`t think. I`m sorry but I can`t be with you. " Jack let go of Ianto´s hand, taking hold of a silver ring around his own ringfinger and slid it off. "I`m sorry." The ring fell silently to the floor.

Alonsos eyes followed the ring`s path with a tear falling with. " You`re not. Your heart is made of stone and covered with ice. How can you be sorry?" He turned on his heels and headed for the door.



" If you`re still here when I come back Mr Harkness, I will kick you out with force." The metallic cling of a ring bouncing off the floor followed as the door slam shut behind him.



Ianto couldn`t believe it. The parents he had known and loved had just broken up and he was the one to be blamed. His dad shouldn`t had told him! No, Ianto shook his head. Jack wasn`t his dad. It all was a lie. His life was a lie. He felt sick to his stomach for feeling the things he did towards Jack. It wasn`t normal. The man had been his dad for 17 years.



"Ianto?"



Jack reached over and touched Ianto`s cheek. Ianto flinched and turned his head away, afraid of what he would do if he let Jack touch him.

Jack looked hurt, but didn`t try to touch him again. Just looked at him sadly. Waiting for Ianto to make the first move.



" I want to remember. I don`t want to be so confused. " Ianto finaly said. Nothing could change what had happened, all he could do was look ahead, do something about the pain he felt in his heart. Mend the missing parts. Try to remember who he was.



" I wish I knew how to help you, Ianto. "













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* ( From Wikipedia) - Florana Is one of the universe's most beautiful planets. It is said by The Doctor that its land is carpeted by perfumed flowers, seas of warm milk and sand as soft as swan's down. It is also described as having oceans of effervescent water (where the bubbles support you).