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A/N: Sorry, I've been really busy. Here's Chapter 3 part 2. Thanks for all of your review, comments, kudos, and bookmarks! It's really appreciated!

Chapter 3 pt. 2

Queentia watched the exchange in the Archives amongst the humans with amusement. This Captain John Hart was certainly an unexpected surprise, but it gave her a lot of opening to stir the pot even just that much more.

Truly her only goal was to get the Time Lord calling himself The Doctor here with his merry little fan club. So that way she could have enough energy to open the final Rift and divide the universe for her people to come home. And once she did, she would rise back to her thrown and exact vengeance on all who caused the fall of the Guardians, starting with the Doctor.

But who's to say she can't have some fun while doing it?

Humans were such funny creatures.

So easily fooled and played right into every little scheme available. Put something shiny in front of them, and they're bound to touch it. Tell them they can be the saviors of the universe and they'll do whatever you say.

She had sorely missed playing with their lives.

"Just wait until all of Amplafrey comes home," she mumbles to herself, completely hidden from everyone. "Then the fun will really begin."

~J&I~

Sitting at the conference room table, John watched Tosh with a critical eye as she moved about on a small platform housing their coffee machine and nibbles.

The woman hadn't changed all that much since the last time he had seen her. Maybe a tiny bit more assertive. Certainly hotter but still bowed to authority like a proper little sidekick.

It made him briefly wonder how that Gwen Copper-Cooper or whatever was holding up. Or even that other grouch Owen What's-His-Name. Has Jade's little band of merry men come to their senses yet and seen the sun doesn't shine out of his ass…okay, well, he'll admit not the best visual. Because there were certainly some nights there where John himself thought that ass was -

"Tea?" Tosh cut into his internal monologue.

Startled, he looked up quickly before recovering and then smiled at her from ear to ear. "For the enemy?" he laughed. "Why Toshiko…you really are proper to a fault, aren't you?

Glaring at him, she plopped the tea tray down and didn't dignify that with a response.

John picked up his cup and dropped a couple sugar lumps into it. Then conversationally, he said, "So…how's it feel to be in the exclusive group of knowing your Jack's real name, eh?"

Tosh practically spat her tea out.

"Yeah," Hart snorted. "Figured something like that."

Glaring through her cough, she bit out, "Excuse me?"

"Excuse what?" he replied cheekily. "You didn't seriously think his name was actually Captain Jack Harkness of all godforsaken things did you? Toshiko Sato, daresay I expected more of you."

"No, I know Jack isn't his real name," Tosh stated evenly. "But Jade? Really? Isn't that a girl's name?"

Scoffing as he took a sip from his teacup, John groused, "21st humans and your perfect little boxes and categories."

"Jack says that all the time."

Eyebrow, "Don't you mean Jade? And anyway, course he does. Cause it's true. You lot want everything to neatly fit into your minds, never thinking outside of that." He lent forward and folded his arms, "Boeshane. As in The Boeshane Peninsula where he and I are from, names aren't chosen based on gender. They're chosen based on a family's crest, their code of arms. Jack's name is Jade, his brother's name is Gray, Mother's name Opal, Father's name Peri."

He paused and then elaborated, "Short for Periwinkle. My name, Kalein, is a Boeshani word for ocean. My family's crest was of the sea. We were fishermen. Jade's of a prism. His dad was a scientist."

Tosh swallowed some of her tea as she listened.

"You lot follow after a man you know nothing about," John laughed. "You don't have a clue, do you? Just what he is, just what I am? You sit here in this little cushy job, pretending to fight aliens," he shook his with another laugh, "and you have one right under your noses the whole time. It's absurd!"

"What Jack or Jade is or isn't, isn't really my business," she intoned. "He's had his reasons to be secretive about his past. I can and do respect that, as I have secrets of my own."

"Fair enough," he conceded. "But now that that information he's withheld is important, it's become you business right?"

Her mouth formed a thin line, seeing how he caught her. "I didn't ask for any revelation of his history."

"Nah but it's nice I'm providing it right?" he smirked. "Wanna know something else?"

She rolled her eyes, "How bout why he can understand us, but we can't understand him. You know since you're in this sharing mood."

"Translation chip," he provided. "Pretty standard from when we're from. It's odd for a human not to have one."

"Why do you sound English and he sounds American? If you're from the same place, it'd make more sense for your dialect to be the same."

"Ah, but see English isn't our native tongue, remember?" he pointed out. "And the Time Agency upgraded our chips to alter our dialect by locale. To blend in better when we're on ops. I'm in the UK, so I sound English. Jade's must have been damaged after having to be American so it stuck like that." He shrugged. "But again, you have no bloody idea who he is. But go ahead, put the universe into your perfect little box. Because hey, 'aliens' obviously mean anything that isn't humanoid."

He snickered, "Your bloody Doctor that your existence was made possible by isn't even human."

"You know about the Doctor?" Ianto asked sharply as he led a subdued Jade into the room.

"Course I bloody do," he replied easily. "I'm a Time Agent. You hear songs of his glories from one corner of the universe to the other, through all points in time. Be rather ignorant to be like me and not know who he is."

"Kalein!" Jade gasped. "Nejbvua jun'fedass'et! Time Agents," (You promised you wouldn't.) he practically spit the words as if they were poisonous.

John started laughing very hard much to the annoyance of everyone present, but particularly Jade.

"Duc'ghrefua!" (Unbelievable) Jade muttered. "I'iem a'yoszo e'casf o'lopff jan." (I am the butt/ass of your joke.)

"I-I'm sorry," John tried to settle while taking in gasping breaths. "I just had forgotten how much of a bloody square you were back then."

"Back when?" Ianto asked, growing impatient and placing a calming hand on Jade's upper arm.

John turned instantly serious. So fast everyone felt it as if a physical form had descended on all of him or her. "Oh, Ianto Jones. As I was telling Techy McGee over here, you don't have a clue."

Ianto guided Jade to sit and he did as well, trying to reign in his irritation. "So enlighten us then…never thought I'd say that."

John took another sip of his tea and Tosh tapped her fingers quietly.

"As I was telling Toshiko, your Jack and I come from a planet called Boeshane. A tiny, mostly…well to put in terms you lot would understand…farmland planet. Even though it was and is nothing like farmlands you would know."

"I know this already," Ianto said while Tosh looked over at him and Jade began picking at his nails. "Get to your point."

John huffed, "Boeshane inhabitants are a quiet bunch. Very few ever come to visit, very few natives ever leave. We're not what you would call popular amongst the stars. Well, we aren't except for one thing."

"And what's that?" Tosh asked.

Jade softly spoke up, being sure to keep his head bowed submissively, "O'lu'dafilia nixsnue a'Alpha ya Omega."

Ianto turned to him sharply before turning back to Hart for translation.

"The new family bondings of Alpha and Omega," he plied helpfully. "We are known for our class system, and having decidedly beautiful Omegas to pick through. Which is highly attractive for people of high society and wealth throughout the galaxies. And on occasion, an outside suitor will come through and see what the year's offering for available Omegas are, and make a deal with their family for their hand."

"That's barbaric!" Tosh burst out.

Ianto looked to Jade who looked to be growing increasingly embarrassed. There was niggling feeling in his mind of confusion, anger, loss and displacement that wasn't his own. But he blocked it out. Trying to focus solely on Jade who was twiddling his thumbs and not breaking his perfectly submissive posture. God how Ianto just wanted to wrap him in his arms and chase whatever was wrong away.

John shrugged. "It was life. You were either born Alpha or Omega, and when you reach a certain age you are required to mate. For most that meant arranged by their parents based on what stock was needed, or peace treaty or something. But every once and a while, a suitor from somewhere else came forward and staked a claim."

"I know your point is coming," Ianto prompted.

John smirked. "Well alpha," he said as ignored Jade's slight hiss, "Jade over there is an Omega; and somehow you've bonded and become his Alpha. Congratulations! You're essentially married, so good luck with the kiddos. But even more than that, Jade was bonded to another on the actual timeline."

"Actual timeline?"

"Choosing to ignore the married bit, eh?" John snickered. "Alright then, to put a rather long story short, time has lapsed and we're sitting in a very large paradox. One on the blowing the entire universe smithereens scale. Because time," he stressed, "is falling quite literally apart."

"What?" Tosh choked.

"I have two sets of memories you see? One where Jade or Jack over there bonded with his suitor and flew off never to be seen, or heard from, again. And one where he bonded with his suitor and got left behind. Making him join the Agency from the grief and pain of losing his Alpha, and devoting his life to finding Gray." John coughed and played with the spoon in his cup.

Ianto chewed on this a moment, looking between Hart and Jade. "Well that doesn't explain what's happened to him. And how does what's happened to him pertain to the entire universe?"

"Jack's immortal, you idiot," Hart scolded. "That means he's going to live a long buggering life. And in that life he's going to do a lot of stuff. And since he's decided to become this world's fucking white hat that means any and all good he's done and will do hasn't and won't happen. That also means any good he does on any other planet won't happen."

Ianto and Tosh's eyes widened at the realization of the levity of their situation.

John picked his cup up and threw it forcefully at the wall behind Jade's head, causing it to shatter, everyone to jump, and Jade yell in fright as he ducked.

"Was that strictly necessary?" Ianto growled.

"That," John nodded towards the mess, "is what has happened to the universe. It's shattering and splintering apart all over everywhere. If we don't fix it we all run the risk of ceasing to exist entirely."

Jade's hand flew to his mouth. "Favch," he breathed. (Fuck)

John chuckled, "Exactly."

"And you think we can fix it?" Tosh said after a moment of silence fell upon the group.

"I figure," he replied as he crossed his arms, "you're the best shot the universe has got, yeah. You have access to the Doctor, who's a Time Lord, and surely he's noticed the problem. So we need to get in touch with him and see – "

"What gave you the idea we have access to the Doctor?" Ianto asked quizzically.

"You're Torchwood," John said as if speaking to a small child. "You can't seriously have no way of contacting the man that inspired this place, can you?"

Tosh lent forward on crossed arms, "Torchwood was originally designed to capture the Doctor. Not keep in touch. And after the events of Canary Wharf he's not exactly our biggest fan, even if we are a different branch."

Mouth gaped open, John spluttered. "So you mean to tell me you lot have no way of speaking to the one person who can fix this?"

Ianto grimly nodded.

Jade looked up his Alpha through lidded eyes. If he understood correctly, this was his entire fault somehow. Because he wasn't supposed to be there, he was supposed to be getting dumped by his other Alpha. Nice to know he wasn't wanted in either place. Mother always did say he did nothing but fuck everything up and get in the way.

Ianto, as if hearing his thoughts, put a comforting hand on his thigh. Jade looked up fully at him and did his best to smile in return, but it came out more of a grimace.

"Well, then I got nothing," John said harshly. "The universe is fucked. But congratulations, you'll be daddy soon! So the baby can see how entirely useless it's whole family is."

"Shut it," Ianto hissed as he mentally felt Jade retreat further into himself. "We will think of something."

Tosh looked at him and said, "I'll call Gwen and Owen."

He nodded and they all watched as she left. He finally caught up to the rest of what Hart said and looked at him in near panic, "And what is this about me being a daddy?"