/A/N: This one is not edited but this I had finished it almost a week ago so here it is. When my beta edits it I will replace it with the edited one. I don't know if I should stop the story here or write a sequel. What do you think? If enough people want a sequel I will write it.
Gwen Cooper was getting very bored staying at home eating whatever the baby demanded that she should eat to feed it. Some of the stuff she was stuffing in her mouth was actually very disgusting like pizza with nutella but she just didn't seem to stop doing it. She felt huge like a whale but that could not stop her stuff herself either. Jack had suspended her indefinitely, this way effectively cutting her off from her favourite job and from feeling useful and not just a sad and desperate single mom. She had lost Jack as well to Ianto and to the stupid thing that she had done, but she really thought that Ianto was unhappy with what he was doing and with seeing her and Jack having a future together. Well having a future until Owen had to go and ruin it by telling them that the baby wasn't Jacks. Couldn't he have just kept quiet? And she had lost Rhys as well, telling him that she had had sex with Jack and that the baby was jacks. Now Rhys wouldn't answer her calls and no one wanted to tell her where he was living or give her his new phone or details.
Still she was determined enough and decided not to stay home and mope so she went to some of Rhys friends until one of them took pity of her seeing her standing out there with her ninth month belly and gave her Rhys new address. Next day she was standing in front of Rhys building and waiting for him to come out. She was there almost an hour when Rhys finally came out of the building.
"Rhys wait," shouted and tried to hurry after him.
He didn't really want to talk to her but he was too much of a gentleman to let her run after him heavily pregnant so he stopped and let her approach him.
"God, you are huge but still beautiful Jack is so lucky," Rhys said quietly. "When is it due?"
"Somewhere this week should come out any moment now. It's a girl." Gwen said smiling, the conversation seemed to go kind of well if a bit awkward. "But it's not Jacks Rhys its yours."
"Mine?" Rhys asked surprised.
"Yes, its confirmed its not Jacks it yours, Owen said he had made a mistake because it was a bit too early."
"Well that's good but it doesn't really matter Gwen," Rhys tried not to shout despite sounding angry. "Because you were very fast to inform me that you are having a baby with another man when you thought it was his. Now that he wont want you because the baby is not him you are coming here to make sure that you don't end up alone with a baby not because you love me."
"So you are going to let me struggle alone with a child and not take any responsibility?" Gwen shouted angrily. She looked like a thunderstorm ready to strike.
"I didn't say that," Rhys said with hurt. "I don't want to start a relationship with you again, but I will take care of her. I will pay what I need for her to have a normal life. I will take her with me as much as I'm allowed. And in fact I'm sure that if I point out to the social services that your job is top secret and dangerous I think I can take the custody over her and only let you see her when you deserve it."
Gwen went pale then red faced with anger. She stepped in Rhys personal space and almost touched nose to nose with him while shouting and spitting.
"You wouldn't dare Rhys Williams, you wouldn't dare," she repeated in denial. "This is my daughter, I had lost everything else, my job, Jack, you my friends, you cant take my daughter."
"I can Gwen and she will be safer. Beside I will make sure that I take the apartment right next to you so you can be with her when you are not at work. I'm sure you will be back either at Torchwood or the police soon after she is out here and you wont have too much time for her."
Gwen had to concede that Rhys was right she didn't intend to be a home staying mom but she was planning on getting a nanny. Maybe what Rhys offered was a better solution.
"What about your job?" she asked.
"Unlike you I am willing to take a paternity leave from my job and will do it for her," he said.
Gwen nodded.
"And you promise to move next door?"
"Yes, Gwen I promise."he said. "Any names yet?"
"I thought to call her Anwen, I now you always wanted that name," Gwen smiled.
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They had let Rhiannon to see the babies and to talk to her brother all of them looking so happy. Then Tosh took Rhiannon home and retconned her and Johnny by giving them a celebratory drink.
Jack and Owen were left in the hub, Owen was there to monitor Ianto and the babies and was currently napping on the sofa. Jack was down in the medical bay with Ianto who was still laying on the bed.
"Are you sure it was good idea to retcon your family?" Jack asked him."We can make exception for them the same way we did for Gwen and Rhys."
"Yeah, as I said I prefer them safe and oblivious," Ianto answered softly almost sleepily. "Let them live a normal life free of dangers and monsters."
Jack nodded in concession.
"What you are going to tell her about me and the babies then?"
Ianto sighed tiredly but pulled Jack to sit back and talk when the other man looked like he was going to leave him to sleep.
"I'm going to tell her that a woman I've slept with only once just came back pregnant and left them to me, we made a test and they are mine and since you are my partner we are going to rise them together," Ianto told him and then frowned. Maybe he was getting ahead of himself, after all Gwen was going to have a baby with Jack too and for all he knew Jack might have already married her. "That is if we are going to rise them together. I mean if you and Gwen don't mind you sharing some responsibility here too."
Jack looked at Ianto shocked and then realised that Ianto didn't know about the other baby.
"Oh, don't worry about that the baby isn't mine is Rhys," Jack said and saw the immediate change in Ianto, he seemed more relaxed, the lines on his forehead cleared considerably.
"But you still slept with her?" Ianto asked still a bit hurt. The baby might not have been Jacks but Jack had cheated on him anyway.
"Yeah," Jack breathed out guiltily. "It seem that she manipulated this as well, but it did happen, only she had already conceived by Rhys so her plans didn't work out exactly as she wanted."
Ianto nodded and realised that Jack wasn't really thinking clearly when he had slept with Gwen, did it mean that she had kind of raped him? Anger rose inside him and he put a lot of effort not to shout or try to get up and stalk out and find Gwen. He didn't want to yell because he wasn't angry with Jack and didn't want Jack to think he was. And he couldn't get up and out because it was too early and he was going to pull out some stitches.
"And the engagement ring?" Ianto asked, he just had to.
"It was for you, you idiot," Jack said with a light smile. "I was going to propose you in the restaurant when all this happened and I missed out date. Didn't you notice that it was a male ring?"
Ianto was looking at him shocked with his mouth agape.
"You were going to propose me?"
"Yes."
"Will you now?" Inato asked.
"When we are all calmer and better yeah."
"Then it wont be in another 18 years until we send the kids to uni."
They laughed but were cut short when the cod door opened and for the surprise of all of them Gwen Cooper entered the hub all huge and pregnant. No one knew how to react at first and then Owen rose from his nap on the coach and approached her.
"Gwen get out," he hissed. "You are pregnant and don't need all this stress when Jack see you are here, and I have my patient who had just had a caesarean and had a heavy and premature labour and need the stress even less."
Gwen stood there stubbornly and shook her head using the fact that Owen will never use physical force to stop a heavily pregnant woman she pushed passed him and waddled to the medical bay.
"Gwen what are you doing here?" Jack asked her annoyed. "I told you that I'm not taking you back for at least another year, if ever."
"I came to apologise Jack," Gwen said through tears. "I know what I did was inexcusable, I know that it was wrong, I didn't think of it then but I know now. I need this job Jack Rhys will take the baby and I need to be at least working to be able to know that that's why I don't see my baby as much as I should."
Jack stood there unmovable and not sympathetic at all it was evident that he wasn't going to give in this time.
"That's nothing more than you deserve," Ianto was the one answering her.
"Ianto please," Gwen tried to reach to him but held her hand in the air and then lowered it back to her side. "Please, I'm sorry."
"Not enough Gwen," Ianto said angrily. "You are lucky that you are pregnant and that I'm on a bed rest or I would have hit you. Now go away and take what you had cooked yourself with grace."
She cried but started to leave feeling alone abandoned and doomed.
"I am not firing you, you are good in what you are doing," Jack called after her. "But I will have to think when I could allow you to come back to work again."
He looked at Ianto to see if he was hurt or displeased with his decision not to fire Gwen but there wasn't anything showing that Ianto didn't accept this calmly.
"Is not out of good will either," Ianto added when Gwen turned around to Jack with home after hearing his words. "It's a punishment. This way you will have to face, look in the eyes and work everyday with the people you have betrayed. Believe me I know how hard a punishment this can be."
Jack smiled tinly knowing that Ianto had understood some of his reasons beside that they still needed more people now that Ianto was out of commission and home with two new born.
"Where is Hart?" Ianto asked.
"Off with the Doctor," Jack answered. "He found Gray and I can go and see him anytime I want. The Doctor will take me there and get me back here before everyone had noticed."
"Yeah, like the last time?" Ianto didn't want to sound bitter but he still felt hurt with Jack's disappearance for months after that kiss. Still he could understand that Jack needed to see his brother and smiled at him to soften his words.
Jack smiled back and kissed Ianto. He had a great partner, two wonderful kids and his brother alive if not really well. Live might have just stated to look brighter and work out for him at least for the near future. He felt happy.
THE END