AN/ I'm baack! From the dead, sort of fell of the world for a while... not really I just started university which completely killed my muse...in the face...with a shovel.

I welcome you back to the wonderful world of Janto, for the third instalment in the series, following the boys through their journey into parenthood, I'm so happy to be back and I hope you'll enjoy this and come back for more.

Chapter 1: Baby Daddy

Jack woke up slowly, content to lie in the warmth of Ianto's embrace a while longer. He had been sleeping a lot more lately, they both had. In the week since they discovered Ianto's pregnancy the Welshman had been plagued by nightmares, Jack knew from the months following Ianto's suspension that he slept better with somebody there so the Captain had been staying at Ianto's flat each night and had found that he also slept better with Ianto at his side. For the first time in as many years as he could remember Jack slept for more than an hour at a time and had come to enjoy the quiet domesticity of their situation.

Behind their lids Ianto's eyes moved as he dreamed and a small smile crossed his features, Jack liked to believe that this happened when he dreamed of him but it was hard to do so with Ianto's hand splayed protectively over his abdomen. It was still hard to believe that somewhere in there was their child, other than the little plastic rectangle with the pink cross in the middle which sat – to Ianto's annoyance – on Jack's desk until it could be replaced by a sonogram picture or some other evidence of their child's existence. He tried to imagine what their son would look like – Ianto still maintained that it was a boy even if 'he' was little more than a ball of cells at this point – in his mind he saw a child with Ianto's welsh features, dark hair and blue eyes, god help the women of Cardiff in twenty years time.

"Muh" Ianto rolled over and swatted Jack on the arm sleepily "Stop thinking so loudly". Jack smiled, pressed a kiss to the hand which had settled on his chest and looked up at the groggy man next to him

"I wasn't aware that those nanogenes had made you psychic?"

"Don't need to. I know when you're awake"

"Like Santa."

Ianto's eyes opened half way and he frowned in confusion "What? Eugh... too sleepy" Jack kissed him and smiled, as much as he loved Ianto the Welshman really didn't understand his sense of humour first thing in the morning. He would have settled back down and let Ianto get some more sleep if the alarm clock hadn't decided to announce a that moment that it was time to get up. Ianto glared at the offending device while Jack leaned over him to switch it off, by the time he was done Ianto had burrowed back under the covers and was showing no signs of moving. Grinning evilly and taking hold of the bottom two corners of the duvet Jack yanked the covers from the bed leaving his lover searching blindly for them before he woke up properly and fixed the captain with a glare.

"Don't look at me like that" He gave Ianto the smile which always got him out of trouble "It's time to get up."

Owen stood in front of his equipment wearing his lab coat and a frown. It had been a week since they had discovered Ianto's 'condition' which made the Welshman a little over six weeks pregnant, unfortunately other than monitoring the tea boy's health and caffeine intake there wasn't much for him to do at this stage.

Jack and Gwen seemed to be taking it in turns playing mother hen, putting a frustrated Ianto on desk duty and depriving the entire team of junk food in an effort to make sure he ate healthier meals. Owen wasn't particularly concerned about Ianto's health, working closely with Tosh he had learned that the nano genes still present in his bloodstream were programmed to keep their host organism alive and well. Today he and Toshiko were going to modify an old ultrasound unit with some bits of alien tech they had scavenged from an medical transport shuttle which crashed in Aberystwyth last year.

"Are you ready to get started?" Tosh leaned over the railings of the medical bay to question him before she came down. He told her he was ready then shook his head at just how excited their resident technical genius got over the prospect of being able to play with various devices all day.

"I don't see why you're so hyper, I doubt we'll be able to get this old thing to work anyway" He kicked the dusty ultrasound machine which hadn't been used since 1985 and earned himself a threatening look from Toshiko. The technician made her best angry face and pointed her screwdriver at Owen to reminding him just who he was accusing of not being able to fix something and the doctor went back to analysing the purple samples he had been looking at when she walked in.

It was after midnight and Ianto was sat up on Jack's bed with a pile of catalogues while Jack snored at his side, once the girls had got over their disbelief and then hysterical excitement at the news of his pregnancy they had started leaving mothercare catalogues on his desk with items they thought he'd like circled. He had initially thought it was a joke when he saw just how much stuff you needed for a baby but over the last week he had spent more and more time wondering just what he was going to do when this child arrived. Tonight found him staring at the ceiling of Jack's bunker wishing that it wasn't the one night Jack had decided to fall into a deep sleep star-fished across the bed and snoring loudly.

"Jack, you awake?" he questioned quietly but got no response

"Jack" he tried again a little louder but his lover's only reaction was to roll over pushing them even closer to the wall and throw a hand over Ianto's hip in his sleep. Ianto knew he could just remove the hand but a glint of mischief shone in his eyes and he pushed Jack so hard that he fell out of the bed and landed on the floor of the bunker with a loud thump

"Whu...I...?" Jack looked around frantically and felt for a gun which wasn't there (of course it wasn't, he was in his boxers)

"Oh, you're awake" Ianto sat, the picture of innocence leaning against the headboard smiling down at the suspicious captain on the floor

"Everything okay Yan?" Jack brushed himself of and stood up.

"Where am I supposed to put it?" Jack sat back on the bed and looked at Ianto confused "The baby! Where am I going to put him?"

"Still sure it's a him?" Jack crawled up the bed then lay down, pulling Ianto down next to him "we'll figure it out. Don't worry."

"I don't want to 'figure it out' Jack! Tosh and Gwen showed me all of the things that babies need and I've no idea where the hell it's all supposed to go" Jack frowned, he knew he should have discouraged the girls from pushing those catalogues at Ianto so soon but he hadn't had the heart to, they had been so excited.

"Why don't we start looking for a house, somewhere big enough to fit as much baby crap as you..." He stopped as he saw the trademark Ianto Jones glare had been trained on him as he said 'baby crap' and held up his hands in surrender before Ianto cold decide to put him on decaf."Sorry. I'm serious about looking for a new place though, somewhere that's ours rather than your flat or my bunker"

Ianto gave him a half smile and snuggled into his chest. "That'd be nice, but there's no way I can afford a house and a baby, have you seen how much all this stuff is going to cost?"

Jack knew Ianto wouldn't have the substantial savings Jack had accumulated in his hundred or so years working for Torchwood but he had received a hefty compensation packet after Canary Wharf so when the captain asked Ianto how he had blown through that money the Welshman reluctantly answered. "I help out Rhiannon when money is tight and most of my savings went trying to help Lisa." He felt a little embarrassed, Jack had never learned just how much money he had invested in trying to heal his girlfriend, the drugs alone had cost thousands then there was the electricity bill before he could sneak her into the HUB and arranging travel and accommodation for Dr Tanazaki had proved expensive too. "I've got enough to buy what I'll need for the baby but there's no way I'll be able to put a deposit down on a house any time soon"

"Which is why I said we should look for a house, you talk like it's all your responsibility" He knew that Ianto had been worrying about the future and he knew that it was probably still that he felt insecure about whether Jack was going to leave again so Jack decided to do something to show the Welshman that he was planning on sticking around."We can start looking online tomorrow then if we find a house we like I'll sort it out. Okay?"

Apparently his gesture didn't go down too well with Ianto as he got out of bed and disappeared up the ladder.

"Yan?" Jack followed and found him at his desk typing away, he would have to delete the CCTV before Tosh got in, there was no way Ianto was doing work in his underpants and remaining unmolested, first he just had to make it so the young man wasn't mad at him. "What's the problem? we need a house and I just said I'll buy one" Ianto looked at him like he was stupid.

"But then it wouldn't be our house would it? I'm not going to let you keep me like a bloody rent boy" Jack zoned out momentarily at the mention of Ianto as a rent boy but was brought back to the present by a sharp dig in his ribs

"Sorry." Jack thought for a second and an idea hit him "why don't we get a mortgage instead? Then it'll be ours and you haven't got to worry about one large payment and we could..."

"Jack!" It didn't look like the captain was going to let him get a word in any time soon so Ianto stopped him mid sentence. "Are you sure you want this?"

"Yes" Jack answered immediately and watched the smile light up Ianto's face as he got the reassurance that Jack was in this for the long haul. Money seemed like such a stupid thing to worry about when he faced aliens every day but for the man who made plans about making plans there had been countless doubts over the last few weeks about what exactly he was going to do if he ended up alone with a child to support. It was crazy but with one promise from Jack that he wasn't going anywhere those worries melted away and Ianto allowed himself to be led back to bed feeling slightly silly about his his late night panic.

Two weeks later Jack was almost regretting suggesting that they find a house. He had looked through what felt like a million ads which had been helpfully printed out and left on his desk along with notes on what Ianto thought of each one, as much as he loved the Welshman he certainly didn't do anything by halves. After spending over a century without any real home Jack had expected to feel the walls of commitment closing in around him but all it took was one look at the smile on Ianto's usually stoic face as they arranged meetings and viewings with banks and estate agents for Jack to realise how much better it was to have something real, a real relationship and while it was almost foreign to him Jack found that he liked it.

Today was their third viewing, the first had been a Victorian town house which they had fallen in love with on sight but needed so much work that they reluctantly abandoned the idea of moving in. The second had been the opposite, new built, ready to move in but sterile in cream and beige, Jack had almost expected to see the wives of Stepford making chit chat over the fences on their perfectly manicured lawns. The house was everything they needed but had nothing they wanted so when Ianto took his hand and they approached the door of house number three he was hoping for the cliché of 'third time lucky'.

Four hours later and back in the HUB's underground garage Ianto jumped out of the car talking away on his mobile in Welsh while Jack went back up to the main HUB hoping that somebody had bought one of those horrible over sweet lattes he loved while they were out because Jack was in desperate need of something caffeinated and bad for him.

"You are an angel" he smiled at Tosh when she handed him a Starbucks cup and he took a sip to reveal his favourite guilty pleasure drink with cream and toffee sprinkles.

"It's fine, you sounded like you'd need it when you let me know you were heading back so I picked one up"

"Angel" Jack repeated after he took another sip "remind me to give you a raise" Tosh shook her head and went back to her desk, if the team got raises every time Jack promised them one for bringing him treats they would be millionaires by now. She watched him walk up the stairs to his office and wondered how it had gone today, Jack looked exhausted which didn't bode well and Ianto had been on the phone since they got back and she couldn't understand what he was saying.

"Hey Gwen" She figured that if anyone was likely to be able to translate for her it would be the Welshwoman sat at her desk pretending to be working.

Gwen waves an arm in Tosh's general direction but didn't turn around "Shh! I'm trying to listen" Tosh did as she was told and a minute later when Ianto hung up the phone and went up to Jack's office Gwen turned around with a huge grin on her face.

"What? What was he saying?" Gwen didn't answer but ran over to Ianto's desk and looked through the papers till she found what she wanted.

"Gwen! What's going on?"

"They chose a house" she held out the information on the house Jack and Ianto had viewed today and they looked over it. From what she had managed to listen in on Ianto had argued the sellers down on the price, it had been vacant for almost a year so it was easily done. The women looked up as Jack and Ianto came out of the office to share the news that they did their best to pretend they didn't already know.

It seemed like no time at all before they were ready to move in and Ianto found himself feeling sad about leaving his flat, he had barely been home all week – the rift had decided to become very active now they were a man down in the field – so he and Jack had more often than not slept in Jack's bunker. Now facing his last night in the place he had called home during some of the most difficult months of his life it was hard to let go.

"Are you coming to bed?" Jack walked into the kitchen, fresh from the shower in a towel with his hair still wet. The bed was the one thing they hadn't dismantled and packed yet and allowing himself to be led to it Ianto was grateful for the soft mattress and room to manoeuvre as a contrast to the not quite big enough twin bed in Jack's room at the HUB. When they eventually closed their eyes to sleep it was with a smile on their faces as they remembered that tomorrow was the day that they took the next step towards being a family.

AN/ Chapters will be posted about once a week for this fic, most likely on Wednesdays but they may be more often depending on how quickly I can get my assignments finished, to compensate for the longer wait this fic has longer chapters, come back next week for the next one and don't forget to follow me on twitter Beka_reynolds29 for announcements and sneak previews

Mini an/ really not happy with this chapter... which annoys me because i'm very happy with what i've written so far for the next few grr... rant over, i hope you'll come back as it honestly gets better