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amythest_n_ice) wrote2008-03-24 03:16 am
Hope (Part 10)
Link to Part 9
http://amythest-n-ice.livejournal.com/40244.html
Link to Part 11
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The Doctor looked up as Jack wandered into the console room, late in the ‘night’ cycle.
“You should be sleeping,” he chided him.
“I’ve been sleeping on and off all day, I’m not tired right now,” Jack said with a shrug, lowering himself into the seat.
“Besides, I think your kid here is nocturnal. Seems to be more interested in kicking me at night, anyway,” he said with a wince, rubbing his hand over the bottom of the bump.
The Doctor wandered over and sat beside him on the seat, pressing his hand to the bump, and wincing in unison with Jack at the sharp kick he felt.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about what you said when you did the scan last week.”
“What, about only having eight or nine weeks left until you have the baby?”
“No, about staying.”
“And, what have you decided?” the Doctor asked nervously.
“I’m going to stay, if you still want me to.”
“Of course I do.”
“Ianto is determined to stay too, no matter what.”
“So, what exactly do you want Jack? How do you want this to work?”
“I want to be with you Doctor, you know that. I want us to be a family a proper family, you, me and Ianto, together, raising this baby.”
“So, have you spoken to Ianto about this, about a trinary relationship?”
“No, we really have to do that together, or he’ll never believe we’re serious.”
“Ok, just let me know when you want to do that then.”
“Tomorrow, the day after, in the next couple of days, anyway. See what the mood is like.”
“Right.”
The Doctor hesitated, and then turned slightly in the seat to face Jack, cupping his chin lightly in one hand.
“I am so glad that I didn’t screw this up totally, that you were willing to give me another chance, after all the mistakes I made. Thank you,” he said, leaning forward and capturing Jack’s lips in a sweet, light kiss.
Jack melted into the contact, relaxing against the Doctor as they kissed.
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Ianto was sitting in the kitchen with Martha, drinking coffee over the last of their breakfast when the Doctor and Jack wandered in.
“Ianto, could we talk to you?” Jack asked.
“Sure,” Ianto said, putting his coffee cup down and turning to face them.
“Not here, come to the library with us,” the Doctor told him.
Ianto followed them nervously to the library, wondering if he was about to be told that he had to leave the TARDIS after all. In the library, Jack and the Doctor took the plush, green sofa, and waved Ianto into the chair that had been pulled up in front of it, so that he was facing both of them.
“Ianto, we want to talk to you, and we would like you to promise to give what we say to you a lot of thought before you accept or dismiss what we say. Is that OK?” Jack asked.
“Jack, don’t sugarcoat it, please. I know that the two of you have reached an agreement; I can see that the last of the tension between you is gone. If you want me to leave, just come out and say it,” Ianto said miserably.
“Ianto, no. We don’t want you to leave, far from it. Will you listen to us, please?” Jack said firmly.
“Ok.”
“You’re right, the Doctor and I have decided that we’re going to give it a chance, but there is something else, and this is what you need to think about. The Doctor heard you telling Martha that you had feelings for him, he came to talk to me.”
“Oh God, Jack…..”
“Hush, you said you were going to listen.”
Ianto fell silent, watching the other two men warily.
“I know that I’ve never really said anything to you about relationships where I come from, even though you asked occasionally. Truth is, I didn’t think you would like what I said, then, but now you might be a bit more open to the idea. Ianto, the most successful relationships, the ones that lasted, that didn’t fall apart, were all trinary.”
“Trinary? You mean three people?”
“Yes.”
“You want me, to…….. with you two?”
“Yes.”
“Doctor, what do you think about this?” Ianto asked the Time Lord, who hadn’t said a word since they reached the library.
“I’ve given this a great deal of thought, since Jack and I first discussed asking you to join us. Trinary relationships, while not common on the world I came from, did happen, and they were always more stable, secure, than other relationships. I’d always wondered why they seemed so successful, so strong, how they balanced the feelings they had for the other partners, how they avoided jealousy becoming an issue. Now I know why they’re so strong, it’s because each of the partners brings something different to the relationship, there’s nothing to be jealous of.”
“I don’t understand,” Ianto said in frustration.
“You love Jack, yes?”
“Yes,” Ianto said without hesitation.
“You’ve started to develop feelings for me. Do they in any way diminish the love you have for Jack?”
“Of course not!”
“Are they as strong as your feelings for Jack?”
“No,” Ianto’s voice was softer as he spoke, dropping his eyes away from the older man’s gaze. The Doctor leaned forward from his seat and squeezed Ianto’s hand in reassurance.
“The feelings you have for me are growing though, yes?”
“Yes,” Ianto confirmed, looking up again.
“Right. Now, I love Jack too, and my feelings toward you have changed from annoyance and envy when we met, to respect, not many people stand up to me the way you have you know, to affection, and they are growing to love. Jack is already in love with both of us, and while that may have been tearing him apart at one point, it would now make him the balance in the early stages of finding our way through the relationship maze. Later on, you would be the balance, Jack and I are both……um.”
“Hot headed, stubborn, fiery?” Ianto offered with a faint smile.
“All of the above,” the Doctor agreed with a smile of his own. “You would be the cool head that would stop us reacting against each other, stop us self destructing.”
“So, where would I stand?”
“You’ll be an equal Yan, in everything. When the baby is born, you will be as much a parent as us,” Jack said softly.
Ianto chewed his lower lip, looking from one to the other of them uncertainly, and the Doctor pulled on the hand he was still holding, pulling Ianto to sit between himself and Jack on the sofa. Jack took Ianto’s other hand and laid it atop his stomach, holding it in place so he could feel the baby moving inside.
“Join us Ianto, be a part of our family,” Jack whispered.
The Doctor shifted around and pulled the young human into a light, gentle, almost chaste kiss, barely a brush over Ianto’s lips, and then he rested his hand over theirs on the bump.
“Join us, Ianto Jones.”
tbc
Oh, sorry, did you want to know Ianto’s answer? lol.
Next time, I promise.
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If the Greeks & Romans had a goddess of teasing I think I might find your name linked to her in a academic tome somewhere.
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Lovely chapter.
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Really liked the chapter an am impatiently waiting for the next one.
nice work
(Anonymous) 2008-04-06 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
Re: nice work
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i swear, you could cook me like a lobster in a pot, and i would not melt as much as that last bit !!!
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