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Title: Sonata for the TARDIS in D
Chapter Nine: The Family Business
[livejournal.com profile] dwtwprompts prompt: Sister
Date Written: 8/9/08
Word Count: 1,074
Rating: PG/K+
Fandom: Torchwood/Doctor Who
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Doctor, Donna, OC, Martha (mentioned), Team (mentioned)
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Implied m/m sex
Author's Notes: This one I have had in my head for quite a while now. Set directly after Resonating Through Time, probably a few days after the conclusion of that storyline.


Previous chapters found here.


The irony that the phone went off during dinner was not missed on anyone.

They were sitting in the flight control room, the Doctor on the jump seat while the three Companions had pulled chairs in from various rooms in the TARDIS to sit on. They were feasting on take-away from the latest planet they'd visited, a semi-celebration that nothing of any vital importance happened while they were there. Hell, Jack hadn't even died once. Quite the accomplishment.

"If that's a bloody telemarketer..." Donna swore, fork paused halfway to her mouth.

The Doctor chuckled, chewing on his own mouthful, swallowing quickly. "Don't worry, it's not."

"So Doc, when did the phone box get an actual phone?" Jack teased.

The Doctor swung his feet off the console, popping up to his feet and wiping his mouth with the napkin tucked down the front of his shirt. "Since Martha Jones left me her old mobile," the Time Lord said, pushing a button. The phone popped out and he caught it easily, flipping it open with one hand. "Hallo, Martha?"

"WHERE THE HELL IS IANTO JONES?!" The angry -- female -- Welsh voice could clearly be heard by all three Companions, and the Doctor pulled the phone away from his ear, wincing.

"Oh, Dwu," Ianto swore, suddenly going pale.


"... It's such a pity that Tegan couldn't be here again," Broderick Jones said with a sigh. "I mean, I know it's a trip from London, but we're lucky if we see her during the hols."

Jack watched with a smile as his mother-in-law leaned over to kiss her husband's cheek. "She's got important work to do in London."

"Oh, sure. Important work," he griped. "She does accounting work for some firm in London. What's so important that she can't let it sit for just a day?"

"Well," Mike said, looking over at his younger brother and other sister. "We show up every Sunday like clockwork, and all we hear about is how Gan's never here."

"I feel neglected," Nonny agreed, sipping at her coffee.

Ianto just rolled his eyes.



"Who is that?" Donna asked, her face alight with the glee that only comes from getting really good gossip.

"It's -- it's bloody Tegan." Ianto covered his eyes with one hand, holding out the other hand for the mobile.

"And who's that?" the redhead asked, leaning in.

"More importantly, how did you get this number?" the Doctor asked, thumbing the speakerphone option on the mobile.

"I got it from Martha Jones," Tegan's tinny, angry voice came out of the mobile. "Now where the hell is my baby brother?!"

"Ganny, for Christ's sake!" Ianto burst out. His face was now turning a nice shade of red in embarrassment.

"Ianto Jones, I should hunt you down and lump you one! You disappeared off the face of the Earth -- literally -- and haven't contacted ANYONE in the family to let you know where you went!"

"We have been pretty busy," the Doctor defended.

"Don't you start in, space man, I'm not scared of you!"

Jack frowned at Ianto, studying him. Something was .. off about this whole thing. Tegan knew a little too much for a civilian.

"Oi, you called us!"

"And you kidnapped my brother! Meaning I had to go back to Cardiff to do his bloody work because he and that Captain just swanned off -- "

"Oh my God," Jack said, gaze snapping over to Ianto and cutting off his sister's rant. "Your sister works for Torchwood and you didn't tell me?"


"She started out as an accountant in London, for one of Torchwood's cover branches."

Jack cocked his head to the side, watching Ianto from his place in the middle of the bed. Ianto, meanwhile, was standing in front of the window to their most recent lodgings, looking down on an alien city dressed in nothing but his boxers and the slender gold chain around his neck. "And they recruited her from there." It wasn't a question; they both knew London's old procedures.

Ianto nodded, not turning around to look at Jack. "She's clever," he replied with a shrug. "She uncovered a discrepancy in the books, found out where the money was really going, landed a job with Torchwood. Ended up as a field agent." He finally looked over his shoulder at the bed. "That's where she met Lizzie."

"Lizzie?" Jack reached for the pillow Ianto had used, tucking it up under his chest and resting his chin on it. It smelled like Ianto.

"Her girlfriend." He turned around, leaning against the window frame. "I moved to London -- stayed with her for a while actually -- and when I couldn't land a steady job she recommended me for an archival job." He smiled a little. "Always had a head for organization and such."

"And making coffee," Jack teased.

"And making coffee," Ianto agreed, giving his lover a fond smile.

"Where happened to her Canary Wharf?"

"Mission in Scotland. Nessie had been acting up and Two called for assistance," Ianto replied. "She and her two team members were part of the 27."

"Two Canary Wharf survivors in one family." Jack rolled onto his back, letting go of the pillow.

"Three," Ianto corrected, crossing the floor to crawl up into bed. "Lizzie too."

"You Joneses sure are something else," Jack said, carding his fingers through Ianto's hair and kissing him softly. Ianto smiled into the kiss, pressing up against his lover.



Tegan was waiting in the Plass when the TARDIS materialized on the Invisible Lift, hands in her pockets as she rocked back and forth on her feet. Jack, Donna and the Doctor hid inside the police box while Ianto exited, giving his sister a fierce hug.

"She's sort of scary," Donna said, peering out the door cautiously.

She's just like Donna, Jack mouthed to the Doctor, making the Time Lord grin.

"Go on, Captain," he urged, giving the immortal a little nudge. "Go meet your family."

Jack paused for a moment, letting what the Doctor said sink in. A family. He had a family again.

Tegan pulled away from her brother when he stepped out of the TARDIS. "You did something to him, Harkness," she accused.

Jack shot Ianto a how does she know?! look. The younger immortal shrugged, matching his gaze. "I -- I did?"

"Yes." She crossed her arms, but gave him a familiar smile. "He's happy again." Without warning, she pulled him into a rough, friendly hug. Jack looked over Tegan's shoulder and Ianto laughed a little, putting his hand over his mouth.

"And if you hurt him, I'll test that immortality theory to the fullest, Captain."

"TEGAN!"

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Date: 2008-08-09 09:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snowinginjune.livejournal.com
love love love you~!

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Date: 2008-08-09 06:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gracie-musica.livejournal.com
First again! ;)

<3 you too.

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Date: 2008-08-09 02:23 pm (UTC)
ext_19627: ([tw] Jack/Ianto (office))
From: [identity profile] lenyia.livejournal.com
Lovely :)

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Date: 2008-08-09 06:16 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2008-08-09 04:13 pm (UTC)
rhianona: (eric idle)
From: [personal profile] rhianona
how utterly brilliant! Really like this newest chapter. Lots of fun with the Joneses.

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Date: 2008-08-09 06:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gracie-musica.livejournal.com
Yes, they are so much fun to write -- all of them are completely bonkers.

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Date: 2008-08-09 05:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teachwriteslash.livejournal.com
Oh as a big sister I so thoroughly relate - so completely. Of course, at my brother's wedding I told him if he ever hurt my new sister in law he'd be singing soprano for the rest of his life (she's a sweet little thing and he's a neanderthal.)

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Date: 2008-08-09 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gracie-musica.livejournal.com
*grins* I'm a big sister too, a lot of that overprotectiveness got focused into Tegan.

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Date: 2008-08-09 05:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shara50.livejournal.com
Oh that was just perfect!

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Date: 2008-08-09 06:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gracie-musica.livejournal.com
Thank you so much!

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Date: 2008-08-09 07:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thrace-adams.livejournal.com
Oh you updated this...and she's a riot!!!! And she knows so much! Brilliant addition to this story!

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Date: 2008-08-11 12:56 am (UTC)

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Date: 2008-08-10 04:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] totally4ryo.livejournal.com
Poor, poor Jack and the wacky family he married into (or will, depending on the timeline). Got to love the Joneses!!! WHEE!

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Date: 2008-08-11 12:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gracie-musica.livejournal.com
*laughs* Yes, those crazy-ass Joneses. No idea how Ianto got out of that.

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Date: 2008-08-11 02:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] totally4ryo.livejournal.com
I think it's because despite what he presents on the outside, he has his own ways that makes him a Jones. I mean really... chasing after aliens, shagging a much older man from the 51st century, etc....

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Date: 2008-08-11 05:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gracie-musica.livejournal.com
Much, much, much, much, much older man.

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Date: 2008-08-12 02:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katestamps.livejournal.com
Ok, Ianto's sister threatening Jack? Priceless! Of course Ianto would have a sister who works for Torchwood because that's how these things go. And having her go off on the Doctor is also priceless. Are they going to meet? I wonder what choice words she might have for him as another of the 27? (And what broke in Cardiff that needed her fixing - other than Gwen, I mean?)

Yay!!

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Date: 2008-08-12 03:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gracie-musica.livejournal.com
Well, muses are saying that when Jack and Ianto left, home office (London) got a message that oh hey, we could probably use a little bit of help for a while, and the new head of Torchwood (or HR, or relocation or something like that) poked his/her head out of his office and went "Oi! Tegan! You're from Cardiff, right? How about a vacation home for a bit?" Martha's there too, borrowed temporarily from UNIT.

No definite plans for Tegan to meet the Doctor (would be fun for a reminisce piece, since the Doctor had a Companion named Tegan) but she probably won't be impressed. More like:

Doctor: Hallo! I'm a Time Lord!
Tegan: Yes, yes, we know who you are. *goes back to tearing Ianto a new one*

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Date: 2008-08-12 11:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katestamps.livejournal.com
Donna: Look there, Spaceman, someone else who doesn't think you're all that and a bag of chips.
Tegan: Oh, I'll get to him in a minute. *finishes with Ianto, tears into Jack for not having the sense god gave a goldfish*
Donna: Oooh, you're in trouble now, skinny boy.
Doctor: *Looks crestfallen and totally befuddled*
Martha: *sits back with popcorn*

It could work.

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Date: 2008-08-13 06:26 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2008-08-12 01:16 pm (UTC)
ext_3970: (Torchwood - Happy Ianto)
From: [identity profile] pinkfairy727.livejournal.com
Awww! Brilliant!

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Date: 2008-08-13 06:18 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2008-08-28 12:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] forrent.livejournal.com
Oh I'm so glad you updated again!!

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Date: 2008-08-28 02:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gracie-musica.livejournal.com
Thank you! I'm glad that you liked it.

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Date: 2009-12-31 07:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lishel_fracrium.livejournal.com
wow I just now found this!!! OMG! Everything just makes so much sense. *tracks and adds to memories* more please?

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Date: 2010-01-01 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gracie-musica.livejournal.com
I have one in this verse sort of brewing (it would be a Deviations piece), but I don't know how it's going to turn out. Silly muses appearing and disappearing.

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