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Torchwood -- Family Honor

Title: Family Honor
Date Written: 9/1/08
Rating: PG/K+
Word Count: 1,614
Fandom: Torchwood/Doctor Who and Indiana Jones (OMG SOMEONE STOP ME NOW PLZ)
Characters/Pairings: Ianto/Jack, Indiana Jones, Mutt Williams, Gwen Cooper (mentioned), Martha Jones (mentioned), OCs (mentioned)
Spoilers: Torchwood/Doctor Who up through current seasons, Indiana Jones up through the 4th movie
Warnings: m/m relationship, gratuitous ignoring of Indiana Jones timelines and the Torchwood canon in which Ianto's father is a tailor.
Author Notes: So, uh, I've been semi-haunting

oxoniensis's Fall Fandom Free-For-All, when I came across this gem requested by

tiamet. Which works well, 'cause I was thinking the whole time I was watching Kingdom of the Crystal Skull how it would be great to pull Torchwood/Doctor Who into it... Of course, I had different ideas then...

"Ianto Jones, you have based yourself upon a lie."

Ianto rolled his eyes as he continued to pack clothing into his suitcase. Tell your lover your father and fraternal grandparents are -- were -- American, and they start throwing around all sorts of accusations.

"I have not," he protested. "So my father's American. My mam was born and raised right here in Cardiff, and so was I. For the most part."

Jack raised an eyebrow. "Dad... took a lot of work-related trips. I went along with him sometimes."

"What does he do?"

"Did, and he was an archeology professor for the Cardiff University. Well, he called that the part-time job, he always had a head for car engines and motorcycles."

"Y'know," Jack drawled, "as an experienced time traveler, I am legally bound to point and laugh at archaeologists."

Ianto laughed. "Then you'll be laughing at my grandfather and great-grandfather -- well, Great-Grandfather taught Medieval Lit, but the principle's the same." He mentally ticked off the things he'd packed and moved about the room, grabbing a few other things to pack. "Dad and Mam moved to the States when he retired to be near Grandfather, the year I graduated from Uni."

Jack chuckled. "So you're going to visit them?"

"He didn't take the movement of Earth well, from what I understand," Ianto explained. "Besides, he's getting on in years, and I should see him again before I don't have the chance." He shut the suitcase with a snap and turned to look at Jack. "I'll be gone a week, plus a day there and a day back."

"I know." Jack stood and pulled Ianto in for a soft kiss. "I'll miss you."

"Not as much as Gwen will miss you," Ianto replied. Jack raised an eyebrow, and the younger man chuckled, handing him a printout. Jack took it and scanned it, realizing it was online ticket confirmation for two first-class seats.

Ianto was grinning when Jack finally looked up from the page. "Isn't it about time you met the rest of the Joneses?"

-----

They heard them before they saw them in the New York airport, Ianto's father and grandfather. His father's voice drifted over to them as they headed towards their baggage claim, raised so the elderly man could hear him.

"Dad, Ianto's plane landed, he'll be here any moment. Now you're not going to be rude over the fact that he has a boyfriend, are you?"

Ianto's face turned a little pink, and he rolled his eyes as Jack laughed. The reply was even louder, the tone and volume that of a man going deaf, almost shouted.

"I'm going to tell him the same thing I told you, Junior, when you first brought home that wife of yours," Ianto's grandfather yelled back.

"Don't call me Junior," Ianto's father sighed. They could see them now -- a younger man, Ianto's dad, with dark brown hair shot through with gray and a stubble-beard, and an old man in a wheelchair wearing a beat-up fedora.

"I'm gonna tell him," the old man continued, either missing his son's words or deliberately ignoring them, "I"m gonna say, You better treat that girl -- well, it'd be boy in this case, wouldn't it? -- You better treat that boy right, and he better treat you right! That's all that matters, is that the boy's happy."

"He always was your favorite," the younger man sighed before looking up. He caught sight of Ianto and waved, moving behind his father and pushing the wheelchair towards the two.

Ianto stepped forward a little, away from Jack as he hurried forward to embrace his father. The older Jones laughed and patted his son's back before stepping back and looking him up and down in his business suit. "Acceptable."

"Where's Mam?" Ianto asked with a laugh before looking down at his grandfather, not waiting for a reply. "Hello old man," he said fondly, bending to give him a tight hug.

"At home, with Henry and Anne and that nephew of yours," the brown-haired man said before turning to Jack. "Doctor Henry Jones," he introduced himself, holding a hand out.

"Captain Jack Harkness," Jack replied, shaking the outstretched hand. Henry Jones. Why was that name familiar? "It's an honor to meet you, Mr. Jones."

"Call me Mutt, please, Captain Harkness." Mutt grinned, and Jack saw a family resemblance in the way the muscles in his face moved, his cheeks going up to make the corner of his eyes crinkle the way Ianto's did when he smiled. "An unusual nickname, I know, but it's been with me since I was a kid."

"Only if you call me Jack."

"Well, Jack, this is my father, also Doctor Henry Jones," Mutt said, smiling as Ianto finally pulled away and let his grandfather breathe.

"Understand the need for nicknames now," Jack said with a grin.

"Excuse me for not rising," the older man joked, adjusting the hat a little as he continued to smile at his grandson. Ianto had one of his hands and was looking down at the old man with a look of absolute adoration.

"It's quite all right," Jack reassured him. "I'm Captain Jack Harkness, sir."

The old man's head snapped around at that and he pushed back his hat. Jack got a proper look at his face and had to stop himself from taking a step back in surprise as memories slammed into him. Or from bursting into hysterical laughter.

"There's no way," the oldest Doctor Jones said, his hand slipping out of his grandson's grasp. "You haven't aged a day!"

"I'm afraid you've mistaken me for my father, Doctor Jones," Jack said, giving him a calm -- rehearsed -- smile. "I get it plenty back home," he said, holding out a hand.

Doctor Jones shook it, his hand trembling a little from the still-rushing surge of surprise and emotion. "Oh, I'm sorry. I just -- call me Indiana."

"So you're the famous Indiana Jones?" Jack said, giving a sly smile. "The one that drove him 'round the bend in London back in the day?"

"The one and only." His face split into a huge, familiar grin, one Jack saw reflected in both his son and grandson as well as one he remembered on a much younger face. "How's the man?"

"Died a while back now," Jack said.

Indiana opened his mouth to speak, but Ianto cut him off. "Dad, Grandfather, I see our things. We'll catch you up on the street?"

The four men split up, and Ianto glanced over at Jack the moment the other two were out of earshot. "I'll hear the stories later, I'm sure, but for now, I just have one question: Did you fuck my grandfather?"

"No, but I think half the female population of London did whenever he was in town," Jack replied. "He was rather hot -- "

"Silence is golden, Jack."

-----

"Your father, my old ass."

Jack looked up, surprised at the voice at this late hour. He'd volunteered to sleep on the sofa bed in the living room when Ianto's mother, a lovely Welsh retired anthropology professor, had insisted they spend the night that first night. Ianto's older brother Henry (apparently the IV), Henry's wife Anne (which amused Jack to no end) and their infant son had been given the bigger bed. Jack had settled Ianto into the smaller twin bed, insisting he'd actually use it, while the Captain sent emails checking in with Gwen and Martha and compared American late-night television to the BBC.

(they'd get a hotel room tomorrow, with a nice big bed. Ianto had promised when he'd made Jack promise no sex in his grandfather's house. spoilsport.)

Indiana Jones wheeled himself into the room. For someone who had to be pushing at least ninety, he was fit and mobile.

Jack feigned ignorance. "What do you mean, sir?"

"I mean, Harkness, that you are not the son of the Captain Jack I met in London all those years ago. You are him." He leaned forward in his chair. "How'd you do it?"

Jack could see the fire of intelligence still in Indiana Jones' eyes, the same fire he saw sometimes in Ianto's. And he had been involved in that Area 51 bit back in the day, after they'd last met... "Trade accident," he finally said.

"Alien tech?" Indiana scoffed. "You know, if you had told the younger me that, I wouldn't have believed you."

"Ianto told you then, did he?"

"He told us he got a job with Torchwood in London," he said, shifting a little and wincing. Jack went over to help him settle. "Thanks. If you know the right people to ask, international security secrets can fall right into your lap."

Jack just grinned at him, squatting down to his level. "How'd you break the hip, Indy?"

"Fell during that whole planets in the sky mess." He pointed a bony finger at Jack. "You taking care of him?"

"As well as I can," the Captain admitted. "It's often him taking care of me."

"He in any danger?"

"No more than you put yourself in at his age," Jack replied with a knowing smirk.

The old man sighed. "So mortal peril then."

"Pretty much."

Indiana nodded. "He always had that in him, the Jones spirit. Henry never had that spark."

Jack just grinned.

"You watch out for him, Harkness. I'm trusting you." He gave him a long look. "You love him?"

The Captain's smile softened and he nodded.

"Good." Indiana cuffed him affectionately on the side of the head, making Jack laugh. "I can still beat you from this chair."

"I don't doubt it, Indy. Don't doubt it at all."

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Eeeee! I love it! I am so pimping this out to everyone I have ever met. Thank you so much for doing it. This is exactly what I wanted ever since I saw the new Indiana movie.

Feel free. *grins* So glad you liked it!

Great crossover Fic. I was waiting for someone to do this crossover.

I hope you are staying safe with the storm near ya down there.

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.

And I'm fine. Just rainy and a little windy, but otherwise just fine.

*******************Squee*******************************

So what if I had to work!!! This . . . this . . .

Perfect

I just have one question: Did you fuck my grandfather?

Perfect. Perfect......

Legitimate question to be asking Jack Harkness, if you ask me.

Glad that you liked it, and glad I could give you a little bit of a smile during work.

I loved this so much!

Thank you! I'm glad that you liked it.

"Silence is golden, Jack." Oh so very very true. And no WONDER nothing Jack pulls makes Ianto so much as raise an eyebrow! With a grandfather like that! And Indy old...I have no words, but he would totally win a Harkness/Jones smackdown any day of the week, broken hip or not.

*is all mushy now*

*laughs* I know! Hell, coming from a family like that, Ianto was probably being headhunted by Torchwood at the age of ten.

He was old in the TV series, but I dunno. I sort of like him being agile and having most of his faculties in his old age, even if he's got a broken hip in this one.

Also? Indy's got the long-range weapon.

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katestamps.livejournal.com - 2008-09-02 12:05 (UTC) - Expand

Did you fuck my grandfather?

The kind of question no one but Jack could be asked.

This was just brilliant.

EXACTLY. *grins*

Thank you!

Yay!!! I am so glad someone finally wrote something like this! I kept waiting for the Doctor or Torchwood to show up during the 4th Indy movie. LOL

*laughs* Captain Jack swans in to save the day, coat flapping. THAT would have been one helluva plot device!

wow!! thats possible they collest thing ever! Just WOW!!!

Can we have more prity please.... i honsitly cant stop smiling! :D

If I turn this into a series, I'll be done when I wrap up Slipping Through or Different Sort of Science.

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senry.livejournal.com - 2008-09-02 14:50 (UTC) - Expand

Awwwww that was sooo wonderful! Yay for Jones'!!! =p

Thank you! I'm glad that you liked it.

Awww, that was so cute. Loved it!

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.

"I'll hear the stories later, I'm sure, but for now, I just have one question: Did you fuck my grandfather?"

LMAO…. I knew he was gonna ask!

Oh this is a great story, very cool. --iz so savin it--

Mutt's kid eh? I can live with that.

He'd probably end up being okay with it, but he wanted to know how weirded out he should be.

You know, when I saw the fourth movie, the idea of Ianto somehow being related to Indiana popped up, and my son asked me why I was laughing.

Beautifully done. Only in the Torchwood universe could the question 'Did you fuck my grandfather?' be asked with a straight face.

I had an image of Jack taking everyone for a Torchwood team bonding/sneak Ianto into the back row for a quickie, or of the Doctor and Donna sitting in an empty theater munching popcorn.

And only in the Torchwood/Whoniverse is "Did you fuck my grandfather?" a legitimate question.

stop reading my brain! Damn you! *g* I've been tossing a crossover between Torchwood and Indy around in my head for the last couple of months. Just haven't had a chance to put it to paper.

Terrific fic. I love the interaction between Jack and Ianto and Jack and Indy.

*laughs* Sorry? ;) By all means, don't let little old me stop you from doing one as well.

Glad that you liked it.

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rhianona - 2008-09-02 17:58 (UTC) - Expand

Woo Hoo!!

that was good just how I thought they would act!

Brillant!

Thanks, I'm glad that you liked it!

Love it! Absolutely brilliant!

Thank you! I'm glad that you liked it.

Wow. I love this! It makes so much sense now (well some things). Makes me wonder now though, does Ianto know how to use the sword? Mutt did/does.

And Ianto's question, Golden.

Well, maybe they're all good at one weapon -- Indy with the bull whip, Mutt with the sword, and Ianto with a gun. *laughs*

Glad that you liked it!

This is really cool! And does not help me go to sleep any faster.

*laughs* Sorry. Glad you liked it tho.

Oh this was brilliant. Just made me smile :) Great job!

Thank you! I'm glad that you liked it.

I see how Ianto ended up with his name, then; Henry got the real name, Ianto got the Welsh-sounding 'Indiana' name.

*laughs* Exactly!

Nope, sorry, not stopping you. That was just fantastic and the mind is a whirl at the trouble yong Jones and Harkness got into back in the bad old days.

Wow... old one. I'm glad that you liked it!

Hehehehe...

My three favourite lines from this have to be 'Silence is golden, Jack.' 'Your father, my old ass.' and of course, who could forget 'I just have one question: Did you fuck my grandfather?'.

*laughs* That's such a Jack question, isn't it?

This one wants a sequel, but I need to think up some shenanigans first.

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isarae.livejournal.com - 2008-12-13 04:24 (UTC) - Expand

I was wondering through your tags and came across this one. TW/Indy... OMG!!!! Brilliant! :D hehe I am a HUGE Indy gal (and Harrison Ford). ;)

I just LOVE Ianto being the grandson of Indy. Really, it just fits so perfectly. And I could hear Harrison Ford's voice speaking as Indy too. :) I'm adding this one to my memories. :D

This one keeps begging to turn it into a series, but I'm going to take a little time and figure out exactly what I want to do with it.

And with Indy's history of getting involved in weird things, you know he'd have come across Jack at some point.

THIS. Oh my, this is made of SO MUCH WIN. Oh yes! Talk about a brillant crossover idea!! =D Hee! I love this! ^___^ Also going in my mems.

This one keeps calling to become a series, but I don't know where I want to go with it yet. I absolutely adore the idea of making it a sequel, too. Maybe after DKoM.

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angelicmousegrl.livejournal.com - 2009-04-24 07:26 (UTC) - Expand

I love those reunions with old friends/lovers. They never fall for the " it was my dad" line..
And I could so picture those two together fighting aliens...They would make a great team.
Please have some more of these brilliant ideas?!!

I keep toying with this one. I don't have anything finite, just sorta half-formed ideas. Maybe once Mageverse wraps up I'll revisit this one.

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