Without My Darling
"Daddy, Daddy!!" Rose screamed as she ran into the living room, to see her Dad, Auntie Gwen and Uncle Rhys. "Aww she's so adorable" Gwen cooed over the 6 year old, "Im a big girl now Auntie Gwen" Rose said. "Yer c'mon Gwen she's six" Rhys said to his wife, at this moment Rose had spotted Gwen and Rhys' baby son Ianto sleeping in his pram. "Daddy is this Ianto?" Rose said as she tried to peer into the pram, "yes Rose, quieten down a bit because he's sleepy" Jack said. "Why daddy did Ianto not sleep well today?" Rose asked. "when you were very small like Ianto you needed a lot of sleep to" Jack emphasised to Rose for her to understand, even though she was bright for a six year old, Jack always wondered if she got that from Ianto, after six Christmases without him, each year was getting harder to face that Ianto wasn't going to be there to see, Rose grow up.
"Daddy do I have to go to bed?" Rose asked, "Yes or Santa wont come, I'll tell him that Rose has been a naughty girl and wont go to sleep" Jack said as he tickled his daughter "You wouldn't do that daddy, your not mean!" Rose giggled as she ran up the stairs to her room. Gwen turned to Jack after Rose had gone to ask him how he was feeling "How are you Jack, I know that this time of year is hard for you and I know that you miss him Jack" Gwen said as Jack replied with "Its so hard, as she gets older I can see him, she is so like him, you know what she asked for, for Christmas Gwen…A Stopwatch, she is so like him, sometimes I cry myself to sleep thinking of what it would be like with him still here, I don't think I can take it" Jack burst into tears. "Are you ever going to tell her about him?" Gwen asked, "I sometimes try but its to hard, I want her to know about him, how brave he was, when Rose is at school I go to his grave and just sit there, I don't say a word, I-" Jack tried to hold back the tears but, he couldn't, he let them out he cried so loudly it woke baby Ianto up from his sleep.
"Im gonna go and try and put him to sleep" Rhys said as he went into the other room with Ianto while Gwen soothed Jack's tears. "He would be thirty three now, and he would be so beautiful" Jack sobbed into Gwen's arms "All the things I should have done to save him, all this time of him not being here, it hurts more, sometimes I cant look my own daughter in the eye, she is so like him, to much like her"
"I know this hurts Jack, we have all lost so much, but we have to move on and think of the good times not the bad and how Ianto would have loved that little girl and how he, would spoil her rotten and get her hooked on coffee" Gwen said as Jack tried to calm down as he wiped his tears away. "We better go, see you tomorrow, around twelve?" Gwen said as Rhys put Ianto back into his pram. "See you tomorrow Gwen" Jack said and quickly kissed Gwen on the cheek and shaked Rhys' hand as they walked out of the door.
After they had left, Jack looked himself in the mirror, his eyes red from crying, then he went into Rose's room and saw her gracefully breathing in her sleep. Jack kissed her in her sleep "Goodnight Angel" he said as he went into his bedroom.
Jack never slept, not anymore; he hadn't had one wink of sleep in over 6 years, it was around three in the morning as Rose came in with her teddy, bubbles.
"Rose Harkness Jones what are you doing up?!" Jack asked, "I had a bad dream, this other man kept saying he was my daddy to" Rose explained. "What was this man called?" Jack asked "I don't know daddy, but he wore a suit, and had a scar on his cheek which scared me" Rose said. "Rose you know I never told you about your other daddy" Jack said "I have another daddy?" she said.
"Yes he died before you were born, he was called Ianto Jones and he was beautiful, I loved him at first sight, he wore a suit, and then something happened, and I lost him forever and I couldn't get him back, I should have told you because you're a big girl now and I can tell you everything" Jack said as Rose was Silent, Jack's tears began to flow again. "Please daddy don't cry" Rose said as she cuddled her daddy, tears started to run down her cheeks "I wish I could see you happy daddy, I wish I could see my other daddy, I miss him" Rose said as Jack wiped her tears. "I miss him too darling, now let's go to sleep shall we, big day tomorrow, lots of big presents for you" Jack said as his daughter slept next to him he finally could try to sleep again.
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