I just wanted to celebrate in my way Ianto's birthday this year, so I came up with this. The idea to post everyday until Ianto's birthday is from gmariam who is currently posting a fic the same way. Go read it, she's brilliant! :)
It's just some of Ianto's birthdays throughout the years and/or with different persons. We don't know a lot about his family background, how they were, if he's got cousins or anything, so I wasn't really inspired for the first one, sorry ;)
When the now ten-years old boy lazily walked down the stairs, he didn't expect his whole family to be downstairs, waiting for him. It was the summer break, he didn't really have any notion of what day it was, particularly because he was only nine, and coming in the living room to 'happy birthdays' yelled by everyone scared him a bit at first. Then he forgot about everything and ran to his mom's arms because she was his mother, she was supposed to be the first to get a hug every year, it was a rule here – it wasn't, but he loved her anyway so he liked doing this.
Ianto Jones, ten years old, naively answered that he wanted to become an astronaut later when half his family asked him what he wanted to do. Or a lawyer. Or a searcher. Certainly not a doctor or a dentist because that was just gross. As they made a common gift and brought him a telescope, he stayed on his idea to become an astronaut. Not that he would keep it for long, he was still a boy, he would probably go through two jobs a month and still have no idea of his future in high school.
But for now he was glad about his gift, and used it a lot before forgetting it in a cupboard. He was young, he didn't really care, and he was mostly happy.