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Ianto stepped out to walk across the green grass, wanting to feed the birds as he did every morning while the fat cats were all still in bed. He took two steps down the back steps and froze, the sea of tents in the residence a shock.

Luc was there as if waiting, sitting in a lawn chair by the back steps with a look of doom, "It has begun brother!"

"I didn't even hear them arrive" Ianto said as he looked with awe at the scene that resembled some sort of refugee camp "Wow."

"These are nothing. HE is going to arrive this afternoon. That blue tent over there is his front man who comes and complains like a pitiful little bitch to get the best spot for the old man" Luc pointed.

"Well … we have his roped off still, right?" Ianto looked over at Owen's house and was relieved to see the area still pristine, then he frowned as he refocused on their children. Grey stood with his arms folded, Gecko with a spear that was being shaken a bit and beside them David was shirtless with his pasty fat belly on display as he also argued. The main thing Ianto was focusing on was Byrd, standing unseen behind the three larger boys with her knife in her hand.

He rose and walked over in time to hear the man they were facing off against lean in and say "Move or I shall move ya!"

"Touch a single hair on that child's head and I will flatten your skull" Ianto said calmly, several heads turning at the musical voice as Ianto stepped between the children and the man.

"He wants our spot!" Gecko spat, "We's here! Our spot!"

"This area is marked for children's play" Ianto pointed to the large mats already laid on the ground, "There will be several little ones and they need space for activates and…"

"I don't give a fark! Me house needs it!" the man thumbed over his shoulder at a boat on wheels. Ianto's mouth fell open as he stared at it and a voice in the back of his head whispered that it might mean 40 days and 40 nights of drowning in shit ahead. It was a huge wooden boat on fucking wheels for the love of gods.

"What do you plan doing while you are here? Wait for the Great Flood?" he blurted and sniggering starting in the crowd forming as Ianto challenged the man.

"Ya think yer funny?" the man spluttered.

"No. I know I am, people are laughing" Ianto replied sagely as he canted his head, "I will say this for the last time. This is the children's space. Jog on!"

"Listen Squeak! You think a think little thing like you can…" the man's sneer faded as Ianto did something he knew he should have earlier. He grew. This was going to be fun.

Several people stopped speaking and moved to watch as Ianto seemed to straighten and look down at the man who was suddenly blinking as he stared up at the large muscular man with a Herculean stance.

"What the fuck did you just call me in front of my family?" Ianto said, his voice deep and menacing as those watching started soft hooting.

"Er…. I'm gonna park under those trees" the man stuttered as he backed away with his hands splayed to show he was not carrying a weapon.

Ianto let his breath out and returned to his normal size turning to find a large woman eyeballing him, "You taken honey?"

"Yes…ah…thank you lovely lady" Ianto said with a soft bow, "I have a mate and offspring otherwise I would have considered."

"Oh!" she said with delight, scurrying off with a spring in her step.

"Well handled, she could have been a Fergoddorm!" Luc hissed, "Been through three mates so far … but they all die happy so I hear!"

Ianto laughed as he clapped his brother on the shoulder, "Come on, let's make the children's area more defined."

"I like the comment about the boat thing, that is just weird!" Luc looked back and laughed as he watched Owen approaching it, his face screwed up as he let loose a mouthful of nasty at the man trying to manuvre it into the space.

Ianto definitely caught the words 'Noah' and 'shit' a few times as he walked calmly to the chairs where he had left the bird food, walking to the table and laying it out.

"Whatcha doin?" a little voice asked and Ianto turned to find a little elfin girl watching him with startling lilac eyes. Dahlia would love her.

"The birds are hungry, I am helping them feed, see? They will come eat this and fly off to their little nests all happy" Ianto said as he let the child peer on the table, "The the big fat cats will come out and pretend to chase them but don't be scared. They never catch them."

"Cats?"

Ianto pointed as one started across the grass wailing at him for a pet and she screamed with glee, the fat ginger only having seconds to assess the danger before it was scooped up and the child ran for other children screaming loudly "A FLUFFY!"

"YAY!"

Ianto pondered the hopeful thought that maybe the cats might go home with them two by two?