"Wait, you're leaving the baby with me?"
The team were done with the 'nursery' as Gwen called it.
Ianto had gone out and bought a crib, while Gwen and Tosh painted the room, Jack and Owen had put the crib together—which seemed harder than the instructions implied.
The room looked really cosy now. The walls were painted a light pink and the crib…well it stood up strait and looked stable.
"Jack, if I take Lucy home then Rhys will ask questions."
"But you wanted to keep it!" Jack pleaded again. "Why doesn't Tosh take it home? Or Owen—he's a doctor?"
"I'm not taking that thing home!" Owen said throwing his arms in the air.
"Her name is Lucy, Owen." Tosh said. "And if I take the baby it's not going to end well."
"Well it would probably end better than it would if she stayed here tonight." Jack tried to get out of it again.
"Well I'm definitely not taking her." Owen said and walked out the room.
"Well?"
"She's staying here, Jack." Gwen said finally.
"Ianto, can't you help?" Jack looked at Ianto, who was standing in the doorway.
"I'd love to Jack, but I've got plans." Ianto said quickly, not savouring the idea of spending the night with a crying baby and quickly walked out the door.
"So…I guess I'm stuck, right?" Jack looked at Gwen, then at the baby. He had to admit the kid was cute.
Ahhh it can't be that hard, could it? He thought.
"But when do I feed it—what do I feed it?!" Jack asked, starting to panic again.
"Can you stop referring to her as 'it', please?" Gwen asked.
"Okay, when do I feed her?"
"When she's hungry." Tosh answered.
"That doesn't help. How do I tell when she's hungry?"
"She'll probably start to cry." Gwen answered.
To be honest neither Gwen nor Tosh knew anything about child raising.
"So how do I stop her from crying?" Jack asked.
"You feed her, give her her dummy, you play with her or you put her to sleep." Gwen said.
"How do I put her to sleep?"
"Well…I actually don't know." Gwen admitted.
"So you want to raise a kid and you don't know how to put it to sleep?" Jack's eyes widened.
"Jack, you don't either!" Gwen snapped back. "Here" Gwen put the sleeping Lucy into Jack's arms. "Don't drop her." Gwen said then let go.
Jack stood there holding Lucy, he didn't move, he was afraid he might drop her.
"Jack, you can move you know." Tosh said.
"What if I drop her?" Jack said, holding her tighter.
"Don't squish her!" Gwen warned as she saw Jack's grip tighten.
"What happens if I drop her?" Jack held Lucy up to his chest, tightly.
"Don't worry you won't drop her." Gwen reassured him.
"Okay, I've got to go now." Tosh said and walked to the door.
"Me too." Gwen said and followed Tosh out the door.
Jack was left alone in the room with Lucy.
"You're quiet cute actually." Jack said to her as he looked down at her.
He walked over to the crib, put her in it and put the blanket over her.
"Well…good night." Jack said, turned off the light and walked out the room.
