When they enter the hub Ianto realises that the clothes the three adults were wearing are now drowning the six year old children. He'd have to go to the supermarket to get some clothes for them all, he knew it had to be him, he couldn't trust Jack he would probably bring back a lot of inappropriate clothing. But could he really trust him to look after those three by himself, he hadn't really done a great job in the five minutes by himself. He would have to take them with him.
This is going to be very interesting, everyone knows that taking one child shopping is asking for trouble but three of them is going to be a nightmare. If they are anything like his sister was when they went shopping it was going to be a long trip.
"Jack we are going to have to get them all some clothes, we need to go shopping" he told him.
"Well they can't exactly go out to the supermarket, I don't think they will let them in an oversize shirts." He reasoned.
Ianto seemed to consider this for a moment. He knew that Jack was right. This gave him the problem of getting them into the supermarket to begin with. He thought of the coat that Jack had when the same thing happened to him, although Jack was three not six, so it might be too small. The shirts defiantly would be but he might be able to get the coat onto him.
"Right, I'm going to get the coat you used for Owen, and the two of us will go into the supermarket whilst you stay in the car with the girls and I will go and get them some clothes and then we can worry about the rest of the time" He gave Jack a stern expression and Jack gulped, he then smiled and rubbed the top of Jack's arm.
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All five of them were heading towards the supermarket, it had been agreed that Ianto and Owen were going to go into the shop whilst Jack and the girls stay in the car. Getting Owen into three year old Jacks coat had been a struggle but fortunately six year old Owen was built much the same as adult Owen and they had just been able to get him into it. Ianto had ignored Owens shouts of 'I'm not wearing anything of Captain Horny's' and now Owen was sat in the back sulking.
"Where are we going?" Gwen asked for the fourth time.
Ianto rolled his eyes "The same place the other three times I told you where we are going," he replied getting slightly annoyed but he had to remind himself that she was only six years old, which was strange to think anyway. "We are going to get some clothes for you three, and when I say we I mean me and Owen. You and Tosh are staying in the car with Jack."
Owen's head shot up at this, "Why do I have to come if these two get to sit in the car, I hate shopping" he sulked.
"Because I trust these two to behave themselves and for Jack to be able to handle them" he replied giving him a stern look from the front passenger seat "You on the other hand, I do not."
Owen scowled at him.
Five minutes later they pulled up at ASDA, Ianto had decided to shop there, that way he could buy some other essentials as well. Although he trusted these three better with the cutlery he still didn't want to risk them dropping anything, especially if Owen drops his favourite cup. He would have hell to pay if that happened.
He got himself and Owen out of the car and walked along the pavement holding his hand, much to Owens disgust and protests which he ignored. He did notice the sets of Mums and Dads staring as he pulled Owen along, he was putting up quite a fight.
"For God sake Owen will you just do as you are told for once?" Ianto's voice had a touch of anger about it and Owen didn't fail to notice it as he suddenly stopped struggling but he still scowled at Ianto as he collected a trolley and walked inside.
Ianto walked immediately to the right which is where GEORGE was positioned in this particular ASDA. Owen walked just a little in front of the trolley. He walked towards the boys section of clothing first. Ianto watched Owen as he looked at the tiny jeans that were designed for a six year old amazed. He picked up one particular pair and walked over to Ianto, did his best puppy dog eyes and tip toed to throw them into the trolley. Ianto just rolled his eyes.
"Right you need, I would say two more trousers, five tops and one jumper" he said and Owen ran and quickly got two more of the jeans that were hanging up. Ianto was looking at a t-shirt when Owen walked back, "What do you think?" he asked him.
"Yuck! It has pink on it!" Owen exclaimed.
"There is nothing wrong with pink" Ianto said, he quite liked the blue and pink shirt and he thought it would go well with the jeans Owen had picked out.
Owen scowled at him and proceeded to pick all of his own clothes whilst mumbling to himself. Ianto was sure he heard 'Stupid teaboy' in amongst it.
"Okay we need to get the girls their clothes" Ianto said and Owens face lit up, Ianto rolled his eyes.
He pushed the trolley to the girls section and started to look through the clothes.
"What about this?" Owen asked.
Ianto looked towards him and nearly chocked. Owen was holding up a pale blue crop top and a small skirt. He lowered them down to reveal that he seemed quite pleased with the discovery judging by his smile. Ianto took a moment to collect himself and then snatched the clothes out of his hands.
"What the hell are you doing?" he hissed at Owen who seemed stunned by his reaction, he hadn't even moved his hands from the position he had them in when he was holding the clothes.
"What?" Owen asked in his usual slightly creepy sexy voice, although this time it was childlike and didn't have the effect it usually did. "Its sexy" he informed Ianto like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"I don't care! It isn't appropriate, these are our friends, Owen. We are not dressing them like this, its disrespectful, not to mention awkward when they get older" Ianto said the last bit more to himself than to Owen. "Stand next to the trolley where I can see you" he ordered Owen.
Owen grumbled and was about to protest but Ianto gave him a sharp look and took a step towards him and he hurriedly obeyed. Ianto then picked out all of the clothes for Tosh and Gwen and placed them inside the trolley.
He realised that he needed to get them some appropriate footwear, the shoes Owen had on were more like ships than anything else.
He walked to where the shoes were on display and started to get Owen to try on some of the shoes. He decided to try and guess Tosh and Gwen's sizes from what would fit Owen and he got them a size smaller and a bigger size to make sure that they fitted them.
"Have you found some yet?" Ianto asked.
"I'm still looking" Owen replied.
'Yeah. Looking at the most expensive ones you can find.' Ianto thought, Owen had several pairs of shoes scattered around the area he was trying them on at, all of which are perfectly fine but Owen doesn't like any of them, and Ianto knows why.
"I want these ones" Owen said walking towards Ianto holding a pair of twenty pound shoes.
"No way, you are not getting them" Ianto said, he isn't made of money.
"But I want them!" he whined and he stomped his feet.
"Owen!" Ianto barked and he stilled in his movements. "If you are going to act like that I will buy you the cheapest, crappiest pair I can find! Is that understood?" he asked and Owen nodded his head slowly. "Right you can have a pair that costs no more than Fifteen pounds".
"But that's not fair the girls are getting two pairs each!" Owen exclaimed.
"Fine, you can get two pairs that cost no more than Twenty-Five Pounds" he said.
He then watched Owen as he picked a pair that cost seven pounds and the fifteen pound pair he tried on earlier, still looking pretty sulky about it.
Ianto put the shoes in the trolley and walked to the till to pay. The final price came to £90 and Ianto's jaw dropped. 'I am never having children' he thought 'Jack can reimburse me, it's his fault after all.
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Sorry it took a while to write, I had writers block and I can't be arsed block too.
(Can I really have writers block with this? I dunno, that's what I'm going for.)
I hope you guys were looking forward to it and I hope you like it.
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