Ianto's Babies - Walter Part 19

by Awatere11

Yes, Ianto has some fussing to do and revels in it...and babies Oh...babans abound as he finds himself with not enough arms to show the love bursting out as a Grandy and Jack finds himself a lot calmer this time around, being a Grampy is easier than being a Daddy. Sam's wee bump is showing and we will go from there...come on, you know it's Alt Verse Love my crumbly xxx

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Sam looked radiant, her hair perfectly arranged with the tiara sitting high. The dress was a pale cream, not white but almost yellow and the red rosebuds Ianto had painstakingly hand embroidered around the hem and sleeves looked so cute and perfect that she had to hold her head high and remind herself that her makeup might look tragic if she didn't keep the stiff upper lip. The ivy entwined around the hem to connect the roses made it just simple enough for the garden setting and she knew her bare feet would not look out of place on the soft grass.

Bohemian, like she had asked.

Jack stood looking at her with open affection, "Well now button look at you. A queen."

She ran her hands nervously over the fabric, "It looks OK, no bump?"

"No, can't see it, the clever second skirt of tulle covers all things." Jack assured her, "Come on. The something old."

Jack stepped forward and seemed to fumble for a moment with a little box, then clear his throat as he looked at her, a little broach being pinned to her bodice. It was small, looked like it fitted with the fine gold strap of her high waist and she looked down, surprised to see a pretty red ruby nestled in diamonds with four larges again.

"Oh, its perfect!" she gushed, "Dainty, not too big."

"I brought this for Alice's birthday one year. She kept it in a box by her bed when not wearing it. When she died…. It was on the coat we got from the hospital. I cried for a good three hours cuddling that coat like a fool as Ianto held me and told me we would do right by our poor boy." Jack cleared his throat as he fingered it, "It was her favourite. You would have been so loved by her, so loved. If she were here now she would be pinning it to your gown instead. An old piece of tat from an op shop in a bowl of buttons and that we spied and I had purchased it while she was trying on a blouse, never knew until she opened the box and laughed as she called me a tightwad. She loved it. This piece to will pin to your daughter's dress one day. Stephen … he will know it. He's not seen it since she died, Ianto has a lot of her things for her grandbabies."

"Oh Dad" she gushed happily as his babbling faded away, "So perfect."

"A ladybug" he agreed, "Why he did flowers. See? It's a little ladybug."

She looked closer and saw that he was right, the indents on the ruby where diamonds were set were like spots and the four diamonds were feet. Little lady bug feet.

"Oh wow." She said again knowing it would be words said several times today.

Stephen's pet name for her explained.