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After a few races and a game of piggy in the middle they were all tired and decided to call it a night.
"You can dry off and come watch a film with us, if you want." Jack said as he shook his head like a dog to "Dry his perfect hair".
"Really? Sure, thanks." Marlie smiled at them both before hurrying to her room to dry off.
She knocked gently on her neighbours front door. Jack opened it, smiling again, and led her through to the living room. She sat on one of the big, plush arm chairs, marvelling at how comfy it was compared to anything in the flat she shared with her mother. Ianto was sitting on the couch staring intently at her.
"Is your name really Marlie?" He questioned, he had heard her mother scream some other name before, and never heard her scream the name Marlie.
"No, my real name is Frances, but i don't like it. It sounds like a boys name." Marlie explained, scrunching her face up in disgust.
By the time Jack walked in with cola, pop corn and a dvd, Marlie and Ianto were sitting next to each other on the couch laughing.
"What's so funny?" Jack asked, looking at them with a confused look on his face. They both looked at him and ended up laughing even harder, leaning against each other and gasping for breath. Jack shook his head and put the dvd in the player before sitting on the same plush chair that Marlie had sat on before. The music from the dvd sobered them both up.
"No,no,no!" Marlie and Ianto exclaimed together, their faces looks of pure horror.
"Why?" jack asked, looking content at his choice of dvd."
"We are not watching that!" Ianto and Marlie told him, looking at each other strangely at the fact they were talking at the exact same time.
"Yes, you are." Jack said. Ianto and Marlie were still staring at the tv in horror.
"Please, Jack, please not Twilight." Ianto looked away from the tv, looking almost as if he was going to cry.
"Well, what do you suggest?" Jack asked, ejecting the dvd of horror and putting into the box.
"Harry potter!" Marlie and Ianto said, again looking creeped out by the way they both spoke at the same time.
An hour later all three of them were snuggled up on the couch, under several quilts and blankets, with Marlie in the middle. They all jumped when there was a loud banging on the front door. Jack groaned but pulled him self out of the warm cocoon to answer it.
"Where is that little bitch? I need some one to make me some food." Marlie's mother slurred, forcing her way past Jack. Ianto felt Marlie cringe and knew he had to do some thing. He stood up and walked over to the small woman.
"'That little bitch' has a name. She is staying here. Me and Jack will come and collect her things and she will stay with us. Understood?" Ianto was intimidating and the woman looked slightly scared.
"You can keep her." She shrugged before walking back out and down the stairs.
When Ianto was sure the woman had gone he sent Jack up to collect Marlie's things while he sat down with.
"Thank you!" Marlie practically screamed as she through her arms around his shoulders. Ianto laughed and hugged her back.
After they broke out of the hug they went up to help jack. They met jack already a half way down the stairs.
"Do you really only have three suitcases of things?" He asked, giving Ianto the heaviest one.
Marlie nodded and the three walked back into Ianto's flat. It only took ten minutes to get all Marlie's things set out in her room.
"Thank you." She told them for the fourth time in the ten minutes.
Jack and Ianto both started laughing.
"You don't have to keep thanking us." Jack told her shaking his head.
"We'll be going to bed see you in the morning." Ianto gave the young girl a quick hug before following Jack into their bedroom where they both snuggled down to sleep. Marlie went to sleep too, in a comfy bed for the first time in her life.
Marlie was smiling when she woke up the next morning. She continued to lay in the bed treasuring the feeling of the soft mattress and sheets. After a few minutes She heard a knock on the door. She quickly jumped up too open it. Ianto smiled at her.
"Jack's made breakfast. Just smile and say thanks then when he goes out the room get something edible." Ianto informed her as he lead her into the kitchen where three plates were already set on the table, Jack already eating from one. Marlie sat down and looked at the plate. She had thought Ianto was joking when he said about just smiling and saying thanks. The bacon and sausages were black, the egg like rubber and the mushrooms were literally slime. Marlie and Ianto looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"You two are like twins." Jack said, his mouth full of either bacon or soot.
"Don't talk with your mouth full! It dirty, its unhygienic, and what is that smell?"
"I think its coming from down stairs." Jack replied. They all stood and walked down stairs in their pyjamas. Marlie's eyes widened as her mother was carried out from the flat on a stretcher.
"Mum?"
"She's your mum? Have you got any one to stay with?" A paramedic suddenly jumped into her view, covered in blood, probably her mothers, she decided. Marlie nodded and watched as her mother was slowly carried down the stairs. The small woman was paler than usual and her hair was matted, there was a small smudge of blood on her cheek and her eyes were closed. Marlie didn't know what was coming over her as she ran back into jack and Ianto's flat and through to the bathroom, locking the door behind her. Her mind was black as she tore through the medicine cabinet to find what she thought she needed. Her fingers had a tight grip on the shiny piece of metal as she slowly ran in along her wrist. Once. Twice. Three times. Four. Five. Six. Suddenly there was a knock on the floor, making her jump and drop the blade as she snapped out of the daze she had been in.
"Marlie?" It was Ianto's voice. She had grown rather attached to him.
She glanced down at her wrist. The cuts were deeper than she had thought and a lot of blood was dripping from the and onto the floor. Her vision began to swim and she gripped the sink to keep from falling, not that it helped as she still fell. He body hit floor hard and she felt guilty. She had promised herself not to do it again.
"Marlie?" Ianto screamed, pounding on the door. She tried to shout back but she couldn't force her self to make the words.
"Jack! We need to get the door down. And call Owen!" She heard Ianto scream. She heard the pounding on the door get louder and in seconds Jack and Ianto were knelt down next to her. Jack had a phone on the floor next to him and a voice was calmly telling him what to do. Jack picked her up effortlessly and put her in the bath before running cold water on the cuts. After about a minute the bleeding had stopped but she was still drowsy.
"Bring her to the hub." She heard the voice on the phone say.
So! Not what i was planning on writing but meh. I hope you liked it. Thinking i might get rid of Marlie...Not sure!