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Rhys was already measuring it, checking the back of the RV for the stairs, then he looked around and approached Ianto who was still unloading and sorting, "Hey mate. Um … question."

"Yeah?"

"Those old stairs to the top level of the barn. They're metal and …ah… there is a ladder we can use too so do we need both in there …."

Ianto stopped unloading and looked at him, then the RV, "Right. Suzie can weld. The welder can use a good looking over, check it before we start transforming the RVs to road trains. Yes, good idea. Ask her, she's the engineer amongst us."

"Really?" Rhys asked with surprise then turned to watch the wild haired woman throw a box at Owen who yelled at her and laughed.

Soon the two of them were staring at the RV as they considered making the stairs hinged to swing out for climbing and in for moving the vehicle. Suzie was excited at the thought of a project the same as Rhys and it was a little while later that she found Jack and Ianto looking through boxes in the main room "Bugging out?"

Ianto looked up, "Just nervous. I like a back-up plan within a back-up plan. Plan A is never going to be good enough, no matter what it is."

"Why there are those tents even with the RVs?"

"Could run out of gas… road…. Anything. Back-up plans are good" Ianto nodded as he went back to rummaging through a box and she turned her attention to Jack,

"So. I want one."

Jakc grinned, "Of course you do. We talked about it already. Gwen and Rhys have the one Ianto drove, We have Crypto's. That leaves the one Andy drove as Owen is already changing his to a medical one."

"He would share?" she frowned.

"already thinks he is going to, talked about the fact it has two single beds and if a partition needs to be put in for your privacy" Ianto said from in the box he was partially buried in.

She blinked.

"Not everyone hates you, stop thinking that way" Ianto sat back with a toy in his hands and grinned at it, "Tosh will love this. Look Suzie, he likes you. Not romantically but as a mate. He sees you as someone he can laugh with, play cards with and have shooting practice with. Andy is a good man, capable of being a platonic friend. Who knows, he might get over his fear of you. He is the one talking like it's a done deal, you sharing. Go look. Maybe you can cut the top off and raise it to have a second bed area and storage or something? Enough sheet metal to do that in the barn isn't there?"

Suzie's eyes widened as she swing to look out at Andy's RV, "An arsenal. We could put an arsenal up there under my bed. Then he has his own room. Yeah, shit."

Ianto stopped rummaging around and looked at Jack, "Did you hear that? She wants to sleep on weapons."

"See?" he replied, "I told you she was like us."

Both men grinned as their own bed had enough ammo and weapons under it to start a war.

"Well, let's do it. We have time, equipment and manpower to do it. We fit these things out and then hope they never move from their spots." Ianto nodded as he looked into the box again and Jack saw it, the flicker across his face as he lied.

Ianto knew.

He knew as well as Jack did that sooner or later those RVs would fire up and move, those in the town too close not to eventually come this way foraging.

They would be ready, everyone able to move without panicking once Ianto's drills were in place.

They could be a cohesive team.

Jack found himself once again moving to Ianto's unspoken orders and found it comforting to know this man had the mind of a general.

In the weeks and years to come a military mind like that would be needed.

If the children had a chance.

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So ends this segment, next will be the fitting out of the RVs as Ianto starts to softly get people used to the idea of bugging out. We know they will have to now.