21
"Taddy, are you worrying?" Babs asked as she sat on the end of the bed watching Ianto pack, "You know it's pointless. We are not about to burn the city down in your absence ya know. That's slated for Christmas Madness."
Ianto paused, then snorted with mirth at his daughter "I know. Just … Grandy and everything ya know? Feel a bit shitty sneaking out on all the problems here."
"They will be here when you get back, only a week Tadda, not a bloody year" she laughed, "Dad needs it too. He's so strung out trying to anticipate the next problem so it doesn't upset you, he's coddling, I know he is. Maybe he will loosen up a bit?"
Ianto nodded, leaning in to kiss her gently and she giggled as his whispers tickled, "Not shaving?"
"Nope" he popped the P in that way she loved, "Holiday mode has started. No shaving, I will wear my trousers more than once and I shall even go without hair product some days. You Dad has vowed to wear the same shirt the entire cruise, of course I shall accidentally tear it as soon as possible and make him think it was his sexiness that made me do it."
Babs giggled as she lowered her head into the pillow and Ianto got a sudden image of Toshiko doing the exact same thing a lifetime ago. He stopped and smiled, reaching for his phone, "Take a photo!"
"Of what?" she giggled then started to laugh as he emerged from the wardrobe.
"Go on, ask him if I need to take this or not" he gushed and she giggled, as she took the shot and sent the text, her hands shaking as she laughed.
"My poor innocent mind" she spluttered, "Having to look at my own dear Taddy in one of Daddy's Speedos. I may never recover."
"Aw, get over it" Ianto crowed as he disappeared back into the wardrobe, "The first one he ever got was of me naked as a jay bird so there ya go."
"NO!"
"Your Aunty Tosh helping me get ready for my first date and I was stomping about looking for something to wear" he sighed, "She snapped me clean out of the shower. Ask him, he still has it on his phone. I found it the other day and my heart almost melted through my shoes. I had no idea, even in the bad times he loved me."
"But so many phones" she frowned "How does he keep it?"
"Back-up to the cloud" Ianto called as he fussed around, "He keeps downloading to the new phone."
"But Tad, if it gets hacked anyone can see your Wild Willy" she spluttered with horror, made worse by his laughter.
"Baby, I have nothing left to hide. The amount of people who have seen it, touched it, commented on it…nah. Since meeting your Dad I have lost all self respect. Nothing to worry about, put it on a billboard and Jack will want his photo taken under it!"
Babs thought back to times when he was hurt, so badly hurt after he and Walter fell, her Taddy in a wheelchair. How degrading, he had to rely on people to toilet.
Babs watched him explode from the wardrobe with a bright pink Boa that had been hers once, "This. Ton will want this for the pool!"
She had to agree.
She would have.