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Ianto was both pleased and relieved to find his brother moving things into the big house with a look of determination, he was going to step up, after all he was the oldest.

"Hey" he smiled as he saw Ianto approaching to help, "Nainny can't do all this alone, not now Travis and Clay are coming in. This way she is supported and besides, the house was getting a bit crowded with that boy of ours. Him and his mates can turn the place into a party house for all I care. Mind, the electronics Tosh is setting up for him makes it sound more like a bloody tactical force headquarters."

"He takes his Security job seriously, is proud to stand with Billy. That house being on the outer rim of the village is a good idea as an outpost. Trust Tosh to pounce" Ianto laughed, "Nainny will be pleased, the kids will be too. The place is going to start to heave with life again, are you sure?"

"Yeah, Mimi, Mikey, Freddy, Solo and little Mia. Destiny will finish the noise and bluster part while Clara can take more control outside the classroom of those two wildlings." Sean grinned, "Solo has to give up the knife fight theory."

"They had been alone for a while you see, before I found them. He had protected her all by himself, got food and tried his best. I think that will always remain, he feels the need to protect and nurture. Why I think he likes the farm side of life so much, all the little baby things needing him." Ianto lifted a dresser like it was made of cardboard and Sean again marvelled at his strength.

"Unka" Destiny cried happily, "I got a room with a desk!"

"Wow, cool Lots of drawing?" Ianto crooned as he lifted the dresser higher to pass over her. Clara watched as her daughter calmly clutched onto his waist and stepped onto a foot, getting a ride as Ianto continued down the hall, "I take it this is going in the back room then?"

"Yes… how did you know we chose…. Oh right. You smelt it?" Clara sighed, "Gods, you are hard to get anything past."

Destiny looked around his waist at her mother and frowned, "Why want to?"

Ianto laughed as he carefully put the dresser own without dislodging his passenger then scooped her up and kissed her as he hugged her tight, "My darling, dearest niece."

"What about me!" Micha mock cried from the doorway and Destiny gasped, wriggling down to run to her and clamber into her lap.

"I share, I share" she called as she hastened to reassure her cousin that Uncle loved them all.

"Of course you do" Micha smiled, then produced something from the side pocket of her chair, "But you do not have to share this."

Destiny gasped as she looked at the little doll, her hands clasping together with delight before she carefully accepted the baby doll and carried it in her hands over to show her Mama.

"Oh Mimi, one of your china dolls? Are you sure? These are so rare" Clara said softly, crooning as she helped her daughter place the doll on the bed she had just made.

"Dolls are for loving, besides. I know Uncle will get another or eight or twenty … he will always remember dolls on a recon, I never even have to list hem and if he finds dolls one is always mine. He always brought me dolls as a little girl just like you are. Even then he was such a good uncle." Micha assured Destiny who crooned at the doll roughly the size of a Barbie.

"You know what you should do" Ianto said as he watched, "You should go show her to Ebony and make some baby noises. Might get one of those dolly beds out of her she makes."

Destiny gasped then frowned "But I don't wanna share."

Ianto saw the problem, taking the doll outside would be showing everyone and if someone asked to play with it she would feel like she had to say yes.

"Well, you ask aunty Bon to come look instead" Micha suggested, "Tell her your bubba is sleeping so you can't wake her."

"Ahhhhhhhh" Destiny's hands clasped as he looked at the doll, "Yeah, she's sleeping. Ahhh, my bubba is so tired."

"Have you noticed how well she speaks?" Micha asked as they watched her race of to find her aunty.

"They all do" Sean agreed as they followed the child along the hall towards the front door, "Like, monkey see monkey do I guess. The other kids encourage and they are also getting such great teaching at school, even the ones who in the old schools back before it all were too young. All learning in the one big room means those Desi's size are hearing the things the ten year olds are learning. If their brains are big enough to understand, they grow that into their thought process."

"Of course, she is a Jones" Ianto said with a smug sniff, "We are all bloody brilliant actually."

Sean laughed as he seized his little, bigger and stronger, brother in a clutch and they hugged one another on the front porch as their Nainny looked up for her weeding.

They looked like the little boys she once made cocoa for and dropped in marshmallows as they watched the sunset, their arms around one another and Sean's lips to Ianto's forehead as the younger one sought comfort.

She felt comforted at the thought some things didn't change in this world of madness.

Her little boys were still bloody wonderful.