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Ianto had promised a quiet few days so when Babs entered the house in tears running for her Taddy's arms he was totally unprepared.

"Sweetheart?" Ianto looked to Skidmark who had entered behind her, his face a picture of rage.

"Skiddy?"

"You ain't gonna like it Toto" he answered as he sat and Ianto leaned back.

"Speak."

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"Gods, help me with the zipper" Babs pleaded as she danced from foot to foot, "I'm bloody busting here."

"It's stuck sweetie" Skidmark grumbled as he fought with all the lace and gossamer, Babs growling as she slammed into the toilets and gathered the dress up to pee, giving a sigh of relief as she emptied her bladder, then a gasp had her looking over to realise she left the stall door open.

"Oops, sorry" she giggled, trying to close it with her foot but the woman slapped it open to look down at the girl who stood with her wee willy in her hand.

"You disusing thing" the woman hissed, "My daughter is right there you perverted creature!"

Babs ran with shame for her Skiddy.

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Ianto sat staring at him as he retold it, his head shaking with sorrow as he told him how upset she was so he simply brought her home knowing only Ianto's arms would fix it.

Ianto nodded as he listened and then he calmly asked who the woman was and nodded some more. Skidmark watched Ianto's eyes start to narrow and knew Ianto would sort it, rising and kissing his little sweetling before heading home to his family.

Ianto sat and seethed silently as he watched his love wind down and when Jack came in from his work at the school it was to find Babs asleep on the sofa wrapped in Ianto's blanket and his husband pacing as he hissed menacingly into the phone that he was not kidding.

"If you don't sort this I will scream from the rooftops, don't think I won't" Ianto snarled, "Have you forgotten the backlash last time? Imagine the outcry, the lovely little sister of Piney treated like that. You think I will think twice about it? Really?"

"Babe?"

"Babs got accosted in the ladies for having a dick!" Ianto roared angrily, "My baby girl called a thing and a filthy creature because she pees standing up."

Jack felt a cold anger washing over him as he looked at his sweetling asleep in the sofa, "Who are you talking to?"

"Studio" Ianto barked, and then turned as if the person he was arguing with was in the room, "No. What? No. No. Look, why don't I pull my children's contracts and look for some loopholes…no wait. I don't have to. Clause seven of section D clearly states that if my child is endangered the contract is void and I can remove them from the project. If you check you will find the wording is ironclad. My daughter was made to feel afraid and endangered while in your care. l an now pulling her from your employ, along with her brother. What? Really. Really. You know, you think you are threatening me right now but sweetheart you have no idea who you are talking to. Let's see how the public likes Piney crying on their TV screens as he recounted his little sister's embarrassment. Bring it the fuck on!"

Ianto dropped the phone into the charge cradle and took a deep breath, then turned to Jack.

"Little office bitch wouldn't even put me through to the handlers. Thinks I am just another stage mom…hah! I pushed record the first time she refused. Walter, shit" Ianto slumped, "Gods, I better warn him."

"I already know" Walter said as he stormed in followed by his grandfather and they stood looking down at the sleeping beauty.

"You OK with this?"

"Yep" Walter popped the P, "My sister is more important than a bloody TV show."

The Harkness-Jones family was officially at Stop-Work under protest.

Let's see how long it takes before the studio bosses get wind of the shit stirred below.