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Babs sat with the books open around her waiting, Bethy running late as Ianto moved around the kitchen patiently waiting as well. It was a Wedding Meeting and Bethy was late. Uncommon for her and Ianto was starting to get antsy when the door opened and her voice called out, calming him.
"Sorry" she said as she rushed into the kitchen, still pulling her coat off as she continued to speak "Someone got their head stuck in the railings at school!"
"Is she OK?" Ianto asked.
"What makes you think it wasn't Monkey?" she asked with interest.
"Oh, come on. He wouldn't do it a third time surely. Ifan knows better as he saw him do it and besides, he would have screamed for me to come get him out like I do all the other kids that do it. So that leaves Prim. So much like you and your mama, she wouldn't ask for help if her head was getting chopped off!" Ianto snorted "So? Prim?"
"Ifan dared her" she sighed "I swear, those twins are getting diabolical! "
"That's a good word" Ton agreed as he opened another cake book and placed it calmly on the table, more of those already there than wedding ideas.
"Well, I bet your mother was pleased" Ianto snorted "I have been on at them to replace those bloody things ever since Monkey started the craze."
"Well … Dad is livid" she replied.
"Another good one" Ton nodded wisely with a hand stroking his chin that had Babs grinning lovingly at him.
"Well … as long as she is OK for the birthday bash" Ianto sat and smiled as she settled to kiss Babs hello "Your last birthday before you are a married woman. Gonna push the boat out?"
"I was thinking … can I combine?" she asked hesitantly "I mean … Grace, you, Babby and now baby Jax. I mean … me too and …"
"Start as we mean to go on?" Ianto smiled as he reached out to reassure her "Wonderful idea. Having your birthdays in the same month will always be weird. After all, my birthday is the first time I met Jack, a double celebration. I sometimes think the meeting is more important even if he argues that if I were not born it would all be mote anyway."
"I hope we are like that" Bethy sighed.
"What … arguing?"
She laughed "No, but I like his making it up to you dance …no. I mean … I know you have a whole life before one another and me and Babs were always meant to be together but … I mean…. To revel in things like that. He has every wedding anniversarysorted even though you only celebrate them privately now …I want to marry Babs lots. Everywhere so we have an anniversary every month. So much to celebrate why not do it again."
"You sound just like Dadda" Ton smiled "When I get married we will redo it on the same day every year so I only have to remember one date. I don't want to have to fill the brain box with too many now! Mind you, with four of them wanting to be my girlfriend at the moment I am not sure if I should give in to any of them. I don't know … Minnie is my favourite right now but I do think the cool hairdo is swaying me."
Ianto smiled happily as he watched his son pour over the books again and hoped it might happen one day for his special boy.
He didn't see why not.
