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Tosh followed Ianto from the party as he wandered back to check the stock, a habit he had gotten in to.

He was feeding the horses and watching the goats steal their share as well, cheeky things.

He heard her footsteps behind him and waited for her to speak.

"Did you get everything you need at the last recons?" she began and Ianto sat in a tree stump as he watched the horses feed.

"No" he said slowly, watching her nervous stance, "I still need quite a few things and Nainny has a list started already."

"Where are you thinking of hitting next?" she sat next to him and he watched as she screwed up the hem of her summer dress.

"That won't do you much longer" he said conversationally and her head whipped up.

"I beg your pardon?" she spluttered.

"Autumn. You know, followed by winter?" Ianto canted his head as he thought through her reaction and the light went off in his head. It's a wonder his eyes didn't shine like headlights as he suddenly got the problem.

"Slip me a note, a wee list and I'll be as covert as I can" he winked.

"It's not … I mean …. A convenience store or chemists … oh, bother" she sighed.

"Tosh, you're not asking for contraceptives. Are you!" Ianto said softly as he reached for her hand. "You want pregnancy test or two?"

"Oh my god, you do know everything" she gaped, "God Ianto that is freaky!"

Ianto snorted and looked through the trees that surrounded them, their family filtered like a flip book.

"I know you were needing more pads, you don't use tampons like the others and there were none on the list. I also know you must be nearly out so … you're late. You don't want him to know in case it's a false alarm or he freaks out like a drama queen" He reasoned, "How late?"

"Um, three weeks" she looked down and Ianto sighed.

"Wow, I mean … how. With his leg and all, I mean, you were on top? Or did he …"

She slapped his arm as he sniggered and she finally caved as she laughed as well. "You've been around Jack too much!"

"God no" Ianto sighed dreamily, "Not long enough!"

"Oh Ianto," she smiled, "You are in love."

"Yeah"

"Me too" Tosh whispered. "But really, I tell you I might be knocked up and you want to know what position?"

"If it makes you feel better I'll tell you a secret as well!" Ianto offered.

"Really?" she was intrigued now. "I don't know if there are any secrets here, not with Gwen Bloody Cooper on high alert."

"Hmmm" Ianto looked at his boots, scuffing the dirt up.

"Is it the right thing to do?" she asked, "Bring a kid into this madness? Is she right?"

"You want validation? From me?" Ianto raised an eyebrow, "I've only been a Tad for half an hour if you don't count Jack. Really, if Gwen's to be believed then Jack and I are baby wasters. Or killers, or something!"

Tosh giggled and leaned into his hug, relaxing as she recognised the logic to Ianto's questions.

"I am happy," She said, "I might not be in the club. It might be just from the shock of becoming sexually active. I might just be late. We have been quite busy. I don't mind either way."

"Please stop saying things like that" Ianto said with a grimace, "The way Owen was screwing his face up at the grape juice …. I keep getting a mental picture and although you look damn hot, he just looks like he's having a fit when you guys … ya know … do it."

"Ew" she giggled into his neck, "You imagine us 'doing it' as you put it?"

"Jesus Christ Almighty on a Harley, I'm trying not to but you keep bringing it up ya slut!" Ianto giggled back and they started to really laugh.

"Seriously, in answer to the GBC debate, I think you are going to be a great mother if and when it happens and one more child is one less I'm to blame for not existing" Ianto informed her, "My god, all those wasted babies, night after night. How can I sleep?"

"Twat"

"Twpsyn"

Giggles ensued as they clung to each other like school children reading their father's playboy.

"Secret?" she prompted and he giggled more.

"See the tree house?" he pointed and she admired the balloons as she nodded.

"Jack liked that scene in Spiderman when he hangs upside down while MJ kisses him so I hung upside down and kissed him like that" Ianto said solemnly.

"Wow"

"No, no that's not the secret." Ianto gave a scandalised flap of his hands, "He chased me into the tree house and we …"

Ianto looked around like he was looking for spies then whispered, "… We killed some babies in the treehouse!"

Shrieks of laughter drifted on the soft breeze and Jack turned in his seat to squint through the trees. He saw the two friends clinging to each other and knew they were both OK, telling himself that they've had enough sugar for now.

"Oh if it is, ya know, just a late one or a false positive due to … stuff" Ianto looked at her and took her hands, "Please don't tell me how often you will practice for the big event! If you kiss a toad and it doesn't turn into a prince you do know it's just a toad, right?"

"Bastard!" she roared and he squealed as he danced away, running back to the family.

As she walked back and slid into her seat Owen reached for her hand and whispered a question. If she was alright.

"Yes darling" she smiled, "Everything is grand."