Chap 44
Ianto was coming home. It had been just over a month since the fall and he was considered well enough to sign out.
Walter had spent the day decorating and was eagerly awaiting the sound of the SUV. He checked the food laid out on the new coffee table for the third time as Tosh watched from a nearby chair.
Rhia sat rubbing her growing stomach as Gray fussed between her and the kitchen. The sound of Black Beauty's motor had Walter cheering as he ran for the door.
The ramps Gray and John had built were stained to match the rafters and Jack had commented that Ianto would love the irony as the two men silently kicked themselves for their stupidity.
Walter pulled open the door as John carried the chair in. Ianto had fallen asleep and Jack insisted on carrying him in. Ianto stirred as the cold air hit, and by the time Jack was inside, Ianto was looking around blearily from his husband's arms.
Jack placed him in the chair and Walter stepped up with a blanket. As he fussed over his Tadda, Ianto's eyes flickered over the ramps littering the two levelled bottom floor. Jack had warned him of their over exuberant work and Ianto had thought he was prepared, but the sight of those thing on his lovely floor filled him with dread.
Jack pushed him over to the chairs and he reached eagerly for his sister.
"Hey little Teddy Bear." Rhia smiled as Ianto touched her belly with a soft coo.
"Do you like my decorations, Tadda?" Walter asked nervously, and Ianto looked up.
"My goodness, yes. All my favourite things. Balloons, streamers, fairy lights, and even a banner with my name on it," Ianto gasped with wide eyes as he read the "Welcum Home Taddy" banner.
"I made that all by myself. Uncle Owen hanged it for me." Walter preened as Ianto clapped.
"Hung, sweetheart," Jack corrected, and Owen puffed up from the sofa.
"Well hung, thank you!" Owen declared, and Ianto laughed, a full-throated boom that Jack loved.
"OK, well the deal was rest and repair so I'm taking my husband to bed now," Jack informed everyone, and laughter followed them from the room as Ianto blushed deeply.
"I didn't mean it like that," Jack groused, and Ianto shook his head.
"One thing I have missed is the feeling of you against me," Ianto murmured as Jack stopped the wheelchair by the bed.
Jack tenderly lifted his love into the bed; Rhia appeared from the other room with a pillow.
"When he was little he had a special pillow. Mammy made it for him," Rhia explained. "Whenever he was sick she made another one, and I know I'm not as good as Mammy but I made you one anyway."
"It smells?" Jack caught a whiff of something as it was plumped on the bed.
"Lavender. It has lavender in the middle to help him sleep. That's why he needs it replaced now and then." Rhia smiled as Ianto sighed into the soft pillow and inhaled the lavender scent.
"There you are, little teddy bear," she soothed as he started to snuffle.
"Your fathers call him that," Jack mused.
"Well, he is so cuddly and cute, "Rhia laughed. Jack agreed completely.
