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Ianto was sitting at the table with his cuppa and a slice of the lovely rainbow cake Ton had come home with earlier. Mid afternoon and it was clearly munching time so …. Ianto stopped moving, the fork of cake poised mere inches from his opening mouth as the thought occurred to him that is was indeed very peaceful.

COMPLETE SILENCE

He slowly placed the fork down on the plate, the click of the metal on the ceramic loud in the quiet space. Sooooo quiet. Freaky. Ianto rose and canted his head, leaning forward slightly …. Nope. He walked to the wall of screens to look closely at the live CCTV feed. He looked from room to room .. screen to screen. Nothing.

This was not good. Not good at all.

Ianto walked to the living room and listened then to the base of the stairs, looking up into the first floor. Nothing. Very bad indeed. He touched the intercom button for 'ALL' and said calmly "Tonny?"

Ianto knew there were few laces the cameras could not find his flock so he took the lift up to the first floor and walked into each bathroom, tuning to leave once sure it was empty. OK. Not good. His and Jack's bedroom? Nope.

Up to the top and into the attic room, Imp's Vampire crypt domain.

Nope.

OK, panic rising now. Ianto walked to the attic window and peered out with concern, then sighed with relief as he saw them before cursing softly, rushing down to exit the back door and enter the cool breeze, watching as Ton and Maisey talked together softly, his hand over hers as he gave her advice then stepped back.

Ianto stopped moving and held his breath, terrified and hopeful as Maisey adjusted her grip and then twisted her wrist, the motorbike roaring to life as she took off across the field, the children screaming with glee as she kept her balance. Ianto was not sure how Jack was going to feel when he found out that Ton had taken one of the old half sized motorbikes from the shed. No doubt to check them out but it was clear that Maisey was curious. Gods, she was also very bloody good.

Maisey made a large u-turn and came over to the fence, stopping with her feel then screaming with glee as the bike kicked and died. She roared with laughter, "Grandy! Did you see?"

"Maisey … you were flying on that thing. That was impressive" he assured her "Grampy will be so excited to have someone else to ride with. You, him and Daddy Walt will rip the trail up!"

"Really? Daddy likes this too?"

Maisey shone with delight and Ianto made a mental note to make sure Walter knew to praise her, to include her and to take her for a ride. Just daddy and daughter.

She was a natural.