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The phone was ringing but Ianto could not care a less as he rolled to find a body beside him and he grunted as he recognized that smell, nuzzling against Jack who then sighed and reached for the phone. Although no sex had started yet (Hopefully will soon), these sleeping arrangements were working out great by way of some form of intimacy … anything right now welcome. And their dreams were vividly fun with Ianto's blush at the breakfast table telling Jack is was not a one-sided vision. They were connecting if only on a psychic level.
Jack can take that for now… hell he will take anything he can get.
"Do you wanna see my room?" the littlie one asks Jack as he is lacing up his boots. Jack looks at him and raises his eyebrows.
"I gotta go home to feed my mousies. Wanna see my room?" Daniel repeated himself calmly. "At my other home."
Jack nodded and rose, following the boy out the door where the dog was waiting and Ianto rose from the chopping block he was sitting on as he slipped on gloves. They walked along the little pathway from the back pouch, through a hedgerow and to a field, crossing it to the next hedgerow where beyond a house sat as if waiting for them.
"I own this one too, the couple that live here care for Daniel along with their own offspring." Ianto explained as they entered the back door and a voice called out a welcome.
Jack stared as the bright blue woman appeared, smiling as she waved and walked towards them, her husband clearly human as he appeared behind her, his rotund body covered in hand knitted love.
"Ianto!" He said happily as he approached "wondered if he would remember the mice. She doesn't like them ya know."
"Is is her Ferkil nature not to" Ianto agreed, kissing her cheek as she focused on Jack. Looking him up and down with open interest "Godi, this if Daniel's other parental. Jack. He is from Boeshane."
She blinked as she starred at his wrist "He is a Time Agent."
"Was" Jack agreed with a smile "I protect Sol3 now."
"Well … go. He waits" she nodded then turned back to the kitchen as a little blue child raced from behind her skirts to follow Daniel up the stairs.
"How many?" Jack whispered.
"Three of theirs. Two have already paled to fit in, have started school but the little one there is only a year old. He will not pale for another six months, by the time he is three will be the same colouring as his Da."
"And they are for Daniel" Jack nodded.
"Best place to hide him is in a hive with a Mama like her. She will kill anyone who comes near him and they get a place to hide. One day… one day I hope to live here with him and they are happy to move to another place if and when I ever decide to live here full time. Then Rhiannon can keep the other house and I would have this one" Ianto explained like it was no big deal and the fact this house was more Jack's style than his was not lost on the man now handing over his Great Coat to look at the huge stained glass windows.
"It's beautiful" he whispered.
"Yeah. Rhiannon calls them churchy but I think they are pretty too" Ianto nodded "Daniel loves them. Calls them TARDIS shards."
"He's amazing too" Jack said then headed up the stairs to find a bedroom door open and giggling. A little cage with two mice in it and the two little kids watching them eat form some freshly supplied pellets.
"Well now… who are these magnificent little beasts?" Jack asked.
"Pinky and the Brain, like the cartoon" Daniel said with glee "the fat one is Pinky. The skinny one is the Brain."
"Ah… I think I will like this show" Jack grinned, settling down on the edge of the bed "Although … I rather think your Taddy is the brains of any operation."
Daniel then rose to face him "And you are my Daddy. Look, I have your pictures here in the drawer. I can't have them out, Taddy sez people might see them and you are a secret, like I am."
A photo album with pictures of him, the team… Toshiko… wow… Ianto had gotten into the old Torchwood Three servers… Jack looked with interest at some of the pics, newspaper article and such as Daniel leaned on him and looked too.
"That was Toshiko" he told Jack "And that was Owen."
"You know about them?" Jack asked.
"Yeah. Taddy tells me stories about some of the things you all did. I like those bedtime cases, that's what Taddy calls them" Daniel grinned.
"Wow, wouldn't mind hearing some of those too. Been a long time" Jack sighed, pulling the boy in for a cuddle ,then feeling weight so the other boy on the other side leaned in for a cuddle too. This kind were known for physical contact. What a great choice for minders, a mother who would kill to protect and had endless love.
Ianto had thought all of this through.
Jack just wished he had been part of this sooner.
He had missed so much.
Now he knew… Ianto had too.